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* [[Avengers Assemble]]: Walter Gondorff contacting his old crew.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Doyle Lonnegan gets ''angry'' if you mispronounce his name.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Hooker fakes this at the end as part of the big con
* [[Briefcase Full of Money]]: Lonnegan takes one of these to bet at the con.
* [[Burlesque]]: Hooker's girlfriend stars in a Burlesque show.
* [[Catch Phrase/Film|Catch Phrase]]: Doyle Lonnegan's "Ya folla?" (You follow?), used habitually enough to be something of a [[Verbal Tic]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: A very quick one. When it's time to get ready to pull the
* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Salino is a sufferer.
* [[The Con]]: One so good it
** [[The Con Within a Con]]: The initial plan is for Hooker to try and entice Lonnegan into wanting to pull a con on Gondorff posing as a bookie named Shaw.
* [[Confiscated Phone]]: Hooker grabs a pay phone away from a woman in order to try to call
* [[Con Man]]: Many of the main characters.
* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]]
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* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: The whole point of the film.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Lt. Snyder.
* [[Get Thee to a Nunnery]]: The title. In old parlance, it was the final part of a con -- the bit where the con men took the mark's money -- and could be used metonymically for the whole con itself. Today, people tend to think of police sting operations
* [[The Great Depression]]
* [[Hand of Death]]: Subverted; it's revealed that the hit man hired to rub out Hooker is named Salino. However, the ominous hands that show up every so often are those of
* [[Hand Signals]]: The [[Con Artist]] recognition signal and Dukie's "stop" sign.
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: A silenced revolver (And it's not a Nagant or one of the obscure designs purpose made for the folks at [[Moscow Centre]]) appears at one point.
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* [[Karmic Thief]]: The [[Con Man|Con Men]] [[The Con|scam]] a corrupt cop who murdered one of their fellow con artists.
* [[The Magic Poker Equation]]: Justified in this case because ''both'' players are cheating.
* [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]]: The "big con
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]
* [[Mistaken Identity]]: Lonnegan spends the entire movie sending people to kill Luther's partner Hooker (who he's never seen). Meanwhile, he's heavily involved with "Shaw's" turncoat "Kelly" (who the goons trying to kill Hooker have never seen). He never realizes that Hooker and "Kelly" are the same person.
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* [[Playing Drunk]]: Gondorff pretends to be drunk to justify acting offensively toward Doyle Lonnegan. To enhance his act he gargles with gin to get alcohol-laden breath and brings along a gin bottle full of water to drink from.
* [[Retirony]]: Luther is killed shortly after he tells Hooker how he'll use his share to go straight and support his family.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]:
* [[Searching the Stalls]]: Johnny Hooker is trying to escape a hit man trying to kill him. He goes into a restroom to hide. The hit man enters and starts opening doors to find him. He gets to the last stall and realizes there's a woman inside. He figures Hooker went out the window and does the same. It turns out Hooker was inside the stall with the woman -- she was helping him.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Hooker loses a bundle at a rigged roulette wheel that comes up 22 -- the same number that comes up on the rigged roulette wheel in ''[[Casablanca]]''.
* [[Stab the Scorpion]]:
* [[Staged Shooting]]:
* [[Standard Snippet]]: "The Entertainer
* [[Talent Double]]: Gondorff's hands doing card tricks before the poker game are actually those of technical adviser and professional magician John Scarne's.
* [[Twist Ending]]: First, Lonnegan hires Solino to kill hooker, and when Hooker is walking through an alley, smiles, seeing his girlfriend, a man behind Hooker pulls out a gun, points it, and shoots
* [[Underdressed for the Occasion]]: Gondorff deliberately dresses like a drunken slob at a big poker game with Lonnegan on a train.
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: The audience is aware of most of the setup, but there are several details that remain hidden until the very end.
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