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* [[Clear My Name]]: ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' and ''Mr Standfast''
* [[Conspiracy Theory]]: One involving vengeful Jewish financiers in the first book, {{spoiler|but this is later jossed in-universe when it turns out that the man who told this to Hannay wasn't 100% sure if he could trust Hannay with his findings on the ''real'' conspiracy (which didn't involve Jewish people at all) and instead just made something up using the prevailing bigotry of the time}}.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Peter Pienaar, who taught [[Four
* [[Criminal Mind Games]]: In ''The Three Hostages''
* [[Determinator]]: Probably Richard Hannay's defining character trait as well as his preferred modus operandi, both mental and physical--he will keep running long after anyone else would have lain down and died from exhaustion, exposure, injuries, or being blown up.
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** The Chick: Mary Lamington
* [[Foe Yay]]: Stumm in ''Greenmantle''. Examples of it include Stumm's man-on-man fight in his rather frilly drawing room and intruding upon Hannay while he's getting dressed. (It's even worse when you read it.)
* [[Four
* [[Gentleman Snarker]]: Richard Hannay may be something of an idealist, but like all Britons he is perfectly capable of a few zingers.
{{quote| He was a man of remarkable qualities, which would have brought him to the highest distinction in the Stone Age.}}
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]
* [[Go Seduce My Arch
* [[Hair of Gold]]: [[Love Interest|Mary]]
* [[Happily Married]]: ''The Three Hostages'', ''The Island of Sheep''
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* [[Nice Guy]]: Richard Hannay is a rare protagonist example.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Several, but especially Karolides (for Franz Ferdinand) and Sandy Arbuthnot (for [[Lawrence of Arabia|T.E. Lawrence]]).
* [[No
{{quote| I had no particular ill-will left against Stumm. He was a man of remarkable qualities, which would have brought him to the highest distinction in the Stone Age.}}
* [[Officer and A Gentleman]]
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: The stile scene.
* [[Loads and Loads of Roles]]: Four actors play every role in the movie, sometimes having to play two characters in the same scene. Traditionally it's one actor for the main character, one actress for all the attractive women, and two other actors for ''everything else''. {{spoiler|Scenery not excluded.}}
* [[Shout
** "Through the door?" No! Through the [[Rear Window]]!!"
** Lampshaded in one instance when two characters come to a ladder and the woman won't go up. "Why no- oh, [[Collective Groan|don't tell me]]. '' {{spoiler|[[Vertigo]].}}''"
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