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* [[Framing Device]]: Winchell's narration often gives the impression of watching a visual interpretation of a printed newspaper article.
* [[The Great Depression]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] Ness is the pilot from [[Airplane!]] and the guy who hosts [[Unsolved Mysteries]]. He is epic in all of them.
* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Capone speaks in a heavy Italian accent, despite the fact that the real Capone was born in Brooklyn and spent his entire life in the United States.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Natually. Played totally without irony in the series. Doesn't stop the criminals from making routine offers, though.
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* [[Going By the Matchbook]]: Frank Nitti has the address of Jim Malone (Sean Connery) written on a book of matches. Unfortunately he forgets to dispose of it after killing Malone, so when Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) searches him later it leads to their final shootout.
* [[Hollywood History]]: In many ways. The real Al Capone and Eliot Ness never met face-to-face, there were 11 "Untouchables" who all lived after prohibition, but most notably, the real Frank Nitti lived several years after Capone's conviction, rather than {{spoiler|being thrown off a roof by Ness.}}
* [[Hollywood Law]]: When they discover the jury has been bribed, they switch Capone's jury with the jury next door. This is, interestingly, actually an ''aversion'' as this [
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Ness and Co are in a corrupt town, they know they can't trust most of the police and what do they do with their key witness? They put him in an elevator with just one Untouchable (Oscar the accountant) and don't bother to clear out the elevator of anyone they don't trust. They were really holding onto it that day.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: On asked what he'll do when Prohibition is over, he replies he'll immediately have a drink.
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{{quote| '''Malone''': Now isn't that just like a wop, brings a knife to a gunfight!}}
* [[Noble Bigot With a Badge]]: Malone is very vocal about his anti-Italian prejudice, but Stone earns his respects.
* [[Officer O
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Frank Nitti.
* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: Subverted.
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* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Moral crusader Eliot Ness earned his men the nickname "The Untouchables" by his vehement refusal of a large bribe from Al Capone.
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: With the exception of the occasional Tommy Gun, the Untouchables wield pump-action shotguns as their main long arms.
* [[Shout
** It's even more impressive when you know that the sequence was a last-minute alternative to the original scene, a car/train chase that was prohibitively expensive. (The chase did make the novelization.)
* [[The Squad]]: Also a [[Badass Crew]].
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