The Usual Suspects: Difference between revisions

* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Kobayashi

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|All but one of the Suspects die in the final shootout, but Fenster dies before the third act.}}

* [[Cast as a Mask]]: Scott B. Morgan as the Keyser Söze in Kint's flashback. Morgan's elbows do not fully extend, causing his arms to be slightly crooked at all times. Singer thought it looked interesting.

* [[Consummate Liar]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint A.K.A. Keyser Söze. The Mind Screw really sets in when you realize that everything you think you know about Keyser Söze comes from Keyser Söze. Then there's the fact that Keyser Söze was essentially screwed as he was being questioned about Keyser Söze and had to come up with a story on the spot. It goes to show how smooth an operator Verbal is when he is able to grab names and details from wanted posters in the room he's being questioned in and get the agent he's talking to to buy it hook, line and sinker. Not to mention the discipline and mental awareness to maintain an awkward limp and hand posture; just one slip and he'd have a much more difficult story to explain.}}

* [[Dead-Man Switch]]: Kobayashi lets the protagonists know that if he dies under suspicious circumstances, his boss Keyser Söze will immediately know who did it and take revenge on them and their families. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance]] of course as Keyser is Kint so it's not just a bluff. He'll know because he's there.}}

'''Hockney:''' Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? What, do you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this? }}

* [[Gangsta Style]]: How Söze finishes off {{spoiler|Keaton}}. Hockney also holds his gun to one side in a scene, which is a [[Red Herring]].

* [[Guns Akimbo]]:

* [[Hand of Death]]: Söze's identity is hidden by showing various parts of his body -- his hands, the back of his head -- but never his face, except in a single dark and blurry shot of him [[Unflinching Walk|walking away from a burning building]]. Söze was played in flashbacks by about six different people, including ''three'' members of the main cast ( {{spoiler|Baldwin, Byrne and Spacey}}). One of the other people was Bryan Singer himself. When people ask him who Keyser Söze really is, he always answers, "Me."

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: "Verbal" Kint is chatty in the interrogation, but in the flashbacks he's very reticent. He doesn't utter a word before introducing himself, saying, "People say I talk too much." Hockney quips, "Yeah, I was just about to tell you to shut up."

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Keyser Söze}}.

* [[Kill Them All]]: In the end {{spoiler|all the suspects except for Verbal die -- though this is more or less hinted at in the first scene of the movie, almost making it a Foregone Conclusion.}}

* [[Lost in Translation]]: In-film example. {{spoiler|The Hungarian translator the cops get, who speaks it with a strong American accent and thus isn't a native, mishears one word he translates as "package" instead of "guy" because it's native Hungarian slang. The sentence thus reads "We picked up a package" instead of "We picked up a guy".}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|Keyser Söze is speculated to be German or Turkish. Kaiser, a homonym of Keyser, is the German word for emperor, and Söze means "talks too much" in Turkish, making Keyser Söze "Emperor Talks Too Much," a hint that he is "Verbal" Kint, who says he's accused of talking too much.}}

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint}}.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: : {{spoiler|Verbal Kint, who is Keyser Söze}}.

** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Or]] [[Fridge Brilliance|maybe]] he realized that his family would always be in danger from people who would torture them to hurt or manipulate him and thought {{spoiler|killing them quickly was the kindest thing he could do for them. He never actually said anything about humiliation, only that he couldn't allow them to live another day.}}

* [[Personal Effects Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The gold watch and lighter featured in the opening as belonging to Söze are given back to Verbal Kint when he leaves the police station.}}

* [[The Reveal]]: Aside from the obvious, there's a rare case where it's mostly inconsequential to the plot. When Kobayashi is rattling off everyone's crimes against Söze, he reveals that {{spoiler|Hockney}} is the one responsible for the heist at the start of the film.

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: According to Benicio Del Toro, {{spoiler|his character (Fenster) is this.}}

* [[Saying Too Much]]: {{spoiler|If you listen closely during the final interrogation, Verbal actually says, "I did kill Keaton," but neither the detective nor the audience pick up on it.}}

* [[SeamlessScheherazade Spontaneous LieGambit]]: {{spoiler|TheVerbal/Söze uses his entiretale-spinning movietalent isto oneoutwit longhis examplecaptors.}}

* [[Self -Proclaimed Liar]]: Verbal is not only an admitted con artist, but there are several scenes where he will say something Kujan doubts, admit to lying, and then revise his story.

* [[Two Aliases, One Character]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint/Keyser Söze}}.