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* [[Career Killers]]: Al Funo in ''Last Call''
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Neal Obstadt. It doesn't work out well for him.
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: In ''Three Days to Never'' (though strictly speaking it's a dybbuk, not a demon); ''Expiration Date'' has possession by ghosts.
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: In ''Last Call'' the protagonist dresses in drag to infiltrate a party being hosted by the villain. In defiance of the usual subtropes, nobody is in any doubt about his sex, let alone [[Attractive Bent Gender|strangely attracted to him]] -- but it serves perfectly as a disguise in as much as nobody suspects for a moment that it's him.
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* [[If I Do Not Return]]: Twice in ''Last Call''; both times, the end of the sentence is some form of "assume I'm dead and get the heck out of here".
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Shows up again and again in his work.
* [[Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy]]: An emergency tracheotomy performed by a non-professional is a key plot event in ''Three Days to Never''. It's not a neat Hollywood tracheotomy, though, and has serious repercussions.
* [[Literary Work of Magic]]: In ''Three Days To Never'', it turns out [[Charlie Chaplin]] worked symbolic imagery into ''City Lights'' as part of a magical ritual to attempt to bring his son back from the dead. An earlier movie he'd worked on but never shown to the public is part of the [[MacGuffin]]; [[Albert Einstein]] had to talk Chaplin out of showing the movie, as the mojo generated by the imagery would likely fry some audience brains.
* [[Lost Him in a Card Game]]: ''Last Call'' features a particularly twisted variation.
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