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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: One of the key themes of the film.
* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: Somewhat realistically done, as Don Cheadle's character gets shot at point blank and is momentarily winded. However, he's up and running again not too long after.
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* [[The Cameo]]: [[Salma Hayek]] has one brief scene as a drug lord's wife.
* [[The Cartel]]
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* [[Dig Your Own Grave]]: Both (comparatively) honest Mexican cops are made to do this.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: More than one, including a ''general''.
** [[Truth in Television]]: Corrupt cops are nothing new, and the Mexican general is largely based on José de Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, a former division general in the Mexican army.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Almost averted. The good guys (mostly) make it through well enough, but the bad guys get away, although one of the cops is making progress investigating Helena and appears confident he'll be busting her in due time. Certainly more cheerful than, say, ''[[The Wire]]''.
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** Wakefield himself is accused of alcoholism by his wife.
* [[Gayngster]]: The Assassin.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: At first, the assassin is violently tortured, and then is "rescued" from his captors by the corrupt general; the torturer's boss. He is given a sumptuous meal and a bottle of wine, finally releasing the desired information after being told "in vino veritas".
* [[Hookers and Blow]]: The good news - it's Erika Christensen. The bad - she is desperate, humiliated, and barely conscious.
* [[Inherent in
* [[Knight in Sour Armour]]: Montel to a tee.
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* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: The assassin is given one.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Carlos Ayala gets away with everything, the sole witness against him having been assassinated on the day of his testimony.
** Arguably, both Wakefield's daughter and her boyfriend. The former would have ruined her own life, were it not for her wealthy and resourceful father, while the latter suffers no consequences from getting his girlfriend hooked on crack.
* [[The Man]]: Montel and Ray briefly discuss wanting to bring down [[The Man]] when working on busting Carlos:
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* [[Moral Guardians]]: Wakefield's job is to be this, regarding drugs, for an entire country. Meanwhile
* [[Noodle Implements]]: A variation of the Ginger Beer Trick variety of this trope is used with a Coke bottle.
* [[Perfect Poison]]: Averted, since the informant dies from eating poisoned breakfast that he complains "tastes like shit
* [[Real Is Brown]]: Different color palettes are used for different scenes. Those taking place in Mexico are shaded brown, while some scenes set in America have a blue tint.
* [[The Remake]]: Originally a British miniseries, revolving around heroin from Pakistan rather than cocaine from Mexico. The movie itself was eventually remade by the USA Network as a three part miniseries.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: [[Knight in Sour Armour|Montel]] [[Fat and Skinny|and]] [[Plucky Comic Relief|Ray]]. Leads to [[Mood Whiplash]] when {{spoiler|Ray is blown up by Frankie Flowers' [[Stuff Blowing Up|carbomb]]}}.
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