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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: The movie does a good job of justifying why its audience would never have heard of Zelig by treating him as one of many fads of the 1920s and 1930s, forgotten when the public discovered something new of interest.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: After Zelig {{spoiler|returns to America after falling in with [[Those Wacky Nazis]], by becoming the first man to fly over the Atlantic Ocean entirely upside-down}}:
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* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]
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* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: As recounted by Zelig under hypnosis, "My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister and my brother and me. My mother beat my father and my sister and me and my brother. The neighbors beat our family. The people down the block beat the neighbors and our family."
* [[I Have This Friend]]: When Dr. Fletcher starts out trying to treat Zelig, he is unresponsive and takes on the persona of a psychiatrist. So, she pretends to be a patient asking about a problem of a "friend" -- while she "admits" that she is describing herself, she's actually describing Zelig's own problems, which unsettle him enough to break down his persona.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifter]]: Zelig's subconscious desire to fit in with the people around him causes him to actually physically transform as needed to seem like just another part of the crowd, including suddenly becoming obese or ''black''.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Zelig seduced numerous women.
* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: Pretty much, Zelig's character/[[Freudian Excuse]] is this trope taken [[Up to Eleven]]. Because of his desperate need to fit in, Zelig started out by pretending to have read ''[[Moby Dick]]'' when he hadn't, and this spiraled into mirroring the professions and even appearances of those around him.
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* [[Shiksa Goddess]]: Dr. Fletcher is fairly plain (well, [[Hollywood Homely]]), but this trope applies in that Zelig is Jewish (and lower class at that), while she is from a wealthy WASP background.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Zelig's shapeshifting is regarded as little more than a curiosity, rather than prompting intense scientific investigation.
* [[The Zelig]]: [[Trope Namer]], an alternate title for [[The Gump]].
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