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* MinorLivingAlone: [[spoiler:Moses]]
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Brewis. His introduction? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDo3bZRC9bk Woop Woop! Dat's da sound of da police.]]

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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Brewis. His introduction? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDo3bZRC9bk Woop Woop! Dat's da sound of da police.]]]] Pest is also an example, but he actually has grown up on the estate, making him a [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] example.

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!!List Tropes? Truth bruv. Allow it.

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!!List Tropes? Truth bruv. Allow it.!!''Attack the Block'' features examples of:



* Foreshadowing: Before she gets mugged, Sam passes graffiti the gang drew to mark their territory. Moses' name is in the middle, encircled by the names of the rest. This signals his position as both the leader and the center of the gang.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: All the gang members have phones, but they're basic phones, not smartphones. A minor point is how they're running low on minutes and texts, so have to be careful how they use them. Makes sense as they come from families with very limited incomes who can't afford smartphones or unlimited plans. At one point, Moses tells Jerome to use his phone to get the word out to everyone about what's going on and get reinforcements.
--->'''Jerome''': I've only got one text left, bruv! This is too much shit for one text!
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* Foreshadowing: Before she gets mugged, Sam passes graffiti the gang drew to mark their territory. Moses' name is in the middle, encircled by the names of the rest. This signals his position as both the leader and the center of the gang.
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* StupidEvil: Hi-Hatz [[spoiler:takes on a whole block full of man-eating aliens with only a handgun and what [[BottomlessMagazines appears]] [[DramaticAmmoDepletion to be]] only one magazine to kill a single kid. He loses his men to this threat, he gets injured dealing with this threat, and it's obvious that this threat is chasing Moses too so he could just sit back and let the "gorilla-wolf mother-fuckers" do the work for him... but he owns the block and he'll be damned if he's gonna let Moses get away with his disrespect. Not surprisingly, it gets him killed.]]

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* StupidEvil: Hi-Hatz [[spoiler:takes on a whole block full of man-eating aliens with only a handgun and what [[BottomlessMagazines appears]] [[DramaticAmmoDepletion to be]] only one magazine to kill a single kid. He loses his men to this threat, he gets injured dealing with this threat, and it's obvious that this threat is chasing Moses too so he could just sit back and let the "gorilla-wolf mother-fuckers" do the work for him... but he owns the block and he'll be damned if he's [[OnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou gonna let Moses get away with his disrespect.disrespect]]. Not surprisingly, it gets him killed.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: All the gang members have phones, but they're basic phones, not smartphones. A minor point is how they're running low on minutes and texts, so have to be careful how they use them. Makes sense as they come from families with very limited incomes who can't afford smartphones or unlimited plans. At one point, Moses tells Jerome to use his phone to get the word out to everyone about what's going on and get reinforcements.
--->'''Jerome''': I've only got one text left, bruv! This is too much shit for one text!
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!!List Tropes? Truth bruh. Allow it.

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!!List Tropes? Truth bruh.bruv. Allow it.
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!!''Attack the Block'' features examples of:

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!!''Attack the Block'' features examples of:!!List Tropes? Truth bruh. Allow it.
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* AliensInCardiff: [[Downplayed]]: aliens in a South London council estate.

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* AliensInCardiff: [[Downplayed]]: Downplayed, it's aliens in a South London council estate.
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Attack the Block still takes place in the UK capital, just a smaller area of it.


* AliensInCardiff: Well, aliens in a South London council estate.

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* AliensInCardiff: Well, [[Downplayed]]: aliens in a South London council estate.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/74354a06_1342_4345_9ec8_13658becc93a.jpeg]][[caption-width-right:350:South London Gang vs. [[BuffySpeak Giant Alien]] [[PhraseCatcher Gorilla Wolf]] [[RunningGag Motherfuckers.]][[note]]From left to right: Ron, [[TheLancer Pest]], [[TheSmartGuy Jerome]], [[TheHero Moses]], [[TheBigGuy Dennis]], [[TheChick Biggz]] and [[ActionSurvivor Sam]].[[/note]]]]

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/74354a06_1342_4345_9ec8_13658becc93a.jpeg]][[caption-width-right:350:South London Gang vs. [[BuffySpeak Giant Alien]] [[PhraseCatcher Gorilla Wolf]] [[RunningGag Motherfuckers.]][[note]]From left to right: Ron, [[TheLancer Pest]], [[TheSmartGuy Jerome]], [[TheHero Moses]], [[TheBigGuy Dennis]], [[TheChick [[NonActionGuy Biggz]] and [[ActionSurvivor Sam]].[[/note]]]]



-->'''Sam''': "Where is he taking us?"
-->'''Jerome''': "Tia's flat."
-->'''Sam''': "What makes you think we'll be safer in her place than we were in mine?"
-->'''Jerome''': "Security gate."
-->'''Moses''': "She wouldn't be asking that question if she'd seen them girls fight."

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-->'''Sam''': "Where --> '''Sam''': Where is he taking us?"
-->'''Jerome''': "Tia's
us?\\
'''Jerome''': Tia's
flat."
-->'''Sam''': "What
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'''Sam''': What
makes you think we'll be safer in her place than we were in mine?"
-->'''Jerome''': "Security
mine?\\
'''Jerome''': Security
gate."
-->'''Moses''': "She
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'''Moses''': She
wouldn't be asking that question if she'd seen them girls fight."



-->'''Dimples''': "What kind of alien, out of all the places in the whole wide world, would invade some shitty council estate in south London?"
-->'''Dennis''': "One that's lookin' for a fight!"

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-->'''Dimples''': "What --> '''Dimples''': What kind of alien, out of all the places in the whole wide world, would invade some shitty council estate in south London?"
-->'''Dennis''': "One
London?\\
'''Dennis''': One
that's lookin' for a fight!"fight!
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* DramaticIrony: About halfway through the movie, Brewis and Ron have a chat about the likely threat of the aliens, and conclude they're no big deal because the one they've seen is eyeless (and therefore probably blind), quite small, and was casually beaten to death by a group of teenagers. Of course, by this point, the audience has seen that all the ''other'' aliens are the size of bears, strong enough to rip through metal, and highly capable, hyper-aggressive hunters.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The reaction of Hi-Hatz's goons to his driving is a non-verbal case of this. They share one look, and - despite being hardened gangsters - immediately buckle up their seatbelts.

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