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* SoulCrushingDeskJob: The main character [[MotiveRant reveals his motif]] to have been his disgust with the dull, mind-numbingly repetitive, depressing desk job:
--> "And you, Citizen Investigator, have you ever worked a desk job? On a chair, from dawn till dusk, then you get home tired, tomorrow the same all over again... Everything's scheduled, "from - to, from - to"... The streets you walk are scheduled, the people you meet are scheduled, your time is scheduled. You don't make it to retirement. Then your funeral, the funeral march, Chopin, the next day you're forgotten. And if you asked yourself, a moment before death, how did you live? No, thank you! [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Dankeschön!]] I want the choice to be my own. Free or in jail, the choice shall be my own.
--> "And you, Citizen Investigator, have you ever worked a desk job? On a chair, from dawn till dusk, then you get home tired, tomorrow the same all over again... Everything's scheduled, "from - to, from - to"... The streets you walk are scheduled, the people you meet are scheduled, your time is scheduled. You don't make it to retirement. Then your funeral, the funeral march, Chopin, the next day you're forgotten. And if you asked yourself, a moment before death, how did you live? No, thank you! [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Dankeschön!]] I want the choice to be my own. Free or in jail, the choice shall be my own.
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* BrawnHilda: One of the women he seduced (while posing as "Radul Misirkov"). She was heartbroken and recognizes him immediately, attacks him with a shovel and then turns him in.
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* {{Retirony}}: When he met Boryana, he fell in love and sincerely intended to quit his criminal activities and settle down... but her cop uncle most good-naturedly offered to have him looked up so they can help him find the passport he lied about losing so Boryana would take him home.
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* LadykillerInLove: His usual m. o. involves seducing women and then robbing them, and he's not attracted to those women. When he escapes captivity, he falls in love with a woman he seduces, but has to run away because her uncle is a police inspector who genuinely offered to have him looked up so they can find his "lost" passport.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: When he meets Boriana, he leaves without stealing anything from her, and she's the one woman he wanted to stay with because he fell in love.]]
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--> '''The police inspector''': There are over 6000 species of birds in the world. So we can't know his next reincarnation.
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--> ''"Ilia Burevestnikov"'': Ludwig Van Beethoven?
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--> ''"Ilia Burevestnikov"'': '''"Ilia Burevestnikov"''': Ludwig Van Beethoven?
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* BorrowedCatchPhrase: [[spoiler: How the agent who lures him into a HoneyTrap let him know he's been caught:]]
--> '''Agent Mateva''': (referencing his tendency to play Beethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata'') We have a tapestry project going on. Music, notes, piano, and front and center - the composer...
--> ''"Ilia Burevestnikov"'': Ludwig Van Beethoven?
--> '''Agent Mateva''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Frank. Lloyd. Wright.]]
--> '''Agent Mateva''': (referencing his tendency to play Beethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata'') We have a tapestry project going on. Music, notes, piano, and front and center - the composer...
--> ''"Ilia Burevestnikov"'': Ludwig Van Beethoven?
--> '''Agent Mateva''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Frank. Lloyd. Wright.]]
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** "Relative, cop, relative, cop" [[labelnote:*]]when a character speaks about how many cops he had to invite to his daughter's wedding to get them to look the other way about his illicit deals; shorthand for someone resorting to bribing and nepotism[[/labelnote]]
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** "Relative, cop, relative, cop" [[labelnote:*]]when a character speaks about how many cops he had to invite to his daughter's wedding to get them to look the other way about his illicit deals; shorthand for someone resorting to bribing and nepotism[[/labelnote]]nepotism[[/labelnote]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: He frequently appeals to women by acting like a playboy at first, then posing as a [[DistressedDude man who's wound up in trouble]].
* WoundedGazelleGambit: He frequently appeals to women by acting like a playboy at first, then posing as a [[DistressedDude man who's wound up in trouble]].
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* LovableRogue: He exploits this, appealing to women who then defend him and bust him out of difficult situations.
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* InMediasRes: The opening scene is "Yastrebovski"'s last scam, after which he spends all his money at a cabaret bar and gets caught by his old nemesis.
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''Dangerous Charm'' (Original title: ''Опасен чар [opasen char]'') is a 1984 Bulgarian comedy film about the adventures of [[spoiler: Gencho Gunchev]], a scoundrel who woos various women to milk profits from them, always on the run from the police.
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* CelebrityLie: He boasts about being friends with world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright when he poses as an architect himself.
* GoldDigger: A male version, seducing women for money, then dumping them when the mine runs dry.
* ThemeNaming: The protagonist's aliases are all bird-based: Orelski''[[labelnote:*]]orel = eagle[[/labelnote]]'', Pelikanski, Yastrebovski''[[labelnote:*]]yastreb = hawk[[/labelnote]]'', Sokolov''[[labelnote:*]]sokol = falcon[[/labelnote]]'', Misirkov''[[labelnote:*]]misirka = an old word for turkey[[/labelnote]]'', Burevestnikov''[[labelnote:*]]burevestnik = storm petrel[[/labelnote]]''.
* TropeNamer: In Bulgarian culture.
** "Bad, Sedlarov, B-A-D!"[[labelnote:*]]said to the eponymous character when the protagonist was acting as a DirtyCop; used as shorthand for when someone's in trouble[[/labelnote]]
** "Relative, cop, relative, cop" [[labelnote:*]]when a character speaks about how many cops he had to invite to his daughter's wedding to get them to look the other way about his illicit deals; shorthand for someone resorting to bribing and nepotism[[/labelnote]]
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* CelebrityLie: He boasts about being friends with world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright when he poses as an architect himself.
* GoldDigger: A male version, seducing women for money, then dumping them when the mine runs dry.
* ThemeNaming: The protagonist's aliases are all bird-based: Orelski''[[labelnote:*]]orel = eagle[[/labelnote]]'', Pelikanski, Yastrebovski''[[labelnote:*]]yastreb = hawk[[/labelnote]]'', Sokolov''[[labelnote:*]]sokol = falcon[[/labelnote]]'', Misirkov''[[labelnote:*]]misirka = an old word for turkey[[/labelnote]]'', Burevestnikov''[[labelnote:*]]burevestnik = storm petrel[[/labelnote]]''.
* TropeNamer: In Bulgarian culture.
** "Bad, Sedlarov, B-A-D!"[[labelnote:*]]said to the eponymous character when the protagonist was acting as a DirtyCop; used as shorthand for when someone's in trouble[[/labelnote]]
** "Relative, cop, relative, cop" [[labelnote:*]]when a character speaks about how many cops he had to invite to his daughter's wedding to get them to look the other way about his illicit deals; shorthand for someone resorting to bribing and nepotism[[/labelnote]]
