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* ThePawnsGoFirst: Big Boys sends out his {{mooks}} to fight the cops outside Club Ritz, while he escapes [[DamselInDistress with Tess]] through a secret passageway.



* TooDumbToLive: The New Years' Breakout from Club Ritz was a pretty dumb plan... go out, one by one, into a street fortified with police bearing automatic weapons. [[spoiler:Justified as Big Boy knowingly sacrifices them as a diversion while he and his hostage Tess escape via an underground tunnel.]] He even LampShades their stupidity.

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* TooDumbToLive: The New Years' Breakout from Club Ritz was a pretty dumb plan... go out, one by one, into a street fortified with police bearing automatic weapons. [[spoiler:Justified as Big Boy [[ThePawnsGoFirst knowingly sacrifices them as a diversion diversion]] while he and his hostage Tess escape via an underground tunnel.]] He even LampShades {{lampshades}} their stupidity.

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* TooDumbToLive: The New Years' Breakout from Club Ritz was a pretty dumb plan... go out, one by one, into a street fortified with police bearing automatic weapons.

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* TooDumbToLive: The New Years' Breakout from Club Ritz was a pretty dumb plan... go out, one by one, into a street fortified with police bearing automatic weapons. [[spoiler:Justified as Big Boy knowingly sacrifices them as a diversion while he and his hostage Tess escape via an underground tunnel.]] He even LampShades their stupidity.
-->'''Big Boy Caprice:''' ''(to Tess)'' You gotta tell them everything. They crave leadership.

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* CurbStompBattle:
** The gangsters are very easily cut down to a bloody pulp during their attempt to breakthrough the police blockade at the Club Ritz.
** Tracy delivers one to Steve the Tramp for abusing The Kid; this doubles as an EstablishingCharacterMoment.

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* CurbStompBattle:
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CurbStompBattle: The gangsters are very easily cut down to a bloody pulp during their attempt to breakthrough the police blockade at the Club Ritz.
** Tracy delivers one to Steve the Tramp for abusing The Kid; this doubles as an EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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* InvincibleHero: Dick Tracy never seems to get a blow landed on him in fist fights with dozens of hoodlums.

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* InvincibleHero: Dick Tracy never seems to get a blow landed on him in fist fights with dozens of hoodlums. Bullets seem to have an aversion to him, too.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tracy seems ''very'' fond of dealing these to his opponents when finally pushed to the edge.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tracy seems ''very'' fond of dealing these to his opponents when finally pushed to the edge. The first one we see, when Tracy catches Steve the Tramp abusing The Kid, serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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The movie has two licensed games. One for [[VideoGame/DickTracyBandai the NES and Gameboy]] and the other one for [[VideoGame/DickTracySega the Sega Genesis and Master System]].
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* IronicNickname: Alphonse Caprice is also referred to as "Big Boy", but he's actually [[TheNapoleon shorter]] the movie's main adult characters, which includes his moll Breathless Mahoney.

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* IronicNickname: Alphonse Caprice is also referred to as "Big Boy", but he's actually [[TheNapoleon shorter]] than the movie's main adult characters, which includes his moll Breathless Mahoney.
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* AvengingTheVillain: An accidental example. [[spoiler:Dick Tracy indirectly caused Big Boy's demise during their final confrontation with each other, which also avenges The Blank, who turns out to be Breathless Mahoney, from being mortally wounded by Big Boy himself.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:The Blansk, who is revealed to be Breathless Mahoney in disguise, after she got fatally wounded with some gun shots by her old boss Big Boy.]]

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:The Blansk, Blank, who is revealed to be Breathless Mahoney in disguise, after she got fatally wounded with some gun shots gunshots by her old boss Big Boy.]]
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** Blank/[[spoiler:Breathless]] when it's pretty much revealed they did what they did because they were desperate and [[spoiler:in love with Tracy]].

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** The Blank/[[spoiler:Breathless]] when it's pretty much revealed they did what they did because they were desperate and [[spoiler:in love with Tracy]].

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