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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has hh blood group also known as Bombay blood group (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) which is rarer with incidence of 1 in 10,000 people and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]



* BombayBloodGroup: [[spoiler: Javi has hh blood group also known as Bombay blood group (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) which is rarer with incidence of 1 in 10,000 people and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]
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* Bombay Blood Group: [[spoiler: Javi has hh blood group also known as Bombay blood group (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) which is rarer with incidence of 1 in 10,000 people and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]

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* Bombay Blood Group: BombayBloodGroup: [[spoiler: Javi has hh blood group also known as Bombay blood group (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) which is rarer with incidence of 1 in 10,000 people and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]

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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]


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* Bombay Blood Group: [[spoiler: Javi has hh blood group also known as Bombay blood group (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) which is rarer with incidence of 1 in 10,000 people and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]
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** Grenades. The Driver uses one of Frank's goons own grenades to kill him. [[spoiler:He later uses two grenades to kill Frank's associate and Frank himself.]]
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* RedIsHeroic: The Driver wears a red shit in a few scenes and when [[spoiler:he's on his way to kill Frank]], he drives a red car.

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* RedIsHeroic: The Driver wears a red shit shirt in a few scenes and when [[spoiler:he's on his way to kill Frank]], he drives a red car.
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* RedIsHeroic: The Driver wears a red shit in a few scenes and when [[spoiler:he's on his way to kill Frank]], he drives a red car.

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* CountryMatters: The Driver lets loose a C-bomb when he's held down soon after arriving in El Pueblito when the nurse takes a sample of his blood.
* DeadpanSnarker: The Driver and the Kid.



* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: The Kid's mother gets a moment of this when she catches the Driver staring at her early on. She walks up to him, asks "What the fuck are you staring at?" and smacks him across the face.



* FearsomeFoot: Frank's goons are soon arriving in El Pubelito wearing heavy boots that [[OhCrap make their presence known to the others]] as they approach before they start firing their guns.



* OhCrap: Frank gets this [[spoiler:when he sees the grenade at his feet and realizes it's about to explode]]. He manages to say "Oh--" [[spoiler:before it goes off]].

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** The Kid and Driver get one when they notice Frank's goons in the prison, before they open fire.
** One of said goons gets one when Driver [[GrenadeHotPotato catches a grenade in mid-air and throws it back at him]].
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Frank gets this [[spoiler:when he sees the grenade at his feet and realizes it's about to explode]]. He manages to say "Oh--" [[spoiler:before it goes off]].
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* AlliterativeName: Frank Fowler.
* BaitAndSwitch: The Driver buys a taco [[spoiler:on his way to kill Frank]], and is shown to the microwave, but he then says he isn't going to eat it. [[spoiler:He stuffs it in the exhaust of the car on his tail, so that when the car has to stop, he is able to pick off the car's occupants.]]

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Vazquez and his partner are tortured for the location of the stolen money by having their toes cut off, before being killed at the end of the same scene.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Vazquez and his partner Romero are tortured for the location of the stolen money by having their toes cut off, before being killed at the end of the same scene.



* BigBad: Javi.
* BiggerBad: Frank Fowler, who the Driver and his [[RedShirt associate]] stole the money from before the film started.



* CassandraTruth: Vazquez is unable to convince Frank and his men that they only stole $2 million, not knowing about the rest of the money.



** The car driven by Driver in the opening chase. [[spoiler: Vazquez and Romero steal the $2 million they find, but can't find the rest of the money, having not known about it to start with. At the end, Driver finds the car impounded, cuts open the trunk and retrieves the rest of the money.]]



* TheLoad: Carnal is described by the Kid to the Driver as this: "He's a useless prick. Even they hate him."

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* TheLoad: Carnal is described by the Kid to the Driver as this: being this to Javi and Caracas: "He's a useless prick. Even they hate him."


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* RedShirt: The Driver's associate in the car chase at the beginning, who's bleeding internally and presumed dead at the end of the chase.


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* SherlockScan: The Driver, after first arriving at ''El Pueblito'', deduces that Carnal is working for Caracas because people are showing Caracas respect and Caracas appears to be making Carnal's life miserable. Then he corrects himself moments later when he spots Javi in a bathrobe in a LuxuryPrisonSuite, correctly deducing now that Caracas and Carnal both work for Javi. Bear in mind this is before he even knows any of their names and the fact they're all related (he gets that fact from the Kid later).
* ShoeSlap: The Driver does this with his own shoes shotly after first arriving in ''El Pueblito''.
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** The Driver describes a recurring dream to the Kid's mother in great detail about Reginald T. Barnes getting together with Driver's ex-wife. [[spoiler:At the end, the dream is played out exactly as described, but it is left up to the audience to decide whether it actually happened or not, because immediately after it, the Driver is seen waking up and smiling to himself.]]

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** The Driver describes a recurring dream to the Kid's mother in great detail about Reginald T. Barnes after getting together with Driver's ex-wife. [[spoiler:At the end, the dream is played out exactly as described, but it is left up to the audience to decide whether it actually happened or not, because immediately after it, the Driver is seen waking up and smiling to himself.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Driver describes a recurring dream to the Kid's mother in great detail about Reginald T. Barnes getting together with Driver's ex-wife. [[spoiler:At the end, the dream is played out exactly as described, but it is left up to the audience to decide whether it actually happened or not, because immediately after it, the Driver is seen waking up and smiling to himself.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Driver's line to the Kid: "You don't want to kill Javi. You ''need'' to kill Javi. Before he [[WouldHurtAChild kills you]]." [[spoiler:The Kid later tries to stab his liver and indirectly kill Javi because then, if the Kid damages his liver, Javi won't be able to use it, won't be able to find another donor, and thus die.]]
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The Driver describes a recurring dream to the Kid's mother in great detail about Reginald T. Barnes getting together with Driver's ex-wife. [[spoiler:At the end, the dream is played out exactly as described, but it is left up to the audience to decide whether it actually happened or not, because immediately after it, the Driver is seen waking up and smiling to himself.]]
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* WealthyEverAfter: [[spoiler:The Driver recovers $3.7 million of the stolen $4 million (some of it was spent by Vazquez on his partner on hookers and some new cars) and uses it to start a new life with the Kid and his mother.]]

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* WealthyEverAfter: [[spoiler:The Driver recovers $3.7 million of the stolen $4 million (some of it (the rest was spent by Vazquez on and his partner on hookers and some new cars) and uses it to start a new life with the Kid and his mother.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Driver describes a recurring dream to the Kid's mother in great detail about Reginald T. Barnes getting together with Driver's ex-wife. [[spoiler:At the end, the dream is played out exactly as described, but it is left up to the audience to decide whether it actually happened or not, because immediately after it, the Driver is seen waking up and smiling to himself.]]


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* WealthyEverAfter: [[spoiler:The Driver recovers $3.7 million of the stolen $4 million (some of it was spent by Vazquez on his partner on hookers and some new cars) and uses it to start a new life with the Kid and his mother.]]
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler: Vazquez and his partner are tortured for the location of the stolen money by having their toes cut off, before being killed at the end of the same scene.]]

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler: Vazquez and his partner are tortured for the location of the stolen money by having their toes cut off, before being killed at the end of the same scene.]]



* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Javi lives a nice flat above the squaller that everyone else has to live in and can leave the prison at any time as long as he eventually comes back. The Driver even calls it a penthouse.

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* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Javi lives a nice flat above the squaller squalor that everyone else has to live in and can leave the prison at any time as long as he eventually comes back. The Driver even calls it a penthouse.



* ScreamingWoman: The Kid's mother [[spoiler:during her Electric Torture, and then when the Kid appears and attempts to stab his liver and kill himself, right in front of her and Javi.]]

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* ScreamingWoman: The Kid's mother [[spoiler:during her Electric Torture, ElectricTorture, and then when the Kid appears and attempts to stab his liver and kill himself, right in front of her and Javi.]]

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* ScreamingWoman: The Kid's mother [[spoiler:during her Electric Torture, and then when the Kid appears and attempts to stab his liver and kill himself, right in front of her and Javi.]]



** Main story: Mel's character gets left for dead somewhere (shot, in prison) and takes out the BigBad pyramid from the bottom up untill he [[spoiler:and his love interest are the only ones left standing]].

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** Main story: Mel's character gets left for dead somewhere (shot, in prison) and takes out the BigBad pyramid from the bottom up untill until he [[spoiler:and his love interest are the only ones left standing]].



* ThickerThanWater: Javi just couldn't waste his cousin, even if leaving him alive was ''very'' bad for bussiness. The Driver used this for his advantage, setting up a grand scheme to save his own ass.

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* ThickerThanWater: Javi just couldn't waste his cousin, even if leaving him alive was ''very'' bad for bussiness.business. The Driver used this for his advantage, setting up a grand scheme to save his own ass.
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Understandably, the Kid's mother is very worried because she never knows when Javi will come for her son. And then, she reacts just the way you'd expect during her ElectricalTorture when he shows up and attempts to kill himself, just so Javi can't get his liver.]]

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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Understandably, the Kid's mother is very worried because she never knows when Javi will come for her son. And then, she reacts just the way you'd expect during her ElectricalTorture ElectricTorture scene when he shows up and attempts to kill himself, just so Javi can't get his liver.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Implied at the beginning with the Driver's line: "But as my old mother always told me, 'Fuck off, loser.'"
* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Understandably, the Kid's mother is very worried because she never knows when Javi will come for her son. And then, she reacts just the way you'd expect during her ElectricalTorture when he shows up and attempts to kill himself, just so Javi can't get his liver.]]


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* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler: Vazquez and his partner are tortured for the location of the stolen money by having their toes cut off, before being killed at the end of the same scene.]]


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* TheBigGuy: Caracas, Javi's big brother. The Kid even describes him this way while telling the Driver who he (Caracas) is.
* BigNo: Driver's recurring dream has [[spoiler:his ex-wife doing a few of these when Reginald T. Barnes is blown away.]]


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* ElectricTorture: [[spoiler:The Kid's mother is subject to this when being questioned about where the Kid is, right before the Kid himself shows up and attempts to stab himself.]]
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: The Kid gets in on the swearing, smoking and talking about how he wants to [[spoiler:kill Javi because [[YouKilledMyFather he killed his father by taking his liver]] [[WouldHurtAChild and plans to do the same to the Kid himself]].]]


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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler:Carnal is beaten back by the Kid's mother with a iron before being killed by the Driver.]]


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* TheLoad: Carnal is described by the Kid to the Driver as this: "He's a useless prick. Even they hate him."


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* OhCrap: Frank gets this [[spoiler:when he sees the grenade at his feet and realizes it's about to explode]]. He manages to say "Oh--" [[spoiler:before it goes off]].
* PapaWolf: The Driver becomes this to the Kid.


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* PrecisionFStrike: Throughout. [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes Even the Kid gets in on it]].


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* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Carnal does this to the Kid's mother after she hits him with an iron. [[MoralEventHorizon Then he starts to try and take her clothes off like he's going to rape her]].]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Javi plans to take the Kid's liver because he needs a new one and the Kid's the only matching blood type. Obviously, this would spell death for the Kid.]]
** [[spoiler:Carnal as well, punching the Kid before being killed by the Driver.]]
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* [[spoiler:BiggerBad: Frank doesn't get much screen time, but is still established to be this.]]
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** The opening chase closely resembles the opening of [[Film/MadMax Mad Max 2]].

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** The opening chase closely resembles the opening of [[Film/MadMax ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Mad Max 2]].2]]''.
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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a liver transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]

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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a liver transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]
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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]

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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a liver transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…]]
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* RunForTheBorder: At the start of the film, the Driver and his partner-in-crime try to escape their pursuers by driving their car through the wall at the American-Mexican border only to end up totalling their vehicle.
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* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Javi lives a nice flat above the squaller that everyone else has to live in and can leave the prison at any time as long as he eventually comes back. The Driver even calls it a penthouse.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The Kid (and a whole lot of children) all have to live in a hellhole like El Pueblito because their parents got themselves locked up.
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* MutilationInterrogation: Frank's men cut the toes off the CorruptCops while forcing them to tell what they did with the money.

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* HellholePrison: ''El Pueblito'' is a gigantic slum/prison hybrid, with prisoners sleeping on bare dirt and having to paw through garbage if they cannot afford to pay for anything better.



* WretchedHive: ''El Pueblito'' is a gigantic slum/prison hybrid, akin to the refugee camp at Bexhill in ''Film/ChildrenOfMen''.

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* ABNegative: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…

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* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…liver…]]



* BigBad: Javi.


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* GrenadeHotPotato: The Driver grabs a grenade thrown by one of Frank's hired guns and throws it right back, turning one of them into bloody chunks.
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* ABNegative: Javi has Bombay Type blood (the Mother calls it [[{{Malaproper}} "Bambi Blood"]]) and killed the Kid's father for his liver when he needed a transplant and he was the only compatible donor that Javi could find. He also keeps the Kid alive since he has the same blood type as his father and Javi knows that he is going to need another liver…
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* DirtyCop: Every cop, what'd you expect? As the Mexican cop sais to the American cop at the start of the film, both sides are corrupt but at least the Mexicans admit it.

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* DirtyCop: Every cop, what'd you expect? As the Mexican cop sais says to the American cop at the start of the film, both sides are corrupt but at least the Mexicans admit it.
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