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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: When Cooper asks Maverick how he drew the Ace of Spades to complete the Royal Flush, Maverick earnestly responds by by saying it was "magic," and we did indeed see him try earlier in the film and fail, but after the tournament, he seems to do it again after Annebelle leaves, and the card he draws is the Queen of Hearts. When he asks if Cooper believes him, Cooper honestly says he does.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: When Cooper asks Maverick how he drew the Ace of Spades to complete the Royal Flush, Maverick earnestly responds by by saying it was "magic," and we did indeed see him try earlier in the film and fail, but after the tournament, he seems to do it again after Annebelle leaves, and the card he draws is the Queen of Hearts. When he asks if Cooper believes him, Cooper honestly says he does.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Maverick refuses to confirm whether he cheated [[spoiler: drawing the Ace of Spades to complete the Royal Flush]] by saying it was "magic". His father smiles, and it's evident it doesn't really matter in the long run.
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** Also: [[spoiler: Commodore Duvall. The reveal that he orchestrated Angel's actions and Cooper's theft of the money come as a surprise. Even when he tells Cooper he plans to kill him and keep the money for himself, he's jovial about it.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Commodore Duvall. He hired Angel to keep Maverick from reaching the game, had Cooper as a back-up plan in case he lost, and intended to kill Cooper after Angel and his gang were killed, and keep all the money to himself.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Commodore Duvall. He hired Angel to keep Maverick from reaching the game, had Cooper as a back-up plan in case he lost, and after Cooper steals the money for him, he intended to kill Cooper after Angel and his gang were killed, and keep all the money to himself.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Commodore Duvall. He hired Angel to try and keep Maverick from reaching the poker tournament, and hired Zane Cooper to steal all the prize money in case he lost. When Cooper does, he announces he's going to kill Cooper during their meet-up and keep the money to himself. Maverick intervenes, and throws a gun in the air for one to kill the other. Duvall gets it, but when he attempts to shoot Cooper, he finds it's empty, and Cooper beats him down. While Cooper doesn't kill him, he tells Maverick later that Commodore Duvall won't be able to touch a deck of cards this side of the Mississippi.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Commodore Duvall. He hired Angel to try and keep Maverick from reaching the poker tournament, and hired Zane game, had Cooper to steal all the prize money as a back-up plan in case he lost. When Cooper does, he announces he's going lost, and intended to kill Cooper during their meet-up after Angel and his gang were killed, and keep all the money to himself. Maverick intervenes, and throws a gun in the air for one to kill the other. Duvall gets it, but when he attempts to shoot Cooper, he finds it's empty, and Cooper beats him down. While Cooper doesn't kill him, he tells Maverick later that Commodore Duvall won't be able to touch a deck of cards this side of the Mississippi.himself.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Commodore Duvall. He hired Angel to try and keep Maverick from reaching the poker tournament, and hired Zane Cooper to steal all the prize money in case he lost. When Cooper does, he announces he's going to kill Cooper during their meet-up and keep the money to himself. Maverick intervenes, and throws a gun in the air for one to kill the other. Duvall gets it, but when he attempts to shoot Cooper, he finds it's empty, and Cooper beats him down. While Cooper doesn't kill him, he tells Maverick later that Commodore Duvall won't be able to touch a deck of cards this side of the Mississippi.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with [[spoiler:Maverick and Cooper making plans to go after Annabelle and get the money she stole from them back.]] Given that they are looking forward to how much fun it is going to be, it will likely involve yet another elaborate con.
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* LastPlanStanding: After surviving (and winning) the whole demented situation involving the card tournament, Bret's winnings are stolen [[spoiler:by Annabelle, who took one look at that same mess and decided to keep her head down, walk in on Bret as he's taking a bath with a gun, take the money and leave]]. Bret [[spoiler:and Bret's father, who was part of the tournament con and also taking a bath]] call it fair cop, [[spoiler:Bret reveals to his dad that Annabelle only took half of the loot becuase, expecting something like this to happen, Bret hid the other half in his boots]], and end the film looking forward at how fun it's going to be getting the money back.
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* MiseryBuildsCharacter: The reason Cooper sends Maverick climb out of the carriage to try and stop the horses. It comes right after Maverick had just extolled the virtues of cowardice in front of Coop. Doubly poignant knowing that [[spoiler:this is a dad trying to build his son's character by subjecting him to a dangerous situation]]. Maverick is ''not'' amused.
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* AffablyEvil: The older, second cardsharp who gets tossed overboard. He's polite and doesn't hold it against Cooper.
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** Angel also accidentally says too much during the lead-up to the hanging, allowing Maverick to deduce that this isn't just simple revenge; somebody's trying to stop him from making it to the Tournament. When he tries to confront Angel aboard the ''Lauren Belle'', however, the Spaniard at least has enough sense to do damage control and not say anymore than he already has.
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** Angel also accidentally says too much during the lead-up to the hanging, allowing Maverick to deduce that this isn't just simple revenge; somebody's trying to stop him from making it to the Tournament. When he tries to confront Angel aboard the ''Lauren Belle'', however, the Spaniard at least has enough sense to do damage control and not say anymore than he already has.
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* CrazyPrepared: Possible example during the final round of the Tournament. [[spoiler: When Maverick realizes the dealer's cheating (at the behest of the Commodore and Angel), he requests a new deck, a new cut, and a new shuffle. The Tournament rules, however, don't permit those options and only allow a player to change dealers if they'd like. It's not explicitly stated, but it's also not hard to imagine that the Commodore set up these specific rules just in case someone realized cheating was underway in the Tournament's climax.]]
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** [[spoiler: The Commodore]] likewise has a quiet OhCrap reaction during all this as well for the same reasons. [[spoiler: He's likewise worried Maverick's figured it out too and that he might try to expose him and Angel here and now.]]
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: A non-lethal variation and played for comedy with the second cardsharp who gets caught during the Tournament. While he's ejected overboard (and in a direct contrast to the first cheater's undignified ejection), the second cardsharp's actually calm and polite about his impending swim. He even, by his own request, is allowed to jump overboard himself rather than forcing Cooper to physically give him the boot.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Angel's attempt to kill Maverick in the prologue. Not only does it fail due to BondVillainStupidity, but Angel's angry boasting reveals somebody's trying to stop Maverick from reaching the Tournament. [[spoiler: Knowing the twists on the re-watch, Maverick confronting Angel on board the ''Lauren Belle'' can be interpreted as trying to confirm if it's the Commodore (and if he might be on to his and Cooper's con), or if there's a new x-factor in play neither he or his father know about.]]
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* LoopholeAbuse: Attempted during the break before the final round of the Tournament. Cooper states as per the rules, any player not back at the table by the time game play resumes will forfeit [[spoiler: Angel, or at least it's implied it was him, locks Maverick in his stateroom during the final minutes before the game resumes to try and get him out of the game on a technicality. It almost works and Maverick just ''barelly'' manages to escape and make it back to the table in the nick of time.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: Subtle example during the final round of the Tournament.[[spoiler: When Maverick realizes the dealer's cheating (at the behest of the Commodore and Ange), he requests a new deck, new cut, and new shuffle. The Tournament rules, however, don't allow that option nad only permit him to change dealers. It's not explicitly stated, but the implication is the Commodore set up these rules just in case whoever else was in the final round realized cheating was underway and tried to stop it/]]
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* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Cooper shooting Angel at the end of the Tournament and saving Maverick becomes this upon the re-watch. Knowing the twist, it's really a pissed off Papa Maverick defending his son.]]
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** Maverick wrongly believes she did it a third time when he left to go with the Indians, stealing his $22,000 despite the fact that (as far as she knew) he was going to get his hands chopped off. Though it turns out she never took the money, we later learn that she did manage to swipe his cufflinks. We also learn that Maverick swiped her necklace during one of the kisses.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Several characters pull this off in order to get other people's guards down.
** Maverick is of course the prime example, as he is constantly bumbling and self-denigrating, especially right before pulling off some amazing trick or outsmarting someone. For example, he claims that he can't hit the broad side of a barn with his pistol - especially when shooting at people - only moments before a shootout in which he disarms several opponents by shooting the guns out their hands.
** Cooper also does this to a degree by presenting himself as an old coot who can't really do much anymore. However a more specific example occurs when he explains the rules of the poker tournament to the players and crowd. He warns anyone who would dare bring a gun or cheat, but then "accidentally" drops his pistol while holstering it. As the tournament goes on (and especially at the very end), we find out he's not even remotely as clumsy as he pretended to be.
** Annabelle, of course, uses her "vulnerable and naive young woman" persona ''constantly'' to lull other people into thinking of her as just some ditz. This lowers their guard, making them susceptible to theft.
** Maverick is of course the prime example, as he is constantly bumbling and self-denigrating, especially right before pulling off some amazing trick or outsmarting someone. For example, he claims that he can't hit the broad side of a barn with his pistol - especially when shooting at people - only moments before a shootout in which he disarms several opponents by shooting the guns out their hands.
** Cooper also does this to a degree by presenting himself as an old coot who can't really do much anymore. However a more specific example occurs when he explains the rules of the poker tournament to the players and crowd. He warns anyone who would dare bring a gun or cheat, but then "accidentally" drops his pistol while holstering it. As the tournament goes on (and especially at the very end), we find out he's not even remotely as clumsy as he pretended to be.
** Annabelle, of course, uses her "vulnerable and naive young woman" persona ''constantly'' to lull other people into thinking of her as just some ditz. This lowers their guard, making them susceptible to theft.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The shooting script has additional elements that didn't make it into the final cut, including [[spoiler: the Commodore outright [[SarcasticConfession sarcastically confessing]] he planned on winning the Tournament.]]
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* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:The film starts with Maverick on the back of a horse with a noose around his neck and some snakes left behind by his captors to spook the horse so he'll be hanged. The first half of the film is about the circumstances that led him to this point. And when the moment arrives and Maverick's horse is about to bolt... the branch the rope is tied around breaks]].
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* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:The The film starts with Maverick on [[spoiler:on the back of a horse with a noose around his neck and some snakes left behind by his captors to spook the horse so he'll be hanged.hanged]]. The first half of the film is about the circumstances that led him to this point. And when the moment arrives and Maverick's horse is about to bolt... the [[spoiler:the branch the rope is tied around breaks]].
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* ExactWords: When Cooper lays out the Tournament rules, he states anyone caught cheating will be ejected from the tournament. He then adds that said cheaters either better be a faster draw on the gun than him, or had better learn how to swim. Everybody laughs at the joke. The players who inevitably get caught cheating later and ejected, however, find out the hard way that Cooper ''wasn't'' joking about the swimming part.
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* ExactWords: When Cooper lays out the Tournament rules, he states anyone caught cheating had either better be a faster draw than him, or had better learn how to swim. Everybody laughs about the 'swim' part, thinking it's a joke. The players who inevitably get caught cheating find out the hard way Cooper ''wasn't'' kidding about the swimming part.
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