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* SpoiledBrat: Inez.

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* %%* SpoiledBrat: Inez.



* [[StrawmanPolitical Strawman Republican]]: Inez's Dad.

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* [[StrawmanPolitical Strawman Republican]]: %%* StrawmanPolitical: Inez's Dad.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Gil and Inez are still not married, but Inez's parents act this way, openly ridiculing Gil, and John hires a private detective midway through the film to investigate Gil's strolls at night. [[spoiler:When Gil breaks up with Inez in the end, John and Helen are actually happy about it]].


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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:It's never revealed if the detective ever made it back to the present era, or if he was able to escape the king's guards and avoid being decapitated]].


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Paul's wife Carol gets sick after eating an oyster and this is the last time her existence is even acknowledged. [[spoiler:It's not even revealed if she ever found out that her husband cheated on her with Inez]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode".

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* SpiritualSuccessor: SpiritualAntithesis: To Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode".''Film/LastNightInSoho'', as both protagonists believe they are BornInTheWrongCentury according to the city they are visiting. Both find a way to magically transport back to the golden age of each city, but while ''Film/MidnightInParis'' is a romantic comedy that explores nostalgia [[spoiler: in general by unlocking further time travelling to a more distant past]], ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' harshly deconstructs the NostalgiaFilter we tend to have for older eras.
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* CassandraTruth: Gil tries to tell his fiancée about his experiences, leading her to think he may have a brain tumor. When he tries to tell the surrealists about his coming from the future, they think he's speaking metaphorically.

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* CassandraTruth: Gil tries to tell his fiancée about his experiences, leading her to think he may have a brain tumor. When he tries to tell the surrealists about his coming from the future, they think he's speaking metaphorically. When he tells Adriana, she's not really interested, having just travelled back to LaBelleEpoque.

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* InsufferableGenius: Subverted with Paul (the genius part, not the insufferable part). Inez thinks he's brilliant, but Gil, the tour guide, and the audience know that he's not.

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* InsufferableGenius: Subverted with Paul (the genius part, not the insufferable part). Inez thinks he's brilliant, but Gil, the tour guide, guide and the audience know that he's not.



* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Paul Bates, whom a museum guide refers to as "the pedantic gentleman".

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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Paul Bates, whom a museum guide refers to as "the pedantic gentleman". From what we hear of Gil's novel, there's a character based on him in it, Gertrude Stein's reference to "the pedantic one" is anything to go by.



* SpottingTheThread: Even though they never meet them, Hemingway and Stein are the ones who clues into the fact that [[spoiler: Inez is sleeping with Paul]] after reading the draft of Gil's novel.



* TestosteronePoisoning: Ernest Hemingway.

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* TestosteronePoisoning: Could Ernest Hemingway.Hemingway have been portrayed in any other way?

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