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* TokenGoodCop: Bannion is a homicide detective who is willing to defy the mob in a city where most cops are taking their money or are too afraid to stand up to them (TheDon even has the commissioner assign police security to patrol his outside grounds). Most of Bannion's help in the second act comes from civilians and it is only at the end of the movie that a police Lieutenant works up enough courage and integrity to help him.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: After Larry threatens Katie over the phone, Bannion asks her what Larry said, and she responds, "I'll leave the four-letter words to your imagination.
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* TurnInYourBadge: The corrupt police commissioner demands Bannion do this after realizing he won't be able to dissuade Bannion from investigating his wife's murder.
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* TurnInYourBadge: The corrupt police commissioner demands Bannion do this after realizing he won't be able to dissuade Bannion from investigating his wife's murder. Bannion gladly does so, but won't turn in the gun, because it belongs to him and not the department.
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* DeathByDisfigurement: In the film's most famous scene, violent mob thug Vince Stone throws hot coffee in the face of his beautiful moll, Debby. Debby is left with one side of her face horribly scarred. She dies in the climactic shootout, but not before throwing hot coffee into Vince's face (and helping Bannion get him.)
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* DeathByDisfigurement: In the film's most famous scene, violent mob thug Vince Stone throws hot coffee in the face of his beautiful moll, Debby. Debby is left with one side of her face horribly scarred. She [[spoiler:She dies in the climactic shootout, but not before throwing hot coffee into Vince's face (and helping Bannion get him.))]]
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* StupidCrooks: Lagana chews out Larry Gordon for leaving Lucy's body to be found by the road and for accidentally killing [[spoiler: Katie Bannion, rather than her husband.]]
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No relation to the [[Film/TheBigHeat1988 cop movie]].
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* CigaretteBurns: This seems to be Stone's preferred method of hurting people - Lucy Chapman's body was covered in burns, and Bannion watches him hurt another girl by stubbing out his cigar on her hand.
* EmptyCopThreat: Bannion tries to squeeze the bartender at The Retreat by threatening to take him downtown over the Chapman murder, but the bartender sneers that Bannion won't do that since Bannion's been told to stay away from the Chapman case.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Either Gordon or Stone had the mechanic who planted the bomb in Bannion's car killed to make sure Bannion couldn't connect it back to them or Lagana.
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* TakenOffTheCase: Bannion is taken off the Lucy Chapman murder case because the police department he works for is hopelessly corrupt, with the chief himself in the pocket of the mobsters that killed Chapman.
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* TakenOffTheCase: Bannion is taken off the Lucy Chapman murder case because the police department he works for is hopelessly corrupt, with the chief commissioner himself in the pocket of the mobsters that killed Chapman.Chapman. Bannion's lieutenant says the reason is that the Chapman case is a county matter, but Bannion brushes that away as a flimsy excuse.
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* DisposableWoman: Gosh, isn't Mrs. Bannion sweet and nice and pretty? Too bad she has to get blown up [[ExternalCombustion by a car bomb]] just to [[CrusadingWidower give her husband extra motivation to get the bad guys]].
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* DisposableWoman: Gosh, isn't Mrs. Bannion sweet and nice and pretty? Too bad she has to get blown up [[ExternalCombustion by a car bomb]] just to [[CrusadingWidower [[CrusadingWidow give her husband extra motivation to get the bad guys]].
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* TakenOffTheCase: Bannion is taken off the Lucy Chapman murder case because the police department he works for is hopelessly corrupt, with the chief himself in the pocket of the mobsters that killed Chapman.
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* NotSoDifferent: Discussed. When Bannion mentions that he wished he had killed Bertha Duncan when he had the chance, Debby notes that this would make him just as bad as Stone.
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* NotSoDifferent: Discussed. NotSoDifferentRemark: When Bannion mentions that he wished he had killed Bertha Duncan when he had the chance, Debby notes that this would make him just as bad as Stone.
