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* ForeignCussWord: The part where Elisa signs "Fuck you" to Strickland is not subtitled.


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* InsultingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Elisa boldly signs "Fuck you" to Strickland, knowing that he can't read sign language. Strickland does at least sense that he's being insulted, and Elisa's triumphant smirk implies that it's intentional on her part; she wants him to know he's being insulted, but be unable to prove it, and thus helpless to punish her.
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* SecurityBlindspot: Elisa finds out that in the facility she works at, there's a narrow hallway where some of the workers go to smoke in secret despite there being a security camera. Apparently, all they had to do was simply budge the camera and they'd never get caught. [[ChekhovsGun This area gets used later by Elisa and her friends to exfiltrate the Asset]].

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Zelda calls her selfish, deadbeat husband out on this when he asks her why she's going to so much trouble to help Elisa after she broke the law. Doubles as a ReasonYouSuckSpeech as she explains that [[AFriendInNeed Elisa is her friend]], but he'd never understand that, even if he spent every moment of his life trying for a thousand years.
** Less overtly present with Strickland, who spends most of the movie convinced that "The Asset" must have been stolen for purely pragmatic, espionage-related reasons. It never seems to occur to him that someone simply thought the way the Amphibian Man was being treated was cruel, and wanted to help him.

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Zelda calls her selfish, deadbeat husband out on this when he asks her why she's going to so much trouble to help Elisa after she broke the law. Doubles as a ReasonYouSuckSpeech as she explains that [[AFriendInNeed Elisa is her friend]], but he'd never understand that, even if he spent every moment of his life trying for a thousand years.
** Less overtly present with Strickland, who Strickland spends most of the movie convinced that "The Asset" must have been stolen for purely pragmatic, espionage-related reasons. It never seems to occur to him that someone simply thought the way the Amphibian Man was being treated was cruel, cruel and wanted to help him.
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They're banned from the counter, not the whole restaurant, though they do choose to just leave.


** In a less extreme example, when Pie Guy rejects Giles's romantic overtures with gratuitous and ugly homophobia, he breaks off from the conversation to contemptuously tell an African-American couple that they aren't welcome in the restaurant.

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** In a less extreme example, when Pie Guy rejects Giles's romantic overtures with gratuitous and ugly homophobia, he breaks off from the conversation to contemptuously tell an African-American couple that they aren't welcome in the restaurant.counter is off-limits to them.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: It's implied that Giles' former boss is also his former lover, though it's never clear.


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* ImagineSpot: Toward the end of the film, Elisa imagines herself singing a love song to the Amphibian Man and then dancing with him in the fashion of the musical numbers she's watched on television.


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* KickTheDog:
** Strickland acts in an overbearing and condescending fashion to Elisa and Zelda, who notice that his stun baton has blood on it, establishing him as a brute as well as a creep.
** The diner owner expresses some overt racism right after rejecting Giles, letting us know that this isn't just a tragic case of IncompatibleOrientation. He's an asshole, and Giles is better without him.

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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Flooding a bathroom in a second-story apartment, so that it seeps through the floor and floods out into the living area, would do some pretty severe water damage to the structure of the building. The film treats it as though the water simply goes away without leaving any additional concerns.
** There's also the fact that such a bathroom couldn't actually be made watertight enough to hold that much water, it would run out faster than it could be pumped in.

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Flooding a bathroom in a second-story apartment, so that it seeps through the floor and floods out into the living area, would do some pretty severe water damage to the structure of the building. The film treats it as though the water simply goes away without leaving any additional concerns.
** There's also The amount of water we see leaking out of the fact that such a bathroom couldn't actually be made watertight enough to hold that much water, it door when it's flooded would run out be much faster than it could be pumped in.the amount the bathroom is refilling.



** Strickland routinely tortures the Amphibian Man, using a variety of methods. His preferred option seems to be direct beatings and the use of an electric cattle prod, but under the guise of 'science', he also forces the Amphibian Man to endure lengthy air exposure.

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** Strickland routinely tortures the Amphibian Man, Man using a variety of methods. His preferred option seems to be direct beatings and the use of an electric cattle prod, but under the guise of 'science', he also forces the Amphibian Man to endure lengthy air exposure.



** Green is everywhere: the herbs in the Amphibian Man's water, Giles' ad for Jell-O has to be recolored from red to green, the key lime pie is an obnoxiously unnatural shade, Strickland's wife presents him with a plate of green Jell-O, Strickland's new Cadillac (which is [[InsistentTerminology TEAL]], dammit), and so on.

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** Green is everywhere: the and teal are everywhere. The herbs in the Amphibian Man's water, water are green, Giles' ad for Jell-O has to be recolored from red to green, the key lime pie is an obnoxiously unnatural shade, Strickland's wife presents him with a plate of green Jell-O, the bus is green, the van is green, most of the laboratory is color-schemed in various shades of green. Meanwhile, teal is also prevalent in the lab's color scheme, including the workers' uniforms, and Strickland's new Cadillac (which is [[InsistentTerminology TEAL]], dammit), and so on.insistently teal]] rather than straight green.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:While on the bus the morning after having sex with the Amphibian Man, Elisa watches water droplets on the window, in which many small droplets chase a larger droplet and eventually all merge into one.]]

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:While on the bus the morning after having sex with the Amphibian Man, Elisa watches water droplets on the window, in which many small droplets window. The camera focuses on two droplets, and we watch the smaller one chase a the larger droplet and eventually all one until they merge into one.]]together]].



** His EstablishingCharacterMoment also shows him engaging in very poor personal hygiene in the bathroom, notably washing his hands ''before'' using the urinal, so it's little surprise that his hand gets infected after his fingers are reattached.

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** His EstablishingCharacterMoment also shows him Strickland engaging in very poor personal hygiene in the bathroom, notably washing his hands ''before'' using the urinal, so it's little surprise that his hand gets infected after his fingers are reattached.
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Avant d'avoir eu vent de vous mon amour]].-]'']]

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Avant d'avoir eu vent de vous mon amour]].-]'']]
amour.]]-]'']]
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** Sally Hawkins had previously experienced [[OpeningTheFloodGates her bathroom being turned into a makeshift pool via flooding]] in ''{{Film/Paddington}}''.

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** Sally Hawkins had previously experienced [[OpeningTheFloodGates her bathroom being turned into a makeshift pool via flooding]] in ''{{Film/Paddington}}''.''Film/Paddington2014''.

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A Date With Rosie Palms is now a disambig, dewicking


* ADateWithRosiePalms: Elisa gets down to business everyday in the bath before work... with a three minute timer.



** In Elisa's very first MorningRoutine sequence, we see her take a break from getting ready for her day to [[ADateWithRosiePalms spend some time alone in her bathtub]]. This one scene established a) she has active sexual desires, b) she lives alone and has nobody she can do this with, c) she is precise and fits everything into a specific schedule, and d) [[spoiler:she possibly has her own connections to water even independent from the Amphibian Man]].

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** In Elisa's very first MorningRoutine sequence, we see her take a break from getting ready for her day to [[ADateWithRosiePalms spend some time masturbate alone in her bathtub]].bathtub with a three-mintue timer. This one scene established a) she has active sexual desires, b) she lives alone and has nobody she can do this with, c) she is precise and fits everything into a specific schedule, and d) [[spoiler:she possibly has her own connections to water even independent from the Amphibian Man]].

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