History Film / WhoAmI

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The last scene has Ben looking at the camera saying "No more magic tricks.". Then he winks and the screen goes black.

* GoofySuit: Ben's embarrassing outfit as a pizza delivery boy.

* ParentalAbandonment: Ben grew up [[ParentalSubstitute with his grandma]] because [[AbsentFather his father left]] when he was born and [[MissingMom his mother committed suicide]] when he was eight. Discussed early on:

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: When delivering the pizzas to the library, Ben cites a famous line from Superman which Marie doesn't get. Leads to an awkward moment of silence.

* BurgerFool: Ben's embarrassing outfit as a pizza delivery boy.

* TrojanHorse: A digital variant. Ben plants a [[MatryoshkaObject Trojan inside a Trojan]] to uncover MRX' identity. But the plan fails as MRX looks through the trick and rejects the virus program that was original meant to hack into the Europol system.

* TrojanHorse: A digital variant. Ben plants a [[MatryoshkaObject Trojan inside a Trojan]] to uncover MRX' identity. But the plan fails as MRX looks through the trick and refuses the virus program that was original meant to hack into the Europol system.

* TrojanHorse: A digital variant. Ben planted a [[MatryoshkaObject Trojan inside a Trojan]] to uncover MRX' identity. But the plan fails as MRX looked through the trick and didn't accept the virus program that was original meant to hack into Europol system.

* TrojanHorse: A digital variant. Ben planted a Trojan inside a Trojan to uncover MRX' identity. But the plan fails as MRX looked through the trick and didn't accept the virus program that was original meant to hack into Europol system.

* TheReveal: The film features a double TwistEnding complete with revelatory montage.

* Letters2Numbers: The hacker group ''FR13NDS".

* ParentalAbandonment: Ben grew up with his grandma because [[AbsentFather his father left]] when he was born and [[MissingMom his mother committed suicide]] when he was eight. Discussed early on:

* ProtagonistTitle: ''WhoAmI'' is Ben's online alias.

* ParentalAbandonment: Ben has an AbsentFather and a MissingMom. Discussed early on:

--> '''Ben:''' "Most of the hackers just crack the threshold, look around the system and don't change a thing. Others leave a note. And many, take a souvenir.

* HollywoodHacking: Played straight with Ben's way of hacking. Subverted with Max' approach to exploit human weakness instead of security systems.

* BavarianFireDrill: Max' favorite SocialEngineering technique that gives him exactly what he wants. His tenet: "Man is by nature trusting and averse to conflict". He then goes on to demonstrate the trope by pressing two chocodonuts from an overwhelmed clerk.
* BingeMontage: When the CLAY members drink, do drugs and party heavily with the three girls they pick up on the street.

* {{Bookends}}: The movie opens with the scene where Ben enters the hotel room. We revisit this scene before the final scene.

--> "Most of the hackers just crack the threshold, look around the system and don't change a thing. Others leave a note. And many, take a souvenir.

** The three shells belonging to Ben's grandfather are later used as evidence for the killing of three CLAY members.
** The nail Alex hurts himself with later gets p
* ChekhovsHobby: Marie's study in law comes handy when she confirms that the witness protection program is not permitted for mentally ill candidates.

* TheCracker: MRX is a ruthless hacker who sells information to the Russian cyber mafia that gets Krypton killed.

* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The animation of the female operator during the PhoneTraceRace, with red dots and lines and representing the different servers that CLAY uses to hide their traces.

* ForegoneConclusion: Subverted. In the opening FlashForward scene there is dead man in a tub with blood dripping from his tattooed hand. Later we learn that this hand belongs to CLAY member Stephan which points to him getting killed later in the story. [[spoiler: However, the opening scene was fake - Stephan wasn't harmed after all.]]
* GilliganCut: When Paul refuses to ride in the new Porsche. Cut to the next scene where he screams of joy in the driver seat.

* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens towards the end of the story with Ben entering a hotel room with dead people inside. The rest of the movie tells the story how he got to that point.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Being deeply in love with Marie, Ben decides to steal the exam questions for her and gets caught in the process.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The CLAY members wear clown masks for their coups. Also everybody on Darknet is wearing a creepy mask.
* MatchCut: From when Ben looks down at the flyer for Max' party to him standing with the flyer in front of the house.

* PhoneTraceRace: Done with IP addresses. The Special Task Force manages to locate CLAY at a Berlin State Library and rushes over to catch them red-handed but arrive too late. Lampshaded by Stephan:
--> "We're too long online, man!"

* Pride: Ben's idea to hand MRX sensible BND data backfires tremendously.

* RebelRelaxation: When Ben and Max meet at community service, the latter does this pose against a wall while smoking a cigarette.

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Ben makes Hanne believe he suffers from multiple personality disorder.]]

* TragicHero: Ben. His [[IJustWantToBeSpecial quest for fame]] lets him do stupid things that almost gets him killed. Although we have to questions how much of his motives were real how much was only a fabrication of his mind. Ultimately subverted at the end when MRX is behind bars and CLAY starts a new live