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* {{Black and White Morality}}: Capone is a ''{{Complete Monster}}'' who orders the deaths of children and beats men to death with baseball bats. Ness is all-American Hero who loves nothing more his family and getting notes from his wife in his lunch

* CompleteMonster: Frank Nitti.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Malone's death]].
** Also [[spoiler: Oscar's death.]]

* Black and White Morality: Capone is a ''{{Complete Monster}}'' who orders the deaths of children and beats men to death with baseball bats. Ness is all-American Hero who loves nothing more his family and getting notes from his wife in his lunch

* Black and White Morality: Capone is a ''{{Complete Monster}}'' who orders the deaths of Children and beats Men to Death with Baseball bats.Ness is all-American Hero who loves nothing more His Family and getting notes from His Wife in His lunch

* Hollywood Law: When They discover the Jury has been bribed,They switch Them with the Jury next door.This is nothing compared with Capone's lawyer issuing a plea without His consent which is a real good way to have a Mistrial,an overturned Conviction and a Disbarrment for the Attorney

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A 1959 live action television series (later adapted as a movie in 1987, with Kevin Costner) based on the exploits of (RealLife) [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] Chicago treasury department agent Eliot Ness and his [[{{Nakama}} group of loyal agents]], nicknamed "The Untouchables" because of their refusal to be bribed by the Mob as many others were at the time. Most notable for pursuing bootleggers and gangster AlCapone (and eventually arresting him--[[JusticeByOtherLegalMeans on tax evasion charges]]!)

** TheAce: Stone. He's the best shootist promoted from the police force, and proves it during the train station shootout.

* CompleteMonster: Nitti.

* TheSquad

** TheBrainyGuy: Oscar.

* WindyCity

*** This came after [[spoiler:Eliot refused to shoot Frank on the principle of upholding the law and common decency.]]

** LooselyBasedOnATrueStory. Capone used a bat on ''two'' subordinates whom he discovered were plotting to kill him.

* CarCushion: Frank Nitti after being thrown off the roof by Eliot Ness.

* IdiotBall: Ness and Co are in a corrupt town, they know they can't trust most of the police and what do they do with their key witness? They put him in an elevator with an accountant and don't bother to clear out the elevator of anyone they don't trust. They were really holding onto it that day.
* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Getting Capone on ''tax evasion'', of all things.
** Justified. In Real Life, the only rap that could put Capone away WAS tax evasion

*** Also an example of WhereDoYouThinkYouAre

*** Let us note that the guy being brutally interrogated was already DEAD when Malone splattered his brains out. The only person that KNOWS said crook is dead is Ness, being the man who killed him quite thoroughly a few moments ago. That is to say, the RCMP officer fell for it as well as the hood.

** Also an example of WhereDoYouThinkYouAre

-->'''Eliot Ness''': ''Yeah well... You're not from Chicago.''
*** Also an example of WhereDoYouThinkYouAre

* TearJerker: Malone's death.

* BigBad: Capone ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready of course]]).

-->'''RCMP Captain''': ''I do not approve of your methods.''

A prequel, ''TheUntouchables: Capone Rising'', is set to be released in 2010.

** RCMP Captain: ''I do not approve of your methods.''
** Eliot Ness: ''Yeah well... You're not from Chicago.''

*ThrowItIn: Costner [[OrSoIHeard allegedly]] ad-libbed the line "He's in the car," after [[spoiler:throwing Nitti off of the roof]].