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* DisneyVillainDeath: When the Shadow interrupts the Melrue jewel heist, Nogger, the MookLieutenant leading the robbers, dies when he instinctively takes a step backward into an open elevator shaft (his surviving henchmen having already used the elevators to ScrewThisImOuttaHere) while trading shots with the Shadow and falls to his death. [[spoiler:BigBad Bradthaw himself ends up taking a much longer but equally deadly fall out of a forty-story window in the final scene.]]
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Debutante Francine Melrue is a shrewd woman of remarkable courage and good money sense, while her brother George is a well-meaning but cowardly, [[UpperClassTwit foolish, and careless spender.]]
* HisNameIs: A mortally wounded [[spoiler:Duke Uhrig]] dies while giving Cliff Marsland (who he sees as a loyal subordinate who deserves a reward, unaware that Cliff set him up for the Shadow) his take from the eponymous insurance racket, talking about how the racket it came from is "Crime in-." A baffled Cliff reports this to the Shadow, who eventually realizes Cliff was discussing crime insurance.
* HisNameIs: A mortally wounded [[spoiler:Duke Uhrig]] dies while giving Cliff Marsland (who he sees as a loyal subordinate who deserves a reward, unaware that Cliff set him up for the Shadow) his take from the eponymous insurance racket, talking about how the racket it came from is "Crime in-." A baffled Cliff reports this to the Shadow, who eventually realizes Cliff was discussing crime insurance.
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* TrashTheSet: The Shadow's original sanctum is stolen and the building that housed it completely razed to the ground.
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ. And as an encore, nearly the entirety of The Shadow's network is kidnapped and held captive.]]
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ. And as an encore, nearly the entirety of The Shadow's network is kidnapped and held captive.]]
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* TrashTheSet: The Shadow's original sanctum is stolen and the building that housed it completely razed to the ground. \n* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ. And as an encore, nearly the entirety of The Shadow's network is kidnapped and held captive.]]
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in universe fiction.
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* GenreSavvy: Francine Melrue, who brought a gun with her to the meeting with Bradthaw just in case he was shamming. It was a good thing she did too.
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* CallBack: The black-ray machine from "The Black Hush" makes a return appearance, when the Shadow uses it as bait to trick Strampf into smuggling in a shortwave radio to Burbank to help pinpoint the location of the makeshift prison where he and the other Shadow agents are being held.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: One of the rare occasions where Burbank does something other than just relay messages. He becomes crucial in the salvation of himself and the other agents.
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* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ.]]
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* DistressedDude: Nearly every member of the Shadow's network, including Harry Vincent, Clyde Burke, Cliff Marsland, Hawkeye, Moe Shrevnitz -- even Burbank -- is kidnapped and held captive by Bradthaw's agents.
* GenreSavvy: Francine Melrue, who brought a gun with her to the meeting with Bradthaw just in case he was shamming. It was a good thing she did too.
* SilkHidingSteel: Francine Melrue looks the part of an unassuming debutante, but it's a gigantic mistake to underestimate her spunk or resolve when she's pressed.
* TrashTheSet: The Shadow's original sanctum is stolen and the building that housed it completely razed to the ground.
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ. And as an encore, nearly the entirety of The Shadow's network is kidnapped and held captive.]]
* GenreSavvy: Francine Melrue, who brought a gun with her to the meeting with Bradthaw just in case he was shamming. It was a good thing she did too.
* SilkHidingSteel: Francine Melrue looks the part of an unassuming debutante, but it's a gigantic mistake to underestimate her spunk or resolve when she's pressed.
* TrashTheSet: The Shadow's original sanctum is stolen and the building that housed it completely razed to the ground.
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ. And as an encore, nearly the entirety of The Shadow's network is kidnapped and held captive.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Marvin Bradthaw. He doesn't exactly ''like'' crime, but he's going to still make a killing off of it.
* CrazyPrepared: The Shadow has a secret compartment hidden in a filing cabinet in his Sanctum he can hide in. [[spoiler: It comes in handy when Bradthaw's thugs steal the Sanctum and transport it to Bradthaw's tower so he can make it seem that The Shadow works for him.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: Bradthaw finds the laws of gravity to be unyielding after he tries to charge The Shadow, who is standing in front of a 40th-story window.
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ.]]
* CrazyPrepared: The Shadow has a secret compartment hidden in a filing cabinet in his Sanctum he can hide in. [[spoiler: It comes in handy when Bradthaw's thugs steal the Sanctum and transport it to Bradthaw's tower so he can make it seem that The Shadow works for him.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: Bradthaw finds the laws of gravity to be unyielding after he tries to charge The Shadow, who is standing in front of a 40th-story window.
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Bradthaw steals The Shadow's Sanctum. The entire room, lock, stock and blue lamp, and has it transported to his corporate HQ.]]
