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If you want to watch the movie, reading the tropes that it contains will probably ruin it for you, so '''spoilers ahoy!'''
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%% If you want to watch the movie, reading the tropes that it contains will probably ruin it for you, so '''spoilers ahoy!'''
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* AdultFear: The fear of being helpless to save your child, as depicted in the opening scene.
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* InformedAttractiveness: Seth's incredible beauty is often remarked upon. Seth is played by ''Nicolas Cage''. [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick One reviewer]] has commented that ''Film/MeetJoeBlack'', released around the same time, has far more convincing casting for an impossibly beautiful angel of death in Creator/BradPitt at his very prettiest.
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Plot Happens, none of these outcomes are "Surprisingly Realistic" and are just shoehorns
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:What makes Maggie's death so painful is that it could have been prevented if she'd just been riding her bike responsibly.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/GooGooDolls You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be\\
And I don't want to go home right now]]'']]
And I don't want to go home right now]]'']]
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''City of Angels'' is a 1998 film starring Creator/NicolasCage (far from his Nicolas Rage roots), Creator/MegRyan, and Sarah [=McLachlan=]'s music. It's actually a ForeignRemake of a classic German film, Creator/WimWenders' 1987 drama ''Film/WingsOfDesire''. Cage plays an angel who falls in love with Meg Ryan's character, a doctor, and chooses to fall from grace and become human.
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''City of Angels'' is a 1998 film starring Creator/NicolasCage (far from his Nicolas Rage roots), Creator/MegRyan, and Sarah [=McLachlan=]'s Music/SarahMcLachlan's music. It's actually a ForeignRemake of a classic German film, Creator/WimWenders' 1987 drama ''Film/WingsOfDesire''. Cage plays an angel who falls in love with Meg Ryan's character, a doctor, and chooses to fall from grace and become human.
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:What makes Maggie's death so painful is that it could have been prevented if she'd just been riding her bike responsibly.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:What makes Maggie's death so painful is that it could have been prevented if she'd just been riding her bike responsibly.]]
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* HollywoodAtheist: {{Averted}}. Maggie is an atheist until she receives proof that an angel is real.
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* HollywoodAtheist: {{Averted}}. Maggie is an atheist until she receives proof that an angel is real. Both before and after she's a nice woman.
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* AngelsInOvercoats: Seth and Castiel are angels who wear mundane-looking overcoats instead of something you'd expect from angels, like pearly white robes or such. This is in-keeping with the [[Film/WingsOfDesire source material]].
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* LineOfSightName: Seth Plate?
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* LineOfSightName: Seth Plate?LineOfSightAlias: Seth's attempt at an alias, "Seth Plate", is immediately shot down.
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* DeathOfAChild: The film opens with a very sick little girl dying in the emergency room, and Seth escorting her spirit to Heaven.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted within the first five minutes.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: After Maggie's death, Seth is consumed with grief and despair over having lost her and even wonders if he is being punished. However, a talk with Castiel has him realize that the temporary nature of the relationship was what gave it meaning and he ends up being able to feel and immerse in being human.]]
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* DiabolusExMachina
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: After Maggie's death, Seth is forced to spend the rest of his mortal life alone. He's not being punished, but boy does it feel that way to the audience.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: After Maggie's death, Seth is forced to spend the rest of his mortal life alone. He's not being punished, but boy does it feel that way to the audience.]]
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* DiabolusExMachina
* DownerEnding:DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: After Maggie's death, Seth sudden death is forced to spend considered this though the rest subtext of his mortal life alone. He's not being punished, but boy does it feel that way to the audience.film implies this is intentional with life's sudden cruelty.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: After Maggie's death, Seth is forced to spend the rest of his mortal life alone. He's not being punished but boy does it feel that way to the audience.]]
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted. Maggie is an atheist until she receives proof that an angel is real.
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted. Maggie is an atheist until she receives proof that an angel is real.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: After Maggie's death, Seth is forced to spend the rest of his mortal life alone. He's not being punished punished, but boy does it feel that way to the audience.]]
* HollywoodAtheist:Averted.{{Averted}}. Maggie is an atheist until she receives proof that an angel is real.
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* CosmicPlaything: Seth. He [[spoiler:chooses to "fall," i.e. become a mortal human, to be with the woman he loves.]] This is irreversible. Then [[spoiler:she promptly gets killed]].
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* CosmicPlaything: Seth. He [[spoiler:chooses to "fall," i.e. become a mortal human, [[spoiler:Seth. In order to be with the woman he loves.]] This is irreversible. loves, he undergoes an ''irreversible'' ritualistic process to become human. Then [[spoiler:she she promptly gets killed]].killed due to her own carelessness.]]
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* HumanityEnsues: Messinger [[spoiler:and eventually Seth]].
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* HumanityEnsues: Messinger [[spoiler:and eventually Seth]].[[spoiler:Messinger and, eventually, Seth.]]
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* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:Maggie probably would have noticed that truck pull out in front of her bike if she'd ''kept her eyes on the road.'']]
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* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:Maggie probably would have noticed that truck pull out in front of her bike if she'd ''kept her eyes open and on the road.'']]
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* INeverToldYouMyName: A variation. Seth calls Maggie by name and when asked points out that she's wearing a nametag. Later, she pulls off the name tag and it only shows her last name.
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* INeverToldYouMyName: A variation. Seth calls Maggie by name and when asked points out that she's wearing a nametag.name tag. Later, she pulls off the name tag and it only shows her last name.
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:What makes Maggie's death so painful is that it could have been prevented if she'd just been riding her bike responsibly.]]
