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* CrimeOfPassion: [[spoiler:Det. Mills finds out that [[SerialKiller John Doe]] killed his wife, [[OffWithHisHead beheading her]]. Doe takes some pleasure in revealing to Mills that Tracy Mills pleaded for her life and that of her unborn child, and even more pleased to learn Mills was unaware of the pregnancy. Mills, pushed beyond his ability to cope, shoots John Doe dead in that moment, [[TheBadGuyWins completing Doe's plans to have Mills become "Wrath"]].]]
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* BigShutUp: Somerset gives one to John Doe with a slap in the climax [[spoiler:to try and stop him from revealing to Mills that Tracy was pregnant when he killed her]].
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* BigShutUp: Somerset gives one to John Doe with a slap in the climax (preceded by several smaller "Shut up"s) [[spoiler:to try and stop him from revealing to Mills that Tracy was pregnant when he killed her]].
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* {{Unreveal}}: we never learn anything about John Doe. The only thing the police can determine is that he’s educated and has enough money to pull off the crimes.
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* RewatchBonus: The entire conversation between Mills, Somerset, and John Doe in the car is very chilling when you know what’s going to happen.
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* EvilCounterpart: John Doe is this to the equally introverted, methodical, and patient Detective Somerset.
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* UnbuiltTrope: The film helped to popularize the archetypal '90s and 2000s serial killer-based PsychologicalThriller, but goes out of its way to avert or subvert many of the tropes the genre would become associated with: the murders are not shown in detail and given very little screen time, the victims are not depicted as being given karmic punishment despite the killer's delusions, but instead being ordinary if flawed people who were brutally murdered by an unhinged sadist for little provocation, there is little blood and gore, the killer is not given a FreudianExcuse or much characterization, [[spoiler: PoliceAreUseless, and TheBadGuyWins]].
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* UnbuiltTrope: The film helped to popularize the archetypal '90s and 2000s serial killer-based PsychologicalThriller, primarily through the ThemeSerialKiller premise, but goes out of its way to avert or subvert many of the tropes the genre genre[=/=]premise would become associated with: the murders are not shown in detail and given very little screen time, the victims are not depicted as being given karmic punishment despite the killer's delusions, but instead being ordinary if flawed people who were brutally murdered by an unhinged sadist for little provocation, there is little blood and gore, the killer is not given a FreudianExcuse or much characterization, [[spoiler: PoliceAreUseless, and TheBadGuyWins]].
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* BigShutUp: Somerset gives one to John Doe with a slap in the climax [[spoiler:to try and stop him from revealing to Mills that Tracy was pregnant when he killed her]].
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* InternalReveal: At one point in the film, [[spoiler: Somerset and Tracy meet up, and he's the first and (as far as we know) only person to hear that she's pregnant (albeit unsure as to whether she wants the baby).]] It comes back when [[spoiler: John Doe is explaining to Mills how he killed Tracy, and goes out of his way to state that "[Tracy] begged for her life...she begged for her life, ''and for the life of the baby inside of her.''" While Mills is merely in anger and denial upon Doe's initial confession, it's this bombshell that [[DespairEventHorizon sends him into a state of shock, despair]]...[[ThanatosGambit and wrath]]. Then, just to twist the knife further, Doe casually tells Somerset:]]
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* InternalReveal: At one point in the film, [[spoiler: Somerset and Tracy meet up, and he's the first and (as far as we know) only person to hear that she's pregnant (albeit unsure as to whether she wants the baby).]] It comes back in the climax when [[spoiler: John Doe is explaining to Mills how he killed Tracy, and goes out of his way to state that "[Tracy] begged for her life...she begged for her life, ''and for the life of the baby inside of her.''" While Mills is merely in anger and denial upon Doe's initial confession, it's this bombshell that [[DespairEventHorizon sends him into a state of shock, despair]]...[[ThanatosGambit and wrath]]. Then, just to twist the knife further, Doe casually tells Somerset:]]
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* UnbuiltTrope: The film helped to popularize the archetypal 90s and 2000s PsychologicalThriller/serial killer movie but goes out of its way to avert or subvert many of the tropes the genre would become associated with: the murders are not shown in detail and given very little screen time, the victims are not depicted as being given karmic punishment despite the killer's delusions, but instead being ordinary if flawed people who were brutally murdered by an unhinged sadist for little provocation, there is little blood and gore, the killer is not given a FreudianExcuse or much characterization, [[spoiler: PoliceAreUseless, and TheBadGuyWins]].
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* UnbuiltTrope: The film helped to popularize the archetypal 90s '90s and 2000s PsychologicalThriller/serial killer movie serial killer-based PsychologicalThriller, but goes out of its way to avert or subvert many of the tropes the genre would become associated with: the murders are not shown in detail and given very little screen time, the victims are not depicted as being given karmic punishment despite the killer's delusions, but instead being ordinary if flawed people who were brutally murdered by an unhinged sadist for little provocation, there is little blood and gore, the killer is not given a FreudianExcuse or much characterization, [[spoiler: PoliceAreUseless, and TheBadGuyWins]].
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* VillainRevealsTheSecret: A particularly gut-wrenching one in the climax when the villain [[spoiler: murders Detective Mills's wife Tracy, then reveals that she was pregnant. She had confided this to Detective Somerset but hadn't told her husband yet. When John Doe realizes this, he even gloats about it, incensing Mills to the point where he executes him on the spot, which is exactly [[ThanatosGambit what Doe wanted]].]]
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* VillainRevealsTheSecret: A particularly gut-wrenching one in the climax when the villain John Doe [[spoiler: murders Detective Mills's wife Tracy, then reveals that she was pregnant. She had confided this to Detective Somerset but hadn't told her husband yet. When John Doe realizes this, he even gloats about it, incensing Mills to the point where he executes him on the spot, which is exactly [[ThanatosGambit what Doe he wanted]].]]
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-->'''[[spoiler: Somerset:]]''' [[spoiler: California, stay away from here. Stay from here now. Don't-- don't-- don't come in here. Whatever you hear, stay away! ''John Doe has the upper hand!'']]
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-->'''[[spoiler: Doe:]]''' [[spoiler: I took a souvenir: '''her pretty head.''']]
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