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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Sick Boy and Renton really relapse and do heroin again, even for old time's sake and never again? It's established in Trainspotting that Simon has the ability to do it casually and not get addicted, but not so for Renton. Or did Spud, being a longer term addict and potentially prone to halluncinating, merely fantasise that they did because he wants them to regress and go back to what they were 20 years ago, because he's struggling to move on himself?
  • Awesome Music: The Wolf Alice song Silk, which plays just before the credits and in the trailers for the film.
  • Ho Yay: Veronika tells Renton and Sick Boy (in her native Bulgarian) that they should just dispense with their bickering and just fuck each other.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Begbie crosses it when he tries to kill Renton. He does it first by attempting to slash him with a knife in the car park, and then at the end, when Renton is tangled in cables in danger of being strangled, he tries pulling Renton down to break his neck. It's also considered one In-Universe, as Renton, Spud and even Sick Boy, who was incredibly bitter about Renton's betrayal of them from the first film, turn their backs on Begbie after this and dump him back at the prison.

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