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* UndyingLoyalty: The Tramp and the Gamin end up forming this relationship for each other, to the point that the Tramp is able to quit a steady job at a cafe, to save the Gamin, even if it means running away together.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: The Gamin and the Tramp are penniless and on the run, but the Tramp refuses to let that get him down and cheers up the Gamin by telling her that things will get better.
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* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: Chaplin goes berserk working on an assembly line tightening bolts in an ever accelerating conveyor belt. He eventually gets caught inside the machinery (where even there he's busy tightening bolts), and after he gets rescued he continues going through the motions, tweaking noses and buttons with wrenches on both hands.

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* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: Chaplin goes berserk working on an assembly line tightening bolts in an ever accelerating ever-accelerating conveyor belt. He eventually gets caught inside the machinery (where even there he's busy tightening bolts), and after he gets rescued he continues going through the motions, tweaking noses and buttons with wrenches on both hands.



* CapitalismIsBad: Chaplin was a devote leftist, and the film is perhaps the most clear cut demonstration of that in his work. The factory the Tramp works at openly dehumanises its workers and tries to find ways so that they can work even ''more'', poverty and unemployment is rampant, and even a normal worker is forced to turn to theft to survive.

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* CapitalismIsBad: Chaplin was a devote devoted leftist, and the film is perhaps the most clear cut clear-cut demonstration of that in his work. The factory the Tramp works at openly dehumanises dehumanizes its workers and tries to find ways so that they can work even ''more'', poverty and unemployment is are rampant, and even a normal worker is forced to turn to theft to survive.



* PieInTheFace: Near the end of the the DisastrousDemonstration of the feeding machine, Tramp gets a pie thrown in his face for dessert.

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* PieInTheFace: Near the end of the the DisastrousDemonstration of the feeding machine, Tramp gets a pie thrown in his face for dessert.



* RealMenWearPink: Charlie's cell mate spends his time knitting.

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* RealMenWearPink: Charlie's cell mate cellmate spends his time knitting.
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* TheCameo: In the toy Department, the Gamin is excited about some exhibited toys. She picks up one of them, and a close inspection reveals that it is a MickeyMouse doll.

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* TheCameo: In the toy Department, the Gamin is excited about some exhibited toys. She picks up one of them, and a close inspection reveals that it is a MickeyMouse WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse doll.

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* PoorHungry: The Gamin walks the streets barefoot in a tattered dress, stopping to look in the window of a pâtisserie while the fat baker carries a tray of cakes and pies inside.



* {{Steampunk}}: Along with Film/{{Metropolis}}, one of the UrExample s of this genre.

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* {{Steampunk}}: Along with Film/{{Metropolis}}, one of the UrExample s [[UrExample Ur-Examples]] of this genre.

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