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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. His motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part. [[spoiler:He gives a quick death to those who don't resist as well, even when ordered otherwise.]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. His motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part. [[spoiler:He gives a quick death to those who don't resist as well, even when ordered otherwise.]]]] He works as a hitman, and is willing to murder people in a ''very'' painful manner usually.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. His motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. His motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part. [[spoiler:He gives a quick death to those who don't resist as well, even when ordered otherwise.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Man With The Plan is a sadistic crime boss, but he clearly also loves his son Bernard, and his plan to cure Bernard's pedophilia kickstarts things. [[spoiler:Bernard's loss clearly breaks him at the end.]]


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* OneNightStandPregnancy: [[spoiler:Jimmy]] and Lucinda have sex once, which successfully gets her pregnant, just as she'd wished.


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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Jimmy is killed, but not before getting Lucinda pregnant and leaving a VideoWill for their future child.]]
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* TattooedCrook: Franchise, of the criminals whom Jimmy recruits, has many tattoos on his arms and chest.

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* TattooedCrook: Franchise, one of the criminals whom Jimmy recruits, has many tattoos on his arms and chest.
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* StraightGay: Cuffy is a perfectly ordinary-looking man who's revealed to be gay when Jimmy teases him over early on.

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* StraightGay: Cuffy is a perfectly ordinary-looking man who's revealed to be gay when Jimmy teases him over it early on.
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* SiblingTeam: After [[spoiler:Mr. Shush's death]], three Latino brother take up the last hit.

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* SiblingTeam: After [[spoiler:Mr. Shush's death]], three Latino brother brothers take up the last hit.hit and kill [[spoiler:Jimmy]].
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Jimmy is so infuriate on learning Lucinda, a young sex worker he's friendly with, has been raped and beaten by a client that he sets out to do the same thing with the guy in revenge. He gets pulled off before the rape part, but publicly beats him up at his workplace. [[PetTheDog She's very moved by this]].

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Jimmy is so infuriate infuriated on learning Lucinda, a young sex worker he's friendly with, has been raped and beaten by a client that he sets out to do the same thing with the guy in revenge. He gets pulled off before the rape part, but publicly beats him up at his workplace. [[PetTheDog She's very moved by this]].
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* HairTrigger: Critical Bill has a violent quick temper. ThePlan goes horribly wrong after he [[spoiler:kills the target for repeatedly insulting him]].

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* HairTrigger: HairTriggerTemper: Critical Bill has a violent quick temper. ThePlan goes horribly wrong after he [[spoiler:kills the target for repeatedly insulting him]].

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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Olden shoots Meg dead when he's surprised by her sudden appearance.]]



* AutoErotica: [[spoiler:Jimmy gets Lucinda pregnant by having sex with her in his car.]]



* BulletproofHumanShield: Mr. Shush used Baby Sinister this way while shooting several of his men.



* ChosenConceptionPartner: Lucinda is so [[PetTheDog moved by Jimmy beating up a client who assaulted her]], after this she asks him to father her child. [[spoiler:He agrees near the end.]]



* DeadlyEuphemism: It's emphasised to Jimmy that the job he's been hired to do is just "an action", and ''not'' "a piece of work". From context it's pretty obvious that the former refers to intimidation and beating, the latter for a hit.

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* DeadlyEuphemism: DeadlyEuphemism:
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It's emphasised to Jimmy that the job he's been hired to do is just "an action", and ''not'' "a piece of work". From context it's pretty obvious that the former refers to intimidation and beating, the latter for a hit.hit.
** "Buckwheats" turns out to be slang for slow death by being shot up the ass.
* DirtyCop: Crime boss The Man With The Plan has Lieutenant Atwater of the Denver Police Department in his pocket.



* TheDreaded: Mr. Shush is a notorious hitman reputed to always get his target. [[spoiler:Critical Bill dies in a MutualKill though against him.]]



* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Pieces.]] All he does when Mr. Shush comes for him is nod and say, "Do it quickly." [[MercyKill Which Shush does.]]

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* FaceDeathWithDignity: FaceDeathWithDignity:
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[[spoiler: Pieces.]] All he does when Mr. Shush comes for him is nod and say, "Do it quickly." [[MercyKill Which Shush does.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Jimmy]] later also faces the hitmen coming for him coolly before being shot.



* HairTrigger: Critical Bill has a violent quick temper. ThePlan goes horribly wrong after he [[spoiler:kills the target for repeatedly insulting him]].
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The Man With The Plan has an extended rant on his dislike of gays toward the beginning, with many anti-gay slurs.



* LoveTriangle: Jimmy is seeing Dagney at the same time as she's dating another man, Alex. [[spoiler:He ends things, knowing that he's going to die, near the end.]]



* PetTheDog: Bernard typically comes across as either creepy or pathetic, but tells Jimmy that he really would feel a sense of peace and leave Meg alone [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy if he could just hear her say that she was happy with her new boyfriend]]. Unfortunately, his father didn't ask his opinion on that.

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* PetTheDog: PayEvilUntoEvil: Jimmy is so infuriate on learning Lucinda, a young sex worker he's friendly with, has been raped and beaten by a client that he sets out to do the same thing with the guy in revenge. He gets pulled off before the rape part, but publicly beats him up at his workplace. [[PetTheDog She's very moved by this]].
* PedoHunt: Bernard openly tries to kidnap a girl off the playground right at the beginning. His crime boss father's quixotic attempt to cure his pedophilia after this sets off the plot, and though no one comments about it too much it's clear they're all disgusted by this.
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Bernard typically comes across as either creepy or pathetic, but tells Jimmy that he really would feel a sense of peace and leave Meg alone [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy if he could just hear her say that she was happy with her new boyfriend]]. Unfortunately, his father didn't ask his opinion on that.that.
** Mr. Shush rescues a man who's being beaten up in an alley by three other men, and this may be his motivation for it. No clear reason is given. He later also kills [[spoiler:Pieces]] quickly, as he's requested, despite being [[CruelAndUnusualDeath instructed to kill him slowly]].
** Jimmy brutally beats up the man who'd raped and beaten Lucinda publicly for revenge. She's very impressed by this and asks him to [[ChosenConceptionPartner father her child]] as a result.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Man With The Plan is the BigBad who rants against gays early on, using slurs. He also used racial slurs when speaking about black people later, though without animus.


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* ReformedCriminal: Jimmy and the men who he's recruited all went straight until money dragged all of them back in. This ends very badly for everyone.


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* {{Sadist}}: The Man With The Plan ordered that all of the criminals who'd messed up his job die painful, slow deaths. He also clearly enjoys toying with Jimmy later when he's at his mercy.
* SiblingTeam: After [[spoiler:Mr. Shush's death]], three Latino brother take up the last hit.


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* StraightGay: Cuffy is a perfectly ordinary-looking man who's revealed to be gay when Jimmy teases him over early on.
* TattooedCrook: Franchise, of the criminals whom Jimmy recruits, has many tattoos on his arms and chest.


* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Notably all 5 job men, Jimmy included.]]

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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Notably [[spoiler:Notably all 5 job men, Jimmy included.]]



* TheDon: "The Man With the Plan" (Creator/ChristopherWalken).

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* %%* TheDon: "The Man With the Plan" (Creator/ChristopherWalken).



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Man With the Plan. He's able to have every job man killed, but as Jimmy explains in his afterlife video, he'll now be alone (Jimmy having just killed his son Bernard) and still crippled.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Man With the Plan. He's able to have every job man killed, but as Jimmy explains in his afterlife video, he'll now be alone (Jimmy having just killed his son Bernard) and still crippled.]]



* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: Mr. Shush, the taciturn hitman sent to kill Jimmy the Saint's gang.

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* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: Mr. Shush, the taciturn hitman sent to kill Jimmy the Saint's gang. He's TheDreaded, reputed to be inescapable, rarely speaks (hence his name) and has NoNameGiven, along with nothing more learned of him.



* StalkerWithACrush: Bernard.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: "Mr. Shush".

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* %%* StalkerWithACrush: Bernard.
* %%* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: "Mr. Shush".

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* NoNameGiven: The Man With The Plan's name is never revealed.

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* NoNameGiven: NoNameGiven:
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The Man With The Plan's name is never revealed.revealed.
** The same goes for the hitman who he hires, Mr. Shush.

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* CarnivalOfKillers: Jimmy The Saint (Andy Garcia), Franchise (William Forsythe), Critical Bill (Treat Williams), Pieces (Christopher Lloyd), and Easy Wind (Bill Nunn).

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* CarnivalOfKillers: Jimmy The Saint (Andy Garcia), Franchise (William Forsythe), Critical Bill (Treat Williams), Pieces (Christopher Lloyd), and Easy Wind (Bill Nunn).reason our protagonists are dead is that they know they can't survive long against a Carnival Of Killers sent by The Man With The Plan.


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* NoNameGiven: The Man With The Plan's name is never revealed.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. Him motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. Him His motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Shush sees three white men brutally attacking a black man, he immediately intervenes and dispatches all three men without saying a word. Him motivation for doing so is a complete mystery. He may not like an unfair fight, he may hate racists, or it may have simply been a PetTheDog moment on his part.
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''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'' is a 1995 crime film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, William Forsythe, Creator/TreatWilliams, Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/ChristopherWalken and Creator/GabrielleAnwar. The title was inspired by a song by Music/WarrenZevon from his album ''Mr. Bad Example''.

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''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'' is a 1995 crime film directed by Gary Fleder Creator/GaryFleder and starring Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, William Forsythe, Creator/WilliamForsythe, Creator/TreatWilliams, Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/ChristopherWalken and Creator/GabrielleAnwar. The title was inspired by a song by Music/WarrenZevon from his album ''Mr. Bad Example''.

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