History MoneyHeist / TropesAToL

* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: During the first heist, the Professor has the crew convince most of the hostages to work with them in exchange for the promise of each of cooperating hostage getting a case full of several hundred thousand euros delivered to an intermediary of their choice afterwards. The trope is averted with the take from the heist, which took days to load into a large shipping truck.

* TheGlassesGottaGo: When giving CoolLoser Alison advice about how to be more confident, Nairobi discusses this trope by talking about how in teen movies, the unpopular girl takes off her glasses and becomes a knockout. Alison's response is that she doesn't wear glasses.

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Unlike the other GEO officers involved, who wear the standard helmets and masks, Suárez wears no headgear at all when he comes to the police's raid on the Mint in the Season 2 finale.

* BasicInstinctLegsCrossingParody: The Professor takes the inspector handling the Mint case, Raquel, out to dinner. From Raquel's point of view, "Salva" is a charming stranger that she has a crush on, and she doesn't know he is actually the mastermind behind the heist. However, her colleague Ángel has voiced his suspicions about Salva. At dinner, Raquel invites Salva to look under the table, and he teasingly asks if this is a ''Film/BasicInstinct'' thing (ie. she's not wearing underwear). [[spoiler:She's pointing a gun at him under the table and intends to confirm Ángel's hunch.]]

* BasicInstinctLegsCrossingParody: The Professor takes the inspector handling the Spanish Mint case, Raquel, out to dinner. From her point of view, "Salva" is a charming stranger that she has a crush on, and she doesn't know he is actually the mastermind behind the heist. However, her colleague Ángel has voiced his suspicions about Salva. At dinner, Raquel invites Salva to look under the table, and he teasingly asks if this is a ''Film/BasicInstinct'' thing (ie. she's not wearing underwear). [[spoiler:She's pointing a gun at him under the table and intends to confirm Ángel's hunch.]]

** An especially egregious case happens in Season 3, when a SWAT team comes under fire by .50 cal heavy machine guns. Said machine guns' bullets would go straight through all the protective equipment and bodies of the officers who receive the impact, plus the fellow officers and walls behind them.

* DeadHandShot: In the Season 2 premiere, [[spoiler:Oslo's left hand stopping to move is what shows that Helsinki's MercyKill of him was successful]].

* AdvertisedExtra: Even though he's long dead in Season 5 and doesn't appear in it at all (alongside the two previous Bank heist seasons), Oslo got his own character poster for the season.

* AwfulTruth: Moscow initially tells Denver that his (Denver's) mother abandoned them both when he was a kid. In the penultimate episode of Season 2, he reveals the actual truth: [[spoiler:she was hooked on heroin, and Moscú's attempts to get her to detox, in which he blew all of his savings four times, never worked because she would soon go back for drugs, so he took her close to a place where he knew drugs were sold and left her there.]]

** Late in the sixth episode of the second season, Denver comes close to disowning Moscow as his father when the latter reveals to him that he had left his late girlfriend and Denver's mother alone at a drug market because she was always high on heroin and couldn't get back to functioning normally at all, long after previously lying to him about her being a DomesticAbuser whom he had to break up with (this lie being among his many attempts to ensure Denver's well-being). He quickly retracts when he sees Moscow receiving a fatal wound while defending Tokyo during her return to the Mint in the episode's climax.

* AwfulTruth: Moscú told Denver that his (Denver's) mother abandoned them both when he was a kid. During the heist, he reveals the actual truth: [[spoiler:she was hooked on heroin, and Moscú's attempts to get her to detox, in which he blew all of his savings four times, never worked because she would soon go back for drugs, so he took her close to a place where he knew drugs were sold and left her there.]]

** Late in the sixth episode of the second season, Denver comes close to disowning Moscow as his father when the latter reveals to him that he had left his late girlfriend and Denver's mother to die alone because she was drunk and couldn't get back to functioning normally at all, long after previously lying to him about her being a DomesticAbuser whom he had to break up with (this lie being among his many attempts to ensure Denver's well-being). He quickly retracts when he sees Moscow receiving a fatal wound while defending Tokyo during her return to the Mint in the episode's climax.

* ConversationalTroping: In the first episode, the gang talk about how MalevolentMaskedMen work and how much of an apparent bad choice was to pick Creator/SalvadorDali masks for the heist (Berlin points out that he doesn't care because a gun will always be scarier and Rio and Moscow think that using cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse is actually scarier because of the feeling of violated innocence it brings in people).

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rio's capture by Panamian cops on behalf of the Interpol in the Season 3 premiere, which is the detonating event of the Bank heist, happened because he used a connection between a pair of satellite-based phones to communicate with Tokyo during her stay in Panama's mainland. He didn't consider how such a means of phone communication (and likely every other one possible) could be easily detected by the Interpol's network, even if he and Tokyo bought the phones from a black market.

* DrivenToSuicide: In the Season 1 finale, Raquel attempts to get herself killed by the robbers after she learns that Ángel was not [[TheMole a mole for them]] like she suspected, and reads through all the exasperated calls he did to her just before his car crash in her voicemail. She walks into a close area to the Miint where she could easily be shot; just as Helsinki aims a sniper rifle at her, Suárez and Prieto run to save Raquel by bringing her back to the tent, with the latter telling her that she deserves to take a break.

** An especially egregious case happens in Season 3, when a SWAT team comes under fire by .50 cal heavy machine guns. Said machine guns' bullets would go straight through all the protective equipment and bodies of the officers who receive the impact, plus the officers and walls behind them.

* CompanyCameo: La Sexta, a channel of Antena 3's parent company Atresmedia, appears numerous times with its news program to broadcast news relating to the heists, even after Netflix's acquisition of the series from Season 3 onwards. They even keep the program's real-life newsreaders as the speakers.

** While some shootouts feature realistic bullet-blocking items - large cement pillars, sandbags - a good few scenes feature the characters surviving rather extreme rains of lead by shielding themselves behind wooden crates and ''cardboard boxes on sheetmetal shelves''.
** The ballistic shields used by the police are an example as well. While such shields ''will'' reliably stop light gunfire such as from pistols or most shotguns, assault rifle rounds - such as those used by the attackers in the show - typically [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuvXC8L0V68 go straight through]]. In the series, though, the bullets harmlessly bounce off - replete with "ping" sounds - and leave the cops (and the shields) completely unharmed.
*** Especially egregious in Season 3 when the SWAT team comes under fire by .50 cal heavy machine guns. Those bullets would go straight through the ballistic shield, body armor, soldier, the solder behind him, and the wall behind him.
* ConflictBall: The robbers have different, often conflicting personalities. Once they are locked in the Mint with the hostages, tensions start rising and only the Professor is able to keep them working together. When it looks like the Professor might have been arrested things quickly spin out of control and the robbers turn on each other. [[spoiler:The Professor salvages the situation but Moscow is killed in the process.]]

* KansasCityShuffle: The entire Royal Mint heist is a series of these. The Professor knows that the cops are not all incompetent, so he feeds them information in drips and directs their investigation towards dead ends and {{red herring}}s. He starts out by making the cops think that the hostage taking was incidental because it forces them into a certain protocol and makes them waste a day. He specifically designed parts of his plan to fail because it makes the cops think that they can win without having to storm the building. This all culminates in [[spoiler:the final escape plan: Moscow orders some of the hostages to dig a hole to a nearby tunnel the robbers know will be detected by the police, while he secretly digs a different hole in the vault that leads to another tunnel the police isn't aware of]].

* ItsAllJunk: Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would [[DestroyTheEvidence become easy evidence]] leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists.

* FinaleCredits: While the ClosingCredits of most episodes consist of simple text without much aesthetic that address the crew in each individual episode/season (with the first season using OnTheNext footage), two season finales use distinctive sequences.

* GroinAttack: Nairobi hits Pablo in the groin when he and his friends start to bully Allison after they find out the cops decided against getting eight of them free in favor of just her.

* BookEnds: In the Season 2 finale, the meeting between the Professor and Raquel happens pretty much the same way they first met at the beginning of the Mint heist.

* HeroicSacrifice: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:Berlin, one of the {{Villain Protagonist}}s,]] ultimately stays behind to stall the SWAT team by several minutes, allowing everyone to escape with the cash and the evidence that would allow it to be traced. He does it partially to [[spoiler:spite a hostage he had been raping and manipulating the entire time]], though. It's still treated as a noble death, with slow-motion gunfire and the body dropping to the floor dramatically.

** Late in the sixth episode of the second season, Denver comes close to disowning Moscow as his father when the latter reveals to him that he had left his late girlfriend and Denver's mother to die alone because she was drunk and couldn't get back to functioning normally at all, long after previously lying to him about her being a DomesticAbuser whom he had to break up with (in an attempt to ensure Denver's well-being). He quickly retracts when he sees Moscow receiving a fatal wound while defending Tokyo during her return to the Mint in the episode's climax.

** Late in the sixth episode of the second season, Denver comes close to disowning Moscow as his father when the latter reveals to him that he had left his late girlfriend and Denver's mother to die alone because she was drunk and couldn't get back to functioning normally at all, long after previously lying to him about her being an arrogant jerk whom he had to break up with (in an attempt to ensure Denver's well-being). He quickly retracts when he witnesses Moscow receiving a fatal wound while defending Tokyo during her return to the Mint in the episode's climax.