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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In trying to get the Runts to leave him alone while trying to get with Angelica, Buscapé gives them his joint. This is turn leads the Runts to consider Buscapé a "cool guy" for being nice to them for once (especially given [[WouldHurtAChild how Zé deals with them]]) and they personally leave Buscapé alone afterwards...though they are still more than willing to shoplift from the grocery store where Buscapé works, inadvertently getting him fired.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Applies to a number of characters but Dadinho/Lil Zé most of all: his StartOfDarkness is directly linked to his growing ambition to move up in the criminal world, and his goal through all of his [[spoiler:short]] life is to take control of the City's drug trade by any means necessary (usually violence).
-->'''Buscapé:''' To be a real hood, you need more than just a gun: you need ideas...and Dadinho had them.
-->'''Buscapé:''' To be a real hood, you need more than just a gun: you need ideas...and Dadinho had them.
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* NoTellMotel: The scene of the Tender Trio's greatest heist, though planned by Dadinho: the Trio quickly mob the front desk and incapacitate the staff, then move through the hotel robbing the various customers and their "dates." The Trio figures that, as most customers are busy seeing prostitutes, they wouldn't dare call the cops either during or after the raid. They're right...[[OutsideContextProblem but then Dadinho decides that the Trio are having all the fun without him]], [[AxCrazy and he's now got a gun...]]
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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. Rocket thinks that Zé will want to kill him over his pictures getting published in the paper, but Zé is pleased by his apparent rise in fame.
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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. Rocket thinks that Zé will want to kill him over his pictures getting published in the paper, but Zé is very pleased by getting his apparent rise in fame.picture on the front page and upon coming across Rocket later asks him to take more pictures of the gang.
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* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Tender Trio and Bene both try to exemplify this trope. The Trio ultimately fail at this as they take the blame for Dadinho's massacre at the hotel, though all three strongly deny killing innocents and Clipper ultimately finds religion from the situation. Bene never flags in his reputation as this, remaining beloved by civilians and hoods alike [[spoiler:until Blacky accidentally kills him]].
**PlayedWith for Carrot: he's nowhere as harsh or violent of a criminal as Ze, preferring to keep the peace if he can, is legitimately friendly with Bene and Mane, and he does appear to feel a genuine sympathy for Mane's situation. However, Carrot is certainly also an unrepentant hoodlum who has no qualms with killing if he has to (including civilians), sells drugs and guns to kids, and ultimately is able to steer Mane into a life of crime that destroys Mane's morals.
**PlayedWith for Carrot: he's nowhere as harsh or violent of a criminal as Ze, preferring to keep the peace if he can, is legitimately friendly with Bene and Mane, and he does appear to feel a genuine sympathy for Mane's situation. However, Carrot is certainly also an unrepentant hoodlum who has no qualms with killing if he has to (including civilians), sells drugs and guns to kids, and ultimately is able to steer Mane into a life of crime that destroys Mane's morals.
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** Bene takes longer to become established, mostly being seen early on tagging along with Ze on the latter's various crimes. Bene's moment comes when, after he accepts Thiago's dad's watch as collateral for a coke trade, he feels a strong feeling of remorse. Grabbing a bike, Bene catches up to Thiago and gives him some money to buy Bene the nice clothes he wants. This starts a friendship between the two that leads to Thiago introducing Bene to Rocket and his friends, firmly establishing Bene as the [FriendlyNeighborhoodGangsters Friendly Neighborhood Gangster]] to Ze's [[BadBoss]].
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** Bene takes longer to become established, mostly being seen early on tagging along with Ze on the latter's various crimes. Bene's moment comes when, after he accepts Thiago's dad's watch as collateral for a coke trade, he feels a strong feeling of remorse. Grabbing a bike, Bene catches up to Thiago and gives him some money to buy Bene the nice clothes he wants. This starts a friendship between the two that leads to Thiago introducing Bene to Rocket and his friends, firmly establishing Bene as the [FriendlyNeighborhoodGangsters Friendly [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters Neighborhood Friendly Gangster]] to Ze's [[BadBoss]].BadBoss.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Dadinho is introduced characteristically bullying the other boys playing futbol while hanging out with Bene; his establishing moment, however, is when he remorselessly massacres the hotel staff and customers [[ForTheEvulz just because he could]].
** Bene takes longer to become established, mostly being seen early on tagging along with Ze on the latter's various crimes. Bene's moment comes when, after he accepts Thiago's dad's watch as collateral for a coke trade, he feels a strong feeling of remorse. Grabbing a bike, Bene catches up to Thiago and gives him some money to buy Bene the nice clothes he wants. This starts a friendship between the two that leads to Thiago introducing Bene to Rocket and his friends, firmly establishing Bene as the [FriendlyNeighborhoodGangsters Friendly Neighborhood Gangster]] to Ze's [[BadBoss]].
** Rocket also takes a while for his moment to come, with his early life mostly being him getting in trouble by proxy for Goose's various misdeeds. His moment ultimately arrives when Shaggy is killed by cops in the street: a local journalist comes to snap some photos for a tabloid, and Rocket is instantly fascinated by his camera and vows to explore photography.
** Dadinho is introduced characteristically bullying the other boys playing futbol while hanging out with Bene; his establishing moment, however, is when he remorselessly massacres the hotel staff and customers [[ForTheEvulz just because he could]].
** Bene takes longer to become established, mostly being seen early on tagging along with Ze on the latter's various crimes. Bene's moment comes when, after he accepts Thiago's dad's watch as collateral for a coke trade, he feels a strong feeling of remorse. Grabbing a bike, Bene catches up to Thiago and gives him some money to buy Bene the nice clothes he wants. This starts a friendship between the two that leads to Thiago introducing Bene to Rocket and his friends, firmly establishing Bene as the [FriendlyNeighborhoodGangsters Friendly Neighborhood Gangster]] to Ze's [[BadBoss]].
** Rocket also takes a while for his moment to come, with his early life mostly being him getting in trouble by proxy for Goose's various misdeeds. His moment ultimately arrives when Shaggy is killed by cops in the street: a local journalist comes to snap some photos for a tabloid, and Rocket is instantly fascinated by his camera and vows to explore photography.
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* DirtyCop: Instead of arresting Zé Pequeno at the end, the cops rob him of his jewelry and turn him loose again. There are also scenes in the beginning where the police kill innocent bystanders by accident, then simply shrug and plant false evidence on them.
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* DirtyCop: Instead of arresting Zé Pequeno at the end, the cops rob him of his jewelry and turn him loose again. There are also scenes in the beginning where the police kill innocent bystanders by accident, then simply shrug and plant false evidence on them. They also deal contraband weapons to the various gangsters in the City, and when pursuing Clipper and Goose two of them makes plans to just kill the thieves and take the money if they catch them. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Rocket takes a series of pictures showing Lil Zé paying off the cops and then being murdered by the Runts. Rocket decides to submit only the picture of Zé's bullet-ridden corpse to the newspaper as he fears submitting the picture of Zé and the cops will spur retribution from the latter, and they've certainly shown themselves to be willing to kill to tie up loose ends (as the arms dealer who Zé shorted found out the hard way)]].
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** In a rare positive example, Clipper is the only member of the Tender Trio to fully abandon the life of crime, and also the only one to survive the aftermath of the hotel fiasco.
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* MonochromeCasting: Definitely averted. Brazil is a highly diverse, multiethnic society and the cast reflects that, with skin tones ranging from pale and redheaded (Thiago) to light brown (Angélica) to about as black as it gets (Lil' Zé, Rocket).
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* MonochromeCasting: Definitely averted. Brazil is a highly diverse, multiethnic society and the cast reflects that, with skin tones ranging from pale and redheaded (Thiago) (Thiago, Carrot) to light brown (Angélica) (Angélica, Bené) to about as black as it gets (Lil' Zé, Rocket).
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* HeelFaithTurn: Clipper, a member of the Tender Trio, undergoes a spiritual transformation early in the film. He opts to leave behind his life of crime and join the church. He's the only member of the trio to escape the slums alive.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Clipper, a member of the Tender Trio, undergoes a spiritual transformation early in the film. He opts to leave behind his life of crime and join the church. He's the only member of the trio to escape the slums alive.alive, and it is suggested, though never outright stated, that his luck in doing do [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may be the result of some divine intervention]].
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** Carrot does this to Blacky as well, after the latter has admitted to shooting Bené. Carrot has two reasons for this: 1. he himself was good friends with Bené, and 2. he realizes that without Bené, Zé is going to come after him immediately, and thus Blacky has endangered not just his own life but that of Carrot and his whole crew as well.
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* PetTheDog: The only good thing about Li'l Zé is that he actually gives a rat's ass about his friend Bené. He gives Buscapé the camera because Bené would have wanted it. And he leaves Carrot alone because he's friends with Bené. Doesn't make him any less of a monster.
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* PetTheDog: The only good thing about Li'l Zé is that he actually gives a rat's ass about his friend Bené. He gives Buscapé the camera because Bené would have wanted it. And he initially leaves Carrot alone because he's friends with Bené. Doesn't make him any less of a monster.
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** Clipper also gets one: after his HeelFaithTurn, he slowly walks through the favela to the nearest church: he passes by a group of cops, but they think that the innocent man walking behind him is actually one of the thieves and so pursue him instead of Clipper. Later, after killing the innocent man and realizing their mistake, the cops frame his death to make it look like the man was a criminal: they fire a bullet from "his" gun, which ricochets off of numerous surfaces before narrowly missing Clipper, hitting a rearview mirror right next to him. Clipper makes it to the church and from that point on devotes himself to a pious life. Was Clipper's great string of luck that day just that, or was there some divine intervention at work?
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* AffablyEvil: Bené. So much so that calling him "evil" would be an exaggeration.
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** Bené. So much so that calling him "evil" would be an exaggeration.
** Bené. So much so that calling him "evil" would be an exaggeration.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Rocket and a friend hitchhike with a guy from São Paulo, intending to kill him as "no one from São Paulo could ever be cool". Cut to the police combing a roadside murder scene...which the trio drive right past. The crime scene is unrelated.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Rocket and a friend hitchhike with a guy from São Paulo, intending to kill him as "no one from São Paulo could ever be cool". Cut to the police combing a roadside murder scene...which the trio drive right past. The crime scene is unrelated.unrelated, and the driver turns out to be cool after all, smoking the two boys out and leading to them calling off the hit and indeed any plans for a life of crime.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mané Galinha (Knockout Ned), Neguinho (Blacky) and Zé. And also Big Boy, who dies in prison after forcing Carrot to kill his friend Aristotle.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mané Galinha (Knockout Ned), Neguinho (Blacky) and Zé. And also Big Boy, who dies in prison after forcing Carrot to kill his friend Aristotle.]]
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** Drug dealer Big Boy, after forcing Carrot to kill his friend Aristotle, spends the rest of his life in prison. He also had become a drug dealer in the first place by hijacking the business from Doa Zelia, a struggling mother, taking all of her proceeds. In turn, Carrot gets back at Big Boy by confiscating all of Big Boy's operations after Big Boy's arrest.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mané Galinha (Knockout Ned), Neguinho (Blacky) and Zé.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mané Galinha (Knockout Ned), Neguinho (Blacky) and Zé. And also Big Boy, who dies in prison after forcing Carrot to kill his friend Aristotle.]]
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Zé's WeaponOfChoice, for one.
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Zé's WeaponOfChoice, weapon of choice, for one.
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: Has an infamous example in which Lil' Zé forces a young new recruit into his gang, Steak 'n' Fries, to pick which one out of two Runts (both of whom are even younger than said recruit) after the Runts steal from him. Steak 'n' Fries for his part does not enjoy it one bit.
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: Has an infamous example in which Lil' Zé forces a young new recruit into his gang, Steak 'n' Fries, to pick which shoot one out of two Runts (both of whom are even younger than said recruit) Steak 'n' Fries) after the Runts steal have stolen from him.Ze. Steak 'n' Fries for his part does not enjoy it one bit.
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: Has an infamous example in which Lil' Zé forces one small child to kill his even younger friend after they steal from him.
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: Has an infamous example in which Lil' Zé forces a young new recruit into his gang, Steak 'n' Fries, to pick which one small child to kill his out of two Runts (both of whom are even younger friend than said recruit) after they the Runts steal from him.him. Steak 'n' Fries for his part does not enjoy it one bit.
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* CluckingFunny: The chicken chased around in the film's opening[[spoiler: /ending]] even got in [[http://nohaybanda.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cidade.jpg the poster]].
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* AxCrazy: Lil' Zé. Even as a [[EnfantTerrible child, he was already quite unstable]], going on a killing spree in a motel, and leaving no survivors. As an adult, he has only become worse, having violent temper outbursts and laughing madly while committing his atrocities. The ''only'' one who could keep him in check was his best friend Bené. After Bené is killed, he gets ''even'' [[UptoEleven worse]].
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* AxCrazy: Lil' Zé. Even as a [[EnfantTerrible child, he was already quite unstable]], going on a killing spree in a motel, and leaving no survivors. As an adult, he has only become worse, having violent temper outbursts and laughing madly while committing his atrocities. The ''only'' one who could keep him in check was his best friend Bené. After Bené is killed, he gets ''even'' [[UptoEleven worse]].worse.
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* AmicableExes: Rocket is initially broken up over Angélica choosing Bené over him. Later, however, he is able to move past it and remains on good terms with the couple [[spoiler: right up to Benny's death.]]
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* AdultFear: Children who still have their baby teeth are becoming gang lords, and there's nothing to stop them.
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* BadassMustache: Dadinho (Lil' Dice) is an ambitious, heartless kid. As soon as he's old enough, he becomes a psychotic crimelord, changing his name to Zé Pequeno (Lil' Zé). He also grows a mustache for the occasion, marking his coming of age.
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* TimePassageBeard: Or 'stache. Dadinho (Lil' Dice) is an ambitious, heartless kid. As soon as he's old enough, he becomes a psychotic crimelord, changing his name to Zé Pequeno (Lil' Zé). He also grows a mustache for the occasion, marking his coming of age.
