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* JustifiedCriminal: Mike takes part in the robbery to better care for his ailing wife Ruthie.
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The 1996 collaboration between musicians Music/JohnZorn and Music/EugeneChadbourne, "In Memory of Nikki Arane" (1996), is a reference to a character from ''The Killing'' and also featured on the cover.
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* ''Film/TheKilling'': Johnny Clay wears a rubber clown mask when he and his also-masked gang rob a racetrack at the film's climax.

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* ''Film/TheKilling'': MenacingMask: Johnny Clay wears a rubber clown mask when he and his also-masked gang rob a racetrack at the film's climax.
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* ''Film/TheKilling'': Johnny Clay wears a rubber clown mask when he and his also-masked gang rob a racetrack at the film's climax.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Creator/ElishaCookJr in the role as George the HenpeckedHusband seems at his most Ineffectually Sympathetically Villainous.

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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Creator/ElishaCookJr in the role as George the HenpeckHusband seems at his most Ineffectually Sympathetically Villainous.

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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Creator/ElishaCookJr in the role as George the HenpeckHusband HenpeckedHusband seems at his most Ineffectually Sympathetically Villainous.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Creator/ElishaCookJr at his most Ineffectually Sympathetically Villainous.

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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Creator/ElishaCookJr in the role as George the HenpeckHusband seems at his most Ineffectually Sympathetically Villainous.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: Only [[spoiler:Johnny and Fay]] survive to the end of the movie, but [[spoiler:Johnny]] is presumably captured by the police to pay the price for his crime. Maurice also lives, but not without a beating from about ''eight'' guards that he ''almost'' wins.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: In order to get to his sniping position, Nikki befriends and bribes a black parking lot attendant. Grateful for what he presumed to be an act of genuine kindness, the attendant repeatedly bothers Nikki and offers him a horseshoe for good luck on his horse race betting. Nikki resorts to call him the N word to get rid of him, prompting the angered attendant to throw the horseshoe to the ground. [[spoiler:The horseshoe ends up being Nikki's undoing; it pops his tire as he tried to flee from security, leading to his death.]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: In order to get to his sniping position, Nikki befriends and bribes a black parking lot attendant. Grateful for what he presumed to be an act of genuine kindness, the attendant repeatedly bothers Nikki and offers him a horseshoe for good luck on his horse race betting. Nikki resorts to call calling him the N word a nigger to get rid of him, prompting the angered attendant to throw the horseshoe to the ground. [[spoiler:The horseshoe ends up being Nikki's undoing; it pops his tire as he tried to flee from security, leading to his death.]]

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