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* RetroUniverse: The film uses a lot of vintage styles to recreate a classic blaxploitation feel but references to Blockchain set it in the present day.
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* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Fontaine is the brawn and the teams best fighter and go to for physical intimidation. Slick Charles is the brains who comes up with the plan. And Yo-Yo is the beauty who specialises in manipulating her enemies.
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: The clones are embraced by their friends and [[spoiler:in the ending, the Glen as a whole. It's portrayed as a liberation.]]
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* StormingTheCastle: Mentioned word-for-word by one of the thugs [[spoiler:on the news]].
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* MandelaEffect: Obliquely referenced by Slick Charles when he mentions ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' in the same breath as other conspiracy theories.
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* MandelaEffect: Obliquely referenced in universe by Slick Charles when he mentions ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' in the same breath as other conspiracy theories.
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* ModernMinstrelsy: the [=GotDamn=] chicken advertisement features some over the top chucking and jiving from the black customers at the restaurant, and fittingly, the food is laced with a chemical that [[LaughingGas makes people very easily amused]]
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* ModernMinstrelsy: the [=GotDamn=] chicken advertisement features some over the top chucking and jiving from the black customers at the restaurant, and fittingly, the food is laced with a chemical that [[LaughingGas makes people very easily amused]]amused]].
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* ModernMinstrelsy: the [=GotDamn=] chicken advertisement features some over the top chucking and jiving from the black customers at the restaurant, and fittingly, the food is laced with a chemical that [[LaughingGas makes people very easily amused]]
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* ExpendableClones: the reason the conspiracy makes multiple copies of gangbangers and pimps, to have a steady supply of new ones to replace them if they get killed.
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* ExpendableClones: ExpendableClone: the reason the conspiracy makes multiple copies of gangbangers and pimps, to have a steady supply of new ones to replace them if they get killed.
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* MonochromeCasting: Almost all of the principle cast is black, with the exception of TheDragon Nixon and the various AmbiguoslyBrown clones.
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* MonochromeCasting: Almost all of the principle cast is black, with the exception of TheDragon Nixon and the various AmbiguoslyBrown AmbiguouslyBrown clones.
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* BlandNameProduct: A fair number of these are scattered throughout the film in addition to real brands, with the strong implication that these are products developed by the conspiracy as part of their experiments. Examples include Somaah! lemon-lime soda, Samford & Hodges menthol cigarettes, and [[ShoutOut Anaconda Malt Liquor]].
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* BigDamnHeroes: the united gangsters of The Glen driving their lowriders down the street to rush the secret facility.
* BlandNameProduct: A fair number of these are scattered throughout the film in addition to real brands, with the strong implication that these are products developed by the conspiracy as part of their experiments. Examples include Somaah! lemon-lime soda, Samford & Hodges menthol cigarettes, [=Got'Damn!=] Chicken, and [[ShoutOut Anaconda Malt Liquor]].
* BlandNameProduct: A fair number of these are scattered throughout the film in addition to real brands, with the strong implication that these are products developed by the conspiracy as part of their experiments. Examples include Somaah! lemon-lime soda, Samford & Hodges menthol cigarettes, [=Got'Damn!=] Chicken, and [[ShoutOut Anaconda Malt Liquor]].
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* ConfusedBystanderInterview: After the clones are set free from the underground lab, news crews come cover the commotion, and there is a flurry of funny soundbites from bystanders as well as the gangsters who took part in the raid. When the LA lab is liberated, one reporter tries to get comments from the escaped clones who have no idea who and where they are.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Yo-Yo mails a manuscipt detailing what she knows about the conspiracy while wearing a beige trench coat and a fedora, which doesn't do much, as Biddy immediately recognizes her and tries to call out to her, which leads to the agents of the conspiracy to grab Yo-Yo off the street.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Yo-Yo mails a manuscipt detailing what she knows about the conspiracy while wearing a beige trench coat and a fedora, which doesn't do much, as Biddy immediately recognizes her and tries to call out to her, which leads to the agents of the conspiracy to grab Yo-Yo off the street.
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* VanInBlack: the black SUV Fontaine spots grabbing someone off the street is also parked outside the Trap House, sparking Fontaine to jump out and investigate it.
* VehicularKidnapping: the abovemnetioned black SUV grabs someone off the street early in the film, and later, grabs Yo-Yo after she mails her manuscript about the conspiracy to The Washington Post.
* VehicularKidnapping: the abovemnetioned black SUV grabs someone off the street early in the film, and later, grabs Yo-Yo after she mails her manuscript about the conspiracy to The Washington Post.
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* EvilKnockoff: While Fontaine is also a clone, there is a Fontaine clone that works as security for the conspiracy, who has short cropped hair and a full beard and wears a black suit.
* ExpendableClones: the reason the conspiracy makes multiple copies of gangbangers and pimps, to have a steady supply of new ones to replace them if they get killed.
* ExpendableClones: the reason the conspiracy makes multiple copies of gangbangers and pimps, to have a steady supply of new ones to replace them if they get killed.
* FakeMemories: the clones are given fake memories to make them think they are real. Fontaine thinks he has a dead little brother who got killed by police, and Slick has a memory of winning Pimp of the Year at the 1995 Player's Ball. [[spoiler:Fontaine's memory is based on the real TragicBackstory of the original Fontaine]].
** Fontaine's crew are havig a SeinfeldianCOnversation about clones at the beginning of the movie.
* {{Gangbangers}}: Fontaine and Isaac both have their own gangs, and in TheStinger, Tyrone is shown wearing a blue flannel shirt and grabbing a blue bandana, before driving by a memorial of a dead Blood gang member, with another passing by flashing him a B sign.
* HumanShield: when Fontaine sees his EvilKnockoff clone in the secret base, he tries to shoot him, but the clone pulls an escaping scientist in front of himself to take the bullets.
* {{Malaproper}} Slick, who for example calls Patagonia "Baconia".
* MonochromeCasting: Almost all of the principle cast is black, with the exception of TheDragon Nixon and the various AmbiguoslyBrown clones.
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* PowerTrio: Consisting of a humorless and driven leader who is only out to get his own answers, a finnicky CowardlyLion who is (at first) only out for himself and his own safety, and a resourceful idealist who corrals the other two to act for the good of everyone. Also doubles as a FreudianTrio.
* PimpDuds: Slick's get-up.
* PowerTrio: Consisting of a humorless and driven leader who is only out to get his own answers, a finnicky CowardlyLion who is (at first) only out for himself and his own safety, and a resourceful idealist who corrals the other two to act for the good of everyone. Also doubles as a FreudianTrio.
* SeinfeldianConversation: the movie opens with Fontaine's friends talking about one of them spotting someone he thinks is a clone of Michael Jackson.
* TaintedTobacco / TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Methods of delivery for the mind control drugs include [[LaughingGas Laughing Powder]] in fried chicken, a tranquilizer in hair relaxing cream, and some unmentioned substances in grape drink and cigarettes.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Fontaine and Isaac set up Fontaine's fake death through both visiting Biddy supposedly for sexual favors, but actually she is acting as intermediary between the two.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The movie leaves it deliberately ambiguous what city the Glen is in, though it's implied to be somewhere in the DeepSouth based on Yo-Yo's desire to move to Memphis, Tennessee. [[spoiler:In the final scene, where Tyrone sees the clone story breaking on national news, one of his friends starts loudly coughing right as CNN's reporter starts to mention where it is.]]
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The movie leaves it deliberately ambiguous what city the Glen is in, though it's implied to be somewhere in the DeepSouth based on Yo-Yo's desire to move to Memphis, Tennessee. [[spoiler:In the final scene, where Tyrone sees the clone story breaking on national news, one of his friends starts loudly coughing right as CNN's reporter starts to mention where it is.]]]] The film itself was shot in Atlanta.
* WillTalkForAPrice: Biddy, the street walker with a pink wig maybe knows something, maybe doesn't.
* WillTalkForAPrice: Biddy, the street walker with a pink wig maybe knows something, maybe doesn't.
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* BlingBlingBang: Slick and Yo-Yo use gold-plated revolvers.
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* CoolCar: Fontaine's 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix, modified in the "Donk" style, with raised suspension and large rims.
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* DramaticGunCock: When the gangsters go to the liqour store to get into the underground lab, as the elevator door opens, several shotguns are cocked.
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* [[FakeBand Fake Rapper]]: Ruckus, the artist credited for the MindControlMusic.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Slick tries what he thinks is cocaine in the Trap House lab, which causes him to start laughing uncontrollably, and later it's revealed the powder is used on the chicken at [=GotDamn=] chicken.
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* TheGhost: Fontaine's mom appear to be this, as she never leaves her room, only talking to Fontaine when he asks her something. [[spoiler:She doesn't actually exist, and there's just a speaker in the empty room giving one of a handful of canned answers]].
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* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: while the conspiracy keeps the gangs around to lower the value of neighborhoods, and they are shown to squabble and use deadly violence, at the end, they are united in fight against the conspiracy, as they are the ones with weapons to fight back.
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Slick and Yo-Yo use [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated snub noses]] and Nixon uses a long barrel single-action revolver he at one point uses to fire a quick volley by fanning the hammer.
* RivalsTeamUp: After discovering the conspiracy, Fontaine and Slick hatch peace with Fontaine's rival dealer Isaac, and all the gangsters of The Glen roll up to invade the underground lab.
* RivalsTeamUp: After discovering the conspiracy, Fontaine and Slick hatch peace with Fontaine's rival dealer Isaac, and all the gangsters of The Glen roll up to invade the underground lab.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Slick has a tendency to substitute "I" and "me" with "a pimp".
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** When meeting the man for the first time, Nixon refers to Fontaine as [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Captain America]].
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** Yo-Yo calls the brainwashed dancers at the rave "[[Music/MichaelJacksonsThriller Thriller]]-looking motherfuckers".
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** Yo-Yo Slick Charles calls the brainwashed dancers at the rave "[[Music/MichaelJacksonsThriller Thriller]]-looking motherfuckers".
