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* AssholeVictim: ''Possibly'' the man who [[spoiler:threatened Mildred in the shop and bragged about raping and killing a girl in the same way Angela was killed. He wasn't Angela's killer, and may not have even raped and killed the girl he bragged about. However, he's still a repugnant person even outside the fact that he's bragging about rape. Mildred and Dixon go on a road trip to where he lives to possibly kill him.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Mildred is horrified when she realizes that she burned down the police station while Dixon was still inside.]]
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* DomesticAbuse: Mildred divorced Charlie because of this, though Angela and Robbie both claim that they never saw any evidence of this being true. When Charlie grabs Mildred in the midst of an argument, Robbie's extremely fast and apparently reflexive reaction of grabbing a kitchen knife and putting it to Charlie's throat suggests that he was likely lying in order to preserve a more positive image of his father.
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* DomesticAbuse: Mildred divorced Charlie because of this, though Angela and Robbie both claim that they never saw any evidence of this being true. When Charlie grabs Mildred in the midst of an argument, Robbie's extremely fast and apparently reflexive reaction of grabbing a kitchen knife and putting it to Charlie's throat suggests that he was likely lying in order to preserve a more positive image of his father.
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* WhatTheHellHero: After giving an alibi for Mildred to keep her out of trouble for burning down the police station, James asks Mildred out on a date. She accepts mostly as thanks for helping her out, and she doesnt even bother changing out of her jumpsuit for it and is very disinterested the whole time until her ex-husband appears, at which point she asks to reschedule. James tells her to just forget it since she clearly doesn't want to be there, at which point she says he forced her on the date. At this point James lays into her, saying that he may not be a great catch, being a dwarf and a used car salesman, but she doesn't have room to look down on him, being a perpetually angry giftshop woman that nobody likes. He just genuinely just wanted to go on a date with her.
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* WhatTheHellHero: After giving an alibi for Mildred to keep her out of trouble for burning down the police station, James asks Mildred out on a date. She accepts mostly as thanks for helping her out, and she doesnt even bother changing out of her jumpsuit for it and is very disinterested the whole time until her ex-husband appears, at which point she asks to reschedule. James tells her to just forget it since she clearly doesn't want to be there, at which point she says he forced her on the date. At this point James lays into her, saying that he may not be a great catch, being a dwarf and a used car salesman, but she doesn't have room to look down on him, being a perpetually angry giftshop woman that nobody likes. He just genuinely just wanted to go on a date with her.
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* DomesticAbuse: Mildred divorced Charlie because of this, though Angela and Robbie both claim that they never saw any evidence of this being true. Robbie's extremely quick and apparently reflexive reaction of grabbing a kitchen knife and putting it to Charlie's throat when he grabs Mildred in the middle of an argument suggests that he was lying in order to protect a more positive image of his father.
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* DomesticAbuse: Mildred divorced Charlie because of this, though Angela and Robbie both claim that they never saw any evidence of this being true. When Charlie grabs Mildred in the midst of an argument, Robbie's extremely quick fast and apparently reflexive reaction of grabbing a kitchen knife and putting it to Charlie's throat when he grabs Mildred in the middle of an argument suggests that he was likely lying in order to protect preserve a more positive image of his father.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Dixon punches Red's secretary Pam in the face after she freaks out on him for attacking Red.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Dixon punches Red's secretary Pam in the face after she freaks out on him for attacking Red.Red.
* WouldHurtAChild: Mildred beats up some schoolkids who throw a soda can at her car.
* WouldHurtAChild: Mildred beats up some schoolkids who throw a soda can at her car.
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Most of the cops (hell, most of the people of Ebbing) say or do things that could lightly be described as "offensive", particularly Dixon. Willoughby tells Mildred that, "If he fired every racist cop, he would have three left," and [[CrossesTheLineTwice they would be homophobes]].
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Most of the cops (hell, most of the people of Ebbing) say or do things that could lightly be described as "offensive", particularly Dixon. Willoughby tells Mildred that, "If he fired every racist cop, he would have three left," and [[CrossesTheLineTwice they would be homophobes]]. That said, most of the cops are portrayed as at least trying to do their jobs to the best of their abilities. [[spoiler:This includes Dixon, albeit only after he no longer has a badge.]]
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Oh, ''Dixon''. [[spoiler:He gets a little better, notably ''after'' he is fired.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Willoughby.]]
* AGoodWayToDie: [[spoiler:Willoughby spends his last day before committing suicide taking a day off with his family, playing silly games with his daughters, making love to his wife, and petting and feeding his beloved horses. He even plans how to best mitigate the pain of his passing by writing a series of suicide notes to encourage his wife and Dixon, and he gets the last laugh on Mildred by paying for the signs to stay up, leaving her to deal with the consequences.]]
* AGoodWayToDie: [[spoiler:Willoughby spends his last day before committing suicide taking a day off with his family, playing silly games with his daughters, making love to his wife, and petting and feeding his beloved horses. He even plans how to best mitigate the pain of his passing by writing a series of suicide notes to encourage his wife and Dixon, and he gets the last laugh on Mildred by paying for the signs to stay up, leaving her to deal with the consequences.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Willoughby's unwillingness to ever punish Dixon for anything seriously stunted him as a person and a cop, leading to a lot of the conflict in the movie. [[spoiler: His suicide note and Dixon's firing finally spurn him in the right direction, but it's nearly too late.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Willoughby's unwillingness to ever punish Dixon for anything seriously stunted him as a person and a cop, leading to a lot of the conflict in the movie. [[spoiler: His suicide note and Dixon's firing finally spurn him in the right direction, but it's nearly too late.]] ]]
** Mildred [[spoiler:burning down the police station in a fit of anger]] ''nearly'' results in any evidence of Angela's case being destroyed.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: Most of the cops (hell, most of the people of Ebbing) say or do things that could lightly be described as "offensive", particularly Dixon. Willoughby tells Mildred that, "If he fired every racist cop, he would have three left," and [[CrossesTheLineTwice they would be homophobes]].
** Willoughby's unwillingness to ever punish Dixon for anything seriously stunted him as a person and a cop, leading to a lot of the conflict in the movie. [[spoiler: His suicide note and Dixon's firing finally spurn him in the right direction, but it's nearly too late.
** Mildred [[spoiler:burning down the police station in a fit of anger]] ''nearly'' results in any evidence of Angela's case being destroyed.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: Most of the cops (hell, most of the people of Ebbing) say or do things that could lightly be described as "offensive", particularly Dixon. Willoughby tells Mildred that, "If he fired every racist cop, he would have three left," and [[CrossesTheLineTwice they would be homophobes]].
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** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Dixon becomes this after reading one of Willoughby's heartfelt suicide notes, taking his advice to heart and working very hard to catch Angela's murderer [[NobleBigotWithABadge while never ''quite'' shaking off his racism, stupidity, or propensity for violence.]]
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*** [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, she agrees to travel with Dixon to Idaho to murder the man who had threatened her in the shop and was overheard confessing to a rape. In a bit of potential CharacterDevelopment, however, she expresses that she may not follow through with the murder when they get there.]]
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*** [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, she agrees to travel with Dixon to Idaho to murder the man who had threatened her in the shop and was overheard confessing to a rape.rape and murder. In a bit of potential CharacterDevelopment, however, she expresses that she may not follow through with the murder when they get there.]]
** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Dixon becomes this after reading one of Willoughby's heartfelt suicide notes, taking his advice to heart and working very hard to catch Angela's murderer [[NobleBigotWithABadge while never ''quite'' shaking off his racism, stupidity, or propensity for violence.]]
** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Dixon becomes this after reading one of Willoughby's heartfelt suicide notes, taking his advice to heart and working very hard to catch Angela's murderer [[NobleBigotWithABadge while never ''quite'' shaking off his racism, stupidity, or propensity for violence.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Dixon is seen more than once early on slurring and getting abrasive with others. James also admits to having a drinking problem.
* AntiHero: Mildred is a grieving mother who just wants justice to be found for her daughter who was raped and murdered. Her actions become unsympathetic as she coldly rejects the chief of police's request to take down the billboards saying he failed at his job since A:he really did try to find the killer and B: he's dying of cancer. She also tends to have a very unpleasant personality and she barely tries to hide her disdain for the local NiceGuy dwarf who saves her from being arrested and asks her out on a date.
* AntiHero: Mildred is a grieving mother who just wants justice to be found for her daughter who was raped and murdered. Her actions become unsympathetic as she coldly rejects the chief of police's request to take down the billboards saying he failed at his job since A:he really did try to find the killer and B: he's dying of cancer. She also tends to have a very unpleasant personality and she barely tries to hide her disdain for the local NiceGuy dwarf who saves her from being arrested and asks her out on a date.
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* TheAlcoholic: Dixon Many of Dixon's worst moments occur while he is seen more than once early on slurring and getting abrasive with others.visibly drunk. James also admits to having a drinking problem.
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** Mildred is a grieving mother who just wants justice to be found for her daughter who was raped and murdered.Her Sounds pretty heroic, right? However, her actions over the course of the film, while always understandable, become unsympathetic as she increasingly unsympathetic:
*** She coldly rejectsthe chief of police's Willoughby's request to take down the harshly critical billboards saying even knowing that he failed at his job since A:he really did try to find the killer all that he legally could and B: he's is dying of cancer. cancer.
*** Shealso tends to have a very unpleasant personality berates and she barely tries demeans everyone around her, even many of those who are trying to hide her disdain for support her, the advertiser who agrees to put up the billboards, the local NiceGuy dwarf who saves her from being arrested arrested, and asks ''her own grieving son''.
*** [[spoiler:She ''burns down the police station'' in a fit of anger after herout on signs are burned down without personally checking to see if it was empty, nearly killing Dixon in the process and potentially destroying all existing evidence of her daughter's murder and potentially dozens of similar crimes.]]
*** [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, she agrees to travel with Dixon to Idaho to murder the man who had threatened her in the shop and was overheard confessing to adate.rape. In a bit of potential CharacterDevelopment, however, she expresses that she may not follow through with the murder when they get there.]]
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Averted with [[spoiler:Dixon on the Door Slam part. He reads Willoughby’s post-mortem letter, and begins to take heart when he believed he would be a great detective, and that a great detective can’t get anywhere with hate, but can be more effective with love, which leads to calmness, which leads to understanding. Just as he was beginning to take Willoughby’s letter by heart, Mildred starts fire bombing the police station with Dixon inside. He escaped through the window, and survived his burns.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Dixon uses racial slurs and apparently tortured a black suspect in interrogation (though Chief Willoughby refutes the latter on the grounds that there is no evidence). [[spoiler: In his post-mortem letter to Dixon, Willoughby encourages Dixon to let go of his bigotry and become a better man/detective, which Dixon ultimately does.]]
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* DeadStarWalking: Downplayed with [[spoiler: Chief Willoughby (played by Creator/WoodyHarrelson). He is DrivenToSuicide early in the film, but his voice is heard thrice after through the letters he left behind for Mildred, Dixon, and his wife Anne.]]
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** Notably, his first impression of Dixon is [[spoiler: Dixon [[DestinationDefenestration tossing a man out a window.]] This happens before Ambercrombie has even walked into the station for the first time.]]
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* TheChewToy: Oh dear lord [[spoiler:Dixon. He winds up with half his body on fire after Mildred burns down the police station, and is later purposefully almost beaten to death by the man in the bar in order to collect his DNA.]]
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Despite his racist, thuggish personality, Dixon and his mother share a very loving relationship, to the point where she's visibly and loudly distraught [[spoiler:when he comes home almost beaten to death.]]
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* AntiHero: Mildred is a grieving mother who just wants justice to be found for her daughter who was raped and murdered. Her actions become unsympathetic as she coldly rejects the chief of police's request to take down the billboards saying he failed at his job since A:he really did try to find the killer and B: he's dying of cancer. She also tends to have a very unpleasant personality and she barely tries to hide her disdain for the local NiceGuy dwarf who saves her from being arrested and asks her out on a date.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Mildred is a grieving mother who just wants her daughter's rapist/muderer found, but the lengths she goes to and her general unpleasant personality manages to make her very unsympathetic at times. On the other side, we have the police, specifically Dixon, who is a very racist incompetent cop, but one who respects his boss Willoughby deeply and who really did want to do good in his community and [[spoiler:eventually achieves redemption.]]
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* BlackComedy: Par for the course with Creator/MartinMcDonagh
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* CentralTheme: As found by Charlie's ditsy girlfriend on a bookmark she had, "Anger begets more anger". It is only when Mildred and Dixon try to move past their anger at others that they are able to make personal progress.
* CentralTheme: As found by Charlie's ditsy girlfriend on a bookmark she had, "Anger begets more anger". It is only when Mildred and Dixon try to move past their anger at others that they are able to make personal progress.
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* WhatTheHellHero: After giving an alibi for Mildred to keep her out of trouble for burning down the police station, James asks Mildred out on a date. She accepts mostly as thanks for helping her out, and she doesnt even bother changing out of her jumpsuit for it and is very disinterested the whole time until her ex-husband appears, at which point she asks to leave. James tells her to just forget it since she clearly doesn't want to be there, at which point she says he forced her on the date. At this point James lays into her, saying that he may not be a great catch, being a dwarf and a used car salesman, but she doesn't have room to look down on him, being a perpetually angry giftshop woman that nobody likes. He just genuinely just wanted to go on a date with her.
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* WhatTheHellHero: After giving an alibi for Mildred to keep her out of trouble for burning down the police station, James asks Mildred out on a date. She accepts mostly as thanks for helping her out, and she doesnt even bother changing out of her jumpsuit for it and is very disinterested the whole time until her ex-husband appears, at which point she asks to leave.reschedule. James tells her to just forget it since she clearly doesn't want to be there, at which point she says he forced her on the date. At this point James lays into her, saying that he may not be a great catch, being a dwarf and a used car salesman, but she doesn't have room to look down on him, being a perpetually angry giftshop woman that nobody likes. He just genuinely just wanted to go on a date with her.
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* EasilyForgiven: At the end, when [[spoiler:Mildred and Dixon are driving to Idaho to maybe kill a rapist (not the one who killed Mildred's daughter), Mildred confesses that she was the one who burned down the police station (and seriously burned half of Dixon's body, she didn't know he was inside), he just casually says "Who else would have done it?"
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* EasilyForgiven: At the end, when [[spoiler:Mildred and Dixon are driving to Idaho to maybe kill a rapist (not the one who killed Mildred's daughter), Mildred confesses that she was the one who burned down the police station (and seriously burned half of Dixon's body, she didn't know he was inside), he just casually says "Who else would have done it?"it?"]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Willoughby shoots himself in the head since he knows his cancer will kill him anyway, and he didn't want to endure anymore pain caused by the disease, as well as watching his wife and daughters suffer watching him deteriorate.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: At the end, when [[spoiler:Mildred and Dixon are driving to Idaho to maybe kill a rapist (not the one who killed Mildred's daughter), Mildred confesses that she was the one who burned down the police station (and seriously burned half of Dixon's body, she didn't know he was inside), he just casually says "Who else would have done it?"
* EasilyForgiven: At the end, when [[spoiler:Mildred and Dixon are driving to Idaho to maybe kill a rapist (not the one who killed Mildred's daughter), Mildred confesses that she was the one who burned down the police station (and seriously burned half of Dixon's body, she didn't know he was inside), he just casually says "Who else would have done it?"
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* RedHerring: It starts to look as if [[spoiler:a man that threatened Mildred midway through the film and suggested he harmed Angela was indeed her killer, but after Dixon sends in his DNA sample, the new chief informs him that the man was nowhere in town when Angela's murder took place.]] To a lesser extent, it seems that [[spoiler:Dixon was the one who torched the three billboards, until Charlie reveals that he actually did it.]]
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* MamaBear: Mildred. She starts a war with the town over her daughter's death and Dixon [[spoiler: assaulting Red]] visibly upsets her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Willoughby's unwillingness to ever punish Dixon for anything seriously stunted him as a person and a cop, leading to a lot of the conflict in the movie.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Willoughby's unwillingness to ever punish Dixon for anything seriously stunted him as a person and a cop, leading to a lot of the conflict in the movie.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Played with; [[spoiler: Abercrombie, who replaces Willoughby as police chief, after his suicide is this from Dixon's perspective, but his reasons for firing him--assaulting someone and general incompetence--are completely valid.]]
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* PartingWordsRegret: In a flashback, Angela storms out of the house saying she hopes she gets raped. Mildred responds "Yeah, I hope you get raped too."
* PetTheDog: The characters' willingness to do this for people they should hate is a major theme throughout the movie, including [[spoiler:Welby getting Dixon a straw for his orange juice while the latter is hospitalized with burns, Dixon saving the Angela Hayes murder file from being burned and Mildred telling Charlie to take good care of Penelope.]]
* PetTheDog: The characters' willingness to do this for people they should hate is a major theme throughout the movie, including [[spoiler:Welby getting Dixon a straw for his orange juice while the latter is hospitalized with burns, Dixon saving the Angela Hayes murder file from being burned and Mildred telling Charlie to take good care of Penelope.]]
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''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' is the third feature film from Creator/MartinMcDonagh. It stars Creator/FrancesMcDormand, Creator/SamRockwell, Creator/WoodyHarrelson, Creator/JohnHawkes, and Creator/PeterDinklage.
[=McDormand=] plays Mildred Hayes, an angry and grieving woman whose daughter Angela was horrifically murdered seven months prior. She pays for three billboards to challenge the Ebbing Police Department to catch Angela's killer.
!!This film provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Dixon is seen more than once early on slurring and getting abrasive with others.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:We never find out who killed Angela, but Mildred and Dixon appear to have a newfound respect for each other and are possibly going to take justice into their own hands regarding the fate of another rapist.]]
* BlackComedy: Par for the course with Creator/MartinMcDonagh
* TheDitz: Penelope, the 19-year-old girlfriend of Mildred's ex-husband Charlie.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Willoughby shoots himself in the head since he knows his cancer will kill him anyway, and he didn't want to endure anymore pain caused by the disease, as well as watching his wife and daughters suffer watching him deteriorate.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Mildred reads [[spoiler:one of Willoughby's suicide notes]], he suggests that someone down the line will get caught bragging to a buddy over what they did to Angela. [[spoiler:Dixon overhears a man that previously threatened Mildred boasting to a friend over a crime he committed similar in nature to what happened to Angela, but it turns out he is not her actual killer.]]
* GroinAttack: Mildred kicks two students (a boy and a girl) in the groin after one of them throws a soda can at her car.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Angela's killer is never caught. Mildred also never gets in trouble for setting fire to the police department.]]
* RedHerring: It starts to look as if [[spoiler:a man that threatened Mildred midway through the film and suggested he harmed Angela was indeed her killer, but after Dixon sends in his DNA sample, the new chief informs him that the man was nowhere in town when Angela's murder took place.]]
* TranquilFury: Mildred as she walks over to Charlie and Penelope's table at the restaurant with a wine bottle in her hand [[spoiler:after Charlie tells her he set her billboards on fire.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Dixon punches Red's secretary Pam in the face after she freaks out on him for attacking Red.
[=McDormand=] plays Mildred Hayes, an angry and grieving woman whose daughter Angela was horrifically murdered seven months prior. She pays for three billboards to challenge the Ebbing Police Department to catch Angela's killer.
!!This film provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Dixon is seen more than once early on slurring and getting abrasive with others.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:We never find out who killed Angela, but Mildred and Dixon appear to have a newfound respect for each other and are possibly going to take justice into their own hands regarding the fate of another rapist.]]
* BlackComedy: Par for the course with Creator/MartinMcDonagh
* TheDitz: Penelope, the 19-year-old girlfriend of Mildred's ex-husband Charlie.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Willoughby shoots himself in the head since he knows his cancer will kill him anyway, and he didn't want to endure anymore pain caused by the disease, as well as watching his wife and daughters suffer watching him deteriorate.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Mildred reads [[spoiler:one of Willoughby's suicide notes]], he suggests that someone down the line will get caught bragging to a buddy over what they did to Angela. [[spoiler:Dixon overhears a man that previously threatened Mildred boasting to a friend over a crime he committed similar in nature to what happened to Angela, but it turns out he is not her actual killer.]]
* GroinAttack: Mildred kicks two students (a boy and a girl) in the groin after one of them throws a soda can at her car.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Angela's killer is never caught. Mildred also never gets in trouble for setting fire to the police department.]]
* RedHerring: It starts to look as if [[spoiler:a man that threatened Mildred midway through the film and suggested he harmed Angela was indeed her killer, but after Dixon sends in his DNA sample, the new chief informs him that the man was nowhere in town when Angela's murder took place.]]
* TranquilFury: Mildred as she walks over to Charlie and Penelope's table at the restaurant with a wine bottle in her hand [[spoiler:after Charlie tells her he set her billboards on fire.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Dixon punches Red's secretary Pam in the face after she freaks out on him for attacking Red.
