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* HowlOfSorrow: Mr Marlow lets out a heart-breaking one when he can't find young Philip

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* HowlOfSorrow: Mr Marlow lets out a heart-breaking one when he can't find young PhilipPhilip in the forest walking home, [[spoiler:compounded by grief at the death of his estranged wife, Philip's mother]]
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*HowlOfSorrow: Mr Marlow lets out a heart-breaking one when he can't find young Philip
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Marlow has plenty of misogyny, but he's TranquilFury when Raymond is laughing about coercing scared German girls after the war.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Marlow has plenty of misogyny, but he's TranquilFury when Raymond George is laughing about coercing scared German girls after the war.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Marlow has plenty of misogyny, but he's TranquilFury when Raymond is laughing about coercing scared German girls after the war.
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* NamesTheSame: [[invoked]]As the Raymond Chandler character. Marlow jokes that, seeing how he ended up becoming a writer, his mother should have named him "[[Creator/ChristopherMarlowe Christopher]]" instead.
-->'''Marlow:''' [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who'd name a child Philip]], with a name like Marlow? No e, but it sounds the same.\\
'''Nurse:''' As what?\\
'''Marlow:''' ...''[[CaptainObvious Philip Marlowe!]]''
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* AccentSlipUp: Marlowe normally talks with a slightly more middle-class version of the Estuary accent, but when he's at his most vulnerable--in a scene where he feels sorry for his dad--he reverts to his native Forest of Dean accent.

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* TheShrink: Dr. Gibbon. Marlowe thinks that he's the Well Meaning but Dopey and Ineffectual type. He's not.



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%%* WordAssociationTest* WordAssociationTest: Dr. Gibbon gives Marlowe one, and it ends up with Marlowe giving an ArmorPiercingResponse ''to himself''.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Surreally, but still satisfyingly, in the finale.

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* BitPartBadGuys: Lampshaded with two unnamed hitmen who hang around the edges of the scenes, before realising that they haven't been named and going in search of their writer to punish him for not naming them.



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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Lampshaded with two unnamed hitmen who hang around the edges of the scenes, before realising that they haven't been named and going in search of their writer to punish him for not naming them.



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