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Renamed trope per Wick Cleaning Projects


* AmbiguousDisorder: Fred. It's never outright confirmed, but he doesn't disagree when Harriet accuses him of being mildly autistic and shows enough self-awareness about his innocent insensitivity to suggest that if he is, he's far to the high-functioning end of the spectrum.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: DiagnosedByTheAudience: Fred. It's never outright confirmed, but he doesn't disagree when Harriet accuses him of being mildly autistic and shows enough self-awareness about his innocent insensitivity to suggest that if he is, he's far to the high-functioning end of the spectrum.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Fred. It's never outright confirmed, but he doesn't disagree when Harriet accuses him of being mildly autistic and shows enough self-awareness about his innocent insensitivity to suggest that if he is, he's far to the high-functioning end of the spectrum.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Fred's already-failing marriage going down the drain due to his burgeoning feelings for Harriet becomes harsher after Creator/EwanMcGregor fell in love with Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead while filming ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' and divorced his wife to be with her.
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* MemeticMutation: People love to make fun of the title due to how strange and awkward it sounds and how much it's [[TitleDrop name-dropped]] in the movie.
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What The Hell Hero ain't a YMMV trope.


* WhatTheHellHero: After Harriet's soldier boyfriend Robert turns up alive, Fred admits to him that he loves Harriet. Robert sarcastically comments "well I'm sorry I'm not lying dead in a ditch somewhere," to which Fred remarks "so am I." Although Fred apologizes for it immediately afterward, saying that he was just joking, he seems less than sincere.

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* WhatTheHellHero: UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: After Harriet's soldier boyfriend Robert turns up alive, Fred admits to him that he loves Harriet. Robert sarcastically comments "well I'm sorry I'm not lying dead in a ditch somewhere," to which Fred remarks "so am I." Although Fred apologizes for it immediately afterward, saying that he was just joking, he seems less than sincere.

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* JerkassWoobie: Peter, by the end.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Attempted, but the BittersweetEnding makes it a little difficult to take to heart, even when it makes sense - [[spoiler:the project worked because the people involved actually believed in it, but Fred never really believed things would work between him and Harriet and therefore they didn't and everyone seemed to think that both the Sheikh and Jay so great that they were invulnerable, or at least less vulnerable than anybody else when they clearly weren't.]]

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* %%* JerkassWoobie: Peter, by the end.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Attempted, but the BittersweetEnding makes it a little difficult to take to heart, even when it makes sense - [[spoiler:the project worked because the people involved actually believed in it, but Fred never really believed things would work between him and Harriet and therefore they didn't and everyone seemed to think that both the Sheikh and Jay so great that they were invulnerable, or at least less vulnerable than anybody else when they clearly weren't.]]
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* JerkassWoobie: Peter, by the end.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Attempted, but the BittersweetEnding makes it a little difficult to take to heart, even when it makes sense - [[spoiler:the project worked because the people involved actually believed in it, but Fred never really believed things would work between him and Harriet and therefore they didn't and everyone seemed to think that both the Sheikh and Jay so great that they were invulnerable, or at least less vulnerable than anybody else when they clearly weren't.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: After Harriet's soldier boyfriend Robert turns up alive, Fred admits to him that he loves Harriet. Robert sarcastically comments "well I'm sorry I'm not lying dead in a ditch somewhere," to which Fred remarks "so am I." Although Fred apologizes for it immediately afterward, saying that he was just joking, he seems less than sincere.

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