Line #49 Characters/TheThirdMan


1	'''Spoilers ahead.'''
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5	[[folder:Harry Lime]]
6	!!Harry Lime
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8	* AdaptationalNationality: English in the book, American in the film.
9	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BestFriend: To Holly Martins.
10	* DeadSidekick: He got run over by a car in Vienna. [[spoiler: Or did he?]]
11	* HeterosexualLifePartners: He was this with Holly Martins.
12	* KilledOffscreen: His death happens offscreen. [[spoiler: Both of them.]]
13	* LoveInterest: Had a girlfriend by the name of Anna Schmidt.
14	* PlotTriggeringDeath: His car crash is why Holly's stay in Vienna turns out to be much longer than he intended.
15	* PosthumousCharacter
16	* SmallRoleBigImpact: His death sets the plot of the film in motion.
17	[[/folder]]
18
19	[[folder:Holly Martins]]
20	!!Holly Martins
21	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JosephCotten
22	[[quoteright:334:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oof.jpg]]
23	[[caption-width-right:334: [[DeadpanSnarker Is that what you say to people after death? "Goodness, that's awkward"?]]]]
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25	* ActionSurvivor: Martins is just a run-of-the-mill writer, [[spoiler:and survives several brushes with death, living to the end of the film]].
26	* AdaptationalNationality: English in the book, American in the film.
27	* AdaptationNameChange: His first name is changed from Rollo to Holly.
28	* AmateurSleuth: He decides to begin his own investigation that ends with two innocent people dead... but he discovers the truth about Harry.
29	* BadassLongcoat: He wears one throughout.
30	* BeleagueredChildhoodFriend: He spends most of the film trying to prove his dead friend's innocence of the bad name he garnered selling diluted penicillin in post WWII Vienna, [[spoiler:only to discover at the end that his friend (still alive after faking his death), did actually sell the bad drugs to make a profit]].
31	* BlitheSpirit: Subverted. He's a brash American who comes to Vienna and thinks he's going to prove everyone wrong about his dead friend Harry Lime, only to end up in over his head and screwing everything up.
32	* BookDumb: Not knowing who or what Creator/JamesJoyce was, and not being informed of what literary components he uses in his cheap novels, he is literally book dumb.
33	** It's implied that he's just not a good public speaker, and the Joyce questions comes about right around when Popescu shows up, distracting Holly from answering it.
34	* ClassicalAntiHero: He wants to solve the mystery of his best friend's death and bring justice to the world. However, he's ThePollyanna and something of an IdiotHero, though he does grow wiser at the end of the film.
35	* DeadpanSnarker: It wouldn't be a [[FilmNoir noir film]] had the protagonist not been one.
36	* DeadSidekick: This is his primary motivator at the start of the film, since he just found out about Harry Lime's death, [[spoiler:which is faked, by the way]].
37	* {{Determinator}}: Stops at ''nothing'' to find the truth about the death of Harry Lime.
38	* DidNotGetTheGirl: The final shot of the film is [[spoiler:Anna walking past Holly at a graveyard that just saw the real funeral of Harry Lime, probably on account of Holly having killed Lime himself]].
39	* IdiotBall: Holly catches and holds every single idiot ball this movie throws at him, except when his OldFriend makes an ImpliedDeathThreat on a Ferris Wheel and [[CharacterDevelopment when Anna passes him at the cemetery and he doesn't follow her]].
40	* InHarmsWay: He's sort of like this, having some traits of IntrepidReporter by investigating the death of his friend for himself.
41	* LethallyStupid: His efforts as an AmateurSleuth left two innocent people dead.
42	* LoveTriangle: It's implied he still has feelings for [[FemmeFataleSpy Anna]], who in turn, still loves the recently deceased Harry Lime, who in turn, [[spoiler:is alive and well]].
43	* MartialPacifist: Holly doesn't hurt a fly all throughout the movie. [[spoiler:That is, until the end of the film, [[MercyKill when he finishes Lime with his own gun.]]]]
44	* MostWritersAreWriters: He ''is'' a writer, after all.
45	* TheOnlyBeliever: Everyone, including Anna, Harry's lover, believes immediately that he is capable of smuggling penicillin and killing children, Holly is the only one who has trouble believing his OldFriend could do that.
46	* PaperThinDisguise: His masquerade fails to deceive [[FatBastard Popescu]], "Baron" Kurtz and Dr. Winkel.
47	* ShadowArchetype: Harry is a ManipulativeBastard and Holly is his UnwittingPawn, his SpannerInTheWorks and TheOnlyBeliever. In the last minutes of his life, Harry will be LuredIntoATrap by Holly and their roles will swap like an HourglassPlot.
48	* SpannerInTheWorks: When Harry decides to be FakingTheDead, so he could not meet Holly, Holly suspects foul play and decides to begin his own investigation and deranges all of Harry's plans.
49	* StarvingArtist: Begins [[spoiler:and ends]] the film as this.
50	* TookALevelInBadass: Starting out as a bumbling, incompetent faux-investigator, Martins [[spoiler:manages to work with the police and chase a [[BigBad child-killing, sociopathic drug lord]] into the sewers and kill him]].
51	* TookALevelInCynic: How could he ''not'' by the end of the movie? In any other movie, he'd at least try to catch up with Anna after she walks past him and reason with her, but here, he just dejectedly throws a match on the ground and lets her go.
52	* UnwittingPawn: ImpliedTrope because everyone can see Martins is this for ManipulativeBastard Harry Lime, but Martins takes all the movie to realize it, and Martins is really Harry's SpannerInTheWorks.
53	[[/folder]]
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55	[[folder:Anna Schmidt]]
56	!!Anna Schmidt
57	->'''Played by:''' Creator/AlidaValli
58	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anna_schmidt.jpg]]
59	[[caption-width-right:350: [[UndyingLoyalty "A person doesn't change just because you find out more."]]]]
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61	* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed, but in the book, Anna isn't part of the attempt to trap Harry and therefore she never tries to warn him.
62	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She gets the same lecture on how evil [[spoiler:Harry]] is as Martins, but that doesn't make her any less worshipful of him. Her justification: "A person doesn't change just because you learn more about them." Apparently, Anna doesn't do FridgeLogic. [[spoiler:Harry]] was ''always'' a sociopath. Though the reason she loves him, forging her papers and thus letting her stay in Vienna longer, stands regardless of what else [[spoiler:Harry]] did.
63	* BrokenBird: She's this by the beginning of the film, and [[spoiler:even more so at the end]].
64	* DirtyCommunists: A light example, but she faces deportation from the Russians for being from Czechoslovakia.
65	* DoubleAgent: She is very much this for [[spoiler:Harry Lime]] and Holly, [[spoiler:appearing to help the latter, only to betray him for Lime's safety]].
66	* FemmeFatale
67	* KarmaHoudini: As evidenced by the last time we see her, [[spoiler:she got away (and unscathed, mind you) from the sewer chase of Harry Lime, and it's likely that she fled the authorities soon after to avoid being deported]].
68	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Still, she aided and abetted a drug lord who sold ''very'' harmful drugs on the European black market,]] and it is implied that [[spoiler:she'll probably be deported back to Czechoslovakia to face Soviet law after the events of the movie]].
69	* LoveTriangle: She's part of one with Holly Martins and [[spoiler: Harry Lime.]]
70	* MysteriousWoman
71	* TheNotLoveInterest: She never ''really'' gets together with [[spoiler:Holly Martins]], as her heart belongs to [[spoiler:Harry Lime]].
72	* UndyingLoyalty: Anna warns [[spoiler:Harry]] of the authorities before they can arrest him. [[spoiler:This is all for naught, however, and Lime is killed rather than arrested.]]
73	[[/folder]]
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75	[[folder:Major Calloway]]
76	!!Major Calloway
77	->'''Played by:''' Creator/TrevorHoward
78	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/major_calloway_8.jpg]]
79	[[caption-width-right:350: [[DeadpanSnarker "You were born to be murdered."]]]]
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81	* ByTheBookCop: Calloway accomplishes much as the head of police, such as [[spoiler:nabbing Harry Lime]], without ever breaking the law.
82	** It is also exploited by ManipulativeBastard Lime, when he realizes Calloway is incorruptible but all he have to do is to [[FakingTheDead fake his own death]] so Calloway will follow the rules and close the case without further investigation.
83	* DaChief: He fits this role quite nicely in the film.
84	* EmotionSuppression: Possibly done to maintain a facade of stoicism.
85	* IAmVeryBritish: Calloway can be memorable to American (and non-British) audiences, given his heavy [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents RP accent.]]
86	* KnightInSourArmour: He's a dedicated policeman, but is also a very cynical and pessimistic pragmatist who rejects Holly's idealistic heroism.
87	* LackOfEmpathy: Exemplified when he's talking about the sickly children he and Holly see in the hospital (though it could be a rather brutal coping mechanism):
88	-->"It had meningitis. They gave it some of [[spoiler:Lime's penicillin]]. Terrible pity, isn't it."
89	* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Calloway and Paine are part of the reason Holly [[spoiler:and the gang catch Harry Lime]].
90	* PetTheDog: He looks out for Holly and Anna numerous times in the film. He agrees to [[spoiler:give safe passage out of Vienna for Anna]]. However, she [[spoiler:incriminates herself when she warns Lime of the police's presence, which leads to a chase, Sergeant Paine's death, and Harry Lime's unceremonious execution]].
91	* PragmaticHero: He wants to capture criminals and bring an end to crime. However, he's willing to blackmail innocents, use people as pawns, and kill in cold blood if it's necessary. He's also TheCynic and a KnightInSourArmour, rejecting all of Holly's notions of heroism.
92	* SeenItAll: Calloway seems unaffected by much of what he sees, save for the death of [[spoiler:[[NiceGuy Sergeant Paine]]]].
93	* StiffUpperLip: Appears to have gotten over the recent deaths of [[spoiler:Sergeant Paine]] and (quite understandably) [[spoiler:[[BigBad Harry Lime]]]] by the final scene.
94	* TheStoic: He doesn't seemed all that bothered when surveying children infected with meningitis (courtesy of [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild Harry Lime]]]]).
95	** Subverted in the penultimate scene. Calloway appears to be genuinely shocked and concerned when [[spoiler:[[TooDumbToLive Paine]]]] runs out in front of [[spoiler:Harry Lime]] when the latter was known to be out armed and dangerous. Calloway then [[spoiler:tends to Paine's mortal injuries once Lime shoots him, to no avail]].
96	[[/folder]]
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98	[[folder:Sergeant Paine]]
99	!! Sergeant Paine
100	->'''Played by:''' Creator/BernardLee
101	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_sgt_paine.jpg]]
102	[[caption-width-right:350: [[DamnedByAFoolsPraise That's what I like about them]] [[note]]( [[AirportNovel Holly Martins' westerns]])[[/note]], sir. [[SoOkayItsAverage You can pick them up and put them down any time.]] ]]
103	* AscendedFanboy: He likes Holly Martin's books, and his sincere admiration for him is the reason Holly Martins manages to stay in Vienna.
104	* BestFriend: Even if he's an underling, he's the best buddy of Major Calloway more than anything else.
105	* CompositeCharacter: Paine assumes traits of two British soldiers from the tie-in novella: Calloway's assistant Carter (who is willing to criticize his boss's mistakes) and Sgt. Bates, a fan of Martins' books who only appears in the penultimate scene.
106	* LowestCommonDenominator: He is a AscendedFanboy of Holly Martin's books, of TheWestern genre, filled with BlackAndWhiteMorality, StrictlyFormula plots and CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority.
107	* KindheartedSimpleton: He is a NiceGuy, but when he talks to Crabbin Paine doesn't know the difference between Hindu Dancers and strippers, and presents Holly as a 'real' writer when everyone else thinks TheWestern is a genre directed at the LowestCommonDenominator, and presents Holly with the means to stay some days more in Vienna, unaware of the desire of his superior, Major Calloway, to send Holly home as soon as possible.
108	* NiceGuy: A stark difference to the bleak, bombed-out world of Vienna around him.
109	* PluckyComicRelief: Serves as a source of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin comic relief.]]
110	* SarcasmBlind: Doesn't understand Holly Martins' sarcasm.
111	* ShooOutTheClowns: He's [[spoiler:shot dead by [[BigBad Harry Lime]] right before Holly executes Lime]].
112	* SpannerInTheWorks / UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His admiration for Holly Martins' westerns drive him to introduce Martins to Crabbin, allowing Martins to stay in Vienna and subsequently allowing Holly to initiate his investigation, that would end with two innocents dead, including Paine.
113	* TooDumbToLive: He runs out in front of [[spoiler:Harry Lime]], who [[spoiler:shoots Paine with his revolver]] in desperation.
114	[[/folder]]
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116	[[folder:Crabbin]]
117	!!Crabbin
118	-> '''Played by:''' Creator/WilfridHydeWhite
119
120	* {{Bookworm}}: Crabbin's the owner of a book club.
121	* CaptainOblivious: Fails to pick up on much of Holly Martins' sarcasm.
122	* NiceGuy: Offers hospitality and a place to stay to Holly.
123	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappears after [[spoiler:Holly scrams from the book club]].
124	[[/folder]]
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126	[[folder:Karl / Porter]]
127	!! Karl (Porter)
128	-> '''Played by:''' Paul Hörbiger
129	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karl_da_porter.JPG]]
130	[[caption-width-right:350: [[BlueAndOrangeMorality "He is now ''[points up]'' in hell, or ''[points down]'' in heaven."]]]]
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132	* CultureClash / {{Malaproper}}: Played with. When describing where Harry Lime might've gone after he got run over, he gives the wrong directions to Holly, attributing Hell as being above, and Heaven being underneath the Earth.
133	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:This is his eventual fate.]]
134	* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:The reason for which he dies.]]
135	* TheMobBossIsScarier: He refuses to divulge any useful information out of fear for his personal and his family's safety. [[spoiler:When he does finally give information to Anna and Holly, he is killed.]]
136	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:He's killed early on, partly to establish how ruthless the baddies are.]]
137	[[/folder]]
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139	[[folder:"Baron" Kurtz]]
140	!! "Baron" Kurtz
141	-> '''Played by''' Ernst Deutsch
142	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baron_kurtz_5.jpg]]
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144	* AmbiguouslyGay: He's very effiminate in his choice of clothing and manner of speaking.
145	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Possibly. It's never confirmed on screen, but he is one of the probably guilty men who allegedly carried Lime out of the road.]]
146	* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: He now works as a black marketeer in post-war Vienna.
147	* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Carries his tiny dog with him wherever he goes.
148	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kurtz leaves the story once Holly confronts him while the former is on a roof.
149	[[/folder]]
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151	[[folder:Dr. Winkel]]
152	!!Dr. Winkel
153	->'''Played by:''' Erich Ponto
154	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/winkel.JPG]]
155	[[caption-width-right:350: ...{{Beat}}... '''V'''[[PronouncingMyNameForYou inkel]] [[note]]German pronunciation, making it a “V”, not a “W”[[/note]] ]]
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157	* BlatantLies: Claims he is only Lime's "medical adviser," and offers information that contradicts that of the porter.
158	* {{Jerkass}}: Winkel acts this way to Holly when he visits the doctor in his apartment.
159	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: As a doctor, Winkel [[spoiler:most likely worked as part of the penicillin diluting operation,]] and was found to be contradicting Porter's information on the death of Harry Lime.
160	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears after Holly speaks with [[spoiler:Lime]].
161	[[/folder]]
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163	[[folder:Popescu]]
164	!!Popescu
165	->'''Played by:''' Siegfried Breuer
166	[[quoteright:261:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/popescu___the_third_man_1949.jpg]]
167	[[caption-width-right:261: [[ImpliedDeathThreat "Why no, Mr. Martins. I'd say stick to fiction, straight fiction."]]]]
168	* AdaptationalNationality: Popescu is an American named Cooler in the novella.
169	* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, Popescu/Cooler is less threatening toward Martins and is also stated as being uninvolved in the diluted penicillin racket. He's still a supplier of black market tires and helps [[spoiler:Lime kill Harbin and fake his death]], though.
170	* AffablyEvil: Popescu is always polite and well-spoken, even when [[spoiler:threatening the life of Holly Martins and Anna Schmidt]].
171	* ConspicuousConsumption: Despite the obvious poverty of everyone else, Popescu is ordering double whiskies and gives Anna a pack of cigarettes.
172	* TheDragon: [[spoiler:For Harry Lime.]]
173	* FatBastard: He's heavier than most characters.
174	* ImpliedDeathThreat: He's fond of these, making several, basically telling [[spoiler:Martins to back off, unless he wants to get killed]].
175	* KarmaHoudini: Since [[spoiler:Lime is killed before he could divulge any useful information for the authorities, it is unlikely that Popescu will be apprehended]].
176	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen again after the disastrous book event hosted by Holly, who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flees]] after seeing [[spoiler:two thugs, likely sent after him by Harry Lime]].
177	[[/folder]]
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179	[[folder:The Mastermind (spoilers)]]
180	!!Harry Lime
181	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harry_lime.jpg]]
182	[[caption-width-right:350: "Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. [[TheGovernment Governments don't.]] [[AboveGoodAndEvil Why should we?"]]]]
183	->'''Played by:''' Creator/OrsonWelles
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185	* ArchEnemy: Harry Lime turns out to be this to Holly Martins.
186	* BadassLongcoat: Is never seen without his black coat and matching hat. Justified, given the time period.
187	* BigBadFriend: Holly is investigating his murder. It turns out that Harry is alive and engaged in horrible crimes. He's the villain of the story.
188	* TheChessmaster: He runs UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} like he owns it, and would've gotten away with it, too, had the police not chased and cornered him by spotting him in the open.
189	** Just to show how good Lime is at this: Joseph Harbin was an [[EvilMinion orderly who stole penicillin for Lime]], defected and went to the authorities. Major Calloway is a ByTheBookCop investigating Lime as the Ringleader of the operation. Lime kills Harbin and [[DisposingOfABody uses Harbin's body as the body]] [[FakingTheDead they buried at Lime's grave after his supposed accident.]] Major Calloway closes the case after the death of the ringleader smuggler, assuming Harbin has run away because there is no body, leaving Lime free to smuggling.
190	** When Harry meets Holly at the AmusementPark, it is Holly who wants to speak with Harry privately. Harry suggest the [[FerrisWheelDateMoment Ferris Wheel.]] When Harry and Holly are at the top, we discover that Harry exploited this trope because he wants to deliver an ImpliedDeathThreat to Holly because HeKnowsTooMuch.
191	* DeathByIrony: The ultimate ConMan in Vienna is felled because he cannot imagine his goodhearted former friend (who he had threatened to kill before) would betray his trust to the police..
192	* DirtyCommunists: He works with them, apparently, judging by an off-handed comment that he's worked with the Soviets.
193	* TheDreaded: Lime appears to have this reputation in Vienna.
194	* DrugsAreBad: He doesn't care about this. He leaves hundreds of ''children'' sickly, comatose, or dead.
195	* DownTheDrain: Attempts to flee into a sewer near the end. This doesn't work, and he is unceremoniously shot down and killed.
196	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. He doesn't really love Anna, but gets himself killed when he tries to see her.
197	* EvilFormerFriend: To Holly Martins. The latter didn't know of this until arriving in Vienna.
198	* EvilPaysBetter: Money appears to be his main motivation.
199	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Wounded and thus unable to make it outside the sewers, he nods at Holly to finish him off. One thunderous gunshot later, and Lime is done for.
200	* FallenHero: The radio drama based off the film reveals Lime to have been an AntiHero or an UnscrupulousHero before becoming a ruthless European drug lord.
201	* FakingTheDead: Does this to himself.
202	* FatalFlaw: Pride. Harry's belief in his own greatness and previous success manipulating people means he cannot fathom that he might fail.
203	* FauxAffablyEvil: He's incredibly likable and charismatic, as well as being an amoral war profiteer and murderer who will betray anyone.
204	* {{Foil}}: To Holly Martins.
205	* HeterosexualLifePartners: He was this with Holly Martins. Emphasis on ''was''.
206	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: He started out as a LovableRogue, where his schemes while illegal, were mostly harmless -- like a gambling den. Then he stole penicillin from a military hospital, watered it down to the point it became worthless and sold it on the black market, indifferent to death he caused.
207	* KilledOffscreen: His faked and real deaths both occur offscreen.
208	* KindheartedCatLover: Inverted. He likes Anna's cat and is the one person the cat likes back, but he's a rotten, vile excuse for a human being.
209	* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't show any remorse for the victims of his fake penicillin.
210	* ManipulativeBastard: He constantly uses people (notably Anna and Martins) and will throw them away without a thought when they're no longer useful to him.
211	* NotQuiteDead: Actually this.
212	* NotSoStoic: He's not exactly a steely character, but his behavior turns into something ''very'' different when he runs from the cops and shoots Sgt. Paine.
213	* TheOnlyBeliever: Dark Example. Everyone in the movie can see Holly is totally naive, Major Calloway wants him out of Vienna as soon as possible, Anna laughs when Holly talks him about love and Crabbin regrets inviting Holly to a conference, but Harry alone has some respect for him in a perverse way. He recognizes Holly as a threat when he realizes the truth and is only stopped from killing him by the knowledge police have already discovered his ruse. In he end, when Harry is finally trapped and wounded, he trust Holly to do him a MercyKill.
214	* PosthumousCharacter: Not actually this.
215	* PragmaticVillainy: He not-so-subtly threatens to throw Martins out of the Ferris wheel, until Martins informs him the police dug up his coffin and know he's alive. Realizing that his secret's out anyway, and it'd be pretty obvious what happened if Martins were to die, he lets him go.
216	* ShadowArchetype: Harry is a ManipulativeBastard and Holly is his UnwittingPawn, his SpannerInTheWorks and TheOnlyBeliever. In the last minutes of his life, Harry will be LuredIntoATrap by Holly and their roles will swap like an HourglassPlot.
217	* SmallRoleBigImpact: His faked death sets the plot of the film in motion.
218	* TheSociopath: Shows no remorse for all of his horrible actions, not even for when he throws an old man out of a window to his death.
219	** Averted, or at least played with at the end. He's visibly distressed when running from the police, and especially when he feels he has to shoot Sgt. Paine.
220	* SpannerInTheWorks: He became one the last minutes of his life when he shoots Sergeant Paine in his effort to escape the trap Holly and Major Calloway had set for him.
221	* UnwittingPawn: He becomes one to Holly on the last minutes of his life, because he is incapable of thinking that his OldFriend and UnwittingPawn Holly could ever resist his charms and betray him to the police..
222	* VerbalTic: Constantly calling Holly "old man".
223	* VillainousBreakdown: He loses his composure and looks visibly distressed when he shoots Paine in the chest while running from the police.
224	* WalkingSpoiler: The reveal that he is in fact, alive and well is the biggest plot development of the movie.
225	* WickedCultured: Played with.
226	** Lime has shades of intelligence and knowledge of culture, detectable upon first viewing.
227	** This is possibly subverted in that his famous cuckoo-clock speech includes wrong information; [[ArtisticLicenseHistory Swiss people never invented the cuckoo clock.]] Such a distinction belongs to [[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} the Germans]], since its citizens are thought to have invented the clock in the Black Forest area, itself located in the State of Baden-Württemberg (Southwestern Germany).
228	** Then again, this speech was [[ThrowItIn included by Orson Welles himself]], and in-universe, Harry Lime acknowledges this information was taken from someone else by saying, "You know what the fellow said..." at the beginning of the speech.
229	*** Its utter falseness and self-serving nature also reflects Harry Lime perfectly: a self-justifying, brutal, [[TheSociopath Psychopathic]] criminal overlord working with a despotic dictatorship. One who sees himself as having his "greatness" confirmed by his ability to exploit the misery and corruption in post-war Vienna to gain power, but whose skill at improvization and exploiting other people hide the fact that [[PrideBeforeAFall he is nowhere near as good as he thinks he and cannot fathom the possibility he might fail.]]
230	* WouldHurtAChild: More accurately, "doesn't care if they die horribly in a hospital ward", but that's splitting hairs.

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