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Inception

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Inception	label	Inception
Inception	page	Inception
Inception	comment	Inception is a 2010 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It works like a "reverse-heist film" (instead of taking something from the target, the main character's team must leave something behind), and features an All-Star Cast consisting of Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page* then-credited as Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine and Ken Watanabe.Dominic "Dom" Cobb (DiCaprio) works as a freelance "extractor": using a specialized set of drugs, Cobb and his team share dreams with their targets (usually individuals with lots of power and money), which allows Cobb to find and open the safes and vaults within said dreams that contain secrets he can sell to his clients. Cobb's skills in understanding the human mind make him one of the world's best extractors, but his job has turned him into an international fugitive who can't return home to his family in the United States. When an attempt to extract information from a Japanese business magnate named Saito (Watanabe) goes wrong, Cobb goes on the run from his current employers.Saito catches up with Cobb and makes the extractor an offer: he'll arrange to wipe Cobb's criminal record (which would allow him to go home) if Cobb can manage to perform an inception on one of Saito's rivals. Whereas extraction involves stealing ideas or information already in somebody's head, inception involves the insertion of an idea into someone's head in a way which convinces the target that they independently conceived the idea. Cobb accepts Saito's proposal, even though he knows it has a catch: nobody has ever pulled off a successful inception, as the targets always realize that they didn't come up with the inserted idea.To attempt the impossible, Cobb assembles a Badass Crew of experts: longtime extraction partner Arthur (Gordon-Levitt), dreamworld-building architect Ariadne (Page), expert forger Eames (Hardy), and chemist Yusuf (who devises the specialized sedatives that make extraction possible). The task requires them to perform a very risky "dream within a dream within a dream" scenario which will allow the team to bury the idea deep enough to leave no trace of their influence. As Cobb's group works their way into the target's mind, a complication Cobb failed to warn them about arises: inside the dream world, Cobb's subconscious demons makes for a worse enemy than their target's subconscious security — and if they die in the dream? Well, the sedatives can assure that they simply don't wake up...
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Inception / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Inception / int_116a941b	comment	Many when it comes to the Applied Phlebotinum that drives the plot. For example, making the dreams mostly realistic instead of bizarre abstractions.
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Inception / int_1226f314	type	Dream Walker
Inception / int_1226f314	comment	Dream Walker: Technically anyone in the film's universe can do this if they have access to the technology. But obviously all of the members of The Team who go into Fischer's dream are this.
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Inception / int_125a7a4e	type	Dream Weaver
Inception / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: Extraction/inception teams, and architects in particular, are a sci-fi variant.
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Inception / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Inception / int_128e4ba8	comment	The machine guns on the jeeps in the third level seem to have Bottomless Magazines.
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Inception / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Inception / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: There is almost no blood at all in the entire movie. The notable exception is Saito, whose injury is a critical moment in the plot and for a fatal wound it's still just a very small hole that barely bleeds. In the snow level Fischer and Mal get shot, but show only a small red dot on their white jackets to show that they have been hit. Like so many other tropes, justified by the fact that most if not all characters have never been in an actual firefight and would only know them from movies, so that's how they'd expect gunshot wounds to look.
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Inception / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Inception / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The people in the Mombasa basement who come every day to share the dream, because the dream has become their reality. After a while it starts to sound like they're people addled to drug addiction or alcoholism, trying to escape from the real world.
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Inception / int_1606a707	type	Secret Test
Inception / int_1606a707	comment	Secret Test: Saito's test of skill, which the team (and Cobol) mistook for a job. In level 2, they succeed in getting the documents (though key info is blacked out), but fail in Saito's eyes because the deception was obvious (or so he thought at the time). In level 1, they fail because of the carpet mix-up, but succeeded in impressing Saito. The architect is removed from the team for screwing up basic details and being willing to sell out the team, leading to the team recruiting Ariadne.
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Inception / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Inception / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Fischer Jr. has a distant relationship with his father, who has never acknowledged his achievements. Cobb and the team use this to their advantage.
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Inception / int_17afe894	type	Spectacular Spinning
Inception / int_17afe894	comment	Spectacular Spinning: Possibly the single most awesome fight scene ever to appear in anything ever, when Arthur takes on the man in the spinning corridor. Made even cooler with little CG necessary for said fight. The hallway was a giant rotating set, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt did all of his own stunts in the sequence.
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Inception / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Inception / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Cobb's first inception was on Mal, the idea being to convince her to wake up from being stuck in Limbo. Mal accepted the idea, never realizing it had been induced. However, the idea that she needed to wake up from the dream persisted even after waking, causing her to become delusional and believe that the real world was also a dream that she needed to wake up from. She ended up jumping to her death, and just to twist the knife, she ruined Cobb's life before doing it in a misguided attempt to help him do the same.
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Inception / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Inception / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The early trailers seemed to imply that the "folding up a city block" thing would be much more crucial to the plot than what it was, basically a party trick. They also cut together dialog to use "inception" as the name for stealing an idea from a dream, but that is "extraction." "Inception" is the film's actual plot of planting an idea within a mind. Mal appears on the posters labeled as the Femme Fatale. The implication is that she's part of some rival organization working counter to our antiheroes. In a sense, she is one of our heroes. Also, she's dead. Trailer three seems to indicate that Mal is Cobb's wife, and is still waiting for him back at home. Well, one out of two is right... Saito was advertised as the main bad guy. He really isn't. In fact, there is no Big Bad at all. The closest people are Mal and Fischer's dad, and they're both dead before the real conflict starts. The trailer made the movie look like a lot more of a Mind Screw than it actually was.
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Inception / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
Inception / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: In dreams, everyone has Improbable Aiming Skills and mad paramilitary training, even business executives.
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Inception / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Inception / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: When Ariadne is looking into Cobb's dream and sees Mal in his "house." Mal suddenly looks up at her (and directly at the audience), and BAM! Out of your seat! In this case, the cause of the scare chord is a cute French lady, thus proving that this trope makes anything scary. Considering that this is Mal we're talking about here, and the wide-eyed look she gives Ariadne is not surprised but murderous, the scare chord may not have been entirely necessary..
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Inception / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
Inception / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: You could say that again. Inside the world of your subconscious. Played with in the beginning of the movie and later as the group is attempting to place something in Robert Fischer's head, rather than take something out as was the case with Saito.
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Inception / int_1c2f85c0	type	The Pursuing Nightmare
Inception / int_1c2f85c0	comment	The Pursuing Nightmare: Extractors will eventually find themselves up against Projections of the dreamer's subconsciousness. The mental equivalent of white blood cells, they react with increasing hostility towards any intruders - even friends of the dreamer - and will grow steadily more numerous and violent in their efforts to eliminate them. Because Projections are limitless in number, Extractors have to hide somewhere out of the way while they finish their work... and if that doesn't work, all they can do is run like hell in a desperate attempt to stay ahead of the Projections - as Yusuf finds himself stuck doing in Level 1 of the heist. In the finale, Mal raises the possibility that Cobb never awoke from their initial dream exploration of Limbo, and that he's been dreaming all this time - even suggesting that the law enforcement agencies and corporate hitsquads that have been hunting him around the world were really just Projections, casting the frantic chase scene in Mumbai in an entirely different light. It's soon confirmed that Cobb did awake from that particular dream and is actually being haunted by Mal's shade for the lengths he went to in order to awaken them from Limbo.
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Inception / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
Inception / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: Cobb and Saito being trapped in limbo state.
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Inception / int_1c81c658	type	Paranoia Gambit
Inception / int_1c81c658	comment	Paranoia Gambit: Cobb pulls one of these halfway through the film that involves telling Fischer that his mind has been infiltrated and posing as the true head of Fischer's subconscious security detail. Doing so with the hope that it would turn Fischer's subconscious against itself as it did not know who or what to fully believe.
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Inception / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Inception / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: They spend much of the movie talk about "training your subconscious" ... and then they bring in an actual train.
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Inception / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Inception / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: The "horrific" ramifications of Limbo. Once it's introduced, Limbo is sold as a Fate Worse than Death; a place one's mind will be trapped for eons until it turns into "scrambled egg." Despite this we never get to see the full extent of this. Of the five characters who go there, the one who went the most insane (Mal) got that way because she was incepted. Cobb, the next most problematic, only got that way because he incepted Mal and drove her crazy. Saito becomes an old man, but Cobb rescues him before any lasting damage (seemingly) occurs. Ariadne and Fischer both get out pretty quickly and with seemingly little consequences. The implication is that Limbo itself doesn't drive you crazy, it's just that unless you know and are willing to take the way out, you'll be there for a very, very, very long time.
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Inception / int_1eedb914	type	Avengers Assemble
Inception / int_1eedb914	comment	Avengers Assemble: Cobb traveling around the globe to recruit Ariadne and Yusuf as new members for his "Inception team".
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Inception / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Inception / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Mal and Cobb, who keep taking opposing standpoints on This Is Reality versus All Just a Dream. The movie ends with Cobb being so happy to see his children again that he forgets to check if his totem stops spinning or not. Will it stop spinning shortly after the scene? If so, the ending is Happily Ever After. If not, it's kinda a Lotus-Eater Machine. Word of God seems to indicate that it's not a dream. Specifically, Christopher Nolan explained to Michael Caine that any scene where his character is in happens in reality, and his character appeared in the ending [1].
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Inception / int_1f6a62cc	type	Winter Warfare
Inception / int_1f6a62cc	comment	Winter Warfare: The setting of the third dream level, where the team has to fight off baddies in a winterly high mountain environment.
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Inception / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Inception / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The top comes back with a vengeance. The Penrose stairs that Arthur demonstrates during Ariadne's training come in handy during the actual caper. The dollhouse is pictured very briefly near the beginning and turns out to be where Cobb planted the inception in his wife's mind. The train makes a few appearances before it gets any context. Cobb mentions early on that he doesn't like trains. Ariadne also briefly sees a freight train in his memory. In the first level of the inception job, Cobb's subconscious rams them with a freight train. Turns out it's the train he and Mal killed themselves with to get out of Limbo. The large butcher knife Mal is seen fiddling with. A literal one. Cobb's Beretta PX4 Storm handgun which he dramatically loads in the elevator up to Mal. Ariadne gets a hold of it and uses it to kill Mal once and for all. Subconscious security. In Cobb's first interaction with Saito, he mentions being able to teach his mind to protect itself from Extraction. This comes back to bite them in the ass when they try to pull the job on Fischer but not when Cobb has to retrieve Saito from limbo later, because this time his subconscious knows Cobb is doing the best thing for him. The picture of Robert playing with his pinwheel. Cobb's wedding ring. It's one of the biggest hints that the ending is real. A lot of the tricks of the trade of extracting show up in the earliest scenes of the movie way before they are explained - the kick, using music to time waking up, having a dream within a dream, etc.
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Inception / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Inception / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Saito is rich/powerful enough to have Cobb cleared of his murder charge, so effectively that Cobb is cleared through customs less than an hour after Saito gives the final confirmation. When The Team is discussing how to be left alone with Fischer for ten hours during a flight...
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Inception / int_233647f6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
Inception / int_233647f6	comment	Post Cyber Punk: It has some of the hallmarks of cyberpunk — a burned-out protagonist and the powerful Japanese Corrupt Corporate Executive who hires him to brainwash a business rival — but the Japanese guy turns out to be not so bad and is actually trying to prevent a monopoly, the protagonist gets better (sort of), and the brainwashing plays out as Epiphany Therapy. Extraction/inception itself is simply a different take on hacking in Cyberspace, only with dreams instead of computers. Inception mostly achieves post-cyberpunk status by avoiding the '80s-influenced look of cyberpunk, not the story and feel thereof.
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Inception / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Inception / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Zig-zagged. The film initially subverts the typical "if you die in a dream, you die in reality" idea as dream injuries, regardless of circumstance, never reflect upon the dreamer. In fact, death is the easiest way to escape from a dream. In the climax however, the characters are so heavily sedated that dying doesn't kick them out of the dream but instead drops them into Limbo, which isn't fatal but is effectively the same as being rendered comatose while being trapped inside your own mind for near-eternity. Played straight with pain, for it is a function of the mind anyway.
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Inception / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Inception / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When Cobb is resisting having Saito along during the caper, Eames says they have "no room for tourists". Saito repeats this to Eames when they turn out to need his help on the last dream level.
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Inception / int_23a79ebf	type	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Inception / int_23a79ebf	comment	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Yusuf, despite being a key player in the dreamscape, doesn't appear much in the promotional material, certainly not as much as the big stars. Mal isn't in much of the trailers either, though she does make it to the posters. In fact, on the main theatrical release poster that shows the entire team, Yusuf is pictured despite the fact his actor isn't among the sizeable billing list of actors; even Pete Postlethwaite and Tom Berenger receive a mention in the billing despite appearing just a few minutes apiece in the film, but poor Dileep Rao is left out.
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Inception / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Inception / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: By the time he rescues him from Limbo, Cobb and Saito seem to share a deep bond and trust.
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Inception / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Inception / int_2534ee67	comment	The movie starts In Medias Res and most scenes do as well, jumping straight from one bit of dialogue or action to another without establishing shots of people introducing themselves, walking up the street, etc. Coupled with the observation that dreams often work that way, it forces viewers to question either the nature of the scenes in this movie that supposedly aren't dreams, or the nature of movies in general.
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Inception / int_2547b359	type	Real Dreams are Weirder
Inception / int_2547b359	comment	Real Dreams are Weirder: Downplayed; in order for extraction (or inception) to work the target can't know he is dreaming, so a convincing 'dream architecture' designed and controlled by the Caper Crew is created that appears just like the real world. When things do get weird, it's a sign that something has gone badly wrong. However the skill of the protagonists lies in their ability to adapt this weirdness to their advantage.
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Inception / int_267a0440	type	My Parents Are Dead
Inception / int_267a0440	comment	My Parents Are Dead: Ariadne nonchalantly asks Arthur if Cobb and Mal are still together and is stunned when hearing about her death.
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Inception / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
Inception / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Played straight and then promptly subverted in the beginning. Cobb puts the gun down when Arthur is brought in at gunpoint, then makes a grab for the gun to snap Arthur out of the dream.
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Inception / int_26e2cc1	type	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
Inception / int_26e2cc1	comment	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: In the second dream level, Eames poses as a gorgeous blonde and hits on Fischer in order to distract him while he steals his wallet - and in order to make Fischer more trusting of Cobb's "Mr. Charles" gambit.
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Inception / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Inception / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Word of God says this movie is Nolan's homage to Dark City. He came up with the idea for it after seeing that film, which is the lesser-known rival to The Matrix. It then spent ten years in development while Nolan wanted experience working on big-budget films. Meaning that The Dark Knight was a warm-up.
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Inception / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Inception / int_27b2bccc	comment	No Flow in CGI: Wardrobe made sure that Ariadne had her hair up for the level in the hotel. As their character floats in zero gravity for that level, it would have been a nightmare for the SFX crew to animate Elliot Page's hair if it had been down.
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Inception / int_27c4f8f6	type	Dream Reality Check
Inception / int_27c4f8f6	comment	Dream Reality Check: The totems that The Team carries are supposed to be personalized ways of doing this; if the totem doesn't behave as you know it's supposed to in the real world, then you're in a dream. But Cobb points out to both Ariadne and Fischer that you can also tell you're in a dream by trying to think about how you got to where you currently are, noticing any impossible geometries and phenomenon, or other inconsistencies like rapid weather changes. The infamous ending focuses on Cobb's spinning top totem with the film cutting to black before the audience can see whether or not it stops spinning (Cobb's awake) or if it spins forever (Cobb's still in a dream).
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Inception / int_2864490b	type	Gravity Screw
Inception / int_2864490b	comment	Gravity Screw: Cobb and Ariadne walking straight up a wall in the "Paris folding" sequence. The hotel corridor fight sequence between Arthur and the projections while the van in the next dream level is flipping over.
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Inception / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
Inception / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: In order for inception to work, it's necessary to manipulate the subject into finding the idea that is to be implanted emotionally appealing on a subconscious level — otherwise the mind will reject it.
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Inception / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Inception / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The French song used as a signal to wake up is about letting go of the past. Although that part may not be audible in the film, the song famously goes on to say "(I don't regret) any of the evil/hurt inflicted to me" with the word for "evil/hurt" being... Mal.
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Inception / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
Inception / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: In a flashback we see Cobb trying to talk Mal down from The Precarious Ledge, when she is about to commit suicide. It doesn't work.
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Inception / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Inception / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: The team (and Fischer, to some extent) seem to be wearing this during the shootout in the rainy city. Their cab is riddled with bullet holes, all of the windows have been shot out, and yet only Saito is hit—once. The car chase in the van with the sleeping heroes is even more egregious.
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Inception / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Inception / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: After Arthur's firing proves ineffective, Eames pulls out a grenade launcher to deal with the mooks. The machine guns on the jeeps in the third level seem to have Bottomless Magazines.
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Inception / int_2bc48235	type	Dream Apocalypse
Inception / int_2bc48235	comment	Dream Apocalypse: There are two or three variations: To a lesser extent, the projections who attack any foreign entity in the dream when the host starts to realize he's dreaming; played much straighter, however, is Cobb's projection of Mal, particularly at the end within limbo and inverted with the real Mal, who was convinced that what Cobb thinks is the real world is a dream, and that she needed to die to return to "reality."
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Inception / int_2c609870	type	Mountaintop Healthcare
Inception / int_2c609870	comment	Mountaintop Healthcare: The third level of Robert Fischer's dream is a heavily-guarded hospital complex atop a snowy mountain, created by the heist team to get him to think about his recently-deceased father. The goal of this last mission is to escort Fischer to the heart of the complex and allow him to discover what lies behind the vault doors: a recreation of Maurice Fischer on his deathbed, exactly as Robert last saw him; it's here that the team are finally able to plant the idea they need. It's also a homage to On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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Inception / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Inception / int_2cc5703c	comment	Potty Emergency: Yusuf drank too much and then forgot to go to the bathroom before falling asleep, so in his dream, Los Angeles is rainy.
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Inception / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
Inception / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: After the shootout/car chase in the first level, it's revealed that the only character who didn't escape unscathed was Saito.
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Inception / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Inception / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Eames, Forging a woman, does this to Saito. Thankfully, Saito's reaction is mostly "Oh, quit screwing around."
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Inception / int_2f913008	type	Insanity Defense
Inception / int_2f913008	comment	Insanity Defense: Inverted. Mal had herself declared sane by three different psychiatrists, so as to prevent Cobb from being able to explain the nature of her madness, as part of her plan.
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Inception / int_2fb3170e	type	Enemy Within
Inception / int_2fb3170e	comment	Enemy Within: Mal, or more accurately Cobb's projection of his guilt from injecting an idea into Mal's mind that ended up driving her to kill herself in Limbo to return to reality, only to believe that reality was just another dream and kill herself again.
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Inception / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Inception / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The fortress in third level being blown up to great effect. Also a few cars during Nash's dream in the film's opening scenes.
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Inception / int_31fdc77a	type	You Wake Up on a Beach
Inception / int_31fdc77a	comment	You Wake Up on a Beach: The first scene the audience is shown is Cobb being washed up on a beach in Limbo.
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Inception / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Inception / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The Team was literally a few steps away from the final vault when Fischer Jr. was shot, and they were forced to travel into another level of the subconscious to finish the mission.
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Inception / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Inception / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: Recursive Simulacrum subtype, as well as, let's face it, every other mind screw trope. This is an interesting play on the Matrix Hypothesis, since due to Magic A Is Magic A, for some reason the chemical cocktail works the same inside every level of the dream, presumably because Your Mind Makes It Real. Never has a more logical dream been dreamed; presumably Fischer has a very organized subconscious, while Cobb does not.
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Inception / int_354077f9	type	Plummet Perspective
Inception / int_354077f9	comment	Plummet Perspective: When Mal sits on the ledge of the hotel window, ready to jump, she sheds one of her shoes first and the camera is briefly following its path down.
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Inception / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Inception / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: Sometimes, the ordnance The Team needs will simply be there, and will frequently appear just out of the viewers' field of view. Lampshaded by Eames during the grenade launcher scene. Near the end of the film Eames manages to pull a copy of the PASIV, about the size and shape of a metal briefcase, out of a tiny first-aid kit.
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Inception / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
Inception / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Within a dream, Eames can copy other people's appearances, but almost always has his own reflection. On one occasion he was, when in disguise, seated in front of multiple mirrors. Some reflected his true face, others reflected his disguise. Which mirrors reflected his true face and which reflected his disguise changed (almost certainly deliberately) between cuts. Possibly Justified, since in a lucid dream, the reflection in a mirror is that of your self-image.
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Inception / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Inception / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Done by Yusuf to a projection when he sets off the kick in Fischer's first dream layer.
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Inception / int_373199ae	type	Investigator Impersonation
Inception / int_373199ae	comment	Investigator Impersonation: The "Mr. Charles" plan implemented by Cobb. By making Fisher believe Cobb was a projection of his subconscious, Cobb managed to make Fisher think someone was trying to steal information from his dreams. In reality, Cobb himself was the thief of whom he spoke.
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Inception / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Inception / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: Being killed in a dream merely leads to the subject waking up, although if it happens while they're deeply sedated, it can lead to the dreamer being sent to limbo for subjective decades.
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Inception / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Inception / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: "Mr. Charles" — In the second layer of the dream, Cobb tricks Fischer Jr. into participating in the inception plan by convincing him that his godfather Browning is the one that's really invading his dream. This plan would only attract attention from the hostile projections once they become aware they're in a dream, thus increasing the danger for everyone involved. Indeed, Arthur makes his opposition to this plan known to the others: the last time they tried this, it backfired horribly for Cobb, Arthur, and their crew.
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Inception / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Inception / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: As in The Dark Knight Trilogy, Christopher Nolan makes Cillian Murphy wear a bag on his head. Cobb mentions in one scene that extradition between America and France is a bureaucratic nightmare. In Catch Me If You Can, one of Leo's previous roles, he played an American conman who was extradited from a French jail. When the team realizes they need control of the first-class section of a plane in order to pull the heist, Saito announces that he's bought the airline. In The Aviator, when DiCaprio's character wanted to get into aviation professionally, he did the same. Leo encounters his love interest early on as she stands by a railing and contemplates suicide. Leo also washes up on a beach shore, as mentioned below. This isn't the first time Leo's been washed ashore. Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for La Vie en Rose, a biopic of Edith Piaf. Piaf's song "Non je ne regrette rien" plays throughout the film; this allusion was non-intentional, the song was always to be in the film (Hans Zimmer wove it deeply into the score) and Cotillard's eventual casting just made it an odd connection. Leonardo DiCaprio is also haunted by causing his wife's death in Shutter Island, released around the same time.
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Inception / int_39297f53	type	Bigger Is Better
Inception / int_39297f53	comment	Bigger Is Better: As Eames demonstrates to Arthur in terms of in-dream weaponry.
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Inception / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Inception / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: In the second dream level, Cobb leads Fischer into a men's room and hides him while two projections follow them in. Cobb uses one of their guns to kill both projections.
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Inception / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Inception / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: All dream extractors keep a special "totem" with them that's supposed to help them determine whether they are in someone else's dream or not.
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Inception / int_3b3d8430	type	The Constant
Inception / int_3b3d8430	comment	The Constant: Played straight with the "totems." Inverted with everything else in the world around them. Furthermore, if you believe the entire film was a dream the totems have no meaning, and everything is nonconstant.
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Inception / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Inception / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: The whole point of having an Architect on the team (in this case, Ariadne) is that they can make the dream world act in ways contrary to reality, such as Escher-esque looping stairs. Ariadne really goes all out in her first attempt, folding the world onto itself. The catch is that the mind of the dreamer, already sensitive to potential intrusions, becomes even more so if the world is actively altered, so the Architect has to build such alterations in advance to avoid tipping off the projections.
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Inception / int_3be6d35	type	Rescued from the Underworld
Inception / int_3be6d35	comment	Rescued from the Underworld: For those trapped in limbo.
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Inception / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Inception / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Every aspect of the dream-sharing technology is kept purposely vague. There are a few interviews online that set up the plot. Cobb's father-in-law is noted as the inventor of the technology. Apparently, the technology was outlawed or regulated some time ago because of some unspecified incident. Cobb references "The Stein Job", in which he had previously used the "Mr Charles" gambit. Arthur points out that it didn't work. There weren't a lot of legal opportunities for extraction after an incident which may have been Cobb "killing" Mal or maybe something else entirely.
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Inception / int_3c21649b	type	Chekhov's Time Travel
Inception / int_3c21649b	comment	Chekhov's Time Travel: The "limbo" subconscious level of dreamworlds (if counting as a functional alternate dimension) that is brought up quite early on is exploited come the climax of the film, becoming a dramatic device with Cobb and Ariadne deliberately killing themselves to get there to save the lives of Saito and Fischer. It also gives Cobb closure with Mal.
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Inception / int_3c728b77	type	Flare Gun
Inception / int_3c728b77	comment	Flare Gun: In the third level, Eames manages to draw the security's attention by firing a flare gun into the sky.
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Inception / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Inception / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: At the end, right after the first kick:
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Inception / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Inception / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: We never find out the surnames of Arthur, Ariadne, Yusuf or Saito. However, given Japanese naming conventions, it could be Saito's first name we never learn.
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Inception / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Inception / int_41271766	comment	The movie ends with Cobb being so happy to see his children again that he forgets to check if his totem stops spinning or not. Will it stop spinning shortly after the scene? If so, the ending is Happily Ever After. If not, it's kinda a Lotus-Eater Machine. Word of God seems to indicate that it's not a dream. Specifically, Christopher Nolan explained to Michael Caine that any scene where his character is in happens in reality, and his character appeared in the ending [1].
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Inception / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Inception / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Non-militarized projections are limited to this, forming enormous crowds of hostile people who overwhelm intruders through sheer numbers. Militarized projections are more controlled, better-armed, and come in fewer numbers, but no less suicidally relentless.
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Inception / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Inception / int_42bc6d2b	comment	Hostage for MacGuffin: In the first dream operation, Arthur is captured—apparently by Mal—and held at gunpoint in an attempt to force Cobb to give up Saito's secrets.
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Inception / int_42f85f99	type	Shared Dream
Inception / int_42f85f99	comment	Shared Dream: All of the dreams shown in the film in which more than one member of The Team shows up is a shared dream as this is the way they are able to infiltrate someone else's dream. This gets taken to bonkers levels when they need to go to an even deeper level, sharing dreams within dreams.
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Inception / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Inception / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Fischer Jr., who's supposed to be Australian (according to his passport), speaks with an American accent. Cillian Murphy, the actor who plays Fischer Jr., is Irish in real life. It is possible that Fischer Jr. was raised in America, or that his mother was American, which would help explain, but none of these things is explicitly stated.
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Inception / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Inception / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: As the initial plan continuously veers off course due to unforeseen roadblocks like Saito getting shot and Fischer being trained in subconscious protection, Cobb modifies the plan on the fly to ensure that they don't fail.
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Inception / int_447f9fa5	type	Remote yet Vulnerable
Inception / int_447f9fa5	comment	Remote, Yet Vulnerable: The heroes have to be guarded in their sleep.
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Inception / int_4534a70b	type	You ALL Look Familiar
Inception / int_4534a70b	comment	You All Look Familiar: If you look closely, you'll notice that Cobb's team keeps fighting the same projections over and over.
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Inception / int_46f86041	type	Bad Vibrations
Inception / int_46f86041	comment	Bad Vibrations: Throughout the dream levels, vibrating objects or ripples in fluids are indicating the arrival of kicks. A prime example is the close-up shot on the coffee cup in the Paris level with Cobb and Ariadne.
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Inception / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Inception / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Never get hired to do corporate espionage for Cobol Corp because they will outright kill you if you fail.
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Inception / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Inception / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: At the end of the credits Edith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" plays at normal speed, then slows down to the speed it was at the beginning of the film during Hans Zimmer's score and throughout the movie. Then we see the title stop in the center of the screen as the song ends.
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Inception / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Inception / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Played with; it's a race alright, but it's different clocks for different characters. Essentially, clocks within clocks within clocks: the "kicks" that wake people one stage closer to reality, but don't work more than one level deep. As each dream level has a timed kick, and time slows down further with each level downward, the twist is that if you don't make one kick, you're stuck having to possibly wait what feels like years in the lower level. Stuck there while everyone is trying to kill you, as someone the level above you arranges another kick — if they can do it before being taken by a higher kick themselves. Therefore, the reward the characters get for beating one clock? Beating several more clocks.
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Inception / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Inception / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Paris exploding near the beginning and the dream city collapsing into the sea near the end.
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Inception / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Inception / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Near on everywhere. Tokyo, Paris, the snow fortress, the final dream city...
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Inception / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Inception / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "How did we get here?" This is a Wham Line meant to alert Ariadne that she is in a dream. However, this can also apply to the very scene they are in. The transition from the previous scene is a simple cut, and if it were a normal scene, the audience, like Ariadne, would not question how she and Cobb got to the tea shop or how the conversation began until he draws attention to it.
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Inception / int_4a8d9d4d	type	Non Sequitur Environment
Inception / int_4a8d9d4d	comment	Non Sequitur Environment: Despite taking place mostly in dreams, the film largely avoids this, as futzing around with the dreamworld will result in the dreamer's subconscious becoming aware that something is amiss and getting violent. However, Cobb is revealed to have created a prison for painful memories inside his dreams in order to keep Mal's shade from causing trouble: when Ariadne pays a visit, she finds herself stepping out of an elevator into a hotel room, Cobb's house, and even a beach.
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Inception / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Inception / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: When Cobb shoots Arthur in the head at the start of the film so the latter can escape from the dream.
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Inception / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Inception / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Despite prominent billing, Michael Caine's character has just three minutes of screentime.
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Inception / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Inception / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Dreamers when inside the dreamworld have this power. While you can literally do just about anything, doing so to someone else's dream is a VERY BAD idea since the more you mess with their dream the more likely their projections will catch on to the dreamer and force them out.
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Inception / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Inception / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When Cobb is fleeing from the Cobol agents in Mombasa, he grabs a bat-like object from a stall and whacks one of his pursuers with it. When the variable-gravity fight moves into the hotel room, Arthur clocks his opponent with the room's phone.
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Inception / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
Inception / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: Leonardo DiCaprio (makes sense, as he's the lead). In a fair move, the rest of the principal cast (minus Dileep Rao) are all billed in accordance to their screen time below the title.
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Inception / int_4fa65449	type	Dream Land
Inception / int_4fa65449	comment	Dream Land: Basically almost the entire setting for this movie, or even all of it.
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Inception / int_4fb78f0c	type	Scotty Time
Inception / int_4fb78f0c	comment	Scotty Time: Eames complains about his lessened time to forge Peter Browning's identity.
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Inception / int_4fe592e9	type	Previews Pulse
Inception / int_4fe592e9	comment	Previews Pulse: The most famous! Its trailer featured a distinctive sound that quickly became memetic.
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Inception / int_4fe8c481	type	Schematized Prop
Inception / int_4fe8c481	comment	Schematized Prop: The Portable Automated Somnacin IntraVenous (PASIV) Device, a briefcase containing apparatuses, wires, and a big yellow button, is essentially an automatic anesthesiologist ensuring One Dose Fits All of an extraction team's needs. As is essential for film, it's a brushed-aluminum Zero Halliburton.
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Inception / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Inception / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Most dreams fall apart at the end, leading to some spectacular special effects.
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Inception / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Inception / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Arthur says "Paradox" before pushing a mook off the Penrose Stairs.
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Inception / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Inception / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In a bizarre case of dream logic, Cobol Corp. sends assassins after the heroes the very minute they find out they've failed to infiltrate Saito's mind, then sends two dozen more when the heroes are spotted in Kenya. This is somewhat less disproportionate if you take into account the prequel comic "The Cobol Job." The Arthur/Cobb/Nash team had failed to retrieve information on Proclus Global (Saito's company) twice by the start of the movie. Then again if it's just a dream, Cobol Corp's assassins may be just projections. Extraction is technically industrial espionage, which is illegal. Getting rid of Cobb after Saito's rumbled him would prevent Saito from discovering who hired Cobb and having Cobol either sued or prosecuted. Extraction is particularly illegal after "what happened" (which isn't explicitly said to be related to Cobb's previous inception). There's also the risk of Cobb, Arthur or Nash being arrested or turning themselves in and talking to the police, and implicating Cobol in the process.
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Inception / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Inception / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: In-Universe; Cobb snipes the guards in Fischer's dream because they are not real, just projections of his subconscious. Then a projection of Mal appears and he's unable to shoot her until after she shoots Fischer.
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Inception / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Inception / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The movie's opening and closing scenes involve a shot of Cobb's kids playing together. Also the early scene with Saito as an old man is repeated. It is only at the end that we understand.
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Inception / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
Inception / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Used multiple times, sometimes in the "dying" sense, sometimes in the "wake up from sleep" sense.
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Inception / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
Inception / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: After dropping them off at the airport, Saito and Cobb are able to have a meaningful conversation amid the former's helicopter engine still running without shouting at each other.
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Inception / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Inception / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: Yusuf runs one of these as a day job. The deep levels of the subconscious, especially being no easy way to wake up. Cobb warns Ariadne against constructing her dream world out of real-life memories, lest it becomes this. And then he proceeds to completely ignore his own advice. He should know — that's exactly what happened to his wife. He was only able to pull her out by implanting the idea in her mind that her world was All Just a Dream, and getting her to kill herself with him so that they could wake up. It worked, but the idea stayed in her mind, and she started thinking that the real world was a Lotus-Eater Machine as well.
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Inception / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Inception / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Mal planned to kill herself (though only to "wake up"; she thinks she's dreaming) and convince her husband to go with her, and she used a Wounded Gazelle Gambit as part of the means of convincing him of that. She told her lawyer that she was fearing for her life, and then trashed the room Cobb was in, just so that if she died and he didn't agree to go with her, everyone would think he killed her. She threatened her own husband with false incrimination on murder, and actually followed through on that threat when he didn't agree to go with her. Because of this, she manages to come across as the most manipulative character in the movie, which says a lot in a movie where even the good guys are manipulative.
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Inception / int_586589bc	type	Journey to the Center of the Mind
Inception / int_586589bc	comment	Journey to the Center of the Mind: Taken in the most literal way imaginable.
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Inception / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Inception / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: Invoked as part of the kick process in dream level 1. Though the team is equipped with oxygen devices, Cobb and Saito had to be Left for Dead.
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Inception / int_5977de6c	type	Write What You Know
Inception / int_5977de6c	comment	Write What You Know: Discussed in-universe. Ariadne argues that the best way to design realistic dream levels would be by drawing from personal experience. Cobb warns her of this approach since it's a sure-fire way to lose your grip on what's real and what's not.
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Inception / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Inception / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Whether or not Cobb is still dreaming at the end of the movie. Cobb spins the top, but the movie ends before the audience sees whether it falls or not.
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Inception / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Inception / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Exaggerated. In the final maze, there were air vents large enough for a full-grown man to stand upright. Makes sense in the dream; they were only there because Eames deliberately had Ariadne install them.
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Inception / int_5b6fe35f	type	You Cannot Kill an Idea
Inception / int_5b6fe35f	comment	You Cannot Kill An Idea: As seen in the top quote, an idea is the most resilient parasite. Moreover, we're told that subtle as inception must be, it will relentlessly grow into an obsession that can change everything about the target, so it's more like "Don't even dream of killing an inception."
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Inception / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Inception / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: When injected with a sedative, it takes only seconds for Ariadne to fall asleep.
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Inception / int_5c81a18b	type	I Am Not My Father
Inception / int_5c81a18b	comment	I Am Not My Father: Cobb's plan is to invoke (incept) this trope in Fischer so latter would break up his father's company and start a business of his own.
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Inception / int_5f39656d	type	Grow Old with Me
Inception / int_5f39656d	comment	Grow Old with Me: Part of Mal's anger with Cobb stems from his promise that they'd do this. They did in 50 years of Limbo.
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Inception / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
Inception / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	Implied Love Interest: Arthur and Ariadne develop a camaraderie over the course of the film that is mostly kept in the background, culminating in a brief scene where Arthur gets Ariadne to kiss him under the guise of hiding from projections. She does not rebuff him even after figuring out it was a ruse, implying that she might return his interest, but the kiss is not mentioned again and their interactions from that point onward carry basically no change in tone.
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Inception / int_5fe47c0	type	Distracted from Death
Inception / int_5fe47c0	comment	Distracted from Death: In the third layer of Robert Fischer's dream, he looks away from his dying father just long enough to open the safe and see the contents. He then turns back to find his father dead.
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Inception / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Inception / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Several. Cobb's projection of Mal in the extraction at the beginning and almost again later when she kills Fischer in the snow level. It takes Cobb and Ariadne going into limbo to retrieve him to save the mission. Level 1 holds two spanners. First the train that unexpectedly smashes through the streets and almost sabotages the kidnapping of Fischer. Later the mooks force Yusuf to drive the truck off the bridge prematurely. The kick comes too early, but the team members in lower levels adjust to this hiccup by aligning their kicks to the next kick in Level 1 (truck hitting the water).
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Inception / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Inception / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: In the opening mission, Saito takes Arthur hostage to press the envelope from Cobb. Mal notes that killing Arthur is pointless and threatening to do so holds no weight as he will simply wake. But pain is certainly real and she shoots him in the leg to force Cobb to submit. He manages to shoot Arthur in the head to free him instead.
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Inception / int_61fea7c1	type	One Dose Fits All
Inception / int_61fea7c1	comment	One Dose Fits All: The Caper depends on six people with a fairly wide range of body types reaching the dream state within a couple seconds of one another, and staying out cold for the same length of time. Justified by the PASIV Device being a Schematized Prop.
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Inception / int_623a4ab4	type	Instant Costume Change
Inception / int_623a4ab4	comment	Instant Costume Change: With switching between layers of dreams. One at the end of the film during a panning shot of Robert Fischer. He's talking about the Aesop he's learned to "Browning" (Eames-in-disguise), whose form is briefly blocked from view by Fischer's body. On one side it's Browning; on the other, it's Eames.
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Inception / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Inception / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Cobb looks at Fischer's passport (after Eames pickpockets it on the plane), pausing will reveal that Fischer's full name is Robert Michael Fischer, his date of birth is September 17, 1975, he was born in Sydney, and the respective date of issue/expiry dates are August 9, 2005 and August 9, 2015 respectively. The newspaper clippings the team studies reveal that Fischer and his father got into a shouting match at a restaurant in Sydney, serious enough to make the news, that ended in Robert storming out. They also reveal that Fischer Morrow's shareholders are withdrawing in anticipation of Maurice's death because they fear Robert will tank the company, and imply that Browning (a man Robert is close enough with to call "Uncle Peter") resents having the reins handed off to "a man half his age and with a quarter the experience."
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Inception / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Inception / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Cobb pretending to be Fischer's security expert in the bar scene, which leads to Come with Me If You Want to Live.
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Inception / int_6404635	type	Dramatic Shattering
Inception / int_6404635	comment	Cobb's expression in the second dream level when he hears broken glass which brings to his mind the night Mal killed herself which results in the projection of his children showing up during the Mr. Charles gambit.
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Inception / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Inception / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The first published review by Rolling Stone suggested that the film is quite ambitious in this regard.
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Inception / int_6563a3f2	type	Cyberspace
Inception / int_6563a3f2	comment	Cyberspace: Subverted in that this movie hits every cyberspace trope it can without computers.
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Inception / int_66d13ab9	type	Talking in Your Dreams
Inception / int_66d13ab9	comment	Talking in Your Dreams: Dreams are not only a way to communicate with other people, but also to steal or implant ideas.
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Inception / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
Inception / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: Quite a few because most of the movie takes place in a dream and The Plan involves going very deep into someone's mind.
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Inception / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Inception / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The further down into the dream world you go, the more bizarre it gets.
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Inception / int_6838a3ec	type	EliteMook
Inception / int_6838a3ec	comment	The mooks tend to die this way. In the opening caper, they drop dead instantly after getting shot by Cobb, and in the second level of the Fischer job, the baddie that Arthur combats in free fall dies instantly from a shot as well.
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Inception / int_6861146e	type	Epiphany Therapy
Inception / int_6861146e	comment	Epiphany Therapy: At the climax of the film, Cobb finally summons up the courage to confront his projection of Mal and accept the fact that she is dead.
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Inception / int_687f9874	type	Prefers the Illusion
Inception / int_687f9874	comment	Prefers the Illusion: This is the one danger of falling into Limbo. Because the time dilation causes a dream to last for decades, the mind will live out an entire lifetime that becomes the dreamer's new reality. By the time the dream ends and they wake up, they'll have either lost touch with reality or have lost all mental faculties. Early on, we're introduced to a group of people who, dissatisfied with the real world, have chosen to live the remainder of their lives in a dream.
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Inception / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
Inception / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: Cobb tells Miles that Saito's job will be his last, and that he's only taking it on so that he can see his children again.
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Inception / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Inception / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The cause of Mal's death.
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Inception / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Inception / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Dom's repetition of Saito's words about dying alone as an old man, filled with regret. The entire You're waiting for a train speech given by Mal was originally said by Cobb, when he and Mal were stuck in Limbo. He says this as they lay their heads on a railroad track, so a train could run over their heads to wake themselves up.
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Inception / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Inception / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Cobb" was the name of a gentleman thief in Following, Nolan's first feature film. It sounds like "khwaab", which means "dream" in Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. It's also an old English word for "spider" (hence the word "cobweb"). Fitting, for a man who weaves webs and traps others in them. And who, depending on how you look at it, may have indirectly killed his own mate. Dom means "home" in Polish, and "house" in Slovak. "Ariadne" is a very unusual name these days, but an appropriate one for a woman who leads a man around a maze. "Mal" is a word in French, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance languages, which can be used in different contexts to mean "bad", "evil", "hurt", "pain" or "sick". Yusuf is the Arabic variant of Joseph (the one who famously interpreted Pharaoh's dreams in The Bible). "Eames" is the last name of architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames. Fischer's name may be a reference to the Arthurian legend of the Fisher King, whose kingdom physically changes to parallel his wounds and suffering; this is appropriate given that much of the film takes place within his troubled mental landscape. Also, Robert "Bobby" Fischer is the name of one of the most famous chess players in history.
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Inception / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
Inception / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: As with having all the enemy mooks consistently miss when they fire at the heroes, the unique premise of the movie allows Nolan to employ a normally cheesy element of Hollywood blockbusters — in this case, action sequences that would be physically impossible in real life — in a way that not only makes sense, but enhances the story's believability.
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Inception / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Inception / int_6c3d1777	comment	Take notes. Better than most, due to Magic A Is Magic A. There are several different kinds.
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Inception / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Inception / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fischer's name may be a reference to the Arthurian legend of the Fisher King, whose kingdom physically changes to parallel his wounds and suffering; this is appropriate given that much of the film takes place within his troubled mental landscape. Also, Robert "Bobby" Fischer is the name of one of the most famous chess players in history.
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Inception / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Inception / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Remember how Mal killed herself in order to wake up as she was utterly convinced that she was still dreaming? Well, that idea got into her head because Cobb, in his desperation to get Mal to leave Limbo with him when she chose to make it her own reality, incepted it into her.
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Inception / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Inception / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Ariadne handcrafts her totem into a Bishop chess piece.
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Inception / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Inception / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Some of the actors that previously appeared in The Dark Knight Trilogy appear here with their situations changed. Cillian Murphy is the one being mind raped, starting with a dose of drugged water, Ken Watanabe again "dies" in an exploding fortress atop a snowy mountain, and Michael Caine plays the mentor/father figure to the main character. An inadvertent one. Nolan cast Marion Cotillard, who played famous French singer Édith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose, in a film that heavily features Piaf's song Je ne regrette rien. Christopher Nolan considered taking the song out of the movie when he cast Cotillard, but ultimately decided against after Hans Zimmer insisted — he had already built quite a bit of score around it.
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Inception / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
Inception / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Surprisingly averted.
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Inception / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Inception / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In the opening caper, Cobb seats his nemesis Mal in a chair which he uses as an anchor for the rope he's using to climb out the window. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?. The biggest example is Dom demanding Ariadne tell him about the bypass in the snow base. He says there's no time, and demands that she tell him, but he doesn't even relay it to the team; he tells her to tell them. All he's doing is adding a step while she tells him, thus wasting time, and more importantly making sure that Mal knows the bypass as well. Cobb refusing to shoot the evil projection of Mal before she shoots Fischer, dragging him down into limbo, despite having known for years that she is just a projection, making his "How do you know that?" to Ariadne pointing this out to him making him look even more stupid.
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Inception / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
Inception / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Cobb's incepted idea into Mal's head that her world isn't real and she needs to wake up is what causes her to commit Accidental Suicide.
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Inception / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Inception / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The dream layers are tinted differently to help the viewer discern between the switching scenes. The top dream layer is blue, the second is brown and the final dream level is white. In the snow level of the dream, Cobb's crew carry guns and/or wear goggles that have all been colored white, and the mooks defending the fortress cover their faces in black while carrying black guns without winterized camouflage. Helpful since everyone is wearing winter combat gear and would be otherwise indistinguishable. Possible Justified Trope: Eames may have made this adjustment as the dreamer for the snow level, or Fischer may be influencing the projections because the Mister Charles gambit worked and he wants the Inception team to win.
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Inception / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Inception / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The final scene with Saito as an old man. Indeed, this scene makes absolutely no sense when it is first shown in the film, and it is only at the end that we understand. When Ariadne is investigating Cobb's locked-away levels, she comes across a trashed hotel room, meeting Mal. Cobb later explains the full circumstances of what happened when Mal is holding Fisher hostage in the third level: Mal trashed the hotel room after luring Cobb there, making it look like they had a violent domestic struggle and that he pushed her off the ledge.
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Inception / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Inception / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "You're waiting for a train..." "... an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone." "We can be young men together again." "...take a leap of faith" "Non, rien de rien / Non, je ne regrette rien..." "This world is not real." or some variant of the phrase. "You said you dreamt that we would grow old together." Cobb's comparisons of an idea to a virus only really hit home in Act III.
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Inception / int_765a1683	type	Enemy Rising Behind
Inception / int_765a1683	comment	Enemy Rising Behind: When Fischer is inside the fortress, we see Mal climbing down into the room behind his back.
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Inception / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Inception / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The opening mind theft mission on Saito.
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Inception / int_77939ae1	type	Hollywood Glass Cutter
Inception / int_77939ae1	comment	Hollywood Glass Cutter: In the opening caper, we see Cobb gaining entrance to a building by cutting a hole in a window.
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Inception / int_7831c048	type	So Much for Stealth
Inception / int_7831c048	comment	So Much for Stealth: What happens if you tip off the "projections" to your presence.
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Inception / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Inception / int_7870735b	comment	The most obvious mind-screw is keeping track of how many levels of dreams they take Fischer into. It's stated that beyond two is too unsafe to attempt, and three is what the characters are aiming for all along, but they go into at least four. They go from the plane to a rainy city (first level) to a hotel (second level) to a snowy mountain fortress (third level) as planned, but when From Bad to Worse, they're forced to go into Cobb's crumbling wasteland (fourth level). And the beach where Cobb meets the aged Saito (may or may not be a fifth level). Alternately, the wasteland and the beach may not be "levels" at all - one or both may be limbo. And depending on your interpretation, there may even be some question as to whether the plane is "real" and not itself a level of another dream Cobb spends virtually the entire film in. One theory is that the film itself is a symbolic representation of the movie-going experience, essentially making the audience itself another "level" of the dream.
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Inception / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Inception / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Averted and played straight. In the third layer, just before going into Limbo, Eames says that they're going to go once the kick comes, whether Cobb and Ariadne are back or not. A few moments later, Cobb stays in Limbo to find Saito.
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Inception / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Inception / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Cobb's kids. Justified, since they are the projection of Cobb's memory — specifically, his last memory of them, when they didn't turn around to look at him. He vehemently refuses to make them turn around in the dreams because when he sees his children again he wants it to be for real. In the end, Cobb finally sees his children's faces. Or does he?
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Inception / int_7ade2167	type	Mental Story
Inception / int_7ade2167	comment	Mental Story: Almost the entire film is set in someone's head.
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Inception / int_7b144404	type	Mental World
Inception / int_7b144404	comment	Mental World: One after another.
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Inception / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Inception / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: There are several chess references in the film, including Ariadne's totem (which is a bishop), the black-and-white tiled floor of the fortress, and the character name Robert Fischer, after Bobby Fischer.
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Inception / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Inception / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: It's entirely plausible that almost all of the events in the film actually take place in one character or other's dream.
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Inception / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Inception / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Used in the beginning. Oddly enough, it's paired with fairly realistic stealth techniques — catching the bullet casing and gently placing the body on the ground as not to make too much noise. Possibly justified by the action taking place in a designed dream.
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Inception / int_7d7ff0b0	type	Crashing Dreams
Inception / int_7d7ff0b0	comment	Crashing Dreams: A dreamer getting wet, being physically jostled, etc. results directly in events occurring in their dreams (such as a sudden flood, or gravity ceasing to function normally) which reflect whatever their body is feeling.
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Inception / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Inception / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the dream limbo, Cobb finally tells "Mal" that she doesn't have the perfections, imperfections, or complexity of his real wife and that she's just a shade. She doesn't take that well.
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Inception / int_7dd742dc	type	Caper Rationalization
Inception / int_7dd742dc	comment	Caper Rationalization: Saito tells the team that his corporate rival will become a dangerously powerful monopoly unless they brainwash their target. Eames agrees with this sentiment after doing his research.
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Inception / int_7fab3dae	type	Pineapple Surprise
Inception / int_7fab3dae	comment	Pineapple Surprise: When Eames throws a hand grenade at a mook in Level 4, the guy catches it but is too baffled to do anything with it and gets blows up together with his truck.
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Inception / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Inception / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If Cobb were just more honest with the people around him about his unresolved guilt and trauma surrounding Mal's death and would learn to forgive himself and let her go, she would stop appearing in their dreams and ruining their plans. Cobb incepting the idea in Mal's head that their reality isn't real and that they need to kill themselves to wake up while they were in Limbo. Incepting that idea is the direct cause of Mal killing herself and framing her suicide as a murder in order to drive him to kill himself and join her.
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Inception / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Inception / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The story opens In Medias Res with Cobb going to retrieve Saito from the dream that the latter is trapped in at the end of the movie.
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Inception / int_81dd0c45	type	Bizarre Dream Rationalization
Inception / int_81dd0c45	comment	Bizarre Dream Rationalization: Played for Drama. Main character Dom Cobb's wife Mal is revealed to have killed herself this way, by accident. When experimenting with "dream-sharing", the two entered a state known as "Limbo", where they could warp and manipulate their subconscious into impossible scenarios, also experiencing subjective time at an extremely dilated pace. Mal is unable to think rationally after the incident, so Cobb surreptitiously shares a dream with her one more time and implants an idea that her mind is not experiencing reality properly. Unfortunately, this has the opposite effect: Mal thinks that one more "kick" (a method of awakening a dream-sharing individual) will finally bring herself into true reality, but, as she is already awake, she does not realize that it will actually kill her. To Cobb's horror, he watches as she jumps out of her high-story apartment window to her death.
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Inception / int_823ac765	type	Blind Alley
Inception / int_823ac765	comment	Blind Alley: Averted. Cobb runs down an alley to try and ditch several agents that are chasing him. They notice him stuck in between the two buildings at the other end of the narrowing alley and he barely escapes them.
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Inception / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Inception / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The grenade launcher Eames uses in the dream when Arthur fails to hit his target with an assault rifle.
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Inception / int_8386a7a	type	Three-Act Structure
Inception / int_8386a7a	comment	Three-Act Structure: After the short How We Got Here and pretty much like most heist movie, you get the exposition of what Saito wants (later, what all main characters will come to want, except Fischer Jr.), then, starting at about 20 minutes, their plan and preparation to do it, and then, starting at about 1 hour, the execution of it. But even better, the execution itself has three acts, represented by the three levels of dreams. So it's a Three-Act Structure within a Three-Act Structure !
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Inception / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Inception / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Downplayed when Cobb and Mal direct guns at each other in the opening mission. Mal quickly turns her attention away and towards Arthur whom she gives a warning shot in his foot.
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Inception / int_853a0e84	type	Transformation Discretion Shot
Inception / int_853a0e84	comment	Transformation Discretion Shot: Eames always demonstrates his shapeshifting powers via cutaways; in the first level of the dream heist, he's seen preparing to impersonate Peter Browning in front of a dressing room mirror, with his reflections appearing identical to Browning in cuts, until at last, Eames turns around and is suddenly Browning in the next cut. In the next level, an attractive blonde woman flirtatiously approaches Saito in an elevator... only for a cut to the mirrored walls behind her to reveal Eames among the multiple reflections of the woman; cut back to Saito irritably pushing a smirking Eames away.
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Inception / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Inception / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to Nash, the apprehended architect from the opening caper after he is captured? The Opening caper also has a Japanese man on the train who stays awake and watches the sleepers, taking a roll of money from Cobb then parting ways from him; he is never mentioned again, with there being no sign that Saito ever realized his role in the job, and Arthur and Cobb never considering him for the Fischer job's crew.
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Inception / int_864aa9	type	Hellevator
Inception / int_864aa9	comment	Hellevator: Cobb has constructed such an elevator for himself in his dreams. On top levels it is beautiful and peaceful (the beach) and hellish at the bottom (Mal screaming at Ariadne).
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Inception / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Inception / int_86b21114	comment	This action has a second layer of importance in that while she was drawing the mazes on the lined sheets, she was using the lines as guides to structure the maze on; by using the cardboard (which doesn't have any printing on it) she's issuing her non-verbal Badass Boast while simultaneously demonstrating her ability to improvise and think quickly and out of the box.
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Inception / int_872b9e12	type	Chained to a Railway
Inception / int_872b9e12	comment	Chained to a Railway: Mal and Cobb lay their heads onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train so they would get run over and return to the real world.
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Inception / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Inception / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: No major character is perfectly morally upstanding in these movies. The "good guys" are very manipulative, deceptive, and arguably even downright cruel at times in pursuit of their goal of brainwashing their target on behalf of a business rival. On the other hand, they are helping the guy get over his deep-seated father issues and getting him to forge his own path. Then there are the good guys' targets (or "bad guys" if you think they are bad enough to be distinguished from the "good" ones) who are considering maintaining a dangerous corporate monopoly, which is part of what drives the other side to resort to such ethically questionable methods in the first place.
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Inception / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Inception / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The Hummer with treads used by the guards of the snow fortress.
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Inception / int_8a296bb2	type	CoolGun
Inception / int_8a296bb2	comment	Cool Gun: Highlights include Eames Milkor MGL grenade launcher, Arthur's FN SCAR assault rifle, as well as Cobb's suppressed Beretta PX4 Storm handgun and custom suppressed Blaser R93 Precision sniper rifle (done up in white camouflage, no less).
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Inception / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Inception / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: From a Certain Point of View. This is basically the entire point of inception itself — to plant an idea in someone's head that will consume them. Cobb did it with the best of intentions, and it went horribly right.
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Inception / int_8b5df221	type	Surprise Car Crash
Inception / int_8b5df221	comment	Surprise Car Crash: The Jump Scare when the Surprise Vehicle Cool Train t-bones Cobb's car in the first level.
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Inception / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Inception / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: A rare nonviolent example.
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Inception / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Inception / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Not to the level of previous Nolan films, but the beginning chronologically takes place near the end.
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Inception / int_8b92d7d5	type	Magic Is a Monster Magnet
Inception / int_8b92d7d5	comment	Magic Is a Monster Magnet: Changing dreams too much causes projections to attack you like anti-bodies.
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Inception / int_8becc5c5	type	Existential Horror
Inception / int_8becc5c5	comment	Existential Horror: The workings of the dreams in the film in general, but especially the fate of Cobb's wife, Malorie. What if you had a dream so vivid that you couldn't tell it apart from reality, and reality therefore ends up seeming like yet another dream to you? So much so that you start viewing death, not as the end of your existence, but as the only way you could truly escape from the dream?
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Inception / int_8dd4b19f	type	Forced Friendly Fire
Inception / int_8dd4b19f	comment	Forced Friendly Fire: Cobb kills two projections in the second dream level by getting hold of one of their guns and killing them with it.
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Inception / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
Inception / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: Saito does this during the final assault.
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Inception / int_904bf4e	type	Wasn't That Fun?
Inception / int_904bf4e	comment	Wasn't That Fun?: Yusuf after rolling the van and landing it upright.
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Inception / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Inception / int_90b66e22	comment	Mal appears on the posters labeled as the Femme Fatale. The implication is that she's part of some rival organization working counter to our antiheroes. In a sense, she is one of our heroes. Also, she's dead.
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Inception / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Inception / int_90c018ac	comment	Possibly Justified, since in a lucid dream, the reflection in a mirror is that of your self-image.
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Inception / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Inception / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: With in-universe justification, no less - that's how dreams work. For example; why is Fischer Sr. lying on a hospital bed inside a bank vault inside an Arctic fortress? Because he has a big secret, of course. Indeed, for a typical extraction, the architect will place a vault in the environment. The dreamer's subconscious will instinctively hide all important/secret information there. Then you just need a good team to extract it. Think of the other things that can be added to the environment to aid or hinder a heist and it's easy to see why Nolan thinks the movie has potential as a game.
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Inception / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Inception / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: 528-491. Amusingly, it means absolutely nothing, being just the first six numbers Fischer Jr. thought of. As they go deeper and deeper into the dreams, though, Fischer's subconscious starts giving them importance, because hey, he was thinking about those six numbers.
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Inception / int_9280aea4	type	Your Worst Memory
Inception / int_9280aea4	comment	Your Worst Memory: Cobb keeps his most painful moments locked away in a mental prison complex so they don't bother him during the mission; in keeping with the trope, Ariadne pays a visit and witnesses the moment when Cobb had to leave his kids behind to go on the run.
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Inception / int_947e1d97	type	Mistaken for Transformed
Inception / int_947e1d97	comment	Mistaken for Transformed: In the second level, when Saito bumps into a projection of Browning, he assumes he's actually Eames in disguise and greets him - only for the real Eames to appear from around the corner and silently warn him off. Catching on instantly, Saito sheepishly backs away, claiming to have mistaken Browning for someone else.
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Inception / int_9637893b	type	Schrödinger's Butterfly
Inception / int_9637893b	comment	Schrödinger's Butterfly: The characters take great pains to avert this. The ending takes great pains to leave it ambiguous.
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Inception / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Inception / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Whether or not Cobb is dreaming in the final scene.
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Inception / int_96bf84ce	type	Memory Palace
Inception / int_96bf84ce	comment	Memory Palace: Cobb stored his most intense memories of Mal inside levels that he can access via an elevator. An involuntary example with the dream levels. Trained memory extractors build dream constructs for their targets, who automatically store their secrets and memories in them. The extractors then infiltrate the construct and steal the information they want. The palaces are designed to be complex locations, everything from houses to hotels to a fortified mountain fortress.
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Inception / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Inception / int_970c790a	comment	Saito was advertised as the main bad guy. He really isn't. In fact, there is no Big Bad at all. The closest people are Mal and Fischer's dad, and they're both dead before the real conflict starts.
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Inception / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Inception / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: So much of the early movie, especially the scenes with Mal, makes far more sense once you have more information about the universe and rules of dream travel and know the big twists.
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Inception / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Inception / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Cobb to Arthur back at the hotel after the opening caper (along with the implications of their failure):
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Inception / int_99301367	type	Trust-Building Blunder
Inception / int_99301367	comment	Trust-Building Blunder: When Mal appears in his dream, Cobb seats her in a chair which he uses as an anchor for the rope he's using to climb out the window. Mal quickly shows her treacherous nature by standing up the moment Cobb gets out of sight.
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Inception / int_9a31d503	type	Exotic Backdrop Setting
Inception / int_9a31d503	comment	Exotic Backdrop Setting: Mombasa. There are no named Kenyans.
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Inception / int_9b6f4c4a	type	Out of Time, Out of Mind
Inception / int_9b6f4c4a	comment	Out of Time, Out of Mind: Defied. Getting trapped in limbo can mean experiencing a near-eternity of subjective time. Cobb makes it clear that if this happens to any of them, it will utterly destroy their minds. Saito promises Cobb that, even if he succumbs to his wounds, he will uphold his end of the agreement. Cobb grimly answers that if he falls into limbo for too long he won't remember that promise, or any of his waking life. He's right. When Cobb descends to limbo himself, Saito appears as a wizened old man who barely remembers him. He's not too far gone though and, like Cobb, Saito recovers after waking. Cobb and Mal don't seem to be profoundly affected after they spend a lifetime together in limbo. It later becomes clear how deeply they, or at least Mal, were changed.
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Inception / int_9b9d5657	type	Slow-Motion Fall
Inception / int_9b9d5657	comment	Slow-Motion Fall: The van in first level is going off the bridge in slow motion.note Cars falling in slow motion seems to have become a standard ever since, see similar scenes in Cloud Atlas and Unknown (2011).
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Inception / int_9bbe05ee	type	Fantasy Keepsake
Inception / int_9bbe05ee	comment	Fantasy Keepsake: The totems.
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Inception / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Inception / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The dreams, especially the second dream Ariadne entered where she plays with the laws of physics thereby tilting a portion of the town and messing up the gravity. Cobb's deepest dream level also qualifies here.
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Inception / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Inception / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The grenade launcher scene.
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Inception / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Inception / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: An interesting variation, as most examples feature characters discussing events they already know about, but the audience does not; the characters may be calling back to an event in the chronological past we have yet to see, or predicting the future using information we have yet to learn. An example calling back to the characters' past: Mal asks Cobb in one of the first scenes whether she will die from jumping off the building. She had committed suicide already by this point, and this is Cobb's projection of her haunting him. If you look at the room behind her on the ledge, it's identical to the one he's in, but you might not notice if you were focused on the characters. An example of a conversation that does foreshadow future events, but which the audience does not know what they are speaking about (in this case, Cobb's projections of Mal sabotaging the mission): A few elements of the Mombasa chase set up the elements of the inception job, such as the maze-like layout of the streets and alleyways Cobb runs through, and constant danger from the Cobol men, like the projections he and the team will be up against later. Ariadne realizing that Cobb can't build dreams anymore, because if he knows the dream layout, he could bring Mal in and sabotage the mission. Acts as both a Call-Back to the Action Prologue, but also foreshadows Mal appearing in the third dream layer and shooting Fischer, forcing Cobb and Ariadne to follow Fischer into Limbo to rescue him. A variation. Saito being shot in the first dream. His wounds eventually cause him to die and send him to Limbo, forcing Cobb to have to rescue him. In the third dream, Mal appears and shoots Fischer, and Cobb and Ariadne follow him down to Limbo to save him. Played straight in the fact that both characters are shot and sent to Limbo, but subverted in the fact that they end up in Limbo at roughly the same time. In the second dream level, Fischer picks up the gun in the bathroom, thinking he will wake up if he kills himself. Cobb warns him not to, knowing he will drop into limbo if he dies, and convinces Fischer to give him the gun. He gets killed by Mal in the third dream level, forcing Cobb and Ariadne to follow him down into limbo to rescue him and finish the job. Fischer says to Saito after the avalanche "Couldn't someone have dreamed up a goddamn beach?" Later, he dies and goes to limbo which starts on a beach.) In Ariadne and Cobb's second session, Cobb's subconscious starts to get aggressive: Taken into context with Mal and Cobb's repeated projections of her, as revealed later, this line suddenly takes on a whole new meaning. In the beginning after Cobb wakes up he mutters:
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Inception / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Inception / int_9d3b4703	comment	Mal and Cobb, who keep taking opposing standpoints on This Is Reality versus All Just a Dream.
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Inception / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Inception / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Arthur before he tells the team in the first dream level that Fischer's subconscious has militarized, and knowing he's in trouble for not having let the others know because it didn't show up in the research. Cobb REALLY lets him have it for that mistake.
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Inception / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
Inception / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: Cobb tells Ariadne that when awake, people use only "a fraction" of their brains, but when sleeping, their whole subconscious is unlocked. This makes sense, to a degree. When you are conscious, immense resources are used to process sensory data. When dreaming these resources are known to be co-opted for other purposes.
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Inception / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Inception / int_9e943076	comment	Eames' role in the snow level is to keep the defense forces away from the fortress. Eventually the mooks catch on and are about to return to the fortress, at which point Cobb asks Eames to buy them more time. Eames goes on to take the mooks out one by one.
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Inception / int_9f6479f2	type	Impossible Mission
Inception / int_9f6479f2	comment	Impossible Mission: Though it's a very original variation on it, the film basically uses this standard plotline beat-for-beat.
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Inception / int_9f9b5a20	type	Arbitrarily Large Bank Account
Inception / int_9f9b5a20	comment	Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Saito uses his to buy the entire airline for the single airplane they're infiltrating. Purchasing an entire airline in under a month, without attracting attention, would require a staggering amount of money. Then again, who knows how long Saito was planning this, he could just be Crazy-Prepared.
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Inception / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Inception / int_a220d528	comment	In the opening caper, Cobb seats his nemesis Mal in a chair which he uses as an anchor for the rope he's using to climb out the window. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?.
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Inception / int_a2359d9	type	Death Is the Only Option
Inception / int_a2359d9	comment	Death Is the Only Option: If the sleeping agent hasn't worn off and you don't have a kick prepared, then the only way to wake yourself from a dream is by dying.
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Inception / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Inception / int_a60f7120	comment	Limbo, though it's not so much Limbo as it is the effects that Limbo has on the mind. Since, once there, you are a Physical God, you have decades worth of time in a single afternoon... Limbo is, in a way, a Lotus-Eater Machine version of the perfect world, one that bends to the will of the people experiencing it. Leaving it is likened to a drug-addict off their fix... you can't just up and leave, you'll always want to go back. You'll "need" to just to have some sense of feeling. And that is the grand fear of limbo, because once you tasted it... you never want to leave, even if the door is right in front of you. Mal and Cobb didn't seem to mind it.
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Inception / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Inception / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Subjective time stretches in a dream compared to the layer above, with the exact amount of time depending on the sedative used. For the dreams earlier in the movie, time stretches by 12 times per level, for the inception operation, time stretches for 20 times per level.
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Inception / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Inception / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The Shinkansen at the beginning. For fans of American freight trains, the train from Cobb's dreams.
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Inception / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Inception / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: The projection of Mal in Cobb's arms.
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Inception / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Inception / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: The mooks tend to die this way. In the opening caper, they drop dead instantly after getting shot by Cobb, and in the second level of the Fischer job, the baddie that Arthur combats in free fall dies instantly from a shot as well. When Mal shoots Fischer in the snow fortress. Following that, when Cobb shoots Mal in what appears to be her shoulder. Averted with Saito, who spends roughly a third of the movie with a fatal gunshot wound, and Mal, in the final dream level after Ariadne shoots her.
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Inception / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Inception / int_a796d2a6	comment	After Arthur's firing proves ineffective, Eames pulls out a grenade launcher to deal with the mooks.
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Inception / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
Inception / int_a814671b	comment	N.G.O. Superpower: The protagonists are trying to stop Fischer's company from becoming this.
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Inception / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Inception / int_a8559a9f	comment	The "characters" do it all the damn time, as per Real Life lucid dreaming. Except as they're doing it to other people's dreams, the more they do it, the more likely these "projections" who populate the dream will notice the discrepancies, then hunt down and kill the intruding dreamer.
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Inception / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Inception / int_a8a04f6f	comment	Zig-zagged. The film initially subverts the typical "if you die in a dream, you die in reality" idea as dream injuries, regardless of circumstance, never reflect upon the dreamer. In fact, death is the easiest way to escape from a dream. In the climax however, the characters are so heavily sedated that dying doesn't kick them out of the dream but instead drops them into Limbo, which isn't fatal but is effectively the same as being rendered comatose while being trapped inside your own mind for near-eternity.
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Inception / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Inception / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: Cobol Engineering is Absurdly Powerful. They have dozens of assassins in, say, Kenya, waiting to be activated in a strangely dream-like plot development (though we are warned beforehand that Cobol operates heavily there). Even more powerful are Proclus Global - Saito's corporation whom Cobol was trying to steal secrets from - and Fischer-Morrow, who will have a monopoly on the majority of the world's energy concerns if Fischer Jr. decides to continue the empire instead of dissolving it.
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Inception / int_ab3c178e	type	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer
Inception / int_ab3c178e	comment	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: When Yusuf presents his sedative to Cobb and the latter asks what's it used for, Yusuf doesn't reply but heads for the basement to show Cobb his "sleepers".
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Inception / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Inception / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Je ne regrette rien. The rather upbeat melody already fits the trope to a T, but for added bonus, the title means "I regret nothing", and the lyrics are about starting a new life without any remorse or remaining attachment to the past, in a film where the struggle against remorse and regrets is a major narrative theme. In addition, the Epic music for the later parts of the movie are just Je ne regrette rien slowed down substantially, as it could be expected to be heard by the crew while several layers down from the source of the music.
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Inception / int_acadb2f4	type	Astral Checkerboard Decor
Inception / int_acadb2f4	comment	Astral Checkerboard Decor: The snow fortress in the third level has floors with this pattern.
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Inception / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Inception / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Arthur demonstrates to Ariadne paradoxical architecture, namely the Penrose steps, and then uses it himself to get behind someone who is chasing him down a stairwell.
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Inception / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Inception / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Cobb and Ariadne in the Paris dream when the projections start mobbing them. Cobb then has another one when Mal appears. Ariadne in the trashed hotel suite when she steps on a champagne flute and sees Mal. Everyone in Arthur's cab in the first dream level when two cars block them in and the projections start to attack. Cobb and Ariadne in the first dream level when the train suddenly appears out of nowhere in the middle of the street. Fischer has one in the second dream level when Cobb tells him he's in a dream. Cobb's expression in the second dream level when he hears broken glass which brings to his mind the night Mal killed herself which results in the projection of his children showing up during the Mr. Charles gambit. Cobb has one in the second dream level's men's room when he sees Fischer holding a gun to his head, knowing he will drop into limbo if he kills himself. He manages to get Fischer to give him the gun. When Cobb is forced to reveal what happened the night Mal died, he saw the hotel room trashed just as he came with flowers, and Mal sitting on a ledge outside. She tells Cobb to jump with her and enter the "real" world again. Cobb attempts to reason with her. She then says that she sent a letter to a trusted psychiatrist saying she was fearful of her life. Realization hits Cobb as he looks back at the hotel room, that it will look like he pushed Mal to her death after a violent struggle.
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Inception / int_ad5c41b7	type	Black Screen of Death
Inception / int_ad5c41b7	comment	Black Screen of Death: The ending, which never reveals whether the top falls or not.
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Inception / int_addc723c	type	Neuro-Vault
Inception / int_addc723c	comment	Neuro-Vault: A more metaphorical example. In the first dream layer, Browning suggests that Fischer Sr. may have subtly implanted the combination to his safe in his son's head in this way. Plus, according to the universe's rules, a person's subconscious mind often places hidden desires, secrets, etc. inside literal vaults in the person's dreams.
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Inception / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
Inception / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: When Mal tries to attack Cobb with a knife in the last level, Ariadne shoots her from behind him.
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Inception / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Inception / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Christopher Nolan has effectively mixed Noir chocolate with Cyberpunk peanut butter, and it's as tasty as it sounds.
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Inception / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
Inception / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: During a zero-gravity fight, Arthur grapples a projection mook and chokes him with a cobra clutch with bodyscissors. More than pro-wrestling style, however, he performs it in a very MMA/Brazilian jiu-jitsu feeling manner, engaging him frontally and closing guard around him before doing the move.
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Inception / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Inception / int_b1346878	comment	This is the one danger of falling into Limbo. Because the time dilation causes a dream to last for decades, the mind will live out an entire lifetime that becomes the dreamer's new reality. By the time the dream ends and they wake up, they'll have either lost touch with reality or have lost all mental faculties.
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Inception / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Inception / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Cobb's justification for everything throughout the film, from his illegal activities, to deceiving his crewmates, to incepting Fischer and doing the same to his wife. Usually in these Exact Words.
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Inception / int_b1e8c9b1	type	Dream Emergency Exit
Inception / int_b1e8c9b1	comment	Dream Emergency Exit: Being killed in a dream leads to the subject waking up, although if it happens while they're deeply sedated, it can lead to the dreamer being sent to limbo for subjective decades, making it unlikely for the dreamer to perceive it as a dream. A kick is another way to forcibly wake yourself up from a dream, however kicks have to be prepared ahead of time as it involves jolting the dreamer's physical body enough to wake them up. Falling or being dunked into a body of water are the main ones shown in the film.
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Inception / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Inception / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: One of the architect's tasks is setting up Escheresque loops in the dream world, in order to confuse and trap the projections if they become hostile.
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Inception / int_b3f4bf22	type	Pants-Positive Safety
Inception / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: Cobb keeps a pistol in the waistband of his trousers, as seen in the beach scene.
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Inception / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Inception / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: In the third dream level, Eames gets his gun knocked over a railing by a projection. The same projection then throws Eames over the railing. This allows Eames to retrieve his gun and shoot the projection.
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Inception / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
Inception / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Ariadne. Michael Caine's character even refers to Cobb as wanting to "corrupt" one of his best students. Cobb openly tells her the job is not legal, but he, Arthur, and Ariadne herself each admit that after tasting the power of dream architecture, she would never want to go back. She willingly joins the team.
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Inception / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Inception / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Arthur dryly points out how often Dom does things he tells everyone else not to do.
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Inception / int_b7ff3d2f	type	Personal Horror
Inception / int_b7ff3d2f	comment	Personal Horror: In The Reveal we find out that Cobb planted the idea that her reality isn't real in his wife's head when they were stuck in a dream. This resulted in her suicide to wake up. It's unclear if she died or woke up.
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Inception / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
Inception / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Fischer's godfather. Or at least the team decides to play up that angle to prevent him from getting control of the company.
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Inception / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Inception / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Saito. Justified, as he is dying of a punctured lung in the dream.
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Inception / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Inception / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The fortress assault.
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Inception / int_baedeab5	type	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam
Inception / int_baedeab5	comment	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam: Cobb interviews Ariadne for the role of team architect entirely without warning and without actually telling her what the job is, reasoning that he has to know she can actually do it before he can give her the details. Over the course of the impromptu test, he challenges her to draw a maze in two minutes that he can't solve in one minute. She gets it right on the third try.
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Inception / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Inception / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: After Arthur explains to her that you can't wake up unless you die in the dream, Ariadne mutters "What the fuck?".
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Inception / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Inception / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: This is Cobb's motivation for most of the film.
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Inception / int_bcbe3097	type	EveryOneLives
Inception / int_bcbe3097	comment	Everyone Lives: A Foregone Conclusion, since it's all a dream. But dying isn't really what they're afraid of.
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Inception / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Inception / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Played straight-ish. Cobb's crew can fire from uncomfortable positions and awkward locations and still drop plenty of mooks... in dreams, where they can also produce grenade launchers out of thin air. It's possible their aiming skills have more to do with skill at dream manipulation and preconceptions as to how hard it is to hit a target than actual ability with firearms. Something similar probably explains how the basement-dwelling chemist is adept at driving in a high-speed chase through a crowded, rainy city, and how the crew happens to be skilled at rappelling down an icy mountainside.
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Inception / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Inception / int_bef696dd	comment	The trailer made the movie look like a lot more of a Mind Screw than it actually was.
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Inception / int_c01027a6	type	Better than a Bare Bulb
Inception / int_c01027a6	comment	Better than a Bare Bulb: In-story. The Mr. Charles gambit: when Fischer starts to near an awareness of the artificial nature of the world, Cobb assumes the role of Dream Security expert Mr. Charles to call attention to the fact he's being dream-hacked in an effort to gain his trust and continue the hacking. It works.
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Inception / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Inception / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: In-Universe and out: the freight train in the first dream level appearing out of nowhere, as no one (characters or audience) expected it.
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Inception / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Inception / int_c145f69b	comment	A nasty subversion occurs in the first dream level (the rainy city). Apparently in the world of Inception, executives and other people with secrets to guard can receive dream security training — Cobb poses as such a trainer early in the movie. Fischer has apparently had it, and as such has military projections who can shoot quite straight. They fatally wound Saito and send the entire team scrambling.
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Inception / int_c1e703ff	type	Hallway Fight
Inception / int_c1e703ff	comment	Hallway Fight: The film features a hallway fight between Arthur and a nameless mook. Because they are inside the dreaming mind of a person in a rolling vehicle, the two men end up grappling as the hallway rotates and they flop this way and that.
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Inception / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Inception / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Cobb screams one as he watches Mal jump to her death.
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Inception / int_c33c51b2	type	Outside-the-Box Tactic
Inception / int_c33c51b2	comment	Outside-the-Box Tactic: Shown during Ariadne's audition. Using a pad of graph paper, she has to design a maze in two minutes that Cobb can't beat in one minute. Cobb beats all her mazes too quickly until she turns the pad over to a blank surface and designs a circular maze instead of a square one.
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Inception / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Inception / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Plenty of mental-antibodies to oppose the heroes; Dream mooks are mookier than most mooks.
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Inception / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Inception / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The headline credits at the end of the film end with "and Michael Caine".
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Inception / int_c4525c1d	type	Intangible Theft
Inception / int_c4525c1d	comment	Intangible Theft: A crew of thieves steals ideas for a living. Justified, since they do this by reading the subject's mind. In a situation like that, all you can steal are ideas.
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Inception / int_c6c86cd	type	Collapsing Lair
Inception / int_c6c86cd	comment	Collapsing Lair: The building in the opening mission starts to fall apart as the dream collapses.
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Inception / int_c6e0455d	type	Afterlife Express
Inception / int_c6e0455d	comment	"You're waiting for a train..."
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Inception / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Inception / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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Inception / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
Inception / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	Smash to Black: Done at the end of the final scene.
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Inception / int_c995ecb6	type	Perspective Magic
Inception / int_c995ecb6	comment	Perspective Magic: The Penrose Stairs work this way. In a meta example, a lot of the film's special effects were accomplished through perspective magic: the zero-gravity fight in the hotel corridor (using a rotating set) and the water meniscus levels going all weird (using a tilting set). Both times, the camera was level relative to the moving set.
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Inception / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Inception / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God seems to indicate that it's not a dream. Specifically, Christopher Nolan explained to Michael Caine that any scene where his character is in happens in reality, and his character appeared in the ending [1].
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Inception / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
Inception / int_cc6f4612	comment	Beyond the Impossible: It's clearly stated that two levels deep is the maximum stable level. Subverted the first time: The group uses Applied Phlebotinum to tweak the rules and reach a third. For the fourth, they just go for it. Overall justified, because Cobb disagreed with other dream experts and was a pioneer in the technology.
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Inception / int_cd3703a2	type	Genre Mashup
Inception / int_cd3703a2	comment	Genre Mashup: Film Noir meets The Caper with a dose of Post-Cyberpunk.
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Inception / int_cd5ceb69	type	Barefoot Suicide
Inception / int_cd5ceb69	comment	Barefoot Suicide: Played With. Mal, trying to get her husband to commit suicide with her, slips off one of her shoes while sitting on the ledge and lets it fall, to demonstrate she's serious about jumping and that The Apple Falls Far.
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Inception / int_cddc61ac	type	Fake-Out Make-Out
Inception / int_cddc61ac	comment	Fake-Out Make-Out: Arthur asks Ariadne to kiss him to keep Fischer's subconscious from detecting them.
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Inception / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Inception / int_cfbd1467	comment	Cobb incepting the idea in Mal's head that their reality isn't real and that they need to kill themselves to wake up while they were in Limbo. Incepting that idea is the direct cause of Mal killing herself and framing her suicide as a murder in order to drive him to kill himself and join her.
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Inception / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Inception / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: To 1990s Cyberpunk/Post-Cyberpunk movies that had the Platonic Cave idea and Cyberspace. Similar to movies like: The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, Strange Days and eXistenZ.
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Inception / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Inception / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Cobb is furious with Arthur and yells at him for not having revealed that Fischer's subconscious is militarized, especially as they were just attacked and Saito has been fatally wounded. Arthur and the others then give Cobb one for not telling them that if they get killed, they'll drop into Limbo and may be trapped there indefinitely.
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Inception / int_d3a96fd2	type	Come with Me If You Want to Live
Inception / int_d3a96fd2	comment	Come with Me If You Want to Live: Saito does this to Dom when he's being chased by Cobol's agents. In a subversion, Dom (as Mr. Charles) does it to Fischer, albeit it's "if you want your secrets kept safe."
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Inception / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
Inception / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: The movie doesn't have a title card until the end credits. Where it is displayed three separate times.
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Inception / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Inception / int_d54f84cb	comment	Dream Within a Dream: You can basically create any object you want when you're dreaming. This includes another copy of the dream-share machine to create deeper-level dreams within the dream.
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Inception / int_d6e495b2	type	Undisclosed Funds
Inception / int_d6e495b2	comment	Undisclosed Funds: It isn't outright stated how rich Saito is, but he seems rich enough to buy an entire airline for the operation, plus have enough connections to clear Cobb's murder charge.
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Inception / int_d73ecb18	type	Gun Struggle
Inception / int_d73ecb18	comment	Gun Struggle: Arthur and a dream Elite Mook get caught in one. Results in an Instant Death Bullet for the baddie.
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Inception / int_d7b35e7d	type	Virtual-Reality Interrogation
Inception / int_d7b35e7d	comment	Virtual-Reality Interrogation: Most of the protagonists are professional Virtual Reality Interrogators. The method they use allows them to snoop through the subject's subconscious mind, usually by pretending they are on the subject's side in some way. Sometimes it works, but being too bold with this tactic can easily arouse too much suspicion and expose them.
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Inception / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Inception / int_d8afec40	comment	…But He Sounds Handsome: Saito sees Browning, who he assumes to be Eames in disguise. He walks right up to him and says, "I see you've changed." Browning gives him an odd look and Saito sees Eames behind him. Saito quickly says, "I mistook you for a friend of mine." Browning smirks and says, "Must be a good-looking fella."
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Inception / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Inception / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Cobb cannot return to America or step foot in any country with an extradition treaty with it because he's accused of killing his wife. The main reason he agrees with Saito's request is to have a chance to return home.
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Inception / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Inception / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Dom states that Arthur has "a couple of minutes" on level two, and that they have "about twenty minutes" on level three. Unless Yusuf suddenly started using a different chemical compound, if Dom and his team have twenty minutes, then Arthur would have one minute. Also, if Arthur had even a couple of minutes, Dom would have at least forty, and the van would have to be in free-fall for six seconds or more, which is a much longer drop than what was shown in the film.
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Inception / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Inception / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: Cobb's totem, the spinning top, which was actually Mal's totem before she died. Also, the picture of Fischer Jr. as a kid with his father as well as the pinwheel in said picture.
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Inception / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Inception / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Mal commits suicide, but makes it look like Cobb murdered her so he'll be compelled to do it with her or lose custody of the children. Of course, like the many characters who kill themselves in dreams in this movie, she doesn't believe she's really dying.
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Inception / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Inception / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: Cobb's team don ski masks while pretending to be violent kidnappers interrogating Fischer Jr. in his dream.
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Inception / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Inception / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Many when it comes to the Applied Phlebotinum that drives the plot. For example, making the dreams mostly realistic instead of bizarre abstractions. The "characters" do it all the damn time, as per Real Life lucid dreaming. Except as they're doing it to other people's dreams, the more they do it, the more likely these "projections" who populate the dream will notice the discrepancies, then hunt down and kill the intruding dreamer.
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Inception / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Inception / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: A small one between Ariadne and Arthur after the Fake-Out Make-Out.
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Inception / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Inception / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Insurance. In Real Life, telling your kidnappers that you're insured against kidnapping voids the insurance.
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Inception / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Inception / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: Dom being charged with murdering his wife. Maybe.
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Inception / int_ddf56e0a	type	Amoral Afrikaner
Inception / int_ddf56e0a	comment	Amoral Afrikaner: Cobol Engineering is a South African Mega-Corp with a very thuggish and unscrupulous reputation, which in part explains their presence in Kenya. This is further highlighted in "The Cobol Job."
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Inception / int_de9c7ad5	type	Vision Quest
Inception / int_de9c7ad5	comment	Vision Quest: The mission becomes this for Cobb when Ariadne tells him he has to confront Mal, or rather his unresolved subconscious feelings about her. Also, one interpretation of the entire movie is that it's a Vision Quest Cobb is being put through so that he will wake up in reality.
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Inception / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Inception / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Saito intervenes as Dom is being chased by Cobol assassins, knocking out Dom's last tail with a Toyota Tripwire then quipping, "Care for a lift, Mr. Cobb?"
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Inception / int_e029366d	type	Toyota Tripwire
Inception / int_e029366d	comment	Toyota Tripwire: Saito appears and knocks out the last mercenary chasing Dom in Mombasa with this.
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Inception / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Inception / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Cobb is almost always referred to by his surname. Only two people, Miles and Mal, call him by his first name, Dom. Eames is implied to be the character's surname as well, and we never find out what his first name is. We never find out Nash's first name, either. Fischer is referred to as Fischer by almost everyone, with only his father and Browning calling him Robert. Saito could be a case of this as well, as Saito is actually more popular as a Japanese last name than a first name, at least for men. In addition, in Japan, unless you know the person really well, it's much more common for people to use the last name in addressing you.
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Inception / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Inception / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: In Mombasa, after Eames points out that he's being followed, Cobb asks Eames to distract the tail to give him a chance to get away, and Eames obliges. Eames' role in the snow level is to keep the defense forces away from the fortress. Eventually the mooks catch on and are about to return to the fortress, at which point Cobb asks Eames to buy them more time. Eames goes on to take the mooks out one by one.
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Inception / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: No characters show injury or bleeding from the blood vessels in their wrists. And at the beginning of the movie, one character yanks the tube off like it's not even sticking out of his body, going against the guidelines of the PASIV manual.
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Inception / int_e8cb930f	type	Accidental Suicide
Inception / int_e8cb930f	comment	Accidental Suicide: Mal and Cobb spent an entire life in Limbo together, growing old together, only to wake up back in the real world where it was just a few minutes. This distorted Mal's perception of reality so bad that she became convinced that they were still dreaming, despite both of them being very much awake. She decides she and Cobb need to wake up and since in dreams the only way out is through death if your sedative hasn't run its course, she leaps out of a window and plummets to her death. While she did intend to kill herself, she didn't think doing so would actually mean she'd be dead given the logic of dreams.
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Inception / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
Inception / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: The movie transitions between the various dream levels in rapid succession.
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Inception / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
Inception / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: An all-star cast. Years and years in the making. Large nonuple-digit budget. From the director of The Dark Knight. This fits the trope to a T.
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Inception / int_e98afc99	type	Opinion-Changing Dream
Inception / int_e98afc99	comment	Opinion-Changing Dream: The title and concept of the movie involve attempting to engineer one of these in another person's mind (and without them realizing you've done it, to boot).
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Inception / int_ea08e9	type	The Team
Inception / int_ea08e9	comment	When The Team is discussing how to be left alone with Fischer for ten hours during a flight...
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Inception / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Inception / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Early on, Mal has Arthur at gunpoint and pulls the hammer to make Cobb confess.
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Inception / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Inception / int_ea85d6ea	comment	Cobb warns Ariadne against constructing her dream world out of real-life memories, lest it becomes this. And then he proceeds to completely ignore his own advice. He should know — that's exactly what happened to his wife. He was only able to pull her out by implanting the idea in her mind that her world was All Just a Dream, and getting her to kill herself with him so that they could wake up. It worked, but the idea stayed in her mind, and she started thinking that the real world was a Lotus-Eater Machine as well.
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Inception / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Inception / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Saito rescues Cobb in Mombasa with a Toyota Tripwire to take out a Cobol gunman and asking Cobb if he cares for a lift.
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Inception / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Inception / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In the prologue, Saito figures out that he's still dreaming by recognizing that the carpet in his love nest is inauthentic. So it's not so much spotting the thread as spotting the thread count.
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Inception / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Inception / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Because of the story's metaphysics, every time the party enters a Dream Within a Dream, one party member must stay behind on that level to safeguard the others while they sleep; the farther into The Heist Cobb goes, the fewer people he has at his side. Downplayed in that those accomplices are never gone for good — everyone can, and does, wake up — and those left behind continue to influence the heist because the "host" of the dream LAN is affected by what happens to their slumbering body (hence the need to leave someone behind to guard it).
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Inception / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Inception / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: The inception job is compromised by three inversions of this: Arthur is the only one of the team who knows that Fischer's subconscious is militarized, and no one else knows because it didn't show up in the research. It got Saito critically wounded. To say the least, Cobb is not happy when he finds out. Cobb and Yusuf neglect to let the others know until after the above example that because of how strong Yusuf's sedative is, dying in the dream will not cause them to wake up. Instead, it will cause them to end up in limbo. Everyone save for Yusuf gives Cobb a What the Hell, Hero? for keeping it quiet. Only Cobb and Ariadne know how guilty Cobb is about Mal's suicide and how she keeps showing up thanks to his subconscious. Ariadne tells Cobb the others have no idea the risk they've taken going under with him. It's not until the end of the film that Ariadne finds out why Cobb knew inception was possible in the first place: he did it to Mal so they could escape from limbo, but it worked too well and Mal, believing her world still wasn't real when it in fact was, committed suicide.
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Inception / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Inception / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The technology to enter another person's dreamscape is only used by a small number of people and the military, to the point that Fischer has been trained by an extractor to defend himself against this kind of attack, something that comes to bite The Team in the ass about 2 minutes into the operation.
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Inception / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Inception / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: There's a non-fatal version in that killing someone can be used to snap them out of a dream if it's going badly. Cobb does it for Arthur in the introductory sequence, and later it's discussed after Saito gets seriously injured during the caper.
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Inception / int_f3f1a9e2	type	Not My Driver
Inception / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: In the first dream level, the protagonists kidnap Fischer this way. Possibly justified in that they designed the place, so they could make sure theirs was the only cab available.
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Inception / int_f468d177	type	The Walrus Was Paul
Inception / int_f468d177	comment	The Walrus Was Paul: Christopher Nolan provides enough conflicting evidence to keep everyone arguing over the ending (or the whole film); anyone looking for a theory that satisfactorily addresses every point is going to have a rough go.
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Inception / int_f4cd67af	type	Bob from Accounting
Inception / int_f4cd67af	comment	Bob from Accounting: Cobb introduces himself as "Rod Green, from Marketing" when setting up the Mr. Charles gambit.
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Inception / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
Inception / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "Your mind is the scene of the crime." "The dream is real."
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Inception / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Inception / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: For Cobb.
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Inception / int_f821e963	type	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
Inception / int_f821e963	comment	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Cobb's deepest dream world, which consists of a decaying city full of skyscrapers collapsing into an ocean shoreline. The thunderstorm that happens later on definitely adds into the mood here.
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Inception / int_fa4bf618	type	Blank Book
Inception / int_fa4bf618	comment	Blank Book: After Cobb is caught stealing the envelope representing Saito's secret knowledge, Saito takes it back, but when he opens the envelope it's full of blank pages, revealing that it's not the real envelope but a decoy Cobb was shown with earlier.
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Inception / int_fb04ced0	type	Excuse Me, Coming Through!
Inception / int_fb04ced0	comment	Excuse Me, Coming Through!: Multiple times during the chase scene in Mombasa.
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Inception / int_fde807fe	type	Torn Apart by the Mob
Inception / int_fde807fe	comment	Torn Apart by the Mob: In first dream we see it is implied that the projections in Saito's dream ripped Nash apart in the opening dream sequence.
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Inception / int_fed1a09d	type	"Back to Camera" Pose
Inception / int_fed1a09d	comment	"Back to Camera" Pose: This◊ poster sees Cobb stand with his back to the audience as he looks out at a skyscraper-filled city being flooded, hinting at the epic and amorphous nature of the dream worlds.
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Inception / int_ff66d4c1	type	Not So Similar
Inception / int_ff66d4c1	comment	Not So Similar: What allows our protagonist to finally overcome the figure in his head that's trying to kill him, is realizing it isn't the person it appears to be and confronting it over the issue.
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Inception / int_ffb55ae3	type	Fauxshadow
Inception / int_ffb55ae3	comment	Fauxshadow: Ariadne's and Arthur's totems. Nothing really comes of them apart from establishing that both people are ready to enter dream worlds. Subverted in that those are examples of people using their own totems; whereas Cobb's top totem isn't actually his totem, but Mal's, though there's no definitive verbal confirmation of it.
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Inception / int_ffd816e7	type	Everything Trying to Kill You
Inception / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: If you meddle with someone else's dream too much, all the nice not-real people (and architecture) start getting feral. And they always know who's doing it. And sometimes, what's effectively Pyramid Head finds her way in.
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Inception	hasFeature	Pants-Positive Safety / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Parody Magic Spell / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	People Fall Off Chairs / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Percussive Pickpocket / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Personal Horror / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Phallic Weapon / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Pin-Pulling Teeth / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Platonic Cave / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Poke in the Third Eye / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Post-Cyberpunk / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Posthumous Character / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Practical Effects / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Prefers the Illusion / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Pretty Little Headshots / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Previews Pulse / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Psychic-Assisted Suicide / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Psychic Block Defense / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Pull the I.V. / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Queer People Are Funny / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Railroad Tracks of Doom / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Real Dreams are Weirder / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Rebuilt Pedestal / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Recursive Reality / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Reflexive Response / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Rescued from the Underworld / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Revival by Commercialization / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Schematized Prop / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Schrödinger's Butterfly / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Secret Test of Thieving Skill / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Shared Dream / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Sharp-Dressed Man / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Ship Mates / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Shoot the Money / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now? / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Slow-Motion Fall / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Smash Cut / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Smash to Black / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Speech-Centric Work / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Stairwell Chase / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Stock Trailer Music / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Success Hallucinations / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Suicide Is Painless / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Suicide, Not Murder / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Tactical Reminiscence / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Technician Versus Performer / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	That Thing Is Not My Child! / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Abridged Series / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Caper / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Con Within a Con / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Constant / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Epic / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Exile / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Fixer / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Game Never Stopped / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Ophelia / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Pursuing Nightmare / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Reliable One / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Stinger / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Team Benefactor / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Walrus Was Paul / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	The Watson / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Thought-Aversion Failure / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Tick Tock Tune / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Torn Apart by the Mob / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Toyota Tripwire / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Trans Audience Interpretation / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Transformation Discretion Shot / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Ukefication / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Virtual-Reality Interrogation / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Vision Quest / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Water Wake-up / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	When You Coming Home, Dad? / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Win to Exit / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Winter Warfare / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Wire Fu / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	With Friends Like These... / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Word of Dante / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Word of Saint Paul / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Working Title / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Xanatos Speed Chess / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	You Cannot Kill an Idea / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	You Wake Up on a Beach / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Your Mind Makes It Real / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	Your Worst Memory / int_fbf33963
Inception	hasFeature	You ALL Look Familiar / int_fbf33963

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