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Dead Men's Trousers
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Irvine Welsh's sequel to Trainspotting and Porno. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Mark notes that people are nothing but a work in progress until we die and fall into the world of dead men's trousers. | |
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Camp Straight | |
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Camp Straight: Sick Boy mentions being straight but camp as a row of tents. | |
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Use Your Head | |
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Use Your Head: Renton headbutts Sick Boy and breaks his nose after he scams him at the auction. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The Blade Artist mentioned that an actor called Chuck Ponce visited Begbie in prison while researching a role and promised they'd stay friends when Begbie got out but then ignored all Frank's attempts to contact him. Here he contacts Begbie about commissioning some art and gets pushed off a cliff for his trouble. | |
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Job-Stealing Robot | |
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Job-Stealing Robot: When Andrew talks about Spud getting laid off, he says in five or ten years his job as a lawyer will be made redundant by artificial intelligence. | |
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"Last Supper" Steal | |
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"Last Supper" Steal: Begbie's DMT hallucination is himself at a The Last Supper-style dinner with several people who are now dead. He claims the image of the last supper was always caused by DMT hallucination ls and predates Jesus. | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Begbie performs it on Spud pretty easily when he starts suffocating while Frank's making a plaster cast of his head. | |
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Sleeps with Everyone but You | |
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Sleeps with Everyone but You: Mikey Forrester's hatred of Renton is explains that a woman was stringing Mikey along for months to get free drugs then casually slept with Mark. | |
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Off the Wagon | |
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Off the Wagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in Porno, Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: Symes keeps Spud's dog, Toto until he goes through with the second kidney delivery. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Sick Boy is disappointed that his son isn't one of these and tries to outdo one he meets on a plane at being over the top. | |
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Batter Up! | |
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Batter Up!: Renton beats the cop that's stalking Melanie and about to shoot Begbie near to death with a baseball bat that Begbie got from an old client. | |
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Late Coming Out | |
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Late Coming Out: Sick Boy's son Ben comes out to him. | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay: Sick Boy is disappointed in his son for being one because he doesn't see the point in being gay if you aren't outrageous. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Spud has a dog called Toto which he named after the band and didn't realize there was a dog called Toto in The Wizard of Oz. | |
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Chained to a Railway | |
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Chained to a Railway: One of Begbie's paintings Blood on the Tracks depicts a man who he subconsciously made to look like Renton tied to train tracks. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: Renton is shocked at how Spud's son Andrew looks like a younger version of his father. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: When Begbie refuses to take the money Mark owes him, Sick Boy suggests Mark use it to bid on some of Begbie's artwork. Sick Boy then persuades Mikey Forrester to bid against Mark to jack up the price. Then Begbie decides he want a now cleaned out Renton to pay back the drug deal money as well as buying the art. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream; One of the pictures at Begbie's art exhibition is a painting of Jimmy Savile with his eyes gouged out. Begbie gouges out Some's eyes and stuffs his kidneys in the sockets. | |
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Sticky Situation | |
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Sticky Situation: One of the DJs Renton represents falls asleep before a gig and another glues a dildo to his forehead. He has to go on like that and pretends it's part of his act, then gets it removed at a hospital. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Renton's martial arts training from the previous book, which he learned to defend himself from Begbie, ironically gets used to save Begbie's life towards the end of the book. | |
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Immediate Sequel | |
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Immediate Sequel: Begins with the ending of the Begbie spin-off The Blade Artist. | |
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Medium-Shift Gag | |
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Medium-Shift Gag: When anybody trips on DMT, the text changes to a comic-strip for a page. | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery: Spud ends up on the receiving end of this to remove his kidney to replace the one he lost. It's performed by a foot doctor, a gangster, and a crew of fuckups using a YouTube tutorial. Complications from the surgery contribute to Spud's death. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies: An advertising point was that one of the main four characters wouldn't survive the book. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Sick Boy unsuccessfully argues that a woman can't be a nonce when trying to set a sex worker up with his underage nephew. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: The police come to talk to Sick Boy when Marianne is riding him in the ass with a strap-on dildo while a sex worker does the same to her. Doubles as a Callback to Skagboys, where Alison does the same to Sick Boy and he discovers he likes it. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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Afterlife Express: Begbie has another fantasy similar to his DMT hallucinations where he has dinner with his dead enemies. He said the dining room felt like a bus terminal or a railway station where they'd move on and go somewhere else when they finished their meals. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: Mark loses the last of his money to Second Prize who demands to be paid back the money Mark stole in Trainspotting, even though Mark already paid him back in Porno. Second Prize throw the money away because he'd found religion but Mark no longer owes him. | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor: Euan is a foot doctor but that doesn't stop Symes blackmailing him into removing kidneys. | |
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Never Suicide | |
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Never Suicide: Begbie drugs Harry and hangs him from the ceiling hoping to make it look like a suicide, but the roof collapses. | |
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Embarrassing Last Name | |
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Embarrassing Last Name: There's an actor called Chuck Ponce who didn't realize what his stage name meant in the UK. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Sick Boy complains about the odds about he and Mark being in Berlin at the same time when he was so hard to get hold of when he owed Sick Boy money. | |
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Taught by Television | |
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Taught by Television: Symes has to learn how to remove Spud's kidney by watching a YouTube video from a laptop sitting on his chest. Nearly kills him when the battery starts to go. | |
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P.O.V. Sequel | |
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P.O.V. Sequel: Starts with the ending of The Blade Artist from Renton's point of view. | |
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PedoHunt | |
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Pedo Hunt: One of Begbie's portraits shows Jimmy Savile beaten to a pulp with "THIS IS HOW WE DEAL WITH NONCES IN LEATH" written under it. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack; When Begbie's making two drunk men fight eachother, he kicks one of them in the balls. Begbie castrates Symes with a sword. | |
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Organ Theft | |
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Organ Theft: Spud gets a kidney removed to make up for the one he was supposed to deliver but was eaten by his dog. | |
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Higher Understanding Through Drugs | |
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Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Renton feels DMT does this to him. | |
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