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Trainspotting

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Trainspotting	comment	Trainspotting is a dark and bizarrely written novel by Irvine Welsh; it was published in 1993 and, as many a Rail Enthusiast has probably found out the hard way, has absolutely zip to do with actually looking for trains. Wildly popular and noted for its cynical and occasionally shocking tone, the novel kicked off a three-decade-long successful writing career for Welsh, and has been called "the voice of punk, grown up, grown wise and grown eloquent".The story follows a group of young Scottish men who are close friends (from childhood, albeit beginning to drift apart), and their lives of drinking, sex, family problems, HIV, death, and most of all, heroin addiction. The protagonists are Mark Renton, an on-and-off heroin junkie, and his friends Danny "Spud" Murphy, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, Francis "Franco" Begbie (these four are known as the Big Four characters of the franchise), and Thomas "Tommy" Laurence. It's all very darkly humorous, and then a baby dies.Large chunks of the novel are written in heavily accented, stream-of-consciousness style. The initial challenge is to figure out who the main characters are, whose points of view are being shown, which of the dozens of nicknames refer to which people, and what personalities they've got. Because of this, the novel starts out as an incomprehensible trip — but after a few chapters, things start to click and the plot starts to unfold.The novel was adapted into a film in 1996 by Danny Boyle, and was the second of three films from the mid-nineties directed by Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, along with Shallow Grave and A Life Less Ordinary. It also features Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Ewen Bremner as Spud, a scarily emaciated Kevin McKidd as Tommy, Robert Carlyle as Francis Begbie and a youthful Kelly Macdonald as Diane. Allegedly due to a head cold, Kevin McKidd missed out on being on the iconic poster.A sequel to the film note loosely based on Welsh's sequel novel Porno languished in Development Hell for quite some time, but was finally released in January 2017 as T2 Trainspotting, with the director and main cast returning. The teaser trailer for T2 can be viewed here, and the offcial trailer here.Welsh wrote several continuations of the novel's story; together with the original, they form a quintet of stories revolving around addiction, brutality and soul which has come to define Welsh's output. Porno, a sequel published in 2002 which catches up with the main characters ten years later and mainly follows Sick Boy and Renton as they work through their issues with each other while producing a pornographic movie. Skagboys, a prequel published in 2012 which charts the descent of the main characters into drug addiction, violence, crime and defeatism. The Blade Artist, a 2016 novel focusing solely on (an apparently reformed) Begbie in the present day. Dead Men's Trousers, the 2018 sequel to Porno (following the cliffhanger set up by Artist). Before its release, Welsh teased that one of the Big Four would die in this novel, and that the new depravity for them to profit by would be the illegal organ trade.The characters also make other appearances in passing throughout Welsh's works, perhaps most notably in Glue and its follow-up A Decent Ride. In some ways, the character traits of the Big Four of the Trainspotting series are reflected in the "B team" of Glue, but with important differences.Please note that it is important, where relevant, to distinguish between the film and the novel because they (and their sequels) each take the story arc, characters, setting etc in a moderately different direction.note When you look at the changes made between Porno and T2 Trainspotting, by then it's more like significantly different. Therefore, generating confusion should be avoided when editing this article.
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Trainspotting / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Spud's mother receives this from Renton and his parents, but Begbie twists it into a rant that blames her for her son's imprisonment. In the book, Renton says: "There were no sacred cows for Begbie. Not even old ones from Leith whose laddie had just gone to prison". Additionally, Mark puts in a great deal of effort comforting his brother Billy's widow immediately after his funeral.
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Trainspotting / int_11187387	type	Gentile Jew-Chaser
Trainspotting / int_11187387	comment	Gentile Jew-Chaser: Spud's plans for his cut of the money involve settling down with a beautiful, rich Jewish princess.
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Trainspotting / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Trainspotting / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Irvine Welsh cameos as Renton's dealer Mikey Forrester. Screenwriter John Hodge plays a policeman in the opening scene. Producer Andrew Macdonald cameos as the man who Renton tries to sell the "Victorian Townhouse" to.
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Trainspotting / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Trainspotting / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: Due to the Big Four (Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie) receiving the most limelight in later books, and his absence from the film adaptation, Second Prize's presence at the climatic drug deal in the first book is treated this way in Porno and Dead Men's Trousers, with him being little more than an afterthought or mild obstacle for Renton.
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Trainspotting / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Trainspotting / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: At the celebration dinner following the suspension of his sentence, Mark Renton's mother: tells Begbie and Sick Boy all about her periods. She then pinches Renton's cheek and calls him her wee bairn, gleefully informing Begbie and Sick Boy that he hates being called that; then tops it all off by singing Mark his former 'favorite song,' a little ditty about momma's little baby loving his shortbread. Sick Boy joins in. It's enough to make Renton wish he'd gone to prison instead of Spud.
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Trainspotting / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
Trainspotting / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Not exactly, since the "heroes" are the ones who introduced him to the habit in the first place, but Tommy goes from soothing the pain of a breakup with drugs to ruining his entire life with drugs in the space of a few scenes.
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Trainspotting / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
Trainspotting / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Tommy has "the virus" but never knew he'd gone "full-blown". He officially died of toxoplasmosis, an opportunistic infection that attacks immuno-compromised people. Renton had to get tested for something that he may have also contracted, but fortunately for him his test came up negative. Clearly his disease was AIDS but it's never used in direct reference to him. HIV was brought up during Renton's Going Cold Turkey nightmare, but at no point in the film is it stated directly that Tommy has, or that Renton doesn't have AIDS. Though the phrase "AIDS Junkie scum" spray painted on Tommy's door might have been a clue.
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Trainspotting / int_1759ff85	type	Four-Philosophy Ensemble
Trainspotting / int_1759ff85	comment	Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Renton is The Cynic, Sick Boy is The Realist, Spud is The Optimist, Begbie is The Apathetic and Tommy, who relies on others for validation, is The Conflicted.
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Trainspotting / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Trainspotting / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the book, Renton, and Begbie come across an old drunk at a train station, who is revealed to be Begbie's father. He asks them, "What yis up to, lads? Trainspotting?" This scene is recollected in the film's sequel.
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Trainspotting / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
Trainspotting / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: The film introduces a sequence set in London with a quickfire montage featuring Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and Canary Wharf.
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Trainspotting / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Trainspotting / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Begbie, an Ax-Crazy psychopath who glasses a man for spilling his pint, carries around sharpened knitting needles to stab people with, and beats his pregnant girlfriend, all without a hint of remorse. Sick Boy is a borderline example: he manipulates everyone, pimps out young girls, and is completely self absorbed. Despite this, he is shown to have some redeeming qualities, though these are mostly pushed aside by his opportunistic nature and growing heroin addiction. Alan Venters, a rapist and wife beater who knowingly infects a girl with HIV and shows no remorse for his actions is a pretty clear cut example. His one redeeming trait is his love for his son.
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Trainspotting / int_1c064f7c	type	The Voice of a Generation
Trainspotting / int_1c064f7c	comment	The Voice of a Generation: Not just the book and the film itself, video analysis like this one spots that Trainspotting is called as "the voice of a generation", as the intro speech Renton says in the first minutes.
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Trainspotting / int_1c6a80fe	comment	Dropped in the Toilet: Exaggerated for extreme squick. Renton has a Potty Emergency, and ends up going into what's labeled as "The Worst Toilet in Scotland" to void his bowels. However, once he's done, he realizes that the opium suppositories he had in are now also in the toilet. He tries to fish them out, fighting off trying to throw up the whole time, but can't reach them. The scene then shows him diving head-first completely into the toilet, swimming through pristine water and retrieving the suppositories from the bottom of an ocean bed, and then emerging from the toilet horribly befouled.
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Trainspotting / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Trainspotting / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Tommy and Second Prize. Renton and Sick Boy prior to Porno. They reaffirm their friendship by the end of T2: Trainspotting, in contrast to the ending of Porno, where Renton burns his bridges with Sick Boy for good after finding out he intended to sic Begbie on him all along.
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Trainspotting / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Trainspotting / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Renton's narrations in the film, especially when he first encounters Dianne and narrates his own thoughts in the third person.
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Trainspotting / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
Trainspotting / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Depressingly Inverted/Subverted with Tommy's death.
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Trainspotting / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
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Trainspotting / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Trainspotting / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Renton and his pals use drugs as an escape from the drudgery and misery of mundane life. The dives they shoot up in are, as you'd expect, completely disgusting and filthy, but the rest of Edinburgh isn't exactly portrayed as a cultural beacon either. In fact, the whole place is bleak, grey, and blighted with urban decay.
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Trainspotting / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Trainspotting / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Lots and lots, but with a few Dude, Not Funny! moments to induce Mood Whiplash at points.
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Trainspotting / int_225527db	type	Cult Soundtrack
Trainspotting / int_225527db	comment	Cult Soundtrack: Two soundtrack albums were released with various pop, techno and rock songs on it that helped its success.
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Trainspotting / int_2311e2de	type	Accidental Aiming Skills
Trainspotting / int_2311e2de	comment	Accidental Aiming Skills: In the film, Begbie and Tommy are playing pool one day. Since Tommy doesnâ€™t want to be killed by Begbie (irritable enough at the best of times, but right now he's terribly hungover!) for beating him at pool, Tommy intentionally screws up shots, only for the ball to land in the right pocket.
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Trainspotting / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Trainspotting / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: The "Choose Life" speech. The first time Renton delivers it, he's being sarcastic and cynical. The second time, he's fully sincere about living that life. In the movie, the opening chase scene is replayed again with different music and narration after the baby dies, with devastating effect.
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Trainspotting / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
Trainspotting / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Until they die.
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Trainspotting / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Trainspotting / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Sick Boy's baby daughter Dawn dies of starvation and neglect.
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Trainspotting / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Trainspotting / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: For the look of the film, Boyle was influenced by the colours of Francis Bacon's paintings, which represented "a sort of in-between land â€“ part reality, part fantasy".
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Trainspotting / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Trainspotting / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The chapter titled The Skag Boys is probably a reference to The Slab Boys, a trilogy of plays by the Glaswegian painter and writer John Byrne.
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Trainspotting / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Trainspotting / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: According to Danny Boyle there's a sly connection between this film and his previous film Shallow Grave. Keith Allen portrays a drug dealer in both films â€” with the intention that we think he may be the same character in both, as Trainspotting was supposed to take place in the late 1980s before the occurrences in Shallow Grave.
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Trainspotting / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Trainspotting / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Begbie makes out with a "woman" in his car for a while before discovering it's a man.
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Trainspotting / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Trainspotting / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: At no point in the film do the characters watch trains. The title has more relevance in the original novel, however. It's alluded to in one of the trailers as well, but in a way that has nothing to do with either the the book or the film.
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Trainspotting / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Trainspotting / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: In the book, Begbie abandons his and June's son. He's previously had kids with other women as well. It's implied that the same thing happened to him as a child; Renton and Begbie run into an "auld drunkard" in a train station who Renton only later realizes was Begbie's father (this scene also provides the book's title, as Begbie's father asks the two if they are "trainspottin'").
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Trainspotting / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Trainspotting / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The only reference to trainspotting in the book was omitted from the movie, although trains do appear several times throughout the film and one of the trailers featured Renton tied to the railway tracks.
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Trainspotting / int_2c13a6ce	comment	Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For: Begbie has just robbed a jewelers at gunpoint and the jewelery he's stolen is not as valuable as he thought.
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Trainspotting / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Trainspotting / int_2c437b06	comment	Also, when Second Prize and Tommy try to stop Venters publicly beating up his girlfriend, the woman suddenly turns into a Violently Protective Girlfriend, and viciously attacks Tommy with her nails. Even though he's shocked by the sudden assault, his "don't hit girls" instinct is so strong that instead of doing anything to her, he turns around and punches Venters instead.
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Trainspotting / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Trainspotting / int_2d409194	comment	Begbie's reaction in the movie when he discovers that the girl he just picked up isn't quite what she seems. As it comes shortly after a lot of extremely dark stuff it's quite a welcome change of mood.
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Trainspotting / int_2d4fa515	comment	Begbie, an Ax-Crazy psychopath who glasses a man for spilling his pint, carries around sharpened knitting needles to stab people with, and beats his pregnant girlfriend, all without a hint of remorse.
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Trainspotting / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Trainspotting / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Spud, particularly when he's been shooting up. For most of the movie, an incoherent Scottish mush comes out of his mouth that's impossible to understand for people outside Edinburgh. In the book, his narrated chapters feature the thickest dialect. Begbie's chapters in the books are often unreadable because he's so full of profanity and swears so much at the expense of actually describing what's going on. A particularly memorable chapter is the very short one in which every single person is referred to as 'that cunt' with maybe the odd character attribute thrown in to help you along your way.
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Trainspotting / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Trainspotting / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Most of the group (most noticeably Matty, Davie and Second Prize) don't appear in the film, due to the book having a large cast. Most signficantly, Mark's older brother, who in the book serves in the Army until he is killed by terrorists in Northern Ireland, is absent from the film.
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Trainspotting / int_34d2d6d	type	Break the Comedian
Trainspotting / int_34d2d6d	comment	Break the Comedian: Daniel "Spud" Murphy is the endearingly silly Butt-Monkey of the group, still bouncing back and telling jokes despite constant misfortune. However, going to prison for shoplifting, ending up homeless and losing his friend Tommy does a number on poor Spud: in the film, he can barely bring himself to speak up when brought in to help with the skag deal, and generally appears completely listless. He looks to be cheering up a bit when the deal works out... only for Begbie to slice his hand open in a fit of rage.
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Trainspotting / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Trainspotting / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: This is made all the more obvious in the film that was based on this book.
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Trainspotting / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Trainspotting / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: The poster includes Begbie giving the V-sign to the viewer.
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Trainspotting / int_37141022	type	Can't You Read the Sign?
Trainspotting / int_37141022	comment	Can't You Read the Sign?: Amusingly, the car in which Begbie experiences an Unsettling Gender-Reveal is parked under a sign that says "No Ball Games".
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Trainspotting / int_38a1e0eb	type	Foreign Cuss Word
Trainspotting / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: The film's poster features Begbie delivering a V-sign, which is a vulgar gesture in Britain. The poster certainly wouldn't have been displayed so prominently in America if he were giving a middle finger.
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Trainspotting / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Trainspotting / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Keith Allen was cast as a dealer, referencing his earlier role in Shallow Grave. Word of God is that it is the same character, and Trainspotting takes place before Shallow Grave.invoked
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Trainspotting / int_3ab3dbb	type	Adaptational Protagonist
Trainspotting / int_3ab3dbb	comment	Adaptational Protagonist: Although Renton does feature heavily in the original novel, the book's overall structure is diffuse, dealing with several different characters' points of view. Rather than adapting the novel into an Anthology Film, the movie makes Renton the lead character.
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Trainspotting / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Trainspotting / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: The novel is about, in part, Mark's development from heroin addict into the mature adult that appears in Porno. The first time around, both book- and movie-wise, Dianne is portrayed as a sex-crazed, club-hopping teenager; by the time Porno comes up she's toned her recreational drug use down and she matured into a pretty well-adjusted university student, working on her thesis and being more than capable to hold her own in a conversation. She still loves to party, though. Over the course of Skagboys, Sick Boy develops from a Loveable Rogue with a heart of gold to the borderline-sociopathic pimp and pusher that appears in Trainspotting and Porno. By the time of Porno, Second Prize has embraced sobriety (not that he had much of a choice) and religion, having distanced himself from the lads after getting ripped off by Renton. Begbie has gone through some by The Blade Artist, becoming more well-read, amicable and accepting of others, though his violent, psychopathic tendencies and urges - apparently stemming from what American analysts diagnose as intermittent explosive disorder - tend to resurface.
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Trainspotting / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
Trainspotting / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: Dawsy, Mony, Moysie, Saybo, Shaun and Sully are generic, nondescript members of the gang's extended circle of friends who appear sporadically throughout all three books.
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Trainspotting / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Trainspotting / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": When Begbie goes picking a fight in a restaurant just for fun and a massive Bar Brawl suddenly erupts, the rest of his fellow drug addicts just stand on the balcony overlooking all this mayhem with this reaction on their faces.
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Trainspotting / int_3f21ec8	type	Near-Miss Groin Attack
Trainspotting / int_3f21ec8	comment	Near-Miss Groin Attack: Begbie slams Renton against a wall and stabs directly under his crotch when the latter makes a joke about Begbie nearly hooking up with a trans woman. The threat is clear, but Begbie clarifies that he'll castrate Renton if he says another word.
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Trainspotting / int_3f3def64	type	Am I Right?
Trainspotting / int_3f3def64	comment	Am I Right?: Used by Diane:
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Trainspotting / int_408e7b93	type	Bump into Confrontation
Trainspotting / int_408e7b93	comment	Bump into Confrontation: Don't make Begbie spill his pint.
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Trainspotting / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Trainspotting / int_40c57041	comment	Sick Boy is a borderline example: he manipulates everyone, pimps out young girls, and is completely self absorbed. Despite this, he is shown to have some redeeming qualities, though these are mostly pushed aside by his opportunistic nature and growing heroin addiction.
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Trainspotting / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Trainspotting / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor, poor Spud. He always screws up. Second Prize, though thankfully, he's usually too drunk to care.
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Trainspotting / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Trainspotting / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Second Prize is popular, handsome, and a star football player with skills that could rival professionals - but he's also a massive alcoholic with a need to prove himself in fights. He ultimately wastes his talents.
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Trainspotting / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Trainspotting / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: The book uses this trope so extensively it take most people several chapters before they can fully understand anything. While there are a few chapters narrated in standard English (from a third person omniscient perspective), most are from a various first person points of view and written in that character's particular brand of thick Edinburgh Scottish. Several characters, particularly Spud, not only have incredibly thick Scottish accents but also use odd slang and expressions and verbal tics making chapters from his perspective particularly difficult to follow.
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Trainspotting / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Trainspotting / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Perhaps it is shite being Scottish, but damn if the highlands aren't gucking forgeous.
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Trainspotting / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Trainspotting / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Begbie is known to carry a variety of home-made weapons about him, such as sharpened knitting needles. Renton suspects that he's actually not a very good fighter in a "square go."
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Trainspotting / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Trainspotting / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Begbie in the sequel. He's spent most of The '90s in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin.
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Trainspotting / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Trainspotting / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Tommy, a positive and well-meaning character, is completely and utterly destroyed by heroin over the course of the second act.
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Trainspotting / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Trainspotting / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: Both Renton and Spud in the film.
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Trainspotting / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Trainspotting / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Begbie carries around sharpened knitting needles in the book, and is said to be not much cop when it comes to a fair fight without weapons.
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Trainspotting / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Trainspotting / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Renton's rant against the British involvement in Northern Ireland and Unionism.
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Trainspotting / int_4f292929	type	Tall, Dark, and Snarky
Trainspotting / int_4f292929	comment	Sick Boy is Tall, Dark, and Snarky in the books and blond in the film. Although, in the drug trip sections in Dead Men's Trousers, he's blond.
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Trainspotting / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Trainspotting / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Sick Boy talking about the different aspects of James Bond.
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Trainspotting / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Trainspotting / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Begbie beats a man round the head with his pool cue. The man's crime? Eating his crisps loudly. He later glasses a man in a pub for spilling his pint on him.
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Trainspotting / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Trainspotting / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Renton's "choosing life" speeches at the beginning and end. While preparing to kick heroin in the beginning, Renton contemplates his pale, sickly, strung-out reflection while washing down pills with a glass of liquor. At the end he once more stands before a mirror, empties a glass of liquor to fill it with water instead, and contemplates his significantly-healthier complexion. The film also starts and finishes on an attempt by Renton to "kick" an unhealthy habit preventing him from leading a fulfilling life. The first is heroin addiction; the second attempt is escaping the toxic friends and environment which enables and exacerbates his self-destructive lifestyle.
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Trainspotting / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Trainspotting / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: "And where're you going Diane?" "Home." "Where's that then?" "It's where I live".
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Trainspotting / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Trainspotting / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Thoroughly averted in a disgusting scene where Spud has a hilarious accident with shit, piss and vomit (in the book, semen as well - and Davie is the victim, rather than Spud). Also averted in Renton's sudden attack of diarrhea where he soils his pants. In the film, he goes diving into a filthy public toilet. The filmmakers in the commentary note that the water he swims in was supposed to look disgusting and filled with excrement, but it actually looks quite pleasant.
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Trainspotting / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Trainspotting / int_56240281	comment	Begbie's chapters in the books are often unreadable because he's so full of profanity and swears so much at the expense of actually describing what's going on. A particularly memorable chapter is the very short one in which every single person is referred to as 'that cunt' with maybe the odd character attribute thrown in to help you along your way.
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Trainspotting / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
Trainspotting / int_569a95e9	comment	By the time of Porno, Second Prize has embraced sobriety (not that he had much of a choice) and religion, having distanced himself from the lads after getting ripped off by Renton.
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Trainspotting / int_58833512	type	Watering Down
Trainspotting / int_58833512	comment	Watering Down: Inverted. Renton's usually compensates for the fact that Seeker usually cuts any heroin he sells by upping his dosage per hit. He overdoses when the gear he gets is actually pure (or less cut at least).
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Trainspotting / int_59938d30	type	Better than Sex
Trainspotting / int_59938d30	comment	Better than Sex: Several of the heroin junkies praise their drug of choice as being better than sex. Significantly, such comparisons are what lead Tommy to take up the habit after his girlfriend dumps him, with devastating consequences.
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Trainspotting / int_5a116971	type	Britpop
Trainspotting / int_5a116971	comment	Britpop: The film was released at the height of Britpop and fittingly had a number of Britpop artists contribute to the soundtrack.
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Trainspotting / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Trainspotting / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: In contrast to his friendship with Renton, Sick Boy has this mode of interaction with Begbie. He views Franco as a crass, vicious thug and tenapenny muscle for more dangerous scams. On Begbie's part, he's morally disgusted with Sick Boy's pimping and heroin related activities, but admires his scheming ways otherwise as it brings in money. Renton hates them both when they decide to socially gang up on him, stealing both female attention and parental affection.
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Trainspotting / int_5ac47fa6	type	Erudite Stoner
Trainspotting / int_5ac47fa6	comment	Erudite Stoner: Sick Boy. Renton constantly ruminating on his views on the world, quickly getting a grasp at psychoanalytical ideas when he is being examined and having an understanding on the overall ideas of Kierkegaard. Spud in the book is a failed example of this, constantly saying vaguely coherent rants on the importance of love and taking care of animals. However, he deserves credit for his astute observations regarding other characters, and is fairly well read despite some of it being beyond his comprehension e.g. Crime and Punishment.
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Trainspotting / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Trainspotting / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Renton ends up locked in his old bedroom by his parents to be forced through withdrawal, and as a result suffers vividly unnerving hallucinations; although they aren't all terrifying, the scariest one has to be Baby Dawn crawling on the ceiling and turning its head 180 degrees before suddenly falling on Renton.
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Trainspotting / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Trainspotting / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The screenwriter John Hodge has said he considered the book unfilmable, so huge amounts were cut and new bits added to give the remaining fragments some sense of being part of an actual narrative.
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Trainspotting / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Trainspotting / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Hazel let slip to Mark she'd suffered from this as a girl, making sex with her near-impossible from lingering trauma.
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Trainspotting / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Trainspotting / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Francis Begbie is almost as dangerous to his "mates" as he is to everyone else. Renton even outlines a number of Begbie's myths that the gang must play along with so as not to get beaten up.
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Trainspotting / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Trainspotting / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: In the film, Sick Boy sheds them when Baby Dawn is found dead from starvation and neglect (because he was the father). No one else does, though they are all in utter shock.
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Trainspotting / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Trainspotting / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Renton is phlegmatic, Sick Boy is melancholic/choleric, Spud is sanguine, Begbie is extremely choleric and Tommy is leukine.
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Trainspotting / int_67624800	type	Disgusting Public Toilet
Trainspotting / int_67624800	comment	Disgusting Public Toilet: "The Worst Toilet In Scotland".
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Trainspotting / int_69285c21	type	Embarrassing Damp Sheets
Trainspotting / int_69285c21	comment	Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Spud wishes he had only wet the bed. What he did was... worse.
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Trainspotting / int_697b1af	type	Jump Cut
Trainspotting / int_697b1af	comment	Jump Cut: The film uses jump cuts in one scene as a metaphor for the POV of a character under the influence of speed.
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Trainspotting / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Trainspotting / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: As an accomplished brawler, Begbie makes plenty of use of these. The book mentions that he has an arsenal of Stanley knives, knuckledusters, sharpened screwdrivers, and knitting needles (because there's less chance they get stuck in the victim's ribcage). Renton states that he does not actually rate Begbie as a terribly strong fighter without his blades.
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Trainspotting / int_6ea4cf8c	type	Jailbait Taboo
Trainspotting / int_6ea4cf8c	comment	Jailbait Taboo: Mark Renton has sex with Diane, discovering the next morning that she is fifteen when she appears in her school uniform and her "flatmates" are actually her parents. Later, she threatens to tell the police if he does not see her again.
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Trainspotting / int_7032976	type	Sex Montage
Trainspotting / int_7032976	comment	Sex Montage: The film sees the lads go home from a night clubbing to have sex with their respective partners - Renton and Diane have sex at her place, then she chucks him out; Tommy and Lizzie decide to watch their own sex tape while doing it, only to discover that it's been replaced; and Spud passes out drunk, living Gail unsatisfied.
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Trainspotting / int_70506bc7	type	Going Cold Turkey
Trainspotting / int_70506bc7	comment	Going Cold Turkey: Renton tries to break free of his heroin addiction this way, but doesn't go all the way. After his overdose, however, his parents lock him in his room and force Cold Turkey on him.
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Trainspotting / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Trainspotting / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: Davie's killing of Alan Venters is carried out by this method.
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Trainspotting / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Trainspotting / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: In the movie, Begbie starts one by tossing his empty pint glass off the balcony to the bar below, and shatters on a young woman's head. Slamming his knife on the table and rubbing his hands together with glee, he goes downstairs and declares that nobody is to leave the bar until the culprit is found. When asked by the girl's boyfriend who he is, Begbie simply kicks him in the balls, starting a massive brawl. The scene is slightly different in the book—Begbie begins to furiously interrogate the entire bar, playing detective and shouting at the bartender to call the police. The glassed man's mate sets off the brawl by punching another man. After the massive bar brawl is over, he and Begbie together kick another man to a pulp, and he cheerfully extends his hand to Begbie. Who promptly kicks him in the groin and punches his face in.
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Trainspotting / int_71cc4b5a	type	Descent into Addiction
Trainspotting / int_71cc4b5a	comment	Descent into Addiction: Tommy is introduced to heroin by Renton after his girlfriend dumps him and ultimately contracts HIV.
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Trainspotting / int_720ef89f	type	Unconventional Formatting
Trainspotting / int_720ef89f	comment	Unconventional Formatting: In the novel, slightly unusual textual layouts when Renton is hallucinating because of withdrawal.
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Trainspotting / int_73309776	type	Psycho Sidekick
Trainspotting / int_73309776	comment	Psycho Sidekick: Nelly is this to Franco, along with other psychos like Lexo and Ghostie Gorman.
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Trainspotting / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Trainspotting / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The film opens In Medias Res with a scene of Renton, Spud, and Sick Boy running from the police, set to "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop, giving it a jaunty, madcap tone. Later on, the same scene is shown again, in correct chronological order, in the wake of Sick Boy's baby's death, this time set to "Sing" by Blur. The changed circumstances and music suggest the increasingly unhappy and desperate group of friends is starting to break down. The second time around also reveals that Renton was tackled and arrested by the second policeman chasing him.
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Trainspotting / int_759985ec	type	Crotch-Grab Sex Check
Trainspotting / int_759985ec	comment	Crotch-Grab Sex Check: Begbie chats up a woman at a club and takes her to his car to get to know her better. After 'inspecting the goods' he finds out she is transgender and kicks her out of his ride.
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Trainspotting / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Trainspotting / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Renton offhandedly mentions a former friend who he'd dropped after it became common knowledge he'd been shagging his sister.
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Trainspotting / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Trainspotting / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: In the novel, Sick Boy makes use of one to kill a dog who had attacked its owner (who had done so because Sick Boy shot him in the balls with an air rifle). He lampshades its use, noting that nobody on the east side of the Atlantic Ocean keeps a baseball bat for playing baseball.
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Trainspotting / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Trainspotting / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: In T2 during his "choose life" rant Renton expresses his strong disdain for social media.
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Trainspotting / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Trainspotting / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: Spud has a memorable one, when he fills his girlfriend's bed with thin alcohol-vomit, semen, piss and diarrhea. When the girlfriend's mother tries to take the soiled bedsheets, Spud is so embarrassed he holds them back, and they get into a tugging match - which ends with the whole family getting sprayed with it.
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Trainspotting / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Trainspotting / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Second Prize, to the point where even his drug addicted friends are embarrassed to be in his company.
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Trainspotting / int_7f7be47a	type	Where Did We Go Wrong?
Trainspotting / int_7f7be47a	comment	Where Did We Go Wrong?: Renton's parents had this basic reaction towards his addiction.
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Trainspotting / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Trainspotting / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The scene at the beginning of the film introduces the five leads acting out their personalities as part of a football game: Sick Boy fouls, and shouts "What?" as if trying to look innocent; Begbie dropkicks one of the opposing team-members, wearing a delighted grin as he gets up; Spud acts as goalie, completely misses an incoming ball and gets yelled at by his own team; Tommy gets caught in a corner and tries valiantly to escape without performing a foul; finally, Renton gets hit in the head with the ball and collapses- all the while narrating sarcastically.
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Trainspotting / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
Trainspotting / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: Music plays a big part in the characters' lives: Renton is a huge fan of David Bowie, as well as Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. In the book, he's annoyed to hear someone playing the Rock and Roll Animals version of "Heroin" as opposed to The Velvet Underground's version, which breaks the junkie's golden rule. Spud loves Frank Zappa. Sick Boy clearly prefers Reed's Velvet Underground work, finding his solo stuff average. Tommy loves Iggy Pop so much that he bought a ticket... on the same date as his girlfriend's birthday. Begbie loves Rod Stewart and won't accept any talk about him being gay. Diane sings "Temptation" by New Order in the shower and has a Bowie picture.
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Trainspotting / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Trainspotting / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: In the book (and in a Deleted Scene from the film), Swanny, after losing his leg, is reduced to begging, while claiming he lost his leg in the Falklands War.
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Trainspotting / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Trainspotting / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: It's an Irvine Welsh story, so the characters consist of junkies, psychos, losers and deadbeats.
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Trainspotting / int_82997945	type	Revenge Is a Dish Best Served
Trainspotting / int_82997945	comment	Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: In the novel, a girl jobbing in a restaurant is hit on by some drunken English Jerkass tourists. She retaliates by putting all kinds of squicky stuff in their food, from blood-soaked tampons to urine.
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Trainspotting / int_83535879	type	Tall Poppy Syndrome
Trainspotting / int_83535879	comment	Tall Poppy Syndrome: Self-inflicted by Renton.
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Trainspotting / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
Trainspotting / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: Begbie demands a cigarette from Renton after attacking a man who spilled his beer (and Spud, when he "got in [his] way"). Renton obliges and lights his cigarette for him, only for Begbie to blow the smoke in his face to show him who's in charge of the whole operation. While Renton had been thinking about stealing the money from the heroin sale for a while now as opposed to dividing it among the four of them as intended, it's this incident that pushes him over the edge and gives him the nerve to steal the money. Fortunately for Spud, he got his share of the money owed to him.
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Trainspotting / int_853df68b	type	Rail Enthusiast
Trainspotting / int_853df68b	comment	Rail Enthusiast: The title comes from a chapter in the novel called "Trainspotting at Leith Central Station". The joke is that the station is long-closed and derelict, so trainspotting there is an utterly pointless, dull, and squalid experience, like most things the characters do.
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Trainspotting / int_85f102ac	type	Symbolic Distance
Trainspotting / int_85f102ac	comment	Symbolic Distance: In the film adaptation, Liz and Tommy's already-strained relationship finally collapses after it looks like their homemade porn film has accidentally been returned to the video shop with Tommy's other rented tapes (In reality, it was pinched by Renton). We don't see the ensuing breakup, but it's illustrated by a scene in which the two ex-lovers are found standing in the street the next morning, waiting for the bus with roughly ten feet between them — in total silence, with Liz too disgusted to even look at Tommy.
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Trainspotting / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Trainspotting / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At the drug deal in London, the dealers are there with another man who goes into the bathroom to test the stuff. Once the deal is done, the dealers leave, but the tester never leaves the bathroom.
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Trainspotting / int_872b9e12	type	Chained to a Railway
Trainspotting / int_872b9e12	comment	Chained to a Railway: The teaser trailer for the film, even though it doesn't happen. Also has Gallows Humour in spades.
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Trainspotting / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Trainspotting / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: At least among the major characters. Some of their family members are good, responsible citizens.
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Trainspotting / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Trainspotting / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In the movie, when Renton overdoses, Mother Superior says he'll call him a taxi. Cut to an ambulance tearing through the estate....Which isn't for him. It goes straight past the two of them by the side of the road, and Renton is then roughly bundled into an actual taxi
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Trainspotting / int_88443a8a	type	Establishing Character Music
Trainspotting / int_88443a8a	comment	Establishing Character Music: The film memorably opens with Renton and Spud being chased down the street by security guards to Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life". Renton spots Diane to Sleeper's cover of Blondie's "Atomic".
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Trainspotting / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Trainspotting / int_8a817c2a	comment	Alan Venters, a rapist and wife beater who knowingly infects a girl with HIV and shows no remorse for his actions is a pretty clear cut example. His one redeeming trait is his love for his son.
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Trainspotting / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Trainspotting / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Mark's heavily disabled brother Davie. He's present in Skagboys, until his unfortunate passing.
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Trainspotting / int_8c92054d	type	Chaotic Stupid
Trainspotting / int_8c92054d	comment	Chaotic Stupid: Begbie strays into this territory frequently, given that he insists not only on being a violent and often sadistic brawler, but often doing it within plain sight of people who are liable to call the police or remember his face. At one point, after kicking in a man's head and accidentally slicing open Spud's hand, he stands right in front of the bar and various shocked witnesses and demands that Renton take at least a minute to "bring me doon a fukken ciggareh" before even considering leaving â€” or taking his injured friend to a hospital. He's also been known to attack bystanders for eating chips too loudly. Neutral Axe-Crazy might be a better description of his alignment, come to think of it.
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Trainspotting / int_8ca9bf12	type	Sex Equals Love
Trainspotting / int_8ca9bf12	comment	Sex Equals Love: Averted with Mark and Dianne in both the novel and film adaption. That said, they end up together at the end of Porno, making this trope applicable even though it takes them ten years to get there.
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Trainspotting / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Trainspotting / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Early in the film, when Renton goes to Mikey Forrester to get his last hit, Mikey gives him opium anal suppositories instead. Realizing that they're the closest thing to heroin that he's going to get, Renton takes them and inserts them into his anus. Cue the following exchange:
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Trainspotting / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Trainspotting / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: The play only has four actors portraying multiple roles.
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Trainspotting / int_939c634b	type	Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out
Trainspotting / int_939c634b	comment	Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out: In the film, Renton and his friends are waiting at a railway station, with one of them facing the camera with his back, just like Paul does on the back cover of the album.
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Trainspotting / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Trainspotting / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Francis Begbie.
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Trainspotting / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Trainspotting / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Spud spends most of the movie as a semi-coherent walking joke, but in the end he's the only one who gets sent his fair share of the loot from Renton.
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Trainspotting / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Trainspotting / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Used and lampshaded in the novel's Bad Blood chapter, where the HIV-positive character Davie pulls this on Alan Venters, the man who gave the HIV to the former's girlfriend by raping her, thus leading to Davie's own contraction of the virus. His plan is to make friends with a dying Venters, so that he is allowed to visit him in hospital, and also seduces the mother of the rapist's only son so that one day she may trust him enough to let him babysit for her. When this happens, Davie drugs the child with a sleep-inducing substance and takes pictures of him, making it look like he violently raped and murdered the boy. Then he shows the pictures to Venters on his deathbed and suffocates him with a pillow, thus filling his last moments in life with immeasurable suffering. The Plan depended greatly on random chance (most significantly on Venters staying alive long enough for all the pieces to fall into place), a fact that Davie is well aware of.
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Trainspotting / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Trainspotting / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Tommy and Lizzie's relationship might have been on very shaky ground already, but Renton secretly swapping their personal pornotape pushes it over the edge as Tommy cannot explain why it is missing and can't deny that someone else might have gotten their hands on it when he and Lizzie discover the swap. The lonely Tommy turns to drugs in an attempt to mend his broken heart, decays severely both physically and mentally, gets infected with HIV after using drugs for just a few months, sinks into extreme poverty, suffers a stroke, and finally dies completely alone while lying in a pool of his own sick, and his body is first discovered when the neighbours complain about the smell.
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Trainspotting / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Trainspotting / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Begbie's friends try to treat him this way, though he turns his rage on them often enough.
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Trainspotting / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
Trainspotting / int_9c550e26	comment	Word Salad Title: The title seems to be nonsensical, but it's a shortening of the original short story's title "Trainspotting at Leith Central Station". The joke is that the station is long-closed and derelict, so trainspotting there is an utterly pointless, dull and squalid experience, like most things the characters do. No one "trainspots" or even says the word in the film. In the book there is a brief scene where an old drunk later implied to be Begbie's father asks Renton and Begbie if they are trainspotting. The term is a slang reference to a junkie's search for a vein to inject drugs in. Fans often speculate as to the various levels of significance the title has to the story's themes.
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Trainspotting / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Trainspotting / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: The film has both the foreign slang and the incomprehensibility.
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Trainspotting / int_9e335555	type	Single-Issue Psychology
Trainspotting / int_9e335555	comment	Single-Issue Psychology: Subverted: when Mark is undergoing rehab he sees a succession of psychologists and counselors, each of whom try to attribute his heroin addiction to a single event in his life or facet of his personality (guilt over his brother Davie's death, his refusal to integrate himself into society). Mark, to his credit, doesn't believe a word of it.
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Trainspotting / int_9fb8b0ac	type	Textual Celebrity Resemblance
Trainspotting / int_9fb8b0ac	comment	Textual Celebrity Resemblance: In the book, Renton is said to resemble footballer Alex McLeish, while Sick Boy and Tommy are said to look like Steven Seagal and Harrison Ford respectively.
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Trainspotting / int_9ff5aa20	type	Nailed to the Wagon
Trainspotting / int_9ff5aa20	comment	Nailed to the Wagon: Renton has his parents lock him in his room to force himself through withdrawal.
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Trainspotting / int_a33ff511	type	Indirect Kiss
Trainspotting / int_a33ff511	comment	Indirect Kiss: Near the end of the film, Begbie orders Renton to give him a cigarette, and just stands there waiting with his mouth open until Renton puts it in his own mouth to light it, and then puts it in Begbie's. While this could just be a display of dominance and control (which is well within Begbie's character), Word of Gay is that they imagined Begbie as an Armored Closet Gay, so this trope was certainly intended.
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Trainspotting / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Trainspotting / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Sick Boy is Tall, Dark, and Snarky in the books and blond in the film. Although, in the drug trip sections in Dead Men's Trousers, he's blond. Renton has ginger hair in the book. In the film, he has dark hair.
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Trainspotting / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Trainspotting / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Over and over again.
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Trainspotting / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Trainspotting / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: Stealth prequel to Shallow Grave as mentioned above.
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Trainspotting / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Trainspotting / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: By the end of the story Renton in particular escapes any particular punishment.
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Trainspotting / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Trainspotting / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Begbie clearly terrifies his "friends" with his Hair-Trigger Temper. When Renton flees his former lifestyle, Begbie tracks him down and becomes The Thing That Would Not Leave.
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Trainspotting / int_a8b68a9c	type	No Pregger Sex
Trainspotting / int_a8b68a9c	comment	No Pregger Sex: The book has a scene which both averts this and has the sort of imagery that shows why this trope is Squick to some people; Mark is having sex with his dead brother's pregnant girlfriend and his narration says he gets a mental image of him being so far up inside her that the foetus is simultaneously giving him a blowjob. He says the image "torments" him, but he keeps going anyway. Given that he knows he is shagging her (in a toilet at said dead brother's funeral!) to get back at his hated brother anyway, the image just serves to highlight his self-aware degradation.
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Trainspotting / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Trainspotting / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: In the book, Alan Venters rapes a girl and knowingly infects her with HIV, which she then unknowingly passes to her boyfriend, Davie. He conceals his knowledge and initiates a fake friendship with Venters as he is dying in hospital, visiting him frequently. He then creates a set of fake photographs which appear to show the horrific rape and murder of Venters's son (the only being besides himself that he cares about) and shows these to Venters before smothering him with a pillow, filling the last moments of Venters' life with anguish.
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Trainspotting / int_aa368af0	type	Two Scenes, One Dialogue
Trainspotting / int_aa368af0	comment	Two Scenes, One Dialogue: The scene in the night club with Spud and Tommy by the dance floor and Spud's "girlfriend" and Lizzie in the ladies' room.
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Trainspotting / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
Trainspotting / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: The first 20 minutes of the film were redubbed to make the thick Scottish accents comprehensible to an American audience. The Region 1 DVD releases restored the original audio. Interestingly, the subtitles (or at least the Netflix ones) have the original slang; bird/girl, post/mail, skag/smack etc.
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Trainspotting / int_ab67853d	type	In Da Club
Trainspotting / int_ab67853d	comment	In Da Club: Well, sort of, since there are two clubbing scenes, but it's subverted. The music isn't always banging, the lighting isn't always perfect, and not everyone is attractive, stylishly dressed, or having fun. Least of all Renton.
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Trainspotting / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Trainspotting / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" plays as Renton has a near-fatal heroin overdose, though the song is probably about Lou Reed's heroin addiction. The same footage of the group running from the police and Renton being hit by a car is used twice. Once at the start of the film with "Lust For Life" by Iggy Pop being used at the background music, and again with "Sing" by Blur taking its place. The change in soundtrack significantly changes the mood of the scene from funny and hedonistic to sad and desperate.
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Trainspotting / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Trainspotting / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Renton's "Choose life" rant, which gets an Ironic Echo after his Character Development.
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Trainspotting / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Trainspotting / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Some of the more chilling heroin problems are narrated by Renton in, well, Junk Dilemmas No. 63-67, with italics for emphasis. He only manages to get up to Straight Dilemmas No. 1 by the end of the novel, although his chapters in Porno could easily have been named as such. More significantly, each grouping of chapters juxtaposes Renton's long and hard transition from a full time junky to a reforming addict against his need to leave Leith behind: Kicking, Relapsing, Kicking Again, Blowing It, Exile, Home and Exit.
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Trainspotting / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Trainspotting / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Begbie's reaction in the movie when he discovers that the girl he just picked up isn't quite what she seems. As it comes shortly after a lot of extremely dark stuff it's quite a welcome change of mood. Mikey Forrester wakes up with this reaction after realising that he drunkenly bought two kilos of heroin off a pair of Russian sailors and has to get rid of it.
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Trainspotting / int_ad5c0143	type	Cutting Back to Reality
Trainspotting / int_ad5c0143	comment	Cutting Back to Reality: During Renton's big withdrawal scene in the film, he frequently hallucinates people sitting on or around his bed who immediately vanish in the next cut. In one instance, while hiding his head under the covers he finds Begbie lying next to him, threatening to kick the heroin out of him if it's still there when he comes back; terrified, Renton crawls out from under the covers in an attempt to escape - only to find that the bed is empty and he's once again alone.
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Trainspotting / int_ae06d09b	type	Borrowing the Beatles
Trainspotting / int_ae06d09b	comment	Borrowing the Beatles: The scene where the store detectives chase Renton down the street is reminiscent of the scene in A Hard Day's Night where The Beatles are pursued by fans. While watching the train, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Tommy arrange themselves in the same manner as the band did on the back of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The scene where Renton wakes up on the couch in the morning at Diane's home and says hello to someone passing through the hallway while covered with a blanket to his chin, is reminiscent of a scene in Help! where Ringo Starr is found in a trunk of a car covered up with a blanket, and upon being found, says hello. The "Mother Superior's" written in the dealer house is a reference to "Happiness is a Warm Gun", a song allegedly about heroin, which has the line "mother superior jump the gun".
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Trainspotting / int_ae0ef461	type	Friend to Psychos
Trainspotting / int_ae0ef461	comment	Friend to Psychos: They don't exactly have to dispose of bodies for Begbie, but his so-called mates are forced into justifying his psychotic fits and bizarre actions as a cowardly form of insurance against his variable temper.
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Trainspotting / int_b0bd5f11	type	Catholic School Girls Rule
Trainspotting / int_b0bd5f11	comment	Catholic School Girls Rule: Diane. Subverted in the fact that Renton has no idea she's underage when she picks him up (out of uniform, natch) at a club, and is horrified when he sees her dressed for school the next morning and realises her actual age.
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Trainspotting / int_b1a20640	type	Undiscriminating Addict
Trainspotting / int_b1a20640	comment	Undiscriminating Addict: Renton notes that whilst not on heroin, he and his friends are busy looking for just about anything with similar effects. After going through some of the NHS sources relied upon in lean times, he rattles off a long list of substitute opioids to be used when not in possession of real junk, including things like anti-vertigo medication.note One of the drugs he mentions, diamorphine, is basically medical-grade heroin
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Trainspotting / int_b5e62b91	type	Home Porn Movie
Trainspotting / int_b5e62b91	comment	Home Porn Movie: Renton makes off with one made by Tommy and Lizzie. Hilarity does not ensue.
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Trainspotting / int_b81d4e9d	type	Dramatic Ellipsis
Trainspotting / int_b81d4e9d	comment	Dramatic Ellipsis: In the movie Renton, while narrating his own inner thoughts in the third person, says them out loud. "Dot, Dot, DOT".
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Trainspotting / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Trainspotting / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Gav Temperley had a big part in the book. In the film, he's in the background of a couple of scenes and tells Renton how Tommy died.
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Trainspotting / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Trainspotting / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: The book was made into a movie, but not without a Pragmatic Adaptation as the content was deemed unfilmable.
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Trainspotting / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Trainspotting / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Begbie has myriads of them.
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Trainspotting / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Trainspotting / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: All the main male characters that are in relationships with women, but they all also seem to be quite physically affectionate with each other, at least when they're high. Except Begbie. Renton speculates at one point that human beings are bi by default, and it's social pressure that causes most to conform to being heterosexual. The film celebrates the idea by starting off with a gay (if heroin-induced) snog.
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Trainspotting / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Trainspotting / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: The stage play ends with Mark moving to London, omitting the drug deal.
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Trainspotting / int_be977433	type	Good-Times Montage
Trainspotting / int_be977433	comment	Good-Times Montage: In the film, there's a cool montage when Spud, Renton, and Sick Boy start using heroin again. Predictably, though, the good times don't last.
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Trainspotting / int_c1725854	type	Character Focus
Trainspotting / int_c1725854	comment	Character Focus: Trainspotting is centered mostly on Renton, whilst Porno shifts the focus to Sick Boy. Skagboys has the two sharing the limelight.
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Trainspotting / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Trainspotting / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: An in-universe example: Begbie fondly says of Mark: "This is a useless bastard; but he's goat style. A man ay wit. A man ay class. A man not unlike my good self". Immediately following this, Mark snarkily narrates: "Begbie always constructed imaginary qualities in his friends, then shamelessly claimed them for himself". He also notes that in spite of Begbie's fearsome reputation, he's not that good at fighting without using a weapon. A more subtle one: Renton is, presumably, supposedly good at football. We never really get to see his skills, but he does wear the sacred #10 jersey.
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Trainspotting / int_c3782352	type	Exiled to the Couch
Trainspotting / int_c3782352	comment	Exiled to the Couch: An odd example - after Renton and Diane have sex, she refuses to let him sleep in her bed and sends him to the sofa in the hallway.
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Trainspotting / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
Trainspotting / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: In the film, Begbie robs a jewellery shop with a replica pistol and hides out in Renton's bedsit. They end up having to share the bed, where Begbie twitches and convulses in his sleep. When Sick Boy joins them and the three of them end up sharing, Renton decides he's had enough and sends them to a flat he has trouble renting out. In the book, Renton ends up in the dilapidated basement apartment of an Italian homosexual he meets at a porn cinema, they share the only bed, Renton expecting that, since they're both fully clothed, nothing can happen. He wakes up a few hours later with a face-full of the guy's semen.
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Trainspotting / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Trainspotting / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The scene where Renton dives in a toilet is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow. The opening chase scene after the robbery is a nod to The Clash's video for "Bankrobber", in which the bank robbers in the video are being chased in a similar fashion and similar camera shot. Boyle also cited the Spike Jonze-directed music video for "Sabotage" by The Beastie Boys as a major influence on the opening sequence. The nightclub is decorated with images from Taxi Driver and resembles the Korova Milk Bar from A Clockwork Orange. In fact, the cinematography from the latter is homaged quite a bit. When Renton is hallucinating his bedroom extends and becomes larger than it actually is, much like how Pink's hotel room "extends" in the "Don't Leave Me Now" sequence in The Wall.
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Trainspotting / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Trainspotting / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: The two couples in the loud club, when the girls go to the bathroom and the boys remain at the table. Both talk about their relationships with the other, then claim to be talking about safer and more stereotypical subjects when the girls return.
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Trainspotting / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Trainspotting / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: In the book, Begbie gets some last-minute characterization as it's explained that his father (a derelict alcoholic) abandoned him as a child. Paralleling this is the fashion in which Begbie treats his own children.
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Trainspotting / int_c919e48d	type	Stimulant Speedtalk
Trainspotting / int_c919e48d	comment	Stimulant Speedtalk: Spud deliberately tanks a job interview with a little help from a packet of cocaine (AKA Morningside Speed) to make himself so hyperactive and over-eager they won't want to hire him. As a result, he spends the interview gibbering on about schools he went to and going on lengthy digressions that don't endear him to the interviewers, meaning that he fails the interview in a way that makes it look like he genuinely tried, so he continues to get dole money.
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Trainspotting / int_cbd5e848	type	Smug Straight Edge
Trainspotting / int_cbd5e848	comment	Smug Straight Edge: Second Prize, Begbie and Tommy initially take this attitude, pouring scorn on their junkie mates. As it turns out though, they're not much better. Second Prize drinks like a fish, above and beyond any other character. Begbie is a heavy drinker, coke and speed user, and of course has his violence addiction. And Tommy has done every recreational drug available... up to and including the skag, to his great cost.
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Trainspotting / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Trainspotting / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The scariest thing we see of Baby Dawn after she dies is her soulless, discolored face.
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Trainspotting / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Trainspotting / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Allison's daughter, Dawn, dies of neglect due to her parents being drug addicts... where was Social Services, whom could've prevented this? Perhaps Averted, somewhat: these heroin users are hardly on the grid, residing in this highly illegal drug squat.
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Trainspotting / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Trainspotting / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: In the book, Begbie is a tattooed and physically massive bully, but director Danny Boyle cast the relatively short Robert Carlyle on the belief that smaller guys are more dangerous.
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Trainspotting / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Trainspotting / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Even more thoroughly and explicitly averted than Nobody Poops, and even more Squicktastic. In fact, almost every chapter narrated by a female character features an aversion of this. (Welsh possibly has some difficulty writing female characters).
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Trainspotting / int_d68762ef	type	Weapon for Intimidation
Trainspotting / int_d68762ef	comment	Weapon for Intimidation: "Armed robbery?! With a replica?!"
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Trainspotting / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Trainspotting / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Renton and Sick Boy. In the book, Renton notes that the back-and-forth insults which began as jokes are becoming more and more deeply meant. By the end of the novel it becomes barely concealed mutual hatred come Porno.
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Trainspotting / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Trainspotting / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Sick Boy. Chapters narrated from his perspective showcase his disdain for society and his friends, and he has no qualms or regrets about using other people. Renton later says of Sick Boy: "He doesnae care. Because he doesnae care, he cannae be hurt. Never".
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Trainspotting / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Trainspotting / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: The "Morningside speed" Spud takes for his job interview is a slang term for cocaine. Morningside is one of the more affluent suburbs of Edinburgh, with the implication that people there are rich enough to afford cocaine rather than using amphetamines.
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Trainspotting / int_da1e24b7	type	Recovered Addict
Trainspotting / int_da1e24b7	comment	Recovered Addict: Mark in the movie gets Nailed to the Wagon and eventually manages to stick with it.
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Trainspotting / int_db15f008	type	ReallySeventeenYearsOld
Trainspotting / int_db15f008	comment	Really 17 Years Old: Mark meets Diane in a club and they go back to her place for a one-night-stand. He crashes on the sofa and the next morning meets whom he assumes to be her flatmates. They're her parents and, to Mark's horror, Diane enters wearing a school uniform. Naturally, he refuses to see her again, but she threatens to go to the police if he doesn't.
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Trainspotting / int_db2b02bf	type	Horrible Housing
Trainspotting / int_db2b02bf	comment	Horrible Housing: Used to symbolize the use of drugs. For most of the film, the main characters live together in a heroin den that's an apartment in an abandoned building with almost no light, filth everywhere, and exposed insulation. Once Tommy starts doing drugs, he moves from a fairly normal apartment into a place like that. Once Mark gets clean and into a straight job (ironically real estate, where he's showing off fancy apartments), he moves into a small but clean studio, signifying his rise in life- which quickly becomes more hovel-like once his old junkie friends move in with him.
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Trainspotting / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Trainspotting / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: In the film, Tommy's last name is changed from Laurence to MacKenzie.
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Trainspotting / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
Trainspotting / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Begbie in the film. Robert Carlyle played him as a closeted homosexual whose bursts of rage stemmed partially from his fear of being outed, and Word of God agreed with the interpretation. When a girl he's getting frisky with turns out to be a man he amazingly doesn't attack the person in question, which at a glance seems very out of character. It's also insinuated with a scene in which Begbie makes Renton put a cigarette in his mouth, which is charged with sexual tension.invoked
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Trainspotting / int_dd234c2f	type	Hallucinations
Trainspotting / int_dd234c2f	comment	Hallucinations: When Renton goes Cold Turkey, he experiences several heroin-induced (and heroin-withdrawal-induced) hallucinations.
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Trainspotting / int_dd554d47	type	Did Not Do the Bloody Research
Trainspotting / int_dd554d47	comment	Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Middle-finger gestures are generally censored in America, but the poster in which Begbie gives a V-sign is shown without any problems.
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Trainspotting / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Trainspotting / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: It's implied that, for all his faults, Sick Boy is still a pretty decent guy. Until his daughter dies of starvation. What Renton says about this afterwards provides the page quote for this trope: "It wasn't just the baby that died that day; something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned". Tommy goes past the Horizon after his breakup with Lizzy. It doesn't end well.
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Trainspotting / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Trainspotting / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Renton gives an articulate and fierce defence of his lifestyle in the beginning, and the gang seem to be living fast and carefree at times, but tragedy and horror strike often. Ultimately Renton leaves the life.
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Trainspotting / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
Trainspotting / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: The film is set in Edinburgh, right? Then what can explain the scene where Renton and Diane come out of the nightclub and it is revealed to be the very distinctive exterior of the Volcano... which is Glasgow, a good fifty miles from Edinburgh?
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Trainspotting / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
Trainspotting / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: In all three books in the trilogy, each chapter is narrated by a different character, with Renton being the most prominent narrator in Trainspotting, Sick Boy being the most prominent in Porno, with the two getting more or less an equal share of focus in Skagboys.
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Trainspotting / int_e407c52e	type	Double Subversion
Trainspotting / int_e407c52e	comment	Double Subversion: When Renton overdoses, Mother Superior asks him "perhaps sir would like me to call for a taxi?" This is followed by a shot of a speeding ambulance, giving the impression that "taxi" was a dark euphemism. Mother Superior drags an immobile Renton out onto the street, whereupon we see the ambulance sail past on an adjoining road. It turns out Mother Superior really did call for a (legally less risky) taxi to take Renton to hospital.
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Trainspotting / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Trainspotting / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Several in the film. Justified in that the book had such a huge cast that they had to be trimmed for the film. Matty's death is given to Tommy in the film, whilst Spud inherits some of Second Prize's character flaws. The unfortunate incident involving Davie Mitchell is also given to Spud in the film.
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Trainspotting / int_e55c5f35	type	Happily Ever Before
Trainspotting / int_e55c5f35	comment	Happily Ever Before: The stage adaptation ends with Renton moving to London, swearing to go clean and avoid his drug addict friends. This omits him reconnecting with them for a drug deal and then stealing their shares of the money.
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Trainspotting / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
Trainspotting / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: The dealer in London carries one. The filmmakers discuss this trope in the DVD commentary.
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Trainspotting / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Trainspotting / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Mark Renton meets Diane in a club, then goes to her house where they have sex. Immediately after the act she kicks him out of her room and he sleeps on a sofa. In the morning it's revealed that she's underage. She even threatens to report him for sex with a minor if he doesn't see her againnote Renton is either unaware of, or too drugged-up to realize, the fact that meeting her in a club pretty clearly indicates that she should be of age, or else not have been allowed in. A public defender (or whatever the Scottish equivalent is) 10 minutes out of law school would get him out of any trouble she tried to get him in. Sleeping with her again after he knows her true age, on the other hand . . . .
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Trainspotting / int_ea44cd34	type	Britain Is Only London
Trainspotting / int_ea44cd34	comment	Britain Is Only London: Over the top montage of tourist sights when Renton moves to London.
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Trainspotting / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Trainspotting / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Renton does this to a pitbull with an air rifle. Begbie goes for the groin on a few occasions.
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Trainspotting / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Trainspotting / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: In the opening of the film, two shots of Renton falling to the ground are intercut; the first is when he gets hit in the head by a football, and the second is when he takes heroin in his home and falls to the floor as the drug takes its course.
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Trainspotting / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Trainspotting / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Renton has Davie the father, Wee Davie the disabled brother, and Davie the workmate/friend.
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Trainspotting / int_efa2d938	type	Homage Shot
Trainspotting / int_efa2d938	comment	Homage Shot: The shot of Sick Boy's finger ringing Renton's doorbell in London is almost identical to a shot in Shoot the Piano Player. The last scene with Spud getting the money in the locker is almost identical to a scene in Once Upon a Time in America. Even the circumstances behind the scenes are very similar.
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Trainspotting / int_f0893a50	type	Jewish American Princess
Trainspotting / int_f0893a50	comment	Jewish American Princess: Spud has a fetish for Jewish princesses, apparently acquired through listening to Frank Zappa as he mentions Moon Unit Zappa and alludes to Zappa's other songs "Catholic Girls" and "Valley Girl" in the same chapter.
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Trainspotting / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
Trainspotting / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the book, Renton and Begbie go on a train journey to lay low after comitting a crime and Begbie gets angry that Renton forgot the cards. In the film, this scene is transferred to the coach trip to London for the final deal and it's Sick Boy who forgets the cards.
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Trainspotting / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Trainspotting / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Begbie and Alan Venters certainly will and do. Subverted by Second Prize: when he sees Venters beating up his girlfriend in the pub, he remembers his dad telling him never to hit a girl, advice he claims to have followed; but then observes that holding his girlfriend so she can't walk away from their arguments doesn't really count. Renton disagrees, and says it's the same principle. Also, when Second Prize and Tommy try to stop Venters publicly beating up his girlfriend, the woman suddenly turns into a Violently Protective Girlfriend, and viciously attacks Tommy with her nails. Even though he's shocked by the sudden assault, his "don't hit girls" instinct is so strong that instead of doing anything to her, he turns around and punches Venters instead.
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Trainspotting / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Trainspotting / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: BEGBIE, and plenty more besides.
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Trainspotting / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Trainspotting / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Inverted - most of the characters' hallucinations take place when they AREN'T on drugs, and aren't pleasant at all.
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Trainspotting / int_fcdf597b	type	Titled After the Song
Trainspotting / int_fcdf597b	comment	Titled After the Song: Some of the chapters are named after songs or lyrics - "Scotland Takes Drugs in Physic Defense", There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" and "Station to Station".
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Trainspotting / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
Trainspotting / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: In the film, a scene set in a club uses a more realistic audio balance of club music and the characters talking, and as such features subtitles included to let the audience know what they're saying. Also, if you watch the movie with the subtitle track, certain lines of dialogue have been changed to sound somewhat cynical. The best example is "the worst place in London" being subtitled as "one of London's most desirable properties".
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Trainspotting / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Trainspotting / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Everyone is terrified of Begbie, and they all understand that he could turn on them at the drop of a hat. In the book, Renton elaborates that Begbie's friends have to pretend to believe several myths about him to keep in his good graces. It can be reasonably argued that Renton's mates as a whole are ironically the antagonists in Renton's story (especially in the film). Both versions end with Renton concluding that he must cut all ties with them if he's to have a chance at leading a fulfilling life.
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Trainspotting / int_fde1d12	type	Abbey Road Crossing
Trainspotting / int_fde1d12	comment	Abbey Road Crossing: When the lads go to London for the deal in the film, they cross the road to the hotel in this manner.
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Trainspotting / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
Trainspotting / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: When fishing his anal suppositories out of the toilet, Mark climbs completely into it and is swimming around underwater.
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