Flatliners: Tropes

Signature tropes

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• Byronic Heroin 210 titlesNelson is a handsome, brilliant, ambitious man driven to discard medical ethics in pursuit of scientific and philosophical discovery (and, more than a little, personal glory).Read →
• Magical Defibrillatorin 154 titlesIn Real Life, it is not possible to defibrillate someone who is flatlined back to life, let alone someone who has been clinically dead for twelve minutes.Read →
• CPR: Clean, Pretty, ReliableRare · in 15 titlesLargely averted in the remake.Read →
• Ironic Hellin 203 titlesImplied, and in a manner of speaking.Read →
• Foilin 1,745 titlesNelson and Dave to each other; both are exceptional medical students with a willingness to disregard rules, a disinclination to listen to others and (though unbeknownst to either) a common history of…Read →
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!in 818 titlesDave Labraccio gets suspended for performing a life-saving surgical procedure on an emergency patient, even though as a not-yet-graduated student he's not legally authorized to do so.Read →