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* [[All Part of the Show]]: Said word for word when the Rocketeer first appears, and saves bumbling pilot Malcolm from fiery death. However, the airfield owner saying that has a hard time keeping up that line as the crashing plane destroys ''another'' of his fuel trucks.
* [[Alternate History]] / [[Alternate Universe]]: But only ''slightly'' so. Everything's mostly the same as it was in our 1938, except Howard Hughes has invented a jetpack, the Germans still use zeppelins, and the Hollywoodland sign ends up losing the "-land" eleven years early.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Believe it or not, ridiculously-shaped buildings like the Bulldog Cafe really ''did'' exist; they were something of a fad in midcentury [[Los Angeles]]. Perhaps the most famous is the Brown Derby restaurant, a stars' hangout in old-time Hollywood and the place where the Cobb salad was invented. Since they were built for novelty, not durability, most are gone--but a handful survive, most notably [https://web.archive.org/web/20131115034201/http://randys-donuts.com/frame.html Randy's Donuts] of Inglewood, which is shaped like a giant donut.
* [[Are We Getting This?]]: At the airshow.
* [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fangirl]] / [[Broken Pedestal]]: Jenny is a huge fan of Neville Sinclair until she sees he's a creep. {{spoiler|And a Nazi spy.}}
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* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Subverted, somewhat, as Jenny does participate in her own rescue.
* [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!]]
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Sinclair is the main antagonist, but he works for [[Those Wacky Nazis]].
* [[Easy Logistics]]: Exactly how the Nazis intended an army of jetpack-equipped soldiers to fly clear across the Atlantic nonstop and conquer Washington DC, is not addressed but then, this Trope applies for a ''lot'' of stuff the real ones thought up.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|During a gunfight in the climax, Valentine finds himself fighting the Nazis alongside the police chief. They glance at each other, and then resume firing.}}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Eddie Valentine {{spoiler|quits working for Sinclair after finding out he's a Nazi.}}
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: FBI agents Fitch and Wooly.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The [[Bigger Bad]]s of the story.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Some people said they didn't need to see the film, the trailer told the whole story.
** [[Tropes Are Not Bad|That doesn't make the full movie any less awesome though.]]
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