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The Departed's Characters Are Marked for Death (Literally)
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If you've seen Martin Scorsese's The Departed, you know that, at the end of the movie (hint: The phrase "at the end of the movie" means there's gonna be spoilers next, and yes, we're making this sentence extra long to give you a chance to look away), fucking everyone dies. What you probably didn't notice was that, much like Steven Seagal in that 1990 film where he plays a tough guy with a ponytail, each doomed character is marked for death. Like this:
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Pictured: a death mark. Also, Leonardo DiCaprio being too polite to tell Matt Damon he's got a booger.
See that X between Damon and DiCaprio? It's not the location of Jack Nicholson's magical buried treasure -- it shows up behind the characters who are going to die before the end of the movie, which is most of them. We see a mark behind Jack Nicholson:
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Leo DiCaprio:
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And Martin Sheen:
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"Could you, um, go sit elsewhere, Mark?"
"Nope."
All three die eventually from multiple gunshot wounds, a single gunshot to the head, and falling off a fucking building, respectively. However, it looks like the Grim Reaper had a hard-on for Matt Damon in particular (apparently he missed a flight that later exploded), because the mark shows up behind him a bunch of times:
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You can often see the X lurking in Damon's shadow, right beside Ben Affleck.
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