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Hocus Pocus 2 is a 2022 Urban Fantasy Horror Comedy film and the sequel to the 1993 film Hocus Pocus. It is directed by Anne Fletcher (The Proposal) and once again stars Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker as the Sanderson Sisters. Joining them are Doug Jones, who reprises his role as Billy Butcherson, and new cast members Whitney Peak, Lila Buckingham, Belissa Escobedo, Hannah Waddingham, Ginger Minj, Sam Richardson, and Tony Hale. The film released on Disney+ on September 30, 2022.The film is set 29 years after the events of the original. The plot follows a trio of high school girls who unwittingly resurrect the trio of witches - again - and must stop them from wreaking havoc on Salem.A third movie is currently in development.Previews: Teaser, Trailer, Clip
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: This movie reveals that during the Sanderson Sisters' childhood, they were quite close. Winnie didn't want Mary and Sarah taken away from her when she was banished from Salem. And in the end, Winnie realizes that becoming all-powerful isn't worth it when the price is losing her sisters.
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Negated Moment of Awesome
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Negated Moment of Awesome: After receiving their powers from the ultimate spell, Winnie calls Sarah a fool. Sarah, now confident and self-sufficient, declares herself a powerful witch until a second order from Winnie sends her into submission.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Ginger Minj, Kornbread Jeté, and Kahmora Hall appear as a trio of drag queens who enter a Sanderson Sister costume contest.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: The Sandersons Sisters get two this time around. They briefly celebrate their resurrection with the song "The Witches Are Back". They sing the full version during the credits. They enchant a crowd of people with a wicked rendition of Blondie's "One Way or Another", which they sing to hunt down Mayor Traske.
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Power at a Price
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Power at a Price: The Magicae Maxima spell makes a witch all-powerful, but is such a forbidden spell that the sisters are warned by their predecessors never to use it. It turns out that it claims that which the caster loves most, that being Winnie's sisters. Implicitly, the Mother Witch likely learned the same lesson the hard way, as she herself is alone when the sisters meet her.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The Angelica leaves that Gilbert gives Becca and Izzy are later used after the Sandersons use magic to take away some stairs and trap the girls in their cottage dungeon. Since the leaves undo curses, the girls use them to make the stairs come back. The pair of Roombas that Mary uses to fly; they show up just in time to vacuum up the circle of salt keeping the Sandersons imprisoned.
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Aborted Arc
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Aborted Arc: Winnie gives up another attempt at making the life potion in favor of a more powerful and evil spell. In this case it's a Justified Trope as the Magicae Maxima spell is so powerful that it would render the need for the life potion null. Sure enough, when the spell's completed, Sarah notes that the Black Flame Candle's gone out yet they're still alive.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: The witches go shopping in a Walgreens, in a clear reference to a deleted scene from the original where the sisters go shopping in a grocery store for stuff to make the candy crows. The candy crows themselves are alluded to when Winnie encounters a witch at the festival peddling poisoned apples (actually a regular apple dipped in black coating).
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Uncertain Doom
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Uncertain Doom: What exactly happened to the Sanderson Sisters at the end? Did they die? Go to Hell? A different plane of existence? Can they return? Is it a happy ending for them or a bad one? Whatever the case, it is clearly on a higher level than their previous deaths, as it is actually able to undo the zombie curse placed on Billy Butcherson whereas the other deaths did not. A cut sequence from the ending would have shown them happily performing a stage act in Purgatory for a crowd of other dead people from various eras, but this was not filmed due to trouble with the budget for another huge crowd scene, an underworld set, and the gold costumes the sisters would have worn.
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Create Your Own Villain
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Create Your Own Villain: The Sanderson sisters became witches simply because Winifred refused an arranged marriage by Reverend Traske, who retaliated by forcibly removing the sisters from their home, separating Winifred from her two younger sisters, and banishing her from Salem. Thanks to a spider and the subsequent panic, the three escape to the Forbidden Woods... and the rest is history.
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Teens Are Monsters
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Teens Are Monsters: Once the adolescent Sandersons get their hands on Book, the first thing they do is burn down Reverend Traske's house in an act of revenge. Winnie also mentions in passing that they tried to kill his entire family, but they were too young and inexperienced.
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Psychopathic Manchild
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Psychopathic Manchild: Exemplified with Sarah who, upon being told they sell potions made from "already demised children," she becomes crestfallen thinking she's now redundant since she liked luring kids to their deaths.
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Character Development
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Character Development: Winnie has had 29 years of additional damnation to mull over her defeat last time. She deftly avoids several mistakes she made in the first film: She immediately binds a curse on the person claiming to worship her and have brought her back out of devotion (Gilbert for Dani). A black cat hanging around is seen as an instant danger and they move to kill it (Cobweb for Binx). Even though they don’t see through the ruse their initial contacts are pulling, they keep a much closer eye on them to prevent escape or treachery (Becca and Izzy for Max, Allison, and Dani). She alters her plans to go for the win rather than hang onto a petty revenge (Traske for Dani). In the end, Winnie finally learns the important lesson that has eluded her for 300 years. Life, no matter how long and filled with power, is worthless without the people you love. Winnie told Max he is a fool to give his life for his sister's. Years later, and she gives her life to be with her sisters.
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Death's Hourglass
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Death's Hourglass: Winnie curses Gilbert to die when her hourglass runs out if he does not complete his task.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: When being told the Walgreens is lit by fluorescent lights, Winifred thinks Becca and Izzy are talking about another witch the sisters knew.
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FlashMob
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Flash Mob: When the horde of enchanted dancers finds Mayor Traske, he mistakes them for one and is having fun instead of fearing for his life.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After enchanting a crowd into dancing under their control, like in the first movie, the Sanderson Sisters order them to hunt down Salem's mayor, and as they fly off into what seems to be a grand and epic chase... we cut to the witches realizing that the people's constant dancing means they advance very slowly, frustrating them enough to pursue the hunt all by themselves. They only succeed in their task because Traske ends up driving back to the event, whereupon they find him and then immediately disperse because the spell is complete.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Becca and Izzy quickly lie and say they are 40 when they realize the Sandersons intend to eat them. The sisters believe them, not out of stupidity, but because of their own experiences with de-aging magic.
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Surrounded by Idiots
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Surrounded by Idiots: Winnie's impatience with her sisters' incompetence is Played for Drama as part of her character development.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: After the credits, we get a brief scene of Cobweb the cat pouncing around Gilbert's store. He reaches a shelf and rubs against a second Black Flame Candle, hinting at the Sandersons' return.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: Reverend Traske has a fairly large house. The Sanderson sisters' first spell causes it to catch fire.
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You Are Too Late
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You Are Too Late: The girls try to stop the Sanderson sisters from casting the spell once they realize the true cost of its use, but they arrive too late. This costs Winnie her sisters and her own life when she begs to undo her folly.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Banishing the Sanderson sisters from their home and separating Winifred from her sisters after Winifred refused an arranged marriage from Reverend Traske—and taking the Lord's name in vain (twice)—is cruel.
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Magic Harms Technology
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Magic Harms Technology: Winifred casts a spell to trap Becca and Izzy in the magic shop’s cellar, making the stairs and trap door disappear. When they try to video-call Cassie for help, the spell mutes their speech and blacks out the camera, making her think Becca just butt-dialed her.
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Contrasting Sequel Main Character
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Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In the original film, Max was a perfectly average teenage boy adjusting to life in Salem after moving from California, he was highly skeptical about the paranormal, and his primary relationships were with his younger sister Dani and his crush Allison. To go in a slightly different direction, this film features a pair of teenage girls as the co-protagonists; Becca and Izzy have also lived in Salem their entire lives, they're deeply interested in the paranormal, and their primary relationship is with their estranged former friend Cassie. All three girls also develop magical powers by the end of the movie, making them even less explicitly ordinary than Max and his friends.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The film opens and closes with a witch speaking to three young girls in the Forbidden Wood. At the beginning, it's the Mother Witch and the Sandersons, and at the end, it's Winifred and Becca's group. Both witches tell the girls that they're lucky to have each other before parting ways.
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Logo Joke
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Logo Joke: The Disney Vanity Plate starts out the same as normal, perhaps a little brighter than usual, before it shifts - the music becomes ominous, the world becomes grey and cloudy, the castle is revealed to be a half-timbered building like those that existed during the Salem Witch trials, and the fields in front of the castle are now dense and overgrown woods. There isn't even a sparking arch over the castle.
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Your Costume Needs Work
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Your Costume Needs Work: The Sandersons are roped into a costume contest based on themselves, and manage to lose to a trio of much younger ladies wearing "sexy" variants of their outfits.
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Made of Magic
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Made of Magic: As Becca lampshades, the Sanderson sisters are basically nothing but dark magic, so a circle of salt is like an impenetrable forcefield to them.
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Almost Dead Guy
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Almost Dead Guy: Winnie's death undoes her spell which was keeping Billy alive, but helpfully the spell wears off in the order of removing his mouth stitches and letting him die again at a slow enough pace for some last words with Gilbert.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: The heroes have now formed a coven and have Winnie's spell book, and they are seemingly being followed/watched over by Mother Witch. Oh, and there's another black flame candle, indicating that the Sandersons can, in fact, be summoned again.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: As Winnie skims through Book's pages to read about Magicae Maxima, there's a clear (but quick) shot of the spell's warning in its entirety, which cautions the reader about its deadly price. Winnie skips past it because she's too impatient to read it all, and this comes back to bite her later in the film.
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Innocent Awkward Question
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Innocent Awkward Question: When Gilbert is explaining to a crowd of people that lighting the candle to summon the Sanderson sisters only works if you're a virgin, a little boy asks what one is. Gilbert is about to define it and says, "A virgin is someone who has never..." but then chickens out and finishes, "...lit a candle."
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: 16-year-old Winifred may be a brat, but she has every right to be angry and upset about being called "old" and to say no to an arranged marriage by misogynistic Reverend Traske; see also Deliberate Values Dissonance above.
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Meaningful Echo
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Meaningful Echo: "You'll never know how precious she is until you lose her." The words of Thackery Binx ring true with Winnie when she finally realizes how valuable her sisters were. During the prologue, the Mother Witch tells the young Sandersons, "Thou art lucky to have each other." At the end, Winnie shares this exact sentiment with Becca, Izzy, and Cassie before fading away.
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Stealth Hi/Bye
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Stealth Hi/Bye: When Becca and Izzy think they can run as the sisters walk down the store aisle, they turn around only to find Mary standing right before them, seemingly having got there in seconds. Sarah pulls one off at the beginning of the film. When the Sanderson Sisters are doing their "The Witches Are Back" musical number, Becca and Izzy are running away. Izzy asks, "Who are they performing for?" Sarah pops up and goes "You!"
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No Ontological Inertia
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No Ontological Inertia: Winnie's ambiguous death also cancels out every spell she ever cast, allowing Billy to finally die.
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Godzilla Threshold
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Godzilla Threshold: Winnie decides to try the Magicae Maxima spell after the initial attempt at draining children for youth doesn't pan out, wanting a more permanent solution.
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Unwitting Pawn
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Unwitting Pawn: Book taught Gilbert how to make a black flame candle so he'd revive the sisters.
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Recursive Canon
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Recursive Canon: At one point, Winnie passes the window of a house where two guys are watching the original Hocus Pocus.
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Fandom Nod: A LOT. Beyond the Sanderson Sisters' crazy fame in-universe being a nod to the success of the first movie (see Draco in Leather Pants above), the sequel also makes it clear that the LGBT Fanbase is acknowledged, ranging from drag-queens appearing at the Sanderson Sisters costume contest, to Winifred spying on a same-sex couple watching the original movie in their living room.
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Remember the New Guy?
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Remember the New Guy?: Gilbert was apparently offside watching the final fight with the sisters at the end of the first movie.
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Armor-Piercing Question
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Armor-Piercing Question: "Art thou not coming with us?"
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Arranged Marriage
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Arranged Marriage: The prologue shows that a young Winnie was almost forced to be in one by Reverend Traske to a boy named John Pritchett. It's her refusal to go through with it that leads to her being banished from Salem.
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Eye Awaken
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Eye Awaken: As the girls cast their spell in the trailer, there is a shot of the eye on Winifred's spellbook opening.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Mike disappears after Billy's headless body scares him away. Mary’s "broomies" (the enchanted Roombas) never show up again after they cast the Maxima spell.
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Jerk Jock
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Jerk Jock: Cassie's boyfriend Mike is a downplayed version of this. While he’s a good boyfriend to her, he makes off-color comments about her friends.
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Because I Said So
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Because I Said So: Mother Witch uses this reason to make the sisters promise not to use the Magicae Maxima spell, along with noting that Book likewise doesn't approve.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: Powered by Magica, Winnie insults Mary and Sarah for indulging in the spoils. Just when it looks as though Mary and Sarah will use their new abilities to turn against their sister, they still remain loyal to her.
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Do Wrong, Right
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Do Wrong, Right: Winnie scolds a witch at the festival passing out poisoned apples. You're not supposed to tell people they're poisoned.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: To the whole concept of the Draco in Leather Pants trope, as the town's obsession with the Sandersons is borderline unhealthy and Gilbert's biased view on them being misunderstood is what kicks off the whole plot.
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Origin Story
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The prologue once again takes us back to the 17th century, where we are shown the Origin Story for one of the main characters. In the previous film, it was Thackery Binx; here, it's the witches themselves.
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: The Sandersons cast an elaborate song-spell on a crowd to find Mayor Traske. The hoard of enchanted people start to dance their way across town in a group, making them almost completely useless. They do eventually track him down, but as the spell only said to find him without any further instruction on what to do with him, the spell breaks and the crowd wanders off in confusion.
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Identical Grandson
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Identical Grandson: Mayor Traske and his ancestor, the Reverend Traske, are both played by Tony Hale.
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Magica Maxima is a spell that is supposed to give a witch ultimate power, but the sisters are forbidden by the Mother Witch from using it. This is because it takes away what a witch values most - in Winifred’s case, her sisters.
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Sinister Minister
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Sinister Minister: Reverend Traske seems disturbingly keen on keeping women subservient, arranging marriages whether they like it or not, forcing them from their homes and separating loved ones when they refuse.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Gilbert has acquired the ingredients for the spell, Winnie declares him redundant and magically flings him away. Fortunately, this is a fairly lazy murder attempt and he comes out of it fine.
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Villain of Another Story
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Villain of Another Story: The Mother Witch. While unexplained, something happened to her coven and now she has been flying around Salem for centuries, feeding on children in secret. She's still alive by the time of the modern day.
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Tuckerization
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Tuckerization: The Reverend Traske from the Sandersons' backstory (as well as his Identical Grandson Mayor Traske) is named after Reverend Trask (no "e") from classic 60s Supernatural Soap Opera Dark Shadows. That Trask was also from Salem, was up against witches, and had the same actor play an Identical Grandson - however, he was a villainous witch hunter who ultimately went after (and executed) the wrong person for witchcraft.
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Haunted Technology
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Haunted Technology: Mary enchants a pair of Roombas as a replacement brooms, which also seems to give them some degree of sentience.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The prologue reveals Reverend Traske is the one responsible for unleashing the Sandersons upon 1653 Salem. His misogyny and attempted forced marriage of Winnifred drives the Sandersons into the Forbidden Forest and right into the path of Mother Witch — thereby setting off a chain of events that will culminate 40 years later. Gilbert thinks the Sanderson Sisters are just misunderstood and only resorted to evil because they had to. He also thinks it would be cool to bring them back and tricks Becca and Izzy into lighting a black flame candle. He quickly comes to regret this when they throw Becca and Izzy in the dungeon and place a curse on him to do their bidding.
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The Hecate Sisters
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The Hecate Sisters: The Maiden, Mother, and Crone are referenced in Becca and Izzy's incantation.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Gilbert showing off the remains of the first Black Flame Candle indicates that he is much more than an average magic shop owner and was actually present for part of the events 29 years ago.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: While putting on a show in his shop, Gilbert retells the story of the Sandersons while the film cuts back to footage of the previous movie's prologue. He then recalls a time when a virgin lit the Black Flame Candle to bring them back... before advertising for his own stock of (fake) Black Flame Candles (now half-off for Halloween!). Gilbert mentions that Halloween 1993 (the setting of the first movie) was not a great year for him due to two boys (Jay and Ernie) stealing his candy. Through a flashback, we are shown the first movie's climax from another person's perspective: Gilbert's, who had been hiding behind a gravestone to watch the scene go down. Winifred tells Becca, "Lay thy burden down. 'Tis unattractive to hold a grudge!" In the first film, Winnie held a serious grudge against Dani after she called her "ugly". Mary mistakes Mayor Traske's car for a "small bus" in one scene. Buses are among the few modern things that the Sanderson Sisters actually know about, since they rode a bus in the first movie.
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The End... Or Is It?
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The End... Or Is It?: As Becca, Cassie, and Izzy walk off into the night together, the Mother Witch - in her crow form - closely trails behind them. Meanwhile, a second Black Flame Candle is shown in Gilbert's shop, implying that the witches can still return in the future.
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Evil Is Not a Toy
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Evil Is Not a Toy: Gilbert’s plan to bring back the Sanderson Sisters backfires spectacularly.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Cassie's boyfriend Mike needs it spelled out by the girls that pointing out things that make people different, and then calling them weird for them, is not a good thing. He takes a moment to comprehend that he has a lot of people to apologize to. The ultimate spell has a price: to take away those whom you cherish the most. When Winnie finds out that Mary and Sarah are vanishing, she instantly regrets being a Big Sister Bully.
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Canon Discontinuity: The movie ignores Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel which says the Sanderson Sisters came from a family of witches, had a fourth sister and came back to Salem in 2018. It also ignores several things that were deleted from the original movie (such as the Sanderson Sisters being half-sisters) and Walt Disney World's annual Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular, where the Sandersons harness the Magic Kingdom's magic to come back for one night and throw the most villainous Halloween party ever, but that was probably inevitable.
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Dance Party Ending
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Dance Party Ending: As the main credits roll, we're treated with the Sanderson Sisters singing and dancing to "The Witches are Back" in a recording studio. It's obviously not connected to the actual story, serving more as a fun and energetic closing sequence.
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Jerkass Realization
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Jerkass Realization: Mike did not realize his comments to Becca and Izzy over them being nerds was hurtful to them, seeing it as "making conversation". He feels remorseful when they tell him how it really made them feel.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: Implied to be the case with Billy since he has been underground but awake since 1993.
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: In the beginning of the movie, set in Salem 1653, Winnie is being forced to marry John Pritchett at the age of 16, which she refused. At the place and the time, this is seen as wrong by many.
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Dramatic Irony: At the end of the first movie, Winifred thought Max Dennison was a fool to sacrifice his life to save Dani. At the end of this movie, Winifred is horrified at the thought of her sisters being sacrificed for her benefit and allows herself to die to be with Mary and Sarah.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: Unlike the first movie, the deaths of the Sanderson Sisters are played more sympathetically this time around.
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Time-Shifted Actor: Taylor Henderson, Nina Kitchen, and Juju Journey Brener play the child versions of Winifred, Mary, and Sarah respectively. Austin J. Ryan also plays the teenage Billy Butcherson.
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Retcon: According to Allison, the spell book was given to Winifred and her sisters by the Devil himself. Here, it was given to them by the Mother Witch, implied to be the "mother" mentioned by the sisters in the original as opposed to their literal birth mother. Justified in that what Allison said was just a bit of lore passed down by superstitious villagers. Due to the candy crow subplot from the first movie being axed, this is canonically the first time the witches have encountered a supermarket. Similarly, here the Sanderson Sisters are born of a same father, while in the backstory intended for the original movie (but cut from the final picture) they were half-sisters born of different "fathers" (hence their very different appearances, and some of their quirks such as Mary's barks). Billy reveals that his relationship with Winnie was a single kiss when they were children, rendering Binx's account of events moot. Turns out Winnie has been telling everyone that they were together for so long, everyone just believed it.
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Hypocritical Humor: Winnie gets herself banished from Salem for her visceral reaction to the idea of marrying John Pritchett. When she loudly proclaims in front of the whole town that she won’t do it, a visibly relieved John says, “Thank God.� Winnie looks incensed at his aversion to marrying her.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Reverend Traske, who ultimately started the whole mess, is an entitled, self-righteous, spoiled, misogynistic jerk and a fool.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: When Mary compliments someone dressed like her, she drops the only profanity in the film.
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Of all characters, it's Winifred's spell book, which ends up siding with the heroes after Winifred forced it to reveal the Power Spell despite it very clearly trying to prevent her from using it.
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Exactly Exty Years Ago: Averted, despite played straight in the first movie, as the sisters came back exactly 300 years after their death. Here, it been 29 years after their second death, and the characters do not try to dance around it, by stating it was roughly 30 years ago. It is always said that it was 29 years ago.
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The girls trap the Sanderson Sisters in a circle of salt, but things go from bad to worse when Mayor Traske comes home, mildly upset that he did not get a candy apple from Sandy's and Mary's broomies come to the rescue by eating the salt. This leads to Cassie's kidnapping.
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Moody Trailer Cover Song: The music for the teaser trailer is a somber, instrumental version of Sarah's Come Little Children song from the first film.
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Draco in Leather Pants: In-universe, the sisters discover they now have fans despite being child-eating murderers. It's because of a fan they come back, as Gilbert made the new Black Flame Candle to bring the Sandersons back.
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Lighter and Softer: In comparison to the previous movie, most of the main characters are less mean-spirited and the virginity plot point is mentioned in passing. Even the Sanderson sisters are painted in a more sympathetic light as opposed to just being a force of pure evil.
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Audience? What Audience?: Spoofed. After Becca and Izzy revive the Sanderson sisters, they begin singing a song about their return, Izzy then asks whom they're performing for. While it appears the sisters are performing for the audience, Sarah then appears in front of Becca and Izzy and reveals they are actually performing for the two of them.
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Dangerous 16th Birthday: A witch's powers are unlocked once she reaches sixteen years of age. During the prologue, we learn that Winifred and her sisters were banished from Salem and received the spellbook on her sixteenth birthday. Finally, Becca's powers emerge on the eve of her sweet sixteen.
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Company Cross References: Look closely at the crowd during "One Way or Another" and you'll see a lady dressed like Ursula the Sea Witch.
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The ultimate spell has a price: to take away those whom you cherish the most. When Winnie finds out that Mary and Sarah are vanishing, she instantly regrets being a Big Sister Bully.
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A Taste of Their Own Medicine: The young Sanderson Sisters are briefly enthralled by Mother Witch singing ‘Come Little Children’ - the very song they would use to lure children to their deaths. Sarah is affected more than the other two and walks towards the voice until Winifred snaps her out of it. Sarah being lured and almost killed by the song she would later use herself as an adult witch is a retroactive example of this trope.
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Start of Darkness
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Start of Darkness: The Sanderson sisters becoming witches and all the mayhem and horror that followed all started because the eldest sister (rightfully) said "no" to an arranged marriage.
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Literal-Minded
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Literal-Minded: When the witches invade Mayor Traske's house, Winifred tells them to spread out. Sarah begins to do just that with a split, much to Winifred and Mary's shared annoyance.
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Call-Forward: When the young Sandersons read Book for the first time, they show interest in a cat transformation spell, the same one that was used to curse Thackery Binx decades later.
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11th-Hour Superpower
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11th-Hour Superpower: Becca discovers that she's also a witch near the climax of the film, allowing her to combat the Sandersons with her own magical powers. She shares her abilities with Cassie and Izzy, allowing the three of them to stand up to them together.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: As a result of the Magicae Maxima spell, Mary and Sarah not only have their powers boosted, but also their wits (in a sense). Sarah has a brief moment to stand up to Winnie by telling her that, as a powerful witch, she should be respected as such. Winnie's second order brings her down a peg. We also see the two's reactions to Winnie insulting them while she herself proclaims to be the most powerful witch of all but they still remain by her side.
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Exact Words: The sisters command the bewitched crowd to hunt down Mayor Traske. They failed to specify they wanted him detained or otherwise delivered to them, so the spell breaks the second the crowd finds him and the sisters, being presently occupied, gain nothing from the effort. The spell to reunite Winnie with her sisters mentions that they'll be together forever. When it doesn't seem to work at first, Becca clarifies that it doesn't bring them back, it sends her to where they are now.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: When the sisters are trapped and seem resigned to their fate, Mary’s enchanted roombas show up out of nowhere to vacuum up the circle of salt and free them.
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Redeeming Replacement: Towards the end, it's implied that after Becca, Izzy and Cassie gained magic powers of their own and became the new owners of Book, their new coven will become this to the Sanderson sisters, using their magic to protect Salem while the Sandersons used theirs to terrorize it.
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Salt Solution
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Salt Solution: A line of salt proves to be an outright force field so far as the Sandersons and their spells are concerned. But not for Mary’s Roombas.
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A Minor Kidroduction
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A Minor Kidroduction: The film opens with the Sanderson Sisters in their teen years, showing how they were first run out of Salem and how they obtained their spellbook.
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Redemption Equals Death
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Redemption Equals Death: Played with. After Winifred's hunger for power ends with Sarah and Mary being erased in front of her, she begs for the girls and Book to restore them. All they can do is send Winifred to where her sisters are, effectively killing her again. She ends up accepting it if it means being reunited with her sisters.
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Dumbass Has a Point: Sarah's the only one to try and argue against the power spell when she states how uncomfortable Book is on showing it to Winifred.
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Easily Forgiven: After her lengthy history of causing mischief, worshiping Satan, sucking the lives of children and invoking Kick the Dog (or Kick the Cat in the case of Thackery Binx), Winnie’s final fate is getting to Go into the Light with her sisters. This is a natural example, as it was Mary and Sarah’s disappearing that caused Winnie to soften up, which harkens back to how she couldn't comprehend the thought of sacrificing one's self for their family in the first movie.
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Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
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Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Gilbert thinks the Sanderson Sisters were evil because they had to be. He is very wrong.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: The Sanderson sisters get their "brooms" (well, at least Winnie gets a broom from a display stand) from a Walgreens, with Sarah getting a Swiffer WetJet and Mary getting a pair of Roombas.
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Brick Joke: Winnie knocks out the lighting in the Walgreens after Becca's ruse is revealed. Much later, Traske complains that the Walgreens had no lights when he went there.
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Innocently Insensitive: Mike, Cassie's new boyfriend, is presented to the audience as a bully for making fun of Becca and Izzy for being into witches. It turns out he's actually a Nice Guy who had no idea that was how he was coming across. When he finds out, he's horrified. This is a Truth in Television for many real-life bullies.
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