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The Crow is a 1994 American superhero film based on James O'Barr's comic book of the same name. It was directed by Alex Proyas and co-written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, and starred Brandon Lee in what would be his final role.One fateful Devil's Night (October 30), the lives of two lovers — rock musician Eric Draven (Lee) and his fiancée Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas), who planned to marry on Halloween — are destroyed when they are killed by a group of gangbangers who break into their home.A year later, a crow taps on Eric's gravestone, and he rises from his grave. Discovering that he is invulnerable and super-powered, he sets out to hunt down and slaughter the street gang responsible for the murders with the aid of the crow, which serves as his Magical Guide. Along the way, he befriends a local beat cop, Albrecht (Ernie Hudson), and reconnects with a troubled local teen, Sarah (Rochelle Davis), forcing him to remember that there is more to life than hatred.While The Crow is notable for its stylish action, dark atmosphere, gothic art direction and energetic industrial soundtrack (featuring Nine Inch Nails, The Cure and The Jesus and Mary Chain among others), it's unfortunately destined to be forever overshadowed by the tragic accidental on-set death of Brandon Lee by a failed special effect. Production was halted as a result, and after serious deliberation over whether to finish the film, it was completed through rewrites and the use of a stunt double and digital effects.This process was assisted in no small part by the film's distributor Miramax, who picked up distribution rights after Paramount opted out due to filming delays and controversy over the content potentially being inappropriate in hindsight, and gave the film's budget an extra $8 million. Ironically, Paramount regained the rights to the film when it purchased a minority stake in Miramax in 2020, gaining distribution rights to its library in the process.The film proved to be a success and has become a strong Cult Classic in the years since its release. Its success led to a franchise with a sequel (The Crow: City of Angels), two spin-off films (The Crow: Salvation and The Crow: Wicked Prayer), and a TV series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven that returns Eric Draven to life (with a new actor) to serve as protagonist.A long-gestating reboot is set to be released in summer 2024. It is directed by Rupert Sanders, and stars Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd as Eric Draven.
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Just as Eric Draven is closing in on Skank, he finds himself in a conference room where Top Dollar and what appears to be about two dozen of his fellow criminals are holding a meeting. Top Dollar taunts Eric and then orders the whole crew to open fire on him - which, of course, touches off a frighteningly violent from-beyond-the-grave vigilante massacre that persuades Top Dollar, Myca, and Grange to flee the scene long before Eric has slaughtered the last baddie. The thing is, Top Dollar never even had to flee in the first place: Skank was there too, and Top Dollar could have just saved his own life and that of almost everyone else in the room if he'd simply let Eric take Skanknote Or maybe not - giving a single man what he's demanding from you, when he's openly defying you in front of all your lieutenants, is very much not a good move for a crime lord; everyone in the room will see it as weakness. Even then, Top Dollar would probably have lived if only he hadn't kidnapped Sarah - not to mention that he outright admits that he was the one ultimately responsible for Shelly's murder once he (supposedly) has Eric beaten.
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Canon Foreigner
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Canon Foreigner: Top Dollar's henchman Grange and his sister-consort Myca, were created for the movie.
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Dirty Coward
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Watching T-Bird's death (at Eric's hands) also mentally wrecks Skank, who spends the remaining hours of his life being much more of a hysterical Dirty Coward than he already was.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: O'Barr himself appears in the film as one of the looters robbing Gideon's store: he's the long-haired guy with the TV.
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Katanas Are Just Better
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Katanas Are Just Better: Top Dollar has an entire cabinet full of swords, but uses a katana to fight Eric during the climax. Eric grabs one from the cabinet himself during the gang boss massacre. Ironic since Michael Wincott, the actor who plays Top Dollar, is an accomplished fencer in real life. The trope is somewhat averted earlier in the film, when a rapier (the Six Finger Sword) is shown to be the centrally placed in Top Dollar's sword cabinet, and is selected to kill Gideon.
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Reusable Lighter Toss
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Reusable Lighter Toss: Eric tosses a reusable lighter after killing T-Bird. The flames make a crow outline.
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Abnormal Ammo
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Abnormal Ammo: Eric blows up Gideon's pawnshop by spilling gasoline all through it and firing a blast from a shotgun he'd stuffed with dozens of pawned/stolen rings (although it did have a normal charge in it as well).
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Man of Wealth and Taste
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Man of Wealth and Taste: Top Dollar wears very fancy, expensive vintage clothing and keeps an array of antique swords nearby. This contrasts with his mooks who all dress in average clothing (jeans, jackets, etc.)
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Card-Carrying Villain
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Card-Carrying Villain: All the villains, especially Top Dollar, are entirely aware of their evil nature and the fact that they are driven by nothing but pure enjoyment of crime and hurting others and are completely unashamed of it.
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Rage Against the Reflection
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Rage Against the Reflection: Eric Draven smashes the vanity mirror before applying the trademark makeup of the titular avenger, suggesting a severance with his past self in order to avenge the murder of himself and his fiancée.
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One Last Smoke
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One Last Smoke: Subverted. After having shared a smoke with Eric, who ironically tells him "You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill ya," Albrecht gets wounded and asks for a cigarette, but he spits it out and decides to quit. He lives, but hopefully it was still his last cigarette.
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Crucified Hero Shot
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Crucified Hero Shot: Eric Draven was held up like this by his murderers before being blown out the window. One year later, upon returning from the dead to avenge himself and his girlfriend, he goes into one of these as he takes every bullet Top Dollar's gang has to offer in the boardroom. His powers have made him bulletproof, and so this doesn't stop him for long.
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Instant Expert
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Instant Expert: Eric's powers seem to make him a skilled marksman and sword fighter and a very capable hand to hand combatant in addition to his enhanced physical abilities despite no implication he had those skills prior.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: T-Bird's "There ain't no comin' back, there ain't no comin' back...." And for him, this was true.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: When confronting Eric, Tin-Tin takes out his knives and boasts he never misses. Eric dodges his first throw, slaps his second one aside, and pulls a Catch and Return on the third.
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Evil Sounds Deep
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Evil Sounds Deep: Big Bad Top Dollar is played by Michael Wincott, who has a famously deep voice. His right hand man is also voiced by Tony Todd who possesses a similar voice.
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Not-So-Harmless Villain
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Skank is a whiner and a coward who actually answers to "Skank". He's clearly the low man on the totem pole in T-Bird's gang, and compared to Top Dollar (much less Eric) he's downright pathetic. You almost feel sorry for him. Then Skank gets hit by a car, and when the irate driver steps out to kick his ass further... Skank beats him down in seconds. The weakest of a gang of brutal thugs is still tougher than he looks and dangerous when provoked.
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Cool Old Guy
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Cool Old Guy: Mickey, who runs a hotdog stand across the street from Gideon's pawn shop.
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A Good Way to Die
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A Good Way to Die: After being done with his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Eric Draven lies against his tombstone dying, but right before death, he is visited by his lover Shelly's spirit, and he dies fully content that both his revenge was done and that he was reunited with his lost love.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Eric. Being played Brandon Lee makes him one by default and he even gets some shirtless scenes upon his revival (even if the mood is anything but sexy).
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Pyromaniac
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Pyromaniac: Crime lord Top Dollar is a gangster who institutionalized the yearly arsons of Devil's Night that plague Detroit by starting the first fires and then expanding the idea each year while reaping profits on the side. At a conference between the major gang leaders he announces that he's grown bored of it all, and to top himself declares that he's going to burn down the whole city purely for his own amusement.
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Brother–Sister Team
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Brother–Sister Team: Top Dollar and his half-sister, Myca, are in charge of Top Dollar's criminal syndicate, and she serves as his advisor on supernatural matters. Because they're villains, their relationship is openly incestuous.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: Grange, who continues to be calm and collected even when faced with a Revenant Zombie gunning for his boss.
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The Slow Walk
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The Slow Walk: Occurs when Eric fights Tin-Tin. He dodges one thrown knife, and stalks towards his opponent, teeth bared. He bats the next thrown knife out of the air, and eggs Tin-Tin on to try again. He catches the third knife, then throws it back.
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Calling Card
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Calling Card: Eric leaves a crow symbol by the bodies of his victims, usually in blood, but on one occasion in fire.
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Adorably Precocious Child
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Adorably Precocious Child: Sarah. Justified in that she lives in a gritty underworld and no one takes care of her, so she has to get by on her own.
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In the Back
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In the Back: During Eric and Top Dollar's battle on the church rooftops, Eric is momentarily distracted by a distressed Sarah. Top Dollar takes a cheap shot by sneaking up behind him and stabbing Eric through the back with his sword.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Top Dollar is forced to experience all thirty hours of Eric's pain at once, giving him an agonizingly painful and thoroughly deserved demise.
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Nigh-Invulnerability
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Nigh-Invulnerability: When he comes back from the dead, Eric is completely invulnerable to being shot or hurt, until a mystic determines killing the man's crow companion leaves him vulnerable.
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It's Snowing Cocaine
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It's Snowing Cocaine: Top Dollar is seen with a ludicrously large pile of coke from which he occasionally snorts as he gives directions to his underlings. Although not delved into in much detail, since Top Dollar is the de facto crimelord of Detroit, it's reasonable to assume that he also runs the drug trade.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The world of Detroit is a nocturnal hellscape of crime, violence, and urban decay.
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T-Bird, who is vaguely African-American or Pacific Islander-American in the comic, is played in the movie by Irish-American actor David Patrick Kelly.
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All There in the Script
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All There in the Script: Top Dollar, Myca, and Grange are never named in the actual film itself.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: By laying hands on Albrecht, Eric is able to psychically absorb every agonizing detail of Shelly's 30 hour ordeal, because of the fact that Albrecht stayed with her the whole time. Eric bottles it up until his battle with Top Dollar at the end, when he lays hands on him and transfers all 30 hours all at once.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: Eric and Shelly aren't the random victims of a drive-by crime here. Instead, they are brutalized and killed after Shelly protests against wrongful tenant relocation. Top Dollar was changed from just being a low-level drug dealer to being a twisted crime overlord with the gang as his hit squad and Myca and Grange backing him up. Sherri in the comic book becomes Sarah in the film, and has a much larger role. She was friends with Eric and Shelly while they were alive, and at the climax of the film Eric has to save her life when she is threatened by Top Dollar and Myca. Sarah's drug-addicted mother (now called Darla) is much the same character in the comic, but a scene shows her having turned over a new leaf after Eric confronts her over her neglect of Sarah, and hints a reconciliation between mother and daughter. A lot of drama was added to the climax, unlike in the comic where Eric just rampages unstoppably through the criminal underworld. On the other hand, Tom-Tom was removed, Funboy was given a much smaller role and any scenes of Eric in the afterlife were excised.
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Adaptational Job Change
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Adaptational Job Change: Eric was a mechanic in the comic. In the film, he was made a rock musician as a nod to James O'Barr's musical influences.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: Albrecht confronts Eric, saying "You move and you're dead." Based on his current situation, Eric's reply is "And I say I'm dead, and I move."
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Dragon Their Feet
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Dragon Their Feet: Eric kills off the gang who attacked him and Shelly, eventually killing the leader, T-Bird. Skank, his right hand man, is the last member of the gang to die. While the gang might be considered a Quirky Miniboss Squad to Top Dollar, they were Eric's initial targets.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Grange is this for the bad guys. Of course, this doesn't exactly make him sane, but he's the only one who bothers to act professional.
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Russian Reversal
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Russian Reversal: Played With:
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Use Their Own Weapon Against Them
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Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Tin Tin is killed with his own knives, Fun Boy by his own gun and syringes, and T-Bird by his T-Bird and explosives. Skank is the only exception - he gets thrown out of a window as Eric was. However, his death is still fairly karmic; he's a coward, and he lives the longest, watching death approaching him, and finally is given a coward's death, thrown out the window like trash.
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Bare-Handed Blade Block: Eric used this technique to catch a knife thrown at his head, after dodging one such knife and deflecting a second.
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Practically Joker
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Practically Joker: Top Dollar. He's an immensely charismatic and theatrical criminal who commits crimes solely for pleasure, and his nemesis is a vigilante gothic hero who dresses entirely in black and relies on theatricality and intimidation.
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: Tin-Tin, Funboy, T-Bird and Skank, Eric Draven's targets of vengeance, who do particularly brutal jobs for the city's kingpin, Top Dollar. In something of a subversion of the trope, Top Dollar is far more evil than even these psychotic killers.
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type
Deadly Euphemism
 The Crow / int_2eb94abd
comment
Deadly Euphemism: "Looks like he zigged when he should've zagged." And later, after T-Bird's very grisly vigilante slaying: "They had to ID his teeth."
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The Crow / int_2eb94abd
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type
Depraved Bisexual
 The Crow / int_2ed5e99d
comment
Depraved Bisexual: Myca, Top Dollar's sister and supernatural knowledge broker, is in an incestuous relationship with him. They have a threesome with a girl whom they accidentally kill, and Myca decides to take her eyes.
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Scary Black Man
 The Crow / int_3036294e
comment
Scary Black Man: Grange. Well, he is played by Tony Todd, so it's a given.
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 The Crow / int_319e4a2f
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Even Evil Has Standards
 The Crow / int_319e4a2f
comment
Even Evil Has Standards: T-Bird appears annoyed by the chaotic crowd in The Pit.
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type
Stuff Blowing Up
 The Crow / int_31a2a33c
comment
Stuff Blowing Up: What Top Dollar and his Devil's Night gang like to do. Eric blows up Gideon's pawnshop as well as T-Bird's car with him inside.
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Destination Defenestration
 The Crow / int_32976084
comment
Destination Defenestration: Eric is sent right out of the window of his and Shelly's apartment after getting shot when he and she are murdered. One of Eric's revenge kills serves as something of an "eye for an eye" for this namely, Skank, who he sends out a window in the aftermath of the big shootout at Top Dollar's place.
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Arch-Enemy
 The Crow / int_32da548d
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Arch-Enemy: Eric Draven has Top Dollar, the crime boss who had him and his fiance murdered.
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The Crow / int_32da548d
 The Crow / int_33d5b7f2
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Adapted Out
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comment
Adapted Out: The Skull Cowboy. Scenes with him were filmed (with Michael Berryman playing the part), but they ended up on the cutting room floor. Tom-Tom, another member of the gang, was omitted and his role transferred to Skank, who was a minor thug in the comic.
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Good Thing You Can Heal
 The Crow / int_3456f3c5
comment
Good Thing You Can Heal: Eric's default strategy despite his fighting prowess. Officer Albrecht even lampshades this when his plan is for Eric to draw the bad guys' fire until they run out of ammo. Too bad his Healing Factor has been disabled at this point.
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The Crow / int_3456f3c5
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Villainous Incest
 The Crow / int_35884ee7
comment
Villainous Incest: Top Dollar and his half-sister Myca. They're both into it, they just both happen to be evil.
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 The Crow / int_35e5a546
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Digital Head Swap
 The Crow / int_35e5a546
comment
Digital Head Swap: Brandon Lee's face was digitally grafted onto then-stunt performer Chad Stahelski's body for a small smattering of scenes not yet shot at the time of his death. Most notable is the Becoming the Mask scene. From the time Eric enters the apartment until the end of the obligatory "runs along the rooftops" scene, a stunt man was playing Brandon Lee.
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It Always Rains at Funerals
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comment
It Always Rains at Funerals: Inverted. It's raining when Eric crawls out of his grave. Subverted at the end of the film after Eric returns to the grave, the rain is easing off when the crow gives Shelly's ring to Sarah. It can't rain all the time, after all.
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This Cannot Be!
 The Crow / int_373283c9
comment
This Cannot Be!: As Eric Draven is about to dispatch T-Bird, T-Bird recognizes him:
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The Hero Dies
 The Crow / int_382a6399
comment
The Hero Dies: Eric Draven returns to the grave after avenging his murder.
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Catch and Return
 The Crow / int_38805691
comment
Catch and Return: Eric to Tin-Tin, after dodging his first two knives. Then he closes in for the kill with this memorable line: "Victims... aren't we all?"
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Actor Allusion
 The Crow / int_392372f9
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Actor Allusion: Ernie Hudson asks if Eric is a ghost.
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 The Crow / int_3ae6199a
type
Psychopathic Manchild
 The Crow / int_3ae6199a
comment
Psychopathic Manchild: Skank is a rapist and a murderer. He also frequently acts like a brain-dead hillbilly and is treated as a Butt-Monkey mascot for the rest of the gang, and he cries like a little boy whenever he's in danger. He eventually becomes so cowardly and pathetic that he essentially turns into an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and the film has to flash back briefly to Skank's rape of Shelly to remind you that he fully deserves everything he's getting.
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Properly Paranoid
 The Crow / int_3aec9e5e
comment
Properly Paranoid: Skank, while not very smart and a coward. The second he sees a picture of Eric without the make up he instantly knows who it is and reacts in fear.
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Hell-Bent for Leather
 The Crow / int_3bbecc8b
comment
Hell-Bent for Leather: Eric wears a whole leather outfit.
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Skewed Priorities
 The Crow / int_3d2c6d30
comment
Skewed Priorities: When Eric causes Funboy to wound himself with his own gun, the latter is more upset about getting blood on his bedsheets than about how he's now bleeding out. (In fairness, Funboy was on drugs during this scene.)
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Curb-Stomp Battle
 The Crow / int_3d699462
comment
Curb-Stomp Battle: Every fight Eric is in goes pretty much entirely in his favor due to his powers which both grant him superhuman abilities and heal any wounds he gets instantly. The only one to give him any trouble is Top Dollar after Eric has lost his invulnerability.
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Adaptational Heroism
 The Crow / int_3f45f1e6
comment
Adaptational Heroism: Eric is more human and less amoral than his comic book counterpart.
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The Crow / int_3f45f1e6
 The Crow / int_3f6d2c98
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Cold Sniper
 The Crow / int_3f6d2c98
comment
Grange, who shoots and injures the titular crow in the battle at the cathedral, is shot by Albrecht.
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Agony Beam
 The Crow / int_43fe061e
comment
Agony Beam: Eric defeats Top Dollar with this trope by Agony Beaming his fiancée's experience of being gang raped, beaten and dying from her injuries over 30 hours later into Top Dollar's mind, rendering him incapacitated and vulnerable to the final blow.
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Serial-Killer Killer
 The Crow / int_4415efaf
comment
Serial-Killer Killer: Eric, though not just any serial killer will do. It's Personal.
 The Crow / int_4415efaf
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Tranquil Fury
 The Crow / int_443b78cd
comment
Tranquil Fury: The beginning of Eric's fight with Tin Tin, he never says a single word or expresses a sound, even when Tin Tin punches him. Then when he finally has Tin Tin pinned to the wall, he screams, "Fuck you... murderer!"
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Psycho Knife Nut
 The Crow / int_45398e01
comment
Psycho Knife Nut: Tin-Tin, whose predilection for knives is so great, he's the only gangster in all of Detroit who doesn't carry a gun. In a bit of cruel irony, Eric uses these same knives to take Tin-Tin's life (and his jacket) after beating him in a fight.
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Worthy Opponent
 The Crow / int_4604fd4d
comment
Worthy Opponent: This is Top Dollar's feeling towards Eric by the end, saying, "You've got a lot of spirit, son. I am gonna miss you."
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Ring on a Necklace
 The Crow / int_4640903
comment
Ring on a Necklace: After retrieving the engagement ring he gave to Shelly, Eric wears it on a chain because the ring is likely too small to fit on his fingers and he has to get his hands dirty avenging both their deaths. He eventually gives the ring and necklace to his young friend Sarah, saying he thinks Shelly would've wanted her to have it. Eric himself no longer needs the ring because he hopes to be reunited with Shelly soon enough. Sarah wears it around her neck too, probably because the ring wouldn't fit her child-sized fingers, plus in this case the ring is being given as a symbol of friendship and parental-like love.
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 The Crow / int_46f3f271
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From Camouflage to Criminal
 The Crow / int_46f3f271
comment
From Camouflage to Criminal: Implied but not explicitly confirmed with T-Bird, who throws in the Vietnam era slang "Sweep and clear" when referring to how the mission to move Eric and Shelly out of her apartment was supposed to go. It might also help explain his familiarity with explosives and such.
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Gothic Punk
 The Crow / int_481996bd
comment
Gothic Punk: The film exposed millions to the Gothic Punk aesthetic.
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Dragon Lady
 The Crow / int_4843f922
comment
Dragon Lady: Myca, played by Bai Ling, is a forceful queen of crime and black magic who sports a giant, colorful dragon tattoo.
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If We Survive This
 The Crow / int_4a6dda60
comment
If We Survive This: Suddenly finding the taste of cigarettes disgusting after being shot, Albrecht mutters, "I'm quitting as of now. If I live." This is also a Call-Back to Draven, a walking dead man, chuckling after stealing Albrecht's cigarette, that "You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill ya."
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Villainous Valour
 The Crow / int_4b045a8a
comment
Villainous Valour: Top Dollar braves Draven's fury by refusing to hand over Skank, a low-level thug and Boisterous Weakling. He also faces him head on in the finale.
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Motive Rant
 The Crow / int_4d044580
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Top Dollar, especially in his Motive Rant scene.
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 The Crow / int_4d28eee2
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Roofhopping
 The Crow / int_4d28eee2
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Roofhopping: Eric Draven uses this to get around Detroit and get the drop on Tin Tin, and to escape from the cops after the big shootout with Top Dollar's men.
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Improvised Weapon
 The Crow / int_4de1a4f7
comment
Improvised Weapon: During his final duel with Top Dollar on the roof of a cathedral, Eric rips off an ornate iron spire to use as an improvised sword against Top Dollar's katana.
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Good Scars, Evil Scars
 The Crow / int_4efc4fae
comment
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Eric Draven's return from the grave gifts him with a healing factor that prevents him from gaining any new scars - but the scars from the bullet wounds that killed him remain clearly visible on his chest when shirtless.
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Holy Backlight
 The Crow / int_4fc5ac56
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Holy Backlight: During the "I do care" scene in the movie, with Eric silhouetted by the sun in the big window.
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 The Crow / int_508d91a2
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
 The Crow / int_508d91a2
comment
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Before killing Tin-Tin, Eric says, "Victims...aren't we all?" When Eric breaks into Gideon's pawn shop, both men give one-liners to each other, although both walk away from their encounter alive. When Eric tells Gideon he's looking for an engagement ring, Gideon says "You're looking for a coroner, shit-for-brains!" before shooting him in the chest, after which he's able to witness Eric's regenerative powers firsthand as his bullet hole heals itself. When Gideon continues to hurl abuse at Eric as he walks out of his shop after dousing it in gasoline, he quips "Is that gasoline I smell?" before letting off a shotgun blast full of Gideon's own pawned rings, blowing the entire shop up. However, he did give Gideon enough time to just make it out of the shop before he pulls the trigger, so he survives. T-Bird gives one to himself that is rather fitting, as it was from Shelly's book that he took on the night he and his colleagues murdered her: "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness was."
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 The Crow / int_50f50a5e
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Donut Mess with a Cop
 The Crow / int_50f50a5e
comment
Donut Mess with a Cop: "So many cops, you'd think they were giving away doughnuts".
 The Crow / int_50f50a5e
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Fat Bastard
 The Crow / int_51300dbf
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Fat Bastard: Gideon. Possibly also an incompetent one.
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 The Crow / int_519c2e3a
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Trashcan Bonfire
 The Crow / int_519c2e3a
comment
Trashcan Bonfire: Tin-Tin is killed while hanging out around one.
 The Crow / int_519c2e3a
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Brought Down to Badass
 The Crow / int_51a485d1
comment
Brought Down to Badass: Even without his powers in the finale, Eric still proves himself a very brave and capable combatant.
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The Dragon
 The Crow / int_53f5119f
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The Dragon: Grange is Top Dollar's bodyguard and the one tasked to find out more information about Eric.
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Guns Akimbo
 The Crow / int_548bd053
comment
Guns Akimbo: Eric blasts off with both guns blazing during the boardroom shootout, while Top Dollar gets his moment during the church shootout near the end of the movie.
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Le Parkour
 The Crow / int_54cc6b24
comment
Le Parkour: Eric leaps and sprints across the city rooftops in two highly atmospheric scenes.
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Troubled Backstory Flashback
 The Crow / int_5670cddb
comment
Troubled Backstory Flashback: The various flashbacks from Eric and Shelly's life together before it was all ripped apart. May well be the codifier for the trope's use in horror movies.
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Dark Is Not Evil
 The Crow / int_575fd5e2
comment
Dark Is Not Evil: Eric and Shelley were goths, but otherwise nice, normal people. Eric looks particularly menacing in his black leather outfit and sparse, harlequin-inspired makeup, but he doesn't let revenge stand in the way of his morals.
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 The Crow / int_5989e397
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Enemy Mime
 The Crow / int_5989e397
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Enemy Mime: Played With and lampshaded when Albrecht facetiously refers to the chalk-faced Eric Draven as "a mime from Hell."
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Karma Houdini Warranty
 The Crow / int_599f943f
comment
Karma Houdini Warranty: Eric's entire reason for returning is to carry out this trope on those who killed him and Shelly and he does so in spectacular fashion.
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Bring It
 The Crow / int_5a0e88d8
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Bring It: Eric Draven comes into a room looking for Skank. Finding him, he asks Top Dollar for him, and he'll go away. When Top Dollar responds in the negative, Draven replies: "Well. I see you've made your decision. Now let's see you enforce it." Also, when Eric politely asks Albrecht to shoot him when they first meet.
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The Crow / int_5a0e88d8
 The Crow / int_5bdcc85a
type
Disney Villain Death
 The Crow / int_5bdcc85a
comment
Disney Villain Death: Subverted when Eric fills Top Dollar's head with "Thirty hours of pain!", causing him to reel backwards and fall off the roof of the cathedral they were fighting on — only to be impaled on the huge curved horns of a gargoyle half-way down.
 The Crow / int_5bdcc85a
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The Crow / int_5bdcc85a
 The Crow / int_5d6db368
type
Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 The Crow / int_5d6db368
comment
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Grange sports a rather stylish pair of round-frame glasses, and is the bodyguard and enforcer for a chaotic, ruthless mob boss.
 The Crow / int_5d6db368
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1.0
 The Crow / int_5d6db368
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1.0
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The Crow / int_5d6db368
 The Crow / int_5f5720d8
type
Shocking Voice Identity Reveal
 The Crow / int_5f5720d8
comment
Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: Eric was good friends with Sarah before his murder. Upon returning as a super-powered revenant based on vengeance, he winds up meeting her again. He speaks to her a bit then quotes one of his songs, at which point he escapes into the night and she loses sight of him. The girl calls out, "Eric?"
 The Crow / int_5f5720d8
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1.0
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1.0
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The Crow / int_5f5720d8
 The Crow / int_5f71cdb7
type
Cigarette Burns
 The Crow / int_5f71cdb7
comment
Cigarette Burns: In a bar scene, T-Bird puts a cigar out on his own tongue for laughs.
 The Crow / int_5f71cdb7
featureApplicability
1.0
 The Crow / int_5f71cdb7
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1.0
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The Crow / int_5f71cdb7
 The Crow / int_5f930b19
type
Named After Somebody Famous
 The Crow / int_5f930b19
comment
Named After Somebody Famous: Captain Albrecht is named after Bernard Albrecht, better known as Bernard Sumner of Joy Division and New Order. James O'Barr was a fan of Joy Division, and also used bassist Peter Hook's name for the comic-exclusive Captain Hook.
 The Crow / int_5f930b19
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1.0
 The Crow / int_5f930b19
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1.0
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The Crow / int_5f930b19
 The Crow / int_5ff71094
type
Finger in a Barrel
 The Crow / int_5ff71094
comment
Finger in a Barrel: Eric plugs Funboy's gun barrel with his palm, which he casually fires through. Cue the Oh, Crap! when the bullet hole instantly heals.
 The Crow / int_5ff71094
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1.0
 The Crow / int_5ff71094
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1.0
 The Crow
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The Crow / int_5ff71094
 The Crow / int_605cf3f
type
Something Only They Would Say
 The Crow / int_605cf3f
comment
Something Only They Would Say: "It can't rain all the time."
 The Crow / int_605cf3f
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1.0
 The Crow / int_605cf3f
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1.0
 The Crow
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The Crow / int_605cf3f
 The Crow / int_6315dd44
type
I Think You Broke Him
 The Crow / int_6315dd44
comment
I Think You Broke Him: Said by Top Dollar when he observes that the woman who'd recently been in a threeway with him and Myca has died. Neither are exactly broken up by the realization.
 The Crow / int_6315dd44
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1.0
 The Crow / int_6315dd44
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The Crow / int_6315dd44
 The Crow / int_64246a6f
type
Barbarian Longhair
 The Crow / int_64246a6f
comment
Barbarian Longhair: Eric has a heavy metal mane. Interestingly, in the comic he had a mullet, but subsequent re-editions made his hair longer.
 The Crow / int_64246a6f
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1.0
 The Crow / int_64246a6f
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The Crow / int_64246a6f
 The Crow / int_648fe274
type
But for Me, It Was Tuesday
 The Crow / int_648fe274
comment
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played with. Tin-Tin didn't seem to recognize Eric, nor his description of the rape and murder of his girlfriend Shelly, handwaving it as if he does that stuff all the time, but it doesn't stop him from taunting Eric about it. Funboy was the only one Eric didn't bring it up to, not that it mattered since he killed him in the middle of a morphine bender. T-Bird does remember, but considers it ancient history, playing the trope somewhat straight. Skank remembers enough to know that he's next after seeing Eric kill T-Bird. Top Dollar, seeing as he was the one who cleared that building, does remember it vividly but treats it as business, snidely apologizing for spoiling Eric and Shelly's wedding plans.
 The Crow / int_648fe274
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The Crow / int_648fe274
 The Crow / int_658f7193
type
Lack of Empathy
 The Crow / int_658f7193
comment
Lack of Empathy: Top Dollar cares absolutely nothing for the pain he causes. His only reaction to a lover dying in his bed is, "I think we broke this one." He slaughters Gideon for backtalking him. His little heart-to-heart with Eric in the climax betrays no regret over his actions. He even has no reaction to the death of Myca, his sister and consort.
 The Crow / int_658f7193
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The Crow / int_658f7193
 The Crow / int_66ea7e5c
type
Brought Down to Normal
 The Crow / int_66ea7e5c
comment
Brought Down to Normal: Eric in the finale after losing his invulnerability. Though he still puts up a good fight against Top Dollar.
 The Crow / int_66ea7e5c
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1.0
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The Crow / int_66ea7e5c
 The Crow / int_67101c52
type
Rooftop Confrontation
 The Crow / int_67101c52
comment
Rooftop Confrontation: The final battle between Eric and Top Dollar takes place on the roof of a church.
 The Crow / int_67101c52
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1.0
 The Crow / int_67101c52
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The Crow / int_67101c52
 The Crow / int_6860368a
type
Mook Horror Show
 The Crow / int_6860368a
comment
Mook Horror Show: The much more elaborate re-creation of the shootout on the street from the comic, set this time up in Top Dollar's penthouse suite above the nightclub he owns. Unlike in the comic, here Eric doesn't actually want to kill anyone except for Skank, one of his fiancée's rapists (all of whom were acting on Top Dollar's orders, but Eric doesn't know this yet)— and was willing to let everyone else live, including Top Dollar and Myca, if they would just hand Skank over to him. But Top Dollar's extreme arrogance drives him to immediately order Eric's execution— and the inevitable result is what looks like two dozen henchmen being slaughtered either by gunfire, Top Dollar's stash of antique weapons, or simply being thrown out the window. Ridiculously, they all keep coming at Eric even when it should be clear that they are absolutely no match for him even when all together, yet alone as one or two stubbornly persistent men.
 The Crow / int_6860368a
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1.0
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The Crow / int_6860368a
 The Crow / int_6926506
type
Revenant Zombie
 The Crow / int_6926506
comment
Revenant Zombie: Eric is a quintessential revenant but, unlike most, retains compassion for the living as well as a semblance of his former personality. This is less true in the original comics.
 The Crow / int_6926506
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1.0
 The Crow / int_6926506
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The Crow / int_6926506
 The Crow / int_69bd76fd
type
The Commissioner Gordon
 The Crow / int_69bd76fd
comment
The Commissioner Gordon: Officer Albrecht becomes Eric's biggest ally. Unfortunately, his aiding a vigilante who is on a murder spree against Top Dollar's gang eventually gets him suspended, at which point he takes a more active hand in things.
 The Crow / int_69bd76fd
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 The Crow / int_69bd76fd
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The Crow / int_69bd76fd
 The Crow / int_6b05b601
type
Jerkass Has a Point
 The Crow / int_6b05b601
comment
Jerkass Has a Point: When Detective Torres suspends Albrecht for "misconduct" he's supposed to be seen as a huge jerk, and he is. But he's also 100% correct that there's a murderous vigilante going around creatively killing criminals without due process and Albrecht is covering for him. This is only countered by the fact that the Police Are Useless at controlling the city's criminals, and at least the suspension from duty allows Albrecht to start aiding Eric directly when he needs it most.
 The Crow / int_6b05b601
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The Crow / int_6b05b601
 The Crow / int_6bd689ca
type
Meaningful Echo
 The Crow / int_6bd689ca
comment
Meaningful Echo: "It can't rain all the time".
 The Crow / int_6bd689ca
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1.0
 The Crow / int_6bd689ca
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1.0
 The Crow
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The Crow / int_6bd689ca
 The Crow / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 The Crow / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Eric Draven's surname contains "raven," another type of black bird similar to a crow.
 The Crow / int_6bda9a30
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1.0
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The Crow / int_6bda9a30
 The Crow / int_6d70ac30
type
Touch Telepathy
 The Crow / int_6d70ac30
comment
Touch Telepathy: Eric develops this power after he gets psychometry, and uses it to GREAT effect in the end, completely wrecking Top Dollar by forcibly giving him the memories of the last 30 hours of Shelly's life (since his orders were responsible for Shelly getting raped and beaten to death, and Eric himself being gunned down). Top Dollar, who while evil is quite alive and mostly sane, proves to be unable to stand "thirty hours of pain," all in one shot...
 The Crow / int_6d70ac30
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1.0
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1.0
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The Crow / int_6d70ac30
 The Crow / int_6de71c57
type
Disc-One Final Boss
 The Crow / int_6de71c57
comment
Disc-One Final Boss: T-Bird seems to be the Big Bad, as the leader of the gang who killed Eric and Shelley, but it's shown halfway through the film that he works for a crime boss known simply as Top Dollar. Doubles as a Not His Sled as T-Bird really was the Big Bad in the original comic, with Top Dollar being just another Mook.
 The Crow / int_6de71c57
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1.0
 The Crow / int_6de71c57
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1.0
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The Crow / int_6de71c57
 The Crow / int_6e7268ad
type
Parrot Pet Position
 The Crow / int_6e7268ad
comment
Parrot Pet Position: The crow can sometimes be seen perched on Eric's shoulder.
 The Crow / int_6e7268ad
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1.0
 The Crow / int_6e7268ad
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The Crow / int_6e7268ad
 The Crow / int_7012424f
type
Stealth Hi/Bye
 The Crow / int_7012424f
comment
Stealth Hi/Bye: Eric does that a lot to people. It's lampshaded by Albrecht four times. It's ultimately subverted when, after a particularly emotional conversation, Albrecht asks if Eric is going to just vanish out a window or something, and a tearful Eric says that he'd rather use the front door.
 The Crow / int_7012424f
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The Crow / int_7012424f
 The Crow / int_71748a39
type
Named by the Adaptation
 The Crow / int_71748a39
comment
Named by the Adaptation: In the original graphic novel, Eric and Shelly's last names went unmentioned. The film gave them the surnames of "Draven" and "Webster" respectively.
 The Crow / int_71748a39
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1.0
 The Crow / int_71748a39
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The Crow / int_71748a39
 The Crow / int_72528764
type
Unbroken Vigil
 The Crow / int_72528764
comment
Unbroken Vigil: Albrecht stayed at Shelly's bedside for thirty hours before she died, partly because he hoped she'd regain consciousness and be a witness, partly because he's a decent person. Eric senses this when he meets Albrecht, and later is able to weaponize it by forcing those memories onto her attackers:
 The Crow / int_72528764
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1.0
 The Crow / int_72528764
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The Crow / int_72528764
 The Crow / int_736d791f
type
Adaptational Badass
 The Crow / int_736d791f
comment
Adaptational Badass: Comic Top Dollar was a scuzzy little crime boss who went down without a fight. The film version is a suave, refined criminal mastermind with a penchant for sadism and is also a master fighter to boot.
 The Crow / int_736d791f
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1.0
 The Crow / int_736d791f
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The Crow / int_736d791f
 The Crow / int_7464705c
type
Arc Words
 The Crow / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: "It can't rain all the time."
 The Crow / int_7464705c
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1.0
 The Crow / int_7464705c
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The Crow / int_7464705c
 The Crow / int_771f6307
type
Brother–Sister Incest
 The Crow / int_771f6307
comment
Brother–Sister Incest: Top Dollar and Myca are half-siblings who are open about their sexual relationship and their villainy.
 The Crow / int_771f6307
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1.0
 The Crow / int_771f6307
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The Crow / int_771f6307
 The Crow / int_773b0523
type
Impaled Palm
 The Crow / int_773b0523
comment
Impaled Palm: Eric Draven first demonstrates his regenerating powers by impaling his hands on shards of glass lining the broken window he was thrown through. Later, he lets Funboy shoot him through the palm, and then watch as the wound instantly heals.
 The Crow / int_773b0523
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 The Crow / int_773b0523
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The Crow / int_773b0523
 The Crow / int_77c719f5
type
Heroic Bloodshed
 The Crow / int_77c719f5
comment
Heroic Bloodshed: The action in this movie is very reminiscent of Hong Kong Blood Opera. It certainly helps that Brandon Lee's first movie was a Heroic Bloodshed flick.
 The Crow / int_77c719f5
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1.0
 The Crow / int_77c719f5
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The Crow / int_77c719f5
 The Crow / int_77ee199
type
Villain Killer
 The Crow / int_77ee199
comment
Villain Killer: When Eric comes back from the dead, his first order of business is to kill the gang responsible. Then, he extends his vengeance to the man who gave them their marching orders.
 The Crow / int_77ee199
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1.0
 The Crow / int_77ee199
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The Crow / int_77ee199
 The Crow / int_781f2467
type
Shooting Superman
 The Crow / int_781f2467
comment
Shooting Superman: Even after Eric has shown he heals instantly from bullet wounds, Top Dollar's men still try shooting him to put him down.
 The Crow / int_781f2467
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1.0
 The Crow / int_781f2467
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The Crow / int_781f2467
 The Crow / int_786afb29
type
Looks Like Cesare
 The Crow / int_786afb29
comment
Looks Like Cesare: Eric doesn't just have pale skin but also white facepaint.
 The Crow / int_786afb29
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1.0
 The Crow / int_786afb29
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The Crow / int_786afb29
 The Crow / int_7aaafe
type
Wedding/Death Juxtaposition
 The Crow / int_7aaafe
comment
Wedding/Death Juxtaposition: The film begins with the aftermath of Eric and Shelly being viciously attacked and murdered in their apartment. As the police investigate the crime scene, Albrecht finds an invitation for their wedding, which was scheduled for the following day. This emphasizes how tragic and unfair their deaths were.
 The Crow / int_7aaafe
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1.0
 The Crow / int_7aaafe
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The Crow / int_7aaafe
 The Crow / int_7b405f5b
type
Percussive Therapy
 The Crow / int_7b405f5b
comment
Percussive Therapy: Eric plays his guitar and then smashes it in a fit of grief and anger.
 The Crow / int_7b405f5b
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The Crow / int_7b405f5b
 The Crow / int_7eccbb3d
type
Shower Scene
 The Crow / int_7eccbb3d
comment
Shower Scene: Myca, Top Dollar's consort/half-sister is introduced taking a shower.
 The Crow / int_7eccbb3d
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 The Crow / int_7eccbb3d
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The Crow / int_7eccbb3d
 The Crow / int_7f413791
type
Wall of Weapons
 The Crow / int_7f413791
comment
Wall of Weapons: Top Dollar has a cabinet filled with swords. Eric pulls a katana from it to slash through Top Dollar's minions, while the man himself seems to prefer a Royal Rapier.
 The Crow / int_7f413791
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1.0
 The Crow / int_7f413791
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 The Crow
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The Crow / int_7f413791
 The Crow / int_823c6e3e
type
Large Ham
 The Crow / int_823c6e3e
comment
Large Ham: Top Dollar, especially in his Motive Rant scene. Eric himself on occasion, such as when he tortures Gideon for information. T-Bird and his gang.
 The Crow / int_823c6e3e
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The Crow / int_823c6e3e
 The Crow / int_8391b1c7
type
Artistic License – Law
 The Crow / int_8391b1c7
comment
Artistic License – Law: Paramedics don't need permission from the police to move a victim who is still alive and in need of treatment. Rescue has priority over evidence collection.
 The Crow / int_8391b1c7
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1.0
 The Crow / int_8391b1c7
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The Crow / int_8391b1c7
 The Crow / int_83f0971b
type
Mexican Standoff
 The Crow / int_83f0971b
comment
Mexican Standoff: T-Bird and his gang briefly have one amongst themselves while drunk. It ends once T-bird shows he's just playing around.
 The Crow / int_83f0971b
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1.0
 The Crow / int_83f0971b
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The Crow / int_83f0971b
 The Crow / int_84764598
type
Dramatic Thunder
 The Crow / int_84764598
comment
Dramatic Thunder: The final fight against Top Dollar takes place on a church roof during a thunderstorm. The storm ends as The Crow stands victorious...
 The Crow / int_84764598
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 The Crow / int_84764598
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The Crow / int_84764598
 The Crow / int_84fa1d7d
type
Disposable Woman
 The Crow / int_84fa1d7d
comment
Disposable Woman: Shelly exists in the story to be murdered, which provides Eric's motivation to return from the dead as the Crow and avenge her.
 The Crow / int_84fa1d7d
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The Crow / int_84fa1d7d
 The Crow / int_867a87a7
type
Totalitarian Gangsterism
 The Crow / int_867a87a7
comment
Totalitarian Gangsterism: Top Dollar's crime syndicate regularly engages in arson around Detroit and has the citizens living in those buildings robbed, brutalized, and murdered on a regular basis. At a conference, he suggests that he and his fellow gangsters should just forget about actually profiting from their crimes and instead burn the entire city to the ground for shits and giggles.
 The Crow / int_867a87a7
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The Crow / int_867a87a7
 The Crow / int_86b21114
type
Badass Boast
 The Crow / int_86b21114
comment
Badass Boast: This exchange between Eric and Albrecht.
 The Crow / int_86b21114
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 The Crow / int_86b21114
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The Crow / int_86b21114
 The Crow / int_86bb7d97
type
Cultured Badass
 The Crow / int_86bb7d97
comment
Cultured Badass: Eric Draven, at least while he has crow powers. He's a guitar playing undead ninja who quotes Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and William Makepiece Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
 The Crow / int_86bb7d97
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1.0
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The Crow / int_86bb7d97
 The Crow / int_86e12b9a
type
City Noir
 The Crow / int_86e12b9a
comment
City Noir: Detroit, in a heightened and stylised manner.
 The Crow / int_86e12b9a
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 The Crow / int_86e12b9a
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1.0
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The Crow / int_86e12b9a
 The Crow / int_871cff0c
type
Create Your Own Hero
 The Crow / int_871cff0c
comment
Create Your Own Hero: Top Dollar unwittingly created his own nemesis when he orders T-Bird's gang to lay waste to several apartments and murder their residents to create chaos. He never paid it any second thought until Eric Draven returns from the dead to exact revenge on his killers.
 The Crow / int_871cff0c
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1.0
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1.0
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The Crow / int_871cff0c
 The Crow / int_875f008a
type
Psychometry
 The Crow / int_875f008a
comment
Psychometry: Eric has the ability to pick up on memories related to his past by touching things related to said past—including ones that didn't originate with him, as seen with the scene with Albrecht when he sees Shelly's final moments through the cop's eyes. He eventually develops the ability to transfer memories and the pain that comes with them by touch, which he uses to completely wreck Top Dollar in the final battle.
 The Crow / int_875f008a
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1.0
 The Crow / int_875f008a
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The Crow / int_875f008a
 The Crow / int_889cff96
type
Quirky Miniboss Squad
 The Crow / int_889cff96
comment
Quirky Miniboss Squad: The gang who killed Eric and Shelly were employees of Top Dollar. Played with in that while Top Dollar is technically the Big Bad of the film, they are the targets of Eric's revenge.
 The Crow / int_889cff96
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1.0
 The Crow / int_889cff96
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The Crow / int_889cff96
 The Crow / int_8a4988bb
type
Mind Rape
 The Crow / int_8a4988bb
comment
Mind Rape: Hero on villain example: Eric Draven can experience the sensations and memories of others through touch. When he picks up from Officer Albrecht what his fiancee Shelly went through before she died (thirty hours of surgery and intensive care), he's staggered by it all— though he recovers, as he's already undead and probably quite insane from a certain point of view. He also demonstrates another ability— to transfer the things he knows through touch, which he uses to full retributive effect on Top Dollar, whose orders were responsible for Shelly getting raped and beaten to death, and Eric himself being gunned down. Top Dollar, who while evil is quite alive and mostly sane, proves to be unable to stand "thirty hours of pain," all in one shot...
 The Crow / int_8a4988bb
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The Crow / int_8a4988bb
 The Crow / int_8b568cb7
type
Posthumous Character
 The Crow / int_8b568cb7
comment
Posthumous Character: Eric's girlfriend Shelly Webster was given this treatment, both in flashbacks and from the other characters, such as Eric himself, who came Back from the Dead in order to avenge them both:
 The Crow / int_8b568cb7
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Lipstick-and-Load Montage
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Lipstick-and-Load Montage: In a non-comedic male example, Eric has one of these right before going out to avenge his and Shelly's deaths, including putting on the famous black and white makeup.
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The Crow / int_8cf75a5c
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The Lopsided Arm of the Law
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comment
The Lopsided Arm of the Law: Detroit has a one-night surge of arson the cops can't do a thing about. A double-murder of a public advocate and her boyfriend rates a couple of squad cars that only show up long after the violence. Start killing off criminals, though, and we have multiple squad cars, a large armed response, a helicopter...
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The Crow / int_8e5f93b8
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Asshole Victim
 The Crow / int_8ed5c6e4
comment
Asshole Victim: Everyone Eric kills during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge had it coming at least 10 times over.
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1.0
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The Crow / int_8ed5c6e4
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type
Superpower Lottery
 The Crow / int_8fac4a3a
comment
Superpower Lottery: For powers borne from unimaginable pain, being a Crow comes with some sweet abilities including enhanced strength, healing from any injuries instantly, being able to dodge bullets and knives easily, the ability to see through a crow's eyes, knowing martial arts and being able to use weapons despite not being indicated to have these skills while alive and being able to use their own memories and pain as a devastating weapon.
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The Crow / int_8fac4a3a
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Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
 The Crow / int_905a9ca0
comment
Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration: Eric gets Type IV, thanks to the titular crow which accompanies him (having brought him back from the dead). But he's brought down to a Type II for the final showdown after one of the villains severely injures the bird.
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Rise from Your Grave
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Rise from Your Grave: Eric rises from his grave in the beginning, literally crawling out of the ground.
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Blood-Stained Glass Windows
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Bloodstained Glass Windows: After a shootout inside, the final fight takes place on the roof of a neo-Gothic church, in a rainy night, overlooking the graveyard.
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Karmic Death
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comment
Karmic Death: "I have something to give you. I don't want it anymore." Basically everyone from T-Bird's gang: Tin-Tin, a Psycho Knife Nut, is killed by being stabbed by pretty much all of his knives. Fun Boy, an apparently heavy user of morphine, is killed when Eric overdoses him with it - after striking his arm and making him shoot himself in the leg, with the revolver he typically carried. T-Bird is blown up in his own car with explosives he planned to start fires with. Skank is sent out a window, much like he and his buddies did to Eric himself. This clearly demonstrates that, despite being a member of the gang, Skank doesn't really contribute much to the team. Myca likes to take out the eyes of her victims. She gets hers pecked out by the crow. Grange, who shoots and injures the titular crow in the battle at the cathedral, is shot by Albrecht.
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Monster Clown
 The Crow / int_932da128
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Monster Clown: Eric Draven is a vengeful undead man who wears black and white facial makeup based on a Pierrot mask he owned, but he's an heroic Monster Clown due to his targets being Asshole Victims.
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The Crow / int_932da128
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Unhand Them, Villain!
 The Crow / int_93cb144a
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Unhand Them, Villain!: Makes a brief appearance. Eric shouts "Let her go" and Top Dollar responds by shrugging and saying "All right".
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Shaped Like Itself
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Shaped Like Itself: When Eric catches up to T-Bird, it takes a while for T-Bird to realize who he is. This is doubtless partially due to the makeup Draven wore, but it might also have been denial, as when he realizes it, he's so confused and frightened he fires off five of these statements in a row.
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The Scourge of God
 The Crow / int_9521acf7
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The Scourge of God: Eric is a far more altruistic example than most, with the sinners in question being some of the most depraved, murdering, raping sadistic scum you're likely to ever meet, and he even helps a drug addict who he justifiably sees as more a victim than anything..
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The Crow / int_9521acf7
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Villainous Breakdown
 The Crow / int_957e5fc2
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Villainous Breakdown: T-Bird pretty much loses his mind the moment he recognizes Eric. Considering the verses he's quoting from John Milton's Paradise Lost ("Abashed the Devil stood ..."), this might also qualify as a Heel Realization. Watching T-Bird's death (at Eric's hands) also mentally wrecks Skank, who spends the remaining hours of his life being much more of a hysterical Dirty Coward than he already was.
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The Crow / int_957e5fc2
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Heel Realization
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Heel Realization: T-Bird dies quoting (in earnest, this time) Lucifer's Heel Realization from Paradise Lost, indicating that he knows he is evil and is absolutely terrified at the prospect of facing divine wrath for all his sins.
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Faux Affably Evil
 The Crow / int_95b7c400
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Faux Affably Evil: Top Dollar usually has a very amiable disposition and is immensely charismatic, speaking casually about horrible topics and even complimenting Eric before he prepares to kill him. However, his total lack of empathy suggests that he does this simply because he's so confident in his hold on the city that he doesn't need to impress anyone.
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Big Bad
 The Crow / int_970c790a
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Big Bad: Top Dollar reveals he was behind everything near the end. He ordered Eric and Shelly's murders, and even started Devil's Night in the first place.
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The Crow / int_970c790a
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Black Dude Dies First
 The Crow / int_9788e2b1
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Black Dude Dies First: Technically Eric and Shelley die first but this film follows the spirit of the trope and Tin-Tin, the one black member of T-Bird's posse, is the first to die. When the climactic battle starts, Grange is the first one to go down - shot, ironically, by the other black guy.
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The Crow / int_9788e2b1
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Immune to Bullets
 The Crow / int_99db72ee
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Immune to Bullets: Since he heals from wounds instantly, bullets have no effect on Eric and do nothing more than slow him down slightly.
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The Crow / int_99db72ee
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Toplessness from the Back
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Toplessness from the Back: Bai Ling has a serious moment in her Shower Scene, showing off Myca's tattoo.
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Foreshadowing
 The Crow / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing: During one of her "eyeball rituals", Myca tells Top Dollar that there are energies aligning against him. Boy, was she right.
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This Is Reality
 The Crow / int_9d3b4703
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This Is Reality: Or so T-Bird keeps telling himself after he recognizes Eric.
 The Crow / int_9d3b4703
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The Crow / int_9d3b4703
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One-Man Army
 The Crow / int_9e943076
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One-Man Army: Eric, when taking out the gangsters in Top Dollar's headquarters. Being invincible probably helped.
 The Crow / int_9e943076
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The Crow / int_9e943076
 The Crow / int_9ee065ab
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
 The Crow / int_9ee065ab
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Eric's death and return from the grave take place on Devil's Night, the night before Halloween.
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Badass in a Nice Suit
 The Crow / int_9fbe06a5
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Badass in a Nice Suit: Top Dollar is well dressed, even as he throws down with Eric.
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Homage
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Homage: The author of the original comic named Eric for Erik, the titular tortured and scared maybe-ghost in The Phantom of the Opera. Shelly was named for Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, another work of fiction dealing with grief, resurrection, and revenge.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Myca has a fondness for eyes. When a prostitute dies in her bed, she decides that she likes the dead girl's eyes and cuts them out. We later see her burning an eyeball in a saucer. Myca's own eyes are later pecked out by Eric's crow, causing her to fall to her death.
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Award-Bait Song
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Award-Bait Song: "It Can't Rain All the Time" by Jane Siberry.
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Snow Globe of Innocence
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Snow Globe of Innocence: Subverted. Gothic Mob boss Top Dollar is seen looking into a snow globe in his hand and reminiscing about his childhood; then we see the snowglobe depicts a blackened cemetery.
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Healing Factor
 The Crow / int_a5fb0d24
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Healing Factor: Eric seems to possess this ability. Right to the point of making a religious joke in between successive on-target revolver blasts.
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 The Crow / int_a6275bef
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Cool Sword
 The Crow / int_a6275bef
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Cool Sword: Top Dollar has a large display of swords. His sword of choice, in the center of the display, is an ornate Royal Rapier. The prop is the same one used for the six-fingered sword in The Princess Bride.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: In the comic, there's that one little girl whom Eric helps that has a name similar to his dead fiancee's. She gets a name change (Sarah), a big role in the film (in the movie, Shelly used to look after Sarah and treated her almost like a little sister, which also meant she was friends with Eric), and her mom's involvement with Funboy is upped. From there, she becomes the love interest in the sequel and once again is in the series. Top Dollar was a pretty minor villain in the comic and dies pretty early on. In the film, he's the Big Bad.
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 The Crow / int_a7aef9ff
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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comment
Obfuscating Stupidity: Myca plays up her role as a Dragon Lady. She uses You No Take Candle a bit (but notice how her smile slips when Top Dollar's men laugh at her saying "I like the pretty lights") and acting as if she's just there to be arm candy for Top Dollar. But she's far more intelligent than she lets on and Top Dollar listens to her advice because she's rarely wrong.
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Mood Dissonance
 The Crow / int_a7f4710f
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Mood Dissonance: Eric Draven's interactions with the gang that killed him jump sentence-to-sentence between silly jokes and brutal violence.
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Junkie Parent
 The Crow / int_a8490b93
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Junkie Parent: Sarah spends a lot of time running around unsupervised thanks to her mother's morphine addiction. A confrontation with Eric does prompt her to try going clean and being a parent again.
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Soft-Spoken Sadist
 The Crow / int_a8660c25
comment
Soft-Spoken Sadist: Top Dollar is amazingly charismatic and calm almost all the time. Though he does have a couple moments where he loses his temper and hollers, even when being outright insulted and disrespected by Gideon he keeps his cool and even agrees maybe he's "not as big as he thinks." Then he tosses Gideon someone else's torn out eye and, still being chillingly calm, tells the man that's what happened to the last guy who talked back to him like that. Then he runs him through the throat with a sabre for the hell of it, without ever once breaking composure.
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Super-Strength
 The Crow / int_a8c6a317
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Super-Strength: Eric's Crow powers make him strong enough to overcome any opponent instantly and toss grown men around like rag dolls.
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Licked by the Dog
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Licked by the Dog: During Eric's transformation, he pauses to scritch Gabriel the cat that was left to fend for itself after he and his fiancee were murdered. Gabriel, in turn, licks his hand, apparently recognizing him even after he's been dead and buried for a year. (Cats have eyes, and cats have long-term memory, but Draven likely doesn't smell like he used to, besides having put on Harlequin-mask face paint.)
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No-Sell
 The Crow / int_abd29ad8
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No-Sell: Eric is a walking example of this, since he's a dead man come back to life; while it's implied he still feels the pain from being wounded, at least briefly, said wounds eventually heal themselves. Subverted near the film's end when Top Dollar and his gang realize that by taking out the crow itself, they'll be able to finish off Eric, as the crow is Eric's link to our world.
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Alas, Poor Villain
 The Crow / int_ac09dc0f
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Alas, Poor Villain: T-Bird pretty much loses his mind when he recognizes Eric and realizes how far he's come. "There ain't no comin' back," indeed. David Patrick Kelly's performance makes it surprisingly moving.
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Oh, Crap!
 The Crow / int_ad1db87c
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Oh, Crap!: Pretty much everyone from T-Bird's gang gets one when confronted by the titular character, to varying degree. Especially when Eric No Sells gunshots and knife wounds that would kill an ordinary man.
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What Beautiful Eyes!
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What Beautiful Eyes!: Played for Horror, as Myca is obsessed with collecting eyes. She comments that a dead prostitute has pretty eyes and removes them. When she sees the kidnapped Sarah, she says, "Her eyes are so innocent," implying that she'd like to take them as well.
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For the Evulz
 The Crow / int_adfd3165
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For the Evulz: Top Dollar's speech about Devil's Night is about his belief that Devil's Night should be about pointless destruction, not profit.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Eric in Gideon's shop. Gideon himself too. And Top Dollar. And Albrecht. You know what, pretty much everybody.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
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Drop Dead Gorgeous: As part of his Establishing Character Moment, Top Dollar realizes that the naked woman in his bed died at some point in the night. He's unfazed.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: From Myca to Top Dollar, after he wished he was hungry again.
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Royal Rapier
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Royal Rapier: Top Dollar is the king of crime in his city. He's not interested in mere financial gain, however. He and his sister live a bacchanal of evil and want to spread discord purely for its own sake. He dresses in fine, outdated outfits and has a whole wall of various swords. His weapon of choice is an ornate rapier. Interesting trivia: his rapier is the Six-Fingered Sword from The Princess Bride.
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Just Between You and Me
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Just Between You and Me: At the end, crime lord Top Dollar gives the avenging Eric Draven the speech after he impales him through the back. He admits that he's ultimately responsible for the death of Eric and his girlfriend Shelly, and expresses admiration for what he considered a Worthy Opponent. As he gets ready to slit Eric's throat, Eric gives back what Top Dollar's owed - the combined memories of 30 hours of pain experienced by Shelly as she died on the operating table.
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Rape and Revenge
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Rape and Revenge: Expanded into rape-and-murder and revenge-from-beyond-the-grave
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: In a particularly egregious example, during the shootout with the gangsters, Eric manages to fire several dozen bullets each from a pair of revolvers.
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Sadist
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Sadist: Top Dollar started the tradition of Devil's Night because he felt regular crime was boring, and decides to lead all of Detroit's criminals to burn the city to the ground For the Evulz.
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Too Dumb to Live
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For that matter, Top Dollar himself showed he was just Too Dumb to Live by getting himself involved in the first place. He was never on Eric's target list, ever. Had he stepped back and let Eric finish off Skank like Eric wanted to, Top Dollar would have no doubt lived a long and fruitful life as Detroit's chief boogeyman. But no... his ego couldn't handle just letting Eric have his way, despite none of the gathered thugs respected Skank anyway.
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The Don
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The Don: Top Dollar apparently has authority over all major crime in the city.
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Tomboy
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Tomboy: Sarah, who wears hoodies, ripped tights, rides a skateboard and is into Eric's rock music.
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Tom the Dark Lord
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Tom the Dark Lord: T-Bird and his crew have some rather ridiclous names for psychotic killers. Lamp Shaded by several characters, namely Eric.
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Jerkass to One
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Jerkass to One: Inverted with Les, the bartender of the Pit. For most of his screen-time, he is rude and unpleasant to most of the characters, such as Gideon and Darla (not that they don't deserve it), but he is kind to Sarah, offering her free drinks and expressing sympathy for her over her mother's addictions, as well as his inability to do more for her.
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Danger Takes a Backseat
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Danger Takes a Backseat: The Anti-Hero version, done by Eric to T-Bird.
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Battle in the Rain
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Battle in the Rain: Despite being set in a city of perpetual rain, this only happens during the climatic fight between Top Dollar and Draven.
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Relative Button
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Relative Button: Tin-Tin doesn't seem to recognize Eric's description of the rape and murder of Shelly, but he uses a Post-Rape Taunt to distract Eric and briefly gain an advantage in their fight.
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Calling Parents by Their Name
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Calling Parents by Their Name: Sarah calls her mother by name at one point.
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Subverted Trope
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When Gideon continues to hurl abuse at Eric as he walks out of his shop after dousing it in gasoline, he quips "Is that gasoline I smell?" before letting off a shotgun blast full of Gideon's own pawned rings, blowing the entire shop up. However, he did give Gideon enough time to just make it out of the shop before he pulls the trigger, so he survives.
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Dies Differently in Adaptation
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comic, Eric merely shoots Tin-Tin. In the film, he stabs him with his own blades. In the comic, Eric shoots Gideon. In the film, he lets him live so he can tell the bad guys that he's coming for them. Then Top Dollar stabs him in the throat, then shoots him. In the comic, Eric kills Skank with a sword. In the film, he throws him out a window. In the comic, Eric merely shoots Top Dollar. In the film, he plants Shelley's trauma into his head, which causes him to fall off a building and get impaled on a gargoyle. In the comics, Eric bludgeons T-Bird to death with a claw hammer. In the film, he blows him up in his own car. Eric was originally merely shot in the head by the goons. In the film, he was stabbed, shot and thrown out a window. Eric's and Shelley's deaths are somewhat reversed. In the comic, Eric is shot and paralyzed and forced to watch Shelley's rape, and later dies in the hospital; Shelley dies during her assault. In the film, Eric is killed during the gang's attack, and Shelley survives her assault to die later in the hospital.
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Out of Continues
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Out of Continues: Eric suffers this while his bird is being held by Myca. He got better, and then he didn't.
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Irony
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Irony: Eric is immune to bullets after rising from the dead and laughs about how bullets can't hurt him. Considering that Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed during production, this is both sad and ironic. Even more ironic is that the scene where Brandon was shot was the one where Eric is initially murdered by T-Bird's gang.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: Eric kicks off the battle with Top Dollar's goons by shooting one of them in the head while under the table.
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One-Woman Wail
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One-Woman Wail: Not surprisingly given the film's subject matter, Graeme Revell's score has a lot of this going on.
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: Eric, despite his appearance and rampage of revenge, is shown as this. He was a friendly and good-natured guy who clearly adored his fiancée prior and helped look after Sarah during her mother's addiction and he still cares deeply for her after he comes back. He's also friendly to Officer Albrecht, even sharing a moment of vulnerability with him.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: The villainous Top Dollar brings up his apparently abusive father several times in the film, ultimately revealing that he's killed him.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Gideon, literally so. Just could not shut up when dealing with either Eric or Top Dollar. Eric blew up his shop. Top Dollar rammed a rapier through his throat and shot him twice.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: Top Dollar, Myca and Grange are never named in the film. Similarly, the gang members who kill Eric and Shelly are known only by their nicknames (Tin-Tin, T-Bird, Funboy and Skank).
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: While most of what happens in the film is shown to be explicitly supernatural, such as Eric being brought back by a psychopomp and being granted powers to help him in his quest for revenge, there's a few things left ambiguous. Is Myca really psychic or just very intelligent? She makes several predictions that are uncannily accurate, such as that energies are aligning against her brother Top Dollar and knowing that killing the crow will make Eric vulnerable, but she's also shown to be quite observant and might just be a little smarter than the other people in the room. Is Gabriel a normal cat or a spirit being just like the crow is? He shows no overt supernatural abilities, it's true. But he has the Meaningful Name of an angel, is pure white, and is far more pristine-looking than any cat who had been living on their own for a year would be, not to mention he's the one that jumpstarts Eric's ability to read memories and even recognizes his dead owner without freaking out. If the sequel is taken into consideration as well, he lives an extraordinarily long life for a cat with Sarah, and is even still alive, unharmed, and given to the little girl at the end, as if he has a new charge to watch over like a guardian angel.
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Vigilante Man
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Vigilante Man: Eric Draven. Although, since he's already died and has resurrected as an unkillable zombie, he's technically a Vigilante Thing.
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Purpose-Driven Immortality
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Purpose-Driven Immortality: As long as the titular Crow is alive, the person they brought back is immortal and has a Healing Factor. This becomes a problem when Eric loses his immortality because he's already finished off every member of the gang who previously killed him and his girlfriend, but the crime lord who ordered the murder (and was thus indirectly responsible even if he might be the most culpable) is still breathing, so Eric's soul still can't rest in peace.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Comparably speaking. The movie is very dark, but the character is less manically sociopathic than his comic book counterpart, and the violence is less extreme. For example, the film has a touching scene where Eric gives Albrecht a meaningful speech about how "nothing is trivial" and how you have to treasure each moment as they come. In the comic he shoots up drugs and self-mutilates in a frenzy of grief and anger, repeatedly.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Such an extreme case of it that the protagonist comes Back from the Dead to accomplish it.
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Badass Longcoat
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Badass Longcoat: Eric takes it off Tin Tin and sets it aside when he finishes the goons off...and after it's filled with holes from about five hundred bullets.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Top Dollar is defeated by the misery he caused to Eric and Shelly.
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Break Out the Museum Piece
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Break Out the Museum Piece: Top Dollar is a collector of antique weapons, and he uses a rapier to execute Gideon. Eric also steals a katana from his collection while in the midst of mowing through his goons.
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Fake Shemp
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Fake Shemp: Since Brandon Lee died in an accident with dummy bullets, they had to use a stand-in for some of the scenes and used CGI to composite Brandon's face over his. It mostly worked unless you were paying close attention (the fact that the film was already mostly shot in heavy, noir-inspired shadow helped as well).
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Animal Eye Spy
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Animal Eye Spy: Eric has among his powers the ability to see through the eyes of the title bird.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: Eric was fully white in the original graphic novel, but Brandon Lee was of mixed European-Chinese descent. T-Bird, who is vaguely African-American or Pacific Islander-American in the comic, is played in the movie by Irish-American actor David Patrick Kelly.
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Rockers Smash Guitars
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Rockers Smash Guitars: After performing the solo of his (un)life on the roof of his old apartment building, Eric Draven smashes his guitar.
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Whodunnit to Me?
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Whodunnit to Me?: Eric Draven rises from the grave to hunt down the criminals who murdered him and his fiancée.
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Adaptation Name Change
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Adaptation Name Change: Sherri became Sarah in the film, in addition to her increased role. Probably because there's another character called Shelly and "Sherri" sounds far too similar.
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Drugs Are Bad
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Drugs Are Bad: Sarah's mother Darla spends her time shooting up with Funboy. Eric cures her of her addiction, tells her that morphine is bad for her and that her daughter is waiting for her. He then proceeds to kill Funboy via overdose.
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Kubrick Stare
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Kubrick Stare: Post-mortem Eric Draven is quite fond of this.◊
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Didn't See That Coming
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Didn't See That Coming: Obviously nobody from T-Bird's gang expected they would get viciously murdered by a person they killed one year ago. Best seen with T-Bird who is deep in denial when he recognizes Eric.
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Eric is a heroic example. A murdered goth-rocker is resurrected as a superpowerful avenging angel.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: It finally stops raining after Top Dollar is dead, and Eric returns to his grave at peace.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Officer Albrecht in the comic is a white rookie patrolman, and reports to a black detective by the name of Captain Hook (named after Peter Hook, not the Peter Pan character). If you're gonna pay for Ernie Hudson, you might as well use him. Top Dollar in the film was also sort of a mash-up of several gangster characters from the comic— though his role in the story mostly stands him in for T-Bird (who, in turn, was relegated to being Top Dollar's lieutenant) and turns him from a drug kingpin into an almost ludicrously depraved monster.
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Equal-Opportunity Evil
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: The criminal gangs in the various movies were pretty ethnically diverse. Even the brother/sister team in the first film were of different ethnicities (they're half-siblings).
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Climbing Climax
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Climbing Climax: The final fight between Eric and Top Dollar takes place atop the bell tower of an abandoned church.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Where does Eric place the stick of dynamite when he blows up T-Bird? Between the legs, of course.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Hero: Albrecht. Just as Grange is about to kill the raven, and by extension, Eric, Albrecht bursts in with a shotgun, has a firefight with Grange and manages to pump two rounds into his chest. Unfortunately, he is shot by Myca soon after and is down, but survives.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Albrecht's superior Torres, who seemingly exists for no other reason than to antagonize Albrecht.
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Sage Love Interest
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Sage Love Interest: Myca is a villainous version. While she's involved with the crime-lord Top Dollar (who also happens to be her own brother), he values her more for her supernatural insight.
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Why Won't You Die?
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Why Won't You Die?: Funboy shoots Eric several times, only to watch in horror as his Healing Factor kicks in and closes the wounds right before his eyes, leading him to cry "Don't you ever fuckin' die?" Subverted with Top Dollar, since he stabbed Gideon in the neck with his rapier, and Gideon is dying, just not quickly enough, so he shoots him twice for good measure to finish him off.
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Disposable Sex Worker
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Disposable Sex Worker: Judging by Top Dollar's comment, "I think we broke her," the dead woman in his bed was a random prostitute.
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Creepy Cathedral
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Creepy Cathedral: True to its gothic aesthetic, the final battle between Eric Draven, Top Dollar and his minions takes place in an abandoned cathedral.
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Strong and Skilled
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Strong and Skilled: Eric is strong enough to easily overpower any human he fights and skilled in martial arts as demonstrated during his rampage against Top Dollar's men.
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"I Am Becoming" Song
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"I Am Becoming" Song: The Cure's "Burn" (the movie's unofficial anthem) thunders on during the sequence where Eric makes himself into the Crow. Interestingly, the lyrics use the comic's plot, not the movie's.
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Flaming Emblem
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Flaming Emblem: Eric did this using explosives and gasoline to turn T-Bird's own car into a bomb. When the car explodes, a trail of flames spread across the pier in a pattern created by Draven's accelerant, creating the crow emblem. This is an interesting case in that the character did not really have an emblem in-universe. The emblem was used in marketing and the film's logo.
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Evil Plan
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comment
Evil Plan: Top Dollar seeks burn Detroit to the ground For the Evulz.
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Together in Death
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comment
Together in Death: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever". The theme of the film, increasingly amplified throughout the subsequent franchise, is that "If two people are truly meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart. Not even death."
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Photo Doodle Recognition
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comment
Photo Doodle Recognition: Albrecht figures out that Eric Draven is the vigilante that's been killing Top Dollar's gang when he draws the distinctive marks from the vigilante's face on the eyes and lips of a picture of Eric.
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Blame Game
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Blame Game: Skank does this when he realizes the reason why Eric wants him dead.
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Battle Trophy
 The Crow / int_f863bb6d
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Battle Trophy: Eric Draven's Badass Longcoat is taken off Tin Tin, the very first target of his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. He later takes Funboy and T-Bird's guns.
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Post-Rape Taunt
 The Crow / int_f914cae5
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Post-Rape Taunt: At one point during their fight, Tin-Tin taunts Eric by gloating about raping Shelly, saying, "I shanked her pink ass and she loved it!" Draven soon gives him reason to regret this taunt.
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Prepare to Die
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Prepare to Die: When Eric faces down Top Dollar's entire gang at the club, just before the biggest shootout of the movie.
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Meta Casting
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Meta Casting As Himself: O'Barr supposedly based the look of Gideon in the comic on the actor Jon Polito. Jon Polito played the part of Gideon in the film.
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Comically Missing the Point
 The Crow / int_fbd285b7
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Comically Missing the Point: Done on purpose by Top Dollar to show his lack of concern when Gideon and Grange first tell him about the Crow:
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Beware the Nice Ones
 The Crow / int_fccd06b6
comment
Beware the Nice Ones: Eric was a kind person when alive and still has much of the same personality, sharing a moment of vulnerability with Officer Albrecht and very happy to see Sarah again. He is also a super-powered vigilante who has no issue slaughtering dozens of mooks in one go.
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Evil-Detecting Dog
 The Crow / int_ff6ae1f6
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Evil-Detecting Dog: Gabriel the cat is shown to be sweet with everyone he comes across with the exception of Skank, who he's shown hissing at and scratching in a flashback when Skank tries to pick up.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: A rare anti-hero centric example, as Eric's relationships with Sarah and Officer Albrecht humanizes him and keeps him from becoming the borderline monster that he is in the comics. Then there's his cat, Gabriel.
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Barbarian Longhair / int_bac475ee
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Blade Enthusiast / int_bac475ee
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Blood-Stained Glass Windows / int_bac475ee
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Bring It / int_bac475ee
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl / int_bac475ee
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Brother–Sister Team / int_bac475ee
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California Doubling / int_bac475ee
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Calling Card / int_bac475ee
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Cigarette Burns / int_bac475ee
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City Noir / int_bac475ee
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Civvie Spandex / int_bac475ee
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Commie Nazis / int_bac475ee
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Computer-Generated Images / int_bac475ee
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Cool Sword / int_bac475ee
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Creepy Cathedral / int_bac475ee
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Crucified Hero Shot / int_bac475ee
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Cult Soundtrack / int_bac475ee
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Dark Fantasy / int_bac475ee
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Dead to Begin With / int_bac475ee
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Deadly Euphemism / int_bac475ee
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Definite Article Title / int_bac475ee
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Digital Head Swap / int_bac475ee
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Disc-One Final Boss / int_bac475ee
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Dragon Lady / int_bac475ee
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Dramatic Ammo Depletion / int_bac475ee
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Dramatic Thunder / int_bac475ee
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Empathic Environment / int_bac475ee
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Evil Plan / int_bac475ee
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Familiar / int_bac475ee
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Finger in a Barrel / int_bac475ee
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First-Episode Resurrection / int_bac475ee
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First Installment Wins / int_bac475ee
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Flaming Emblem / int_bac475ee
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Good Scars, Evil Scars / int_bac475ee
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Gothic Punk / int_bac475ee
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Guns Akimbo / int_bac475ee
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Healing Factor / int_bac475ee
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Heroic Bloodshed / int_bac475ee
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Holy Backlight / int_bac475ee
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday / int_bac475ee
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"I Am Becoming" Song / int_bac475ee
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If We Survive This / int_bac475ee
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Impaled Palm / int_bac475ee
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In the Back / int_bac475ee
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It's Snowing Cocaine / int_bac475ee
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Junkie Parent / int_bac475ee
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Just Between You and Me / int_bac475ee
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Katanas Are Just Better / int_bac475ee
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Le Parkour / int_bac475ee
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Lethal Harmless Powers / int_bac475ee
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Licked by the Dog / int_bac475ee
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Lipstick-and-Load Montage / int_bac475ee
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Looks Like Cesare / int_bac475ee
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Man of Wealth and Taste / int_bac475ee
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Montage Ends the VHS / int_bac475ee
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Nigh-Invulnerability / int_bac475ee
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One Last Smoke / int_bac475ee
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Out of Continues / int_bac475ee
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Parrot Pet Position / int_bac475ee
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Prepare to Die / int_bac475ee
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Psycho for Hire / int_bac475ee
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Psychometry / int_bac475ee
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Purpose-Driven Immortality / int_bac475ee
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Pyromaniac / int_bac475ee
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Quirky Miniboss Squad / int_bac475ee
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_bac475ee
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Reusable Lighter Toss / int_bac475ee
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Ring on a Necklace / int_bac475ee
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Rise from Your Grave / int_bac475ee
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Royal Rapier / int_bac475ee
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Russian Reversal / int_bac475ee
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Sadist / int_bac475ee
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Shaped Like Itself / int_bac475ee
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Shower Scene / int_bac475ee
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Snow Globe of Innocence / int_bac475ee
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Source Music / int_bac475ee
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Spare a Messenger / int_bac475ee
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Super Mob Boss / int_bac475ee
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The Commissioner Gordon / int_bac475ee
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The Don / int_bac475ee
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The Foreign Subtitle / int_bac475ee
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The Scourge of God / int_bac475ee
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The Slow Walk / int_bac475ee
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This Cannot Be! / int_bac475ee
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This Is Reality / int_bac475ee
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Totalitarian Gangsterism / int_bac475ee
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Touch Telepathy / int_bac475ee
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Unbroken Vigil / int_bac475ee
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Unhand Them, Villain! / int_bac475ee
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Urban Hellscape / int_bac475ee
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Wall of Weapons / int_bac475ee
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What Beautiful Eyes! / int_bac475ee
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When It Rains, It Pours / int_bac475ee
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Whodunnit to Me? / int_bac475ee
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Why Won't You Die? / int_bac475ee
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Redemption in the Rain / int_bac475ee
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