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Leprechaun (Franchise)

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Leprechaun is a 1993 horror-comedy film starring Warwick Davis as the titular character who although not named in the movies is given the off-screen name "Lubdan". A family moves into a rural house and discovers not only a pot of gold, but the rightful owner. The leprechaun will kill any who touches his gold, but has a weakness to wrought iron and four-leaf clovers, which cancel out his magic. Despite negative reviews, the film went on to spawn a franchise, currently consisting of seven films.In the second film, the leprechaun resurfaces in L.A. and tries to force a woman to be his bride while her boyfriend tries to stop him. In the third film, the title creature is awakened in Las Vegas, and sets out to reclaim his gold. For the third film, new "rules" were added: if you get bitten by a leprechaun, unless you kill them, you will turn into one, and each leprechaun has a "lucky" gold piece, that will grant whoever holds it one wish, even though this isn't part of lore in any way.The fourth film is creatively titled Leprechaun 4: In Space. In the future, a team of Space Marines are searching for an alien princess, whom the leprechaun intends to make his bride. The more gold a leprechaun has, the more powerful his magic is, and combining her wealth with his own will make him the most powerful being in the galaxy.Leprechaun in the Hood takes place sometime between the third and fourth films, with the action moved back to L.A. Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood is an indirect sequel to the previous film, but recycles the plot of the third film. It was also the last film to star Davis in the title role. The Hood films were the only other entries of the entire franchise besides the original to receive a Tomatometer score higher than 0%.In 2014, Lionsgate and WWE Films released a Darker and Edgier reboot, Leprechaun: Origins, starring Dylan Postl as the creature. An eighth film, Leprechaun Returns, a Syfy original film and a direct sequel to the original film that takes place 25 years later, was released digitally and on demand in December 2018. Ozzie from the first movie made a return while strong backlash was made out by fans who criticized the absence of Warwick Davis. Davis then revealed that rather than being denied the chance to make a comeback, he chose not to reprise his role as Lubdan for the SyFy reboot because he felt now is not the time to make violent movies while he has children.In 2023, it was announced that another reboot of the series was in the works, again presumably without the involvement of Davis.Speaking of Syfy, Leprechaun's Revenge, which was originally titled Red Clover, has no relation to the franchise.
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Self-Plagiarism
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Self-Plagiarism: Director of the first film (and writer of every entry in the series) Mark Jones made Rumpelstiltskin in 1995, which is another horror film with an evil wish granting dwarf. He seems to have thing for mini-monster movies, since he also made one about a Demonic Dummy called Triloquist
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: A few humans know enough about the folklore of leprechauns to actually use them against him, but often they're not savvy enough to kill him.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: The films aren't strictly horror. Hell, the Leprechaun chases people on roller skates, wheel chairs and tricycles, performs a rap number and kills one person with a po-go stick.
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Beat It by Compulsion
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Beat It by Compulsion: Leprechaun is compelled to shine all the dirty shoes he comes across.
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Kryptonite Factor
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Kryptonite Factor: Wrought iron and the four-leafed clovers are the weakness for the Leprechaun.
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Undercrank
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Undercrank: Used in the first film to make it seem that leprechaun is going faster.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: In The Hood is the only entry where he survives and gets everything he wants.
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Agony of the Feet
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Agony of the Feet: Due to his short stature, Leprechaun usually goes for the legs.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: The leprechaun seldom kills those that don't steal his gold, insult him, get in his way, or do anything else to anger him. In the first and fifth films he is willing to spare those that return his gold. When he first meets Ozzie in the original film, he offers to shine his shoes for him. In Back 2 Tha Hood, he seems to get along with a stoner who lets him smoke from his bong... until he finds out that the stoner has one of his gold coins.
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Implacable Man
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Implacable Man: The Leprechaun, bordering on The Juggernaut in Back 2 tha Hood.
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Jackass Genie
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Jackass Genie: The Leprechaun's preferred style of granting wishes.
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Evil Laugh
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Evil Laugh: Lep has a distinctive "haahaha" -laugh.
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Neutral Female
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Neutral Female: In the first movie's final battle.
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Laughably Evil
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Laughably Evil: One of the reasons the franchise is popular is because of how hilarious Lubdan the Leprechaun is as a villain.
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Left Hanging
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Left Hanging: The Leprechaun comic series produced by a company called Bluewater Productions was seemingly cancelled after four issues, and just as it was getting good.
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The Fair Folk
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The Fair Folk: The leprechaun is the slasher movie version of this.
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Dolled-Up Installment
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Dolled-Up Installment: Leprechaun's Revenge was advertised as a new movie in this series despite not being related at all.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: The leprechaun goes back and forth between this and just Affably Evil. At one point in In The Hood, he acts friendly to someone for a while before tearing their finger off. While he does seem genuinely affable at times, the leprechaun also as a habit of pretending to be nice before attacking his victims. It depends on his mood.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Lubdan, a sadistic leprechaun seeking his gold.
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Joker Immunity
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Joker Immunity: Depending on whether or not you consider the Leprechaun the same creature in each film.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: This happens to the Leprechaun in nearly all of the movies.
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Gradually. There's Leprechaun, followed by Leprechaun 2 and Leprechaun 3, then introducing subtitles with Leprechaun 4: In Space, followed by dropping the number for Leprechaun: In The Hood and ending with Leprechaun: Back 2 Da Hood by mimicking 2 Fast 2 Furious's ridiculous title.
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Attack of the Killer Whatever
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Attack of the Killer Whatever
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Thematic Series
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Thematic Series: There isn't any connecting thread to the movies beyond the leprechaun. They're all their own self contained stories.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Do not steal the Leprechaun's gold. He will find you.
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Immortality
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Immortality: The Leprechaun does not age, has been trapped for years without food or water and survived, usually shrugs off attacks undamaged or heals quickly, and has been blown to pieces and quickly reformed. Generally, the only ways to kill him are either shoving cast iron into him or shooting him with a four-leaf clover. He always comes back to life anyway, but it might not be the same leprechaun or even the same continuity.
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Alien Blood
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Alien Blood: Leprechaun bleeds green.
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Series Continuity Error
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Series Continuity Error: The biggest issue is regarding how the Leprechaun is awakened as it changes from movie to movie. His age is also inconsistent. How he's killed or defeated is different each film. However, surprisingly, the same weapons that work on him in one film normally continue to work in another. Cast iron is among the most often used. There IS of course the theory that it's not the same Leprechaun in each film and they just all look the same, though. Which in itself would be another continuity error. Back 2 The Hood confirms there are other leprechauns but states that only one remained in this world. The second movie states that the leperchaun cannot kill with his treasure. The third film has him killing a man with one of his coins.
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Numbered Sequels
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Numbered Sequels: Stopped after the fourth film.
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Antagonist Title
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Antagonist Title
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Flanderization
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Flanderization: While the original movie's dosed with black humor, comedy really overtakes the horror aspect as the series goes along.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase:
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Oddball in the Series
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Oddball in the Series: Granted, all films have different continuities, but Leprechaun 4: In Space in particular stands out, because 1) It is the only film set in the future and not on Earth.
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Rhymes on a Dime
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Rhymes on a Dime: Leprechaun is fond of rhyming. The fourth movie is the only installment where he doesn't do any.
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Evil Is Hammy
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Evil Is Hammy: Warwick Davis is having the time of his life hamming it up as the Leprechaun.
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