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Dead Famous

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Dead Famous	label	Dead Famous
Dead Famous	page	DeadFamous
Dead Famous	comment	A 2001 Ben Elton novel set in an expy of Big Brother called House Arrest. A housemate is murdered onscreen in a reality TV show, but which one? And how can a murder be a mystery in a TV set house that's extensively watched by cameras at every moment? Detective Coleridge must find the killer before they strike again.
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Dead Famous / int_1246c26c	type	Villainous Lineage
Dead Famous / int_1246c26c	comment	Villainous Lineage. Sally worries that she may be homicidal and have blackouts because her mother killed her father. She is innocent and the police note insanity is far more likely to be inherited by the child when both parents are insane and not just one. Since both of Geraldine’s parents were mentally ill, Coleridge briefly notes that she could be too, although her murder scheme seems to be motivated by pure Greed.
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Dead Famous / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
Dead Famous / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Played with. Sally, although outwardly the textbook example of this trope, is one of the most sympathetic characters in the book. Also inverted with Trish, who is in the closet and resents people assuming she is heterosexual simply because she's not butch.
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Dead Famous / int_1a1965b2	type	Spot the Victim
Dead Famous / int_1a1965b2	comment	Spot the Victim: Invoked. The book focuses on police trying to solve a murder that took place on a reality TV show by watching tapes of the show. The identity of the victim is not revealed until the detectives reach that point in the tapes, about two-thirds of the way through the book.
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Dead Famous / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Dead Famous / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Not all of the contestants are quite the shallow twenty-something jerks they present themselves as. Apprentice Chef Jazz, who is mostly one of Those Two Guys with slightly racist lout Garry, makes some smart points about consumerism while discussing toothbrushes in one scene and wants the fame the show is bringing him to help jumpstart a career as a comedian (which is part of why he is always making smart aleck comments).
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Dead Famous / int_4873cba8	type	I Was Young and Needed the Money
Dead Famous / int_4873cba8	comment	I Was Young and Needed the Money: Struggling pretentious actor David pays his bills by appearing in hardcore porno flicks and is terrified that this getting out could ruin him, which is implied to indeed happen after the information leaks.
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Dead Famous / int_4f978ecc	type	Cannot Convey Sarcasm
Dead Famous / int_4f978ecc	comment	Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Inspector Colebridge can spend a whole paragraph being "deeply sarcastic" during The Summation without the hundreds of millions of people watching the televised event getting it. A good example of this is when he describes a hypothetical scenario where one of the eliminated reality show contestants tunnels back inside to commit a murder out of revenge.
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Dead Famous / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Dead Famous / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Layla is an intellectual (at least in her own mind) hippie with several liberal opinions.
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Dead Famous / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
Dead Famous / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: Seems to be the case for Dervla in Dead Famous, as even Sally says she'd like her to be her date at Pride.
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Dead Famous / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Dead Famous / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: Woggle is a one-man example. He beat up a teenaged kennel worker while releasing fox-hunting hounds and gets into a fight with people over his refusal to have a flea bath and kill the fleas.
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Dead Famous / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Dead Famous / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Sally attempts suicide on-camera when she becomes a prime suspect in the murder. She survives thanks to Jazz.
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Dead Famous / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Dead Famous / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: There's public outrage when Dervla is found to have been cheating by secretly communicating with a cameraman; this results in her ultimately not winning (despite previously being the most popular contestant) because people refuse to vote for her. It's also mentioned that something similar happened in a previous series of the show when a contestant found to be tampering with microphones was disqualified. All of this is presented as rather hypocritical given the manipulative tactics used by the housemates and production team alike.
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Dead Famous / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
Dead Famous / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Inspector Coleridge makes some Slut-Shaming comments in the climax, can be quite sour when ranting about people who don't share his traditional religious beliefs (Trisha half-seriously compares him to a witch burner) and says that he doesn't get why gay people care about using the label gay even after Trisha points out that he'd just assume everyone was straight otherwise. However, he cares deeply about catching the murderer and is sympathetic and respectful to lesbian suspect Sally for the most part.
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Dead Famous / int_80a7d3e2	type	Convicted by Public Opinion
Dead Famous / int_80a7d3e2	comment	Convicted by Public Opinion: David and Sally are both suspected of the murder by the public and suffer a lot of harassment and stigma for it, but neither is guilty.
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Dead Famous / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Dead Famous / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Inspector Coleridge is an insightful investigator who had to regularly subdue rowdy drunks during his days as a beat cop. He is also a lay minister, gardens, subscribed to a distinguished poetry and non-fiction publisher, and is an amateur Shakespeare actor who shows some amazing showmanship during The Summation. That said, he can be petulant at times in his dislike and incomprehension of modern pop culture.
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Dead Famous / int_9a68179	type	Holding the Floor
Dead Famous / int_9a68179	comment	Holding the Floor: Inspector Coleridge talks on television for five and a half minutes to delay the end of the show so his colleagues can arrive with faked evidence to prompt a confession from the murderer.
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Dead Famous / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Dead Famous / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The contestants all hoped the reality show would give them fame and public exposure, only to get more than they could have imagined (and in unflattering ways) as a murder victim and murder suspects. Layla, the first person eliminated, finds herself being treated as a joke due to how unflattering the show made her. Because of the show, Woggle is publicly exposed as being wanted for beating up a teenaged girl during an animal rights protest, and is beaten up by a group of people who recognize him.
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Dead Famous / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
Dead Famous / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Subverted when Moon pretends to have been abused in a mental institution, in order to boost her appeal with the public. The producer knows this is a lie because both of her own parents were institutionalized, and decides not to broadcast the footage.
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Dead Famous / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Dead Famous / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee : The Inspector clearly (and correctly) has a suspect in his sights well before The Summation but never says who. Even when he comes up with a Bluffing the Murderer plan (about fifteen pages before naming the killer), none of the details are given beyond how the plan involves wigs. Things work perfectly and the murderer is Caught on Tape confessing after the bluff (pretending to have a videotape of the killer preparing for the murder when really it is a disguised Constable Trisha) makes it seem like the police have evidence.
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Dead Famous / int_d959a5f3	type	Contempt Crossfire
Dead Famous / int_d959a5f3	comment	Contempt Crossfire: However much the other contestants may dislike each other, one thing that often unites them is their hostility towards Woggle, due to his horrible hygiene and pride at taking Social Security payments while being an anti-government anarchist (which rankles the others due to how their taxes help fund Social Security).
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Dead Famous / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Dead Famous / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: David and Moon try to quit the reality show after the first eviction after the insufferable Woggle pulls an Elimination Houdini (the public votes on who leaves) and they realize Geraldine is editing the footage to slant events in his favor for the crowd for entertainment value. Geraldine (who needs every contestant to stay until the end of the show) convinces them to stay by hinting that something will happen to Woggle soon and then tips off the police that he is wanted for assault.
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Dead Famous / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Dead Famous / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Almost all the housemates are blatant imitations of notable contestants from the first two series of Big Brother.
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Dead Famous / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Dead Famous / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Kelly is a somewhat sympathetic version, although she ends up murdered.
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Dead Famous / int_f5c3983a	type	Camping a Crapper
Dead Famous / int_f5c3983a	comment	Camping a Crapper: The whole plot of turns out to be based around this. Geraldine realised that at least one of the girls would have to go to the bathroom and planned for the murder to take place there.
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Dead Famous	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_cc8bea4c
Dead Famous	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_cc8bea4c

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