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Dexter

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Dexter	label	Dexter
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Dexter	comment	Dexter is a series of crime novels by Jeff Lindsay.It centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter analyst in the Miami Metro Police Department. Dexter moonlights as a serial killer in his spare time, which he keeps a secret from his friends and coworkers. His late father Harry taught him to hunt only other serial killers and how to dodge the law, allowing Dexter to cope with his homicidal urges.The book series so far consists of: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004) Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005) Dexter in the Dark (2007) Dexter by Design (2009) Dexter is Delicious (2010) Double Dexter (2011) Dexter's Final Cut (2013) Dexter is Dead (2015)The books were adapted into a TV series in 2006. The first season was a more or less faithful adaptation of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, but subsequent seasons have spun off into a separate canon.
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Dexter / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Dexter / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Deb, primarily. Deconstructed, as it just means she gets to dress up like a hooker for stings.
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Dexter / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Dexter / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Used. Until Deborah finds out.
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Dexter / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Dexter / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Rita.
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Dexter / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Dexter / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: How Bernie Crowley ultimately dies. Dex even compares him to Rasputin when he just. Keeps. Coming. Back.
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Dexter / int_13bde1fb	type	Neurodiversity Is Supernatural
Dexter / int_13bde1fb	comment	Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Dexter in the Dark reveals that all sociopaths are really possessed by the children of Satan.
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Dexter / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
Dexter / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Deborah asks Dexter to kill someone. Twice. The first time he doesn't succeed due to circumstances out of his hand (sort of). The second, he finally gets around to do it, even if he was reluctant at first.
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Dexter / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Dexter / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The third book suddenly moves the story from psychological crime into supernatural fantasy, and the fourth switches it back just as suddenly.
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Dexter / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Dexter / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Dexter. He seems to be more human than he lets on (maybe) but he is still less emotional than in the TV show.
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Dexter / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Dexter / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Doakes and, to a lesser extent, Deborah. Dexter himself, as he claims to feel no emotion. Doakes practically radiates waves of seething hatred at Dexter, especially after he gets his hands, feet, and tongue lopped off.
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Dexter / int_1ddc03c1	type	Breaking Bad News Gently
Dexter / int_1ddc03c1	comment	Breaking Bad News Gently
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Dexter / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
Dexter / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": A twelve-year-old boy find the phrase "penal code" amusing.
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Dexter / int_2084f742	type	New Child Left Behind
Dexter / int_2084f742	comment	New Child Left Behind: Deborah is pregnant by her long-time boyfriend, Kyle Chutsky. However, he didn't know this, and leaves Deborah after he believes he failed her at the end of the book.
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Dexter / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
Dexter / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: With the Dark Passenger, comes the need to kill, but also the "power" to be somewhat beyond the human status and those silly things called human emotions.
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Dexter / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Dexter / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The bad guys in the fifth book are like this. The main victim actually wants to be eaten because her father told her fairy stories about princesses being eaten by ogres, including playfully chewing on her arm. Deke, however, doesn't.
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Dexter / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Dexter / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The fact that a coven is lead by a woman is brought up a couple of times. This is to clue in the reader (and eventually, Dexter) that the real leader of the cannibals isn't Fang's owner, but the wife of the commissioner.
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Dexter / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
Dexter / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Once Dexter's daughter, Lily Anne is born, he wants nothing more than to be around her, basking in the warm glow of new fatherhood. He even makes the Dark Passenger go away for a fair bit of time, and wonders if the new-and-improved non-murderous Dex-Daddy is here to stay.
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Dexter / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Dexter / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: With Dexter captured at first, Deborah becomes this. She returns Samantha to her parents, advising them to get counseling for their daughter to deal with her "wanting-to-be-eaten" obsession.
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Dexter / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
Dexter / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: Well, they go: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004) Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005) Dexter in the Dark (2007) Dexter by Design (2009) Dexter is Delicious (2010) Double Dexter (2011) Dexter's Final Cut (2013) Dexter is Dead (2015)
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Dexter / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Dexter / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Well, guile serial killer. When Danco manages to catch Dexter, tie him up, and drug him, he's impressed that Dexter is showing no fear. Dexter figures out that Dr. Danco is playing hangman and stalls by talking with him. When he gets two letters right and Danco tries Moving the Goalposts by saying he spoke out of turn, Dexter offhandedly suggests taking a limb off Doakes. Dr. Danco considers this, and finds it a suitable compromise. Before he can, however, Deborah shows up and shoots.
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Dexter / int_2b5c636d	type	How Unscientific!
Dexter / int_2b5c636d	comment	How Unscientific!: The third book abandons the true-crime/psychological thriller format and explain that Dexter kills because he's possessed by a demon called the Dark Passenger. This is referenced in the television series in a metaphorical sense, rather than implying that Dexter is possessed by a literal dark entity. This deviation from the original narrative is a positive example of Executive Meddling since it would have placed the show in the Sci Fi Ghetto. Not that it seems to matter, since the fourth book shoves it into a corner with barely a passing mention, and it's likely to go unexplored from here on out.
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Dexter / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Dexter / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Dexter is disgusted when he learns that Samantha wants to be eaten. He agrees with Deborah that it is messed up. Later, he is horrified with himself for sleeping with her while drugged, even though he wasn't in his right mind.
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Dexter / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Dexter / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Deb's language is no prettier than her TV counterpart's. Doakes, in addition, has "Fuck you" as a macro on his voice simulator after losing his tongue. And "I'm watching you, motherfucker".
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Dexter / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Dexter / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: For given value of hero.
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Dexter / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Dexter / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Invoked by Dexter. When Brian turns up in the fifth book he's also like this, but Dexter considers him a big fake. There's also Deke.
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Dexter / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Dexter / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Dexter sarcastically describes himself as this.
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Dexter / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Dexter / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Samantha telling Dexter she wants to be eaten. Of course, from the way things proceed, and the Foreshadowing of making Dexter repeat "I kept thought it was the drugs", "Drugs will do that to you" etc., her confession becomes almost obvious.
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Dexter / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
Dexter / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: When Dexter is trying to research the nature of his missing Dark Passenger, he tries a number of search terms, from the obvious to the esoteric:
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Dexter / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Dexter / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Bobby Acosta manages to get off the hook, with his lawyers arguing that Alana's death traumatized him. Dexter goes out into the night to seek him out, to avenge Deborah's loss.
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Dexter / int_5f5720d8	type	Shocking Voice Identity Reveal
Dexter / int_5f5720d8	comment	Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: Brian as Dexter's savior from the vampire-cannibals in Dexter is Delicious.
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Dexter / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
Dexter / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Rita, and Dexter's a big improvement over her ex. In a subversion of Papa Wolf, Dexter realizes that the abuse that the children suffered at the hands of their father has them so disturbed that Dexter sees that they need to be trained, as Harry trained him, to only kill those who deserve it. It only appears to be true with Cody, who actually kills someone who was threatening Dexter and Astor at the end of Dexter in the Dark. Astor still seems to be genuinely showing emotions, and even Dexter says she might just be going along with it because she's so close to Cody.
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Dexter / int_62df7833	type	Multiple Narrative Modes
Dexter / int_62df7833	comment	Multiple Narrative Modes: The first two novels are written entirely in the first-person, from Dexter's POV. Round three mixes it up when the reader gets intermittent third-person visits from Dex's stalker.
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Dexter / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Dexter / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: In Dexter in the Dark, the Dark Passenger leaves Dexter for a while, leaving him emotional and a lot less intuitive.
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Dexter / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Dexter / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Brian saves Dexter when he's about to have his flesh chopped off and put on a grill.
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Dexter / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Dexter / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: In particular the Devastatingly Daft Diction abusing a certain Device, of which the titles are only the beginning.
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Dexter / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Dexter / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Dexter heaps praise on Rita's cooking.
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Dexter / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Dexter / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: LaGuerta threatens this to an uncooperative guard.
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Dexter / int_7dafc482	type	ChewToy
Dexter / int_7dafc482	comment	Chew Toy: Doakes, though whether he gets it worse in the books or in the show is up for debate, as the books have him end up with his feet, hands and tongue chopped off by a very vengeful sociopathic surgeon. And poor, poor Deborah.
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Dexter / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Dexter / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Dexter, himself. To a lesser extent, Brian, whose urges to kill come from the same place as Dexter's, as despite being a serial killer, the thing that made him one isn't his fault. Astor and Cody are also shaping up to be this, especially following the loss of their mother.
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Dexter / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Dexter / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: That wasn't the killer Dexter just killed...it was the one who kept him from killing, and now he's free.
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Dexter / int_8124e7a6	type	Sudden Downer Ending
Dexter / int_8124e7a6	comment	Sudden Downer Ending: For a series that was remarkably upbeat considering its subject matter, the books have a surprisingly sad ending, with it looking like Dexter will take the fall for the deaths of Rita and Jackie and the kidnapping of Astor. Deborah seems to have abandoned him after finding out about the affair, and with Rita dead, there is no one to back up the claim that Robert took Astor.
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Dexter / int_847257ff	type	My Biological Clock Is Ticking
Dexter / int_847257ff	comment	My Biological Clock Is Ticking: Deborah wants a family, after seeing Dexter with his. She gets her child at the end of Dexter is Delicious, but not a whole family - Kyle Chutsky leaves her, after failing to come to their rescue, feeling like a failure.
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Dexter / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Dexter / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: After The first novel, Brian is never mentioned again until the fourth novel. He returns in the fifth novel and also has a role in the sixth novel. In the seventh novel, Dexter's Final Cut, he is never mentioned at all. After the second novel, Dearly Devoted Dexter, Doakes becomes somewhat of a cyborg who keeps his eye on Dexter, waiting for him to be exposed over the next four novels. Doakes then has no role whatsoever in Dexter's Final Cut.
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Dexter / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
Dexter / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Some of Dexter's excuses sound like this when he's leaving in the middle of the night "to take some papers from the office", but Rita takes these as Going to the Store stories. Bonus points for the kids actually realising (and gleeing at) what he's up to.
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Dexter / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Dexter / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Alana was getting away with eating migrants because no one was missing them. Then her stepson Bobby convinces two underage, wealthy teens that getting eaten would be a good idea. The police get involved because the parents become predictably frantic and have enough weight to toss at the cops to find their children.
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Dexter / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Dexter / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Deke, Deb's new partner, is thought to be this.
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Dexter / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Dexter / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Alana Acosta.
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Dexter / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Dexter / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Well, yeah.
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Dexter / int_9aeabf25	type	The Family That Slays Together
Dexter / int_9aeabf25	comment	The Family That Slays Together: The book series has Dexter training Cody and Astor in the ways of serial killer killing. Uncle Brian turns up and gives Cody and Astor a lesson in the fifth book. At this rate, even Deborah may be joining any time soon.
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Dexter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dexter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: While driving after the Tamiami Slasher's ice truck, Dexter narrates, "He was in full hunting mode, and I was merely tagging along behind like an unwanted little brother." Interesting choice of simile, Dexter...
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Dexter / int_9e99d232	type	The Series Has Left Reality
Dexter / int_9e99d232	comment	The Series Has Left Reality: With the revelation that the Dark Passenger is a genuine supernatural force.
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Dexter / int_a1dac882	type	Oblivious Younger Sibling
Dexter / int_a1dac882	comment	Oblivious Younger Sibling: Rita, if not enough that her children are monsters-in-the-making and her husband kills and will teach her children to do that, too, while she's playing Mama Bear and constantly shouting out how bad are the killers she sees on TV, now she's basically living with four monsters under her roof (Brian included), feeding their lies, out of which at least one (Brian) doesn't see her more than a bug that he can squash if he thinks it would improve or make more fun his relation with Dexter or the kids.
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Dexter / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Dexter / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Well, mid-monologue.
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Dexter / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Dexter / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: It turns out that Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling.
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Dexter / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Dexter / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Averted most of the time regarding the story's evolution, played straight regarding Dexter's actions. After the third book, he gets back to normal relations with his Dark Passenger. After the fifth, he seems to have forgotten his struggles to become "human" and "not a killer" and goes out to give Deb "a shower present".
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Dexter / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Dexter / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: Jokes mixed with homicide.
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Dexter / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Dexter / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The Yodelling Potato. Also Doakes after his tongue, arm, and a leg are removed.
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Dexter / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Dexter / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Sociopaths Dexter and Brian die while saving the kids, a decidedly non-sociopathic action.
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Dexter / int_abfa92a3	type	Jack the Ripoff
Dexter / int_abfa92a3	comment	Jack the Ripoff: The premise of Double Dexter, where someone witnesses one of Dexter's kills and starts copying him.
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Dexter / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Dexter / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: More so than the TV series, arguably.
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Dexter / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Dexter / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Deke, Deborah's new partner; it's definitely bad to be one in a Dexter book. Deborah too shows some emotional Genre Blindness that almost gets everyone killed.
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Dexter / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
Dexter / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: it turns out Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her. Even Dexter is grossed out by this.
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Dexter / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Dexter / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Between Miami-Dade and Broward counties' respective police departments, in dealing with the ice truck killer's victims.
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Dexter / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Dexter / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Like stated in the series folder, on Dexter saying the police is powerless and stupid at times, but less noticeable here, because the books expands on his close to supernatural abilities at "hunches" and other things he just doesn't show in the series. Deke's Dumb Blonde status is Played for Laughs, but he hasn't really proven he's stupid, not more than the average Joe.
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Dexter / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Dexter / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Rita, even worse than in the show. Her first husband is a violent drug addict, but she puts up with him for the kids' sake. She then gets married again, to Dexter, who is an even bigger monster, and finally, has complete confidence in possibly the biggest monster of them all, Brian, the ice truck killer, who is Dexter's brother, to the point where she feels safe in entrusting her children to him. To top it all off, has absolutely no idea that her children are turning out to be exactly like Dexter and Brian, little monsters in their own right.
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Dexter / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Dexter / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Cody and Astor. Dexter observes that they enter a room "by osmosis".
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Dexter / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Dexter / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Dexter says his sister Deborah is a great detective, but all we tend to see is her asking Dexter to basically identify the killer for her with his "hunches". She also blames Dexter for Rita's death in the final book when he is obviously being railroaded, though she claims that it's his fault for leaving the victims alone without a protector, and not realizing what the real killer actually wanted, which is arguably true.
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Dexter / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Dexter / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Sometimes, Dexter's targets/victims slip through the cracks in the legal system. Let's just say there is a lot of overlap when it comes to Dexter and all the Anti-Hero related tropes.
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Dexter / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Dexter / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: The climax of Dexter By Design.
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Dexter / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
Dexter / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Implied at the end. The detective investigating Dexter for Camilla's death is killed by Crowley as well. The ending implies Dexter has planted child pornography, and implications that the detective and Camilla were in a relationship, on his computer, which will send the investigation of Camilla's death in a different direction.
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Dexter / int_d8a7295a	type	What If the Baby Is Like Me
Dexter / int_d8a7295a	comment	What If the Baby Is Like Me: Of course, it's too early to tell how Harrison Lily Anne's going to turn out...
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Dexter / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Dexter / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Dr. Danco, the main villain of the second book.
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Dexter / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Dexter / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Even Rita, the mildest-mannered woman in Miami, can turn into a Mama Bear when someone's threatening her babies directly.
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Dexter / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Dexter / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Dexter keeps saying the he doesn't expect the world to be a fair place. And he keeps saying, and he keeps saying... until he admits he doesn't like the world not being a fair place, and that it should be.
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Dexter / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
Dexter / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: The Aldovars try to bribe Deborah with one, seeking information about their daughter's kidnapper.
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Dexter / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Dexter / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Once again, Doakes, overlaps with Jerk Ass Has A Point sometimes.
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Dexter / int_f1c860c4	type	Spider-Sense
Dexter / int_f1c860c4	comment	Spider-Sense: Dexter's Dark Passenger acts like this to him, warning him of danger (usually from other predators).
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Dexter / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Dexter / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Doakes tries to give one to The Yodelling Potato, but Debra stops him.
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Dexter / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Dexter / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: According to our Anti-Hero, everyone else in South Florida. Depending on when you drive, this may be Truth in Television.
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Dexter / int_fc1ee7d5	type	Deadly Doctor
Dexter / int_fc1ee7d5	comment	Deadly Doctor: The main antagonist in the second book.
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Dexter / int_fee034aa	type	Abandoned Playground
Dexter / int_fee034aa	comment	Abandoned Playground: Buccaneer Land in Dexter is Delicious is an abandoned pirate-themed amusement park. It's the hideout of Alana Acosta and her coven of vampire cannibals.
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