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Gone Girl

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Gone Girl	comment	A 2012 thriller novel by Gillian Flynn about a married couple, Nick and Amy Dunne, whose marriage has slid from picture-perfect to downright frosty over the course of five years. Then, on the morning of their fifth anniversary, Amy disappears. There are signs of a struggle, and Nick soon realizes he's the prime suspect.Nick narrates the investigation of Amy's disappearance, while in alternate chapters Amy's diary tells the history of their relationship. But there are hints that some things have been left out.A film version directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, was released in 2014.Please note that much of the suspense in the book (and the movie) comes from the numerous twists and turns. A majority of the tropes below are completely spoilered out, and thanks to Interface Spoiler, it's not even guaranteed that you won't figure out the twists just by reading what's below. With that said, read at your own risk.
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Gone Girl / int_11b01fc7	type	Happy Marriage Charade
Gone Girl / int_11b01fc7	comment	Happy Marriage Charade: Nick reacts violently to Amy's insistence that they remain married, but feels responsible for the child and realizing that, despite her behavior, he wouldn't be satisfied with any other woman besides her. As time goes on, Nick finds himself feeling more and more at ease being around Amy, the way he did when they first fell in love.
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Gone Girl / int_1246c26c	type	Villainous Lineage
Gone Girl / int_1246c26c	comment	Villainous Lineage: Nick's greatest fear is ending up like his father, a rabid misogynist. When you look at his cheating with Andie and lack of commitment and empathy towards Amy as a husband, it's not an unfounded fear. Especially if you believe Amy when she writes in her diary that Nick once violently pushed her to the ground.
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Gone Girl / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Gone Girl / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: When asked if the story is based on any real life case, the author said it's not made up of any one case, and specifically points out the disappearance of Laci Peterson as one of those cases that can be considered a model. The similarities aren't difficult to point out: The victim being seen as a kind, pregnant housewife while the husband is a philandering man who is hated by the public after his mistress reveals herself is an obvious parallel. With Amy planning on committing suicide and her body being found in the ocean and the fact the pregnancy is a lie, it would be easy to believe that Amy is inspired In-Universe by this case. As a former prosecutor, "victim's rights" advocate and generally anti-defendant commentator with a religious-sounding surname, Ellen Abbott has clear echoes of Nancy Grace. In the film, she's even played by Missi Pyle, who had already played another Expy of Nancy Grace on The Mentalist. Nick's defense lawyer Tanner Bolt (in the film version) is an unmistakable parody of Johnnie Cochran, right down to his trademark glasses and fast-talking demeanor.
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Gone Girl / int_1759ff85	type	Four-Philosophy Ensemble
Gone Girl / int_1759ff85	comment	Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Amy is the cynic, Margo is the realist, Desi is a very twisted optimist, Tanner is the apathetic, and Nick is the conflicted.
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Gone Girl / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Gone Girl / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Nick keeps leaving significant gaps in his narrative. Then we discover that Amy's diary is mostly either fabricated or enhanced.
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Gone Girl / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Gone Girl / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Amy is a prime example: manipulative, Lack of Empathy, being a Consummate Liar, and an inability to forge connections with most people. Nick also meets most, if not all, of these same criteria. He even admits to most of them. However, Nick isn't nearly as dangerous to be around. Ultimately, the sacrifice Nick is willing to make for his unborn child may count as a subversion.
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Gone Girl / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Gone Girl / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Exploited - when Amy reveals she's pregnant with Nick's child, Nick notes he would do anything for his unborn son, and that includes staying married to Amy so he doesn't turn into the awful father he had as a child.
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Gone Girl / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Gone Girl / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Nick speaks directly to the audience in his narration, occasionally outright referring to the viewer as "you." This helps us feel like we're along for the ride with him, and helps us sympathize with him (even in moments when he may not actually deserve it). From Part Two on, Amy does the same thing.
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Gone Girl / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Gone Girl / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: All over the place between Nick and Amy. Nick interprets himself as the heroic suitor to Amy's Uptown Girl, and therefore assumes he'll have public sympathy, unaware of how well Amy has made him look like her Lower-Class Lout Domestic Abuser. Amy also gets this played on her when she makes the mistake of assuming that Desi is a straight example of the Knight In Shining Armour, when he's in fact a devious manipulator and obsessive Stalker with a Crush that is delighted to have Amy where he wants her after many years.
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Gone Girl / int_214d3bf2	type	Dye or Die
Gone Girl / int_214d3bf2	comment	Dye or Die: To avoid detection after her disappearance, Amy cuts her hair short and dyes it. She also puts on weight and gets fake glasses.
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Gone Girl / int_2258ffbf	type	Betty and Veronica Switch
Gone Girl / int_2258ffbf	comment	Betty and Veronica Switch: The more inexperienced Andie may seem like the Betty to Amy's Veronica with Nick being the Archie, but Amy is Nick's wife, while Andie is his 20 year old mistress. Desi and Nick to Amy's Archie. Desi may seem like a nice, clean-cut guy—but he also stalks Amy. Nick may seem like a simple guy or even a sociopath, but he is Amy's husband—while millionaire Desi is not.
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Gone Girl / int_22d639e6	type	If It Bleeds, It Leads
Gone Girl / int_22d639e6	comment	If It Bleeds, It Leads: Amy's seemingly brutal murder, combined with her history of being the mascot of a beloved children's book series, has the media totally engrossed in her story.
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Gone Girl / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
Gone Girl / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Invoked. The media assumes, and we are led to believe, that Nick killed Amy. Then we learn that Amy, being the real manipulative sociopath, knew the trope so well that she exploited everyone's expectations about her case to frame Nick.
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Gone Girl / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Gone Girl / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss Amy without revealing she's a sociopath.
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Gone Girl / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
Gone Girl / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: Gone Girl. In-Universe "Amazing Amy".
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Gone Girl / int_2727c89a	type	Pride Before a Fall
Gone Girl / int_2727c89a	comment	Pride Before a Fall: Amy's diary spends most of its time explaining what a brilliant life and marriage she and Nick had, but in the present day, we already know they moved back to Missouri, which Amy, especially, dislikes, and leads to the unravelling of their marriage.
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Gone Girl / int_280658ca	type	Happiness Realized Too Late
Gone Girl / int_280658ca	comment	Happiness Realized Too Late: Despite their marriage having deteriorated into the Masochism Tango, both Nick and Amy realize separately that many of things they came to resent about each other (for Amy, Nick's inattention, and for Nick, Amy's impossibly high standards) were also things they loved about each other that turned them into better people - for Amy, Nick allowed her to relax, and Amy pushed Nick to be the best version of himself and provided him with an intellectual challenge.
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Gone Girl / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Gone Girl / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: When Amy gets robbed and battered by Greta and her boyfriend.
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Gone Girl / int_2d364343	type	Frame-Up
Gone Girl / int_2d364343	comment	Frameup: Amy is very good at this, which Nick and Desi, as well as her former boyfriend, can attest to.
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Gone Girl / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Gone Girl / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Amy gets everything she wanted in the end, coming off as a heroic victim and suffering no consequences for her actions, although Nick seems to have the final word on the very last page, and what he says bothers Amy immensely.
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Gone Girl / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Gone Girl / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Desi has his throat slashed by Amy after he orgasms while having sex with her.
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Gone Girl / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Gone Girl / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Way, way over on the cynical end.
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Gone Girl / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Gone Girl / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: A favorite trope of Amy's. She did it once with a former boyfriend of hers and again with Desi post mortem, faking physical evidence for both to boot.
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Gone Girl / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Gone Girl / int_392372f9	comment	As a former prosecutor, "victim's rights" advocate and generally anti-defendant commentator with a religious-sounding surname, Ellen Abbott has clear echoes of Nancy Grace. In the film, she's even played by Missi Pyle, who had already played another Expy of Nancy Grace on The Mentalist.
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Gone Girl / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
Gone Girl / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: First defied, then played straight. Nick holds off on hiring a lawyer because he's worried that it'll look bad for him; he turns out to be right. Then he winds up hiring a lawyer known for defending extremely guilty dirtbags.
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Gone Girl / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Gone Girl / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Amy's Evil Plan was forged because Nick mistreated and cheated on her. Andie turns on Nick when he announces at a vigil that he still loves his wife.
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Gone Girl / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Gone Girl / int_40c57041	comment	Amy is a prime example: manipulative, Lack of Empathy, being a Consummate Liar, and an inability to forge connections with most people.
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Gone Girl / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Gone Girl / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: When Amy gets robbed whilst on the run by Greta and Jeff, she changes her plans accordingly by calling Desi, whom she was in friendly contact with for years before her disappearance and even after she accused him of being a Stalker with a Crush, to help. She then manipulates Desi into thinking Nick was abusive and he invites Amy to stay at his place. When Amy realizes that she is not in control of the situation anymore, she begins violating herself with a wine bottle and tying her wrists and ankles with ropes to frame Desi for kidnapping and raping her. Love or hate Amy, that's impressive.
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Gone Girl / int_4517f2a2	type	Symbolic Serene Submersion
Gone Girl / int_4517f2a2	comment	Symbolic Serene Submersion: Amy imagines herself this way while fantasizing about Nick killing her:
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Gone Girl / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Gone Girl / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Amy was this at the start of her and Nick's relationship. We discover that Amy was trying out being the "Cool Girl", which she regards as a vapid male fantasy that she holds in bitter contempt. The "Cool Girl" speech is an angry takedown of this trope; a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about women changing themselves to fit the ideal of the "Cool Girl" who tries to be "one of the guys" and adopts her boyfriend or husband's interests in order to please him. The speech is also somewhat ironic, as she condemns women who appear to be happy while remembering her earlier time with Nick differently than it appears on-screen. This is justified with Amy being a sociopath.
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Gone Girl / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
Gone Girl / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: Amy and Nick were forced to move from New York City to the suburbs of Missouri when Nick's mother got sick. Much of the narrative focuses on how their formerly-happy marriage became troubled and downright cruel over the course of five years, culminating in Amy's disappearance on their anniversary, and the subsequent murder investigation.
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Gone Girl / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Gone Girl / int_469e3e2f	comment	The victim being seen as a kind, pregnant housewife while the husband is a philandering man who is hated by the public after his mistress reveals herself is an obvious parallel. With Amy planning on committing suicide and her body being found in the ocean and the fact the pregnancy is a lie, it would be easy to believe that Amy is inspired In-Universe by this case.
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Gone Girl / int_4712b753	type	Stringing the Hopeless Suitor Along
Gone Girl / int_4712b753	comment	Stringing the Hopeless Suitor Along: An extreme version. Amy does this to Desi for years after her marriage to Nick, although without Nick's knowledge. She did this simply because she always has a backup plan to the backup plan, but doesn't realise how much Desi, far from being the perfect suitor, has in fact come to resent her for using this on him.
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Gone Girl / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
Gone Girl / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: After Nick figures out that Amy has faked her own murder to frame him, he finds out that she's done something similar twice before: that she framed her "best friend" in high school for stalking her and throwing her down the stairs, and that she framed an old boyfriend for rape. None of them are murder, but both characters note they recognized Amy's pattern of behavior.
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Gone Girl / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Gone Girl / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Happens to Andie. She genuinely has feelings for Nick and felt more and more abandoned when he shut her out following Amy's disappearance. The last physical appearance of her is a television interview in which she confesses to their affair, crying and humiliated.
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Gone Girl / int_4c099bde	type	Evidence Dungeon
Gone Girl / int_4c099bde	comment	Evidence Dungeon: The woodshed behind Margo's house, filled with evidence against Nick.
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Gone Girl / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Gone Girl / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Hoo boy. Amy gets away with her schemes at the end, having successfully planted the blame on Desi, and using her pregnancy to keep Nick with her for at least until the kid is eighteen. She's viewed as a hero, with only a few people knowing what's she's really done. Margo, the most sympathetic main character, has to live with the knowledge that her twin brother is married to Amy, and likely will be forever, and there's nothing she can do to help him. Basically the only consolation is that, with Nick being aware of what she is and always having an eye on her, it's unlikely Amy will ever be able to pull something like this again. And his very last words to her in the novel do genuinely get under her skin, meaning that he knows how to adequately fuck with her. Apparently, once he knows the rules to the game, Nick is just as good at it as she is.
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Gone Girl / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Gone Girl / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Part Two's opening chapter opens with one to end them all. "I'm so much happier now that I'm dead." Suddenly, the entire narrative, the entire story you thought you were reading, is turned on its head.
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Gone Girl / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
Gone Girl / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Amy and Nick having sex at the local library.
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Gone Girl / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Gone Girl / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Amy clearly thinks of herself as the one thinking person in a world of morons, but she's not quite as smart as she thinks she is. Her prep work was flawless, but her plans quickly start fraying at the edges. She turns out to have misjudged how expensive living on the run is. She opens up a little too much to someone she considers a fellow woman mistreated by men, only to have said woman beat and rob her with the help of her new boyfriend. Then she contacts a man she considers an easily manipulated idiot who'll be putty in her hands because he's got a crush on her, and he turns out to virtually imprison her "for her own good." And then, just to top it off, Nick manages to manipulate her into coming back home, thus nullifying almost everything she set out to accomplish. None of which, of course, does anything to puncture her ego - But in the end, Nick tells her he feels sorry for her because she has to be her all the time, and this is what gets to her.
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Gone Girl / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Gone Girl / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Amy's modus operandi. She frames a bad friend for assault, frames a cheating boyfriend for rape, frames a cheating husband for murder, and we hear of her spending a year working on getting a truck driver who cut her off fired.
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Gone Girl / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Gone Girl / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Amy. At one point some of Amy's pre-haircut blonde hairs are found in Desi's trunk, supporting her abduction story. Nick speculates that she probably had kept a bag of her longer hair...just in case. Not to mention all the junk she hoards in the shed to make Nick look like a greedy little cheat, draining the toilet so she could steal pregnant Noelle's urine to use for a pregnancy test...the list goes on and on.
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Gone Girl / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Gone Girl / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Nick's opening monologue, which is given more context and is expanded upon the second time around.
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Gone Girl / int_54804ea9	type	Always on Duty
Gone Girl / int_54804ea9	comment	Always on Duty: Detective Boney and her partner are on the case day and night.
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Gone Girl / int_55bf1a48	type	At Least I Admit It
Gone Girl / int_55bf1a48	comment	At Least I Admit It: Amy heaps scorn upon "Cool Girls," women who pretend to be what men want in a woman. However, for herself, Amy enjoys the challenge of making new personas and trying them on. When Desi has her trapped, becoming Desi's perfect version of Amy is a useful distraction tactic.
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Gone Girl / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Gone Girl / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The word "cunt" is used multiple times in only one conversation, when Amy admits to being practically a sociopath. It also doubles as N-Word Privileges given that a woman is the one who says it.
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Gone Girl / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Gone Girl / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A favorite tactic of Amy. She's willing to go the extra mile to make it work, to rubbing her wrists raw on rope to leave ligature marks and using a wine bottle to induce vaginal tearing on at least two separate occasions to frame someone for rape. She also is mentioned to have cracked her own ribs in her teens when framing Hilary.
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Gone Girl / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Gone Girl / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Nick's father was incredibly psychologically, verbally and emotionally abusive towards Maureen, but Nick notes he likely justified it because he never caused her physical abuse. He suspects this is why his twin sister remains unmarried and hates crying in front of men, fearing dismissal.
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Gone Girl / int_599c74ea	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Gone Girl / int_599c74ea	comment	Zero-Approval Gambit: Amy successfully pulls one in the eyes of Team Nick; to everyone else, she's a saint. Nick pulls one by sticking with Amy to ensure that their future baby is safe.
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Gone Girl / int_5b95535a	type	Love Forgives All but Lust
Gone Girl / int_5b95535a	comment	Love Forgives All but Lust: Downplayed. Amy is a sociopath, but in her mind, she accepted moving from New York to rural Missouri, Nick losing his job, her parents draining her trust fund, and Nick buying the Bar with her money...until he cheated on her with Andi. That was when she started plotting to frame him for her murder. However, she didn't so much as "forgive" him for the rest but put up with it.
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Gone Girl / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
Gone Girl / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Nick and his twin sister are close enough, and similar enough, that Nick describes them as able to read each other's minds. This stops when the events of the book drive a wedge between them.
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Gone Girl / int_5c81a18b	type	I Am Not My Father
Gone Girl / int_5c81a18b	comment	I Am Not My Father: Nick's worst nightmare is turning out to be like his abusive father. When his twin finds out that he's a liar and a cheat, she says this nightmare has come true.
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Gone Girl / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
Gone Girl / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: In-Universe, Hilary provides one for Amy. Hilary theorizes that at least part of the real reason Amy "punishes" people is because they saw that Amy's less than perfect. She also thinks that the wrongdoings Amy gives as her reasons are just excuses. There's a much more subtle example of this lying inside of Amy's diary. Though most of what she says is at least somewhat fabricated or enhanced, there are times where she is honest. She mentions once that during an argument, Nick pushed her violently to the ground and caused her to hit her head. Combined with the fact that Nick has the potential in him to be physically violent (as seen towards the end of the book when he almost chokes her to death) this may not be false, and shows a much more sinister and unsettling side of Nick.
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Gone Girl / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Gone Girl / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Amy committed the The Perfect Crime, but then she drops her moneybag in front of Greta and her boyfriend and things go awry.
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Gone Girl / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Gone Girl / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Amy goes mad over a period of years. The pressures of trying to live up to her parents' impossible expectations, trying to disguise herself as a normal person her whole life, trying to be a good wife to a shitty husband, and ultimately having to remake her plan on the fly takes a toll on her.
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Gone Girl / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Gone Girl / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Amy, as soon as she first steps on Missouri. Girl don't like Dixie and it shows.
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Gone Girl / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Gone Girl / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: A textbook ensemble, to the point the tragedy seems almost inevitable given the temperament of the players. Amy (choleric), Nick (phlegmatic), Margo (melancholic), Tanner (sanguine), Desi (eclectic).
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Gone Girl / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Gone Girl / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: At the end of the book, Amy tells Nick that as much as he might hate her, he'll never be satisfied with a "nice Midwestern girl." After all, Amy loved him so much she launched an elaborate revenge scheme when she found out he was cheating on her, and then killed to get back to him. Nick later admits that she's right - who can follow in Amy's footsteps?
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Gone Girl / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Gone Girl / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Amy faked her abduction, disguised herself, and framed her husband for murder in order to get revenge against him for mistreating and cheating on her.
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Gone Girl / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Gone Girl / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Nick Dunne: the word "Done" is brought up several times with regards to Nick, for instance in the page quote above: "what have we done to each other?" Averted for Amy (at least in-universe). Her parents lost seven baby girls before Amy was born, and all of the girls were named Hope. They didn't think that the eighth would live at all, so they just picked a common name, hoping that maybe God wouldn't notice her and let her live. If they had known she would live, they would have named her Lydia.
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Gone Girl / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
Gone Girl / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Nick and Andie, hence why the media dubs the former "cheating teacher".
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Gone Girl / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
Gone Girl / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: When Go is irritated with Nick, she upbraids him not with his full name, but his hated real first name, Lance.
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Gone Girl / int_6e9a9f13	type	Obsessed Are the Listmakers
Gone Girl / int_6e9a9f13	comment	Obsessed Are the Listmakers: Amy notes that Nick always made fun of her nonstop listmaking. She adds that the joke is on him—it's that very comprehensiveness that makes her elaborate scheme to screw him over possible.
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Gone Girl / int_70af5e15	type	Anthropic Principle
Gone Girl / int_70af5e15	comment	Anthropic Principle: The story could have been a lot shorter if Amy or Nick had simply sought out a divorce. But Gillian Flynn wanted to tell a particular story, so her story is centered around a vengeful wife who has decided divorce is too merciful for her husband, and an elaborate scheme to frame him for her murder is much more poetic.
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Gone Girl / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Gone Girl / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: For a period of time after Amy's return, Nick is essentially this to Amy, being forced to act like the perfect husband because of the media spotlight. While she's pregnant, Amy says that he's waited on her hand and foot, but this is probably because he's immensely committed to their unborn child.
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Gone Girl / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Gone Girl / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: It's implied by the ending. Amy has a plan to frame Nick for poisoning her if he doesn't behave but he torpedoes it very early. Now that he's watching her, it's quite likely Amy will never be able to get away with one of her schemes again. In short, she's lost her major advantage, which was always surprise.
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Gone Girl / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Gone Girl / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Amy gives one to Nick after she returns and he threatens her with a divorce. Rather unexpectedly, Andie gives one to Nick when he dumps her. The "Cool Girl monologue" is also one to the aforementioned trope, but also towards the men who created it to cater to their shallow fantasies and also towards the women who pretend to be happy incarnating it just so a man may pick them over another "uncool" woman.
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Gone Girl / int_7e38c1a7	type	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue"
Gone Girl / int_7e38c1a7	comment	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": When Amy was a child, her parents wrote a series of children's books called Amazing Amy, supposedly based on her, but book Amy was a shining paragon of kindness, perseverance, and being flawless in every way, and whenever real Amy failed at something, book Amy excelled at it.
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Gone Girl / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Gone Girl / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: The ultimate fate of Desi.
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Gone Girl / int_7ea8f5ce	type	Knight in Shining Armor
Gone Girl / int_7ea8f5ce	comment	Knight in Shining Armor: Amy at one point says Desi thinks of himself as this. This is why she calls him after she was robbed, so he can come running to the rescue and take her away to his castle, though this turns out to be more obsessive and controlling than she expected out of him.
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Gone Girl / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Gone Girl / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Nick's full name is Lance Nicholas Dunne. He refuses to go by "Lance" because it exacerbates his punchable alpha-male douchebag appearance.
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Gone Girl / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Gone Girl / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: All characters are flawed to different degrees. While both Amy and Nick are pictured as unlikable psychopaths in the book, Amy takes the cake when killing Desi and trying to get Nick wrongly accused of murder.
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Gone Girl / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Gone Girl / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Desi Collings has followed Amy for 20 years. When he volunteered for the search party, it's easy to assume he would keep her for himself. Which he does, but in a different way than he expected.
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Gone Girl / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Gone Girl / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Towards the beginning, there's a scene that takes place at the very end of the story; from there, the narrative goes back and forth between Amy's disappearance and her relationship/marriage with Nick before settling on the latter. Then it jumps back to show how Amy faked her own abduction before going back to the present.
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Gone Girl / int_8c5f5c97	type	The Movie Buff
Gone Girl / int_8c5f5c97	comment	The Movie Buff: Nick is a former movie and TV critic, refers to himself as a "film geek," and bonds with another guy over The Godfather.
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Gone Girl / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Gone Girl / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Averted with Amy. As it turns out, she's The Chessmaster behind the whole thing.
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Gone Girl / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Gone Girl / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Amy is fully capable of using her sex appeal to befuddle men, and also kill them when the need arises.
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Gone Girl / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Gone Girl / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Yes, Amy did get away scot free, but for the thirty days of her plan she had gone down the shitter. She gets beaten up by common thugs, have her money stolen, and was forced to live in an old friend's house, only to find that he's potentially crazier than her. The only reason she got away scot free was because she's forced to turn the situation around.
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Gone Girl / int_913f683a	type	Discussed
Gone Girl / int_913f683a	comment	Discussed, Averted and (in the movie) Exploited with Nick and Go. As male-female twins who were one another's lifelong best friends, they had to contend with rumors of Brother–Sister Incest in high school; Nick makes a semi-humorous point of stating for the record that he and his sister have never had sex, or thought about having sex, or done anything other than like each other a lot in a completely sibling-appropriate way. In the movie it becomes more of a plot point, when media speculation of an incestuous affair between the two is used to smear them when they are both implicated in Amy's disappearance.
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Gone Girl / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Gone Girl / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Amy comes off as downright charming at first, but it's all an act. She's rotten at her core, but often comes off as composed and maintains that she's doing what's necessary.
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Gone Girl / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Gone Girl / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: With an abusive father like his, it's no surprise Nick preferred his mother.
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Gone Girl / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
Gone Girl / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Nick's father dislikes women so intensely that, in his creeping senility, his vocabulary has almost entirely boiled down to chanting the word "bitch."
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Gone Girl / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Gone Girl / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Amy's plan relies on the precise movements and deductions made by other people after she's left; if the police were a little more or a little less competent, everything might have gone differently. Also, even if it wasn't totally indispensable to the plan, she sure enjoyed being the center of the news media, which any number of things could have usurped completely.
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Gone Girl / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Gone Girl / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Nick gives his sister the game Mastermind for her birthday. Nick admits, "I'm a big fan of the lie by omission." A couple chapters later, we find out he conveniently didn't tell us he was cheating on Amy. Early on, Nick outright asks the police if they think it's possible Amy's disappearance is "some sort of runaway wife situation."
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Gone Girl / int_9dffef16	type	Colbert Bump
Gone Girl / int_9dffef16	comment	Colbert Bump: In-universe. Nick manages to turn the public perception of his case around by opening up in his interview with Sharon Schieber.
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Gone Girl / int_9ea277d2	type	Stealing from Thieves
Gone Girl / int_9ea277d2	comment	Stealing from Thieves: Amy views her money as being stolen from her to pay for The Bar, which is how she justifies taking money from Nick to fund her attempt to fake her own death. The money then gets stolen from her by Jeff and Greta, two fellow low lives who figure out that Amy is carrying a lot of money and being pretty naive about it.
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Gone Girl / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Gone Girl / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Desi is a particularly obsessive variant, as evidenced by his "protection" of Amy.
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Gone Girl / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Gone Girl / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Amy's stories about her childhood have shades of this, and although her parents didn't neglect her physically, you can tell that they poured their love and attention into book Amy instead of their flesh and blood daughter. Her sociopathy had to have come from somewhere.
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Gone Girl / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Gone Girl / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: After framing her husband for murder and covertly waging a campaign to ruin his life, then murdering her lover and framing him for rape and kidnapping, Amy gets off completely; Nick was planning on exposing her, but decides against it after learning she's pregnant with their child. Greta and Jeff get away with stealing Amy's money. They are never found, let alone prosecuted.
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Gone Girl / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Gone Girl / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Amy tells a sweet story about meeting Nick at a party and clicking right away with clever banter, and culminating in a sugar-storm kiss.
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Gone Girl / int_ad118ed1	type	Aesop Collateral Damage
Gone Girl / int_ad118ed1	comment	Aesop Collateral Damage: In-Universe, Amy's Evil Plan has a lot of this. She even says that the best part of it is that "everyone gets punished." The main goal is to punish Nick, but there are several indirect targets. Let us count the ways... The items Amy bought to frame Nick as a reckless spender were planted in Go's shed, meaning Go now looks like an accomplice. Worst case scenario, Go could go to prison. Even if she's cleared, she still has to watch her twin brother get the death penalty for something he didn't do. This one's probably the worst, since, unlike the others, Go didn't actually do anything to Amy. Amy's parents have to believe that their (pregnant) child was murdered by her own husband. Also invoked when Amy is furious that Rand and Marybeth are treated kindly by the press coverage, which do not mention their extreme debts and overspending, and the failure of their book series. Andie has to watch her boyfriend be jailed and possibly killed for something he didn't do. She also has to deal with Nick not spending time with her, due to, you know, being a murder suspect. She also probably has to seriously wonder if Nick did kill Amy, if only just for a moment. And then there's the possibility of the affair getting out... though Andie manages to get ahead of that one by revealing it herself in a press conference.
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Gone Girl / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Gone Girl / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Nick opens the shed.
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Gone Girl / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Gone Girl / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Everyone, but Margo probably takes the cake.
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Gone Girl / int_afcc92c4	type	Self-Defense Ruse
Gone Girl / int_afcc92c4	comment	Self-Defense Ruse: Amy falsely claims that Desi kidnapped and raped her and that she stabbed him with a steak knife after it fell into her hands by accident. However, several people guess that this is not the case and point out the obvious flaws in Amy's story, while Amy herself has gone to meticulous and cold-blooded planning to make it look this way, such as repeatedly penetrating herself with a wine bottle to give herself convincing injuries.
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Gone Girl / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Gone Girl / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: In-universe, Amazing Amy's is "Sheesh!" Even when the character is an adult. Real Amy finds this particularly grating.
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Gone Girl / int_b10f0160	type	Starting a New Life
Gone Girl / int_b10f0160	comment	Starting a New Life: Amy's plans.
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Gone Girl / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Gone Girl / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Nick's dad was a raging misogynist, and while he never hit Go or Nick, or their mother, it's clear his parenting caused issues for both of them later in life. Rand and Marybeth to Amy in a much more insidious form. Writing a best-selling children's book series based on your daughter from the time she's a young girl, but making fake Amy thrive in everything real Amy failed at and hailing her as this flawless, beautiful, kind paragon of virtue, didn't do Amy's young psyche any favors. It's implied that they weren't nearly as emotionally available as was necessary for her to develop the same emotional range that most other people have, and it started so early on that she remembers being at a birthday party when she was little and not understanding why the other kids were having any fun.
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Gone Girl / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
Gone Girl / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Margo, the tough, beer-drinking bartender, is generally devoid of traditionally feminine attributes. The famous "Cool Girl" passage deconstructs this trope as often a male fantasy - basically a boorish guy masquerading in an effortlessly gorgeous female body - that women are way too eager to conform to so as to catch a man's interest.
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Gone Girl / int_b9955dad	type	Wanting Is Better Than Having
Gone Girl / int_b9955dad	comment	Wanting Is Better Than Having: Nick admits that he loses interest in Andie almost immediately when Tanner tells him he has to end it. He's never been more obsessed with Amy than when she is no longer around and he can project whatever he wants onto her.
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Gone Girl / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Gone Girl / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Amy has little regard for anybody other than herself. She reacts with outrage when people begin to feel pity for Andie, because Amy hates her, therefore everyone should.
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Gone Girl / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Gone Girl / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Nick does not like being compared to his father. Amy's is triggered by attempts to control her.
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Gone Girl / int_bca8786f	type	Afraid of Blood
Gone Girl / int_bca8786f	comment	Afraid of Blood: Amy, to the point of passing out at the plasma clinic. Later, we find out she's not — she just told people she was so no one would suspect she faked her abduction, where she had to bleed, a lot.
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Gone Girl / int_bdacb848	type	Purely Aesthetic Glasses
Gone Girl / int_bdacb848	comment	Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Amy wears them as part of her disguise, however she can't fool Greta with it.
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Gone Girl / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Gone Girl / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: In the book, there's something extremely off about the relationship between Desi and Jacqueline: as a teen, Desi obsessively dates girls who look like younger versions of his mother, and they still live together once Desi is edging into middle age and his three brothers have long since moved out. There's also the fact that when Desi complains that no-one sends love letters any more, Jacqueline asks if her son saved hers, to which he replies "of course". Now it could be that she's talking about her love letters to Desi's father, but what with the vague wording and all the other hints of the Collings' constantly sexual vibe and odd attachment to one another, it doesn't necessarily come across that way. Discussed, Averted and (in the movie) Exploited with Nick and Go. As male-female twins who were one another's lifelong best friends, they had to contend with rumors of Brother–Sister Incest in high school; Nick makes a semi-humorous point of stating for the record that he and his sister have never had sex, or thought about having sex, or done anything other than like each other a lot in a completely sibling-appropriate way. In the movie it becomes more of a plot point, when media speculation of an incestuous affair between the two is used to smear them when they are both implicated in Amy's disappearance.
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Gone Girl / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Gone Girl / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The movie initially presents Amy and Nick as happy couple with lots of affection and lots of sex. Then Amy's perfectionism and disdain, along with Nick's adultery and laziness, tear that apart. They ultimately come to realize that as strained as their marriage is, they're both awful people who are made for each other, and that if they left each other they would never be as "happy" as they would be together, so they stay.. Amy's parents are very happily married... and their relationship is so perfect that it caused Amy to feel extreme pressure her whole life to be a perfect child and led her to become The Sociopath she is today. Tanner Bolt and his wife are also very happy together, full of affection and working well as a team.
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Gone Girl / int_bf521f59	type	SisyphusVsRock
Gone Girl / int_bf521f59	comment	Sisyphus Vs Rock: Nick deciding to stay married to Amy in order to be there for his son and keep tabs on Amy for as long as they both live. Margo, his twin, puts another spin on it: Nick finds Amy more thrilling than any other woman could be. He just wants an excuse to stay.
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Gone Girl / int_c023a146	type	Hollywood Homely
Gone Girl / int_c023a146	comment	Hollywood Homely: Nick considers Go to be this In-Universe, pointing out that she's not ugly, but also isn't considered beautiful by society's current standards. He describes her face as "strange faced" with a broad jaw, pretty nose, and "dark globe eyes" that may have been suitable for 1930s screwball comedy leading ladies rather than received well by a modern standard of beauty that favors "pixie-princesses".
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Gone Girl / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Gone Girl / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: Amy deliberately invokes this trope to create the media frenzy surrounding her disappearance.
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Gone Girl / int_c12ad193	type	Fake Pregnancy
Gone Girl / int_c12ad193	comment	Fake Pregnancy: Amy uses her pregnant friend's urine to stage a medical report of her being pregnant to intensify the news coverage on her. When she later reveals to Nick that she used his frozen sperm to get pregnant for real, he accuses her of this. But she's not joking this time.
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Gone Girl / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Gone Girl / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Sort of. Detective Gilpin is somewhat hostile towards Nick while Detective Boney is sympathetic; but in this instance, this reflects their true feelings on the matter.
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Gone Girl / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Gone Girl / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Amy's framing of Hilary Handy, for extremely petty things like, "Forgetting [I'm] allergic to strawberries," and so on.
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Gone Girl / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Gone Girl / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Nick reaches his after Amy's return and subsequent "The Reason You Suck" Speech, almost strangling her to death. He stops himself.
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Gone Girl / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Gone Girl / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Growing up from a young age being compared to a fictionalized, absolutely perfect version of you that your parents created and profited immensely from does not a well-adjusted person make. In addition, Amy could tell since she was a child that her mother idolized the numerous unborn daughters that she lost to miscarriages, and that Amy would never be able to measure up to children who her mother saw as angels, even noting that her parents had low expectations for her from birth, which is why they named her Amy, hoping that someone so average would be overlooked by God to take away. The Parental Neglect ovetones are present, and although they never neglected her physically, you can tell that their lack of warmth towards her didn't give her a good start in life.
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Gone Girl / int_c895f927	type	Criminal Mind Games
Gone Girl / int_c895f927	comment	Criminal Mind Games: The clues left by Amy for Nick.
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Gone Girl / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Gone Girl / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Amy refers to Andie as "the little whore" repeatedly in her narration.
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Gone Girl / int_cc8b2fd	type	Ascended Fridge Horror
Gone Girl / int_cc8b2fd	comment	Ascended Fridge Horror: What would happen to Nick and Amy's child? They're both going to find out.
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Gone Girl / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
Gone Girl / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: Nick has a major problem with this. Just as Amy knew he would.
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Gone Girl / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Gone Girl / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: All of Amy's plans run on this. The plans aren't subtle and her victims understand perfectly well what she's done. However, Amy spends so much more time and effort on the plans than any reasonable person would that the affected people can't explain what happened without sounding crazy for accusing Amy of being willing to do the things that she actually did.
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Gone Girl / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Gone Girl / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Amy smugly claims that the reason criminals get caught is that they're too impatient, and she's fool-proofed her plan by being patient with the planning stages. Once the plan is in effect, however, she loses her patience and takes steps to speed things along. Desi constantly bemoans how terrible Nick's treatment of Amy is. Amy quickly figures out that his treatment (while he would never cheat on her) is actually much worse.
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Gone Girl / int_d7117f01	type	Angst? What Angst?
Gone Girl / int_d7117f01	comment	Angst? What Angst?: In-Universe. Nick is perceived as this trope by the general public because he has a hard time looking sad for the camera. In fact, at one point he slips up so badly that he smiles while on a news broadcast about Amy's disappearance. As if that wasn't bad enough, the media latches onto the Nick-isn't-sad-enough angle and really blows it up.
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Gone Girl / int_d75b5f08	type	Moving Angst
Gone Girl / int_d75b5f08	comment	Moving Angst: Amy really doesn't want to move from New York City to Nick's hometown in Missouri but she has little choice when her parents drain her trust fund, they both lose their jobs, and Nick's mother Maureen is diagnosed with cancer. Although her diary is a work of fiction, Amy is genuinely unhappy in Missouri and even more so when she learns that Nick is cheating on her with Andi, who he teaches at college. Nick isn't overly happy in going home to Missouri either, especially since his hometown has become deeply depressed following the Great Recession and he keeps running into people he knows from his past. However, his is downplayed because he does manage to open the Bar and is very close to Go.
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Gone Girl / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Gone Girl / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Nick's defense lawyer Tanner Bolt (in the film version) is an unmistakable parody of Johnnie Cochran, right down to his trademark glasses and fast-talking demeanor.
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Gone Girl / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Gone Girl / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Amy considers the town she and Nick move to (and Nick's hometown) this.
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Gone Girl / int_da9131af	type	The Baby Trap
Gone Girl / int_da9131af	comment	The Baby Trap: An interesting variant. Nick wants to have children with Amy, to the point of starting fertility treatments, but Amy changes her mind and has the sperm samples destroyed.... or so Nick thinks. Amy turns out to have kept the sample on ice. After she frames Nick for her murder, he naturally wants nothing more to do with her, but she impregnates herself with his stored sperm, believing that he'd rather stay with her than abandon his child. The ploy works.
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Gone Girl / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
Gone Girl / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: Boney becomes suspicious, not just because of the amount of evidence against Nick, but by the fact that every piece seems to be carefully laid out to lead to the next, starting with an envelope literally labelled "CLUE", and ending with a diary that was incinerated, but miraculously remained almost completely legible.
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Gone Girl / int_de6bd03e	type	Trashy True Crime
Gone Girl / int_de6bd03e	comment	Trashy True Crime: Ellen Abbott (an unflattering Expy of Nancy Grace) runs a TV talk show that's dedicated to tales of women being abused, kidnapped, and (most likely) killed. She lambasts Nick repeatedly on her show (a pre-existing bias before any of the damning evidence turns up). Amy notes that Ellen completely sanctifies the women she discusses, and prefers pregnant women and wives - generally white and middle- or upper-class for that reason.
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Gone Girl / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Gone Girl / int_deecc9eb	comment	Nick himself is not immune. His and Amy's marriage may have been an Awful Wedded Life, but once he gets an actual chance to be with Andie — who he has regarded as his source of happiness — after Amy's disappearance, Amy suddenly compares much more favorably to Andie.
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Gone Girl / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Gone Girl / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Not only was Amy playing the cops like a fiddle, she was playing the reader, too. The moments when she's talking directly to the audience in her narration are also quite creepy.
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Gone Girl / int_e2b576a1	type	I Just Want to Be You
Gone Girl / int_e2b576a1	comment	I Just Want to Be You: Amy's childhood friend Hilary was obsessed with her and planned to kill her and take over her life. At least, that's what Amy wanted everybody to think.
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Gone Girl / int_e3add455	type	Children as Pawns
Gone Girl / int_e3add455	comment	Children as Pawns: The future that lies ahead for Nick and Amy's child. After being trapped by Amy's pregnancy, Nick agrees to stay with her, but after she threatens to push their child into accusing him of abuse, he understands that they both have a lifetime ahead of using the child (and how it's raised) against each other.
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Gone Girl / int_e86cf1cf	type	Gunman with Three Names
Gone Girl / int_e86cf1cf	comment	Gunman with Three Names: Nick knows the public is turning against him when his full name "Lance Nicholas Dunne" is all over the media.
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Gone Girl / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Gone Girl / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Andie. Seriously, girl, your boyfriend is under investigation for a murder. You can't stay away for a few weeks?
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Gone Girl / int_ec16212b	type	From New York to Nowhere
Gone Girl / int_ec16212b	comment	Amy really doesn't want to move from New York City to Nick's hometown in Missouri but she has little choice when her parents drain her trust fund, they both lose their jobs, and Nick's mother Maureen is diagnosed with cancer. Although her diary is a work of fiction, Amy is genuinely unhappy in Missouri and even more so when she learns that Nick is cheating on her with Andi, who he teaches at college.
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Gone Girl / int_ed7dde2c	type	Popularity Cycle
Gone Girl / int_ed7dde2c	comment	Popularity Cycle: Amy's friendships are characterized by this. She'll be obsessed with someone (even platonically), until she grows annoyed by them not indulging her narcissism. At this point, she'll frame them for any crime between stalking to kidnapping and rape to punish them and cause them to be despised by those around them. Nick himself is not immune. His and Amy's marriage may have been an Awful Wedded Life, but once he gets an actual chance to be with Andie — who he has regarded as his source of happiness — after Amy's disappearance, Amy suddenly compares much more favorably to Andie.
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Gone Girl / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Gone Girl / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: The conflict between Amy and Nick is not being resolved in a dramatic finale but lingers on as they stay together, and Nick seemingly beginning to love Amy again, resulting in No Ending.
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Gone Girl / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Gone Girl / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Margo is the one person who is constantly at Nick's side (even if at some points even she suspects Nick might have murdered Amy). By the end their relationship is strained (because she can't bear Nick actually staying with Amy for the foreseeable future) but she says that she's still with him
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Gone Girl / int_f19ff224	type	TheUNFavourite
Gone Girl / int_f19ff224	comment	The Un-Favourite: Go jokes she was this to her parents, as they weren't expecting to have twins. Given their father's attitude towards women, there may be some truth in it. Amy. For her whole childhood she was forced to compete for her parent's affection with the 'Amazing Amy' character they based around her, who succeeded at everything Amy failed at, and was a paragon of kindness, perseverance, and virtue. Not to mention the fact that she was conceived after her mother had seven miscarriages and almost worshipped them all as angels, devoting one day a year to just sit alone and think about them. She laments the fact that it's impossible to live up to the dead unborn children who came before her, because they're perfect, and notes that her parents had low expectations for her since birth; they named her Amy, hoping that someone with a name so boring would go unnoticed by whatever cosmic force took away the first seven girls.
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Gone Girl / int_f1ac9897	type	Female Misogynist
Gone Girl / int_f1ac9897	comment	Female Misogynist: Go, to a small extent. She doesn't seem to hate women, but she definitely considers herself to be one of the dudes, and makes a conscious effort to avoid "feminine" things like displaying her emotions in public. Nick blames their incredibly misogynistic father and the way he raised them for having this effect on her. Amy looks down on most people, but has special scorn for women who she perceives to be emotional and irrational, constantly demanding dancing monkey behavior from their partners and their "choose me" attitudes. She also dislikes "Cool Girls" who become whatever their partners want, all the more so because Amy herself has been the Cool Girl.
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Gone Girl / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Gone Girl / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Amy's Evil Plan was forged because Nick mistreated and cheated on her.
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Gone Girl / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Gone Girl / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Jeff has no problems assisting his girlfriend Greta when they rob Amy. Also, Nick nearly kills Amy for what she did to him, but stops himself at the last minute. It's also an invoked trope.
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Gone Girl / int_f621e657	type	Hollywood Pudgy
Gone Girl / int_f621e657	comment	Hollywood Pudgy: A rare example of this being invoked in a non-visual medium. Amy gains weight (subtly) to disguise herself when she goes into hiding. It gets invoked in that, even after she's lost most of the weight, Desi remains completely fixated on getting her back to being very thin again.
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Gone Girl / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
Gone Girl / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Amy's plan involves leaving a trail of clues all over town, some in very unlikely places, as well as bleeding herself, spilling the blood, and then cleaning it up in the way Nick would, just to heighten the suspicion when the police did find it. See Gambit Roulette.
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Gone Girl / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
Gone Girl / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: Applies to both Amy and Nick. Both attractive, both horrible, horrible people. Nick inverts this in a musing he has early on, looking at Detective Boney and thinking that his mother, grandmother, all the women he admired were salt-of-the-earth, warm, friendly, and ugly.
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Gone Girl / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Turns out, Amy had staged the "disappearance", correctly predicting people would suspect Nick of murdering her.
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Gone Girl / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Gone Girl / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Stucks Buckly, one of Nick's childhood friends, claims that Amy once brought him a cold drink when he was working outside on a hot day. Nick is annoyed that he's making things up for attention - Amy would never do a kindness for a stranger. Later we find out Amy genuinely did it, as part of building up a good reputation before her disappearance.
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Gone Girl / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Gone Girl / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: So very petty. While hanging out with Amy (who is masquerading as Lydia/Nancy) at the cabins, Greta says that Amy looks like a "rich, stuck-up bitch" when she is discussed on the Ellen Abbott show. Amy goes and spits in Greta's milk, potato salad and orange juice.
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Gone Girl / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Gone Girl / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: On Amy's "to do" list she sets up to frame Nick, she takes the time to say a final goodbye to Bleecker, their cat.
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