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Hometown (2014)

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It's the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall.Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren't found at all. Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories.There's something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry. Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start...changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.Author is a troper. For more of his work, check out his blog.
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Dying Town
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Dying Town: Belford is just starting to show symptoms in the main story. By the time of the Distant Epilogue, its case is well-advanced.
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Dragon-in-Chief
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Dragon-in-Chief: Spook. Without him, the Heart Eater has no sentience of its own, being nothing but the spirit equivalent of an ant lion.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Vicki is driven into a brief one of these after Val dies, she's date raped by Rodney, and fears she may be pregnant by that rape. You can't blame the poor girl at all. And it was exactly what the person who killed Val hoped for.
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Give Geeks a Chance
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Give Geeks a Chance: Marc is able to convince Vicki to do so, once he's able to convince her that Geeks needn't be passionless and boring.
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Gone Horribly Right
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Gone Horribly Right: The aforementioned attempts to summon Satan. They were not prepared for what they got.
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The Juggernaut
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The Juggernaut: The Reaper
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Bully Brutality
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Bully Brutality: People who cross Darren tend to suffer career-ending injuries. While they're in the locker room with Psycho Mike. While Natasha VanDyne is usually a social bully, she crosses over into this when she pours hot stew down Vicki's back, causing painful burns.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Natasha and Darren get away with a lot of things that kids from poorer families would not.
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Good Bad Girl
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Good Bad Girl: Vicki. The other sexually-active girls in the cast are perfectly nice people, but don't quite have the self-confidence to pull this off.
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Shoot the Dog
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Shoot the Dog: Literally. Sadly necessary when the Big Friendly Dog becomes a threat to life and limb.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Vicki must have a father somewhere, but you'd never know it.
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Bury Your Gays
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Bury Your Gays: Kara. Val might count, too. She showed a few hints of being bi-curious in Kara's direction when they were alive, which apparently blossomed while they were trapped in the Heart Eater. Hard to say how much is If It's You, It's Okay.
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Break the Haughty
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Break the Haughty: As the Changed Ones take over the town, the unChanged are ostracized and persecuted. This includes Natasha, and by the time things come to a head, she's even more isolated than the protagonists.
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Ax-Crazy
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Psycho Mike, to the point of being Ax-Crazy.
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: Except for Alma Lorn, the ghosts seem to serve this purpose for The Heart Eater. "Psycho Mike" Higgmann fills this role for Darren.
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Agony of the Feet: The final attack of the Changed Ones against the unChanged population of Belford comes when Natasha is getting ready for bed. One car crash and barefoot run across broken glass later, and her injuries become a serious issue for the heroes to deal with.
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Last Het Romance
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Last Het Romance: Not really a "romance" per se, but Kara tries heterosexual sex with Jason to see if she might not be bisexual. She is not.
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Small Town Boredom
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Small Town Boredom: Reason for many of the dumb and dangerous things the citizens of Belford do, especially the teens. For a common result, see Teen Pregnancy.
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Teen Pregnancy
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Teen Pregnancy: A recurring theme. In the opening scene, we see a couple having unprotected sex, leaving the girl to fret about the possibility of this before something attacks her out of the mist, rendering the question moot. When we first meet Val, she is discussing with Vicki her relief at avoiding this. In addition to an earlier scare that happened offscreen, Vicki has a brief scare that she may have a Child by Rape from Rodney, but it turns out that her real problem is that her eating disorder has stopped her from menstruating. Vicki and possibly Val themselves are a result of this. Overall, this is treated as the surest way for a young woman to be trapped in Belford forever. Angelina is constantly warned by her elder female relatives that any sexual activity at all will result in this.
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Date Rape
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Darren is a viciously misogynist sociopath who makes a sport of Date Rape. We see one of his cruel games in the backstory of Alma Lorn, but even his "official" girlfriends don't escape.
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Honor-Related Abuse
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Honor-Related Abuse: Angelina's father threatens this when he finds out that she's been associating with a lesbian all this time. It's even worse in her nightmare in the Heart Eater.
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Humans Are the Real Monsters
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Horrible as it is, the Heart Eater is ultimately little more than an animal. It was only after it started eating human souls that it started developing traits such as greed, spite and vindictiveness. Where it once would have stuck to weak souls like any other predator going after easy prey, it starts going after the strong souls of people who otherwise would have "gotten out" of Belford. And it is nothing compared to the human Abusive Parents, the vicious Spook who aids the entity, and the misogynistic Darren. Taken up to eleven when Spook becomes its mind.
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Unlike the ghosts, the Reaper and Shady never really existed as living creatures. Both were congealed out of the mist and half-believed campfire stories by the Heart Eater. This is how Shady could appear in a body of water that should have been far too small for a creature its size. This also gives the protagonists a means to fight back; anything that they believe in deeply enough is a source of power. See Magic Music and Religion is Magic for examples.
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The Big Guy
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The Big Guy: Angelina isn't extraordinarily large, but fills this role by sheer physical power and training. At one point she pulls two (murderously angry) fighting girls apart, and they immediately stop trying to get at each other, because: "Both of them knew, even through their fury, that they couldn’t get through Angelina Cruz to each other. They might as well be on opposite sides of a solid wall. Perhaps they could hurt her, but then she would crush them both, and they still wouldn’t get a chance to get at each other." "Big Dave" Baumann is a more traditional version. Jason is tall, but doesn't have a lot of bulk. "Psycho Mike" is this for Team Jerk Jock.
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Drowning My Sorrows
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Drowning My Sorrows: Vicki after Val's death. Unfortunately, it only leads to more sorrows.
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10-Minute Retirement
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10-Minute Retirement: Vicki wants nothing more to do with amateur monster hunting after Val's death. But after Marc and the rest of Angelina's crew help her deal with her Pregnancy Scare, she trusts them enough to turn to them about her other issues, and she's right back on the firing line at their side.
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Genius Loci
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Genius Loci: Whatever the Heart Eater was originally, it has become this to Belford.
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D-Cup Distress
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D-Cup Distress: Val. Sometimes she enjoys the attention (she particularly appreciates a compliment from Kara), but most of the time they're more trouble than they're worth.
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Breast Attack
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Breast Attack: During a fight between Natasha and Vicki, Vicki gets Natasha into a headlock and Natasha rakes Vicki's breasts with her nails while trying to escape.
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Virgin-Shaming
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Virgin-Shaming: A non-malicious example. Vicki and Val consider Angelina and her friends to be silly and naive for counting some of the examples of Questionable Consent as rape. They attribute this "naivete" to Angelina & Co. being virgins.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Psycho Mike" Higgmann. The Reaper. The Roadster. The Heart Eater.
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BigDamnKiss
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Big Damn Kiss: This is how Marc is able to convince Vicki that Good Is Not Boring.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Natasha and Alan Chadwick are both devastated by Maura Weston's death.
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Our Ghosts Are Different
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Our Ghosts Are Different: Alma Lorn, Luther Harfield, and The Roadster. Maybe the Reaper, too, but there's some question as to whether he was ever alive. All are very solid when they manifest, and seem to be under the control of a greater force. Dissolve into mist if dispelled or destroyed.
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Defeat by Modesty
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Defeat by Modesty: Averted. While Natasha is inflicting Breast Attacks on Vicki, she accidentally tears Vicki's shirt, exposing her breasts. Vicki could not care less and just keeps punching.
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Noble Bigot with a Badge
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Noble Bigot with a Badge: Rafael de la Cruz is a tireless, hard-working, conscientious sheriff who cares deeply for his community. He is also a good father...and he considers it his duty, as a good father, to ensure that his daughter has no further contact with her lesbian best friend. Who knows what happened during all those sleepovers over the years?
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Killer Rabbit
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Killer Rabbit: The coydog pup. It doesn't have a lot of physical power (no more than an ordinary puppy), but then, when it can Force-Choke a full grown German shepherd, it doesn't really need to.
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Your Soul Is Mine!
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Your Soul Is Mine!: Souls are the Heart Eater's diet, and it has several methods of collecting them.
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Serial Rapist
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Serial Rapist: Several. Most prominently: Darren is a viciously misogynist sociopath who makes a sport of Date Rape. We see one of his cruel games in the backstory of Alma Lorn, but even his "official" girlfriends don't escape. Rodney Dupre is more typical, as a boyfriend who doesn't take "no" for an answer from his girlfriends. Less violent than Darren, he prefers to take steps to make sure he never even has to hear it.
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Defiled Forever
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Defiled Forever: Related to All Girls Want Bad Boys. On some level, Vicki believes she doesn't deserve to be in a relationship where she's treated well. She breaks the pattern with Marc.
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted. While it turns out that Vicki doesn't need an abortion (but rather some help in overcoming her eating disorder, which had caused her period to stop coming), abortion was definitely considered as an option.
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Jerk Jock
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Jerk Jock: Darren Edwards - rapist, bully, and captain of the football team. Psycho Mike, to the point of being Ax-Crazy.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The Heart Eater. Of the "blind idiot" type. Its apparent intelligence comes from elsewhere...
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush:Both protagonists get one. Angelina gets Darren, and Vicki gets Spook.
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Asshole Victim: What Spook does to Darren is horrific. One could easily argue that it was deserved, but it isn't done as punishment for Darren's many, many crimes. It's done because he'd become more trouble than he was worth, and he kept mouthing off anyway.
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Demonic Possession
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Demonic Possession: The Heart Eater has...use...for the Soulless Shells left behind after it feeds on a soul. An unusual variant, in that while the Heart Eater provides the driving will, its essential mindlessness means that they provide the intelligence and personality.
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Lovable Jock
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Lovable Jock: Angelina and Tiffany Chance are both on the field hockey team. Big Dave is on the football team, and Jason would be as well if he hadn't decided he couldn't stand another season on the same team as Darren and his cronies.
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Played utterly straight. Positive characters are caring and thoughtful lovers. Their skills may not be that great - we are talking about inexperienced teenagers, after all - but even Kara's last het fling goes relatively well. Meanwhile, two serious Jerkass characters are revealed as such by their selfish and callous treatment of their partners, while no fewer than three human villains are rapists.
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Questionable Consent: A number of girls are pressured or manipulated into sexual activities (in addition to the outright date rapes). The story actually begins with a scene where a couple is having unprotected sex and the boy "forgets" to practice withdrawal as he'd promised. In keeping with the values of her time, place, and social class, Vicki dismisses her Date Rape by Rodney as being this at worst. After all, all he did was show up at Val's funeral with a LOT of strong booze at the exact moment that he knew she would be desperately wanting to Drown Her Sorrows and made sure to never take a sip himself...
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Villainous Breakdown: The more Darren is balked, the more his Faux Affably Evil mask slips, and the more visibly psychotic he becomes.
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Faux Affably Evil: Darren is handsome and charming, which is his primary bait for his favorite hobby, and his most effective tool for getting away with it (along with his family's wealth and influence). The exact second he doesn't get what he wants, people start getting hurt.
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Stock Ness Monster: Shady. An odd and suspicious case, since all sightings report a creature far too large to survive and stay hidden in the bodies of water where the sightings took place.
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Evil Is Not a Toy: Two people try to summon Satan over the course of the story. It doesn't work out well for either of them.
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Contraception Deception: Practiced by many young men of Belford, usually in the form of slipping the condom off mid-intercourse or "forgetting" to pull out after promising to do so. This is the cause of a lot of the Teenage Pregnancy.
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And I Must Scream: The victims of the Heart Eater, trapped in an eternal nightmare while it feeds on their souls.
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In keeping with the values of her time, place, and social class, Vicki dismisses her Date Rape by Rodney as being this at worst. After all, all he did was show up at Val's funeral with a LOT of strong booze at the exact moment that he knew she would be desperately wanting to Drown Her Sorrows and made sure to never take a sip himself...
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Bully Hunter
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Bully Hunter: Vicki can take abuse directed at herself, but when she sees someone being bullied she just has to intervene, often violently. This usually makes things worse for her.
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Darren's father deliberately raised him to be a hypercompetitive, bullying, viciously-misogynist sociopath. In no way does this make him more sympathetic.
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The One Who Made It Out: The goal of all of the protagonists is to be this, though Val doesn't have the self-confidence to believe that she'll succeed, and Vicki's plan is a bit shaky. The survivors succeed.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: The first time we see Brenda Powers, she throws a glass at her daughter's face. Vicki ducks it with no difficulty, since it had happened so many times before, she knew it was coming. Both Natasha VanDyne's mother and Valerie Robard's grandmother count as emotionally abusive. Darren's father deliberately raised him to be a viciously misogynistic sociopath.
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Soulless Shell
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Soulless Shell: What remains behind after the Heart Eater has fed. But they don't stay that way for long.
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Pregnancy Scare
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Pregnancy Scare: The story opens with a teenage girl in the beginning stages of one after having unprotected sex with her boyfriend. They don't live long enough for it to be an issue. When we first meet Val, she's just gotten over one of these. Later, Vicki has one where she's afraid she may be having Rodney's Child by Rape, and just when he's gone Disappeared Dad no less.
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Soul Eating
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Soul Eating: Souls are literally the Heart Eater's diet. A particularly horrific version, since the victims are endlessly "digested" while trapped in personal nightmares. Also has a certain "you are what you eat" aspect, since the Heart Eater, being essentially mindless, wasn't capable of greed, spite, or cruelty until it started eating humans.
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Entitled to Have You
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Entitled to Have You: Rodney's attitude toward Vicki. Also Spook's. Darren's attitude toward any woman who takes his interest at the moment.
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Later, Vicki has one where she's afraid she may be having Rodney's Child by Rape, and just when he's gone Disappeared Dad no less.
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Freudian Excuse: Natasha VanDyne's mother is emotionally abusive, perfectionist and demanding. Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Darren's father deliberately raised him to be a hypercompetitive, bullying, viciously-misogynist sociopath. In no way does this make him more sympathetic.
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Magic Music
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Magic Music: Marc is dangerous at the keyboard of a piano. The other characters' artistic endeavors have similar power via Clap Your Hands If You Believe.
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Slut-Shaming
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Slut-Shaming: A large part of the bullying directed at Vicki and Val.
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Good Is Boring
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Good Is Boring: Vicki believes this. Marc is able to prove otherwise.
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Religion is Magic
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Religion is Magic: Related to Clap Your Hands If You Believe - anything that you believe in deeply enough can be a source of power. Angelina, Father Sheehan, Sven Olsen, and Kara all tap into this at one time or another.
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Good Shepherd
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Good Shepherd: Father Sheehan. He's seen far too much sorrow in all his years on the job, but he's there for his parishioners in their time of grief.
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No Periods, Period
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No Periods, Period: Averted. When we first meet Val, she's talking to Vicki about how a Pregnancy Scare has ended because her period finally came. The Chance sisters have a whole euphemistic code worked out.
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Bad People Abuse Animals
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Bad People Abuse Animals: Spook kills Natasha's dog and horse as revenge for her bullying Vicki, something Vicki would never have wanted.
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If It's You, It's Okay
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If It's You, It's Okay: Played with. Kara experiments a bit with Jason, but although it goes well, all it does is confirm that she really is gay. Val shows no interest in girls other than Kara.
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Unusual Euphemism: The Chance sisters have developed an entire euphemistic code system about their periods. It's based on pasta sauce.
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The Baby Trap
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The Baby Trap: While inside the Heart Eater, Angelina's nightmare is that she has been caught in this by Darren.
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Vicki and Val both have a tendency to end up with boys who are bad for them. They are aware of it and struggle with it, but occasionally fall back into bad habits. Downplayed for the women of Belford in general, who consider Darren to be a charming rogue instead of the dangerous sociopath that he really is.
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Voice of the Legion
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Voice of the Legion: The one and only time The Reaper speaks, it speaks in this. The Heart Eater is done pretending by that point; the Reaper is not and never was a separate being. It is only a pseudopod and mouthpiece.
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But Liquor Is Quicker
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Rodney Dupre is more typical, as a boyfriend who doesn't take "no" for an answer from his girlfriends. Less violent than Darren, he prefers to take steps to make sure he never even has to hear it.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The easiest way to tell if someone has become a Changed One. Sometimes the symptoms are subtle, but when the local Big Friendly Dog turns murderous, you have a pretty good clue.
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Eating Angelina was a big mistake on the Heart Eater's part.
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Groin Attack: Darren takes advantage of Angelina's incapacitation after a Heart Eater attack to attempt to rape her. He thinks better of it when Vicki grabs his balls from behind and starts squeezing.
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Offing the Annoyance
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Offing the Annoyance: Darren tries to threaten and intimidate Spook, who doesn't actually care, but is tired of his lip. It doesn't work out well for Darren at all.
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
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Psychic Strangle
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Psychic Strangle: As mentioned under Killer Rabbit, the coydog pup is no more dangerous than an ordinary puppy physically...but since it can do this, it doesn't need to be.
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Attempted Rape
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Attempted Rape: Darren takes brutal advantage of Angelina's incapacitation and the Heart Eater's assistance while she's in the hospital after a Heart Eater attack. Only Vicki's interruption with a timely Groin Attack saves her.
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Spook. He just cannot understand why Vicki is so upset that he had several of her friends killed.
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Beware the Nice Ones
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Beware the Nice Ones: Angelina Santos-De La Cruz is kind, friendly, generous, non-judgmental, well-behaved and religious. And she will break your arm if you threaten her friends.
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Badass Preacher
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Badass Preacher: Father Sheehan. While many holy men have used their holy symbols to drive away evil spirits, fewer have used them to physically beat them to death.
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 Hometown (2014)
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Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_709616df
 Hometown (2014)
hasFeature
Stock Ness Monster / int_709616df