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Misery

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Misery	label	Misery
Misery	page	Misery
Misery	comment	Misery is a 1987 novel by Stephen King.Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car in a Colorado snowstorm while drunk-driving to Los Angeles to celebrate finishing the manuscript for his latest book. His legs shattered, he is rescued by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse, who takes him to her isolated house in the countryside. Annie claims she's Paul's "number one fan" and loves his Misery romance novels as well as their main heroine Misery Chastain. However, the latest Misery novel is released while he's in her care, and on finding out that Misery dies at the end, the mentally-unstable Annie becomes enraged and coerces Paul â€“ who, being too injured to leave her house and thus entirely dependent on her, hasn't any choice but to comply â€“ to write a new Misery novel that undoes her death. Paul therefore must fight to find a way to write Misery back to life, even while Annie subjects him to all manner of deranged (and sometimes horrific) ministrations.Rob Reiner directed a film adaptation in 1990, starring James Caan as Paul and then-unknown stage actress Kathy Bates as Annie, along with Richard Farnsworth as the local sheriff, Frances Sternhagen as the sheriff's wife (and deputy), and Lauren Bacall in a minor role as Paul's New York agent. Bates won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her acclaimed performance as Annie, making her the first (and, thus far, only) person to win an Oscar for a performance in an adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Bates's Oscar is also the only one received for any of Reiner's films as a director.A stage adaptation, written by William Goldman (who also penned the screenplay for the film version) and starring Bruce Willis as Paul and Laurie Metcalf as Annie, premiered on Broadway in 2015 and closed early the following year.
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Misery / int_10d8aa14	type	Fan Dumb
Misery / int_10d8aa14	comment	Fan Dumb: A very mixed in-universe example. Annie was extremely pissed when she found out about the new book Paul was writing, Fast Cars, which was (in short) about a guy who stole cars. Essentially she was saying, "How dare you write anything but what I want you to write!!!" This is also emphasized later on when she tries to save the burning script she screams: "My Misery!" However, there are some aversions, particularly where she tears down Paul's Cliffhanger Copout in the first draft of Misery's Return, and also when Paul realizes that Fast Cars really was kind of pretentious, while Misery's Return might be the best thing he's ever written.
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Misery / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
Misery / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-Universe example. Annie notes that the opening chapters of Misery's Return are quite gruesome and unlike the other Misery books. Paul thinks to himself: "The man who wrote these pages was in a rather gruesome frame of mind, my dear."
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Misery / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Misery / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: When Paul reads Annie's collection of newspaper clippings (called 'Memory Lane') he sees that she was "startlingly pretty" when she was young.
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Misery / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Misery / int_127fc252	comment	Recognize that guy on the cover of ''Misery's Return''?
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Misery / int_1392fbe7	type	Drunk Driver
Misery / int_1392fbe7	comment	Drunk Driver: Paul at the start of the novel, which contributes to his accident. Omitted in the film, where he loses control of his car after taking one hand off the wheel to keep his manuscript from sliding to the floor.
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Misery / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Misery / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Annie's death could be considered this. Paul throws the typewriter at her, then starts choking her with the burning "manuscript" (which of course burns her). She looks dead for a moment, then gets back up, and then trips over the typewriter and hits her head. Then she gets up again (Paul has locked himself inside her bathroom at this point) and crawls to the barn to get her chainsaw... and finally, she dies. Phew. Ironically, the typewriter hitting her head gave her a brain hemorrhage and that's what killed her in the first place.
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Misery / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Misery / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Paul's new novel Fast Cars, about a car thief, was this in comparison to the Misery series. Annie hates it because it's not Misery, while Paul later realizes it was Emo Teen-style pretentious. Both Annie and, later, Paul's publisher comment that Misery's Return is far darker than the usual Misery romance novel fluff he usually wrote. To his publisher, Paul replies that he wasn't in the best of moods when he wrote it.
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Misery / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Misery / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The novel is a parable for writing. For example, the amputation of body parts are analogous to the author having to cut parts of a book they like. In On Writing, King notes that Annie Wilkes is a metaphor for his drug addiction. "Annie was (drugs and booze) and I was tired of being Annie's pet writer." With, of course, the dependence and isolation and exhaustion that go with addiction.
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Misery / int_151c53e2	type	Creator's Pest
Misery / int_151c53e2	comment	Creator's Pest: In-Universe; Paul dislikes Misery, and was thrilled to be able to kill her off.
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Misery / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Misery / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: By having to rewrite the Misery Chastain series effectively at gunpoint, Paul changes the series from pulpy romantic adventures to a Gothic romance full of dark family secrets. This proves a very good thing, not just because it keeps him alive, but also because it gives him a chance to explore a character he didn't like before and take her in a new direction. He eventually comes to think this new book is the best one he has ever written.
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Misery / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Misery / int_1869b4b1	comment	The Roydmans, Annie's oft-mentioned but never seen neighbors, whom she detests (and vice-versa, apparently).note If Annie can be believed on that point, that is. She's not the most reliable narrator.
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Misery / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Misery / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Annie in spades. She lies, cheats, misleads, kidnaps, tortures, and murders just to get another part of her favorite book series made, while showing no signs of regret or even considering any of her actions as bad things.
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Misery / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Misery / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: In the film, Annie has a much less threatening appearance than in the book, and is portrayed by the relatively unknown (at the time) Kathy Bates, thus giving the impression of being a common woman in her forties. The effect is unsettling.
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Misery / int_19d8d325	type	Darkest Africa
Misery / int_19d8d325	comment	Darkest Africa: Half of Misery's Return is set there.
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Misery / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Misery / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: J. T. Walsh appears as the Colorado Police Chief in the film.
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Misery / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Misery / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Paul's daughter in the movie. Annie's mom, a great influence in the story despite being dead for who knows how long before it. The Roydmans, Annie's oft-mentioned but never seen neighbors, whom she detests (and vice-versa, apparently).note If Annie can be believed on that point, that is. She's not the most reliable narrator. Ralph Dugan, Annie's ex-husband who, by all accounts, got as far away from Annie as he could after leaving her. Smart man.
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Misery / int_1c7987a	type	Newspaper Backstory
Misery / int_1c7987a	comment	Newspaper Backstory: Paul realizes just who he's dealing with when he finds a scrapbook filled with clippings showing that Annie had been charged numerous times for infanticide while she was a nurse. Many of them have normal obits which seem out of place â€“ until Paul cottons to the fact that while everyone thought they were natural deaths, Annie knew they were people she'd murdered.
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Misery / int_1dcc7916	type	Forced Creativity
Misery / int_1dcc7916	comment	Forced Creativity: Paul Sheldon is held captive by his "number one fan," Annie Wilkes. When Annie discovers that Paul's latest book kills her favorite character, she forces Paul to write an all new book just for her.
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Misery / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Misery / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: In the book, Annie killed a young deputy. In the film, Annie shot the sheriff, but she did not shoot the deputy. Why does Annie kidnap Paul? Because MISERY loves company. Those patients? Annie thought she was putting them out of their MISERY. Considering the psychosis (i.e. the actual cause of the deaths) and her possessive desire of the title character, she was putting them out of HER MISERY.
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Misery / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Misery / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Annie cuts off Paul's thumb, and uses it as a candle in a cake.
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Misery / int_1f9e2c21	type	Surprisingly Improved Sequel
Misery / int_1f9e2c21	comment	Surprisingly Improved Sequel: In-Universe. Misery's Return is a brutal chore for Paul, who has to write in under the watchful eye of a lunatic. But over time, he finds it to be the best book he's ever written.
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Misery / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Misery / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Annie Wilkes, though specifically in the movie.
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Misery / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Misery / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Annie seems to think she's in a romance novel.
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Misery / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
Misery / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Buster, the amiable local sheriff who figures the puzzle out. He only appears in the movie.
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Misery / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Misery / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Sheriff Buster's surname is McCain.
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Misery / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
Misery / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: When Annie sinks into a depressive state, she engages in self-harm.
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Misery / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Misery / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fangirl: What Annie Wilkes thinks she is...
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Misery / int_269c2c35	type	TechMarchesOn
Misery / int_269c2c35	comment	Tech Marches On: Noted by Paul; Annie buys a typewriter for him because for the time period, computers were less common in stores, and they're harder to set up. With the typewriter, you just need paper, ribbons, and any key that falls out. Paul is writing on a computer after he escapes, because it's much more convenient and you can't burn digital documents. Plus, he used said typewriter to murder Annie.
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Misery / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Misery / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When Annie is talking to Paul about her "good news and bad news," she mentions a hitchhiker who was sketching pictures of an old hotel whose caretaker had gone crazy and burned it down. "Famous old hotel called the Overlook." When he was a kid, Paul lived across the street from the Kaspbraks
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Misery / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
Misery / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: Paul finds himself forced to burn Fast Cars by Annie, who gloats that she knows he never keeps backups. In the climax, he safely stashes away the only copy of Misery's Return while burning the title page and a bunch of blank pages. When Annie takes the bait, he starts whacking her with the typewriter and force-feeding her burning paper. Come the end of the story, he's writing on a computer, which does allow for backups.
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Misery / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Misery / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: One of the reasons why Kathy Bates's Annie garnered such wide critical praise. Even with the movie muted, just her expressions capture the essence of Annie's bipolar nature with frightening accuracy, swinging from a flattened affect during her depressive episodes to crazed levels of animated when she's manic.
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Misery / int_2a491c3c	type	Trust Me, I'm an X
Misery / int_2a491c3c	comment	Trust Me, I'm an X: In the novel when Annie is about to cut off Paul's foot to punish him, she says: "Don't worry. I'm a trained nurse." She is, but that doesn't make it much better.
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Misery / int_2b3937ef	type	Our Hero Is Dead
Misery / int_2b3937ef	comment	Paul finding out Annie is reading the latest book and knowing she's not going to like how it ends.
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Misery / int_2b7ae239	type	Forced Euthanasia
Misery / int_2b7ae239	comment	Forced Euthanasia: Downplayed due to Annie's clear insanity. She had started off "mercy-killing" people when she worked as a nurse to take people out of their "poor, unfortunate" circumstances. It's clear that, due to her God complex, "they were all poor unfortunate souls."
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Misery / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Misery / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Annie is murderously insane. Bonus points for actually using an axe on Paul at one point.
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Misery / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Misery / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Annie is a repugnant psychopath, but she displays a surprisingly insightful attitude toward literary conventions. With her (very undesired) help, Paul manages to turn Misery from a shallow beauty to a surprisingly deep character.
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Misery / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
Misery / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: The police arrive just after Paul kills Annie.
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Misery / int_2edf787f	type	Significant Birth Date
Misery / int_2edf787f	comment	Significant Birth Date: Annie was born on April 1 (April Fools' Day), 1943.
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Misery / int_312c2b80	type	One-Paragraph Chapter
Misery / int_312c2b80	comment	One-Paragraph Chapter: Exaggerated, as they only contain one word: "Rinse."
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Misery / int_31ae6183	type	Got Me Doing It
Misery / int_31ae6183	comment	Got Me Doing It: Over the course of the story (more so the book, rather than the movie), Paul picks up on Annie's verbal tics, and odd terminologies. Namely, "cockadoodie".
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Misery / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
Misery / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Ralph Dugan Annie's husband, in the wedding clipping Paul finds when looking at Annie's scrapbook bears an uncanny resemblance to Annie's father.
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Misery / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Misery / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Annie, in the movie.
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Misery / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Misery / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: When Paul begins typing on his new typewriter, only one word comes to mind.
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Misery / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Misery / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Annie sort of counts. For instance, in the film she serves Paul her homemade meatloaf:
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Misery / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Misery / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: In the film version, Paul does this to Annie through a window after assorted traumas. She thinks he's joking around with her.
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Misery / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Misery / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: "I'M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU LYING COCKSUCKER!!!"
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Misery / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Misery / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Confined to a wheelchair, Paul is completely at Annie's mercy as long as she keeps her distance and plans her attacks carefully. Paul knew that setting the manuscript on fire would make her panic, make her desperate to save it, make her forget to be careful...and suddenly she's within reach and the advantage shifts to him.
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Misery / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Misery / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Of a sort; more like a Creator Allusion, if you will. When Annie first brings Paul the vintage Royal typewriter, he reflects that it came from a time "when there were no alloys, no plasticsâ€¦also no six-figure book advances, no movie tie-in editions, no USA Today, no Entertainment Tonight, no celebrities doing ads for credit cards or vodka." Check this out.
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Misery / int_39d7954e	type	The Caretaker
Misery / int_39d7954e	comment	The Caretaker: The whole reason for this plot is because Annie Wilkes decided to take it upon herself to be this for Paul rather than calling 911 or taking him to the hospital herself. It does not go well.
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Misery / int_39de664a	type	Mad Doctor
Misery / int_39de664a	comment	Mad Doctor: Even before Paul finds out about her sordid history as a nurse, Annie serves this role to Paul himself. She positions herself as his caretaker while blithely mutilating him to prevent his escape, and uses his injuries as an excuse to get him addicted to painkillers as another method of control.
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Misery / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
Misery / int_3dfdc686	comment	Time-Passes Montage: In one montage, Paul is seen typewriting by the window with different clothes. His injuries are getting better too.
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Misery / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Misery / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: In a way. The film's tagline was even "This Christmas there will be Misery".
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Misery / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Misery / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Invoked by Paul when she demands to know why Misery died. He points out that in the 1800s, there was less medical expertise to save women from childbirth and it was quite common. The police end up pegging Annie as someone who knows about Paul's disappearance when a deputy goes missing after he visits her house. They seem to find nothing wrong, and Paul doesn't dare call for help after what Annie did to the deputy, but they are not stupid. The two get a search warrant for her house and more manpower before returning, just as Paul has killed Annie. In the movie this is the reason why Annie plans to kill Paul after she murders the sheriff: it will only be a matter of time before the police find her. While technically Annie did get away with the murders, she's still effectively a pariah simply by association.
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Misery / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Misery / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Annie's early murders were set up this way: her very first murders were of a group of kids she babysat, who she killed by burning down the apartment building they shared and making it look like a bum did it. Later she murdered both her father and her college roommate with a variant of this method; she put something on a flight of stairs so they would stumble and fall. With her father, she used a pile of clothes, with the roommate, the corpse of their cat, whom she poisoned.
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Misery / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Misery / int_3fca462c	comment	Paul concedes that some of Annie's criticism of his writing is actually quite perceptive; he especially finds her points about Deus Ex Machinas and Cliffhanger Copouts being bad to be spot on, and eventually come to agree with her assessment that Fast Cars was pretentious.
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Misery / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Misery / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The originally planned ending for the in-universe series. Misery dies during childbirth, but leaves her sterile husband Ian a healthy baby boy to raise through Geoffrey. For Paul however, when he writes about how Misery pops her clogs, he doesn't see the bitter side of it. The actual ending of the book. Paul underwent incredible suffering and will be handicapped for the rest of his life, but at least he got his wish to write something fresh (though it was Misery as a Gothic romance and character study rather than the gritty crime thriller he planned) and he admits it's the best thing he's ever written. He also starts writing again, without needing Annie breathing down his neck and threatening him.
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Misery / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Misery / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Paul's first attempt at Misery's Return is this. Later, as he becomes more attached to the story, it's not quite sucky, per se, but it's quite distinguishable from King's usual style.
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Misery / int_42a055ac	type	Happy Place
Misery / int_42a055ac	comment	Happy Place: Annie's "laughing place", where she goes to visit when her depression is at its worst.
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Misery / int_46577c9c	type	Sentimental Sacrifice
Misery / int_46577c9c	comment	Sentimental Sacrifice: Annie forces Paul to destroy his beloved manuscript of Fast Cars because she hates the swearing. It's either that or she kills him. Paul pays her back by burning the book he was writing for her, Misery's Return. However, she manages to save it before he kills her. Played with, though, in that he isn't a big fan of it until it becomes a huge bestseller.
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Misery / int_46d47e5	type	Eye Poke
Misery / int_46d47e5	comment	Eye Poke: During his struggle with Annie, Paul fingers her eyes until they start bleeding.
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Misery / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Misery / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Annie's first victims were kids she babysat. Later she began killing newborns at the hospital where she worked.
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Misery / int_4843f922	type	Dragon Lady
Misery / int_4843f922	comment	Dragon Lady: Namedropped but averted. As Paul discovers, Annie was given this title by the Colorado press during her trial for her misdeeds as Boulder's head maternity nurse. This isn't because of any reference to the traditional trope on Annie's part however (she's a large and unattractive Caucasian woman), but rather because of her stony remorselessness throughout the trial, even casually reading one of the Misery novels as she waited for the verdict.
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Misery / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
Misery / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: When he manages to escape from the bedroom, Paul finds a scrapbook kept by Annie where she reveals that she murdered her father, her college roommate, and multiple babies at the hospital where she worked prior to holding Paul captive and killing a police officer to hide him, and has not been caught.
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Misery / int_48d94bb8	type	Creator Backlash
Misery / int_48d94bb8	comment	Creator Backlash: Invoked. Paul really hates Misery, and quite happily kills her off. He'd also become so disgusted with having to write about her so much that he penned a short story about Misery having sex with her love interest's dog and circulated it among his friends.
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Misery / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Misery / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Paul Sheldon is the author of a best-selling series of Victorian-era romance novels surrounding the heroine character Misery Chastain. This trope is the premise of the entire plot. Though he's kept from being a pure Author Avatar by suffering from Schedule Slip, quite different from the famously prolific King.
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Misery / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
Misery / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: Annie can be pleasant one minute and angry the next. Fridge Brilliance: invoked by Stephen King in his memoir On Writing. He subscribes to the Show, Don't Tell school of work, and does not spell out that Annie is manic-depressive, preferring that readers work it out for themselves.
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Misery / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
Misery / int_4d1b485d	comment	Dedication: Paul dedicates the manuscript of Misery's Return to Annie.
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Misery / int_4d8ff0c	type	Snowed-In
Misery / int_4d8ff0c	comment	Snowed-In: Annie insists they can't leave her cabin due to the terrible weather inside and all the roads being covered in deep snow. This works initially, since Paul crashed during a snowstorm and the weather really is awful, but eventually the claim becomes a blatant lie as he figures he's been kidnapped.
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Misery / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Misery / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Paul hits Annie in the head with a typewriter, shortly after feeding her some burning papers. In the movie, she is killed with a pig doorstop.
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Misery / int_4dec4b64	type	Cliffhanger Copout
Misery / int_4dec4b64	comment	Cliffhanger Copout: Annie accuses Paul of this, when he first attempts to revive Misery by simply rewriting the end of the last book so that she never died.note Paul is less-than-pleased with himself when he realizes that Annie is right, he did cheat in his first attempt to bring Misery back from the dead She brings up an example of her favorite childhood serial Rocket Man. In one episode, the Rocket Man was locked into his car, which then fell off a cliff and exploded. The next episode showed the Rocket Man jumping out of his car in the last minute, which made Annie extremely angry, because "This isn't what happened last week! Have you all got amnesia? They just cheated us! This isn't fair! He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car!"
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Misery / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Misery / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The original ending. It was to fade in on Annie's cabin and find a shrine bearing the only copy of Misery's Return... bound in the skin of one Paul Sheldon. Misery the pig would have eaten the rest of him. Ulimately averted when Stephen King found Paul to be a more resourceful character than he anticipated.
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Misery / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Misery / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The novel is truly nauseating in describing the damage to Paul's legs: multiple compound fractures that require numerous re-breakings to heal anywhere close to properly. This was thankfully toned down to three simple fractures in the film. The "hobbling" scene in the film also counts - it's a lot less destructive than what's in the book, but actually seeing a human's foot get mangled like that is horrifying.
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Misery / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
Misery / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: When Paul finds himself starting to write a new novel at the end, after everything he's been through, he starts to weep with joy.
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Misery / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Misery / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: This is Annie's M.O., and it's Played for Drama. Any little thing can set her off, as Paul finds out the hard way. She finds out he wrote a breather manuscript and killed Misery; her response is to make him burn Fast Cars, the only copy, and write a Retcon where Misery is brought back, fairly.
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Misery / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Misery / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Annie is insane, but she is not stupid. Annie discovers that Paul has managed to get out of the locked bedroom after taping hairs from her own head over objects in the house and leaving for a while, and coming back later to find them broken. The crazy part? She did this everywhere in the house, including upstairs and in the shed out back, places it would have been almost impossible for Paul to get in his injured state. Then there is the alibi Annie explains to Paul after she kills the young state trooper: she'll take an empty Pepsi bottle and press the trooper's fingers on it, then toss it in a ditch a few miles up the road, and mention to any cops that come by that she did speak with the trooper, and she gave him a Pepsi for the road because it was hot that day.
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Misery / int_5210ddf9	type	TropesAreTools
Misery / int_5210ddf9	comment	Tropes Are Tools: In-Universe, Paul has grown weary of his own book series, seeing it as a shallow romance. But with Annie's (extremely unwanted) advice, Paul manages to make Misery a genuinely deep and fantastic story.
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Misery / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Misery / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Annie is a strange case. She went to higher education, obtained a nursing degree, and has worked in hospitals across the country, so when it comes to medicine and triage she is very knowledgeable. She also has a few areas of practical knowledge to call upon, things a woman living alone in the mountains would need to know, such as carpentry and home maintenance (and self-defense, as Paul finds when she informs him that she took judo classes). But in most other areas, particularly areas of culture, Annie is shockingly ignorant, being unaware of basic writing tropes such as the Deus ex Machina which even most non-writers are familiar with (though as Paul comes to understand, she understands the concept in everything but name).
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Misery / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Misery / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: In the beginning, Paul has just finished writing a book. According to his custom, he drinks a glass of champagne. In the end, Paul has just finished writing another book. Annie brings him a champagne bottle and a glass. Paul asks her to bring a second glass.
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Misery / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Misery / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Annie Wilkes is very cordial when she isn't throwing a fit, but her madness makes it hard to guess if it's genuine, fake or even both.
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Misery / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Misery / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Kathy Bates is a Big Beautiful Woman and her Annie was clean and well-groomed, a far cry from how Annie was in the novel: a huge blob of a woman who dressed dumpily and stank of dirt, half-spoiled food, and cheap makeup. This serves to make Annie a more sinister character in the film, as she outwardly appears to be a perfectly normal person.
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Misery / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Misery / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Subverted and zigzagged in the film: at first the sheriff, Buster, seems to be just a rustic old man warming a chair, but he turns out to be quite competent and thorough despite a bickering deputy who doubles as his wife. In the end he is nonetheless taken by surprise and murdered by Annie, though not in vain. Justified and averted in the novel. The first cop who comes out to talk to Annie is young, rather inexperienced, and alone, and was sent out on a shit detail to look for some numbnuts author who most likely wrecked his car in the snowstorm before wandering off into the woods to die. However, when he doesn't report back in (because Annie killed him when Paul got his attention by breaking the bedroom window), the cops not only send out a more experienced cop â€“ they send two of them. However, Paul weighs his chances and decides not to try alerting the pair, as there is still an outside chance that Annie might be able to kill both of them as well. These cops are not stupid, however. Sensing all is not right, they obtain a search warrant for Annie's house, and successfully break in when Paul kills Annie and calls for help.
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Misery / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Misery / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The movie forgoes any of the new novel and the analogies to writing. Paul's ankles are also crushed, instead of his foot cut off; his thumb remains happily on his hand, and Paul's addiction to his pain medication is left out. In the novel, it's pretty clear right off the bat that Annie is certifiably insane. From the moment Paul regains consciousness he is able to assess that Annie is mentally unstable. However, in the film, Annie is originally played off as a kind and hospitable person, albeit a bit eccentric. The audience and Paul don't realize just how deeply disturbed she is until later in the movie. Another example is how in the novel, Annie makes no attempt to hide why she hasn't brought him to a hospital given the nigh immediate reveal of her insanity. In the movie, she claims to be keeping him in her home temporarily due to the roads being shut off from the storm. The addition of Sheriff Buster adds some much appreciated comic relief to what could be a hopelessly grim story, plus pulling a nasty Bait-and-Switch on the audience as we start to think Paul only has to hang on long enough for Buster to find him, only for Buster to be immediately killed by Annie, similar to the previous King adaptation The Shining.
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Misery / int_5caef4ca	type	Chainsaw Good
Misery / int_5caef4ca	comment	Chainsaw Good: Annie kills a deputy with a lawnmower, and grabs a chainsaw to attack Paul with before succumbing to her own wounds.
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Misery / int_5d5fb8e2	type	Clueless Deputy
Misery / int_5d5fb8e2	comment	Subverted and zigzagged in the film: at first the sheriff, Buster, seems to be just a rustic old man warming a chair, but he turns out to be quite competent and thorough despite a bickering deputy who doubles as his wife. In the end he is nonetheless taken by surprise and murdered by Annie, though not in vain.
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Misery / int_5f9d7299	type	EnfanteTerrible
Misery / int_5f9d7299	comment	Enfante Terrible: Annie. In the book, during her anger at the Cliffhanger Copout, she notes she kept screaming over and over, even though the audience didn't care and accepted it with a Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and had to be carried out as she kept it up as a Madness Mantra, hinting even as a kid she wasn't all there. And it didn't stop there — see Serial Killer below. She also killed most of her babysitting charges, their father (unintentionally), and her own father (intentionally) when she was still young.
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Misery / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Misery / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: A rare, non-comic version of this. When Annie gets into her 'moods', she basically binges like crazy.
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Misery / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Misery / int_603f1a80	comment	While Paul is nowhere close to unsympathetic in the novel, the film takes strides to show that he's a Nice Guy before being captured by Annie, making his ordeal even more horrific.
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Misery / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Misery / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: In the book, a young cop is sent out to ask area residents if they have information about the missing Paul Sheldon. When Paul sees him he throws the ashtray though the window to try to get his attention, but Annie attacks him with a sharpened wooden cross immediately afterwards, then runs him over with her lawnmower and disposes of the body. Paul already knew Annie had killed before but this shows him that she is definitely playing for keeps.
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Misery / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Misery / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Sheriff Buster in the movie version. He spends most of the movie investigating Paul's disappearance and eventually arrives at Annie's house to question her, only to get shot to death by Annie when Paul manages to get his attention.
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Misery / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Misery / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A particularly negative example. Annie is defined by her lunacy and childish behavior, but she is a very competent nurse and provides Paul with insights into making Misery a better character.
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Misery / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
Misery / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: Annie, to the point where she holds her favorite author hostage.
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Misery / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Misery / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Most of the plot is restricted to the room Paul is locked in. The film crew was even expressing delight once they finally left the bedroom set to shoot scenes in the hallway!
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Misery / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Misery / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the movie, during the scrapbook scene, pause whenever any of the news articles are visible. Most consist of only one or two paragraphs that are continuously repeated. Recognize that guy on the cover of ''Misery's Return''?
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Misery / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Misery / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: What makes Annie Wilkes so terrifying is that there is often no way to know what will set her off. When she comes into Paul's room and finds that he has managed to get from his bed to his chair without her help, she is infuriated, apparently just because it lessens his dependence on her.
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Misery / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Misery / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: When Paul starts writing about the kid with the skunk, he starts crying, essentially telling himself, "Yes, I can write!"
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Misery / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Misery / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Paul dislikes using a word processor to write; to this day so does Stephen King, much preferring a typewriter or writing out his books by hand.
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Misery / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Misery / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Stephen King has revealed that the book is a metaphor for his struggles as a writer, with Paul representing him and Annie his struggles with cocaine addiction.
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Misery / int_66e48100	type	The Kindnapper
Misery / int_66e48100	comment	The Kindnapper: Annie Wilkes, who, upon finding Paul Sheldon, the protagonist and her favorite author, at the scene of a car accident, decides to take him home with her rather than at least attempt to call the hospital or for other emergency help. She's figured that since she's a trained nurse, she could take care of Paul herself! And she loves him, so surely he'll love her, too, once he gets to know her...
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Misery / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
Misery / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: Annie has a cheery facade, uses ridiculous childish expressions like "cockadoodie," and has a retreat somewhere up the mountain she calls her "laughing place"... where she hides the body of a state trooper she murdered with a lawnmower.note Kathy Bates was extremely disappointed the script cut that scene from the book.
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Misery / int_6d0a1b85	type	The Shut-In
Misery / int_6d0a1b85	comment	The Shut-In: Except to purchase food (and the next copy of Misery's romantic escapades, of course), Annie rarely if ever leaves her secluded cabin.
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Misery / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Misery / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: Inverted. Being left by her husband Ralph Dugan had this effect on Annie, but instead of having a Heel Realization she just plunged fully into psychosis. Before this she'd restrained herself to just killing the old and sick, but after this she accepted a maternity position and started killing babies.
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Misery / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Misery / int_7040b6bc	comment	Both Annie and, later, Paul's publisher comment that Misery's Return is far darker than the usual Misery romance novel fluff he usually wrote. To his publisher, Paul replies that he wasn't in the best of moods when he wrote it.
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Misery / int_70506bc7	type	Going Cold Turkey
Misery / int_70506bc7	comment	Going Cold Turkey: A side effect of Paul's captivity. Before crossing paths with Annie, Paul had a fairly debauched lifestyle, replete with smoking, bar-hopping and sleeping around with random women, all of which he is forcibly made to give up. Though he hates it, he does note that becoming "Mr. Clean" has had a positive experience on his writing. To add to the irony, he becomes addicted to painkillers.
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Misery / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Misery / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: In the book, Paul comes to think of Annie as the Angel of Death, fearing her with an almost religious terror and ascribing to her supernatural qualities. Even after she's dead, a part of her survives in the fear she hammered into Paul.
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Misery / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Misery / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Paul concedes that some of Annie's criticism of his writing is actually quite perceptive; he especially finds her points about Deus Ex Machinas and Cliffhanger Copouts being bad to be spot on, and eventually come to agree with her assessment that Fast Cars was pretentious. Paul surmises that he can't fault Annie for just being hurt by Misery's death, reflecting that rousing such a response in a reader is the goal of any author, and remembering feeling grief-stricken by the death of Garp's son Walt in The World According to Garp.
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Misery / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Misery / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Annie in the novel, with her usage of the N-word to refer to the character Hezekiah in Paul's Misery series. In the movie, she refers to "that Dago" who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Misery / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Misery / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Annie Wilkes murdered her father, college roommate, and more than thirty patients as a nurse, with a total of thirty-nine victims by the time Paul views her scrapbook. She got away with it because they were usually old and very sick, and thus everyone expected them to die. Her crimes only started to raise suspicion when she was transferred to the nursery ward and started murdering healthy infants. Made even more creepier when the reader learns that Annie committed her first murders when she was all of 11 years old.
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Misery / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Misery / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Buster. Without access to any forensic and just connecting dozens of unrelated clues, he tracks down Paul's whereabouts. Unfortunately, he is killed for his trouble right after showing up. And he does that mostly as a hobby, since the case is considered closed.
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Misery / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Misery / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Can You? Africa goddess So vivid! "Now I must rinse..." "Now My Tale is Told"
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Misery / int_751fa24e	type	Missing Time
Misery / int_751fa24e	comment	Missing Time: An aspect of Annie which is largely absent from the film. Several times throughout the book, she trails off in the middle of speaking, going silent for seconds or even minutes before continuing like nothing happened. Paul realizes how bad she has this when she tells him she has been a nurse for ten years (having read her scrapbook by this time, Paul knows she has actually been a nurse for upwards of twenty years, meaning she has lost entire years of her life to these stupors). Later when she is about to cut off his foot, Paul sees that she has slipped into one of these "blank states" again, and realizes that she blanks out every time she hurts or murders someone — which, as her scrapbook has already informed him, she does quite a bit. The film only vaguely alludes to this, with Annie mentioning that her thinking is sometimes muddy, and that she couldn't always remember the incidents they asked her about while on the witness stand in Denver.
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Misery / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
Misery / int_75979171	comment	Paul even wonders if Annie might have a point about the townsfolk being out to get her after she's served papers for missing a quarterly tax payment. Knowing that many people are several years behind on their taxes and are never threatened, Paul suspects that threatening Annie over a single missed payment might be the town's way of trying to force her off her land.
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Misery / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Misery / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Annie killed her father when she was 14, by putting a heap of clothes on the stairs so he'd fall off.
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Misery / int_787c6068	type	My Significance Sense Is Tingling
Misery / int_787c6068	comment	My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Mad she may be, but Annie is quite self-aware and has an uncanny sense of when Paul is lying to her.
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Misery / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Misery / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: In the general store, VHS tapes of Roots and When Harry Met Sally... can be seen. Richard Farnsworth (Buster) appeared in Roots while When Harry Met Sally was Rob Reiner's previous film. Interestingly, Billy Crystal's character is seen reading Misery in that film.
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Misery / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
Misery / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Annie. In the book, Paul realizes that she views other people as "dirty bird" or "poor things" that are better off dead. In the film, a scene shows her depressed because she sees life without Paul meaningless.
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Misery / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Misery / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: There's a reason why Kathy Bates is nowadays best known as Annie Wilkes in the movie.
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Misery / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Misery / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Annie is more friendly and cordial to Paul than she was in the book, even after reading Misery's Child. Her more heinous acts against him, such as cutting off his thumb and forcing him to drink soapy water, are also left out. While Paul is nowhere close to unsympathetic in the novel, the film takes strides to show that he's a Nice Guy before being captured by Annie, making his ordeal even more horrific.
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Misery / int_83743fe3	type	Mary Sue
Misery / int_83743fe3	comment	Mary Sue: Misery is an in-universe example. Paul is all too aware of this, and that is why he hates her.
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Misery / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
Misery / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: In the Misery books, best friends Ian Carmichael and Geoffrey Alliburton are both in love with Misery Chastain. She eventually marries Ian, but when she finds out that he can't have children, she secretly sleeps with Geoffrey. This is portrayed positively: "far from having a clandestine affair behind the back of the man they both loved, [they] were giving him the greatest gift they couldÂ â€” a child he would believe to be his own".
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Misery / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Misery / int_8797239c	comment	The addition of Sheriff Buster adds some much appreciated comic relief to what could be a hopelessly grim story, plus pulling a nasty Bait-and-Switch on the audience as we start to think Paul only has to hang on long enough for Buster to find him, only for Buster to be immediately killed by Annie, similar to the previous King adaptation The Shining.
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Misery / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
Misery / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: Towards the end, Annie plans on killing Paul and herself.
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Misery / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Misery / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Of a psychological version rather than physically.
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Misery / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Misery / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: The whole reason why Misery's Return started to be written.
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Misery / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Misery / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Played with. Following Paul's attack on Annie, it's all he can do but keep her pinned to the ground while making her choke on handfuls of burning paper. This makes him briefly think of a rape scene. However, in a twist, Paul embraces the idea when he thinks of all the terrible things she subjected him to, believing it to be proper retribution for everything she'd done.
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Misery / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Misery / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When it looks as if Paul is saved when a state trooper shows up, Annie stabs the guy with a gravemarker in the chest, in the groin, and in the butt among other places... and when it turns out he's still alive, she runs him over with a riding lawnmower.
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Misery / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Misery / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: In most of the book, there are only two characters: Paul and Annie.
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Misery / int_8ea2f1bf	type	Cruella to Animals
Misery / int_8ea2f1bf	comment	Cruella to Animals: Annie once poisoned a cat, and used the body to murder a roommate.
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Misery / int_8f7e610d	type	Autocannibalism
Misery / int_8f7e610d	comment	Autocannibalism: Annie cuts off Paul's thumb, uses it as a candle on a birthday cake, and threatens to make him eat it.
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Misery / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Misery / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Annie is seemingly remorseful when she chops off Paul's foot, and he nearly dies from blood loss. She treats the area and is gentle with him. It doesn't last, and the next time they have a disagreement, she chops off his thumb.
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Misery / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Misery / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Annie is killed by Paul's typewriter after being choked by writing paper.
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Misery / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Misery / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: After being forced to burn the book he wanted to publish, Paul gets back at Annie by burning the book she wanted to be the only one to read (with Paul deciding to publish it after getting out), although, in the written version, he just set fire to some paper with the cover on it. What's more, in the ensuing fight in the movie, Paul hits her with the typewriter he was forced to write the book on, shoves the burnt pages into her mouth and trips her with one of his broken legs, causing her to trip and faceplant onto the typewriter.
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Misery / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Misery / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Paul does this in the book: Just tell Annie that a stack of blank papers are the novel, and burn them, and after she dies, publish Misery's Return.
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Misery / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Misery / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Annie, though pretty unhinged by this point anyway, completely goes off the deep end when Paul burns the novel in revenge. She finally blasts out an undiluted swear in a screaming rage and attacks him. After Paul actually dishes it back hard and good, she's left more or less just screaming and roaring at him like a frustrated animal.
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Misery / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Misery / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: The idea of someone who is twisted enough to hold their favorite author hostage and put them through what is essentially torture in order to get the book they want yet refuses to use actual swear words nine times out of ten.
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Misery / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Misery / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Annie uses one to shoot Sheriff Buster in the film.
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Misery / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Misery / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Annie Wilkes is a Loony Fan of Paul Sheldon who imprisons him when he kills off her favorite character to force him to bring her back to life.
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Misery / int_974c2890	type	I'm Your Biggest Fan
Misery / int_974c2890	comment	I'm Your Biggest Fan: One of the most well-known examples in fiction.
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Misery / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
Misery / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: Invoked. Why Paul puts up with writing the torrid rag of a Victorian airhead whom he has grown to hate for so long: to put braces on his daughter's teeth and put her through private school and college, of course. Played with in that he later realizes, with Annie's "help", that his motivations for writing his dream novel ("Awards and Self-Elevation, Dear Boy!") aren't much better.
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Misery / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Misery / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Paul soon realizes there's a reason Annie's isolated from the world.
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Misery / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Misery / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: In the book, Paul finds out Annie hasn't completed reading the latest edition of Misery. He knows how it ends, and knows Annie won't take it well. He's right.
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Misery / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Misery / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Subverted! After Paul is found by the police, they tell him that Annie's body is not in the bedroom where he left it, and the window was open. The book then jumps forward in a time skip, and it is explained that eventually they did find Annie, who only made it as far as the barn before succumbing to her wounds. He still has nightmares about her, and at one point at the end, hallucinates her jumping up from behind the couch in his darkened apartment, brandishing an axe. In the film version, Paul is speaking to his agent about his confinement and, as with the book, ends up hallucinating Annie coldly walking towards him, brandishing a butcher's knife. It's just a waitress bringing his dinner, who cheerfully tells him that she's his biggest fan. Not surprisingly, Paul comes across as a bit nervous about this.
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Misery / int_9eac6c0a	type	Housepet Pig
Misery / int_9eac6c0a	comment	Housepet Pig: Annie Wilkes has a pet pig. Being that she is such a huge fan of Paul Sheldon's In-Universe Misery novels, it comes as no surprise that she named the pig "Misery."
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Misery / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Misery / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Women Love Their Mamas: She keeps a framed portrait of her mother in her parlor and in the book, says that her mother was the only person to stick up for her.
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Misery / int_a066edd8	type	Saved by the Fans
Misery / int_a066edd8	comment	Saved by the Fans: Misery herself. In-universe. Annie forces Paul to rewrite her death.
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Misery / int_a0ee1da5	type	Kitsch Collection
Misery / int_a0ee1da5	comment	Kitsch Collection: Annie's. She realizes Paul has been secretly exploring the house when he accidentally moves a porcelain penguin.
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Misery / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Misery / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Paul is mentioned as being always friendly to the staff at the hotel and never bothering anyone. In the novel, he gives the waiter who brings him his champagne a fifty dollar tip.
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Misery / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Misery / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Misery Chastain, and Paul's own misery.
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Misery / int_a4b3fe1c	type	Twisted Echo Cut
Misery / int_a4b3fe1c	comment	Twisted Echo Cut: Chapter 6 of part 1 switches between Paul's thoughts and Annie's chattering, paragraph by paragraph.
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Misery / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Misery / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Annie spouting phrases like "kaka-poopie-doopie!" in the middle of her "moods" is either utterly terrifying or darkly hilarious.
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Misery / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Misery / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: Paul very heavily downplays this: after seeing her moments of genuine sympathy, he does lament that Annie didn't come out well...but he makes it clear none of her moments of kindness make up for the hell Annie's put him through.
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Misery / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Misery / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: In the climax, Paul fights and knocks out Annie, a psychopathic murderer (not to mention in the midst of a Villainous Breakdown) and chokes her with the remains of her own book, after already having his legs shattered and arm shot. It helps that he's been using the typewriter as a makeshift free weight to build up his arm strength.
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Misery / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
Misery / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: Paul's agent pitches him the idea of writing a non-fiction book regarding his experience; Paul elegantly disregards it as a cheap shenanigan. In the book Paul's reason for refusing to write the story is a little more nuanced — he knows he could write the story his agent wants, and that it would probably sell very well, but if he did it it would be tantamount to admitting he could never write again. He would be admitting that he needs Annie. As Paul puts it:
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Misery / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Misery / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: In-Universe, Paul's publisher begs him to write a non-fiction book about his dealing with Annie. Paul demurs.
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Misery / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Misery / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Paul tries it, but Annie accidentally knocks the glass over.
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Misery / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Misery / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Annie's obsession with Misery clouds her judgment and makes it easy for Paul to manipulate her.
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Misery / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Misery / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: A great example in the film: Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" (performed by Liberace) plays while Annie breaks Paul's feet.
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Misery / int_ac5f0c82	type	Cloudcuckoolanguage
Misery / int_ac5f0c82	comment	Cloudcuckoolanguage: Annie swears very colorfully, using expressions like "You cockadoodie dirty birdie" and "I don't care if you're John Q. Jesus Johnnycake Christ from the planet Mars!", which highlights her deranged personality. Paul calls these expressions "Wilkesisms".
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Misery / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Misery / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Paul finding out Annie is reading the latest book and knowing she's not going to like how it ends. Every time Paul realizes that Annie is in a mood switch. Especially when she swears. Paul finally sets Misery alight just to sap one off of her for once: Paul has an epic one when the police inform him Annie's body isn't where he left it. Just before Annie cuts off Paul's leg with the axe, she confronts him about how many times he had explored her house. When she offhandedly mentions the shot she gave him, even when he's high as a kite, that one word ("Pre-op? Pre-op?!?") cuts through the haze.
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Misery / int_ae1723af	type	Sanity Has Advantages
Misery / int_ae1723af	comment	Sanity Has Advantages: Paul is injured and helpless but he does have one useful advantage over Annie: she allows her love of Misery to cloud her judgment and he can manipulate her by invoking the character's honour, wellbeing, etc. He also is incentivized to make the book longer so as to stall. Annie won't kill him until he finishes Misery's Return, and when he seemingly sets the draft on fire at the end, Annie immediately drops her guard to "rescue" Misery from the flames, which gives him an opening.
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Misery / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Misery / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Paul, in the film. After Annie puts him in the wheelchair for the first time:
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Misery / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Misery / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Averted where it counts. She might be awkward, manic, and shithouse rat insane, but Annie is deceptively cunning, ruthless, and able to stretch her Mask of Sanity to hide the real madness beneath. Zigzagged when she chops off Paul's foot and thumb as punishment. He nearly dies from the blood loss in the first case, and has a harder time writing in the second.
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Misery / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
Misery / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Annie's character seems to have been inspired at least in part by Belle Gunness, a Real Life female Serial Killer from the late 1800s who, like Annie, was of formidable physical build, committed arson early on, moved around frequently in her youth to evade the consequences of her murderous lifestyle, and eventually carved out a self-reliant but isolated existence for herself (though Belle's M.O. was killing prospective husbands rather than patients). Similarly, Annie's mysterious ex-husband Ralph and his equally-mysterious escape from her seems to evoke George Anderson, the only man known to have survived a courtship with Belle.
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Misery / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Misery / int_b0cd3349	comment	Fridge Brilliance: invoked by Stephen King in his memoir On Writing. He subscribes to the Show, Don't Tell school of work, and does not spell out that Annie is manic-depressive, preferring that readers work it out for themselves.
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Misery / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Misery / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Subverted. Paul gives Annie a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that starts with him whacking her on the head with a typewriter. This ends up killing her, though she holds out for a long time.
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Misery / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Misery / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In-Universe. Annie isn't happy that Paul killed off Misery and forces him to write a book that brings her back to life. Paul's first try at this is just to make a completely straight-up retcon of the ending of the previous book, but Annie angrily calls him out on this, considering it "cheating".
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Misery / int_b2e10cc9	type	Growing the Beard
Misery / int_b2e10cc9	comment	Growing the Beard: An in-universe example with Misery's Return. Paul goes as far as to consider that it might be the best book he's ever written. To the point that, in the novel, it's revealed that he'd only burned the cover-sheet for the book to trick Annie into trying to save it. He'd kept the rest of the novel hidden so he could publish it after his escape.
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Misery / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Misery / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To crazy fans, invokedFan Dumb, Fix Fic writers, cheesy romance lovers, writers who use deus ex machina... It's more subtle, but the novel also takes this view with the opposite idea, that the mentality of writing "serious" books to amaze critics and win awards isn't much better. Paul eventually realizes Misery wasn't a bad character: he just never put much work into making her shine.
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Misery / int_b5f7b739	type	Evil Overlooker
Misery / int_b5f7b739	comment	Evil Overlooker: The movie poster prominently featured Annie in this manner.
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Misery / int_b64e1024	type	Evil Smells Bad
Misery / int_b64e1024	comment	Evil Smells Bad: Combined with You Need a Breath Mint at one point, when Annie gives Paul a quick kiss as thanks for 'loaning' her money. He notes inwardly that her breath smells dark and sour and like "dead fish". It's so bad, in fact, that Paul remembers a dusty rag Annie gagged him with and considers her breath to still be worse.
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Misery / int_b79ff7b1	type	Forced Addiction
Misery / int_b79ff7b1	comment	Forced Addiction: Though Paul does have a prior disposition towards addictive behavior (having been a heavy smoker and drinker in the past), he is at present "Mr Clean". When Annie "rescues" him from the car accident, she gets him addicted to painkillers so she can use them to keep him in line.
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Misery / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Misery / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Starring James Caan as Paul and Kathy Bates as Annie.
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Misery / int_ba2f9dfe	type	The Paranoiac
Misery / int_ba2f9dfe	comment	The Paranoiac: Annie thinks everyone is out to get her, from those dirty bird neighbors the Roydmans to an unfailingly polite county official who drives out to her house to inform her that she's had a lien placed on her for failure to pay her taxes. Partly this is her deep-seated mental illness at work, but part of it is actually rooted in reality, as after being publicly tried for the murder of several infants and being acquitted only for lack of hard evidence Annie has become something of an infamous figure in her neck of the woods. And as for Paul... Paul even wonders if Annie might have a point about the townsfolk being out to get her after she's served papers for missing a quarterly tax payment. Knowing that many people are several years behind on their taxes and are never threatened, Paul suspects that threatening Annie over a single missed payment might be the town's way of trying to force her off her land.
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Misery / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Misery / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Burn the book you worked really hard on to break away from your style, or go without food, water, and that painkiller you're addicted to until you do. Later on, it's burn the book you've worked really hard on, or have it published and be killed in a murder-suicide. Take a Third Option: Paul does this in the book: Just tell Annie that a stack of blank papers are the novel, and burn them, and after she dies, publish Misery's Return.
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Misery / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
Misery / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Annie loves ice cream, cookies, and soda.
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Misery / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Misery / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: There's no romanticizing having only one copy of your books. Always have a backup, in case circumstances destroy it. In this case, a lady that wants it all burned. For all the potential Annie Wilkeses in the world, it's that authors and other creatives don't owe you anything. They are under no obligation to make what you want them to make.
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Misery / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Misery / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: When Annie tells Paul to "fill in his own fucking n's", he and the audience know things are going to go bad. Also used against her as Paul shoves the burnt remains of her precious novel down the "sick twisted FUCK's" throat. Also later in the book (and the only time Annie actually swears in the film): "I'M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU LYING COCKSUCKER!!!"
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Misery / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Misery / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Annie doesn't believe infants have souls; why shouldn't she kill them? She's also responsible for the deaths of three young children and their father as well, after setting their shared apartment complex on fire as a teenager, since the children (and their surviving baby sister) were her babysitting charges that she referred to as brats.
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Misery / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Misery / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: By the end of the story, Paul knows better than to correct Annie. Also, swearing makes Annie really mad. Annie is very, very attached to her favorite character Misery Chastain, and when Annie finds out that Paul has killed her off, she gets very ugly very quickly.
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Misery / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Misery / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Rather, Book Within a Book. Misery's Return, of course. The reader gets to see bits of it, particularly passages that mirror Paul's situation.
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Misery / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Misery / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The whole reason Paul kills off Misery Chastain in the first place is because he's sick and tired of writing those types of novels and wants to work on something else. Annie forces him to write Misery back to life...which leads Paul to write what he feels is one of the best books he's ever written. So much so, that what he burns at the end is simply a stack of papers. "Misery's Return" is tucked safely away, as Paul intends to bring it with him when he escapes and have it published.
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Misery / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Misery / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: A gut-busting one in the film when Sheriff Buster (Richard Farnsworth) discovers Paul in Annie's basement...only to take a shotgun blast in the back by Annie not even a second later.
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Misery / int_c4bb17a1	type	Pet-Peeve Trope
Misery / int_c4bb17a1	comment	Pet-Peeve Trope: In-Universe - Annie's are Cliffhanger Copout and Cluster F-Bomb. Too bad Paul invokes them both...
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Misery / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Misery / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: The film takes great pains to establish Paul as one. He's friendly, polite, Nice to the Waiter, and is legitimately kind and grateful to Annie before seeing she's dangerously Ax-Crazy.
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Misery / int_c63cd20a	type	Writing by the Seat of Your Pants
Misery / int_c63cd20a	comment	Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: In-Universe example. Paul is forced to write Misery's Return like this, since Annie wants him to start immediately and accepts no excuses. As he notes to himself, he has to concentrate on getting Misery out of her grave as soon as possible; "minor matters such as what the fucking book was supposed to be about would have to wait."
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Misery / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Misery / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Paul subtly does this as an act of Laser-Guided Karma in the book. When he sets fire to the cover-sheet of Misery's Return, Annie never got to read the final chapter, meaning for her, it ended on one of these.
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Misery / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Misery / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the novel, Annie tells Paul that her first victim was a magazine artist from New York who'd come out to sketch the nearby ruins of the Overlook Hotel. Annie's "laughing place" references Song of the South.
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Misery / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
Misery / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: Paul compares himself to Scheherezade, in that as long as he keeps writing, Annie won't kill him before seeing how Misery's Return ends. He stalls for time, drawing out the story. And he's right.
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Misery / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Misery / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Annie really doesn't like it when your characters are dirty birds who use cockadoodie foul language... Paul also comes to realize that on the few occasions she actually uses outright swearwords he should be even more afraid of her than usual.
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Misery / int_d212ac8b	type	Rescued from the Scrappy Heap
Misery / int_d212ac8b	comment	Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In-Universe, Paul has become jaded by his own character, Misery Chastain. But through writing Misery's Return, he finds himself making her into a more nuanced character.
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Misery / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Misery / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Paul had to pay big for making Misery have this fate.
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Misery / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Misery / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: In her brightest moments, Annie can be a charming if slightly childish and old-fashioned hostess, which makes Paul wonder what Annie would've been like if all the chemicals would've formed right in her brain.
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Misery / int_d7ff49ab	type	Put Them All Out of My Misery
Misery / int_d7ff49ab	comment	Put Them All Out of My Misery: This is the motivation behind the bulk of Annie's murders. At first she limits herself to people who are already close to death, but after her husband leaves her she starts killing babies because "in her deepening psychotic spiral she had begun to see all of them as poor-poor-things".
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Misery / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Misery / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Annie uses many bizarre and childish words to compensate for profanity. Paul knows he's in deep shit when Annie gets angry and spits out real curse words.
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Misery / int_d8696817	type	Torch the Franchise and Run
Misery / int_d8696817	comment	Torch the Franchise and Run: In-universe. Paul has grown to hate writing the Misery Chastain novels and kills her off so he can write a gritty crime novel. In both versions, Annie is enraged when she reads the last Misery book, forces Paul to burn his other manuscript, and makes him write a new novel to retcon Misery's demise.
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Misery / int_d90ab0d2	type	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head
Misery / int_d90ab0d2	comment	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: Annie's typical brand of insults. It's when she drops this and intentionally swears that her threat level is seriously ramped up.
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Misery / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Misery / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: When Annie kills the deputy with the ride-on lawnmower, Paul notes that she forgot to clean his blood off the blades. He eagerly thinks that someone will eventually notice, but it never comes up again.
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Misery / int_dc47ceda	comment	Hairpin Lockpick: Paul opens the door of the bedroom with a hairpin lost by Annie. Lampshaded by the fact that he says that it must work because it works in his books. Of course, he does mention having done his research, including lessons in lockpicking from an expert.
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Misery / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Averted in Misery's Return: Paul is well aware that it would come off as too much of a coincidence for two women in the same town to have been Buried Alive, so he comes up with a way to link the two events — a severe bee sting allergy, and they were actually related. In the novel, Annie just happening to run across Paul's crashed car, and him just happening to be the Paul Sheldon whose books are an object of her obsession, is a bit contrived as well. It's averted in the film; it's no coincidence that Annie runs across Paul—she was stalking him.
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Misery / int_dd234c2f	comment	Hallucinations: While dining with his agent in the final scene, Paul briefly visualizes a waitress as Annie. It doesn't help his comfort level at all when the waitress then cheerfully introduces herself as his "number one fan".
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Misery / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: After escaping captivity, Paul adopts a cat at the end of the book and it startles him by popping out from behind the couch. He thinks it's Annie at first and that she's invincible.
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Misery / int_ddab9ac8	comment	Bad Samaritan: Annie, to Paul. However, Paul speculates that if he didn't happen to be the writer of the novels Annie is obsessed with, she would have called the hospital and gotten him there as soon as possible, mainly to show to people like those cockadoodie Roydmans that she's a good, responsible citizen.
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Misery / int_df4d868c	comment	Battleaxe Nurse: Annie is a registered nurse, and a violent and psychotic one. Also, she's wielded hammers, so her having an actual battleaxe may not be too far off. In the novel, it was an axe instead of a hammer. And a blowtorch to cauterize the wound. And an electric knife.
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Misery / int_df5ab39e	comment	Franchise Zombie: In-Universe, the Misery series of romance novels. Paul himself agrees.
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Misery / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Misery / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Buster in the movie, and Paul in a broader sense.
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Misery / int_e38d605	comment	Big Guy, Little Guy: Wicks (short and slim) and McKnight (huge and muscular), two cops that show up to question Annie. Paul of course doesn't know their names when he first sees them through the bedroom window, so he dubs them David and Goliath respectively.
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Misery / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Misery the pig is the only character in-story that Annie treats with consistent kindness, albeit with the idea to kill and skin her to turn her into a book cover. Fortunately, Misery the pig lives, as does Misery the character.
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Misery / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Subverted here. The police inform Paul they couldn't find Annie's body... except she only survived long enough to stagger to the close by pigstall and die there.
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Misery / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Kathy Bates was reportedly very disappointed the scene in the book in which a policeman was run over by a lawnmower by Annie wasn't kept in the film.
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Misery / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Annie starts swearing, both Paul and the audience know shit's about to go down. In Misery's Return, when Geoffrey finds out that Misery might have been Buried Alive, he drinks brandy straight from the bottle. When Mrs. Ramage finds out, she faints. In both cases, the narration notes that it was the first and last time they have done this.
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Misery / int_e8878c29	type	Despair Speech
Misery / int_e8878c29	comment	Despair Speech: Only in the film. After a period of relative stability, Annie enters Paul's room during a rainy evening, visibly depressed. She tells him that she knows he doesn't and will never love her, and that she's afraid that he will eventually leave her.
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Misery / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Misery / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Annie's morality, such as it is, is a classic case of this. In certain ways she is almost prudish, exhibiting a childish distaste for swearing, smoking, and other types of "adult vices". She refuses to take Paul's money out of his wallet, even though she has already gone through it to confiscate his IDs. But when it comes to holding a man prisoner against his will for months, or murdering patients under her care, Annie justifies it by telling herself they are "poor poor things" that are better off dead (and as Paul realizes, she sees all of humanity as either poor poor things or "dirty birdies" that are out to get her).
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Misery / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Misery / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: See the There Is No Kill Like Overkill example. In the film she also does one to Paul in their struggle, perhaps the one point she is on the defense. Not actually carried out in the book, thank God, but Annie does warn Paul that she'd considered cutting off his "man-gland" in addition to his foot and his thumb.
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Misery / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Misery / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: The direction her ceramic penguin is facing tips Annie off that Paul has left his room. In the novel, she tapes strands of her hair across doorways, drawers, and books, and figures out that Paul left the room when she finds them broken, making it an almost literal example.
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Misery / int_edd312d3	type	Münchausen Syndrome
Misery / int_edd312d3	comment	MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome: Specifically, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Not a good trait in a nurse.
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Misery / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted — Annie had an older brother in her childhood who took her to chapter-plays, and when reading her scrapbook Paul learns he and Annie's brother share the same name.
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Misery / int_ef34edf4	comment	Dressed to Heal: While the Annie of reality dresses in a very sloppy and haphazard manner, the Annie in Paul's nightmares is always dressed in the whites of a nurse.
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Misery / int_f081b6bc	comment	Paul's new novel Fast Cars, about a car thief, was this in comparison to the Misery series. Annie hates it because it's not Misery, while Paul later realizes it was Emo Teen-style pretentious.
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Misery / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Both the book and the film were made well before the darker side of the invokedFan Dumb was exposed via the internet. But not before a popular Victorian character, killed off so the author could work on other things, was Saved by the Fans.
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Misery / int_f2082f42	type	Wrote a Good Fake Story
Misery / int_f2082f42	comment	Wrote a Good Fake Story: Paul starts writing Misery's Return because Annie forces him to. By the time he finishes it, he feels that it might be the best thing he ever wrote.
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Misery / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Paul theorizes that Annie sees most of her murders as examples of this. She mostly kills old and sick people - that's why she gets away with it - whom she sees as "poor, poor things", and thinks she's doing them a favor. Later, when she gets more psychotic, she starts to see babies like that, and it turns into a murderous MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome. She basically sees people as either "poor, poor things" or "dirty birdies", and thinks that both are better off dead.
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Misery / int_f438b11b	type	Who's Laughing Now?
Misery / int_f438b11b	comment	Who's Laughing Now?: After realizing escape is impossible, Paul finally snaps and delivers a rather brutal last laugh to Annie, tricking her into believing that he has burned the only existing manuscript to Misery's Return.
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Misery / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After being kidnapped, tortured and maimed, Paul eventually fights his way to freedom and the new Misery book he wrote during his ordeal is a smashing hit. In the book, he also rediscovers his love of writing after seeing the kid with the skunk.
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Misery / int_f6e10f3e	type	Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
Misery / int_f6e10f3e	comment	Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The rare in-universe example. At the very end of the book, after his hallucination at the restaurant, Paul sees a small child going by with a skunk in a shopping cart, The oddness of the entire image inspires him to write a novel speculating on what the heck was going on with the kid.
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Misery / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: To an extent; Annie's love of the Misery novels can cloud her judgement.
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Misery / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Not that Annie wasn't evil to begin with, mind you.
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Misery / int_f89bca72	comment	Psychopathic Womanchild: Annie has a very hard time dividing fiction from reality, reacts violently to any sort of minor inconveniences and takes her favorite writer hostage just to get the book she wants.
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Misery / int_f8f71b5f	comment	In Misery's Return, when Geoffrey finds out that Misery might have been Buried Alive, he drinks brandy straight from the bottle. When Mrs. Ramage finds out, she faints. In both cases, the narration notes that it was the first and last time they have done this.
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Misery / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Misery / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: When seeing he's likely doomed to die at her hand either way, Paul finally turns on Annie, destroying the script in front of her very eyes. When she naturally gets rather upset over this, he fends her off and gives her a good taste of her own physical punishment before knocking her out.
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Misery / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Paul is a polite guy and is sympathetic toward Annie but in the end he brutally attacks her, taking enormous glee in her suffering after everything she's done to him.
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Misery / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: And also why Annie is played that (horrifying!) way.
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Misery / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: In the film Paul mentions he grew up in the slums while defending his manuscript to Annie. In the book it's implied he grew up in Derry, which is just as bad, if not worse. While it isn't brought up in the film, Kathy Bates and Rob Reiner agreed that Annie was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. Noteworthy in light of this is that in both the book and movie, Annie's father is one of her earliest victims.
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Misery / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Deconstructed; Annie's more humanizing moments towards Paul and Misery the pig highlight how dangerous she is. These include treating his amputation wounds after he nearly bleeds to death. Paul even notes that he has to go along with those moments or she'll punish him in some way.
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Misery / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The book allows the reader to get inside Paul's head as he writes and takes Misery's Return seriously, and the thought process he uses to construct a story.
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