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Needful Things

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Needful Things	comment	A 1991 Stephen King novel in which a new store with the strange name of "Needful Things" opens in the small Maine town of Castle Rock. It is run by a seemingly kindly old man named Leland Gaunt and happens to have something that each of the main characters wants. They only need to pay a minimal sum...and they have to agree to play a little prank on someone. It goes downhill from there, as the "harmless pranks" eventually trigger a chain reaction leading to plenty of suicides, killings, and Stuff Blowing Up.The story mainly revolves around Sheriff Alan Pangborn and his attempts to find out just what is going on in his town.Made into a movie in 1993 starring Max von Sydow as Gaunt and Ed Harris as Sheriff Pangborn.
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Needful Things / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Needful Things / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: "Buster" Keeton, one of the town's selectmen is addicted to gambling at the horse tracks, and started embezzling to cover the costs.
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Needful Things / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Needful Things / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Alan Pangborn suffers this when Gaunt seemingly finds the one "Needful Thing" Pangborn is looking for: a video the truth behind what happened during his wife and son's off-screen accident. It drives the up-to-then collected Pangborn into a murderous rage, and it's only thanks to Polly he snaps out of it.
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Needful Things / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Needful Things / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: In the novel, Seaton Thomas. While he's not really seen until the third act, he more than makes up for it once he becomes part of the narrative. He's older, and has a weak heart, but when all Hell breaks loose, he's one of the few people in town that hasn't been corrupted by Gaunt, and aids the wounded Norris Ridgewick by driving the car for him in the finale when Norris is trying to help Alan. When Gaunt is driven out of town, Seaton, completely perky, drives Alan, Polly, and wounded Norris to the hospital.
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Needful Things / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Needful Things / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Sheriff Pangborn. He has been in a King novel before, after all. Gaunt actually seems to sense this about Pangborn, and avoids interacting with him until the novel's climax. This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early—in the extended version, Gaunt's first interaction with him is a police pursuit—and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt. After his first in-person meeting with him, he is immediately suspicious and writes down a reminder in his notebook to check him out. After Brian Rusk's attempted suicide, he tells Norris to contact the State Attorney General and have them do a background check on Gaunt stating that he's running some kind of con and is involved somehow. Gaunt himself also qualifies for the reasons stated above in the novel. He senses immediately that Pangborn is no easy mark, and spends 95% of the novel actively avoiding him. Even when he leaves Pangborn a "Needful Thing," he's nowhere to be found. Justified in that when Pangborn and Gaunt finally do meet face to face, the confrontation ends with Gaunt losing his souls, being severely incapacitated, and being forced to flee. He was 100% right to avoid Pangborn.
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Needful Things / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Needful Things / int_191a3673	comment	In the film, Gaunt is allowed to get away with his crimes completely scot-free. But he doesn't call what he has done in Castle Rock a "rousing success" thanks to Pangborn managing to calm everyone down and Dan blowing up Gaunt's store. While there are a few murders, some "lovely" explosions, and considerable property damage, most of the town is still standing and the body count is considerably less. Pangborn and Polly also immediately reconcile after Gaunt leaves.
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Needful Things / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Needful Things / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Sheriff Pangborn. Much more pronounced in the book than the movie, though. The extended version does add several moments to show that he does have a good personal and professional relationship with his people.
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Needful Things / int_1c81c658	type	Paranoia Gambit
Needful Things / int_1c81c658	comment	Paranoia Gambit: Gaunt basically pulls a huge one on the entire town. Everyone is assigned to pull a "prank" on someone they have no particular attachment to, positive or negative; those on the receiving end think the prank was done by their worst enemy (as Gaunt chooses what the pranks will be as well, and makes them look as suspicious as possible), then set out for revenge on the wrong person. Even if one of the feuders should come to their senses and restrain themselves from committing any violent acts, the other half of the feud will make sure that there is a violent and fatal confrontation. On a smaller scale, Wilma Jerzyck does this to Nettie Cobb, making threatening phone calls and slow drive-bys of her house just to freak her out.
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Needful Things / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Needful Things / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Most of the townsfolk set up to fight each other end up killing both their opponent and themselves in the process. It's even enforced by the "guns" Gaunt sells near the end, which are implied to be guns no more than his car is really a car. Even if the victim survives the bullet wound, their heart will eventually explode. Though gunshot victims who survive until Gaunt is driven out of town seem to survive.
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Needful Things / int_1e1ce503	type	Portal Crossroad World
Needful Things / int_1e1ce503	comment	Portal Crossroad World: Whipple Street in Cambridge, which is heavily implied to be connected to Leng, a place in the works of Lovecraft where different realities converge. Gaunt sends Ace Merrill there to retrieve his Tucker Talisman (which is later revealed to be a demonic hellwagon).
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Needful Things / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Needful Things / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: In both the book and the movie, Nettie comes home after playing her prank on Buster Keeton to find that her dog, Raider, has been killed. The book has him "merely" getting impaled with a corkscrew, but in the movie, Raider was skinned alive and hung up in Nettie's closet.
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Needful Things / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Needful Things / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Any transaction that Mr. Gaunt makes with a customer. No matter how much of a bargain the item appears to be and no matter how low the price seems, the consequences of whatever prank you play will come to bite you in the end, the item will turn shoddy, and he may or may not get your soul in his valise.
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Needful Things / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Needful Things / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The movie soundtrack is full of it.
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Needful Things / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
Needful Things / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: As previously established in The Dark Half, Norris Ridgewick is a sensitive soul. He tends to throw up when working bad car wrecks. He even does so when the driver has managed to escape injury because of how bad it could have been.
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Needful Things / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Needful Things / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: Gaunt's pranks culminate in the town's Baptist and Catholic congregations to literally become this, forming mobs and going to war in the streets with each other.
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Needful Things / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Needful Things / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: There's an unnerving cartoonish quality to many of the deadly pranks Gaunt has his customers carry out, even once the bodies start piling up.
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Needful Things / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
Needful Things / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: While Gaunt is practically stated outright to be a demon, very few of his supernatural elements and abilities actually survive the transition between the book and the film. The climax in particular, which is much more epic in the book, is downgraded to Gaunt simply tanking a huge explosion and then arrogantly sauntering to his car.
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Needful Things / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Needful Things / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Tastee-Munch Can and the folding flower trick.
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Needful Things / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Needful Things / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Alan Pangborn, and even he is very nearly caught up in Gaunt's treachery.
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Needful Things / int_2461166d	type	All Gays Are Pedophiles
Needful Things / int_2461166d	comment	All Gays Are Pedophiles: Frank Jewett keeps magazines of naked little boys in his office. He and his "friend" George Nelson also once went to a party with very underage boys.
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Needful Things / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Needful Things / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: Most of the town. They spend a week playing mean-spirited tricks on people they don't know for reasons they don't understand... not a one of them (except - belatedly - Polly and Eddie) imagines that the mean-spirited tricks played on them might have a similar source.
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Needful Things / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Needful Things / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: One of the early signs that something's wrong with Gaunt are his hands: peculiarly long-fingered, and the first and second finger are exactly the same length. They're also rough and extremely unpleasant and even sickening to the touch.
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Needful Things / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Needful Things / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: And in contrast to the obviously unpleasant Wilma Jerzyck, there's Nan Roberts, owner of her titular lunchonette. She's the very model of a sweet small-town lady, but the narrative later reveals there's "a pile of account books where her heart should be" and that she owns a very large chunk of Castle Rock. When the Baptists and Catholics are pitted against each other, she fights ferociously on the Baptist side.
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Needful Things / int_2bb6f196	type	Practically Joker
Needful Things / int_2bb6f196	comment	Alan Pangborn also mentally compares his twisted sense of humor to that of the Joker, and the description lines up there, too: he's a tall, lean trickster with a penchant for violence and a disturbingly wide smile, feigning kindness when things are going his way and flying off the handle when they aren't. He even has a Jokermobile of sorts in the Talisman.
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Needful Things / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Needful Things / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Gaunt. He loses the sophistication at the end of the novel.
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Needful Things / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Needful Things / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Non-comedic example. Gaunt manipulates both Sally Ratcliffe and Lester Pratt (who are engaged to each other) to believe that the other one is cheating. This eventually causes their deaths.
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Needful Things / int_2e6de4ff	type	Concert Kiss
Needful Things / int_2e6de4ff	comment	Concert Kiss: The photo Myra buys gives her realistic visions about Elvis when she touches it. The first one is him pulling her up on stage at a concert and kissing her.
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Needful Things / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
Needful Things / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: Polly Chalmers had ominous memories of the Department of Child Welfare at 666 Geary Street, San Francisco.
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Needful Things / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Needful Things / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: In the book, essentially nothing about Leland Gaunt's physical appearance is ever revealed, save for his more peculiar features. He seems to be a tall, thin man somewhere in later middle-age based on Brian's initial impression, and later interactions with other characters bear at least this out, but only two things are described in explicit, consistent detail — his crooked teeth, which "jostle" and overlap in a very wide smile, and his hands, on which the first and second finger are exactly the same length. The narration also makes it abundantly clear that his eyes change color to whatever the customer finds most trustworthy, and that he can do it himself at will, so it's more accurate to say that Leland Gaunt looks like however you expect him to.
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Needful Things / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Needful Things / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: "Buster" Keeton hates his childhood nickname. Reverend Rose is also called "Steamboat Willie" behind his back.
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Needful Things / int_31aba995	type	Self-Abuse
Needful Things / int_31aba995	comment	Self-Abuse: Myra's regular visits with the King after she buys a framed photo of Elvis Presley from Mr. Gaunt, which she starts spending more and more time doing and neglecting everything else. Same case with Cora Rusk, only with a pair of (supposedly) the King's sunglasses. Implied with The Fundamentalist Sally Ratcliffe, who feels unusually excited after playing her prank on Frank Jewett.
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Needful Things / int_32e05e5e	type	The Prankster
Needful Things / int_32e05e5e	comment	The Prankster: A notably dark example. Gaunt encourages his customers into playing seemingly harmless practical jokes on one another, all for the purpose of escalating long-held grudges that will eventually turn violent. Pangborn compares him to the Joker.
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Needful Things / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Needful Things / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Too many to count, but a special mention should be made for John "Ace" Merrill, the villain of earlier King work The Body (adapted into the film Stand by Me). In the book he is a main character, acting as Gaunt's Psycho for Hire and the closest thing he has to a Dragon, but in the movie he simply never returns to Castle Rock and Gaunt is never given an accomplice at all (he tricks Buster into doing his bidding for a time, but even he turns on Gaunt eventually).
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Needful Things / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Needful Things / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Nearly every character does it at some point, but Hugh Priest takes it literally with poor Raider.
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Needful Things / int_36f7a5c9	type	Small Town, Big Hell
Needful Things / int_36f7a5c9	comment	Small Town, Big Hell: The sinister Leland Gaunt sets up shop in Castle Rock, and begins turning up the simmering personal and religious tensions between the townsfolk.
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Needful Things / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Needful Things / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Polly doesn't want anyone to know about her dead son, even her boyfriend. She also tries to hide how much her arthritis torments her.
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Needful Things / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Needful Things / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Keeton believes that "Them", a shadowy group of authority figures, is after him. What is actually after him is the Bureau of Taxation, because he's stealing from the town's funds. It's never entirely clear how much of this is some sort of hereditary mental illness, and how much of it is him preferring to blame Them for "persecuting" him rather than face up the fact that he's an embezzler and all-round asshole who is universally disliked for perfectly sound reasons.
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Needful Things / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Needful Things / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Buster and to some degree even Gaunt himself in the movie. The way he eggs on Pangborn and Buster with grade-school taunts like "Wussy!" destroys his Sophisticated as Hell faÃ§ade more effectively than any bomb ever could. The TNT extended version with its censored language includes even more childish insults, which further reinforces this trope.
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Needful Things / int_3b4e5e81	type	Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
Needful Things / int_3b4e5e81	comment	Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: While walking home, Brian Rusk has a fantasy about going on a date with his teacher, Sally Ratcliffe. It gets interrupted when he walks in front of Hugh Priest's truck and Hugh yells at him:
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Needful Things / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Needful Things / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Unusually, a future one (only in the movie):
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Needful Things / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Needful Things / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: While Ace Merrill pretty much serves as Gaunt's dragon for a solid portion of the novel, Gaunt views him no differently than anyone else in the town, and magically creates a video of Merrill driving Alan's wife and son off the road to their deaths that he leaves for Pangborn to get Pangborn to kill Ace as Ace has already been wound up into killing Pangborn.
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Needful Things / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Needful Things / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Danforth "Buster" Keeton in the books is an unpleasant person through-and-through, even before he goes crazy. He browbeats his wife (and later murders her), bullies skinny Norris Ridgewick and is so rotten that even mild-mannered Sheriff Pangborn finds himself quietly wishing Buster would just die and spare everyone around him his presence. In the movie, however, a lot of this is toned down: his personality is more small-town yokel than pompous prick, he confesses his embezzlement to Alan outright and levels with him as an equal (something book Buster would never do), and in the movie's climax he even turns on Gaunt outright.
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Needful Things / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Needful Things / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Gaunt is like Iago on a large scale. He takes the already existing grudges between the townspeople and makes them worse with his pranks, until they kill each other.
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Needful Things / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Needful Things / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Gaunt is defeated, but by then, most of Castle Rock is destroyed. Also, he starts the whole thing again in another town. In the film, Gaunt is allowed to get away with his crimes completely scot-free. But he doesn't call what he has done in Castle Rock a "rousing success" thanks to Pangborn managing to calm everyone down and Dan blowing up Gaunt's store. While there are a few murders, some "lovely" explosions, and considerable property damage, most of the town is still standing and the body count is considerably less. Pangborn and Polly also immediately reconcile after Gaunt leaves.
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Needful Things / int_432af81e	type	Bantering Baddie Buddies
Needful Things / int_432af81e	comment	Bantering Baddie Buddies: The "Flying Corson Brothers" Mike and Dave, Connecticut arms dealers and drug-runners who only appear once in a flashback to give Ace Merrill a sufficient motivation to return to Castle Rock.
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Needful Things / int_439e50f7	type	What Have We Ear?
Needful Things / int_439e50f7	comment	What Have We Ear?: Sheriff Pangborn, an amateur magician does the trick with Sean Rusk.
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Needful Things / int_45b850b7	type	Dead Animal Warning
Needful Things / int_45b850b7	comment	Dead Animal Warning: Nettie's dog, Raider, is skewered with a swiss army knife and left with the note for her to find.
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Needful Things / int_45b850b7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Needful Things / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: "Buster" Keeton, who started stealing from the town's funds to cover his gambling addiction.
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Needful Things / int_45cd286c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Needful Things / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Some thirty-forty years later, and Ace Merrill still hasn't gotten over Gordie LaChance and his friends getting the better of him in The Body, to say nothing of the great success LaChance has found in his adulthood as a writer while Ace's life has spiraled downward ever since high school. When Gaunt asks him how he feels about the prospect of blowing Castle Rock to kingdom come, Ace doesn't think about the catastrophic loss of life or the millions of dollars in property damage of the act. No, he thinks about Gordie, and how his old nemesis "probably wipes his ass with ten dollar bills" now.
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Needful Things / int_49e50ba0	type	Dueling Messiahs
Needful Things / int_49e50ba0	comment	Dueling Messiahs: Reverend Rose of the Baptists and Father Brigham of the Catholics. Made explicit in the movie when Reverend Rose shows up at Wilma's funeral and both pastors start trying to drown each other out with their respective prayers for the deceased.
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Needful Things / int_49e50ba0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Needful Things / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Sheriff Pangbornâ€™s wife and son, last seen alive and kicking in The Dark Half, have died in a car crash sometime before the novel starts.
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Needful Things / int_4cca4ac7	type	Trapped by Gambling Debts
Needful Things / int_4cca4ac7	comment	Trapped by Gambling Debts: Buster and Ace are both deep in debt, Buster from his embezzling (to cover the costs of his gambling addiction) and Ace from a cocaine deal gone bad. Gaunt gleefully uses it against both of them.
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Needful Things / int_4cca4ac7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Needful Things / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: The book could be seen as a commentary on small-town psychology. On the surface, Castle Rock is an idyllic New England town where everyone is polite and friendly. But Gaunt just pulls a little thread here and there, and things start unraveling fast. In a mere week all the simmering grudges just under the surface boil over until the entire town is killing each other. King being from small-town New England, several of his stories have similar themes.
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Needful Things / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Needful Things / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Gaunt typically sets people off by having their possessions or reputations damaged, which causes them to lash out in murderous rage. While the people involved would probably cool off eventually, they aren't given the chance.
Needful Things / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
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Needful Things / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Needful Things / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The story starts with a narrator who greets the reader and talks about the people in Castle Rock and the new shop. At the end, a narrator greets the reader in another small town, where a new shop is about to open...
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Needful Things / int_5313c266	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Needful Things / int_562abd51	comment	Norris Ridgewick attempts suicide for similar reasons, but changes his mind. As such he plays a crucial role in the resolution of the climax.
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Needful Things / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
Needful Things / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: Gaunt's influence makes the townspeople more aggressive, to the point that they are willing to commit murder over pranks. When he's finally defeated, all fighting stops immediately.
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Needful Things / int_57cf76a1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_58102dbd	type	Enforced Cold War
Needful Things / int_58102dbd	comment	Enforced Cold War: Played with: even before Gaunt comes to town Castle Rock's Baptist and Catholic churches hate each other, and their respective leaders have apparently made a habit of weekly sermons decrying the moral failings of the other. This cold war is enforced by the rule of law as well as neither side really hating each other to the point of committing violence (though with some members it's a close thing) but Gaunt is easily able to fire up these tensions to the point of both congregations going to war with each other.
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Needful Things / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Needful Things / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: The book contains a number of example, most of which survive the transition between book and film. "Buster" Keeton verbally and emotionally abuses his wife, Myrtle, though he doesn't hurt her physically until he goes completely insane and beats her to death with a hammer. Nettie Cobb's husband was a brutal domestic abuser, and she eventually killed him. Wilma Jerzyck specializes in utterly breaking down her husband's spirit.
Needful Things / int_590eb583	featureApplicability	1.0
Needful Things / int_590eb583	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Needful Things / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. Sheriff Pangborn is 100% solid badass to the point that even Gaunt knows to stay clear of him, and deputies Norris, Andy, John, and Seat all pull their weight in trying to save the town, even after getting the crap kicked out of them. The importance of dispatchers are also highlighted late in the book, playing an important role in saving the town, both by simply being dispatch as well as joining in the brawl when the police station is under attack.
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Needful Things / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Needful Things / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Ace Merrill was a Karma Houdini in The Body. Then he comes back for this one and Norris blows his brains out in the climax.
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Needful Things / int_599f943f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_5a28b615	type	Fuzz Therapy
Needful Things / int_5a28b615	comment	Fuzz Therapy: Nettie Cobb's dog Raider was given to her by Polly for this purpose. Sadly Raider does not make it through the film or the novel, and his death is what causes Nettie to finally snap.
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Needful Things / int_5aa8b4b6	type	Intrepid Merchant
Needful Things / int_5aa8b4b6	comment	Intrepid Merchant: Gaunt, again.
Needful Things / int_5aa8b4b6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Needful Things / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Needful Things / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Frank Jewett and Buster Keeton, never the most stable of individuals, are driven totally off the deep end thanks to Gaunt's machinations. Frank actually acknowledges that he has lost his mind, and gleefully embraces it.
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Needful Things / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Needful Things / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Wilma Jerzyck.
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Needful Things / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
Needful Things / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: The book's prologue, and stated outright by Gaunt in the movie.
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Needful Things / int_67d722d8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Needful Things / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: Remember Ace, the childhood bully from The Body and its adaptation Stand by Me? He's now working for Gaunt. The town seen in the epilogue is from the King novella The Library Policemen, which appeared in the same collection as The Sun Dog. Sheriff Pangborn in the climax wields the mystical force of The White against Gaunt, which is later made a significant element in the The Dark Tower series. Polly visits the location where a mother and her son were trapped in a car by a formerly peaceful St Bernard and this incident gets mentioned a couple of other times throughout the book.
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Needful Things / int_6ae754f4	type	Hidden Wire
Needful Things / int_6ae754f4	comment	Hidden Wire: An unknown bar patron warns Ace Merrill: "Man you be talking to wearing a wire". Ace gets the hell out of there, and wonders afterwards whether the warning was sincere or just a trick by some random guy having a laugh.
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Needful Things / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Needful Things / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: It's a pretty safe bet that Leland Gaunt wasn't named at random.
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Needful Things / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needful Things / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Needful Things / int_6d332aea	comment	In the film, Brian Rusk realizes what his two harmless pranks have done and is Driven to Suicide but is saved by Pangborn.
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Needful Things / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Needful Things / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Keeton and Ace both end up as this. They're set up as major antagonists and assistants to Gaunt, but Norris Ridgewick manages to mortally wound Keeton before Ace finishes him off, and Ridgewick later kills Ace Merrill. Adding to the trope is the fact that Alan Pangborn and Leland Gaunt are so focused on each other they don't even hardly notice Ace has been killed.
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Needful Things / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Needful Things / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: The epilogue mentions Answered Prayers, a new kind of store opening soon in Junction City, Iowa.
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Needful Things / int_72246a54	type	Game Face
Needful Things / int_72246a54	comment	Game Face: Gaunt sometimes looks like a charming and handsome man, but he's actually a demon with claws, and a face that is "a horror of eyes and teeth".
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Needful Things / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Needful Things / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: This is Gaunt's M.O. He does this both directly and indirectly to his victims. He has others play "pranks" on someone else and blame it on their enemy. This drives his victims to paranoia and anger. Eventually, it causes them to snap and kill the person the prank is pinned on.
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Needful Things / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Needful Things / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Pete Jerzyck, Wilma's husband. The narration states that he wasn't merely afraid of Wilma, "he lived in awe of her, as natives in certain tropical climes once supposedly lived in awe and superstitious dread of the Great God Thunder Mountain."
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Needful Things / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Needful Things / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: In the book, Buster's participation in blowing up the town includes him taking special care to place a package on the desk of the municipal building's one high-ranking woman, because "women don't belong in politics". While he is stark raving mad by this point, this bit is totally within his previous character. Minor character Sonny Jackett is a bluntly racist mechanic who overcharged for poor service on Eddie Warburton's car, then took Eddie to small claims court for trying to get out of the bill, accusing him of playing the race card; Sonny won the case, and enmity has existed between the two ever since, especially after Eddie's car was later ruined by a mysterious electrical fire.note The narration in Jackett's section all but states this was just another repair mistake by Sonny that went unnoticed, and that he feels persecuted by Eddie's suspicion ("breaking things was not his desire, but his karma"). Gaunt even entices Sonny to let his guard down not only by showing knowledge of cars and tools, but by turning the conversation to politics and encouraging his use of racial slurs.
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Needful Things / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Needful Things / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Supernatural and immortal elements aside, this is exactly what Mr. Gaunt is. Only his murder weapon of choice is gaslighting his victims into killing each other.
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Needful Things / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Needful Things / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Brian Rusk survives his suicide attempt in the movie; in the book, he isn't so lucky.
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Needful Things / int_7458a1a4	type	Southern Gothic Satan
Needful Things / int_7458a1a4	comment	Southern Gothic Satan: An example where the Tall Dark Stranger explicitly is the Devil or at least a demon. Leland Gaunt shows up in a shop that wasn't there before, and gives the townsfolk of Castle Rock special little things in exchange for pranks. The little pranks eventually set the townsfolk against each other till dozens are dead and the town on fire.
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Needful Things / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Needful Things / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The story in a nutshell.
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Needful Things / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
Needful Things / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: Gaunt is some kind of a demon that has been wandering on Earth for centuries, collecting souls and triggering chaos and death wherever he goes. In the movie, they explicitly try to show he is Satan himself.
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Needful Things / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Needful Things / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: Subverted. There are aspects of Gaunt's character (like the Exact Words prices he negotiates, and his visible anger when accused of deception) which suggest that, like the stories of The Fair Folk or other supernatural bargain-makers, he is not able to lie directly and someone who isn't blinded by their desire would be able to catch him out. As it turns out, he lies directly and frequently, which actually bites him at the climax as he now wants to negotiate but has absolutely no power to any more because nobody trusts his words at all, while a supernatural being that could be trusted to abide by its word would still have some leverage.
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Needful Things / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Needful Things / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: As Alan realizes at the very end, Gaunt is so accustomed to winning that he can't remember exactly how it feels to lose, just that he doesn't want to at any cost, and won't accept it with dignity. The film makes him a Graceful Loser.
Needful Things / int_7cc8d769	featureApplicability	1.0
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Needful Things / int_7d561d58	type	Too Awesome to Use
Needful Things / int_7d561d58	comment	Too Awesome to Use: Used in-universe; most people who buy their personal "needful thing" from Gaunt become too obsessed with protecting and guarding it to ever use it in the manner intended. It's implied that Gaunt relies on this, lest someone else see and point out that their treasure is really junk. Unfortunately, the trope doesn't hold true when Gaunt starts selling guns...
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Needful Things / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Needful Things / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Wilma likes picking feuds and considers a murderer who just left an asylum to be a good target. Nettie is generally a gentle and timid woman, but picking a fight with someone mentally unstable is probably not a great idea. As we find out, that's putting it mildly.
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Needful Things / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Needful Things / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Hugh Priest.
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Needful Things / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Needful Things / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse; Ace Merrill, who is deep in debt to mobsters and has been given a set time to pay them back lest they execute him.
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Needful Things / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Needful Things / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Nettie, when she finds her dog dead.
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Needful Things / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Needful Things / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the extended version of the film, we're introduced to three of the main characters; Pangborn, Norris and Gaunt. Sheriff Pangborn is fixing Norris' cruiser. It's quickly established that the Sheriff is A Father to His Men as they're on a first-name basis and reassures Norris that the breakdown isn't his fault. We then have Gaunt—a bell that hangs on the Mercedes' rear view mirror shows up on a green Volvo station wagon and later the main door of the shop—enter the picture in his Mercedes, who proceeds to shear off Norris door, nearly killing them both, and lead Alan on a chase that leads to a crash and his subsequent disappearance. This establishes Gaunt as petty, dangerous, devious, and mysterious.
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Needful Things / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
Needful Things / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: Gaunt takes souls from those who die as a result of his machinations, but he admits that he's not really doing any of this for the souls; he has plenty of them at this point. He just finds all of this really, really fun.
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Needful Things / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Needful Things / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Reverend Rose-uh, in keeping with the Baptist-preacher stereotype.
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Needful Things / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Needful Things / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Gaunt looks like a charming older man, but his eyes are not a constant color and his hands are misshapen and extremely unpleasant to the touch. His true form is rather less appealing.
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Needful Things / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Needful Things / int_8a295a46	comment	Gaunt himself also experiences significant glamour failure in the book, particularly in the climax where being pressed by Sheriff Pangborn makes it much harder for him to maintain his disguise. After being trashed by Sheriff Pangborn armed with the power of the White, his true form is revealed for all to see and he rides out of town screaming in his Cool Car, which is also quickly revealed to be demonic in nature.
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Needful Things / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Needful Things / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Gaunt in the books is fairly indifferent to sex outside of one strange conversation with Myra Evans. In the movie he has not one but two sexual encounters with Polly Chalmers, and in both of them he's pretty obviously using his supernatural powers to mind whammy her into indulging him.
Needful Things / int_8a817c2a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Needful Things / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Needful Things / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Aside from Alan himself, this is what the Castle County Sheriff's Office seems to be made up of. Alan is quite aware of it, but he's A Father to His Men and won't have anyone mistreating them. His loyalty to them is repaid in spades, as their inner badasses are all brought out over the course of the book.
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Needful Things / int_8bc4a55d	type	Went to the Great X in the Sky
Needful Things / int_8bc4a55d	comment	Went to the Great X in the Sky: "Pop Merrill's gone to that big flea-market in the sky".
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Needful Things / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Needful Things / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Wilma Jerzyck has the dubious honor of being the least sympathetic of all of Gaunt's victims. And this list includes an animal-abusing alcoholic, a domestic abuser who believes he's being "persecuted" by Them rather than face up to his embezzlement and general dickheadery, a racist white man, a racist African American, and two pedophiles, among others.
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Needful Things / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Needful Things / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Hugh Priest starts the story as a reasonable sympathetic alcoholic until he straight up stabs a lonely woman's dog to death with a corkscrew just so he can keep a foxtail that he refuses to even risk by putting it on his car like he intended. He realizes after doing it that he just destroyed the only thing this woman has going for her, only to shrug and walk out.
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Needful Things / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Needful Things / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: Gaunt admits that most of the things that people get from Needful Things are junk, disguised as treasures by both an implied magical illusion and the desires of the recipients. The illusion fails sometimes, usually in a My God, What Have I Done? moment or when someone else's treasure is seen. Gaunt himself also experiences significant glamour failure in the book, particularly in the climax where being pressed by Sheriff Pangborn makes it much harder for him to maintain his disguise. After being trashed by Sheriff Pangborn armed with the power of the White, his true form is revealed for all to see and he rides out of town screaming in his Cool Car, which is also quickly revealed to be demonic in nature. Gaunt's glamour always fails whenever it involves touch rather than sight or sound; even while appearing fully human (albeit one with strange hands) and being as charming and comforting as he can, people always feel viscerally disgusted if he ever makes physical contact with them. The narration specifically notes that he makes the movement of giving comforting pats to a crying customer without actually touching her, implying that he is genuinely unable to prevent people being revolted by his touch.
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Needful Things / int_90b98fbb	type	The Needless
Needful Things / int_90b98fbb	comment	The Needless: Ironically, Gaunt himself; the only way he seems to get tired is by emotional exhaustion, and the apartment above his storefront is completely bare — no furniture, no bed, no anything save for curtains on the windows to keep it from looking suspicious at street-level. The only "necessary" thing he gets out of his little game is entertainment, his primary reason to exist at this point.
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Needful Things / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Needful Things / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Gaunt leaves a tape for his Dragon, Ace Merrill, giving instructions for what he should do. When Ace considers ignoring the instructions and just stealing Gaunt's stuff, the tape starts up again on its own and threatens him with a fate worse than death. It's at this point that Ace realizes that the tape player isn't even plugged in.
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Needful Things / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Needful Things / int_952f8f26	comment	Gaunt basically pulls a huge one on the entire town. Everyone is assigned to pull a "prank" on someone they have no particular attachment to, positive or negative; those on the receiving end think the prank was done by their worst enemy (as Gaunt chooses what the pranks will be as well, and makes them look as suspicious as possible), then set out for revenge on the wrong person. Even if one of the feuders should come to their senses and restrain themselves from committing any violent acts, the other half of the feud will make sure that there is a violent and fatal confrontation.
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Needful Things / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Needful Things / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Leland Gaunt initially presents himself as a genial and charismatic shopkeeper, if a bit eccentric. As the novel goes on he begins to drop the pleasantries more and more frequently, showing he is not only crude and nasty, but a profoundly evil being who plays with and destroys people's lives purely for his own amusement. Notably, as soon as Ace Merrill fills the "help" position, Gaunt's pleasant demeanor with him takes on a much more artificial, wry tone.
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Needful Things / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Needful Things / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: Reverend William "Steamboat Willie" Rose of the Baptists is one of these, as he is morally outraged by the Catholic Church's "Casino Nite" event which involves some (very soft) gambling. Late in the book it's revealed through narration that his father was a compulsive gambler and alcoholic, explaining his fanatical stance of the issue.
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Needful Things / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Needful Things / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Gaunt gets to play with this in the film on a grand scale. Not only are several disasters of the 20th century implied to be his handiwork, he directly namedrops Jesus as part of his upgrade from demonic entity to the actual devil.
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Needful Things / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Needful Things / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: Gaunt's knowledge appears to extend to: knowing exactly what he needs to in order to lure people in with (apparently) their heart's desire, knowing their names before being told, knowing what eye colour they find most appealing so he can make his eyes appear the right shade, knowing exactly what prank will set off which person, and knowing exactly when it needs to be played to have the most effect (though the latter doesn't appear to be infallible, as he frequently psychically communicates with his pawns to guide them through unexpected obstacles, but the guidance he provides is still flawlessly accurate). It is not clear whether two "mistakes" with his pranks (using Polly's current name on the fake xerox rather than the one the alleged senders would have known her by, and showing Annie Pangborn's car crash with her wearing the seatbelt) are gaps in his knowledge, laziness/haste/clumsiness on his part, or whether the single wrong detail (which gives the victim a chance to realise they're being tricked if they have the self-discipline to think things through) is something he puts in for his own amusement. It's also possible that, like many other stories involving a deal with supernatural entities, he has to give the victims that chance to see through his lies in order for the rest of the snare to work.
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Needful Things / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Needful Things / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: All of Alan's deputies over the course of the novel, but especially Norris Ridgewick, who first appeared as a Clueless Deputy in the previous novel The Dark Half. Here, he finishes off Gaunt's henchmen "Buster" Keeton and Ace. Bag of Bones reveals he goes on to become sheriff of Castle County.
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Needful Things / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Needful Things / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: The book has two, both of whom work for the city's school system: Frank Jewett (principal) and George T. Nelson (shop teacher). They're both gay, and also both pedophiles. While Jewett makes a minor appearance in the film, for obvious reasons his subplot with George T. Nelson was left out.
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Needful Things / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Needful Things / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Movie Gaunt walks out of an explosion large enough to blow his whole shop to smithereens none the worse for wear. The book version was not nearly so untouchable, experiencing a slow but steady Glamour Failure in the chapters leading up to the climax. It's still impossible for Alan Pangborn to actually kill the monster, but he does manage to drive it away and implicitly free the souls he had taken.
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Needful Things / int_a04fe73e	type	Imposter Forgot One Detail
Needful Things / int_a04fe73e	comment	Imposter Forgot One Detail: It's implied that there is always some sort of mistake or overlooked detail with Gaunt's illusions or at least that the illusion always fails at least once. It's up to the buyer to notice the deception and acknowledge it. In an attempt to get Pangborn into the spiral of murder overtaking the town, Gaunt shows him an illusion of his wife and son's car being deliberately hit by one driven by Ace. Pangborn realizes it's a fake when he realizes they're wearing their seatbelts in the illusion - when they died in real life specifically because they weren't. How Polly realizes the letter from San Francisco is fake; it uses Patricia, not Polly, and in San Francisco she never used Patricia, not even on official documents.
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Needful Things / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Needful Things / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Several of Gaunt's pawns have this reaction as they manage to break free of his influence. Three of them try to commit suicide. Two succeed. The third, Deputy Norris Ridgewick, stops himself when he realizes just how badly he was tricked, and takes a level in badass, as seen below, to help stop Gaunt. Polly also realizes her mistake and destroys her arthritis charm in the process. Subverted with Alan, who was on his way to murder Ace after being wrongly convinced Ace murdered his wife and son, but he has an epiphany before he acts on his rage and realizes the tape was faked and Ace didn't kill them. Two of Gaunt's victims manage to somehow both fire at each other and miss their bullets, which snaps them back to their senses. They move to reconcile only for the building to explode next to them and kill both. Good riddance: Both were child molesters and one dealt drugs. In the film, Brian Rusk realizes what his two harmless pranks have done and is Driven to Suicide but is saved by Pangborn.
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Needful Things / int_a1b27125	type	Nervous Wreck
Needful Things / int_a1b27125	comment	Nervous Wreck: Nettie is always tense and jumpy due to the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband and her own mental instability. Keeton also gradually becomes this as paranoia sets in.
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Needful Things / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Needful Things / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: After Cora gets the sunglasses from Mr. Gaunt, she pretty much stops paying attention to her sons. When Brian commits suicide, she doesn't even realize what happened, nor does she care. The little we see of her before she falls under Gaunt's influence shows she was pretty detached and uncaring even then.
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Needful Things / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
Needful Things / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Gaunt. In the book, it is mentioned that he was active in Europe during the The Black Death. Practically spelled out for viewers in the movie:
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Needful Things / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Needful Things / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Movie Gaunt never gets taken down a peg at all and to the very end is untouchable. While book Gaunt is just as impossible for Alan to kill, he experiences significantly more retribution and is forced to flee Castle Rock in defeat rather than being allowed to taunt the heroes and then drive out of town like he does in the movie.
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Needful Things / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Needful Things / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The brutal fight/murder between Nettie and Wilma in the movie is set to Schubert's "Ave Maria", a composition commonly used for this trope. The audiobook version (read by King himself) features a weird, bouncy, jangly carnival organ, especially during the most violent scenes. This along with King's slightly nasal Yankee twang makes the death scenes sound much goofier than they should be.
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Needful Things / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
Needful Things / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Eleven year old Brian Rusk plays two seemingly harmless pranks on Wilma Jerzyk one, throwing mud on her clean sheets; two, throwing rocks at her house with messages rubber banded to them. This results in her and Nettie Cobb killing each other. He hears of their deaths and the role of his pranks in their deaths and the guilt drives him to commit suicide in his garage in front of his seven year old brother. In the film, after warning him about Gaunt, Brian attempts suicide in front of Pangborn who saves him and he ends up in the hospital.
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Needful Things / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Needful Things / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Sheriff Pangborn's shadow puppet skills come in handy against Gaunt, especially when he creates puppets of Cujo and the sparrows from The Dark Half.
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Needful Things / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Needful Things / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Movie Myrtle has one when she ends up accidentally pressing her husband's Berserk Button.
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Needful Things / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Needful Things / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Gaunt at one point muses that there is no real point to what he's doing anymore. He simply doesn't need any more souls than he already has. But it sure is fun. And besides, he's a BORED immortal.
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Needful Things / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Needful Things / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: When the principal of an elementary school has his desk busted open and all his child pornography strewn about his office, at least one teacher seemingly makes a conscious decision to believe the magazines were planted rather than face the truth.
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Needful Things / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Needful Things / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Frank Jewett, a school principal and pedophile, keeps child pornography in his office desk at the school. It's bad enough that he has those proclivities to begin with, but having a position of trust where he is responsible for children, to keep the evidence at his place of work is a special kind of stupid, which he himself ackowledges after being exposed.
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Needful Things / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Needful Things / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Keeton is outraged when Mr. Gaunt sends Ace Merrill to help him — Ace is, after all, a criminal. If this is meant to be Played for Laughs, though, it's a very dark joke indeed: Keeton has been embezzling for years, just beat his long-suffering wife's head in with a hammer, and is now planning to blow up most of the town with dynamite. Of course, by this point, Keeton is completely insane.
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Needful Things / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Needful Things / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Wilma Jerzyck is the small-town housewife version of this, as it is noted several times that she loves nothing more than a good feud, and goes out of her way to pick fights with people over slights both real and imagined. She ultimately becomes the full version of this trope after coming to believe that Nettie has thrown rocks in her house and destroyed much of her property.
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Needful Things / int_b9fa17b7	type	Pretender Diss
Needful Things / int_b9fa17b7	comment	Pretender Diss: When Alan advises Reverend Rose to let the Catholics hold a casino night and not to escalate the conflict any further, Rose brings up Jesus chasing out the moneylenders from the Temple.
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Needful Things / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Needful Things / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Nettie and Wilma.
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Needful Things / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Needful Things / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't call Danforth Keeton "Buster." Just... don't.
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Needful Things / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
Needful Things / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Gaunt in the movie gives Dan Keeton the manhandling he gives Ace in the books in response to catching him praying "on his time". Later in the climax he hectors and calls him "Buster" one time too many.
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Needful Things / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Needful Things / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Mr. Gaunt does this in private after he sells Brian the Sandy Koufax baseball card. Just one of the multiple hints that he is a Devil in Plain Sight and possibly the most obvious of the early ones.
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Needful Things / int_bf09d8e8	type	Eye Colour Change
Needful Things / int_bf09d8e8	comment	Eye Colour Change: Book Gaunt's eyes change color depending on who he is talking to, and seems to adopt whatever color will soothe or ingratiate him to his clientele most. In one chapter with Ace Merrill, Ace even sees them as Kaleidoscope Eyes after he's already enthralled to Gaunt by force and there's no longer any reason to please the customer.
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Needful Things / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Needful Things / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: King has stated that Needful Things is all of the greedy, negative parts of the decade distilled down into one store.
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Needful Things / int_c15f1f71	type	Keeping the Handicap
Needful Things / int_c15f1f71	comment	Keeping the Handicap: Polly goes to Gaunt to get a magical cure for her crippling arthritis, but eventually she realizes his evil ways and refuses the cure:
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Needful Things / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Needful Things / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: In the novel, Ace Merrill goes out this way, courtesy of Norris.
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Needful Things / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
Needful Things / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Polly's Fatal Flaw and what Gaunt uses to turn her against Pangborn. She eventually snaps out of it.
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Needful Things / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Needful Things / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: TBS aired a version of the movie that was extended almost a full hour, restoring a ton a character scenes and story.
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Needful Things / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Needful Things / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: One of the few items Gaunt sells that seems to actually do anything at all is seemingly magical board game that lets "Buster" predict race winners. He earns a lot of money quickly and plans to use it to cover his embezzlement by reducing it to a level people could overlook, but then one of Alan's deputies plays a little "prank" that makes him go into full blown paranoia mode. He never recovers from this.
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Needful Things / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Needful Things / int_c70fc0a2	comment	Pretentious Latin Motto: The shop has this motto on the wall: I DO NOT ISSUE REFUNDS OR MAKE EXCHANGES CAVEAT EMPTOR! (Latin for "let the buyer beware".)
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Needful Things / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Needful Things / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The book contains several Shout Outs to the work of H. P. Lovecraft. Night-Gaunts are a fictional race that appears in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Gaunt says that he got his cocaine from the Plains of Leng, a place that appears in several Lovecraft stories, and later Gaunt sends Ace to a Cambridge slum that is heavily implied to be at least a part of Leng itself. While examining Gaunt's garage, Ace sees a graffiti that reads "Yog-Sothoth Rules". Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity in Lovecraft's work. It also contains several nods to Twin Peaks. The book has sometimes been described as Stephen King's version of Twin Peaks, being that it's about an apparently peaceful small town community full of colorful characters in which things are actually much darker than they seem and a demon entity is wreaking havoc. Specifically, not only is the show directly title dropped when Deputy Norris Ridgewick is compared to Deputy Andy, but it contains a subtler nod: the villain of the piece is called Leland Gaunt and claims to be from Akron, Ohio. Actor Ray Wise, who played Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, is from Akron, Ohio.
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Needful Things / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Needful Things / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Nettie Cobb endured years of abuse from her husband...until he broke one of her pieces of carnival glass and she stabbed him to death in his sleep. Father Brigham, the town's Catholic priest, has long since grown used to the anti-Catholic insults and slights and slurs he hears pretty regularly — it's part of the job, and they don't bother him too much. But Gaunt's machinations and the resulting "pranks" push him over the edge.
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Needful Things / int_c86392ee	type	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
Needful Things / int_c86392ee	comment	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Somewhat subverted, as the building itself was there yesterday and will be there tomorrow: it's run as a perfectly normal small town curio store, complete with "coming soon" signs before the grand opening and regular business hours. (Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment.) Less suspicious that way. However, it does seem to be mysteriously closed at inconvenient moments, with a different sign in the door each time. However, the fact that once Gaunt's decided to leave the store has a coating of dust thick enough to suggest the premises have been undisturbed for years, and the only footprints in it are those of the man whose discovered this worrying detail, makes it quite likely that the dozens of people who've walked through the door of Gaunt's shop have been somewhere else during their time there.
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Needful Things / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: One of the main conflicts is between the Catholics and the Baptists of the town, because the Catholics want to hold a "Casino Nite", and the Baptist minister fiercely opposes this, because (though he doesn't admit it) his father was a gambling addict who eventually killed himself.
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Needful Things / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Needful Things / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Gaunt is explicitly a supernatural being, and Alan is able to pull off a few magical stunts himself at the climax, but it's not clear whether the "ghost" of Polly's great-aunt Evvy is a true supernatural visitation or just her own subconscious.
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Needful Things / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
Needful Things / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Frank Jewett, the school principal is secretly a pedophile, and he's actually dumb enough to keep his collection of child pornography magazines in his own office, albeit in a locked drawer. The "prank" Sally Ratcliffe plays on him is to force that drawer open and scatter the magazines all over the floor of the office.
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Needful Things / int_d1f4d528	comment	Treasure Map: Ace buys a Treasure Map from Gaunt to his uncle's fortune. At least that's what he thinks. The treasure is trash and, while Ace refuses to accept it, it's implied that that his uncle never hid or invested his money at all and it simply burned with him.
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Needful Things / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Needful Things / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Two big examples, one of which makes it into the film and one of which does not. Hugh Priest initially comes across as more pathetic than loathsome, but what he does to Raider puts him up there with Wilma Jerzyck in the Asshole Victim category. Frank Jewett, who kills a parakeet with a steak knife at one point.
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Needful Things / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Needful Things / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Although Polly's parents heavily pressured her to either have her baby in secret and give up for adoption or marry the father out of fear that her rich great-aunt would disinherit them for the embarrassment, it turns out Evvy Chalmers is this. She's the most supportive member of Polly's family in the end, and is calmly practical, plus is the only person Polly feels immediately comfortable telling the whole story of her baby to. When Polly starts to have misgivings about her own "needful thing" and the fake letter saying Alan was investigating her, it starts as her imagining Aunt Evvy calling her out.
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Needful Things / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Needful Things / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Gaunt's biggest loss comes because his main magical power (the ability to make bits of junk become real things with real power provided someone believes that they're seeing exactly what they want) gets used against him when Pangborn's simple stage magic and shadow puppets take on real power in Gaunt's presence.
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Needful Things / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Needful Things / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Eleven-year-old Brian has a crush on the teacher of his speech therapy class, Sally Ratcliffe.
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Needful Things / int_d3e9483a	type	Non-Fatal Explosions
Needful Things / int_d3e9483a	comment	Non-Fatal Explosions: Averted. Frank Jewett and George Nelson do NOT escape after their last-minute reconciliation.
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Needful Things / int_d5e6c609	type	Sleight of Handiness
Needful Things / int_d5e6c609	comment	Sleight of Handiness: Alan Pangborn is seen performing simple sleight-of-hand tricks and shadow puppets throughout the novel; when he finally confronts Leland Gaunt at the climax, he finds himself tapping into Gaunt's magic, and his tricks become real (attacking Gaunt with shadow-puppets of sparrows and a certain legendarily vicious St. Bernard).
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Needful Things / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Needful Things / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Gaunt, unusually for a Stephen King villain, does most of his evil work by having his customers play "pranks" on various townspeople in such a way that plays up their various feuds and insecurities to the point where people have turned against each other, committed murder, and even been Driven to Suicide. He ups the ante a tad bit in the final act by selling guns to the now-enraged residents of the town that have bullets that are laced with some sort of poison that will eventually kill a person, even if they are wounded in a non-fatal area, but still he leaves it up to the residents to kill each other, he just makes it easier.
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Needful Things / int_d7d38c53	type	Lonely Doll Girl
Needful Things / int_d7d38c53	comment	Lonely Doll Girl: Myrtle Keeton likes to be alone with the dolls she collects because they don't call her stupid, unlike her husband. This is adapted out in the movie, which seems to merge her character with the snooty Lenore Potter to make Buster more sympathetic.
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Needful Things / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Needful Things / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Visiting with the King, i.e. masturbating to a magic picture of Elvis that transports you to a dreamworld with him.
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Needful Things / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Needful Things / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: We see hints of this with Alan Pangborn when he reveals uncanny reflexes, and at one point Polly is incredulous that a man as big as him can move so quickly. He's so fast that at the climax, he can take Gaunt by surprise. Subverted with movie Pangborn, who is allowed to save Brian Rusk only to be unceremoniously shot in the climax.
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Needful Things / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Needful Things / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Everybody calls Patricia Chalmers "Polly", except for her Aunt Evvie, who called her Trisha.
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Needful Things / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
Needful Things / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: When Cora Rusk angrily storms to Needful Things to see Mr. Gaunt after her visit with the King has been rudely interrupted by the presence of another woman, she doesn't realize that her nightgown is only partially buttoned and showing her privates until Mr. Gaunt points it out to her. She doesn't even bother to button up even after it's been pointed out.
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Needful Things / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Needful Things / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Leland Gaunt, of Iago, playing people off each other with flattery and slyness, and sowing discord for no discernible human purpose other than that he finds it "diverting" and it's second nature to him by this point. Alan Pangborn also mentally compares his twisted sense of humor to that of the Joker, and the description lines up there, too: he's a tall, lean trickster with a penchant for violence and a disturbingly wide smile, feigning kindness when things are going his way and flying off the handle when they aren't. He even has a Jokermobile of sorts in the Talisman.
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Needful Things / int_ead6df56	type	Kaleidoscope Eyes
Needful Things / int_ead6df56	comment	Kaleidoscope Eyes: The first clue of Gaunt's supernatural nature is that his eye color is always what his current customer finds the most attractive.
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Needful Things / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Needful Things / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: After playing from behind for much of the novel, Alan Pangborn finally gets to go one-on-one vs. Gaunt. While he doesn't kill Gaunt, because he doesn't have the power, he does seriously incapacitate him, gets all the souls back that Gaunt took, and forces Gaunt to flee. Norris Ridgewick of all people gets one in the finale as well. Ace Merrill takes Polly hostage during the final confrontation and Norris Ridgewick pulls a Boom, Headshot! on him from a distance.
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Needful Things / int_edf841f6	type	Worthless Treasure Twist
Needful Things / int_edf841f6	comment	Worthless Treasure Twist: Pop Merrill's treasure map. When Ace follows it, all he finds is weird porn, expired coupons and a collection of semi-rare coins only worth about a hundred dollars.
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Needful Things / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Needful Things / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Buster Keeton in the film.
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Needful Things / int_f273b1cb	type	Devil in Plain Sight
Needful Things / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: Mr. Gaunt, who uses his affability to his advantage. At first, even the reader is led to believe that he is just a nice guy who owns a little shop that has anything a person would desire and is willing to sell you the thing you desire for a bargain and the only ones who would think otherwise are readers familiar with Stephen King's formula. There are also multiple hints that he is up to no good and may not even be human even from the beginning, yet no one except Brian, and the only one he tells is his little brother before he shoots himself right in front of him, realizes that he's a malign influence until after bodies start piling up.
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Needful Things / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Needful Things / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Ace does this to Buster in the book, after Norris shoots him in the stomach.
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Needful Things / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Needful Things / int_f76842b1	comment	Implied with The Fundamentalist Sally Ratcliffe, who feels unusually excited after playing her prank on Frank Jewett.
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Needful Things / int_f9971b12	type	Mile-High Club
Needful Things / int_f9971b12	comment	Mile-High Club: In one of Myra's visions about Elvis, they're having sex on his private jet, the "Lisa Marie".
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Needful Things / int_f9c3ecc6	type	Series Fauxnale
Needful Things / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnale: The original front cover billed the book as "the last Castle Rock story", but King has brought it back for several stories that were published later. It still remains the last solo full-length novel of King's to be set in Castle Rock, in part because the town is nearly razed to the ground in the climax.
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Needful Things / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Needful Things / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Hinted at in the book when Gaunt advises Ace not to make him mad. Ace asks if he would "Hulk out", and though Gaunt seems annoyed at first, yes, he assents, he would "Hulk Out". And later, when Ace does make him angry, Gaunt's face turns into "a horror of eyes and teeth" blowing steam, his hands become talons and he threatens to disembowel Ace.
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Needful Things / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Needful Things / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Nettie and possibly Polly, near the end.
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Needful Things / int_fd0925ef	type	Bitch Alert
Needful Things / int_fd0925ef	comment	Bitch Alert: Wilma Jerzyck. She bullies anyone she can get away with (a favorite target is Nettie Cobb, a victim of Domestic Abuse who killed her husband and spent time in an asylum), is mean as shit to a husband she doesn't love (she would leave him in a heartbeat in the unlikely event that pro wrestler Jay Strongbow expressed an interest in her), and has a Hair-Trigger Temper.
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Needful Things / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Needful Things / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: In the extended version of the film, one of the very first things that Gaunt does when he arrives in Castle Rock is shear the door off of Norris' police cruiser and nearly hit both him and Pangborn with his Mercedes, then goad the latter into a pursuit.
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Needful Things / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Needful Things / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: After Gaunt is defeated, Reverend Willie and Father Brigham (who had just been trying to kill each other) are seen, badly injured, leaning on each other for support.
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