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A series of novels written by Patricia Highsmith that chronicle the life of the title character Ripley, a charming and utterly sociopathic man. All evidence much black humor, and are notable as inverted mysteries in which Ripley always gets away with his crimes in the end. The Talented Mr. Ripley Ripley Under Ground Ripley's Game The Boy Who Followed Ripley Ripley Under WaterThe labels Affably Evil, Sociopathic Hero and Villain Protagonist describe Ripley well, and every novel after the first invokes Villains Out Shopping by depicting Ripley's affluent life in the French countryside, beloved by his servants and engaging in artistic pursuits. Ripley is also somewhat Ambiguously Gay (or rather, explicitly states he just doesn't know what he is), although it could be argued that, like Dexter, he is simply a rather warped Chaste Hero, having difficulty forming any kind of relationship given his psychological problems. | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste: Ripley's preferred targets and done so he can take up their own lives of privilege. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: While the books are narrated in third-person, everything is essentially from Ripley's perspective as he has the Sympathetic P.O.V., and thus his reasoning for his various crimes are presented as legitimate. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: One of Ripley's criminal contacts is a gangster, Reeves Minot, whose handsome features are marred by a nasty scar on his face, which he attempts to explain away with various unconvincing stories. | |
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The Nondescript | |
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The Nondescript: Tom has a 'bland face', being conventionally handsome but lacking any distinguishing traits, which comes in handy when he impersonates someone. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Ripley tries to avoid killing people unless absolutely necessary, first trying to get them to cooperate with his schemes. The only people he ever kills without any guilt are some gangsters in Ripley's Game. Ripley Under Water has this as a major part of its Evil Versus Evil plot, where Ripley's peaceful life is threatened by a nasty Inspector Javert who is a wife-beater and ugly American who while ironically on the side of good (he tries to expose Ripley's murders), is mostly interested in the sadistic pleasure in hurting others. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: As the series progresses, Ripley develops from an insecure petty criminal to a remorseless murderer to a charismatic anti-hero with a strange code of ethics. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Tom. While generally amicable, he's a master at getting people to do what he wants. In the film in particular, the scene where he engineers a meeting between Marge and Meredith so that they can realize that Dickie is a jerk who's been stringing them both along and thus make Marge give up on trying to find out what's happened to him. In truth, he's been posing as Dickie while courting Meredith. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: In The Talented Mr. Ripley, Marge wears a fur coat and hat. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: Used for all of the French characters who call Ripley "Tome". | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Italy, obviously. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Ripley may be a liar, conman, and murderer, but he really is polite and charming and he only hurts people (by killing or manipulation) if he absolutely has to or if they pose a threat to him. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Marge is a sententious homophobe, but she correctly intuits that there's something less than platonic about Tom's fixation with Dickie. | |
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Master Actor | |
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Master Actor: Tom can play Dickie, Derwatt, etc. | |
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Dead Person Impersonation | |
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Dead Person Impersonation: Ripley's MO in the first two novels. | |
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Missed Him by That Much | |
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Missed Him by That Much: Tom uses this to keep up the illusion that Dickie is alive and that his disappearance is the result of him willfully abandoning Marge. | |
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Reclusive Artist | |
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invokedReclusive Artist: In Ripley Underground, the painter Phillip Derwatt has been living off the grid for years. Some time into his isolation, he commits suicide. His friends cover up his suicide, initially just to protect his reputation, but later so they can keep selling new paintings supposedly painted by Phillip. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Bernard in the film adaptation of Ripley Under Ground. | |
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Dead Artists Are Better | |
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Dead Artists Are Better: Played with in Ripley Under Ground, in that it features Ripley as part of a scam to produce further works of an artist unsuccessful in life who killed himself at a young age, and Ripley ends up masquerading as the artist. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Ripley. Despite all the horrible things he's done, there's something incredibly pitiful about him and it's implied he doesn't actually like what he does and it's a compulsion he is unable to resist. An excellent example of this occurs in the first book. He gets so violently ill he can't stand or leave his hotel room, but still crawls around on the floor following sun beams, hoping that they'll tan him so he fits in better. This line the movie: | |
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Entertainingly Wrong | |
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Entertainingly Wrong: In the first book, Ripley has to become Tom again in part because the authorities suspect that Dickie murdered Tom. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Ripley seems to think Marge is a dumb blonde in the first book. She's the first one to suspect that Tom isn't quite what he seems in Mongibello, but she fails to connect the dots in the second half of the book, and in fact becomes much friendlier towards him by the end. | |
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Good with Numbers | |
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Good with Numbers: Even when drunk Tom can tell if he's being cheated. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Except for the film Purple Noon, where he just barely misses pulling one of these off. | |
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Alter-Ego Acting | |
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Alter-Ego Acting: In The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom is able to both convincingly take Dickie Greenleaf's identity, and portray an exaggerated version of him before the same police officers who saw him as Dickie and get away with it. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
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Strong Family Resemblance: Dickie's cousin Chris, a guest of Ripley's in the second book, strongly resembles his late cousin. Given how Ripley killed Dickie, this causes him some anxiety. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Ripley was an orphan brought up by his emotionally abusive aunt. As such, he greatly resents people like Dickie who have far more privileged lives and opportunities but take them for granted. | |
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Supporting Protagonist | |
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Supporting Protagonist: In Ripley's Game, Ripley becomes this to the actual main character, Jonathan Trevanny. | |
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Never Suicide | |
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Never Suicide: Tom lays a careful series of letters and clues that hint at the possibility Dickie committed suicide. In the film, he outright forges a suicide note from Dickie to provide everyone with an explanation for his disappearance. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Many readers suspect that Ripley may have closeted homosexual tendencies — there are homoerotic overtones in his relationships with, in particular, Dickie in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Frank Pierson in The Boy Who Followed Ripley, and his relationship in the later books with his wife Heloise is notably lacking in sexual passion. | |
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The Charmer | |
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The Charmer: Ripley. This is standard for any good conman but it's shown that it isn't a facade or at least it isn't entirely one. He genuinely is charming, polite and doesn't hurt people unless he has to. | |
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Inspector Javert | |
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Inspector Javert: Ripley is often dogged by someone on to his crimes, but if they're police he ultimately escapes them, and if not, likely kills them. | |
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Devil in Plain Sight | |
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Devil in Plain Sight: Ripley is a version of this from the second book onward, as he has a lot of suspicion attached to himself but no one has ever been able to pin any crimes on him. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: Along with Dickie's devil-may-care attitude towards life, this is the main reason Tom is able to get away with his crime, as everyone, even the intelligent and experienced private detective assumes that Dickie has simply abandoned everything and everyone from his past. | |
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Little Black Dress | |
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Little Black Dress: In The Talented Mr. Ripley, Marge wears a black dress and stole to a party. | |
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