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The Ring

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The Ring	comment	The Ring is a series of novels by Japanese writer Koji Suzuki that details a mysterious curse caused by a woman named Sadako Yamamura. The novel may have been inspired by two M.R. James ghost stories, notably The Mezzotint and another one, Martin's Close, about a murdered girl in a lake who returns to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave. Physical appearance of the baleful spirit closely resembles an onryo, a traditional Japanese type of ghost on which Wikipedia has more here. Also, some books on psychic phenomena mention a Japanese woman (first name Shizuko) who performed "spirit photography" on stage in the early 20th century.The series has been adapted several times in different medias, most notably films, but also TV, radio drama, and video games in Japan, North America, and South Korea. While uniformly thriller, the novels have a more science fiction slant, whereas the adaptations tend to lean more on the Horror part. Indeed, the 1998 Japanese film adaptation has been credited for launching the popularity of J-Horror worldwide, while its 2002 American remake was the cause for the so-called "J-Horror remake craze" in the United States in the 2000s.The novels: Ring (1991) Spiral (1995) - The direct sequel to Ring. Loop (1998) - The third story, known for completely changing the way readers see the story. Birthday (1999) - Short story collection; including a prequel to Ring (Lemon Heart), a P.O.V. Sequel to Spiral (Coffin in the Sky) and a sequel to Loop (Happy Birthday). S (2012) - The fourth story, a follow-up to Spiral. Tide (2013) - The fifth story, follow-up to Loop.The Japanese TV series: Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) - An adaptation of the first novel, but takes a lot of liberties with the story, also adapting some elements from the second novel. Rasen (1999) - The sequel series. A very loose adaptation of the second novel, mostly telling an original story.The Japanese movies: Ring: Kanzenban (1995) - A Made-for-TV movie and the first adaptation of the Ring novel. Sticks fairly close to the source material. Ring (1998) - An adaptation of the first novel that heavily emphasized the supernatural horror elements of the story. Rasen (1998) - aka Spiral, an adaptation of the second novel. In a strange marketing decision, it was released as a double-bill with â€œRingâ€�, but it followed the opposite approach, focusing more on the sci-fi aspects of its source material. The result being that â€œRingâ€� was preferred BY FAR to this, its original sequel. Ring 2 (1999) - Another sequel to Ring, ignoring the events of Rasen and instead following an original story. Ring 0: Birthday (2000) - An adaptation of Lemon Heart, one of the short stories in Birthday. Sadako 3D (2012) - A Continuity Reboot to the Japanese series. A sequel to Rasen. Very loosely based on S. Sadako 3D 2 (2013) - A sequel to Sadako 3D. Sadako vs. Kayako (2016) - A crossover with Ju-on. Sadako (2019) - Loosely based on Tide. Sadako DX (2022)The American movies: The Ring (2002) - A faithful remake of the 1998 Japanese adaptation of Ring. Rings (2005) - A short film based in-between the first and second films. The Ring Two (2005) - Sequel to The Ring and follows an original story. Directed by the Japanese films' creator Hideo Nakata. Rings (2017) - A sequel to The Ring Two.The South Korean movie: The Ring Virus (1999) - The only South Korean adaptation. Heavily inspired by the Japanese film, but sticks much closer to the original novel.Manga Ring (1996) - A manga adaptation of the first novel. Ring (1998) - A two-volume adaptation of the Japanese film. Ring 2 (1999) - An adaptation of the film Ring 2. Ring 3: Rasen (1999) - An adaptation of Spiral. Ring 4: Birthday (1999) - An adaptation of the short story collection Birthday. Omits the titular short story and instead features an original story in its place. Ring 0: Birthday (2000) - An adaptation of the film Ring 0. Sadako at the End of the World (2019) - A series about two girls who befriend Sadako after finding the tape in post-apocalypse ruins. Sadako-san and Sadako-chan (2019) - A series about Sadako being befriended by a little girl also named Sadako, who helps her adjust to the modern world since TV's and videotapes have been replaced by digital screens.Radio Kadokawa Drama Renaissance: Ring (1996) - A 12 episode radio drama that aired on TBS. Adapts the first novel but borrows some elements from Spiral and takes a lot of liberties to fit the aural medium. Fright Night: Ring (2015) - A British radio theatre adaptation by the BBC.The video games: The Ring: Terror's Realm - A Survival Horror game for the Sega Dreamcast. Ring Infinity - A Visual Novel Point-and-Click Game for the WonderSwan.Related works: Dead by Daylight - On December 14, 2021, it was announced that Chapter 23 will be based on Ring, more specifically the 1998 film. The chapter is represented by Sadako as the Killer and adult Yoichi Asakawa as the Survivor, and was released on March 8, 2022.
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The Ring / int_10dffb47	type	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl
The Ring / int_10dffb47	comment	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Sadako/Eun-Suh/Samara, who, along with Kayako Saeki from Ju-on, revitalized and popularized this concept in modern media.
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The Ring / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Ring / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: The Rasen TV series features a secondary antagonist, an enigmatic mastermind called "The King of Terror" who plans to use Sadako's curse to destroy the world, that has no counterpart in the novels.
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The Ring / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
The Ring / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: The ring symbol appears everywhere in the first American movie.
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The Ring / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Ring / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Sadako is an adult at the time of her death in the novels and Japanese films, as is her South Korean counterpart Park Eun-Suh. But Samara, her counterpart in the American films is only a child. Happens both ways with Ryuji Takayama. In the novel he is said to be 32 years old but Ring: Kanzenban makes him middle-aged (his actor Yoshino Harada was 55 years old at the time) while Ring: The Final Chapter makes him significantly younger (actor Tomoya Nagase was 21 years old).
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The Ring / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Ring / int_1235f055	comment	In Ring 2, Okazaki doesn't watch, copy and pass on the tape, in spite of promising Kanae (who had watched and copied it) that he would. This could be interpreted as either cowardice on his part, or perhaps as a way of attempting to halt the curse (or maybe even both). However, after Kanae's demise, she returns as a vengeful spirit to haunt Okazaki and drive him insane, and it is also implied that this starts an entirely new curse.
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The Ring / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Ring / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Very few characters survive the series, in fact, in the Japanese film series, only around four characters survive the films, excluding Rasen since characters are resurrected.
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The Ring / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Ring / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Koji Suzuki, the books' author, appeared in Rasen.
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The Ring / int_12e0bb9	type	Urban Legends
The Ring / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: In the Japanese series the tape itself has earned this status, which explains why some of the kids' descriptions of the tape are so different from what is actually shown on the tape - they heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend, and so on. As a result of the tape's status, Reiko and a co-worker discuss various other famous Japanese urban legends, including a reference to Kuchisake-Onna. It's also acquired this status in the American franchise even before the second movie.
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The Ring / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Ring / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Downplayed in the first US film, where pages of Katie's journal are shown briefly and one of them is filled with "mirror mirror mirror [...]".
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The Ring / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Ring / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Mai has one in the first movie, after discovering Ryuji's corpse. Reiko finds her in a state of shock and unmoving in Ryuji's apartment, even after his body has been taken away. She snaps out of it in time for the sequels. From the same film, Reiko has a small one when she returns to her own apartment, simply slumping into a chair for a while. She snaps out of it when she discovers just why she survived and Ryuji didn't.
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The Ring / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Ring / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The Japanese trailer for the first movie completely spoils the now-famous scene of Sadako emerging from the TV screen.
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The Ring / int_17257125	type	The Wild West
The Ring / int_17257125	comment	The Wild West: In Loop, Kaoru's search for the MHC cure leads him to the American West. His mother, a graduate of American studies, asks him to identify "the Ancient One", a figure from Native American legends who reputedly can make one immortal. Kaoru stumbles upon a VR set in an abandoned village and witnesses the life of a Native American tribe during the 19th century.
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The Ring / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Ring / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: To an extent, anyway â€” Ring 0, while still considered a horror movie, is much more of a drama with supernatural/horror elements than the previous two movies. The whole movie adaptations are this compared to the novels, which are more sci-fi than horror. Loop (as well as Happy Birthday, which follows it), in particular, is more of a cyberpunk fiction, unlike anything else in the series.
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The Ring / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Ring / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Shortly before the first US remake was released, a few websites about it were made public. They had parts of documents, such as medical records and newspaper and magazine articles, which explained backstories of some characters, particularly the Morgans. Some parts of these documents appear briefly in the film itself.
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The Ring / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Ring / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: LOOP was originally designed to simulate the origin of the universe, then expanded to become a subject for scientists to observe how life evolved. However, it ended up creating the Ring virus, which became a major disease when it somehow escaped into the real world.
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The Ring / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
The Ring / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Played in the US films when distorted faces of Samara's victims are shown. Also appears in the Japanese version when we see Tomoko's corpse, when Yoichi is caught watching the tape by Reiko, and when we see Sadako's eye.
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The Ring / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Ring / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The iron nails on the cursed videotape of the US remake symbolize Samara's loss of her fingernails when she tried to climb out of the well she died in. Several objects, such as chairs and ladder, on the cursed video are isolated in the US version. This may symbolize Samara's isolation in the hospital and the barn.
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The Ring / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
The Ring / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The Series. It's worth noting that while the film adaptations do retain the novels' explanation of the curse being caused by a virus, their shift to horror means that a lot of the details ended up being left out, increasing the horror part (the books are more sci fi). The novels explain, in detail, the origin and chronology of the virus. The ring virus is the produce of the smallpox virus mixing with Sadako's body. Smallpox was eradicated in the 1970s, so it had to evolve to become relevant again. Meanwhile, Sadako was the product of a broken home, her life destroyed by the media. Both beings had inherent hatred against the world in general and "mated" with one another so they could take revenge, latching onto a TV screen with a VCR tape recording it, creating the cursed tape. Because its method to multiply was unwittingly erased by Kazuyuki's niece and her friends, the virus mutates into two strains, an active and dormant one, when Kazuyuki copies it for Ryuji. The active virus, which has a ring shape, will invariably kill its host in seven days, with no way of removing it. The dormant virus, which is shaped like a spermatozoa, will not kill its host unless they are an ovulating female, in which case it will infect their ovum and transform it into a Sadako clone. The active virus can transform into dormant if the host helps it propagate, as what is happening to Kazuyuki, while Sadako implies that she can will the dormant virus to active if she wants to, though she never acts on the threat. Because all of the tapes are destroyed in Spiral, the virus mutates into a written form, making Kazuyuki's report on Sadako its new host. Since books can be spread much quicker than VCR tapes, the whole world is predicted to be enveloped in the virus in a matter of years. In Loop, it is revealed that the ring virus escaped from LOOP into the real world when Ryuji Takayama was cloned into the real world. It infected a bacteria and mutated again, this time into an immortal cancer which cannot be removed in any way. The only cure of the virus lies in the man who brought it, now known as Kaoru Futami.
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The Ring / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Ring / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Shizu Asakawa's parents agree to watch the tape to save their daughter and granddaughter and vow not to pass the tapes to someone else. Shizu and Yoko end up dying to the virus anyway.
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The Ring / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Ring / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Sadako's, Eun-Suh's and Samara's fingers are lacking nails, due to repeated (failed) attempts to climb out of the well. In particular, Sadako's nail-less fingers are shown in extreme closeup in the first movie. In the first American movie, Samara's cursed tape features images of twitching severed fingers in a box, and a finger being impaled on a tack so that the whole nail is pushed loose.
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The Ring / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Ring / int_1fc8335e	comment	In the American remake, it's implied that Samara was created through some sort of Deal with the Devil (although the Morgans do claim she was adopted). In the sequel to that, we meet her biological mother.
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The Ring / int_20e6d1c5	type	Running on All Fours
The Ring / int_20e6d1c5	comment	Running on All Fours: Well, not so much running as moving at a creepy pace, but this is how Sadako / Samara exit the well on the tape.
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The Ring / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Ring / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the novel Ryuji Takayama, while an unpleasant person, genuinely wants to help Asakawa lift the curse and provides a lot of crucial help, plus he's an Adaptational Nice Guy in most adaptations. Ring: The Final Chapter however makes him aloof and mostly unhelpful, playing mind games with Asakawa and Yoshino, and eventually pulls a full Faceâ€“Heel Turn as it is revealed he's Sadako's son and her Unwitting Pawn. Sadako's father Dr. Heihachiro Ikuma seems to have had a good relationship with his daughter in the novel, as she cared for him as he was dying of tuberculosis. In the Japanese film he's the one responsible for throwing Sadako down the well. Takashi Yamamura is helpful to Asakawa in the novel and Japanese film, and is remorseful for the part he played in Sadako's Start of Darkness. In Ring: The Final Chapter he's suspicious and unhelpful, and tries to have Asakawa and Yoshino killed when they find out too much. Samara Morgan in the American films gets hit with this, compared to Sadako Yamamura, as she is implied to have been evil in life as well. Sadako's mother Shizuka Yamamura is treated as a tragic figure in most versions of the story, and seems to have been a loving mother by the accounts given. Anna Morgan, her American counterpart, was an abusive parent and the one responsible for throwing Samara down the well.
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The Ring / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
The Ring / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: In The Ring, even though they are not related, in terms of appearance, Samara resembles Anna: both have long dark hair, dark eyes, and light skin.
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The Ring / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The Ring / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The publication of Birthday apparently marked the end of the series, and, due to the nature of the novel (it's an anthology), that meant the true ending of the series was Loop, which perfectly made a trilogy with Ring and Spiral and in fact also closed all current plot threads ( The vaccine for the Ring virus is finally found in Loop). And suddenly, out of the blue, the novel S was released in 2012. No, not the film Sadako 3D (whose release date was in fact set to coincide with the former), S. And it's not a standalone novel either, since it focuses on a minor character from Spiral who was dead once but returned back. And it's followed by another sequel, Tide, which was released in 2013.
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The Ring / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Ring / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The protagonist's copy of the tape.
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The Ring / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
The Ring / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: Ryuji Takayama is a university lecturer in the novel and Japanese film. Choi Yeol, his counterpart in the South Korean film is instead a coroner while his American counterpart Noah Clay is a photographer. Downplayed in Ring: Kanzenban; Ryuji is still a university lecturer but his field is research into the paranormal, while the original version is a strict man of science that teaches quantificational logic. Mitsuo Ando, the protagonist of Spiral, is a medical doctor in the novel and film. In the TV series, he's a high school science teacher. Kazuyuki Asakawa and his counterparts are journalists in every version of the story except the radio drama, where he (fittingly) is a radio host instead.
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The Ring / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Ring / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: After learning of Ruyji's death in the first film, Reiko asks "Why was I the only one saved?" In the climax of Ring 2, the ghost of Sadako climbs up the well after Mai, but all that happens is she asks the similar "Why we you the only one saved?" before letting Mai and Yoichi escape.
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The Ring / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
The Ring / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: In the novels, Kazuyuki and Ryuji are simply friends, with Kazuyuki having a wife and daughter. Since the movie flips Kazuyuki's gender to female, it's quite convenient to make Kazuyuki's counterpart, Reiko, be Ryuji's ex-wife, with Yoichi being their son. Ryuji Takayama and Mai Takano are in a relationship (although Mai says their relationship was never physical the novel, in most adaptations it's explicitly romantic). In Ring: The Final Chapter they are siblings instead. In Ring: The Final Chapter, Ryuji Takayama turns out to be Sadako's biological son.
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The Ring / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Ring / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Two of the first victims are teenagers, Ando's three-year-old son died in a freak accident years ago, Kazuyuki's one year old daughter ends up becoming claimed by the virus, and Reiko's 10-year-old son commits suicide onscreen.
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The Ring / int_26a9afaa	type	The New '10s
The Ring / int_26a9afaa	comment	Loop is set sometime during The New '10s, but the book was published back in 1998.
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The Ring / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Ring / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: A couple in Sadako 3D. Akane's boyfriend is called Takanori Ando; a name shared with Mitsuo Ando's son in Spiral. This is actually a remnant from the novel the film is based on, S, which is a sequel to Spiral, as in that novel, Takanori is literally Ando's son all grown up (S is set 25 years after Spiral, where Takanori was 3, so he's 28 here.) Seiji Kashiwada's landlady comments that "everything in this world is fake", referencing the plot twist for the third book Loop. The hospital that Takanori works in in Sadako 3D 2 is called the Asakawa General Hospital. Asakawa is the surname for the protagonist of Ring, both novel and film. The copy of the cursed tape in the remake was the same prop from the original.
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The Ring / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Ring / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Kazuyuki's role in the series has been nothing but this. He attempts to save himself and his family from the curse by solving it, in the process dragging his friend, Ryuji, along. Then Ryuji dies and Kazuyuki learns that he already saved himself when he showed the copy of the tape to Ryuji. However, he fails to use this information to save his family, and afterwards, he crashes his car and becomes catatonic, ultimately dying several days later. He does have an impact, though, namely by allowing his brother to transcript his recordings into paper form, thus spreading the curse further.
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The Ring / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Ring / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: In the movie version, Sadako is thrown down a well by her own (adoptive) father. For Samara, her American counterpart, her birth mother and adoptive mother both tried to kill her (the second one even succeeded).
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The Ring / int_2847a9f9	type	Mother Nature, Father Science
The Ring / int_2847a9f9	comment	Mother Nature, Father Science: In Loop, Kaoru's father is a mathematician, while his mother majored in American studies.
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The Ring / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Ring / int_28cd01ca	comment	Taken even further in the US version with Noah, who is far nicer, is clearly on (somewhat) good terms with Rachel, eventually believes Rachel after a point, and is also very knowledgeable about video and happily provides explanations to her about it. His only major character flaw is that he is an absent father to his son Aidan.
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The Ring / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Ring / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Sadako's mother threw herself into a volcano after a public manifestation of Sadako's powers. Samara's mother threw herself off a cliff some indeterminate time after killing Samara. In the Japanese movie, Asakawa decides that the best way to save her son is to show the Cursed Video to her own, willing father, and then she dies in the sequel so her son carries on for her (novel-version Asakawa chooses his wife's parents instead, but they all die in a crash anyway.) Poor Nagi also has both of her parents not there for her (her mother, Akane is comatose while fighting Sadako from the inside and later dies, while her father, Takanori, is just too in grief to take care of her). Luckily, she still has her aunt, Fuko, who practically takes both roles. Fuko and Takanori themselves also suffer this, since their mother committed suicide, while their father isn't mentioned at all.
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The Ring / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
The Ring / int_29a39f6	comment	The special edition DVD of the American film has an Easter Egg that plays an extended cut of the cursed tape...while disabling your remote control throughout it. Once finished, the sound effect of a ringing phone is played.
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The Ring / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Ring / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The multitudinous adaptations of the novel are lampshaded by Sadako in the second novel, Spiral, where the events of the first have been dramatised from Asakawa's notes, and adapted to every form under the sun. And they all carry the curse.
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The Ring / int_2bd44a0f	type	Hermaphrodite
The Ring / int_2bd44a0f	comment	Hermaphrodite: Sadako, in the novel (not in most adaptations), has Androgen insensitivity syndrome, an intersex condition that causes the woman affected to be born with a vagina, but with XY chromosomes, no uterus, and internal testes where the ovaries would typically be.
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The Ring / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Ring / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Rachel in the first American movie.
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The Ring / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
The Ring / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Jotaro Nagao, the doctor who tries to rape Sadako in the novels, gets this when he learns Sadako is intersex. Most adaptations forgo this twist.
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The Ring / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Ring / int_2d4fa515	comment	In Sadako 3D 2, Kakiuchi commits suicide after killing Akane. Sure, it might be because he is Ax-Crazy by this point, but it's not hard to think that he just wants to die on his own terms, rather than have Nagi and/or Sadako do the job.
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The Ring / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
The Ring / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Rachel takes one in the first U.S. movie.
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The Ring / int_2f074524	type	Enigmatic Minion
The Ring / int_2f074524	comment	The mysterious Enigmatic Minion referred to as the Towel Man never shows his face, nor is his identity ever revealed. It has been guessed he is either Ryuji Takayama or Hiroshi Toyama (or possibly even both), or a symbolic reference to the unknown identity of Sadako's father in the films.
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The Ring / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Ring / int_2f329e3c	comment	In Loop, it is revealed that the ring virus escaped from LOOP into the real world when Ryuji Takayama was cloned into the real world. It infected a bacteria and mutated again, this time into an immortal cancer which cannot be removed in any way. The only cure of the virus lies in the man who brought it, now known as Kaoru Futami.
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The Ring / int_3094ec26	type	Artifact of Death
The Ring / int_3094ec26	comment	Artifact of Death: The cursed tape. Anyone who watches it will die in a week. The ending of Spiral has Asakawa's journal. Reading the script infects the reader with the broken ring virus (dubbed in the fifth book as the "S-type virus", because it resembles the letter S), which itself isn't fatal unless the reader happens to be an ovulating female. In that case, they would be impregnated with and give birth to a Sadako clone within a week.
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The Ring / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Ring / int_309b8806	comment	Akane, too, in Sadako 3D, though it crosses a bit with Cursed with Awesome, since her supersonic screams were what killed the lunatic who threatened her and her friends back when she was young, and they also destroyed all of those Sadako clones at the end. But it still fits, since it ostracized her, and ultimately, the reason why Sadako wants her to be her host.
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The Ring / int_30d2689a	type	Ominous Visual Glitch
The Ring / int_30d2689a	comment	Ominous Visual Glitch: After someone watches the videotape and is marked for death by Sadako/Eun-Suh/Samara, any attempt to take their picture results in their face appearing distorted.
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The Ring / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Ring / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Shizuka, Asakawa's wife, is removed from all adaptations except Ring: Kanzenban. The radio drama and Ring: The Final Chapter has Asakawa being a widower, and his counterparts in the film adaptations are all single mothers. Asakawa's daughter Yoko is removed in Ring: Kanzenban, his wife instead being pregnant with their first child. Likely done to simplify the narrative and avoiding the hassle of dealing with a small child actress on a TV budget. Yoshino, Asakawa's journalist colleague and tritagonist in the novel, has no counterpart in the American film. Dr. Jotaro Nagao, the man who raped Sadako and threw her down the well in the novel, is absent in all three theatrical film adaptations. In the Japanese and American films, the Rape as Backstory is removed and Sadako/Samara was instead thrown down the well by her father and mother, respectively. In the South Korean film Eun-Suh is instead raped and killed by her half-brother Kyeong-pil.
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The Ring / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Ring / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Kazuyuki Asakawa, the protagonist in the novel, is a man. While Ring: Kanzenban, the radio drama and Ring: The Final Chapter kept him male, his counterparts in the Japanese film and its South Korean and American remakes are all female. Asakawa has an infant daughter named Yoko in the novel. In the Japanese and American film as well as Ring: The Final Chapter, the protagonists instead have a son of elementary school age. Only the South Korean film keeps the protagonist having a daughter. Ryuji Takayama's counterpart in the radio drama is a woman named Ryoko Izumi. Yoshino, Asakawa's journalist colleague is female in Ring: The Final Chapter and Promoted to Love Interest. Miyashita, a male character from Spiral, is instead a woman named Reiko Miyashita in Ring: The Final Chapter.
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The Ring / int_3687d605	type	Rapid Aging
The Ring / int_3687d605	comment	Rapid Aging: People who are cloned through Sadako will rapidly grow to the age of their original counterpart, after which they begin to age normally. As an instance, Ryuji grows to a thirty-something man within the span of several weeks after he is reborn.
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The Ring / int_36fa0cc	type	Clones Are People, Too
The Ring / int_36fa0cc	comment	Clones Are People, Too: In S, Ryuji contemplated killing off the last of the Sadako clones, but eventually figured out that the world isn't in much danger from just four clones. Takanori ponders if he should leave Akane after deducing that she is a Sadako clone, but then realizes that her predicament isn't much different from him being a resurrected person, and he is also too much in love with her to heartlessly abandon her like that (this is before Akane is revealed to be fathered by Ryuji, of course).
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The Ring / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Ring / int_38326b11	comment	Clone Degeneration: The Sadako clones are biologically perfect; as intersex they don't need a mate to reproduce and all of their children are exact copies of themselves. However, genetically similar people are much more susceptible to mutation, be it good or bad, so if a degenerative mutation passes on to one of them, everyone else will catch it in no time. In fact, this what what causes LOOP to be shut down, because everything there, from humans to animals to plants, are in danger of being affected by Sadako's genes and, by extension, defective mutation.
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The Ring / int_396579	type	Invincible Boogeymen
The Ring / int_396579	comment	Invincible Boogeymen: Sadako, Eun-Suh and Samara are utterly unstoppable: once you've seen the cursed tape, your death is totally assured. When the ghost herself finally appears in person to claim a victim, she cannot be fought in any way.
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The Ring / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
The Ring / int_3a4522df	comment	PietÃ Plagiarism: In the 2002 American remake, when Rachel finds Samara's corpse in the bottom of the well, she cradles it like the Madonna holds Jesus after being taken down from the crucifix.
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The Ring / int_3a7266d3	type	Must Not Die a Virgin
The Ring / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: Ryuji thinks that people should not want to die a virgin, which is why he turned to rape to feed his sexual needs. Ironically, Kazuyuki later finds out that Ryuji had been fabricating his rape claims, meaning he actually did die a virgin.
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The Ring / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Ring / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: In The Ring, Katie's friend Becca becomes this after witnessing Katie's death. She can't even walk past a TV screen without something to block her view of it. She has plenty reason to be afraid of even a mere glimpse of a TV screen.
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The Ring / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Ring / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Sadako's miraculous psychic abilities brought her, and everyone around her, more grief than they were worth. Akane, too, in Sadako 3D, though it crosses a bit with Cursed with Awesome, since her supersonic screams were what killed the lunatic who threatened her and her friends back when she was young, and they also destroyed all of those Sadako clones at the end. But it still fits, since it ostracized her, and ultimately, the reason why Sadako wants her to be her host.
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The Ring / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
The Ring / int_3c7022ce	comment	S reveals that Kaoru/Kashiwada managed to neutralize Asakawa's printed journal by replacing the cover with a printed version of the cure. As for those books which already had the original cover, well, he simply rounded them up and burned them. Infectious or not, they were still papers.
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The Ring / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
The Ring / int_3cb17a19	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: Ring 0 reveals that Sadako had one, until it became a Literal Split Personality and was kept locked away from the world... until both of her "good" and "evil" halves re-merge at the end.
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The Ring / int_3de32c52	type	Unrelated in the Adaptation
The Ring / int_3de32c52	comment	Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the novels, Sadako's biological father is Dr. Ikuma. In the films, Ikuma is her stepfather, while her biological father is an unknown supernatural entity. Kazuyuki Asakawa and Ryuji Takayama are old friends in the novel, and the Japanese and American films makes their counterparts be ex-lovers with a child together. In Ring: Kanzenban, they are merely acquainted and in the South Korean film and Ring: The Final Chapter, they have never met before the events of the story.
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The Ring / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Ring / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: In Ring 2, Mai becomes this for Yoichi after Reiko dies.
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The Ring / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Ring / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In Ring 2, the curse has not yet stopped and Reiko is killed in the most Dropped a Bridge on Him way possible, but at least Yoichi has found a new mother figure in Mai. Oh, and Okazaki also becomes insane by Kanae's hauntings, but well, his karma for being a coward. In Sadako 3D, many people are killed, but Akane manages to both save Takanori from Sadako and expel Sadako's influence on her, so this may classify as a happy ending for some. In Sadako 3D 2, Akane is killed in front of her daughter, Nagi, but the latter has found a new mother figure in her aunt, Fuko, who has practically raised her from birth, anyway. Kashiwada is killed too. The Stinger, though, implies that this peace may not last long... In The Ring, Rachel finds the cure to the curse to help Aiden, but not before Samara kills Noah. And in finding the cure, she has doomed countless others and ensured Samara's curse will live on.
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The Ring / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
The Ring / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The ring virus itself, after the revelation in Loop that the events of the first two books are set in a virtual reality. The virus was not programmed into the LOOP and developed independently, hence why nobody knew that it could escape back into the real world and became a new strain of cancer. Some characters speculate that someone had unknowingly introduced it from the real world, but in the new environment of the VR it mutated unpredictably.
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The Ring / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Ring / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Like Kazuyuki in the novels, Reiko is abruptly killed off in Ring 2, seemingly with zero connection with the virus.
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The Ring / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Ring / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Do not get on Yoichi's bad side.
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The Ring / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
The Ring / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: One of the opening scenes of Sadako 3D 2 features a woman in white saying "The girl is born". The audience is led to believe she meant Nagi, since the scene immediately preceding this is Akane giving birth to Nagi. It isn't.
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The Ring / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Ring / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Sadako 3D 2 features one, right before the credits roll. Sadako's child is not Nagi.
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The Ring / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Ring / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Sadako was trapped in a well by her father for the explicit reason of preventing her from hurting other people with her power.
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The Ring / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Ring / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: While Ryuji Takayama is killed by Sadako's curse in Ring and its adaptations, he is resurrected in the follow-up Spiral. This is kept in the Rasen film, but in the film sequel Ring 2 and the Rasen TV series, he stays dead. Likewise, his American counterpart Noah Clay stays dead in The Ring Two. Dr. Jotaro Nagao is a Karma Houdini in the novel that suffers no punishment for raping and killing Sadako. The protagonists speculate this as Cruel Mercy on Sadako's part; that she wanted him to live knowing he doomed mankind with her curse. In Ring: Kanzenban he commits suicide out of guilt while in Ring: The Final Chapter he gets Karma Houdini Warranty by having his reputation ruined when he's at the top of his career before Sadako kills him. In Ring 0: Birthday, Toyama is one of the casualties of Sadako's rampage after she merges with her Superpowered Evil Side, and he dies rather unceremoniously, too, if his screams are any indication. Meanwhile, in the short story the film is based on, Lemonheart, not only is Toyama spared from being involved in those horrors, he gets to live a long and meaningful life without Sadako. In his death throes, he even welcomes Sadako, who comes to ease his passing.
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The Ring / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Ring / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Sadako in both the novels and the films. Not to mention Yoichi in Ring 2, and poor Etsuko from Ring 0. Poor Nagi from Sadako 3D 2 gets most people to ostracize and want to kill her, especially when it's revealed that she's not the source of the new curse (which makes Takanori's abandonment all the more jerkass). Her aunt, Fuko, too, as she still has to relieve the sight of her mother's suicide. Luckily, both of them get better.
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The Ring / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Ring / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Reiko in Ring 2.
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The Ring / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Ring / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ring 0: Birthday. Yes, we all knew it was coming, what with it being a prequel and all, but it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking.
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The Ring / int_4e486f1b	type	Intersex Tribulations
The Ring / int_4e486f1b	comment	Intersex Tribulations: Sadako was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome and was killed because of it. She's later reborn as a "complete hermaphrodite". This element is removed in almost all adaptations.
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The Ring / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Ring / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Aside from the cover and promos, there is nothing to indicate that Loop is a sequel or even part of the Ring series until this bit comes: Also from Loop, there is this part, for the readers who haven't managed to deduce the big reveal:
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The Ring / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Ring / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: Sadako is described by multiple characters as having been exceptionally beautiful in the novel. Her apperance in the 1998 film became the Trope Codifier for the Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl. Subverted with Ring 0, where Sadako is a very beautiful girl (and is even referred to in universe as such), and only becomes scary looking in any way when she takes on her more evil persona.
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The Ring / int_504a5ec7	type	Greater-Scope Paragon
The Ring / int_504a5ec7	comment	Greater-Scope Paragon: Professor Eliot from Loop. He, and not Ryuji, was the one who gave Mitsuo Ando the hint to solve the case in Spiral, because he wanted to make way for Ryuji to be reborn again into the LOOP, now containing Kaoru's consciousness. Kaoru is this for S. As Seiji Kashiwada, he was the one who put an end to the terror of the ring virus once and for all and was the one who saved Akane from being murdered by Hiroyuki Niimura.
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The Ring / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
The Ring / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: Rachel thinks that giving Samara's corpse a proper burial will let her pass on. It doesn't, and Samara starts searching for her. In the 2019 Sadako film, Mayu encourages the reincarnated Sadako to stay alive. This ends up causing Kazuma's death, as well as her own death when Sadako decides to pay her a visit in the hospital.
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The Ring / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Ring / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: In the novels, anyway.
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The Ring / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Ring / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: In the film versions, there is a scene which shows how Sadako/Eun-Suh/Samara got in the well.
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The Ring / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
The Ring / int_5521ed05	comment	No Animals Were Harmed: This comes very early in the end credits of the 2002 film, with a very good reason. The horse suicide is not only realistic to the point of how they could have possibly accomplished it without hurting a real horse, but the visceral and brutal nature of it made some people flee the theater.
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The Ring / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Ring / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Ryuji Takayama in the novels is described as a short, stocky, pudgy man with abnormally strong arms and an angular, unpleasant face. In the 1998 film, he's portrayed by the handsome Hiroyuki Sanada. Ring: The Final Chapter takes it even further by making the character younger and casting famous heartthrob Tomoya Nagase in the role. Ditto with the US version, who has Martin Henderson as Noah, the American counterpart. Miyashiya from Spiral is described in the novel as short and fat. In Ring: The Final Chapter the character is gender flipped and portrayed by the beautiful Hitomi Kuroki.
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The Ring / int_55966885	type	Marionette Motion
The Ring / int_55966885	comment	Marionette Motion: Sadako moves like this as a ghost and when in "evil" mode during the climax of Ring 0. Her unnatural walking effect at the end of the first film was achieved by having Rie Inou walk backwards with the scene filmed in reverse.
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The Ring / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
The Ring / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: In Loop, Kaoru falls in love with Reiko, a woman who is 15 years his senior, was married and had a son who might as well be his younger brother.
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The Ring / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
The Ring / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: Coming hot on the heels of the extremely successful film adaptation whose literary basis was already successful in its own right, the writers of Ring: The Final Chapter were likely aware a significant portion of the viewers were already very familiar with the story and its twist and turns, so the series features many unique twists and outright defies some from the original work. The cursed video is not a series of disturbing imagery but an innocuous-looking music video (albeit with subliminal messaging), the deadline for the curse is 13 days instead of 7, the "solution" is figured out pretty early and is treated as a dilemma rather than a twist, Ryuji Takayama is a more shifty character and Mai is his sister rather than his lover, Shizuko Yamamura is still alive, Sadako is not intersex and Ryuji is her biological son, Ryuji isn't killed by Sadako's curse but has a Heel Realization and commits suicide, and Asakawa doesn't climb down the well to retrieve Sadako's remains, but Ryuji's.
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The Ring / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Ring / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The original novel has horror elements but is ultimately more of a mystery thriller with a strong medical/science fiction slant. The 1998 Japanese film changed the tone of the story significantly to put heavy emphasis on the horror and supernatural elements while downplaying or removing the medical and science fiction parts. The result was a story much more palatable to horror audiences, and most subsequent adaptations followed suit. The short film Rings, which shows how the Cursed Video would affect an ordinary teenager.
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The Ring / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
The Ring / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: In S, it is revealed that Akane is the biological daughter of Masako Maruyama (a Sadako clone). Her boyfriend, Takanori, was reborn to life through Masako's womb (as she had the ability to clone a dead person). None of the characters are particularly disturbed by the implication, as Masako did not impart her genes to Takanori during the birthing process, but still.
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The Ring / int_5d68a369	type	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker
The Ring / int_5d68a369	comment	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: Watching the cursed tape will attract the attention of Sadako, who'll show up to kill you seven days later. The only way around this is to copy the tape and trick someone else into watching it, passing the curse on to them. Even finding the corpse of Sadako and laying her body to rest won't help; she's too bitter and angry to let the curse go.
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The Ring / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
The Ring / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Other than the tape, Sadako 3D and Sadako 3D 2 both feature a new medium to transmit the curse: web video. And unlike the videotape, it's randomly generated.
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The Ring / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Ring / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Kazuyuki and his film counterpart, Reiko.
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The Ring / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Ring / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: In Ring: Kanzenban, it is revealed that Sadako had an incestuous relationship with her father. This plot point was not in the original novel, and is unique to this adaptation.
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The Ring / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Ring / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Ring: Kanzenban contains a small one not in the novel: When Sadako shows up to claim Ryuji Takayama's life, her ghost is carrying a baby and she walks right through Mai Takano (who can't see her). When Sadako passes through Mai, the baby in her hands disappears and Mai looks down on her belly, foreshadowing the events of the then-recently released sequel novel Spiral in case a sequel to the TV move was ever made. While Spiral would get a film adaptation 3 years later, it had no connections to the TV movie.
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The Ring / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Ring / int_62f9d08e	comment	The ring symbol appears as a Freeze-Frame Bonus and in the environment: in Aidan and Katie's drawings, in clothes, on the shower drain, in the number of Rachel's apartment (601), etc.
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The Ring / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Ring / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: One of the driving forces behind Asakawa's character in the novel is his relationship with his daughter. The author is a leading advocate of stronger father/daughter relationships in Japanese society.
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The Ring / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Ring / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Sadako and Samara's victims â€” their faces are frozen in grotesque, silent screams (and, in the case of Samara's victims, their faces are distorted and look like they've been rotting for some time). In addition, there's the rotted face of Sadako herself as seen during the climax of Ring 2, and Samara's rotting face as a ghost.
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The Ring / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
The Ring / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Loop is not often talked about (hardly mentioned on this page even) likely because it moves away from the Sadako curse horror story and extends into science fiction. In great detail it practically retcons the events of the first two novels as being part of a virtual world experiment. The Ring Virus in the virtual world is seen as an equivalent to a new form of cancer in the real world, and the protagonist has to utilize this to save his girlfriend. The switch to science fiction has actually been done since Spiral, as while Sadako is still the Big Bad, the novel explains that the curse is cancer that has two forms instead of the eldritch curse typical of a psychological horror fiction. The shift is more noticeable in the film adaptations; you'd be shocked that both Ring and Rasen films are part of the same franchise, considering their wildly different tone (thriller in the former and medical drama in the latter).
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The Ring / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
The Ring / int_6a6760fa	comment	The Power of Hate: Quite possibly the reason Sadako was able to survive for 30 years until she had the means to transmit her curse to the videotape.
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The Ring / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
The Ring / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: There are lots of them in the series, particularly in Loop (which delves into computer science and virtual reality).
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The Ring / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Ring / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: In the Japanese version, Shizuko killed herself by throwing herself into a volcano after she went crazy, prior to the events of the movie. In the US version, Anna threw herself off the edge of a cliff, again, prior to the events of the movie. Unlike Shizuko's death, which is offscreen, Anna's death is shown in Samara's tape. Also, in Ring 0: Birthday, Akiko shoots the crying and hysterical Etsuko, and then herself, both through the head, rather than die at Sadako's hands. Richard Morgan in the US version. Dr. Kawajiri in Ring 2, and Takashi Yamamura to an extent. All of the horses on the Morgan ranch in the remake. Some of them might have survived: according to an old newspaper article, the behavior of the horses returned to normal after Anna died. In the Sadako 3D series, the curse takes a twist from cursing the people to die within seven days, to having a sudden urge to kill themselves.
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The Ring / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
The Ring / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Ryuji and Mai. However, Mai explicitly describes their relationship as platonic and denies that they ever had sex.
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The Ring / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
The Ring / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: Mitsuo Ando from Spiral is depressed and distant at the start of the story with the grief from losing his son causing him to slowly lose the will to live, but he is still fairly well-adjusted and once the mystery of Sadako Yamamura perks his interest, he starts going back to his old self having found some purpose. In the film adaptation he's an outright suicidal Death Seeker while the TV series version is an unfailingly optimistic Nice Guy despite all his personal grief.
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The Ring / int_709bf03	type	Television Portal
The Ring / int_709bf03	comment	Television Portal: In the first US film, Rachel pulls a fly out of a TV screen. Sadako/Eun-Suh/Samara can emerge from a TV screen.
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The Ring / int_715c463e	type	Literal Split Personality
The Ring / int_715c463e	comment	Literal Split Personality: Ring 0 reveals that Sadako had a Superpowered Evil Side, responsible for the killing of the journalist seen in the first movie, which later split off from her into a separate entity. When both versions of Sadako re-merge during the climax, it's bad news for everyone involved.
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The Ring / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
The Ring / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: In The Ring Two, a child psychologist tries to keep Samara!Aidan away from Rachel. In response, Samara!Aidan psychically compels her to inject an air bubble into her own neck.
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The Ring / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Ring / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The ending of Spiral and Loop are set within the same time, but have wildly different interpretations. In the former, it paints Ryuji as a nihilistic ass who basically rejects his humanity in favor of becoming a superior species. In the latter, it paints him as a savior who will save humanity from said superior species.
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The Ring / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Ring / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: From the first American remake: "I'm sorry. It won't stop." and "Seven days."
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The Ring / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Ring / int_777baed3	comment	At the end of The Ring Two, Rachel exorcizes Samara from her son and reseals her in the well... and just when she's starting to relax he calls her "Mommy".
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The Ring / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
The Ring / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: In Ring 0, Sadako's "good" side has this power, as evidenced when she uses them to help a disabled man to walk again.
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The Ring / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Ring / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Sadako â€” in the first movie, even as a child, her face is always either completely or partially obscured by her long hair, and only her eye is seen peering through the curtain of her hair at the first film's climax. It isn't until Ring 2 that her wrinkly, rotted features are seen for the first time. In the US remake, Samara's face is shown throughout most of the first movie, but is obscured during the ending scene with Noah. The mysterious Enigmatic Minion referred to as the Towel Man never shows his face, nor is his identity ever revealed. It has been guessed he is either Ryuji Takayama or Hiroshi Toyama (or possibly even both), or a symbolic reference to the unknown identity of Sadako's father in the films.
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The Ring / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
The Ring / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: Briefly, in the first novel. While Kazuyuki is emptying the water inside the well, he is in such a state of panic, fear and exhaustion that he urinates. Since Sadako's skeleton is down there somewhere, as he darkly notes in his narration:
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The Ring / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
The Ring / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: In the American remake, Rachel's hair is initially worn straight. As she starts delving further into the story about the Morgans, she begins to wear it with a curl.
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The Ring / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Ring / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Much more evident in the Japanese novels and films: Sadako's influence was limited to the immediate area surrounding the well, and even then, only to material that she could affect with her Psychic Powers. In the American continuity, it is strongly hinted that "helping" Samara and removing her from the well allowed her to directly haunt Rachel and possess living people. In Ring 2, Okazaki doesn't watch, copy and pass on the tape, in spite of promising Kanae (who had watched and copied it) that he would. This could be interpreted as either cowardice on his part, or perhaps as a way of attempting to halt the curse (or maybe even both). However, after Kanae's demise, she returns as a vengeful spirit to haunt Okazaki and drive him insane, and it is also implied that this starts an entirely new curse. In Sadako, it's implied that Mayu's decision to resuscitate Sadako ends up causing her and her brother's deaths, as well as perpetuating the curse.
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The Ring / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Ring / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Etsuko has a huge one in Ring 0. It lasts until her death.
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The Ring / int_7fd142ef	type	Shared Universe
The Ring / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: The Ring (2002) has Samara's file filled with Japanese text, which hints the psychiatrists were contacting their Japanese counterparts and inquiring about Sadako.
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The Ring / int_7fe29ba6	type	Symbolism
The Ring / int_7fe29ba6	comment	Symbolism: The cursed videotape is full of symbols. There's also the ring in the first US remake.
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The Ring / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Ring / int_82a64c4b	comment	In the novel Ryuji Takayama, while an unpleasant person, genuinely wants to help Asakawa lift the curse and provides a lot of crucial help, plus he's an Adaptational Nice Guy in most adaptations. Ring: The Final Chapter however makes him aloof and mostly unhelpful, playing mind games with Asakawa and Yoshino, and eventually pulls a full Faceâ€“Heel Turn as it is revealed he's Sadako's son and her Unwitting Pawn.
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The Ring / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
The Ring / int_8605f0c0	comment	Yoshino, Asakawa's journalist colleague is female in Ring: The Final Chapter and Promoted to Love Interest.
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The Ring / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Ring / int_874176be	comment	Shizuko and Sadako are named after two people who lived in Japan in the early 20th century and were claimed to have Psychic Powers.
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The Ring / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Ring / int_8774fb47	comment	In the novels, Sadako's biological father is Dr. Ikuma. In the films, Ikuma is her stepfather, while her biological father is an unknown supernatural entity.
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The Ring / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Ring / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Sadako, Ryuji, and Ando's son Takanori are all resurrected in Spiral.
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The Ring / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
The Ring / int_8970d739	comment	The One That Got Away: After he lost track of Sadako, Hiroshi Toyama eventually married two times and divorced once, but his heart will always belong to his beloved Sadako.
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The Ring / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Ring / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Played with in Ring 0: Birthday. Sadako is the protagonist, but it later emerges that her deadly powers come from her Superpowered Evil Side, who has split off into a seperate entity, leaving Sadako's "good" half as the protagonist for most of the film... until both halves re-merge during the climax.
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The Ring / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Ring / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Both Sadako and Samara love doing this to their victims, even the ones who haven't actually seen the tape, and even the ones who have been spared from the curse. Most notable is Masami from the first movie, who, after witnessing Sadako coming for her friend, goes insane and is sent to a mental institution. From that point on, she can't even stand to look at a television. Not only that, but exposure to Sadako has even granted her access to frightening psychic powers that she can barely control.
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The Ring / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Ring / int_8b568cb7	comment	Sadako herself. In the original novel she's a Posthumous Character and Greater-Scope Villain who never directly appears in the story except for her skeletal remains at the bottom of the well. In every adaptation she appears directly as a vengeful ghost to taunt and hinder the protagonists, and kills her victims personally.
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The Ring / int_8be61ba9	type	Up the Real Rabbit Hole
The Ring / int_8be61ba9	comment	Up the Real Rabbit Hole: Loop establishes that the events of Ring and Spiral happened in a virtual world. It is artificial, so to speak.
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The Ring / int_8bf19707	type	No Dead Body Poops
The Ring / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Averted. In S, Seiji Kashiwada urinates during his execution, and his later suicide video (actually Ryuji) also has him urinate while he is hanged.
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The Ring / int_8c3241aa	type	One-Hour Work Week
The Ring / int_8c3241aa	comment	One-Hour Work Week: In the American movies, Rachel's office hours seem irregular at best. On the other hand being a journalist she would have more leeway with being able to work in the field than most other professions.
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The Ring / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The Ring / int_8cb844c6	comment	Takashi, Sadako's uncle (her mother's cousin in the novel). He's a very minor Mr. Exposition in the novel who only appears directly in a brief scene towards the end of the book (his earlier Exposition Dump meeting with Asakawa happens off-page). In the 1998 film his role is expanded, and he has a major role in the sequel Ring 2.
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The Ring / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Ring / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Aiko Hazuki, the first on-screen victim in Ring 0, is a stuck-up, arrogant and downright mean actress who regards Sadako as little more than dirt. As with Dr. Temple, she doesn't exactly deserve what happens to her, but she is a very unsympathetic character. In The Ring, the people on Moesko Island aren't exactly unhappy that Samara died. Jake from the American Rings is this as well. Yes, he's still sympathetic as he's plagued by the supernatural, but he coldly attempts to pass the curse onto a nice girl who had a crush on him. To make it even worse, when he's talking to his so-called friend, he refers to her as "some stupid chick." Jerk Ass Woobie indeed.
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The Ring / int_8fdb09ce	type	Stairs Are Faster
The Ring / int_8fdb09ce	comment	Stairs Are Faster: Rachel is racing to warn Noah that Samara has not been put to rest and is after him. When she arrives at his apartment she tries to use the elevator, but gets frustrated by the delay and runs up the stairs instead.
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The Ring / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Ring / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: This is Akiko's primary reason for investigating Sadako in Ring 0 - the man she killed at Shizuko's demonstration all those years ago was, in fact, Akiko's fiancÃ©.
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The Ring / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
The Ring / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: Used in the US remake when Richard utilises this method to kill himself.
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The Ring / int_94d0eb61	type	Lighthouse Point
The Ring / int_94d0eb61	comment	Lighthouse Point: Moesko Island has one. Doubles as a Genius Bonus if you read up about that particular shot: It's Yaquina Head Lighthouse from Oregon, which even has a few ghost stories related to it.
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The Ring / int_953c910f	type	Undead Barefooter
The Ring / int_953c910f	comment	Undead Barefooter: Sadako and her South Korean and American counterparts Eun-Suh and Samara are barefoot when they emerge from their wells.
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The Ring / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Ring / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Kazuyuki's niece-in-law, Tomoko Oishi, is one of the first victims of the virus, leaving her parents to mourn over her. A theme in Spiral, which has many instances of this. Ando lost his son in a swimming incident a year and a half before the events of the book. Ryuji's mother loses her son to the virus. Kazuyuki's daughter, Yoko, dies of the ring virus and his parents in turn lose him when he dies of his injures days later. Finally, Ando dreads having to tell Mai's mother of her daughter's death weeks after she contracted the virus. In the ending of Loop, Kaoru chooses to go to the LOOP, sacrificing his body in the real world so he can find a cure to neutralize the MHC. His consciousness still exists in the virtual reality, but his parents will never be able to see him physically again.
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The Ring / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Ring / int_970c790a	comment	The switch to science fiction has actually been done since Spiral, as while Sadako is still the Big Bad, the novel explains that the curse is cancer that has two forms instead of the eldritch curse typical of a psychological horror fiction. The shift is more noticeable in the film adaptations; you'd be shocked that both Ring and Rasen films are part of the same franchise, considering their wildly different tone (thriller in the former and medical drama in the latter).
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The Ring / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Ring / int_978a82e6	comment	In Spiral, it's Sadako working with Ryuji who cause the events of the book.
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The Ring / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
The Ring / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot / Canon Discontinuity: After the first movie was made in Japan, it was immediately followed up with a "forgotten" sequel, Rasen (aka Spiral), that was very badly received (though it is recognised as being a lot more faithful to the book, it didn't work as a sequel to the movie due to having a very, very different feel). It was quickly discounted from the series' canon. Eventually, Ring 2 was made, and is considered to be the official sequel. Both Sadako 3D and Sadako 3D 2, despite being billed as official sequels of the series, seem to be set in a unique world of their own. The only connections to the previous films are that one of the supporting characters is named Takanori Ando (Ando's son in Rasen who got resurrected, which as mentioned above, got discounted from the series canon, so it doesn't count) and it is explicitly stated to have happened 13 years after the tape first claimed its victims (which was the events of Ring). People can watch them independently without having prior knowledge of the previous films. This is unlike the book they are based on, S, which is a proper sequel full of connections and references to the previous novels. The 2019 Sadako film completely disregards everything except for the first Ring and, rather than adapting elements from the novels, tells an original story.
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The Ring / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Ring / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Sadako believes she and Akane are very similar due to their powers and being rejected from society. Akane denies this, having never used her powers to harm others or get revenge on the world. Not that this stops Sadako from possessing her.
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The Ring / int_98936e28	type	Haunted Technology
The Ring / int_98936e28	comment	Haunted Technology: The cursed tape.
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The Ring / int_98e87f7	type	Sinister Silhouettes
The Ring / int_98e87f7	comment	In the first US movie, a silhouette of Samara can be seen on the TV as it slides down towards Rachel, just before it knocks her into the well. After the horses leap off the ship to be killed, the ring itself flickers onscreen for a brief second.
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The Ring / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Ring / int_99298c71	comment	Also, in Ring 0: Birthday, Akiko shoots the crying and hysterical Etsuko, and then herself, both through the head, rather than die at Sadako's hands.
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The Ring / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Ring / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing; Several in the American remake: Rachel pulls a fly out of the image on the television screen. That's not the only thing that will be coming out of the television screen. In the beginning, Katie rants about "electro-rays" that come out of televisions and destroy brain cells but nobody is willing to do anything about them. Many of the images shown on the videotape appear later in the real world or dream scenes throughout the rest of the film. People see the ring shortly before their death: Katie sees the glass rim when she drinks, and Noah sees the ring made by his coffee mug. In the opening scene, Katie's face becomes blurred and she will die. Everyone else who watches the tape will have their faces blurred in the same way in photographs and video footage. In the beginning, when Becca talks about the cursed videotape, she says there's "a woman smiling at you" who then "sees you through the screen".
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The Ring / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Ring / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: Spiral, Loop, and S all have chapters which provide a rundown of the journal Kazuyuki Asakawa wrote in Ring, basically recapping the events of the first book. Loop additionally also has a section recapping the events of Spiral, to an extent that about half a dozen pages end up telling something the readers already knew before.
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The Ring / int_9e31f0b1	type	One-Letter Title
The Ring / int_9e31f0b1	comment	One-Letter Title: S.
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The Ring / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Ring / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Samara's Song in the US remake.
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The Ring / int_9fd18130	type	Animals Hate Him
The Ring / int_9fd18130	comment	Animals Hate Him: In the American movies, Rachel, apparently contaminated by the cursed tape, terrifies a horse on a boat so much that it breaks out of its stall and leaps overboard to its death.
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The Ring / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
The Ring / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Samara in the US films.
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The Ring / int_a0955420	type	She's a Man in Japan
The Ring / int_a0955420	comment	She's a Man in Japan: Sadako is intersex in the novels; this is completely dropped in most adaptations, save for Ring: Kanzenban, the radio drama, the Rasen film, the 1999 Korean film and the video game Ring: Terror's Realm.
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The Ring / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
The Ring / int_a119b588	comment	Hey, You!: In the US version, Aidan only ever calls Rachel by her first name. This becomes a plot point in the sequel.
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The Ring / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Ring / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: According to Word of God, the cursed tape was based on Un Chien Andalou.
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The Ring / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Ring / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: In Ring 0, Sadako is found sobbing uncontrollably after killing all the members of the theatre troupe, as well as Toyama.
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The Ring / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
The Ring / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Anyone watching Ring 0 with prior knowledge of Sadako's fate (which, of course, is the idea) knows she'll end up down the well by the ending.
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The Ring / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Ring / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid In the Japanese films, it's highly implied that Sadako's biological father is some of kind of an oceanic deity, making Sadako a demigoddess. The American remake is much more vague, but judging the words of their neighbors, it is implied that Samara was not conceived in a normal manner. In the US remake, a mouth seen on the tape looks part human, part equine.
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The Ring / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Ring / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Used rather cruelly at the end of Ring 0. Sadako is thrown down the well by a weeping Dr. Ikuma. Suddenly, the mood changes to an altogether calmer and more peaceful one, as Sadako wakes up, with her love interest Toyama standing over her, telling her it was all just a dreamâ€¦ then the mood shifts back again just as rapidly, with Sadako at the bottom of the well, realising to her horror that this is no dream, that Toyama is dead at her hands, and her adoptive father has just pushed her down a well. Then the concrete cover starts to go over the top of the well as she stands there and screams, and screams, and screams. Cue the waterworks. In the 2002 remake, employed in the opening scene, where it goes from Katie telling a spooky Urban Legend, both she and Becca laughing about it, then when the phone rings, the look of terror on Katie's face, with Becca nervously asking, "You mean it's real?" Cue Samara in 5... 4... 3...
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The Ring / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Ring / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horses: In The Ring, The Morgans had famous racing horses, until the horses killed themselves, making them even more famous.
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The Ring / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Ring / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Sadako is implied to have had this in life.
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The Ring / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Ring / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: In the US remake, Samara. Most people would think that Sadako in the original Japanese versions is this, but she's actually an adult (though she did kill a person when she was a girl). In the US remakes, Yoichi and Aidan become this in the period when they're influenced by Sadako and Samara, respectively. Otherwise, they're fairly adorable (if creepy) children.
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The Ring / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
The Ring / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Since LOOP is a virtual reality, time is much slower there compared to the outside world. The project only began several decades ago, but during that time, it managed to go through the entire chronology of the universe to catch up with the current time. Afterwards, though, it seemed to have quickened considerably, before the scientists put it in a 20-year stasis.
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The Ring / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Ring / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Sadako herself. In the original novel she's a Posthumous Character and Greater-Scope Villain who never directly appears in the story except for her skeletal remains at the bottom of the well. In every adaptation she appears directly as a vengeful ghost to taunt and hinder the protagonists, and kills her victims personally. Takashi, Sadako's uncle (her mother's cousin in the novel). He's a very minor Mr. Exposition in the novel who only appears directly in a brief scene towards the end of the book (his earlier Exposition Dump meeting with Asakawa happens off-page). In the 1998 film his role is expanded, and he has a major role in the sequel Ring 2. Asakawa's daughter Yoko is strictly a Morality Pet in the novel (justified, given that she is only an infant). Her counterparts in the Japanese and American films, Yoichi and Aidan, are given an Age Lift and a psychic connection with Sadako/Samara, becoming more involved in the story.
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The Ring / int_a6be3ad5	type	Rule of Seven
The Ring / int_a6be3ad5	comment	Rule of Seven: Seven days left to live for viewers of the tape, seven days for ovulating women who become infected by the virus to give birth to Sadako, seven stories of Mai's apartment, seventeen first edition copies of Asakawa's journal...
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The Ring / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Ring / int_a70223	comment	Dr. Jotaro Nagao is a Karma Houdini in the novel that suffers no punishment for raping and killing Sadako. The protagonists speculate this as Cruel Mercy on Sadako's part; that she wanted him to live knowing he doomed mankind with her curse. In Ring: Kanzenban he commits suicide out of guilt while in Ring: The Final Chapter he gets Karma Houdini Warranty by having his reputation ruined when he's at the top of his career before Sadako kills him.
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The Ring / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Ring / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: In the Japanese films, Sadako was sealed inside the well when she was a young adult, however Ring 2 reveals that she was in her 40's when she died. There are many theories as to why she took that long to die (including the use of a Healing Factor, The Power of Hate, etc.), but the fact remains that she was trapped down there, in the dark, for 30 years. Ouch. In the American films, Samara, too, though to a much lesser extent. Rachel theorizes that Samara survived for seven days inside the well before dying, which was why she gave those cursed by the videotape seven days to live. It's much more plausible for her to survive that long as opposed to 30 years, but she still couldn't escape once trapped there. And she's just a little girl.
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The Ring / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Ring / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: On the promotional website for the US remake telling the Backstory of the Morgan family, it was said Richard and Anna instantly fell in love with each other when they realized both of them were interested in buying the same horse in the Netherlands.
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The Ring / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
The Ring / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Several in the first US film: The ring symbol appears as a Freeze-Frame Bonus and in the environment: in Aidan and Katie's drawings, in clothes, on the shower drain, in the number of Rachel's apartment (601), etc. Centipedes, which can be interpreted e.g. as symbols of danger, death or evil, appear at least in the video and in the medical records. Chairs seem to have some kind of importance as well: two of them appear in the video, there's one in the hospital and one in Samara's barn bedroom, one in Katie's room, Samara sits on one in Rachel's dream, Noah's corpse is placed on one, and finally, Rachel throws the tape under one. Heat and water.
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The Ring / int_aa58bf92	type	Working with the Ex
The Ring / int_aa58bf92	comment	Working with the Ex: In the Japanese version, Reiko works with her estranged husband Ryuji to solve the mystery of the cursed videotape and save the life of their son. In the US version, Rachel works with her ex-boyfriend Noah to do the same.
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The Ring / int_abbea4f7	type	Dumb Struck
The Ring / int_abbea4f7	comment	Dumb Struck: Kazuyuki Asakawa, after the virus claims his wife and daughter's lives. As the first book makes clear, they mean everything to him, so when they die, he doesn't have any more reason to live.
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The Ring / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Ring / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ah! It's all over! Rachel has released Samara from the well and let her soul go on to live in peace, now we can get back to our happy li—-wait, what did the kid just say? Same goes for the Japanese version when Reiko and Ryuji free Sadakoâ€™s body and soul from the well, they go back and live their lives...until the TV at Ryujiâ€™s house starts playing the tape again, only this time Sadako is successful in climbing out the well, and later out of the TV. At the end of The Ring Two, Rachel exorcizes Samara from her son and reseals her in the well... and just when she's starting to relax he calls her "Mommy".
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The Ring / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Ring / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Instead of Japan, the US and Korean versions are set in the USA and South Korea, respectively.
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The Ring / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Ring / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: In the American remake, where Samara's uncontrollable power ostracized her to her own parents (who eventually killed her because of them.) Subverted in the Japanese films â€” the first two films would have you believe that Dr. Ikuma threw Sadako down the well out of malice. In fact, Ring 0 reveals that he did it as a last, desperate resort to stop her evil powers. He is extremely reluctant to do it, and he immediately breaks down sobbing after he pushes her in.
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The Ring / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Ring / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: A flashback in the first film appears to show Sadako curiously peering into the well, before Dr. Ikuma sneaks up on her to push her down the well. She's also wearing shoes. Ring 0, however, shows that Sadako was drugged and chased to the well instead, whilst barefoot. In the American remake, it's implied that Samara was created through some sort of Deal with the Devil (although the Morgans do claim she was adopted). In the sequel to that, we meet her biological mother.
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The Ring / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
The Ring / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Sadako in Ring 0: Birthday. Most of the tragedies are technically her fault, but she doesn't mean them to happen. Yet everyone are understandably scared and wants her to be got rid off. It's quite sad.
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The Ring / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
The Ring / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: Rasen was notable for being more faithful to the novel on which it is based than the first film, which was a more loose adaptation. Unfortunately, this meant that Rasen simply did not work as a sequel to Ring, which is why it was later swept under the rug.
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The Ring / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Ring / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: In Ring 0, Sadako and Toyama fall for each other while Toyama is in a relationship with Etsuko.
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The Ring / int_b808f0b3	type	Scarily Specific Story
The Ring / int_b808f0b3	comment	Scarily Specific Story: Played with in Ringu and the American remake. It begins with a girl telling a scary story about a cursed videotape that kills you seven days after watching. She's only trying to creep out her friend...then her friend reveals that she watched the tape. Seven days ago.
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The Ring / int_b84adf36	type	By "No", I Mean "Yes"
The Ring / int_b84adf36	comment	In the US remake, Samara. Most people would think that Sadako in the original Japanese versions is this, but she's actually an adult (though she did kill a person when she was a girl).
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The Ring / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Ring / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Mai Takano has a minor but fairly prominent role in the original Ring novel, plays a major part in Spiral and is the protagonist of the short story Coffin in the Sky. While her role in the Japanese film is minor, she plays a major part in both its sequels Rasen and Ring 2, even becoming the protagonist in the latter. Beth, her counterpart in the American film only appears in two brief scenes, having no lines in the second one, has no impact on the plot and doesn't return in the sequel.
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The Ring / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Ring / int_b983a56b	comment	In Ring 2, after Reiko dies, we see Tomoko and her three friends standing with their backs to the audience.
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The Ring / int_b994e8cb	type	Understanding Boyfriend
The Ring / int_b994e8cb	comment	Understanding Boyfriend: Toyama to Sadako. Also Takanori to Akane.
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The Ring / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
The Ring / int_bb53d08	comment	Used rather cruelly at the end of Ring 0. Sadako is thrown down the well by a weeping Dr. Ikuma. Suddenly, the mood changes to an altogether calmer and more peaceful one, as Sadako wakes up, with her love interest Toyama standing over her, telling her it was all just a dreamâ€¦ then the mood shifts back again just as rapidly, with Sadako at the bottom of the well, realising to her horror that this is no dream, that Toyama is dead at her hands, and her adoptive father has just pushed her down a well. Then the concrete cover starts to go over the top of the well as she stands there and screams, and screams, and screams. Cue the waterworks.
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The Ring / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Ring / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In The Ring Two: "I'm not your fucking mommy!"
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The Ring / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
The Ring / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare In the Japanese and US films, the part on the video where Sadako/Samara uses her psychokinetic powers to play a prank on her mother by moving a mirror. In the first US film when Rachel and Noah notice there's no reflection of a camera in the mirror when there should be. In the second US film when Aidan looks at the photographs he took of himself and sees Samara in the mirror coming closer and closerâ€¦
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The Ring / int_bcf1bb32	type	Ominous Multiple Screens
The Ring / int_bcf1bb32	comment	Ominous Multiple Screens: In the short film Rings, when Jake Pierce reaches his seventh day after watching the cursed video tape, he panics and tries to play the tape across a bank of TVs in an electronics store, only to get caught and thrown out by a security guard who happens to be in the same Ring group as Jake.
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The Ring / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Ring / int_bd4264a3	comment	Another, horrifying example also occurs in Ring 2, when Kanae, now part of the curse, gives an absolutely terrifying one to Okazaki as he tries (and fails) to erase her taped interview. To make matters worse, she's also wearing one hell of a Slasher Smile.
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The Ring / int_be38c5d3	type	Water Is Womanly
The Ring / int_be38c5d3	comment	Water Is Womanly: The film adaptations give the female ghost a heavy water motif that is not really present in the books. Aside from being raised in an isolated island by the sea and thrown into a well, the Japanese films suggest that Sadako Yamamura is the product of Shizuko Yamamura's affair with an unnamed sea god, which explains where she got her powers from. The demigoddess part is only vaguely hinted at in the American films' Samara Morgan (Anna and Richard Morgan's neighbors suspect they conceived Samara through a Deal with the Devil), but the victims of the cursed video tape are noted to have a nightmarish decaying look, as if they've been drowned and submerged in water for weeks. In the Twist Ending, it turns out that said decaying look is modeled after Samara's ghost form.
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The Ring / int_bec2f925	type	Murder Into Malevolence
The Ring / int_bec2f925	comment	Murder Into Malevolence: Sadako Yamamura was born with immense psychic powers she couldn't control, grew up an orphan because of the media, attempted to lead a normal life, and was raped and tossed into a well to die. Only then did she decide she wanted to bring harm to the whole world.
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The Ring / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Ring / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Ring 2 loves this trope.
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The Ring / int_bfc84d44	type	Calling Parents by Their Name
The Ring / int_bfc84d44	comment	Calling Parents by Their Name: In The Ring, Rachel Keller's son Aidan calls her Rachel instead of "mom". He's the product of a broken home (Rachel and her boyfriend broke up after having him), and things get stranger when he starts getting mental images from a ghost.
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The Ring / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Ring / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: The corpse in the closet in the first American movie.
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The Ring / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Ring / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel and most adaptations, Shizuko Yamamura is strictly a Posthumous Character, having commited suicide long before the start of the story. In Ring: The Final Chapter, it's revealed that she is still alive, having faked her own death, but is ultimately killed by Sadako before she can reveal critical information to the protagonists.
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The Ring / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Ring / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": In The Ring, Rachel, when she discovers Aidan watching the tape. In Sadako 3D 2, Takanori does this after Kakiuchi kills Akane.
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The Ring / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
The Ring / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Takanori's and Akane's problem in S. Takanori was brought up in an upper class family, was free to enter any institution he wished, travels around the world frequently, and has many rich and educated friends. Akane is an orphan who had to struggle to become a teacher and live a frugal life. Despite Takanori's assurances, Akane feels that he is too good for her and fears his parents' reaction upon meeting her.
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The Ring / int_c3bdfbb9	type	Let's You and Him Fight
The Ring / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: The premise of Sadako vs. Kayako. In order to save two girls, each cursed by one of the titular ghosts, a psychic plans on inciting both of them to fight each other, hoping that the resulting conflict will mutually expunge both curses.
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The Ring / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Ring / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In all three film adaptations, Reiko/Sun-Joo/Rachel finds Sadako's/Eun-Suh's/Samara's body and removes it from the well. It's treated like they exorcised the curse, but this is not the case...
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The Ring / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Ring / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: In Ring 0: Birthday, Sadako is pushed down the well by Dr. Ikuma but awakens to find herself in bed with Toyama watching over her. Just as she goes to reach him, it is revealed that it was a dream and she can only scream as she is sealed in the well.
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The Ring / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
The Ring / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: Sadako (and in the remakes, Eun-Suh and Samara) wants to cause as much suffering to the world, just as she had to experience when she was alive.
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The Ring / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
The Ring / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: In the American films, while very little is revealed of the hospital where Samara stayed, it's hard to imagine how they thought they could help her while putting her in a bare room with nothing to do, showing more interest in her powers than in her as a person even when she told the doctor she didn't know how she made the things she did. It is possible she received some sort of electroshock therapy (old electrodes are shown â€” however, their purpose isn't revealed so they might have been only used for reading signals), and a (failed) psychosurgery is mentioned in her medical files. Both were fairly common practices in her lifetime (the 1970s), possibly even more so with unusual patients such as herself.
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The Ring / int_c6fc2c83	type	Plot Threads
The Ring / int_c6fc2c83	comment	Plot Threads: A variation in the original Japanese and the first US film, in which the story can be seen to have two sub-plots that have family and only-child motifs: Reiko's/Rachel's family is the main thread whereas the history of the Yamamura/Morgan family works as a B story. However, in this variation, instead of lives of both families being shown real-time, the B family has mostly gone and most events regarding it have already happened, and even though there are flashbacks, its story is mostly presented in documents that are left from its era and interviews of remaining people and those who knew the family.
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The Ring / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Ring / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ending of the first movie, depicting Reiko driving towards an oncoming storm, is a visual reference to the ending of The Terminator. The cursed video itself is a shout out to BuÃ±uel's Un Chien Andalou. There are many shout outs to Hitchcock in the first U.S. movie: When Rachel takes a shower (Psycho) When she looks at the building in front of hers, there's a guy on a wheelchair with a cast on his leg (Rear Window) When she discovers Noah's body (another Psycho reference) And, well, the title (there's a silent movie by Hitchcock called The Ring) The red tree prop in the remake was nicknamed "Lucy" by the crew after a certain red-headed actress. The first U.S. film has some references to Japan: Katie and Becca wear what look like Japanese school uniforms. The red tree is a Japanese maple. One of the papers in Anna's medical records contains Chinese and Japanese text. In the first U.S. film, a Bad Religion sticker is shown in Noah's locker. A few of their music videos were directed by the same person who directed this movie: Gore Verbinski. One of Aidan's toys in the US remake is a character from Blue Submarine No. 6. In the balcony scene in the US remake, a part of a Taiwanese soft drink commercial featuring actor Takeshi Kaneshiro is shown. In the same scene, I Am Weasel plays on one of the televisions. Shizuko and Sadako are named after two people who lived in Japan in the early 20th century and were claimed to have Psychic Powers. In the US remake, Noah's work locker has a Descendents sticker on the inside part of its door.
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The Ring / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Ring / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Towards the end of the first film, Ryuji slaps Reiko in the face to snap her out of her sudden Freak Out.
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The Ring / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Ring / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Kaoru Futami, a man who sacrifices his life for the greater good of the world. Invoked explicitly by Professor Eliot, who is presumably a devout Christian.
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The Ring / int_cb44cd57	type	Ominous Television
The Ring / int_cb44cd57	comment	Ominous Television: Every version of the story makes copious use of the television even before we see Samara/Eun-Suh/Sadako. Notable examples include the television turning on by itself at the end of the US version's stinger after Katie tells Becca about the tape, the creepy crawlies coming out of the TV, and the amount of discussion in the original version about urban legends to do with local television stations and rogue broadcasts.
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The Ring / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Ring / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Unlike in other adaptations, the cursed video is never properly seen by the viewer in the Rasen TV series. Made even worse in that it now kills instantly except if you are a fertile woman, making you pregnant with a rapidly-growing clone of Sadako.
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The Ring / int_ce10b025	type	Versus Title
The Ring / int_ce10b025	comment	Versus Title: Sadako vs. Kayako.
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The Ring / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
The Ring / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: Loop is set sometime during The New '10s, but the book was published back in 1998. S, released in 2012, is set in 2016.
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The Ring / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Ring / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Near the end of Ring 0, after merging with her evil half, Sadako kills all of the members of the theatre troupe, due to their actions mentioned in Moral Event Horizon on the YMMV page.
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The Ring / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
The Ring / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Present in both the Japanese and US versions, although the faces in the US version are considerably more distorted. There is a rumor that in 1999 a cut of the movie shown at a film festival in Brussels took this up to eleven with the mouths of the victims being "a narrow vertical opening." Despite numerous people claiming to have seen the "Brussels cut", Hideo Nakata has emphatically denied that such a version exists.
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The Ring / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Ring / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The American remake is saturated with blue, in subtle imitation of low-quality tape recordings.
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The Ring / int_d0692227	type	Spooky Photographs
The Ring / int_d0692227	comment	Spooky Photographs: If a photo is taken of someone who has watched the tape, their faces appear blurred and distorted. In addition, Ring 2 explores the concept of spirit photography - photos taken of Masami after being committed to a mental institution reveal the appearance of the "Towel Man". Later, when Okazaki is committed to the same hospital, his photos apparently show something spooky, but the audience never gets to see them.
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The Ring / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
The Ring / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Ring and Rasen. The American movie Rings also qualify.
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The Ring / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Ring / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Reiko has one in the first film, when she realises that the phone only rings at the cabin. She has another when she realizes that she was saved because she copied the tape and showed it to Ryuji. In The Ring, Rachel recalling Richard growling at her, "You take one person's tragedy and force the world to experience it... spread it like sickness." The light goes on over Rachel's head.
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The Ring / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Ring / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The cursed video tape and the legend surrounding it.
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The Ring / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Ring / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Aidan's reaction to his mom's actions at the end. Doubles as a Wham Line.
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The Ring / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
The Ring / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Ryuji Takayama was reborn as Kaoru Futami in the world. He returns to the LOOP initially as Ryuji, but later changes his identity to Seiji Kashiwada. Sadako Yamamura, also known as Masako Takano/Maruyama. The clones she produced presumably have other names, as well.
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The Ring / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
The Ring / int_d71d51fd	comment	Because all of the tapes are destroyed in Spiral, the virus mutates into a written form, making Kazuyuki's report on Sadako its new host. Since books can be spread much quicker than VCR tapes, the whole world is predicted to be enveloped in the virus in a matter of years.
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The Ring / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
The Ring / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: The video tape counts as Sadako's, Eun-Suh's and Samara's. If a cursed victim watches the tape, but does not show it to someone else before they die then the curse cannot be continuedâ€¦ unless they leave their copy where someone else can happen across it. In the 1998 Japanese film, Reiko discreetly shows the tape to her father, dooming him but saving Yoichi. The original ending of the American remake had Rachel showing the tape to a death row prisoner (played by Chris Cooper).
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The Ring / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
The Ring / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: In Ring 0, Sadako and Toyama confess their love through a window to each other.
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The Ring / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Ring / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: All characters underwent this. Between the US and Japanese versions, Rachel and Samara are probably the closest to the original (Reiko and Sadako). Even in the original Japanese adaptations, some characters undergo name changes without the whole Gender Flip thing. Akane Ayukawa from the Sadako 3D series, for instance, was originally named Akane Maruyama in the novels.
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The Ring / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
The Ring / int_de143e97	comment	Psychic Nosebleed: Happens in the remake to both Rachel and Aidan.
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The Ring / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
The Ring / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: The US version is filmed with a blue tint. The Ring Two avoids this, however. It's used again, this time by the Japanese series, in Sadako 3D and Sadako 3D 2.
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The Ring / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
The Ring / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Anyone who is influenced by Sadako is prone to doing this. Yoichi, in particular, spends almost the entire second half of Ring 2 doing this, mainly after Reiko dies. Sadako seems to inherit this trait from her mother, Shizuko, who gives a terrifying one to Mai, also in Ring 2. Another, horrifying example also occurs in Ring 2, when Kanae, now part of the curse, gives an absolutely terrifying one to Okazaki as he tries (and fails) to erase her taped interview. To make matters worse, she's also wearing one hell of a Slasher Smile.
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The Ring / int_df24d8fa	type	Platonic Cave
The Ring / int_df24d8fa	comment	Platonic Cave: Terror's Realm. What Meg perceives as the [RING] program is actually the real world; the mundane world with no monsters is a humanity-wide projection brought on by Sadako.
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The Ring / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
The Ring / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: The Rasen TV series was marketed as a sequel to Ring: The Final Chapter, and while actors Tae Kimura and Akiko Yada reprised their roles as Sadako and Mai Takano and certain elements from The Final Chapter such as the unique 13-day deadline of the curse are referenced giving them an explicit connection, it ignores the ending of The Final Chapter where a cure for the "Ring" virus is discovered and all remaining infectees are successfully innoculated, plus the cursed tape had become quite publicized by the end with the protagonists appealing to the public not to copy the tape further. At the start of the Rasen TV series the cursed tape is once again treated as an urban legend and no mention is made of the cure.
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The Ring / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Ring / int_e0040f41	comment	Takashi Yamamura is helpful to Asakawa in the novel and Japanese film, and is remorseful for the part he played in Sadako's Start of Darkness. In Ring: The Final Chapter he's suspicious and unhelpful, and tries to have Asakawa and Yoshino killed when they find out too much.
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The Ring / int_e08f3fed	type	Chair Reveal
The Ring / int_e08f3fed	comment	Chair Reveal: Noah's corpse in the first American movie.
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The Ring / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
The Ring / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In Japan, the release of Sadako 3D 2 came with a tie-in smartphone app that allowed Sadako to escape through the phone and attack the audience at various points throughout the movie. The special edition DVD of the American film has an Easter Egg that plays an extended cut of the cursed tape...while disabling your remote control throughout it. Once finished, the sound effect of a ringing phone is played.
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The Ring / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Ring / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Reiko, Sun-Joo and Rachel in the film adaptations. Fuko to Nagi too in Sadako 3D 2, and she's only her aunt. Mai steps up as one for Yoichi in Ring 2, and unlike the above, she's not even his relative.
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The Ring / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: Ando's wife divorced him following the death of their three-year-old son Takanori, who drowned while playing with his dad at the beach.
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The Ring / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Asakawa's daughter Yoko is strictly a Morality Pet in the novel (justified, given that she is only an infant). Her counterparts in the Japanese and American films, Yoichi and Aidan, are given an Age Lift and a psychic connection with Sadako/Samara, becoming more involved in the story.
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The Ring / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Samara's father Richard Morgan combines the roles of Sadako's father Heihachiro Ikuma and uncle Takashi Yamamura in the Japanese film, being both the abusive parent that inadvertedly caused the curse to be created, and the last living relative the protagonist seeks out for answers.
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The Ring / int_e49a3a77	type	Offering Another in Your Stead
The Ring / int_e49a3a77	comment	Offering Another in Your Stead: In both the Japanese and American versions of the story, whoever watches Sadako/Samara's cursed videotape is doomed to die within seven days of viewing it. However, should they create a duplicate of the tape and show it to someone else, they will be spared - though this will mean that the new victim will have to do the same to someone else or die horribly.
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The Ring / int_e733b2cf	type	JerkAssWoobie
The Ring / int_e733b2cf	comment	Jake from the American Rings is this as well. Yes, he's still sympathetic as he's plagued by the supernatural, but he coldly attempts to pass the curse onto a nice girl who had a crush on him. To make it even worse, when he's talking to his so-called friend, he refers to her as "some stupid chick." Jerk Ass Woobie indeed.
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The Ring / int_eb6ea560	type	Convenient Photograph
The Ring / int_eb6ea560	comment	Convenient Photograph: Rachel knows something happened at the cabin when she finds the photographs of Katie and her friends with their faces suddenly messed up. She later invokes it when trying to get Noah to believe her, by making him take a picture that shows her messed-up face in order to get him on board.
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The Ring / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Ring / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Happens near the beginning of Ring 2, courtesy of Mai after she sees the destroyed videotape.
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The Ring / int_edeb02ca	comment	Episode Zero: The Beginning: Ring 0: Birthday.
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The Ring / int_ef2fcbe1	comment	Le Film Artistique: In The Ring, Noah dismisses the curse tape as very "student film".
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The Ring / int_f03efcdb	type	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
The Ring / int_f03efcdb	comment	The ending of Spiral has Asakawa's journal. Reading the script infects the reader with the broken ring virus (dubbed in the fifth book as the "S-type virus", because it resembles the letter S), which itself isn't fatal unless the reader happens to be an ovulating female. In that case, they would be impregnated with and give birth to a Sadako clone within a week.
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The Ring / int_f3d5d15f	comment	In the US remakes, Yoichi and Aidan become this in the period when they're influenced by Sadako and Samara, respectively. Otherwise, they're fairly adorable (if creepy) children.
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The Ring / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: In the first US movie, Rachel uses a Sensa pen.
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The Ring / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
The Ring / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "Before you die, you see..."
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The Ring / int_f729e5bc	type	Sequel Goes Foreign
The Ring / int_f729e5bc	comment	Sequel Goes Foreign: The second half of Loop is set in the United States.
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The Ring / int_fb027f60	type	Thrown Down a Well
The Ring / int_fb027f60	comment	Thrown Down a Well: Sadako's/Eun-Suh's/Samara's fate. In the US version, the ring itself is the small amount of light coming out from a rock at the top of the well.
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The Ring / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Ring / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Sadako herself, when she was alive â€” well, her good side, anyway. In the films, even though he has his creepy moments, Yoichi is generally a helpful and sweet little kidâ€¦ until the events with the cursed tape, not to mention the fact that Sadako's influence gives him similar powers to hers. In Ring 2, when his mother dies, he is understandably pissed. Akane in Sadako 3D. Too kind for her own good, she even treats her students more as acquaintances. But you threaten her students, friends, or boyfriend, Takanori, she will make sure you pay for it with her super-sonic screams.
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The Ring / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
The Ring / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: In Ring 2, Takashi Yamamura, Sadako's uncle, seeks death after the actions he caused in the past.
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