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Dexter

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Dexter	comment	Dexter is a crime drama series developed by James Mano Jr. and based loosely on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, using it as inspiration for its first season and general premise but eventually evolving in a direction independent of Lindsay's future Dexter novels. The show premiered on Showtime in 2006 and ran for eight seasons, concluding in fall 2013.The series stars Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police department. He has a loving tomboy foul-mouthed sister named Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) who works as a cop in his department, and a host of eccentric coworkers.He's also a serial killer.However, Dexter differs from most other killers in two essential ways: his strict adherence to The Code of Harry (named for his adopted father, a police officer who saw the makings of a serial killer in him long ago), through which he confines his homicidal urges to criminals who have gotten away with their crimes and works so carefully and cleanly that he is not likely to get caught; and his specialization in paying evil unto evil. Rather than innocent people, he targets other murderers, including those like himself, sex offenders, and other really bad people. So it's all good! Sort of.The series follows Dexter as he assists in homicide investigations, deals with girlfriend issues and helps his sister in dealing with department politics, all the while cleaning up after a flawed justice system. When another serial killer begins sending special messages just for him in the crime scenes — and in his house — Dexter is pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that will force him to reexamine his chosen life...A limited revival series titled Dexter: New Blood aired for 10 episodes from late 2021 to early 2022.Not to be confused◊ with Dexter's Laboratory.
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Dexter / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Dexter / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: When confronted about his possible activities, Rita assumes Dexter is a drug addict rather than a serial killer. Dexter enthusiastically goes with the deception, and it turns out to be useful on several other fronts as well. Because his homicidal tendencies are very much an addiction, his NA speech is very convincing. Happens in the season 6 premiere: In Season 7, Dexter frustratedly blurts out his desire to kill Hannah:
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Dexter / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Dexter / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Sergeant Doakes in the final episode of Season 2. They even show his disfigured torso. The show killed off Rita Morgan at the end of Season 4 in a very cruel rendition of this trope. Frank Lundy's death in Season 4 came out of nowhere and surprised a lot of people. Think Brother Sam will be a season-long guest star? Think again. In an original variation, Isaak Sirko, a major but not unsympathetic baddie, gets killed well before the Season 7 finale. Maria LaGuerta in Season 7. Debra Morgan in the series finale, in spite of seeming hale and hearty earlier on.
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Dexter / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Dexter / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Jeff Lindsay pops up in Episode 3-10 as a cop.
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Dexter / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Dexter / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Miami's hockey team is the fictional "Miami Blades" rather than the real-life Florida Panthers.
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Dexter / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Dexter / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: First season, second episode: "Crocodile"
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Dexter / int_1392fbe7	type	Drunk Driver
Dexter / int_1392fbe7	comment	Drunk Driver: One of the first people we see Dexter hunt is a serial Drunk Driver who is constantly able to get out of his vehicular manslaughter charges by moving to a new location and changing his name so they cannot connect him to his previous arrests.
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Dexter / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Dexter / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: In the Season 5 finale, when Lumen tells him that she needs to leave, Dexter sees his reflection in a dinner plate he's holding.
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Dexter / int_141b5985	type	Morning Routine
Dexter / int_141b5985	comment	Morning Routine: The famous opening sequence. It'll either Squick you out completely, or make you hungry for eggs and bacon.
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Dexter / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Dexter / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Dexter and Rita, since he's her refuge after her abusive relationship with Paul. Dexter falls in love in Lumen, a girl broken by being repeatedly raped and tortured.
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Dexter / int_14a5a8e2	type	Nerds Are Sexy
Dexter / int_14a5a8e2	comment	Nerds Are Sexy: Dexter is seen as very nerdy in his day job but also gets hit on quite a bit.
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Dexter / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Dexter / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the Title Sequence, Dexter's morning routine is shown through a series of skin-crawling close-up shots that make mundane activities like slicing ham or tying shoelaces look surprisingly violent. This idea is played with a lot in the fifth season with Dexter and Lumen's relationship; it seems to be parodying a traditional 'courtship' in a way: he gives her the blood slide like anyone else would give flowers or something; he presents her with his knives and invites her to choose her favorite, like any other kind of gift; he gets all tongue-tied when he sees her in her killing clothes, saying she looks "perfect"; he takes her shopping and buys her a knife after she rejects a ring, like a man shopping for the perfect gift; they cuddle as they plan their next murder, like it's their next romantic outing. Of course, for them it really kind of is their next romantic outing. It manages to be very sweet, and more than a little creepy.
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Dexter / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Dexter / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Multiple examples, all in opposition to Dexter, the serial killer protagonist. Sergeant Doakes, though his morality is called into question a few times. Somehow, he's the only one in a precinct full of cops and forensic specialists to get a creepy vibe off serial killer protagonist Dexter. This doesn't end well for him. When he discovers that Dexter is a serial killer in season 2, Dexter locks him up in a remote cabin. Then Doakes is killed by a woman who was obsessed with Dexter and tries to cover up for him. Special Agent Frank Lundy in the second season of the same. He probably would have caught Dexter if it weren't for Doakes' suspicious and secretive behavior making him more conspicuous than Dexter. Detective Quinn is set up as this in season 5. He's the only one in the office who notices that the Mitchell family's sketch drawings of "Kyle Butler" look a lot like Dexter, and starts to suspect that Dexter may have killed Rita, his wife. At the end of the season, he abandons his investigation when Dexter gets him off the hook for a murder that Quinn is erronously suspected of (in fact, Dexter himself committed the murder), and he falls in love with Debra. Stan Liddy in season 5 as well. Although he's a Dirty Cop, and is trying to expose Dexter mostly for his own benefits so that he will be reinducted into the police force, he is still trying to catch a serial killer. Dexter kills him, and Quinn is subsequently suspected of the murder. Maria LaGuerta in Season 7. She discovers evidence that may expose Dexter as the real Bay Harbor Butcher, and starts her own investigation. Dexter dismantles her case by setting her up as having an irrational grudge against him instead of solid evidence. Dexter then tries to kill her to get rid of her permanently, but Debra intervenes and shoots LaGuerta to cover up for her brother. Elway late in Season 8. After Deb starts up a personally-motivated manhunt for Hannah McKay, a suspected serial killer, and soon abandons it for Dexter's sake, Elway takes up the case for himself and begins hunting for her along with a federal marshal, which soon leads to them hunting for both Dexter and Hannah when they suspect Dexter and Hannah are involved with one another.
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Dexter / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Dexter / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Trinity Killer's home life starts off looking pristine and wholesome, but they're really quite messed up. Aside from the murderer father, there's the Stepford Smiler wife, the abused son, the Fille Fatale daughter who's frequently locked up in her room (which is decorated for someone much younger)... Not to mention Arthur's history with his own parents and sister. And then there's Christine, his daughter from some previous involvement, who's known about his murders since she was five. Dexter's own family. He and his brother, the Ice Truck Killer were born to a drug-dealing snitch. Both had the misfortune of seeing mommy get hacked to pieces with a chainsaw. Dexter's biological father was a career criminal. The Ice Truck Killer spent most of his childhood as an orphan, and grew up unhinged. Even though Dexter mostly escaped that fate thanks to Harry, Harry molded him into a Serial-Killer Killer when his attempts to do something more positive about his budding sociopathy failed. The Prado brothers have their darker sides revealed fairly early on in season three.
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Dexter / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Dexter / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Lots, given the highly Latino population of Miami. LaGuerta is a major offender. Angel isn't much better. Miguel also throws Spanish out there every once in a while but he was usually speaking to a Hispanic American character.
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Dexter / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Dexter / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: This is how Dexter personally justifies his role as a serial killer, and quite possibly the entire premise of the show.
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Dexter / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Dexter / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: Deb has a problem running her mouth.
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Dexter / int_1722aaf	type	Hitler Ate Sugar
Dexter / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: On Dexter's advice about Cody's school assignment: On Lundy's walking style:
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Dexter / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Dexter / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Debra Morgan had this kind of relationship with her father Harry, even following in his footsteps as a cop to gain his attention. It's not that he wasn't proud of her, but honing her brother Dexter's extra-curricular activities (to which Deb wasn't invited for obvious reasons) meant that he couldn't spend as much time with his daughter. Likewise with Christine Hill, the daughter of Arthur Mitchell/Trinity. She even killed Frank Lundy to gain her father's approval. After she accidentally put him at risk of being discovered, he disowns her. She doesn't take it well. Dexter, too. Everything was to live up to Harry's expectations. When he realizes that a) Harry was using him as an outlet for his own vigilante impulses and b) Harry was deeply revolted by what he'd made him into, to the point of suicide, he...takes it pretty hard.
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Dexter / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Dexter / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Dexter narrates his story, but he does so through a filter of his own biased perceptions. One notable example is Dexter's constant assertions that he has no emotions and is a complete monster. As the series progresses, we see that he does have emotions, a conscience, and cares for the people around him in spite of the relentless bloodlust he also experiences.
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Dexter / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Dexter / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: The Trinity Killer in the Season 4 premiere. Super creepy.
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Dexter / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Dexter / int_18d15922	comment	In Season 4, after Arthur Mitchell figures out that Kyle Butler is really Dexter, he greets Dexter at Miami Metro with "Hello, Dexter Morgan" (hence the episode title). In Season 6's "Nebraska", after Dexter tracks down Arthur's son Jonah, Jonah greets Dexter with the exact same line.
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Dexter / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Dexter / int_18e11001	comment	Happens quite frequently when Dexter captures any Victims of the Week.
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Dexter / int_18e2980	type	Poirot Speak
Dexter / int_18e2980	comment	When off-duty Sergeant Doakes is lost in the Everglades forest, fleeing from the Bay Harbor Butcher, he meets two dangerous smugglers who speak only Spanish. He asks them for help, but when they understand that he's a policeman, they take him hostage and decide to kill him. In this case, international words and Spanish Poirot Speak made the situation go From Bad to Worse.
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Dexter / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Dexter / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The teaser for the last episode of Season 5 strongly suggested that Deb would find out about Dexter's "hobby". She doesn't. Until next season's finale.
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Dexter / int_1a3b588c	type	Suicide Is Shameful
Dexter / int_1a3b588c	comment	Suicide Is Shameful: People think Dexter's foster father and legendary cop Harry Morgan died of a heart disease, but it was later revealed he had killed himself (overdose of medication). Harry's superior and friend Captain Matthews felt that suicide would be a serious blow to Harry's reputation and that it would taint his immaculate service record. Debra, thinking the Skinner jumped to his death to avoid arrest.
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Dexter / int_1afb845c	type	Tropaholics Anonymous
Dexter / int_1afb845c	comment	Tropaholics Anonymous: Dexter goes into Narcotics Anonymous after he covered up his strange behavior (related to his serial killing) by telling his girlfriend he was an addict (she assumes it's heroin). The therapy ended up reaching over into his desire to kill, but also sets him up with an enabler. And causes him to meet a hot Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette whose supportive sexual relationship actually keeps him clean for much of the season.
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Dexter / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Dexter / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Gellar, the "main" villain of season 6, turns out to have been dead for a long time, and Travis was only hallucinating him while doing all the killings himself.
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Dexter / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Dexter / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In the episode Shrink Wrap, Dexter kills a psychiatrist who enjoys convincing his patients to commit suicide. He does it in his usual manner - by restraining him to a table with thin sheets of plastic while he tortures him. Therapist. Plastic wrap. Shrink wrap! It's even the name of the episode.
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Dexter / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
Dexter / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Pyromaniac: Lila. She loves fire & uses fire to kill a man who hurt her as part of her backstory, sets her loft on fire to try and get Dexter's attention, burns down the swamp house that Doakes was trapped in and then burnt down her loft to kill Dexter, Astor & Cody.
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Dexter / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Dexter / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Doakes finds proof positive that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher by locating the blood slides in the air conditioner. He removes the evidence illegally and has it tested behind the department's back, thereby making it inadmissible in court, rather than alert anyone at the department about its existence to begin a legitimate investigation. Ultimately by keeping the department in the dark, they posthumously pin the murders on him.
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Dexter / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Dexter / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Harry's code.
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Dexter / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
Dexter / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: The Trinity Killer murders women in their bathtubs. Eventually he takes revenge on Dexter by killing Rita this way.
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Dexter / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Dexter / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Letting Dexter think you're a potential threat to his stepkids, or Harrison, his biological son, should probably qualify as assisted suicide. Letting him think you're a threat to Rita, Deb, or Lumen is nearly as bad an idea if you want to survive the experience.
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Dexter / int_1e05d069	type	Saved by the Coffin
Dexter / int_1e05d069	comment	Saved by the Coffin: Dexter eludes the police when they raid the Trinity Killer's house (he was there to kill Trinity) by hiding in a coffin that Trinity had made himself until enough time had passed that Dexter (a member of the police department) could realistically have arrived.
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Dexter / int_1e6eb73	type	Birthday Party Goes Wrong
Dexter / int_1e6eb73	comment	Birthday Party Goes Wrong: In "Return to Sender", Dexter's girlfriend Rita plans a birthday party for her daughter Astor. Astor gets really worried about her party getting ruined when their violent abusive father of a criminal gets released from prison and wants to come to the party. Her brother Cody tells everyone about it and Astor's friends are no longer allowed to come. However, vulnerable Rita actually manages to tell Paul he can't come because of the restraining order. The party turns out fine.
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Dexter / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Dexter / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: In season 2 Dexter is doing one of his narrations, when Doakes says "You say something, Morgan?" At one point in Season 2, Dexter comments on how the voices in his head were gone. A scene later, he starts his internal narration and adds, "The voices are back. Excellent." Dexter looks at the camera. In Season 3, while Dexter is killing the neo-Nazi, he mentions that he prefers to work alone and then says to no one in particular "...present company excluded." It could be interpreted as a statement to the audience, though it's more likely meant to refer to the person he's killing. In the Season 6 premiere, when Jamie is first shown in Dexter's apartment, Dexter narrates saying, "It's not what you're thinking."
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Dexter / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dexter / int_1f799027	comment	The second is a somewhat painful subplot in season 3 featuring an incompetent IA officer who harasses Deb in order to get her to turn over on her (very mildly corrupt) partner, which Deb resists because the IA officer gives no details on why she's pursuing Deb's partner whatsoever, and instead just hounds Deb and interferes with her job (not in an Obstructive Bureaucrat way, more of a "yappy dog getting in the way" manner).
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Dexter / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Dexter / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Zig-zagged with the Trinity Killer. We see his psychotic side first, then get shocked that he has a seemingly wholesome home life, then get shocked again when we see just how dysfunctional his home life really is.
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Dexter / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Dexter / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: In season 6 Dexter thinks he understands what type of killer Gellar is and how to best get to him. Turns out that he completely misinterpreted the situation and is in fact in a completely different serial killer story. It puts him in serious danger and gets multiple people killed.
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Dexter / int_214078a2	type	Staredown Faceoff
Dexter / int_214078a2	comment	Staredown Faceoff: In season 2, there's the famous and awesome "I own you" scene. Doakes confronts Dexter in his office, so Dexter squares up to Doakes and tells him that whatever he tries, Dexter will always be one step ahead, for one reason: "I own you." He then headbutts Doakes and quickly but calmly walks out into the main office, so when Doakes runs out and attacks him in retaliation it looks totally unprovoked and Doakes looks crazy. An example of this trope being used as a way of getting in position for the attack, and bonus points to Dexter for coming up with all this on the fly.
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Dexter / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Dexter / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: James Doakes is an anti-social Jerkass with a penchant for violence, but a damn fine cop and a good person at the end of the day.
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Dexter / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Dexter / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Doakes, Harry.
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Dexter / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Dexter / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Ron Galuzzo in Season 8.
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Dexter / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Dexter / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The show treats dark things like murder or death humourously — occasionally. From the first episode. In season 2: In the fifth season premiere when Dexter tells Astor and Cody of their mother's murder while wearing Mickey Mouse ears. Twisted.
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Dexter / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
Dexter / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight with Brian Moser, the Ice Truck Killer. He's a sociopathic Serial Killer who has an amputee fetish, and it's later revealed that this is because he witnessed his mother getting murdered with a chainsaw, and it's implied that his fetish has a large role to play in his modus operandi. Slightly Downplayed, as Vince warns Batista to not call an amputee fetishist by the medical term (acrotomophilia) because it sounds like a disease, implying that he knows people with the fetish who are just ordinary people and want to be treated respectfully.
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Dexter / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Dexter / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The coffin built by Arthur in season 4.
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Dexter / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Dexter / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Deb and Lundy, who could easily be her father.
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Dexter / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Dexter / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Season 5 has the department pursuing the murderous Fuentes brothers. After a stakeout goes awry, Carlos Fuentes is shot and his brother Marco escapes. With a brutal murderer still on the loose, the department proceeds to... completely forget about him. Season 5 has Quinn and Liddy aggressively attempting to prove Dexter is a murderer, eventually leading to Dexter killing Liddy. All evidence points to Dexter killing Liddy, and Dexter even tampers with evidence to exonerate Quinn of being Liddy's killer. You'd think this would more or less convince Quinn that Dexter is a murderer, but Quinn never brings it up again - even during Season 7 when LaGuerta accuses Dexter of being the Bay Harbor Butcher and Quinn doesn't even consider it. In Season 6 Louis is being set up as a possible serial killer antagonist, and not only that but an antagonist who knows about Dexter's secret life, as he mails Dexter the Ice Truck Killer's fake hand. In Season 7 this is abandoned, as Louis is back to being annoyed about his video game before he is anticlimactically dispatched. Early in the first season LaGuerta was practically flinging herself at Dexter, but this was dropped around halfway through.
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Dexter / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Dexter / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Lundy in season 4. He alerted everyone to the existence of the Trinity Killer and rekindled his romance with Debra, ultimately hanging around for four episodes before his untimely demise.
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Dexter / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Dexter / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: Quinn has a habit of keeping his normal tone, but shouting the word "FUCK" in the middle of the sentence when he is angry. Dexter gives one when the FBI is asking him about Rita's death. He says "Are you suggesting I killed my wife? Are you FUCKING SERIOUS!?"
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Dexter / int_24e48d72	type	Dirty Harriet
Dexter / int_24e48d72	comment	Dirty Harriet: Deb. She's actually called so at one point in the book.
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Dexter / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Dexter / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: See American Gothic Couple above.
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Dexter / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Dexter / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The entire 4th Season: Agent Lundy's entire career and 4 years of Rita Bennett/Morgan; All Dexter's efforts to get close to Trinity in order to learn from him are wasted, as Arthur has nothing to teach him about raising a family. Frank Lundy will never receive public vindication, Deb will never get closure, and the FBI will waste innumerable man-hours because Trinity is already dead. Rita's efforts to build a loving home for her children and a happy life with Dexter fail, as 4 years of Character Development are of little use when you are dead in a bathtub.
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Dexter / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
Dexter / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: Dexter is stalking a victim to prevent him from killing his friend, when he is approached by a couple scary looking thugs speaking Spanish. Since this is Miami, everybody speaks a little Spanish, but at that particular moment Dexter needed to get the heck out of where he was as fast as he could. So he said he didn't speak Spanish. This might have worked, except he was so flustered that he accidentally said it IN SPANISH. Nice one, Dex.
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Dexter / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Dexter / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To the Hannibal Lecter series.
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Dexter / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
Dexter / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: In season five, Jordan Chase seems to be adept at this, especially on Emily Birch.
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Dexter / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Dexter / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Most of the Spanish is un-subtitled. The illegal immigrant boat that picks up Dexter when he's floating in the ocean in "This Is the Way the World Ends" is called the Milagro—"miracle". In Season 3 Anton writes a song for Deb called "Puta Flaca Mala"—"Bad Skinny Bitch". Season 7 has huge Narm potential for Russian speakers, as the "Koshka Brotherhood" translates roughly to "Kitty Brotherhood". Doesn't sound so menacing now, does it?
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Dexter / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Dexter / int_295087bf	comment	The Trinity Killer, who kills people in ways that mimics how his sister, mother and father died, although it turns out that his nickname is non-indicative. He actually kills in fours, starting every cycle with kidnapping and killing a boy, who is supposed to represent himself.
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Dexter / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
Dexter / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Dexter shows shades of this in season 1. The first time he shows sexual interest in Rita is while talking about a victim of the Ice Truck Killer.
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Dexter / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Dexter / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Deb feels this way about Harry. In season 4, Christine feels this way about her father, Arthur Mitchell (the Trinity Killer). She killed Lundy and shot Deb, hoping she would gain approval from him for protecting him from their investigation.
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Dexter / int_2989316a	type	The Illegal
Dexter / int_2989316a	comment	The Illegal: A source for both a few-episodes B-story and a Victim of the Week or two.
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Dexter / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Dexter / int_2a090d00	comment	This trope is lampshaded in "Dex Takes A Holiday" when Dexter investigates Zoey Kruger's involvement in the home invasion and murder of her husband and daughter. He realizes she was wearing gloves from the crime scene photos before discovering a shred of a blue nitrile glove left in the garbage disposal. This evidence confirms to him that she is the culprit behind her husband's, daughter's, and the criminal she framed's deaths. Zoey later breaks into Dexter's house wearing blue nitrile gloves like the kind she wore during her murders to kill him.
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Dexter / int_2b7ae239	type	Forced Euthanasia
Dexter / int_2b7ae239	comment	Forced Euthanasia: The titular Serial-Killer Killer's first victim is an "Angel of Death" nurse who overdoses sick and elderly patients with morphine to "take their pain away", whether or not they actually happened to be terminally ill.
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Dexter / int_2ceee1dc	type	Head-Turning Beauty
Dexter / int_2ceee1dc	comment	Head-Turning Beauty: Masuka's sexy intern draws interest in Season 6 from not just Masuka but most of the men in Miami Metro Homicide.
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Dexter / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Dexter / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Done at least twice: In Season 2, when Dexter and Rita are about to, er, do the deed, Lila calls...and mentions their road trip, where he confronted his mother's killer, and then they slept together (but did not have sex.) Unfortunately, he lets the machine get it, and Rita hears everything and thus suspects he was cheating. Later on, Lila and Dexter do have sex, but only after Rita breaks off the relationship. And played with in season 3. At first it's played straight when Miguel's wife suspects him of cheating...when, in fact, Miguel can't say where he was because he was committing a murder. Then later his wife catches when he did actually decide to rekindle an old romance, albeit for ulterior purposes.
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Dexter / int_2e76947a	type	The Topic of Cancer
Dexter / int_2e76947a	comment	The Topic of Cancer: Debra and Dexter's mom died of cancer when they were teenagers. Debra once says she can't visit Camilla, their family friend, because her suffering would remind her of her own mother too much and she thinks she could not cope. Camilla and her husband were friends of Harry Morgan (Dexter's father). They have been heavy smokers all their life. Camilla is already widowed in season one. In season three, she's dying of lung cancer and in excruciating pain. She wishes to die soon to cut short her suffering.
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Dexter / int_2ebc9c4e	type	Sunshine Noir
Dexter / int_2ebc9c4e	comment	Sunshine Noir: The series combines grisly crime and serial murder with the bright, sunny and colorful backdrop of Miami.
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Dexter / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Dexter / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Season 6. Travis Marshall is actually hallucinating James Gellar, whom he had killed on his own before the season started. Travis' serial killer side is a split personality he attributes to Gellar.
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Dexter / int_2fd62e54	type	The Killer in Me
Dexter / int_2fd62e54	comment	The Killer in Me: In season 6 Professor Gellar is a split personality of Travis after he killed the real one
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Dexter / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Dexter / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Doakes when he's angry, which is permanently.
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Dexter / int_30b41d96	type	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
Dexter / int_30b41d96	comment	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Season 3 finale. Better watch out, Rita. See Foreshadowing example below.
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Dexter / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
Dexter / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: As his name suggests, this is The Skinner's MO.
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Dexter / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Dexter / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: For all his ribald jokes and wacky antics, Vince Masuka cares a great deal for the women in his life, and is very shaken by the sight of Dexter's neighbor putting moves on Rita in Season 4. In Season 5, he is especially disgusted when he has to watch the rape DVDs, and is also very sad when examining Rita's corpse, stating, "I always wanted to see her naked, but not like this." Season 6 has him taking on several interns, including a very attractive blonde; once he realizes her disrespect for protocol, he immediately gets rid of her. Culminates in season 8, where he discovers he has a daughter; he is very unnerved to find out that she works in a topless sports bar.
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Dexter / int_313c87b3	type	Hollywood Thin
Dexter / int_313c87b3	comment	Hollywood Thin: Debra and Quinn. Quinn is so thin his cheeks are concave.
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Dexter / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Dexter / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Dexter doesn't particularly like his monicker of the "Bay Harbor Butcher". He does describe his urge to kill as his "Dark Passenger", but he just thinks of himself as Dexter.
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Dexter / int_318bdacf	type	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
Dexter / int_318bdacf	comment	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Batista has a very subtle version of this, mostly due to David Zayas's thick accent. It's actually not really noticeable unless you're listening for it.
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Dexter / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Dexter / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Basically the entire premise of the show. In the first episode, Dexter tells the very first person we see him kill - a child molester who murders his victims after he abuses them - that he could never kill children because "I have standards." Other especially notable examples: Though Dexter feels no remorse about killing those he knows are not innocent, he cannot bring himself to murder Sergeant Doakes at the end of Season 2. At first he makes a halfhearted attempt to frame Doakes's kills in the line of duty to fit Harry's code, but ultimately he can't go through with it because he knows that Doakes is genuinely a good man, even if he's his nemesis. Furthermore, when Dexter accidentally chops an innocent to bits, who he thinks is guilty, he later has regrets about what he did when he finds out the truth. Perhaps it's more than just Harry's Code keeping him in line. However, the main theme of Season 7 is Dexter rejecting the Code and the idea of a "Dark Passenger", and accepting that he kills because he likes it. This leads him to make the exact opposite decision in Season 7 than he did in Season 2; he resolves to kill LaGuerta to protect himself. A particularly blatant example is in Season 5 when the main antagonists are 5 men who raped and murdered at least 12 women, and gang-raped another two. Dexter is horrified by their crimes. He actually says that even though he considers himself a monster, their evil comes as a shock to him. What really stands out is that Dexter considered the Ice-Truck Killer and the Trinity Killer to be Worthy Opponents, but these men just sicken him. "What's Eating Dexter Morgan?" shows that Dexter also hates cannibals, to the point where he reacts with uncharacteristic disgust upon finding a human finger in some stew. Trinity seems to be particularly defensive when Dexter calls him a pedophile.
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Dexter / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Dexter / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Many fans see LaGuerta's death as this, seeing as how she framed Debra for Marco Fuentes escaping and some innocent people being killed, blackmailed Captain Matthews, refused to re-open the Barrel Girls Case because she thought it might make her look bad and did many other morally questionable things.
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Dexter / int_329a97a0	type	Apology Gift
Dexter / int_329a97a0	comment	Apology Gift: In season 4, when Rita is annoyed that Dexter doesn't spend time with his family, he buys them all presents. Astor gets a small laptop, Cody some video game, baby Harrison a geeky item of clothes and Rita a home oven for baking bread. Dexter says they are always out of bread, but it only makes Rita angrier — she would have to bake it. She also thinks that presents cannot fix everything that is wrong in their relationship. In season 6, Dexter asks the clerk at the donut shop "What's good for an apology?" when he needs to patch things up with his sister. (FYI, the clerk recommended a cruller.)
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Dexter / int_32c96ed3	type	Magical Nanny
Dexter / int_32c96ed3	comment	Magical Nanny: Sonya in Season 5, and Jamie in Season 6. Dexter never, ever has a problem getting his nanny to look after Harrison, no matter how late he is out murdering or how unpredictable his schedule is. Sonya initially quits on Dexter after he was unexpectedly out all night, but later has no problem staying for long stretches of time, or even taking Harrison to Orlando for days. Apparently, that "trust issue" didn't amount to much, or Dexter got better at communicating his schedule with her. And an offhand comment by Jamie in Season 7 suggests that Dexter pays her quite well.
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Dexter / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
Dexter / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: Brother Sam in Season 6.
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Dexter / int_3346eb29	type	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank
Dexter / int_3346eb29	comment	Dexter of all people is not one to be bothered by the sight of blood— aside from his career as a homicide forensics expert, he has a blood fetish— but the Overdrawn at the Blood Bank crime scene in "Seeing Red", with literal buckets of blood splashed around a hotel room, is enough to make him violently queasy and practically pass out. (It turns out, though, this is partly because it triggers a traumatic childhood memory.)
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Dexter / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Dexter / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: Trailers for the Season 5 ending showed Debra pointing a gun at what appears to be a bloodied Dexter. What they omitted was the plastic covering standing between the two, meaning all Debra saw was silhouettes. She did not even suspect it was Dexter. Another example was the trailer for an episode earlier in the season, which showed Dexter chasing an escaped victim, apparently followed by a shot of a surprised Deb in the same location saying, "Dexter?" In the actual episode these two shots happened about five minutes apart, giving Dexter just enough time to kill the victim and quickly conceal his own involvement.
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Dexter / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Dexter / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: Dexter hacks his victims to pieces and then drops 'em at the bottom of the sea. The tides turn this into a major plot point when several remains are discovered and the case against the "Bay Harbor Butcher" ensues.
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Dexter / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Dexter / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The Dark Passenger, sort of. It is referenced, but only in a metaphorical sense. In the books, The Dark Passenger was a real supernatural entity that shared a body with Dexter.
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Dexter / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dexter / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: In season 2, Sgt. Doakes discovers that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter can't bring himself to kill him because he doesn't fit the code, and can't decide whether to frame him or confess. Lila resolves the dilemma by murdering Doakes herself.
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Dexter / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Dexter / int_351205d2	comment	Deb Morgan and Detective Quinn. They started as Friends with Benefits, but later became a regular couple. Debra's promotion to Lieutenant and the new head of Homicide of Miami Metro PD essentially ends their relationship, although Debra never saw them as something super serious in the first place.
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Dexter / int_3549f04d	type	Fell Asleep Driving
Dexter / int_3549f04d	comment	Fell Asleep Driving: Played for Drama in "Living the Dream". Sleep-deprived from his newborn child, Dexter makes a series of mistakes throughout the episode, culminating in falling asleep and crashing his car at the end. In the next episode, he's hospitalized and his car is towed... with his latest victim's corpse still hidden in the trunk.
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Dexter / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Dexter / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Dexter, a serial killer who mainly targets other murderers, on a few occasions kills the wrong person entirely while going after someone else. Season 3 is kicked off by a "wrong place at the wrong time" situation when Dexter tracks down a drug dealer who is responsible for at least one murder. He breaks into the dealer's home late that night but interrupts an altercation with a third person whom Dexter accidentally ends up killing instead (he finds and kills the dealer later). This guy turns out to be Oscar Prado, the younger brother of Assistant D.A. Miguel Prado, who then takes an interest in Dexter. In season 4, the cops are investigating several disappearances and suspect that they were murdered by a scumbag photographer who physically abuses his models. Dexter seems to find evidence of the guy's culpability and kills him, but afterwards finds out that he misidentified his target when his colleagues arrest the photographer's assistant as the real culprit.
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Dexter / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Dexter / int_35a858b3	comment	He drops a small Cluster F-Bomb in 1x03. Apparently there are Evil Detecting Alligators in Florida. Who knew.
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Dexter / int_36a27b40	type	Hereditary Suicide
Dexter / int_36a27b40	comment	Hereditary Suicide: The Mitchells have this going on, both due to extreme bad luck and, in the present, Arthur/Trinity's horrific abuse. Arthur's mother committed suicide by jumping off a rooftop after his sister died falling through a shower, two actions that got Arthur on his Start of Darkness. Arthur's daughter by a previous relationship, Christine, then Ate Her Gun in Season 4 because Arthur rejected her after she killed Lundy for him. Sometime before Season 6, even after Arthur's own death, his wife Sally drove their daughter Rebecca to suicide with constant verbal abuse.
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Dexter / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Dexter / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: The final episode of season seven is titled "Surprise, Motherfucker!" and features flashbacks of Doakes.
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Dexter / int_36f64808	type	Eager Rookie
Dexter / int_36f64808	comment	Eager Rookie: Dexter takes on a mentee, Miguel, and teaches him the tricks and trade of being a vigilante serial killer. Miguel really enjoys it and is eager to kill, but is not very good at vetting his targets. Miguel and Dexter eventually have a falling out when Miguel murders a victim who is not a criminal and has a personal, easily traced connection to Miguel.
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Dexter / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Dexter / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: In season 2, Lila falsely accuses Batista of rape (in actuality, they had consensual sex before she took a dose of rohypnol and injured herself in order to frame him) in order to pressure Dexter into getting back together with her, implying that she will drop the charges if he does so. One of Dexter's prospective victims, a female police officer who murdered her own husband and daughter, quickly catches on to his surveillance and confronts him in a gas station restroom. She threatens to kill him under the cover of self-defense by falsely claiming that he attempted to rape her, but he points out that the ballistics would not support her story.
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Dexter / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Dexter / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Dexter expertly manipulates Doakes in Season 2 when the latter starts invading his privacy and getting a little too close to unraveling Dexter's secret. First, he tells Doakes at a crime scene that the blood spatter incriminates a suspect, then writes a report indicating the opposite, but holds onto it until Doakes starts aggressively sweating the victim's innocent and traumatized father-in-law. He then sneaks it into Doakes' inbox and tells Maria the suspect is innocent, making it look like Doakes is becoming unhinged. Doakes figures out he was set up and confronts Dexter about it in his lab. Dexter taunts him and knocks him down with a headbutt, then nonchalantly walks out, counting on Doakes' Hot-Blooded nature. Sure enough, Doakes rushes out and attacks him in front of the whole precinct, making him look even more unhinged and getting him placed on administrative leave.
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Dexter / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
Dexter / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: Prominent enough throughout, with first-person shooters accompanied by the beeps and whistles from Galaga. Perhaps most notably in the season 3 premiere, when Freebo is playing an obvious Wii bowling knock-off and we still get 80s-era bleeping. Later in Season 3, Dexter is playing Halo 3. On a computer. With no mouse. With sound effects from the 70s clearly dubbed in.
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Dexter / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Dexter / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Dexter's set of kill tools contains some... interesting sharp instruments, but he generally sticks to a plain-ol' big knife.
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Dexter / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Dexter / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: Travis's attack on the police station.
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Dexter / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Dexter / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Trinity sits down and plays with a train set, making choo-choo noises, much to the bewilderment of his captive.
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Dexter / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Dexter / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Everybody gets some. In the beginning of the show, Dexter is somewhat disgusted by sex, believes himself to be totally emotionless, and tries to avoid personal connections at all cost for fear of being discovered as a monster. As seasons go by, he becomes a family man and has several romantic relationships with women. Rita, who is fragile and shy, becomes stronger and more assertive as she recovers from the trauma of her marriage with Paul.
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Dexter / int_3b4bd0b4	type	Killer Cop
Dexter / int_3b4bd0b4	comment	Killer Cop: Of course, Dexter is one of these, although he's a forensic examiner rather than a detective. He was also trained by his adoptive father, who was already a cop but couldn't bring himself to actually kill criminals who escaped justice. In season 2 Dexter is the subject of an ongoing investigation when the corpses of his victims are discovered, which he manages to avoid by making it look like another cop within the department had turned to serial killing. Dexter also went after one in season four, a cop who'd killed her own husband and daughter and made it look like a robbery gone foul. She was a particularly hard target because her experience allowed her to suspect Dexter was up to something pretty early on.
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Dexter / int_3b56f6ec	type	Poetic Serial Killer
Dexter / int_3b56f6ec	comment	Poetic Serial Killer: Dexter, every once in a while.
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Dexter / int_3b920db5	type	Smart People Speak the Queen's English
Dexter / int_3b920db5	comment	Isaak Sirko in season 7. He's actually Ukrainian but spent most of his youth in England and speaks a very sophisticated British English, even correcting his American associate's drawled pronunciation at one point.
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Dexter / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
Dexter / int_3c7d0418	comment	From the season 6, episode 10 preview: "Dexter is your safe place." Considering how well that works out for some people...
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Dexter / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
Dexter / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: In season 5, episode 8, Dexter and Lumen hear a woman's screams, think Jordan Chase and his rape gang are attacking another victim, and rush to the rescue. It turns out to be a consensual sexual encounter with a very enthusiastic and vocal female participant. No Big Damn Heroes moment for Dexter and Lumen, alas.
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Dexter / int_3d69ca47	type	AmicablyDivorced
Dexter / int_3d69ca47	comment	LaGuerta, a boss of Homicide, and Sergeant Angel Batista start a sexual affair in season 4. Their superior Captain Matthews wants them to either break up or have Angel transferred to another department. They decide to marry and the pro-family politics allows them to stay together and both at Homicide department. Season 6 begins with them being Amicably Divorced.
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Dexter / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
Dexter / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: In the season 5 finale, the other characters (all police officers) treat Quinn this way when he requests to speak with an attorney when it's likely that he might be implicated in a crime that he didn't actually commit.
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Dexter / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Dexter / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Several episode titles, especially the ones that integrate characters' names ("Dex, Lies, and Videotape," "There's Something About Harry," "Everything Is Illumenated," etc.)
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Dexter / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Dexter / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Dexter's voiceover narration often suffers from this in the later seasons.
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Dexter / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Dexter / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The baby monitor in Season 5, which helps Dexter catch on to Liddy's scheme. At the end of Season 2, Dexter has captured Doakes, who now knows Dexter's secret. What to do? Eventually Dexter resolves to turn himself in because killing Doakes doesn't fit The Code. Lila blunders into Dexter's hideaway and kills Doakes for him. In the Season 6 finale, just when Dexter resigns himself to a death at sea, an illegal immigrant boat comes out of nowhere and rescues him. A very deliberate example, given the season's focus on religion and God. The boat's name? Milagro.
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Dexter / int_4059fbd2	type	Naughty Under the Table
Dexter / int_4059fbd2	comment	Naughty Under the Table: In a season one episode, Deb and her date are making out across the table, which causes Rita to feel insecure about the lack of sex in her and Dexter's relationship. She responds by putting a hand on his thigh under the table, but he merely looks uncomfortable and tries to ignore her.
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Dexter / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Dexter / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Dexter. For a guy who doesn't understand human emotions, he's pretty good at manipulating them in other people. This is an actual requirement for sociopaths. This is the M.O. of the Big Bad of season five.
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Dexter / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Dexter / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: With a lot of shifting towards the bitter side. The Season 4 finale: Dexter finishes off Trinity only to find out that same night, Trinity took out Rita beforehand, leaving their son crying in her blood. the series finale, Debra gets shot because Dexter didn't kill the Brain Surgeon when he had the chance. She develops a stroke and loses almost all brain function, and Dexter pulls the plug himself, then buries her at sea with the rest of his victims. Dexter realizes everyone he's ever been close to has died, and he decides to save Hannah and Harrison from himself by faking his death and exiling himself. The series ends with Dexter in a self-imposed prison in Canada, alone, and a devastated shell of the man he used to be.
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Dexter / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
Dexter / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: Due to the fact that everyone assumed him to be the Bay Harbor Butcher (instead of Dexter) Sergeant Doakes has a funeral attended only by his mother, his two sisters, and his former partner. Emphasized when the former partner suggests starting up a memorial fund in his name, and everyone looks at her like she's high.
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Dexter / int_4189710e	type	The Sponsor
Dexter / int_4189710e	comment	The Sponsor: Lila in season 2, though she is initially unaware of just what Dexter is actually addicted to.
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Dexter / int_4211d102	type	Confess to a Lesser Crime
Dexter / int_4211d102	comment	Confess to a Lesser Crime: When confronted by his girlfriend about some of his strange behavior, Dexter confesses to being an addict and lets her assume that he's talking about drugs rather than murder. This has unintentional benefits of getting Doakes off his back for a time, as Doakes sees Dexter at a meeting and assumes that his instincts that Dexter was up to something were triggerd by the addiction.
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Dexter / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Dexter / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The Skinner ostensibly tortures for information, but Dexter states that that's just a pretense and he does it because he enjoys it. The circle of rapist-murderers puts its victims through rape-and-torture sessions so shocking that even Dexter and Masuka, the resident pervert, are horrified by them. Ramon Prado tortures some mook for information about his brother's killer by shaking up a bottle of Coke and letting it shoot up the guy's nose.
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Dexter / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Dexter / int_43a045de	comment	In Season 6 Louis is being set up as a possible serial killer antagonist, and not only that but an antagonist who knows about Dexter's secret life, as he mails Dexter the Ice Truck Killer's fake hand. In Season 7 this is abandoned, as Louis is back to being annoyed about his video game before he is anticlimactically dispatched.
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Dexter / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Dexter / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Brit Ray Stevenson plays a Ukranian crime lord with his natural British accent. He mentions having a British accent to explain it. The step children get Put on a Bus to live with their grandparents after Rita becomes incapable of taking care of them. Dexter buys the adjacent apartment for the babysitter so baby Harrison can be abandoned with ease without making him appear negligent.
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Dexter / int_4415efaf	type	Serial-Killer Killer
Dexter / int_4415efaf	comment	Debra Morgan had this kind of relationship with her father Harry, even following in his footsteps as a cop to gain his attention. It's not that he wasn't proud of her, but honing her brother Dexter's extra-curricular activities (to which Deb wasn't invited for obvious reasons) meant that he couldn't spend as much time with his daughter.
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Dexter / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
Dexter / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: This applies to season 2 with Dexter and Doakes. The antagonists of every other season have been serial murderers with multiple kills under their belt, at the very least.
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Dexter / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Dexter / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Arguably the most prominent theme. Dexter pretends to be a regular guy who has emotional bonds with the people around him. As the story goes on, he begins to realize that he really does care for the people around him, though the audience sees this way before Dexter realizes it. By season 8, he's become so successful at being normal that it confounds Dr. Vogel, the one who helped Harry teach Dexter his code.
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Dexter / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Dexter / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: The first season was fairly faithful adaptation of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, but the later seasons went in a different direction from the later books.
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Dexter / int_455341fe	type	Cradling Your Kill
Dexter / int_455341fe	comment	Cradling Your Kill: In Season Two, Dexter injects Lila with a spinal epidural and then carries her to the couch before laying her gently down and stabbing her through the heart. He then closes her eyes. In Season Four, Trinity forces his first victim to lie with him in a bathtub, holds her close and says, "Shhhhh, it's already over," before cutting her femoral artery. He continues to hold her as she bleeds out and dies. Made even more horrifying by the fact that he's an extremely specific ritual serial killer and has probably done exactly this to dozens of women over the years, including Rita. In Season Seven Finale, Debra shoots Maria LaGuerta. She is horrified by what she did, runs to her to embrace her and cries the whole time.
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Dexter / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Dexter / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Dexter explicitly calls Lundy this, and views some of the various seasons big bads to be this. The barrel girl gang are a notable exception, Dexter is simply appalled by their actions. Trinity considers Lundy one and refuses to harm him since he wants to be caught by him. Isaak Sirko is a mafia man who considers Dexter an equal and holds him in high esteem.
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Dexter / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Dexter / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Lila, with serious emphasis on the "manic".
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Dexter / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Dexter / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In the Season Two finale, Lila kidnaps Cody and Astor - both young children - and locks them and Dexter in her loft before setting it on fire. Thankfully, they escape. In the fourth season, it is shown that the Trinity Killer has no qualms about kidnapping ten-year-old boys, holding them prisoner, drugging them and then killing them by BURYING THEM IN WET CEMENT. WHICH THEN SETS. This is also why he went uncaught for so long. The killer's name, MO, all of it, was an accidental misnomer, because nobody ever knew about the FOURTH victims in each set representing himself. Travis Marshall, the sixth season's villain, proved he was more than willing to kill a child.
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Dexter / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Dexter / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In the books LaGuerta is an outright antagonist, described as simultaneously dumb, horny for Dexter, and unreasonably hostile toward Debra. In the show, she is referred to as being dumb in the pilot, but that is dropped soon after and LaGuerta is portrayed as quite competent. Her attraction for Dexter is implied a couple of times in the first episodes but dropped, and eventually her hatred for Deb is also dropped after the characters have a heart-to-heart. This is probably due to the decision to keep LaGuerta around, rather than killing her off as Lindsay did at the end of the first book.
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Dexter / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Dexter / int_47fea76b	comment	Vince is a bit of a jerkass and prone to making rude comments, though he's also a Butt-Monkey at the same time. In Season 3 he gets softened. No one turns up to a conference he speaks at or reads an article he gets published and he begins acting polite for a while. The other characters apologise and say that they preferred him before. This is further developed in Season 4 when he agrees to keep Deb company for Thanksgiving and shows genuine dismay at having to keep a secret from Dexter about his marriage.
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Dexter / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Dexter / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Dexter often monologues that he wishes he could feel like everyone else, stripped of his own drives to slaughter. He even uses this to get closer to Rita after asking a couple about the secret of a successful relationship right before he kills them.
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Dexter / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Dexter / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: The Ice Truck Killer, Doakes. And Rita, who is alive and quite well in the novels up until the end of Dexter's Final Cut. And finally, Deb dies at the end of the series.
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Dexter / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Dexter / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: With a twist, Dexter was happily adopted by the Morgans, a caring family, but Harry was unable to correct his homicidal nature and just canalized it.
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Dexter / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Dexter / int_4920f624	comment	Season 8 has multiple red herrings regarding the identity of the Brain Surgeon. The biggest one is A.J. Yates, whom Dexter identifies as the Surgeon and kills; it's not until three episodes later that we learn the real Brain Surgeon is still at large.
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Dexter / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Dexter / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Used occasionally during Dexter's killings and also any time a character commits suicide with a gun.
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Dexter / int_4a7384c1	type	The Ex's New Jerkass
Dexter / int_4a7384c1	comment	The Ex's New Jerkass: When Hannah returns, Dexter finds out she's married to an abusive man.
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Dexter / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Dexter / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Deb, so much Deb. It's a tribute to her strength of will that she hasn't completely broken down after the trail of dead and fucked up people that have surrounded her for the entire run of the show.
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Dexter / int_4bb6dde2	type	Artifact Name
Dexter / int_4bb6dde2	comment	Artifact Name: Arthur Mitchell is known as the Trinity Killer because he kills his victims in groups of three. Except he doesn't. He kills in groups of four.
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Dexter / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Dexter / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Debra is put on life support because the gun injury she received from Daniel caused a blood clot. Dexter gives her a Mercy Kill... and then proceeds to fake his own death. And while Harrison's life isn't in danger, he's still effectively on the run with Hannah, a serial killer, with the chance of reuniting with his siblings being very unlikely. And going back to Dexter... he survived, but is now an Empty Shell.
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Dexter / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Dexter / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "Circle Of Friends", Dexter meets the man who is supposedly the Ice Truck Killer in prison, ready to ask him what the point of all his messages has been. In "Hungry Man," Christine talking to Trinity at the end: "Hi, Dad." A pretty minor one but clearly one that sets up a story arc: "Boyd wasn't the only one". Take It!: Teenage Wasteland: The Season 7 Premiere: The Season 8 Premiere: A Little Reflection From 8x10:
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Dexter / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Dexter / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the pilot, for Dexter's first onscreen kill, he hides in the back seat of his victim's car, whips a garrotte around the victim's neck, and forces said victim to drive Dexter to the kill spot, whereupon Dexter kills him by cutting his throat. Soon after, Dexter starts using his regular M.O. (sedate victim, transport victim to prepared plastic-covered kill room, let victim wake up naked on table, kill victim by stabbing them in the heart), which he has been using since his first chronological kill, as shown via flashbacks. He also goes to the trouble of digging up the rotting corpses of the killer's victims and putting them in the kill room, rather than simply pinning up their photographs. Season 1 doesn't feature anyone in the role of Dexter's Spirit Advisor at all, while Season 2 only has Brian filling the role for a single episode. Harry doesn't start fulfilling the part until a couple of episodes into Season 3. The dynamic between LaGuerta and Matthews can vary drastically from episode to episode in the early seasons. In one episode LaGuerta will be a Glory Hound with bad judgement while Matthews will be her more level-headed superior, and then in the next episode the former will be the Team Mom and the latter will be an incompetent, racist asshole. By the second season this settles down to LaGuerta being the overall more sympathetic of the two, but usually still putting her own ambitions first. The main set for Miami Metro Homicide wasn't established until after the pilot. Initially, the characters are shown working in a much larger and open office space and Dexter didn't have a backroom. Presumably, the writers needed a convenient excuse to have Dexter access police databases for criminals he was targeting without having his colleagues literally looking over his shoulder.
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Dexter / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Dexter / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Masuka, it would appear. He always seems to get good looking girls, and it crossed a bit of a line with the girl he brought to Harrison's birthday party.
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Dexter / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Dexter / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Dexter has made this into an art form.
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Dexter / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Dexter / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Louis Greene starts tormenting Dexter because Dexter insulted his game. Dexter initially assumes Louis knows he's a serial killer, and is flabbergasted when he learns that his real reasons are so petty.
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Dexter / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
Dexter / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Doakes' entire family, which consists of his mother and sisters. Deb gets along with them wonderfully. Also Francis, the file clerk.
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Dexter / int_51460d4e	type	Cops Need the Vigilante
Dexter / int_51460d4e	comment	Cops Need the Vigilante: Zigzagged. Dexter is a legitimate agent of the police (albeit a lab technician, so he does not have the authority to arrest anyone) whose nighttime activities as a Serial-Killer Killer are beneath notice by the rest of the department. When Dexter himself becomes a target of the FBI after a mass grave of his victims' corpses are discovered, most of his colleagues are quick to denounce the "Bay Harbor Butcher" and his one-man war on crime. Later, when Dexter was going after the Barrel Girl Gang, a group of criminals who raped and murdered numerous young women, Debra walked in on him in the middle of his kill ritual after he and Lumen, one of the gang's would-be victims, captured their leader. Dexter and Lumen were concealed behind a sheet of plastic, but Debra just said that she was going to let them get away with it because their victims were just that horrible.
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Dexter / int_520c77b4	type	Ignored Confession
Dexter / int_520c77b4	comment	Ignored Confession: In Season 8, Debra drunkenly confesses to Quinn that she killed LaGuerta, but Quinn interprets this as Deb just blaming herself for failing to be there to save LaGuerta, and not that Deb literally killed her.
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Dexter / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Dexter / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Dexter mentions in the pilot episode that Rita's ex-husband repeatedly beat and raped her, presumably for years. Lumen is introduced as a kind of sex slave, and is ultimately revealed to have been repeatedly raped and tortured by five men for approximately a month. Emily Birch has a similar backstory to Lumen, but the future Barrel Gang's members didn't kill her. Or not for a while anyway.
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Dexter / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
Dexter / int_52c0c7cf	comment	It also highlights Dexter's Motive Decay. Harry repeatedly warned him to only go after the ones who had successfully evaded the system.
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Dexter / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Dexter / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Inverted with the first lines of "That Night, a Forest Grew".
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Dexter / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Dexter / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Trinity Killer is introduced murdering a woman in her bathroom in the opening of Season 4. The season ends with Rita found dead in her bathroom, as the final victim of Trinity. The last kill room in season 8 meant for Oliver Saxon is the first kill room in the Pilot episode. Even Dexter and his dad lampshade this.
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Dexter / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Dexter / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Dexter.
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Dexter / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
Dexter / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: Invoked by Dexter sometimes when he is researching a prospect in his computer and another character may snoop on or take a glance, he switches to a NSFW site to project an image of normality. Doakes doesn't buy it for a second, though.
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Dexter / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
Dexter / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Dexter not only believes this of himself, but occasionally directs it at other killers whose evil is not restrained by any code.
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Dexter / int_53d302c	type	Vertigo Effect
Dexter / int_53d302c	comment	Vertigo Effect: Used in the second episode of season 8, when Dexter finds a match for a blood sample.
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Dexter / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Dexter / int_53f5119f	comment	Season 6: The Doomsday Killers, a.k.a. James Gellar and his dragon Travis Marshall. Until we learn that Gellar is just a Split Personality of Travis.
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Dexter / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Dexter / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: The main villain in Season 4 keeps the ashes of his dead sister on his mantelpiece when he isn't scattering them next to the bodies of his victims. They're smashed by his long-suffering son in a fight. Additionally: the ashes of Dexter's real father are in a plastic ziplock bag. Dexter disperses them on a patch of grass in front of a bowling alley.
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Dexter / int_54c29754	type	Serial Killer Baiting
Dexter / int_54c29754	comment	Serial Killer Baiting: Several examples. Part of Deb's undercover work on vice at the start of the series is to bait a client who is killing prostitutes. In Season 8, LaGuerta pushes (successfully) for drug kingpin Hector Estrada's early release, as she suspects that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher, and knows that Hector would fit the profile of Dexter's victims.
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Dexter / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Dexter / int_55232afa	comment	Matthews may be a Politically Incorrect Hero who is vindictive to Laguerta, but he has a sincere soft spot for the Morgans due to his friendship with Harry.
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Dexter / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
Dexter / int_5571b706	comment	In Season 3, while Dexter is killing the neo-Nazi, he mentions that he prefers to work alone and then says to no one in particular "...present company excluded." It could be interpreted as a statement to the audience, though it's more likely meant to refer to the person he's killing.
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Dexter / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Dexter / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The normally stoic Dexter stabs a serial killer in the chest when he called Rita one. The Trinity Killer refers to a passerby, his wife, and his daughter this way. Deb calls Yuki, the Internal Affairs officer, one. Nobody likes HR. So, so many examples in Season 5 courtesy of the main antagonists.
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Dexter / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Dexter / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lila's tactic. She burns her own apartment/art studio to gain sympathy from Dexter. Dexter provokes Doakes to attack him in front of their colleagues. It makes it look as if Doakes simply has an unreasonable and irrational hatred of him. Not that it took much work, as everyone already could see that Doakes clearly hated Dexter well before he had a reason to.
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Dexter / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
Dexter / int_582564f5	comment	The Gadfly: Dexter is this to Cody, making up outlandish Noodle Incident stories with a straight face just to entertain him.
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Dexter / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Dexter / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: In S8x E 4, Dexter and Debra crash into the river as Dexter is hit unconscious.
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Dexter / int_59938d30	type	Better than Sex
Dexter / int_59938d30	comment	Better than Sex: This exchange from of one of the Early Cut shorts: Masuka also uses these exact words to describe the donuts Dexter brings. Then he recants.
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Dexter / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Dexter / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Most of Dexter's victims are this, as his MO is to target murderers who got away with their crimes, with some of his victims, such as Walter Kenney, Santos Jimenez, Arthur Mitchell and Jordan Chase going years without punishment before Dexter kills them. Even some of Dexter's supposedly innocent victims fit this trope, such as Jonathan Farrow, who turns out to be innocent of the murder Dexter thought he had committed, but is mentioned to have raped a woman several years prior and gotten away with it through bribery, and Clint McKay, who Dexter kills despite knowing he hasn't killed anyone because he regularly abused Hannah when she was a kid. In one first season episode, Doakes chases a seemingly random guy down to a beach and shoots him dead. Later it turns out the guy was an ex-Tonton Macoute war criminal who Doakes recognised from his days as a US marine. The second season episode "It's Alive!" sees Dexter's Victim of the Week, Little Chino, escape from him. The next episode partially revolves around Dexter hunting him down and successfully killing him. During the hunt for the Trinty Killer in Season Four, one of the guys who gives a DNA sample turns out to have killed a woman in a mugging some years ago, and donated his sample confident that the police would have forgotten about the crime. He was wrong.
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Dexter / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Dexter / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: Dexter does this just about every single time a loved one says something ironic about his true nature. That's pretty damn frequently.
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Dexter / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Dexter / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Dexter has killed dozens of people and felt no remorse, but when he finds his wife, Rita, dead, his shocked response as police arrive is to blurt out "It was me." In the series finale, this drives Dexter not to follow through on his plans with Hannah and Harrison after Deb dies from getting shot by Saxon, after Dexter willingly gave up his chance to finally get rid of him.
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Dexter / int_5b2cf07b	type	American Gothic Couple
Dexter / int_5b2cf07b	comment	American Gothic Couple: Dexter and Brian pose like this, complete with gothic style house in a poster on the back. Dexter had the bloody pitchfork.
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Dexter / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Dexter / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Dexter frequently uses this to get his targets to a more secure area. Justified as it takes the form of a syringe with Norpropoxyphene, a powerful and dangerous animal tranquilizer that knocks the target out instantly, and really can knock a person out that fast in real life. Admittedly, he always gets them in the neck and he's not terribly concerned about long-term health effects, which can include kidney and heart damage, for hopefully obvious reasons. Played with in the season six finale. Did you think that Dexter went down a little too suddenly when asked to inject himself? Yes, he did.
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Dexter / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Dexter / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle : Debra Morgan seems to be the only female Homicide cop, and La Guerta the only woman in a position of administrative authority.
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Dexter / int_5dbf364d	type	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
Dexter / int_5dbf364d	comment	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Dexter himself, who is usually more careful and not prone to Evil Gloating, plays this on Isaac Sirko when the latter confronts him in public, admitting that he hunted down his friend Viktor and crushed his skull. Also done to the Skinner regarding Freebo when Dexter is captured.
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Dexter / int_5e323fa8	type	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
Dexter / int_5e323fa8	comment	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Dexter has relationships of varying lengths with Rita, Lila, and Lumen. Due to his double life, none of them end well.
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Dexter / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
Dexter / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Isaak Sirko, as well as Viktor Baskov.
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Dexter / int_5f9d7299	type	EnfanteTerrible
Dexter / int_5f9d7299	comment	Enfante Terrible: Rather ridiculously, Dexter worries that Harrison may be this, despite the fact that Harrison was less than a year old when he witnessed a traumatic event.
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Dexter / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Dexter / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Season 8 has a massive one towards the end. Federal Marshal Max Clayton followed Dexter in his attempt to apprehend Hannah McKay, only to find Oliver Saxon strapped down on Dexter's table. Apparently unaware of Saxon's face all over the news, he sets him free only to get stabbed in the heart for his trouble. This makes Saxon able to shoot Debra when she comes to apprehend him, ultimately causing Dexter to Mercy Kill her after she becomes brain-dead and exile himself from Hannah and Harrison's lives out of fear a similar fate would happen to them.
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Dexter / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Dexter / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The first season cuts out some of the more questionable plot elements while fleshing out the supporting cast and making Dexter more human.
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Dexter / int_60ac6ae4	type	The Lab Rat
Dexter / int_60ac6ae4	comment	The Lab Rat: Dexter and Masuka are often called this.
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Dexter / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Dexter / int_60eac4ba	comment	Off the Rails: Starting from the second season the show leaves the books for original plotlines.
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Dexter / int_612ec723	type	TheCollectorOfTheStrange
Dexter / int_612ec723	comment	The Collector of the Strange: Dexter's box of bloody slides. Also, one character's fascination with cryptozoo-taxidermy.
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Dexter / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
Dexter / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Rita with Dexter. She trades a wife-beater for a serial killer, who is ironically a big improvement.
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Dexter / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Dexter / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Lundy is a mild example. Also invoked directly by Elway in Season 8 when he tells Deb he only puts up with her bullshit because she's so good at her job.
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Dexter / int_6245e33	type	Slumber Party Ploy
Dexter / int_6245e33	comment	Slumber Party Ploy: Astor, Dexter's stepdaughter, shows up in Miami drunk after running away from her grandparents' house with her friend Olivia, who explains she lied to her mom that she was staying at Astor's in order to go on the trip.
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Dexter / int_6269a4b3	type	Psycho Psychologist
Dexter / int_6269a4b3	comment	Psycho Psychologist: In a first-season episode one of Dexter's victims is a therapist who was driving his patients to suicide for kicks. Then there's Deb's terrible, terrible therapist in Season 6, who bizarrely encourages her to acknowledge and act on romantic feelings towards Dexter. Lila acts like this as Dexter's "sponsor" for his (non-existent) drug addiction in Season 2, by warping the Narcotics Anonymous 12 steps. Dr. Evelyn Vogel in Season 8 appears to be this as well. She is the author of the definitive textbook on profiling psychopathic killers, yet is somehow intimately involved in Dexter's own formative past as one. Despite an austere warmth and wisdom, she appears very emotionless and unnervingly detached when discussing a case.
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Dexter / int_6318b5c8	type	Obstructive Vigilantism
Dexter / int_6318b5c8	comment	Obstructive Vigilantism: Basically the whole point of the show.
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Dexter / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Dexter / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: A lot of the killers in the show are shown to have families and friends they care about. Dexter says he has no feelings, but grows quite attached to his family and some of his coworkers, and has other romantic relationships later in the series. The Ice Truck Killer is revealed to be Dexter's brother, reached out to him so they could reunite, and wants them to kill Debra together. Dexter can't do it because he loves Deb, and tearfully kills Brian. Miguel Prado loved his brothers, and is particularly broken up about Oscar's death. When Dexter tells Miguel right before garroting him that Dexter himself killed Oscar, Miguel is particularly enraged. Travis Marshall is shown to have a deep bond with his sister, but she ends up killed by his evil personality. Ukrainian crime lord Isaak Sirko pursues Dexter for killing his friend Viktor, also his lover.
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Dexter / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Dexter / int_643618e5	comment	Lumen is a Replacement Goldfish for Rita after she dies, being a blonde Broken Bird herself.
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Dexter / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
Dexter / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: Dexter kills a paedophile who was stalking his girlfriend's daughter in his home. While he was dragging his corpse out, he remembers a phone call from his girlfriend who asked him to pick up some milk for the kids. So he steals a carton of milk from his victim's fridge.
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Dexter / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
Dexter / int_6492f4ca	comment	Season 1 doesn't feature anyone in the role of Dexter's Spirit Advisor at all, while Season 2 only has Brian filling the role for a single episode. Harry doesn't start fulfilling the part until a couple of episodes into Season 3.
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Dexter / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Dexter / int_649f5bec	comment	There is a very brief romantic flirting between Masuka, a forensics expert, and Ryan, his sexy blonde of an intern. They also had the forbidden teacher/student dynamics. She screwed him over, stealing The Ice Truck Killer's prosthetic hand from the evidence room. He ended their relationship and he fired her as well.
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Dexter / int_67101c52	type	Rooftop Confrontation
Dexter / int_67101c52	comment	Rooftop Confrontation: With Miguel in Season 3 and Travis in Season 6.
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Dexter / int_67262b61	type	Variations on a Theme Song
Dexter / int_67262b61	comment	Variations on a Theme Song: In the Season 4 opener, the normal sequence of Dexter preparing his day along to the theme song is replaced with a much more drowsy and disjointed sequence to represent his exhaustion at this point in the story.
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Dexter / int_677c65ea	type	Scream Discretion Shot
Dexter / int_677c65ea	comment	Scream Discretion Shot: The tapes that the Barrel Girl killers made of them torturing their victims. Virtually nothing is shown (mercifully), but the screams are terrifying.
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Dexter / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
Dexter / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: The series finale coincides with a tropical storm gathering over Miami and the concern about it starts in the penultimate episode.
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Dexter / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Dexter / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Little Chino, who's an absolute giant of a man.
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Dexter / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Dexter / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Lumen turns her motel room into a tragic version of one.
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Dexter / int_695d36b5	type	Must State If You're a Cop
Dexter / int_695d36b5	comment	Must State If You're a Cop: In one of the last seasons, Hector Estrada, the last guy left from the group who killed Dexter's mother, gets paroled from prison and Dexter pretends to be a criminal and approaches Estrada so he can get close enough to kill Estrada. Estrada agrees to talk business at a later date, but first requires Dexter to loudly and clearly state that Dexter isn't a cop. Dexter, who really isn't a cop but a forensic examiner, does so without hesitation. Even if he were, it wouldn't count for much, since Dexter's intent isn't to arrest him.
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Dexter / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Dexter / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: The Neo-Nazi leader Dexter targets in Season Three.
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Dexter / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Dexter / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Miguel, especially on the rooftop. And it is awesome. Dexter himself has a couple of these moments in Season 2, especially during the confrontation with his mother's killer and the opening scene with Doakes in 2x11, "Left Turn Ahead".
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Dexter / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Dexter / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Poor Angel falls victim to this in Season 5. He thinks Maria is cheating on him, but she's actually doing an undercover sting operation. Of course Angel gets yelled at for not trusting her when she goes sneaking around late at night and makes up clearly fake excuses as to why. Maria plays it straight, but the show subverts it, since the viewer is led to believe that she really was cheating on him, even if only to get the case against him dropped and save him from jail time.
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Dexter / int_6b750ec9	type	I Am a Monster
Dexter / int_6b750ec9	comment	I Am a Monster: Dexter has become so comfortable with the notion that he's a monster that he usually just mentions it in passing, cracking Inner Monologue jokes about it. The most dramatic it ever gets is when it occurs to him that he may not be as monstrous as he previously thought.
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Dexter / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Dexter / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: For a guy that appeared in only one episode, Rankin sure managed to really piss Dexter off. An emotionally confused Dexter with an anchor doesn't go well with a disrespectful angry dude, seeing as Dexter's rare moments of anger can make him completely disregard The Code.
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Dexter / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Dexter / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "It doesn't matter what I do, what I choose... I'm what's wrong." "Hello, Dexter Morgan." Spoken to Dexter by both Father and Son (The Trinity Killer and Jonah) to show that the son is following in the Father's footsteps. Later subverted however that Jonah actually wasn't evil, having killed his mother in revenge for her vehemence leading to his sister's suicide.
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Dexter / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Dexter / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In Latin Dexter means right and is the opposite of left, which is Sinister. The main character must follow the Code of Harry so as to appear as Dexter and not let on that he is Sinister. Dexter also refers to quickness, skill and grace, which are traits that Dexter must always display to stay alive. Lila is Hebrew for "night". Lumen is named after a unit of light, i.e. the opposite of Lila.
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Dexter / int_6ce41758	type	Mistaken for Junkie
Dexter / int_6ce41758	comment	Mistaken for Junkie: When Dexter is caught in his web of lies at one point and thinks he is going to be exposed as a serial killer, instead it is assumed that he is a drug addict. He goes along with it.
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Dexter / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Dexter / int_6d332aea	comment	Likewise with Christine Hill, the daughter of Arthur Mitchell/Trinity. She even killed Frank Lundy to gain her father's approval. After she accidentally put him at risk of being discovered, he disowns her. She doesn't take it well.
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Dexter / int_6e1e6488	type	Moving-Away Ending
Dexter / int_6e1e6488	comment	Moving-Away Ending: The final season ends with Dexter faking his own death, leaving Harrison with Hannah, and moving from Miami to Alaska, where he works as a logger.
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Dexter / int_6fbfa62f	type	Air Guitar
Dexter / int_6fbfa62f	comment	Air Guitar: Rudy Cooper plays the air guitar when he helps Dexter to clean the house after Dexter's biological father died. He tries to make the cleaning more fun and plays his old records and starts dancing. Foghat, no less.
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Dexter / int_70c462fb	type	AB Negative
Dexter / int_70c462fb	comment	AB Negative: Dexter's AB negative blood type, referenced in a flashback, leads to Dexter discovering the truth about his biological father.
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Dexter / int_71348a9b	type	Systematic Villain Takedown
Dexter / int_71348a9b	comment	Systematic Villain Takedown: In Season 5, Dexter and Lumen decide to track down (and kill) the individual members of the five-man Barrel Girl Gang, who tortured and murdered twelve women, and raped and tortured Lumen and their first victim, Emily. Dexter kills the first, cleanup guy Boyd, by himself, and then he and Lumen team up to kill the others.
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Dexter / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
Dexter / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Surprisingly for a show about a member of the police force who kills people in his spare time, not that commonly used. However, it does form the basis of two minor subplots: The first is in season 1. Doakes shoots a man on the street, Angel is torn between reporting discrepancies between the shooting and Doakes' report. He eventually comes clean, but Doakes still stands up for Angel when the other officers call him out on it. The second is a somewhat painful subplot in season 3 featuring an incompetent IA officer who harasses Deb in order to get her to turn over on her (very mildly corrupt) partner, which Deb resists because the IA officer gives no details on why she's pursuing Deb's partner whatsoever, and instead just hounds Deb and interferes with her job (not in an Obstructive Bureaucrat way, more of a "yappy dog getting in the way" manner).
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Dexter / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Dexter / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Sgt. James Doakes. Early on, he finds the woman he loves shot to death in her home, and because her estranged husband was a police officer, he ends up "volunteered" as the bait in a trap to catch the man who ordered her death. In season 2 he finally discovers Dexter's secret only to be caged up, blown up and posthumously framed for all Dexter's murders, so effectively that LaGuerta is the only cop who mourns his death. Somebody sure doesn't like Doakes being happy... Angel has it pretty bad. First season he's separated, then divorced. Then he gets stabbed, which leads him to thinking his ex-wife would take him back. She doesn't. Then he is used by Lila to get at Dexter, including being framed by her for using Rohypnol. Then he goes to a prostitute, but gets busted as she is an undercover cop. Then he begins a relationship with LaGuerta, which eventually ends in another divorce. Then he loses a promotion to Lieutenant to his junior, Deb. As a result, he has to deal with his partner Quinn, who holds the Idiot Ball for much of Season 6. He's eventually redeemed by getting Lieutenant when Deb leaves.
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Dexter / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Dexter / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: In "Dex Takes a Holiday", Dexter stalks a police officer whose husband and child were killed. The blood evidence suggests that she may have actually murdered them and planted evidence to incriminate a known thief. She goes to kill Dexter (whom she sees only as a nosy blood guy) and plans to make it look like he was killed in a house invasion. Little did she know... This was toyed with in the storyline with revenge on Dexter's mother's murderer. Both Dexter and the perp knew one another at the time. When he tries to kill Dexter, Dexter plays it off as an attempted mugging, leading to many trope-invoking comments from the other Miami PD.
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Dexter / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Dexter / int_7286e96d	comment	Angel has it pretty bad. First season he's separated, then divorced. Then he gets stabbed, which leads him to thinking his ex-wife would take him back. She doesn't. Then he is used by Lila to get at Dexter, including being framed by her for using Rohypnol. Then he goes to a prostitute, but gets busted as she is an undercover cop. Then he begins a relationship with LaGuerta, which eventually ends in another divorce. Then he loses a promotion to Lieutenant to his junior, Deb. As a result, he has to deal with his partner Quinn, who holds the Idiot Ball for much of Season 6. He's eventually redeemed by getting Lieutenant when Deb leaves.
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Dexter / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Dexter / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Clemson Galt, one of Dexter's vicims of the week in Season Three, is the leader of a Neo-Nazi gang. Throughout the episode, he repeatedly references white power and calls Miguel Prado a "spic".
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Dexter / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Dexter / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: Santos Jimenez. Trying to come out of retirement does not go well for him.
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Dexter / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Dexter / int_7301ae04	comment	Season 8's A Little Reflection, Dexter and Debra are chatting over the happenings in the episode (mostly the fact that Dexter would be taking on rich teen Serial Killer in the manner of Harry) when they both start to feel dizzy and before Dexter passes out, he sees that Hannah's back.
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Dexter / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Dexter / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Debra uses the exact words "death by cop" with regards to The Skinner.
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Dexter / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Dexter / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Dexter is a blood spatter analyst able to deduce and recreate a crime scene or a relevant incident within seconds. Lundy is a legendary FBI analyst who is not fooled by some of Dexter's tricks and even reverses some of them to deduce the true nature of the suspect: "Law enforcement". He also nails the identity of Trinity almost immediately after meeting him, and is killed for it.
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Dexter / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Dexter / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: Season 7 opens with Dexter rushing to the airport, finding all his credit cards canceled, and pulling emergency cash from his bug-out bag to buy a plane ticket to eastern Europe. Since Season 6 ended with Debra walking in on a kill, we expect he's fleeing the country. The episode then rewinds to where we left off Season 6, and the second time we get to the airport it turns out Dexter's just rushing to catch a murderer before he flees the country, and the problem with his credit cards is unrelated.
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Dexter / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Dexter / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the first book, LaGuerta was killed by Brian, but survived the first season (which was based on the book) and went on to appear in subsequent seasons. Until her death in Season 7 under completely different circumstances. Also, Dexter dies at the end of eighth book (which came out way after the series was over) while he faked his death and became a lumberjack at the end of the series.
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Dexter / int_745a43fc	type	Fun T-Shirt
Dexter / int_745a43fc	comment	Fun T-Shirt: Season 5, episode 3, Dexter borrows an apron from a victim that reads "Natural Born Griller."
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Dexter / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Dexter / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Tonight's the night."
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Dexter / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Dexter / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Partial example: Lundy for Season 3. Partial because as an FBI agent he was only in Miami to investigate the Bay Harbor Butcher, as soon as the case closed he would be gone. It was clear from the beginning his character would only last the season, it's actually a surprise that he's back for season 4. Lumen in the season 5 finale. Put in the back of a car: Astor and Cody, after their mother died, went to live with their grandparents in Orlando. They take a bus back from time to time - Astor twice (one episode centered around her), Cody once with getting face time only in one shot.
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Dexter / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Dexter / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Dexter the serial killer has quite a soft spot for kids. Or maybe just hurting them is an Even Evil Has Standards moment, considering his origin.
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Dexter / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Dexter / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Jordan Chase got hit by it in season 5's finale.
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Dexter / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
Dexter / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: Would you expect a show about a serial killer to be well-lit?
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Dexter / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Dexter / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Debra, Lundy and Batista are competent investigators who have a very limited life outside of the job.
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Dexter / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Dexter / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: In "Teenage Wasteland", Dexter insists that Lumen is just a tenant. Though to be fair, she really wasn't his girlfriend at the time, but she was more than just a tenant.
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Dexter / int_784a71d0	type	Crime of Self-Defense
Dexter / int_784a71d0	comment	Crime of Self-Defense: Dexter's girlfriend against a rapist that broke into her house.
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Dexter / int_7ad0e492	type	Imaginary Friend
Dexter / int_7ad0e492	comment	Imaginary Friend: Harry Morgan starts out as a Posthumous Character shown in flashbacks but eventually becomes this, with Dexter having lively chats with his imaginary dead father in almost every episode after Season 2. Dexter's brother, Brian Moser the Ice Truck Killer, fills this role briefly in both Season 2 and Season 6. Prof. Gellar for Travis in Season 6.
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Dexter / int_7ade0c2	type	Not in Front of the Kid
Dexter / int_7ade0c2	comment	Not in Front of the Kid: Debra won't swear in front of Dexter and Rita's infant son. She's dropped f-bombs on live television and in a hospital waiting room full of children, though.
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Dexter / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Dexter / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: In season 3, after Debra babysat Astor and Cody for Rita and Dexter, she jokingly tells them that Astor almost made it through Saw and Saw II. Rita's actress, Julie Benz, would later star in Saw V as one of Jigsaw's victims.
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Dexter / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
Dexter / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: Dexter orders his tranquilizers as Patrick Bateman. Not a very smart choice for a Serial Killer trying to evade detection while working in a police department...
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Dexter / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Dexter / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Dexter and Lila. It says something when Dexter is a serial killer and the girl he dates is darker than him. Dexter and Hannah McKay.
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Dexter / int_7e84a642	type	Serial Rapist
Dexter / int_7e84a642	comment	Serial Rapist: Jordan Chase and his followers, the Barrel Girl Gang, from season five combine this with being Serial Killers. He and his group capture, torture and rape women for months before finally disposing of them in barrels, hence their name. Notably, unlike other Big Bads from the series, who are usually given something to humanize them, the show treats Chase and his accomplices like pure evil scum. Strangely, Chase himself by all indications didn't even directly participate in the nightmarish gang rapes that he orchestrated himself; instead he seemed to get off on the power he had over people by goading his buddies to brutalize his gang's victims and mentally torment the girls about how they were about to die.
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Dexter / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Dexter / int_7eebe99c	comment	Characters comment on Quinn's supposed skill as a detective in Seasons 3 and 8. Given his behavior in Seasons 6 and 7, it's hard to imagine they're talking about the same person.
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Dexter / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Dexter / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Dexter is certainly "addicted" to his "hobby", but doesn't necessarily let that addiction rule his life.
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Dexter / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Dexter / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Dexter has done this a lot. In fact, it's essentially the entire point of the series as a whole. In Season 2, Dexter's criminal career, and his hesitation to turn himself in when Doakes urges him to, gets Doakes killed and blamed for Dexter's crimes, and leaves Astor and Cody traumatized by nearly being burned alive in a fire. In Season 3, Dexter's mentoring of Miguel gets Ellen Wolf killed. In Season 4, Dexter's season-long game of footsie with the Trinity Killer gets Rita killed (as well as leaving the Trinity murders officially unresolved, with the FBI chasing a dead man). In Season 5, Dexter's hunt of Jordan Chase and the Barrel Boys gets Emily Birch killed. Season 6 is the worst example for Dexter. He keeps screwing up in his attempt to catch the Doomsday Killer before the police. This allows the killer to get away from the police just as they are closing in. If Dexter hadn't withheld evidence, Debra would have probably caught the killer by the middle of the season and prevented all the additional deaths. Hoo, boy...Season 8. Not only does Dexter's decision to not kill Saxon get Vogel murdered, it also ends up getting Deb shot which results in her death, which in turn then results in Dexter feeling that he needs to fake his own death, leave his lover and son behind, and live in quiet obscurity away from everyone he cares about.
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Dexter / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Dexter / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Subverted when Quinn explains to Masuka why no one wants to come to his lecture:
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Dexter / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
Dexter / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: According to Masuka, Dexter and Lumen. In season 7, the story of Wayne Randall and Hannah McKay. Dexter and Hannah later on.
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Dexter / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Dexter / int_808cbaeb	comment	Even when Dexter kills a non-killer, the writers make sure the victim is enough of a scumbag that we don't feel too upset over their murder. Examples include Nathan Marten (a child molester), Jonathan Farrow (a physical abuser), and Rankin (a gigantic asshole).
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Dexter / int_80984829	type	Child Supplants Parent
Dexter / int_80984829	comment	Child Supplants Parent: Brian Moser "Rudy Cooper" killed his father and fetishizes his mother. (Prosthetic hand with painted nails similar to Laura Moser.)
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Dexter / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Dexter / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Season 5's "Teenage Wasteland" mostly takes a break from the main story arc to focus on Dexter reconciling with Astor.
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Dexter / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Dexter / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: Season 1. Who is the Ice Truck Killer?
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Dexter / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
Dexter / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Cody has nightmares of the Bay Harbor Butcher, Rita tells Dexter she hopes that the Butcher is found and hurt badly. Followed by: Jamie and Batista are having a conversation about Jamie's ex-boyfriend Louis, who cheated on her with a hooker. Jamie asks who would possibly sleep with a hooker, not knowing that Batista almost got arrested in Season 3 for trying to do just that.
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Dexter / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Dexter / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Dexter puts on a cheerful facade while internally lamenting his hollowness. Arthur Mitchell's family has elements of this. Despite being very messed up, they project an image of wholesomeness to the outside world that initially fools Dexter even when he's looking for signs of dysfunction.
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Dexter / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Dexter / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Partially subverted, since Dexter is not so sure whether he really is necessary.
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Dexter / int_84609623	type	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
Dexter / int_84609623	comment	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Dexter, to Rudy. Better known as The Ice Truck Killer. Dexter follows through. Threat nullified in the books.
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Dexter / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Dexter / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the first episode of the series, it's both shown and mentioned how LaGuerta has a romantic interest in Dexter. It's never mentioned again. (This was a plot point from the first "Dexter" book, which the show dropped.) Angel's interest in vague mysticism in season two was quietly dropped before his character came to the fore. Rita's teenage marriage is introduced as if it will be a major plot point. Then it's forgotten. The murder of Stan Liddy and Dexter's obvious connection to it never comes up after again after Season 5.
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Dexter / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Dexter / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Harry after Season 2. Dexter to Debra after the reveal in Season 7.
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Dexter / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Dexter / int_875615dd	comment	Dexter. For a guy who doesn't understand human emotions, he's pretty good at manipulating them in other people. This is an actual requirement for sociopaths.
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Dexter / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Dexter / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Miguel Prado and Jordan Chase. Also Dexter Morgan, especially from Sgt. Doakes' point of view.
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Dexter / int_88384522	type	Reflective Eyes
Dexter / int_88384522	comment	Reflective Eyes: Lumen in Season 5 when she's watching her own rape/torture video. It is mercifully discreet.
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Dexter / int_8858e515	type	Fetishes Are Weird
Dexter / int_8858e515	comment	Fetishes Are Weird: Subverted and Played for Laughs with Vince Masuka. He has several fetishes and is depicted as a total weirdo that everyone finds perverted (which isn't undeserved), but he's also one of the heroic characters in the series. Masuka is just a Lovable Sex Maniac. Played Straight with Brian Moser, the Ice Truck Killer. He's a sociopathic Serial Killer who has an amputee fetish, and it's later revealed that this is because he witnessed his mother getting murdered with a chainsaw, and it's implied that his fetish has a large role to play in his modus operandi. Slightly Downplayed, as Vince warns Batista to not call an amputee fetishist by the medical term (acrotomophilia) because it sounds like a disease, implying that he knows people with the fetish who are just ordinary people and want to be treated respectfully.
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Dexter / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Dexter / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: Season 7 ends with a New Year's party and "Auld Lang Syne" being sung at midnight.
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Dexter / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Dexter / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Dexter is a bit more heroic than most examples of this trope and even has redeeming qualities (his love for his family, friends, and coworkers), but he still qualifies. Although he kills other killers, he does it primarily for the wrong reasons, to satisfy his own bloodlust. No matter how well he rationalizes it to himself (and the audience), he has tampered with evidence to let guilty men free, killed innocent people, and indirectly caused many innocent deaths including his wife and sister because of his "hobby".
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Dexter / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Dexter / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Astor as of season 4. Dexter comments in his inner monologue that she has chosen the role of a sullen pre-teen. Deb talks back to her father in some flashbacks.
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Dexter / int_8a6423b6	type	Cosplay
Dexter / int_8a6423b6	comment	Cosplay: Rita Bennett dresses up as Lara Croft as a Valentine's day gift for her boyfriend (later husband) Dexter, though he has a bit of trouble placing it at first.
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Dexter / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Dexter / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Dexter is appalled by the crimes of the Barrel Girl Gang.
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Dexter / int_8acdad69	type	Character Signature Song
Dexter / int_8acdad69	comment	Character Signature Song: "Born Free" for the Ice Truck Killer. "Venus" for the Trinity Killer. "Make Your Own Kind Of Music" for the Brain Surgeon.
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Dexter / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Dexter / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Dexter's foster father, Harry. For the first two seasons, his only appearances were via flashbacks - scenes showing him grooming a younger Dexter to be a vigilante in order to slake his blood lust. From season 3 onwards, Harry is more of an Imaginary Friend giving Dexter advice about following The Code.
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Dexter / int_8ca9bf12	type	Sex Equals Love
Dexter / int_8ca9bf12	comment	Sex Equals Love: Deb and Quinn in season 5.
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Dexter / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Dexter / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Quinn in the sixth season. He had already stolen from a crime scene earlier in the show, but he rapidly spirals out of control after Deb rejects his proposal and says that she never really loved him. He starts getting drunk, neglecting his job and acting like a total douche to everyone. His negligence almost gets his partner killed. The only reason he doesn't get fired is that he exploits a loophole intended for alcoholics.
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Dexter / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Dexter / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: This is a recurring theme throughout the whole of season one, but never quite so strongly as the time that the Ice Truck Killer mails a jar of blood with a hotel room key in it to the homicide department. The hotel room key turns out to lead to a hotel room with walls covered with much more blood.
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Dexter / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Dexter / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Season 4 episode 9, arguably. There were hints of Arthur's mask slipping before, but this time you get to see how messed up his family life really is. The Season 4 finale. Dexter comes across the scene of Rita dead in the bathtub and Harrison bawling in a pool of blood. The Season 6 finale. Dexter gets caught killing Travis by Debra. And the Season 7 finale too. Debra kills LaGuerta after she urges Debra to kill Dexter. Season 8's A Little Reflection, Dexter and Debra are chatting over the happenings in the episode (mostly the fact that Dexter would be taking on rich teen Serial Killer in the manner of Harry) when they both start to feel dizzy and before Dexter passes out, he sees that Hannah's back. Are We There Yet?: A.J. Yates wasn't the Brain Surgeon, the real killer is still out there and he's killed Zach.
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Dexter / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Dexter / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Many of Dexter's Asshole Victims, at least the ones who don't try to plead with him or to deny their crimes, end their lives screaming in rage and hurling empty verbal threats at him. When you're laying on a table, tied up and unable to move, it's about the only thing left you can do.
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Dexter / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Dexter / int_8fd7af48	comment	In "A Beautiful Day," Dexter's first guess at Deb's bank account password ("password") fails. But he soon types in the correct one: "fucking password".
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Dexter / int_8fe6b348	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Dexter / int_8fe6b348	comment	Sir Swearsalot: Debra. While most of the cast swears pretty liberally, in one conversation with Dexter in the third season, she manages to use every single obscenity in the English language, excluding racial slurs.
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Dexter / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Dexter / int_90c018ac	comment	Deb was originally tough but occasionally emotional, and had a habit of sleeping around. As the series dragged on, the "sleeping around" angle turned into a minimum of one love interest per season. Her strong emotions, which Dexter once commented she worked hard to hide, escalated to the point where she would break down and cry almost every episode. This culminated in the beginning of Season 5, when Deb, immediately after cleaning her murdered sister-in-law's blood off the floor with Quinn's help, broke down crying and had sex with him. Of course, this may all be justified, given the increasing toll her work in homicide has on her. A more minor example is Deb's Cluster F-Bomb tendencies, as seen in this video:
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Dexter / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Dexter / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: This show plays heavily on this trope. It's about a Serial-Killer Killer, what else can you expect? Santos Jimenez kills Dexter's mother with a chainsaw. Guess how he meets his end... Dexter ultimately kills Arthur with a claw hammer, the same way Arthur killed innumerable others, including his last ritual victim.
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Dexter / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Dexter / int_91672d3e	comment	When Dexter finds out that Trinity is a stand-up member of his community (as far as appearances go), he sees him sing in church a hymn with the line, ‘Are you washed with the blood of the lamb?’ It turns out he has an obsession with childlike innocence and his kill cycles actually start with another member—a young boy he perceives as innocent, a reflection of himself before he was traumatised. When Camilla is in hospital in Season 3, Debra tells Dexter she wants him to pull the plug if she's ever incapacitated or seriously ill. Guess what happens in the series finale? In the Season 4 finale, Trinity asks Dexter what his alternative is. Dexter says I'll fake my death and start over again.
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Dexter / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Dexter / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: The Ice Truck Killer, killed off in Season 1, returns as Dexter's Imaginary Friend five seasons later. Lundy leaves in Season 2 and comes back in Season 4. Two years after the Trinity story arc, Arthur Mitchell's son Jonah pops up in Season 6. Sylvia Prado returns briefly near the end of season 8, helping Dexter sell his apartment.
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Dexter / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Dexter / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Harry in the flashback near the end of "There's Something About Harry." Deb in "Sunshine and Frosty Swirl" after learning some very unpleasant news.
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Dexter / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Dexter / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Lila (Veronica) and Rita (Betty).
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Dexter / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Dexter / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Miguel Prado has one when he realizes that Dexter killed his brother Oscar as he's already lying on Dexter's table. Jordan Chase becomes slowly more unhinged as Dexter and Lumen kill all of his "rape buddies" and elude capture. When they have him on a table, he loses it completely. Happens quite frequently when Dexter captures any Victims of the Week.
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Dexter / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Dexter / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Many of Dexter's Asshole Victims, at least the ones who don't try to plead with him or to deny their crimes, end their lives screaming in rage and hurling empty verbal threats at him. When you're laying on a table, tied up and unable to move, it's about the only thing left you can do. Dexter himself does this as a deliberate ploy when he's caught by the Skinner, another serial killer, using his understanding of serial killers to his advantage. It works.
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Dexter / int_967856d8	type	Hired to Hunt Yourself
Dexter / int_967856d8	comment	Hired to Hunt Yourself: Dexter is sometimes put in the position to investigate his own crime scenes.
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Dexter / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Dexter / int_970c790a	comment	Are We There Yet?: A.J. Yates wasn't the Brain Surgeon, the real killer is still out there and he's killed Zach.
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Dexter / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Dexter / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Lumen, meant to be the thirteenth Barrel Girl, brought very bad luck indeed.
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Dexter / int_9a7f6233	type	Fictional Video Game
Dexter / int_9a7f6233	comment	Fictional Video Game: In season 6, one of Dexter's colleagues (an intern named Louis) was developing Homicidal Tendencies, a literal Murder Simulator in which the player could assume the identity of one of several serial killers. This included the Bay Harbor Butcher, who was actually Dexter. He asks Dexter for advice (not knowing his double life as a Serial-Killer Killer) because he was involved in the case, but the latter just feels insulted.
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Dexter / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Dexter / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Predominately the Ice Truck Killer, but in some way every murderer and serial killer Dexter takes out could be seen as his evil counterpart. He even says as much: "You are all just unchecked versions of myself." Most of the big bads can be seen as Dexter's evil counterparts in some aspects. Season 1: Rudy Cooper/Brian Moser AKA The Ice Truck Killer is probably the biggest one of them all. He is Dexter's biological brother, he was traumatized along with Dexter by their mother's death, both have fetishes that possibly rooted from their witness of their mother's death and both have the "killing urge". Season 2: Lila. She recognizes that both she and Dexter have something that they both refer to as "The Dark Passenger" to the point where she believes she's his "soulmate". Season 3: Miguel Prado. It turns out that he also has "the darkness" in him and they both live lives of deception. Season 4: Arthur Mitchell AKA Trinity. Like Dexter they are both family men but while Dexter has his family as his Morality Pet, Trinity is an abusive husband and father.
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Dexter / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Dexter / int_9b73b497	comment	Trinity considers Lundy one and refuses to harm him since he wants to be caught by him.
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Dexter / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Dexter / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Dexter, starting in the latter half of season 2.
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Dexter / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
Dexter / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Lovable Sex Maniac: Masuka. To a point. Deb certainly thinks he's better as one.
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Dexter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dexter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Every season ends with a cue regarding the main theme of the next one: Season 1 ended with Dexter contemplating what it would be like if his actions were exposed and with Doakes gesturing ‘I’m watching you’ at him; in season 2, the bodies he dumped are revealed and Doakes' pursuit of him becomes more pivotal. In the season 2 finale, Dexter says, ‘It's strange to have a creation out there, a deeply mutated version of yourself running loose and screwing everything up. I wonder if this is how parents feel?’; in season 3 he meets someone who becomes his partner and makes a big mess for Dexter to handle, and Rita is pregnant. In the season 3 finale, Dexter and Rita get married, and blood from Dexter’s hand stains Rita’s wedding dress; in the season 4 finale, Rita is murdered. In the season 4 finale, Dexter claims he’s the source of the problems of everyone around him; in season 5 he challenged this notion by experiencing being the solution. In the season 5 finale, Dexter talks about salvation at length; in season 6, religious salvation is dealt with in depth. In the season 6 finale, Deb catches Dexter in the act; season 7 deals with the implications of this on their relationship. In the season 7 finale, Dexter talks about the influence of breaking one’s own most basic rules and the new ground discovered thereby, following Deb killing LaGuerta to protect Dexter; season 8 shows exactly what happens to Deb and introduces the inventor of Harry’s code. Finally, in the final shot of the series, Dexter silently comes into his new home, a modest cottage, where he lives alone, and finally looks into the camera with a Thousand-Yard Stare; this implies that nothing new will come into Dexter’s life anymore, and he’s destined to have only a quiet, empty existence from now on. The mug gifted by Rita and imprinted by Astor, Cody and Harrison breaks during Dexter's fight with Kruger. By Season 4 finale and beginning of Season 5, Dexter's idyllic family life literally disintegrates as Rita is killed by Trinity and Astor and Cody end up leaving Dexter. When Dexter finds out that Trinity is a stand-up member of his community (as far as appearances go), he sees him sing in church a hymn with the line, ‘Are you washed with the blood of the lamb?’ It turns out he has an obsession with childlike innocence and his kill cycles actually start with another member—a young boy he perceives as innocent, a reflection of himself before he was traumatised. When Camilla is in hospital in Season 3, Debra tells Dexter she wants him to pull the plug if she's ever incapacitated or seriously ill. Guess what happens in the series finale? In the Season 4 finale, Trinity asks Dexter what his alternative is. Dexter says I'll fake my death and start over again.
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Dexter / int_9d72c7fe	type	Fan Boy
Dexter / int_9d72c7fe	comment	In Season 6, Fanboy intern Louis Greene shows Dexter his video game which allows players to control various famous serial killers, including the local title for Dexter from Season 2, the Bay Harbor Butcher, upon mention of which we hear Dexter ominously think with a tinge of annoyance
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Dexter / int_9d94e410	type	Working Out Their Emotions
Dexter / int_9d94e410	comment	Working Out Their Emotions: Dexter's adoptive sister Debra survives a kidnapping from a serial killer (who was also her fiancé and kidnapped her as a bait for Dexter who is his long-lost biological brother). After that, she can't be alone and she's unable to do anything except working out obsessively.
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Dexter / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Dexter / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In the beginning of Season 6, we see Dexter's old prom date Mindy who we first met in a Season 1 flashback.
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Dexter / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Dexter / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: The Ice Truck killer (i.e. Brian Moser/Rudy Cooper) has one for amputees. Dexter's fascination with blood spatter also verges on this, something James Doakes remarks on with much disgust. It's arguable that both Brian and Dexter's particular interests are a direct result of the chainsaw murder of their mother when they were kids.
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Dexter / int_9dca8373	type	Reunion Revenge
Dexter / int_9dca8373	comment	Reunion Revenge: Dexter kills the Jerk Jock from high school during their Class Reunion when he learns he murdered his wife.
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Dexter / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Dexter / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Lundy shows some signs due to being a bunny ears detective, such as when he's enjoying animal crackers during a homicide interview:
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Dexter / int_9e727954	type	Indulgent Fantasy Segue
Dexter / int_9e727954	comment	Indulgent Fantasy Segue: Season 1 ends with Dexter's Imagine Spot of being treated like a hero, surrounded by adoring friends and family, such as Rita cheering for him for "protecting our children." In season 3, Miguel Prado finds Dexter at the scene of a fresh kill and accidentally gets blood on his shirt. He later gives Dexter the bloody shirt as a token of friendship and a guarantee of secrecy. When Dexter becomes suspicious and tests the shirt, he discovers that it's a fake, daubed with animal blood. His explosion of rage is revealed to be this trope. In season 7, there are two examples in the same episode. The first is Dexter standing in line at the post office for a long time, and when he reaches the front the desk lady closes the line. Then he imagines slitting her throat in front of everyone. He imagines doing the same to Masuka back at the office when he imagines Masuka insulting him.
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Dexter / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Dexter / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: In season 4, the Trinity Killer is given "Introducing Trinity" and "Trinity Suite", ominous and haunting themes that illustrate his dark nature as a serial killer. It reappears in season 6 when the cops think they may have found him (in reality, Dexter killed him), but it is instead his son who did the murder.
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Dexter / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Dexter / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: In the books Deb finds out about Dexter's proclivities in the first book, and is the only one who knows who he truly is. In the show, Deb discovers Dexter doing away with Travis Marshall at the end of season six, and Dexter fails to kill Hannah McKay, so both of them know about his secret.
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Dexter / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Dexter / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Dexter, of course.
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Dexter / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Dexter / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Lila, as a big part of her appeal. Angel notes that she's like a beautiful porcelain doll. Deb, on the other hand, memorably calls her a "Gross, English titty vampire."
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Dexter / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
Dexter / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: Towards the end of the last season, Dexter finds the Brain Surgeon's kill room in one of these. In the first season the Ice Truck Killer lures Dexter to one of these where he's keeping a hostage.
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Dexter / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Dexter / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Miami Metro makes the Law & Order: SVU cast seem like level-headed, impartial observers by comparison. Is there a major crime they investigate where one of their own ISN'T related to, sleeping with, or being the perp?
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Dexter / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Dexter / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Afraid that the team investigating the Bay Harbor Butcher may be closing in on him, Dexter writes a rambling manifesto touching on politics, the environment, religion, and other themes to fool them into thinking it's just a standard deranged serial killer. However, the team sees through the deception and correctly concludes that the manifesto was written with the intent to deceive themnote A standard psycopath would likely only focus on one driving topic, rather than bringing up several., confirming their suspicion that the killer is somehow involved in law enforcement and bringing them even closer to finding out his real identity.
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Dexter / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Dexter / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Harry doesn't say this line, but he clearly thinks it, reeling in horror in a Season 2 flashback when Dexter's training culminates in Dexter bringing a kill home.
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Dexter / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Dexter / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: The Ice Truck Killer. Also the used car salesman who insulted Rita while Dexter had a very sharp knife near his throat.
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Dexter / int_a21f81a	type	Monster Fangirl
Dexter / int_a21f81a	comment	Monster Fangirl: Dexter himself gets a fangirl in Lila, who sees him as a misunderstood creature and her soulmate when she finds out that he is actually a prolific Serial Killer. The killer in Season 6 gets legions of online fans, plus a pair of fans who actually aid him in a kill.
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Dexter / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Dexter / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: Season 5 sees a string of murders committed by members of a cult known as Santa Muerte. In Real Life, Santa Muerte is not the name of a cult, but the name of a saint revered by some members of the Mexican drug cartel for secrecy and wealth. Additionally, the cult members in this season are Venezuelan, whereas the "real" Santa Muerte doesn't see much reverence anywhere beyond Mexico and its borders. Further cementing this ignorance, Lauren Veléz said in an interview that her worship is a form of Santeria, which is an Afro-Carribean centric religion with absolutely no roots in Spanish culture. The Beast and Satan are referred to as the same being in season 6. A simple look reading of Revelation will show this to be completely false. The Beast was simply a being — often equated with The Antichrist — given permission by Satan to rule over the Earth for 42 months, and apart from having seven heads, its appearance is vastly different.
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Dexter / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Dexter / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In Season 7, Isaak Sirko thrusts a screwdriver into Tony Rush's eye, and later threatens Louis Greene's eye with a hand drill. Subverted in the latter case, as he shoots him dead instead.
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Dexter / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Dexter / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Dexter takes a special interest in those who harm children.
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Dexter / int_a2e84479	type	Slowly Slipping Into Evil
Dexter / int_a2e84479	comment	Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Dexter over the course of the series. While he initially restrains himself from killing innocents and in season 2 balks at killing Sergeant Doakes, later on he starts to target other Hero Antagonists who oppose him with increasingly less justification, from Stan Liddy to Captain LaGuerta and Sergeant Logan in Iron Lake. His increasingly selfish compulsion to murder also backfires on his loved ones: his wife Rita and his sister Debra are both killed by other serial killers who would never have crossed paths with them if not for Dexter's screw-ups.
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Dexter / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Dexter / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: Brian lets one tear out when Dexter makes up his mind to kill him to protect Debra.
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Dexter / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Dexter / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": In season 4, Dexter has a short-term memory loss. But he remembers his password, which is "Harry". Not a perfect choice since Dexter has to hide a lot. In "A Beautiful Day," Dexter's first guess at Deb's bank account password ("password") fails. But he soon types in the correct one: "fucking password".
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Dexter / int_a3ca3b12	type	Mid-Life Crisis Car
Dexter / int_a3ca3b12	comment	Mid-Life Crisis Car: In season 6 Batista gets a Trans Am.
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Dexter / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Dexter / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Blonde Book Deb is played by brown-haired Jennifer Carpenter.
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Dexter / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Dexter / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Matthews, from Season 4 to Season 6. He becomes a regular character by season 8.
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Dexter / int_a56e3cba	type	Language Barrier
Dexter / int_a56e3cba	comment	Language Barrier: When off-duty Sergeant Doakes is lost in the Everglades forest, fleeing from the Bay Harbor Butcher, he meets two dangerous smugglers who speak only Spanish. He asks them for help, but when they understand that he's a policeman, they take him hostage and decide to kill him. In this case, international words and Spanish Poirot Speak made the situation go From Bad to Worse. Debra Morgan, being a Detective and later a Lieutenant at Miami Metro PD, doesn't know Spanish, even though Florida is full of Cuban and South American immigrants. In Season 5, she swears she will take Spanish classes after one particularly painful questioning of a witness. It was a bit strange that it didn't occur to her to just call one of her colleagues, as many of them are of Hispanic heritage.
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Dexter / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Dexter / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: Emily Birch for Jordan Chase in Season 5.
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Dexter / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Dexter / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: In the novels, Angel Batista is a forensics tech who refers to himself as "Angel Batista-no-relation" and does not really contribute to the plot. In the show, he is a detective who contributes greatly to investigations, has his own subplots, and gives good advice to some characters.
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Dexter / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Dexter / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Zig-zagged in season 4 with the Trinity Killer. After committing murder for 30 years and never getting caught, in the season finale he robs his family, takes his prized sports mobile, and escapes the police as he drives off into the sunset. Then Dexter captures him and he ends up on his killing table, but still has the final laugh as Dexter has no idea that Trinity had killed Rita earlier that day, making it impossible for Dexter to derive closure or get revenge since Trinity is already dead. Dexter. While it's all in the service of the community (as he sees it) and while it gives him no end of trouble, he does kill people and avoid getting caught. He even got to pin most of his murders on Doakes. In the series finale, Dexter fakes his death and starts a new life elsewhere, and his dark secrets are never even exposed. Some viewers, however, see this as a fitting Fate Worse than Death-type punishment, as Dexter has lost everyone he loves and is apparently living in isolation and misery. Marco Fuentes is still on the run, and Cira Manzon got away with setting Deb up to take the blame for his escape. A the beginning of Season 2, Jimmy Sensio, a serial killer and Dexter's intended victim, is spared by Dexter because he just killed his brother in the previous episode and can't bring himself to return to killing just yet, instead releasing him and allowing him to leave Miami. Hannah McKay, Dexter's girlfriend and fellow serial killer, is spared by Dexter when Debra tries to get him to kill her, escapes from prison when Dexter finally turns her in and ends up living happily in Argentina in the series finale after Dexter helps her escape.
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Dexter / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Dexter / int_a7382a73	comment	Season 1 ends with Dexter's Imagine Spot of being treated like a hero, surrounded by adoring friends and family, such as Rita cheering for him for "protecting our children."
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Dexter / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Dexter / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: The morning breakfast-and-grooming routine never looked so sinister. Dexter wears Mickey Mouse ears while telling his step-children about the death of their mother.
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Dexter / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Dexter / int_a8559a9f	comment	Season 5 sees a string of murders committed by members of a cult known as Santa Muerte. In Real Life, Santa Muerte is not the name of a cult, but the name of a saint revered by some members of the Mexican drug cartel for secrecy and wealth. Additionally, the cult members in this season are Venezuelan, whereas the "real" Santa Muerte doesn't see much reverence anywhere beyond Mexico and its borders. Further cementing this ignorance, Lauren Veléz said in an interview that her worship is a form of Santeria, which is an Afro-Carribean centric religion with absolutely no roots in Spanish culture.
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Dexter / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Dexter / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Little Chino, the only person thus far to ever escape from Dexter's table... against Dexter's will, anyway. At least at first... Little Chino is the only one of Dexter's victims that require several tries to get. The second encounter pits several of Chino's gangster buddies playing hide-and-seek with Dexter as he hides in a sewer. Becomes a funny moment when Chino wakes up a second time on Dexter's table, this time with about 5 rolls of duct tape holding him down versus one. Lampshaded by Dexter: "I made sure that you aren't getting away this time."
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Dexter / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Dexter / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Dexter likes to think he's The Stoic, but really who's he fooling here? He does start off the series this way, but eventually grows into himself and becomes more normal and emotional.
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Dexter / int_a8b54aa7	type	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Dexter / int_a8b54aa7	comment	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Oh, Deb. Her book counterpart luckily has Chutsky.
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Dexter / int_ab3ecc1d	type	Undercover When Alone
Dexter / int_ab3ecc1d	comment	Undercover When Alone: In season 2, Laguerta is scheming to get her superior fired by pretending to be her friend when she's having marital difficulties. However, when a fight between her superior and her superior's fiance occurs while Laguerta is in the office, Laguerta curses to herself (before shes spotted by them). Given the later reveal that she orchestrated the fights between the two, this was perfectly according to her plan.
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Dexter / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Dexter / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: All over the place. Rita is a particularly bad offender, constantly saying things like, "Oh, Dexter would never hurt anyone." In season 2, this leads to their breakup: Rita dumps Dexter because she falsely believes he slept with Lila. Then the next day she cools off enough to let him explain, but by then he has slept with her, and his honesty about it makes her break up with him for good (until Lila is out of the picture anyway). From the season 6, episode 10 preview: "Dexter is your safe place." Considering how well that works out for some people... In "Buck the System," Dexter tells Mafiya boss Isaak Sirko, "I hope you find what you're looking for," when it's Dexter himself that Isaak is looking for.
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Dexter / int_ab9d55f1	type	Foot-Dragging Divorcee
Dexter / int_ab9d55f1	comment	Foot-Dragging Divorcee: Rita's first husband, Paul, initially refuses to sign the paperwork, despite the fact that she had him sent to prison for domestic abuse. She later gets him to finalize the divorce, threatening to have his visitation rights to his children revoked if he doesn't sign.
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Dexter / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Dexter / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Subverted, as Dexter beats up an abusive parent while a cheerful-sounding Spanish song plays. It's "Mac the Knife" in Spanish.
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Dexter / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
Dexter / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: Dexter's father once took him to witness an execution by electric chair to show him the importance of following The Code. "Keep your wits about you, son, or this is going to happen to you."
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Dexter / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Dexter / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Oh Crappiest Oh Crap that ever Oh Crapped ends Season 6, when Debra catches Dexter in a murder.
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Dexter / int_ad54954f	type	Punk in the Trunk
Dexter / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: A dead stripper in a car trunk kicks off the main plot of Season 7. Lumen is also an example of this at one point in season 5.
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Dexter / int_ad902899	type	Constructive Body Disposal
Dexter / int_ad902899	comment	Constructive Body Disposal: The Trinity Killer (who actually kills in fours) starts his kill cycle with a victim who's Buried Alive in cement at a construction site financed by his Church group. Trinity has travelled all over the country using the charity as a convenient cover to both find new victims in other areas and dispose of their bodies. He even keeps framed photos of the projects as a kill trophy collection right in his living room. These first murders were never tied to him because the bodies were never found, so they were classified as missing person cases instead of homicides.
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Dexter / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Dexter / int_ad9559e6	comment	A straighter example would be Jordan Chase, the Arc Villain of Season 5. He spearheaded the multiple rapes of several young women with his gang, but Jordan himself appears to be quite uninterested in sex or any other kind of intimacy. He does not participate in the rapes and when a woman with Stockholm Syndrome for Jordan tries to caress him, he quietly brushes her off. He was just in it for the power he wielded over other people's lives.
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Dexter / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
Dexter / int_adf2910	comment	Human Traffickers: One of Dexter's victims was a businessman who was smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States in containers and murdering those who couldn't pay him. What was more surprising to Dexter is that the man's wife, whom he initially believed to be in the dark about her husband's crimes, was a co-conspirator in their trafficking ring.
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Dexter / int_ae0ef461	type	Friend to Psychos
Dexter / int_ae0ef461	comment	Friend to Psychos: In some seasons, Dexter becomes friendly with the Big Bad, only to later realize that they need killing after all.
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Dexter / int_ae254ead	type	Narrating the Obvious
Dexter / int_ae254ead	comment	Narrating the Obvious: Dexter's Inner Monologue is frequently redundant.
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Dexter / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
Dexter / int_aec3e0b8	comment	The dynamic between LaGuerta and Matthews can vary drastically from episode to episode in the early seasons. In one episode LaGuerta will be a Glory Hound with bad judgement while Matthews will be her more level-headed superior, and then in the next episode the former will be the Team Mom and the latter will be an incompetent, racist asshole. By the second season this settles down to LaGuerta being the overall more sympathetic of the two, but usually still putting her own ambitions first.
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Dexter / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Dexter / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Dexter is a charming, amusing sociopath, whose twisted outlook on himself and the world around him emerges as dryly hilarious. For example, in one scene when he is particularly irritated with his sister, he thinks:
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Dexter / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Dexter / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Some judgments Dexter makes might be the result of his personal biases. Dexter justifies his hobby in part by claiming that Miami police won't or can't do its job right. But as the show unfolds, we see them only a few steps behind the perpetrators, and Dexter only manages to stay one or two steps ahead of them because he's head-deep in just about anything they're investigating. He even suppresses evidence or won't share with them to artificially slow them down. Dexter describes Boyd Fowler as being rather dumb, yet Boyd has already made several very observant remarks that throw Dexter for a loop. He sees that the raccoon Dexter killed was not a real roadkill and notices that Dexter has recently taken off a wedding ring.
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Dexter / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Dexter / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Discussed via Dexter's monologue quite a bit. One notable line comes from Dexter's father:
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Dexter / int_afcafc5d	type	Drop Dead Gorgeous
Dexter / int_afcafc5d	comment	Drop Dead Gorgeous: At the beginning of Season 4, a very attractive naked woman is murdered in a bathtub. We see another good-looking naked woman dead in a bathtub in episode "Shrink Wrap". In fact Dexter does this quite often.
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Dexter / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Dexter / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Lila. "Pardon my tits." Christine the reporter from Season 4. Ryan, Masuka's intern from Season 6. Niki, in Season 8.
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Dexter / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Dexter / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Arthur the Trinity Killer was abused by his father, and in turn abuses his family in a number of ways. In season 5, Dexter finds out that Astor's friend Olivia's stepfather hits her. So he beats the ever-loving crap out of the guy and scares him into leaving. Rita's mother is shown to be emotionally and verbally abusive. And not just to her as its revealed she's living with Rita in Season 2 because she was fired as a teacher due to the way she treated her students. For all the love and attention he gave, Harry constantly told Dexter that Dexter wasn't normal and never would be, and guided his son's murderous impulses towards (admittedly deserving) humans due to his own frustration with the legal system, revolving Dexter's entire life around being a Serial-Killer Killer. He did this instead of, say, seeking mental help for his son. This becomes a point of internal debate for Dexter in the Season 2 episode "The Dark Defender" when he learns that Harry was also having an affair with his biological mother. Naturally, this leads Dexter to begin wondering if Harry wasn't really some sort of Manipulative Bastard who wanted to train and use Dexter for his own personal war on crime. This is averted in the eighth season when we discover that he actually did consult a psychologist specializing in psychopaths. She believed, due to her own personal history, that institutionalizing Dexter would be wrong, and it was she who came up with the idea of the Code, though Harry was the one who actually formed it. Of course, this psychologist had some very strange beliefs about psychology, and may have purposely molded Dexter into "the perfect psychopath". It should be pointed out that a large number of her clients turned into serial killers, which definetly isn't a good sign. Harry was also neglectful and emotionally distant towards Debra, leading her to believe she was The Un-Favourite. While Harry was having to spend most of his time teaching Dexter how to act human, this still doesn't excuse his actions towards Debra. Doakes' father is also mentioned to have been abusive. This is one of the reasons that Lundy suspects him to be the Bay Harbor Butcher in Season 2.
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Dexter / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Dexter / int_b1346878	comment	Dexter. While it's all in the service of the community (as he sees it) and while it gives him no end of trouble, he does kill people and avoid getting caught. He even got to pin most of his murders on Doakes. In the series finale, Dexter fakes his death and starts a new life elsewhere, and his dark secrets are never even exposed. Some viewers, however, see this as a fitting Fate Worse than Death-type punishment, as Dexter has lost everyone he loves and is apparently living in isolation and misery.
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Dexter / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Dexter / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Dexter whacks Paul over the head with a frying pan after he threatens Rita and the kids. Paul survives with only a slight skull fracture (a slight subversion) despite having had no medical attention and then being shot up with heroin.
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Dexter / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Dexter / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: The season 2 promotional poster.
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Dexter / int_b2011cae	type	Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record
Dexter / int_b2011cae	comment	Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record: Very frequently used to describe Dexter's Victim of the Week, usually to handwave how the victim was Beneath Suspicion and thus slipped through the cracks. Doakes cites something similar to this after looking into Dexter's background. He believes that no one's record is that clean unless they've done some scrubbing. He's right, although Dexter's late father/mentor Harry is responsible for that moreso than Dexter himself. Quinn, being Doakes-lite, reaches the same conclusion. When looking into the identity of the girl that Dexter found at the home of a victim, he mentions that she doesn't have so much as a speeding ticket.
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Dexter / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
Dexter / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: Basically Lumen's whole plan in season 5.
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Dexter / int_b2d56	type	Arson, Murder, and Admiration
Dexter / int_b2d56	comment	Arson, Murder, and Admiration: Dexter frequently displays a certain admiration for especially competent criminals, including several of the killers he goes after. The Ice Truck Killer from season one is an example, as well as Trinity, until Dexter discovers that his normal life is all a front.
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Dexter / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Dexter / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: It's usually averted as Dexter tends to be aware that his reason of killing is for his own urges. However, he initially feels almost no guilt for Doakes' death, thinking of it as a coincidence (even though the fact that he was locked there was his doing). Once he finds out that Lila did the deed, he calls her out for murdering an innocent man.
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Dexter / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Dexter / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: When Quinn shows up at a party with a slutty girl, that girl is willing to put up with his Jerkass behavior until she learns she's just there to make Debra jealous. Dexter of all people is not one to be bothered by the sight of blood— aside from his career as a homicide forensics expert, he has a blood fetish— but the Overdrawn at the Blood Bank crime scene in "Seeing Red", with literal buckets of blood splashed around a hotel room, is enough to make him violently queasy and practically pass out. (It turns out, though, this is partly because it triggers a traumatic childhood memory.)
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Dexter / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Dexter / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Dexter's thoughts include what could be interpreted as rejected book titles, such as Dear Darling Dexter and Demented Daddy Dexter, as alliteration of the letter D was common with the novels names. Other characters occasionally indulge in this as well.
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Dexter / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
Dexter / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Debra. "Ugh, me in a dress... I feel like a transvestite." Also Lila and, to a lesser extent, Maria LaGuerta.
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Dexter / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Dexter / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In the episode "Let's Give This Boy a Hand," Cody is shown wearing a George W. Bush mask while Dexter narrates "People think it's fun to pretend you're a monster." There is usually one blink-and-you-miss-it segment per season showing that the villains are either Republicans or leaning that way. Season 4 has Trinity tell a woman his parents were lifelong Republicans, while Season 5 had the guy driving some loaded barrels listening to seemingly conservative talk radio.
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Dexter / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Dexter / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Played with in season three. Assistant DA Miguel Prado accuses his rival defense attorney Ellen Wolf of being one of these for "gaming the system" to let criminals off the hook. She in turns accuses him of judicial misconduct to get convictions. Miguel is eventually revealed to have manipulated Dexter all along to learn the art of murder from him. Miguel lacks the very integrity that he accuses Ellen of not having as he not only wants to subvert the legal process to kill criminals, but anyone who pisses him off.
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Dexter / int_b6aad019	type	Snuff Film
Dexter / int_b6aad019	comment	Snuff Film: The Barrel Girl Gang recorded their own rapes/murders of young women for their own viewing pleasure. Of course, this leads to a mountain of incriminating evidence for the police to sort through once their crimes are exposed.
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Dexter / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Dexter / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Camilla begs Dexter to kill her in Season 3. Dexter dutifully does.
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Dexter / int_b76f2a49	type	Class Reunion
Dexter / int_b76f2a49	comment	Class Reunion: The Season 6 premiere, complete with Dexter pulling a Reunion Revenge.
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Dexter / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
Dexter / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: Dexter sometimes uses rubber gloves when he searches for evidence in his future victims' places, but at times he uses ordinary gloves. Once somebody sees him coming home with the gloves on and points out that Miami is little too hot for wearing them.
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Dexter / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Dexter / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Lila when Dexter stabs her in the chest in the Season 2 finale. Camilla when dying of cancer. Beth Dorsey after her thwarted attempt at executing Travis Marshall's 'Wormwood' tableau (Season 6).
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Dexter / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Dexter / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Isaak Sirko is a mafia man who considers Dexter an equal and holds him in high esteem.
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Dexter / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Dexter / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: A brutal example in Season 7. In the season's final minutes, Deb has to choose whether to apprehend or kill Dexter to protect LaGuerta, or murder her to cover up Dexter's actions. Deb chooses to gun down LaGuerta, and has an emotional breakdown afterward that spans half of the entire next season.
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Dexter / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Dexter / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Dexter's Slice of Life plays a pivotal part in his waste management. In the series finale, it plays a part in him faking his death.
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Dexter / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Dexter / int_bb30b9e9	comment	In the pilot, for Dexter's first onscreen kill, he hides in the back seat of his victim's car, whips a garrotte around the victim's neck, and forces said victim to drive Dexter to the kill spot, whereupon Dexter kills him by cutting his throat. Soon after, Dexter starts using his regular M.O. (sedate victim, transport victim to prepared plastic-covered kill room, let victim wake up naked on table, kill victim by stabbing them in the heart), which he has been using since his first chronological kill, as shown via flashbacks. He also goes to the trouble of digging up the rotting corpses of the killer's victims and putting them in the kill room, rather than simply pinning up their photographs.
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Dexter / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Dexter / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Obviously, a few characters are this to some to degree, but especially Miguel.
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Dexter / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Dexter / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Dexter rarely swears, so when he does, it's jarring. When visiting Angel in the hospital, Doakes grabs Dexter and starts giving him a hard time for his emotional detachment, Dexter just looks him in the eye and says, "Take your fucking hand off me." When Doakes starts really messing with him in season 2, he's scary. He drops a small Cluster F-Bomb in 1x03. Apparently there are Evil Detecting Alligators in Florida. Who knew. Happens right at the end of an episode of Season 4 - Dexter had been awake for about 48 hours straight, and begins monologing... In Season 4, when Arthur finally shows Dexter that he knows exactly who he is, Dexter drops one in his internal monologue. The ending of 6x12, after a several discussions of Dexter's lack of religious faith, is followed by a revelation that surprises him. His reaction: In 7x10, after chastising a killer on his table for blaming his murderous urges on a traumatic event that happened when he was a child.
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Dexter / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Dexter / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted and Played for Laughs with Vince Masuka. He has several fetishes and is depicted as a total weirdo that everyone finds perverted (which isn't undeserved), but he's also one of the heroic characters in the series. Masuka is just a Lovable Sex Maniac.
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Dexter / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
Dexter / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare: Appears in the season 4 opening, as the Trinity Killer claims his first on-screen victim.
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Dexter / int_bc7e1c5b	type	These Gloves Are Made for Killin'
Dexter / int_bc7e1c5b	comment	These Gloves Are Made for Killin': Being a forensics specialist, Dexter knows the value of gloves to reduce the likelihood of his capture by law enforcement. Many episodes will feature him wearing either the leather or latex kind during his murders (Apart from that one instance he wore yellow rubber household gloves along with a "Natural Born Griller" apron when he doesn't have his usual kit and is forced to improvise.). If not for killing, then for doing recon on his victims to ensure they fit the code Harry taught him. Most of the accomplices to Dexter have followed his lead in this trope. Namely Miguel Pardo, Lumen Pierce, Debra Morgan, and Harrison Morgan. This trope is lampshaded in "Dex Takes A Holiday" when Dexter investigates Zoey Kruger's involvement in the home invasion and murder of her husband and daughter. He realizes she was wearing gloves from the crime scene photos before discovering a shred of a blue nitrile glove left in the garbage disposal. This evidence confirms to him that she is the culprit behind her husband's, daughter's, and the criminal she framed's deaths. Zoey later breaks into Dexter's house wearing blue nitrile gloves like the kind she wore during her murders to kill him.
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Dexter / int_bcc92de7	type	Lost Aesop
Dexter / int_bcc92de7	comment	Lost Aesop: Season 6 is trying to say something about religion. What that is, beyond "Religion is weird, huh?" is anyone's guess, though it did get Dexter to go from being dismissive of religion in general to saying, "Oh God!" as his last line in the season.
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Dexter / int_bd3293fc	type	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife
Dexter / int_bd3293fc	comment	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: When Lieutenant LaGuerta is demoted and replaced as head of the Homicide division by Lt. Pascal, she gaslights Pascal by striking up an affair with her fiance, all while acting gracious in defeat in the office. Pascal's anxiety over her deteriorating relationship causes her to behave erratically at work, which gets her removed and lets LaGuerta reclaim her position.
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Dexter / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Dexter / int_beb9a361	comment	Sergeant Doakes, though his morality is called into question a few times. Somehow, he's the only one in a precinct full of cops and forensic specialists to get a creepy vibe off serial killer protagonist Dexter. This doesn't end well for him. When he discovers that Dexter is a serial killer in season 2, Dexter locks him up in a remote cabin. Then Doakes is killed by a woman who was obsessed with Dexter and tries to cover up for him.
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Dexter / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Dexter / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Debra becomes a serial monogamist after the first season, with roughly 5-6 bed buddies throughout the span of the series, in part due to the difficulty she has getting close to people and the demands of her job.
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Dexter / int_bf9f3b9	type	Suicide Dare
Dexter / int_bf9f3b9	comment	Suicide Dare: In the first season, one of the title character's targets was a Serial Killer that used this as his modus operandi; he was a psychologist who would encourage his vulnerable, mentally ill patients to kill themselves. He was advising them also about the method.
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Dexter / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Dexter / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: After discovering Dexter is a serial killer, Debra gets into a morality debate in whether or not what Dexter does is wrong, and both argue good points. Debra is right that no matter how horrible his victims were they were still victims and had a right to be prosecuted legally; Dexter is right that his victims were dangerous criminals and committed horrifying acts, and as seen during season two, the victims of Dexter's Asshole Victims were seen better off.
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Dexter / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Dexter / int_c145f69b	comment	In the pilot, Dexter says, "I don't understand sex. Not that I have anything against women, and I certainly have an appropriate sensibility about men, but when it comes to the actual act of sex, it's always just seemed so undignified." He starts dating a rape victim, Rita Bennett, to avoid any sexual intimacy while still appearing normal to outsiders. Later on, it turns out that he is pretty sexual but has an aversion towards sex because his partners somehow get a glimpse of what he's really like: a serial killer who's Hiding in Plain Sight. He sticks with Rita because somehow, she doesn't.
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Dexter / int_c1832fcb	type	Feet of Clay
Dexter / int_c1832fcb	comment	Neil Perry tries this on LaGuerta, but fails hard.
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Dexter / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Dexter / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Liddy snarks about what a stupid name "Dexter" is, as does Quinn even earlier. Several people remark that "Lumen" is a weird name. Dexter himself does this to "Miles" Castner.
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Dexter / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Dexter / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Dexter kills the Skinner and Dan the Dentist this way.
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Dexter / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Dexter / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: When Dexter goes back on a promise to set a victim free, "You think I'm a killer, and not a liar?"
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Dexter / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Dexter / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: For a supposed tough-as-nails cop, Deb does seem to burst into tears a lot. Dexter supposedly graduated "top of [his] class in med school", but other than a high school level knowledge of anatomy and first aid, we'd never know it. Characters comment on Quinn's supposed skill as a detective in Seasons 3 and 8. Given his behavior in Seasons 6 and 7, it's hard to imagine they're talking about the same person.
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Dexter / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Dexter / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Dexter is intelligent, but in the few cases in which he has to get his hands dirty and rough someone up, he can. Late in season 2 he even wins a more or less fair fight with Doakes while handcuffed.
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Dexter / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Dexter / int_c3585f4a	comment	Louis Greene is seemingly set up as a major antagonist for Season 7. Suddenly, Boom, Headshot!. A case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as Louis' actor got another role and his arc subsequently had to be cut short.
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Dexter / int_c3782352	type	Exiled to the Couch
Dexter / int_c3782352	comment	Exiled to the Couch: Inverted, Angel exiles himself to the couch after getting an uncomfortable look at how far LaGuerta will go to keep her job.
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Dexter / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Dexter / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Doakes finally stops being suspicious of Dexter after following him to an AA meeting and assuming that substance abuse is what Dexter has been hiding the whole time (rather than serial murder). He even seems to grudgingly respect Dexter for getting help; however, it doesn't last long and Doakes is soon pursuing him closer than ever. Just when it looks like Doakes is going to be able to put out the stove in time to keep the cabin from exploding... boom. In the series finale, just when it seems like Deb will pull through from getting shot, she is suddenly reduced to a vegetative state, prompting Dexter to pull the plug and let her die.
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Dexter / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Dexter / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: The death of Rita in Season 4 supposedly shows Dexter that he needs to stop being so reckless with his killing, and that he has to choose between caring for his family and satisfying his urges. While his actions in Season 5 can be mostly justified, Season 6 shows Dexter continuing to make reckless decisions and getting way too involved in fighting a serial killer, who ends up targeting his family, just like what happened in Season 4. He faces the threats of death, his secret being revealed, and his son's murder, and only avoids them thanks to Contrived Coincidences. In a favorable interpretation, it's not clear if he's trying to help and redeem Travis the same way he did with Lumen. He also learns almost constantly that Harry was a very flawed human being and he needs to be his own person. In the episode "Slack Tide," Jonathan Farrow turns out to be innocent of murder after Dexter kills him, despite Dexter's usual careful vetting. Dexter is shaken to learn that he's accidentally broken his code; it's the worst he's felt after any kill at least since Brian. He even sees Harry shaking his head in disapproval. It seems Dexter has learned that his methods aren't so infallible after all, and he seems to be on the verge of questioning whether any of his previous victims may also have been innocent. The next episode, he's back to killing without a qualm, and he isn't even shown to feel any need to make up for what he's done.
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Dexter / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
Dexter / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue: Dexter uses this a lot. It helps highlight the difference between the socially acceptable role he plays and his true (sociopathic) thoughts and responses. Though in later seasons it was more used to describe what was happening onscreen.
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Dexter / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Dexter / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Rita. A violent junkie, a serial killer, and another marriage we know almost nothing about but presumably ended badly. Dexter lampshades it and thinks the effect it would have on her is a major reason to not get caught. Deb also gets into some ill-advised relationships.
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Dexter / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Dexter / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: Brian provides some as a figment of Dexter's imagination in season 6.
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Dexter / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Dexter / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: After Quinn tells Masuka that the reason nobody came to his speech on his newly-published work is because of how perverted he is, he starts dressing nicely and cleans up his act. This freaks out Debra immensely. It's only after they stand up for him in front of Miguel's brother that he eventually returns to his normal self.
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Dexter / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Dexter / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: One might have hoped that John Lithgow would have had some sort of Alba-esque moral objection to doing nude scenes. Sigh. A shirtless Deb scene is marred by her nasty bullet scar.
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Dexter / int_c663abee	type	I Knew There Was Something About You
Dexter / int_c663abee	comment	I Knew There Was Something About You: Doakes comes to the incorrect conclusion Later subverted when Doakes discovers the real reason that Dexter acts weird. Also, when Lila discovers that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher and Dexter asks her if she is now afraid of him, she tells him that she was always afraid of him because she could tell how consumed he was by the darkness inside him. And later in season five, one of Dexter's soon-to-be victims says that "from the moment I met you I knew you were f**ked up".
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Dexter / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Dexter / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The season 4 ending with Dexter carrying blood-soaked Harrison out of the bathroom where Rita was murdered.
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Dexter / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dexter / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Dexter uses the name Patrick Bateman as an alias to procure tranquilizers. He states he chose it because it sounded "So wholesome, so inconspicuous." Opening Shout-Out on more than one occasion. There are a few references to the books in the season four finale: Dexter driving like crazy in Miami traffic and extra emphasis on the moon. The shot down the hotel room leading to a bloodbath in Season 1 is a pretty obvious (though effective) reference to The Shining. "Dexter? He spends all his time in a laboratory for God's sake!" In Season 1, Rita shows up at Dexter's apartment on Halloween in a Lara Croft costume. In Season 5, after concluding that the Barrel Girl Gang members are being killed by a pair vigilantes in love, Dexter and Lumen, Masuka compares them to Bonnie and Clyde. Considering how they ended up, Dexter finds the analogy worrisome. The title of Season 6 finale "This Is the Way the World Ends" is both a nod to the apocalyptic delusions of the Big Bad and a Shout Out to T. S. Eliot. In the season seven finale Dexter uses Arthur Curry as a phony name. In Season 2, Masuka says that one of the ways to dispose of a body is with meat pies. The series finale, with the protagonist riding out into the ocean to his apparent death, his loved ones sitting at a café in a foreign country, and then the protagonist being revealed as still alive under a new identity, is suspiciously similar to the ending of The Dark Knight Rises.
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Dexter / int_c77e69fc	type	Confetti Drop
Dexter / int_c77e69fc	comment	Confetti Drop: Done in "Born Free" when Dexter has a rather long Imagine Spot and sees himself as a celebrity appreciated by general public. The celebrity worship and party-like feeling is completed with the Confetti Drop and banners saying stuff like "I'm your number one fan" or "we love Dexter".
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Dexter / int_c7853b1e	type	On the Rebound
Dexter / int_c7853b1e	comment	On the Rebound: Lila is explicitly referred to as a rebound for Dexter after Rita dumps Dexter (ironically, because Rita falsely believed Dexter had slept with Lila). Lumen is a Replacement Goldfish for Rita after she dies, being a blonde Broken Bird herself.
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Dexter / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Dexter / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: If a good amount of screen time is spent on Dexter preparing for a kill—or if his narration outright tells us his detailed plan—you can bet that something will go wrong. Just ask Boyd Fowler, Ray Speltzer, Oliver Saxon, etc. Dexter's plan to leave for Argentina with Hannah and Harrison near the end of Season 8. He discusses or narrates about it so damn much that it's basically guaranteed to fall through. Sure enough, only Hannah and Harrison make it to Argentina.
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Dexter / int_c8411f03	type	Disneyland Dad
Dexter / int_c8411f03	comment	Disneyland Dad: In the first season, Paul tries to make up for the time he was absent while in prison by taking the kids somewhere really fun and memorable every time he's allowed court supervised visitation. This is partially because he's upset about the kids becoming close to Dexter. Rita's parents do the same following their estrangement after Rita's mom verbally attacks Rita's parenting skills. This backfires when Rita is murdered while the kids are with their grandparents at Disney Land. This is likely all they will remember about the trip.
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Dexter / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Dexter / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Dexter's Start of Darkness is considered hard to reverse after he witnessed the brutal murder of his mother and was left in the ensuing blood pool when he was only a child. Dexter rationalizes that Brian was too old and past salvation after this. Several of the season-long plot guests are built of this, particularly Trinity and Lumen.
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Dexter / int_c895f927	type	Criminal Mind Games
Dexter / int_c895f927	comment	Criminal Mind Games: The Ice Truck Killer leaves clues that only Dexter would recognize and appreciate. Dexter himself does the same thing to the Miami Homicide Department in the second season. It backfires on him badly, though, helping the police to narrow down the list of suspects to people in the Department. And that's why, when you write a 'manifesto', you stick to one possible diversionary target instead of, say, 10. Louis Greene, who appears to be a wannabe serial killer, mails the Ice Truck Killer's prosthetic hand to Dexter near the end of Season 6.
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Dexter / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Dexter / int_c8a8c595	comment	When Batista announces in season 7 that he is burnt out on detective work, then buys a restaurant and tells everyone he is retiring, it seems like an obviously telegraphed case of Retirony. It isn't; Batista is alive and well and retired from Miami Metro at the end of the season. He returns to his job in Season 8.
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Dexter / int_c91dcba1	type	Perma-Stubble
Dexter / int_c91dcba1	comment	Perma-Stubble: Dexter himself. He's shown shaving in every opening sequence, but we see no more than a few swipes at his neck, so he apparently cultivates the look intentionally. The final shot of him in the series is one with a full-grown beard.
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Dexter / int_ca68d759	type	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology
Dexter / int_ca68d759	comment	Artistic License – Pharmacology Dexter gets a report back from the lab saying that a bottle of water is "40% alprazolam". An alprazolam tablet has a lower concentration of the drug than this, and at a maximum strength of 2mg per tablet it would take 96,000 of them to produce this level of adulteration in that bottle of water — which certainly wouldn't taste anything like water afterwards. Dexter provides a Hand Wave that he only injected LaGuerta with a half dose of M99 which for some reason means it won't show up during an autopsy.
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Dexter / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Dexter / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error In Season 3 it is established that Miguel and Sylvia Prado are childless. In Season 8 Sylvia says she's focusing on the kids. In Season 7 Dexter imagines a conversation with Harry about the death of Hannah's husband. Harry claims to have also died of heart disease. It is stated multiple times before and after that Harry committed suicide.
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Dexter / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
Dexter / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Though Rita never has any serious competition as Dexter's love interest, there are a couple other women who have shown interest in him. Lila is killed by Dexter after she kills Doakes, allowing Dexter to kill her without breaking the Code. Lt. LaGuerta is a more unusual case. Early in the series she shows a romantic/sexual interest in Dexter. However, this simply fades away after a while.
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Dexter / int_cd99383e	type	Polite Villains, Rude Heroes
Dexter / int_cd99383e	comment	Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Dexter vs. Doakes. Dexter knowingly cultivates the image of a geeky Nice Guy and family man in order to hide in plain sight, while Doakes is a no-nonsense, abrasive detective who antagonizes most of the people around him. For as much of a jerkass as Doakes can be, his suspicions about Dexter are absolutely right. When Doakes ends up being framed for Dexter's crimes, all but one of his colleagues have little trouble believing that he is the Bay Harbor Butcher.
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Dexter / int_ce0e3616	type	Word of God
Dexter / int_ce0e3616	comment	Seemingly Dexter himself in the series finale... until the last scene, which shows him alive in self exile. Word of God states that killing himself would have been too easy.
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Dexter / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Dexter / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: The show is named after its main protagonist and point-of-view character.
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Dexter / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Dexter / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Compared to the books, the show is downright tame in regards to violence. This falls partially in the Pragmatic Adaptation zone, as some of the books' content would be unsuitable even for Showtime. Season 3 is the lightest season, especially in between season two and four. It does have its dark moments, however, its the only season with a happy ending, Rita and Dexter get married.
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Dexter / int_ce993654	type	Hollywood Genetics
Dexter / int_ce993654	comment	Hollywood Genetics: Rita and Paul are blond, but their kids Astor and Cody are brunettes.
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Dexter / int_ce9da072	type	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
Dexter / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Generally averted. Characters stutter, pause to think, et cetera. Some less than others, obviously, but it's still there.
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Dexter / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Dexter / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Dexter spends most of Season Five helping Lumen hunt down and kill the men who raped and tortured her.
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Dexter / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Dexter / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Dexter tells his therapist he's a serial killer. The therapist thinks he's joking. Of course, the only reason he was at the therapist's was because the therapist was his next victim. Also, in that same episode: Dexter seeks out one of the therapist's patients to establish whether the shrink has an alibi for the time of his "suicide victim's" death. When the guy asks Dexter what he thinks of Dr. Meridian, Dexter replies: "Nah, I'm a sociopath, there's not much you can do for me". Cue the other guy not only taking this as a joke, but actually trying to hit on Dexter. "Cute AND funny. Let me guess. Taken?"
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Dexter / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Dexter / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Played with: the victims actually were suicides, but their therapist drove them to it.
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Dexter / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Dexter / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Dexter again. He seems to genuinely care about Debra, Rita, Rita's children, Harrison, Lumen, Hannah, and a certain few of his coworkers.
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Dexter / int_d0a26edf	type	A Love to Dismember
Dexter / int_d0a26edf	comment	A Love to Dismember: The Ice Truck Killer is referred to as having chosen not to kill a hooker when he realized she was an amputee. She says that he "started worshipping it (her fake hand)" and did "some freaky stuff with it (as well as her stump)". Given his obsession with dismemberment, it is implied that he may have used the parts of his victims for this as well. It's later revealed that they are lingering issues from his mother's death and dismemberment by a bunch of gangsters with a chainsaw. He's Dexter's big brother Brian.
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Dexter / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Dexter / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The opening credits sequence features Dexter following a completely normal morning routine (shaving and accidentally cutting himself, flossing his teeth, frying and eating ham and eggs with hot sauce, juicing a blood orange, putting a shirt on), but it's all shown in extreme close-up and slow-motion so it looks uncanny and draws parallels to his secret life as a serial killer.
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Dexter / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Dexter / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: To LaGuerta.
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Dexter / int_d1b19b75	type	Debate and Switch
Dexter / int_d1b19b75	comment	Debate and Switch: When Doakes finds out that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher, Dexter is faced with a dilemma: go against his code and kill Doakes, or turn himself in. However, the issues resolves itself when Lila kills Doakes.
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Dexter / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
Dexter / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Dexter hunts people as a matter of course, but his idea of a really good time is to go after a killer who is hard to get at, able to put up a fight, or expecting a visit from him. e.g., a cop who killed her husband and daughter, a public figure with lots of bodyguards, a neo-Nazi currently in prison but still giving orders to his minions on the outside, his friend and co-killer the district attorney, etc.
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Dexter / int_d39eb836	type	Seduction as One-Upmanship
Dexter / int_d39eb836	comment	Seduction as One-Upmanship: After Lieutenant LaGuerta is demoted, she strikes up an affair with her replacement's fiance, thereby driving said replacement to paranoid outbursts that get her deposed and let LaGuerta reclaim her position.
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Dexter / int_d3a840a8	type	Opening Shout-Out
Dexter / int_d3a840a8	comment	Opening Shout-Out on more than one occasion.
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Dexter / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
Dexter / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Dexter frames Doakes for being the Bay Harbor Butcher. Although unplanned by Dexter, Doakes is later blown up and posthumously takes the fall for Dexter's crimes.
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Dexter / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
Dexter / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Vincent Masuka occasionally does this to himself, referring to all Asians as "my people" and setting up a Buddhist shrine for good luck, only shrugging after Dexter asks if the Japanese aren't traditionally Shinto (most Japanese people practice a combined Buddhism and Shinto though, with one third being exclusively Buddhist. Over half have a Buddhist shrine in their home). Another example is when Masuka says Dexter is "messing with his chi", and the latter points out that's Chinese, which Masuka just responds to with "So?" (this is not really wrong, except it's called "ki" instead of "chi" in Japan).
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Dexter / int_d62184c3	type	Theme Serial Killer
Dexter / int_d62184c3	comment	Theme Serial Killer: The Ice Truck Killer chops up prostitutes and leaves their parts scattered because he watched while his mother - and, by extension, Dexter's - met the wrong end of a chainsaw at the hands of drug dealers. The Trinity Killer, who kills people in ways that mimics how his sister, mother and father died, although it turns out that his nickname is non-indicative. He actually kills in fours, starting every cycle with kidnapping and killing a boy, who is supposed to represent himself. The Doomsday Killer kills his victims based on his interpretation of the Book of Revelation. He believes that if he can complete the sequence on a certain day, he will bring on the Apocalypse.
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Dexter / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
Dexter / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: The major antagonist of the final season ends up killing his own mother after she realizes that he's an irredeemably cold-blooded killer. He had already killed his brother when he was younger.
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Dexter / int_d80fb43b	type	Murder Simulators
Dexter / int_d80fb43b	comment	Murder Simulators: In a season 6 episode, forensic intern Louis Greene (who is also a video game developer) excitedly shows Dexter a game he is working on, a literal murder simulator where you can play as Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, or the Bay Harbor Butcher (actually Dexter himself, unbeknownst to Louis). Dexter is disgusted and asserts that no one should ever want to play such a game.
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Dexter / int_d84b22a5	type	Immoral Journalist
Dexter / int_d84b22a5	comment	Immoral Journalist: Christine Hill from season 4 is initially just a bit unscrupulous, sexing it with up with Detective Quinn and then using their pillow talk in her reporting, which is really his own fault for being stupid enough to share confidential information with her. Then it's revealed that she was the one who shot Agent Lundy and is the daughter of the Trinity Killer, whom she tried to cover for.
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Dexter / int_d8a7295a	type	What If the Baby Is Like Me
Dexter / int_d8a7295a	comment	What If the Baby Is Like Me: Of course, it's too early to tell how Harrison's going to turn out.
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Dexter / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Dexter / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: Occasionally a straight shot of a normal scene is contrasted with a tilted shot of Dexter watching, to make him seem off kilter.
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Dexter / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
Dexter / int_d8e40b47	comment	Deb's total inability to speak Spanish, despite being a homicide detective in Miami. Babies who watch Dora the Explorer know more en español than her.
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Dexter / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Dexter / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Oh my God, the series finale. First, Dexter turns off Debra's vital signs monitor, which would immediately trip an alarm at the nurses' station, but the medical staff ignores it. Second, after his Mercy Kill of Debra, Dex wheels her corpse out of the hospital; although this is not quite as conspicuous as it would normally be since many other patients are being moved on account of the oncoming storm, the fact that he is not wearing nurse's scrubs and an obviously unresponsive patient has no fluids or life support hooked up draws no notice whatever from the hospital staff. Third, his removing Debra from her bed, carrying her down into a boat, and then motoring off into the heart of a freaking hurricane also attracts no attention. In comparison to this, it's almost believable that a busful of passengers pays no heed to Hannah reaching across the aisle to stab Elway with a large hypodermic.
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Dexter / int_da03a529	type	Bait-and-Switch Boss
Dexter / int_da03a529	comment	Season 3: Miguel Prado, with The Skinner (a.k.a. Jorge Orozco) as a Bait-and-Switch Boss.
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Dexter / int_da910c25	type	Authentication by Newspaper
Dexter / int_da910c25	comment	Authentication by Newspaper: Attempted by Little Chino in season 2.
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Dexter / int_da9d2f16	type	'90s Anti-Hero
Dexter / int_da9d2f16	comment	'90s Anti-Hero: When Dexter's dump site is discovered to be filled with multiple murderers that have slipped through the cracks, Miami artists quickly immortalize him as "The Dark Defender", a perfect 90s Anti-Hero; "Stalker of the night, his blade of vengeance turns wrong into right..." The "real" Dark Defender, upon seeing a pin-up of the character, has the most satisfied smile on his face for all of three seconds before he shakes it off as absurd not for any moral reasons (Dex is a Poetic Serial Killer and proud of it), but because, "Miami's too hot for all that leather". He does later have an Indulgent Fantasy Segue where he crashes the key moment of his "Super Hero Origin", kills the bad guys and saves his mother from being hacked to gibbets with a chainsaw. In leather.
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Dexter / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Dexter / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Dexter and Lumen in season 5. This is lampshaded by the other characters. Masuka even compares them to Bonnie and Clyde. Dexter finds the analogy worrisome. Played straight from season 7 onward with Dexter and Hannah.
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Dexter / int_db4266d3	type	Sleep Deprivation
Dexter / int_db4266d3	comment	Sleep Deprivation: Rita and her children are being kept awake at night by their neighbour's dog. When Rita and Dex confront the neighbour, she just mocks them and says there's nothing they can do about it. Rita then takes the neglected dog to her friend and her nieces who will take care of their new pet. Debra pulls an allnighter when she's searching for clues in the Skinner case (serial killer of the season). She says she had a metric fuck-ton of coffee and is extremely fidgety in the morning. Dexter stalks his victims at night and it's mentioned he's an extremely early riser who doesn't sleep well. In one episode when he finds Lumen, he spends with her the whole night, trying to calm her down. When he comes home to his baby son and his new nanny in the morning, the nanny's pissed that she can't trust him because he didn't inform her he wouldn't be coming home.
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Dexter / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Dexter / int_db9940c4	comment	Lundy is a legendary FBI analyst who is not fooled by some of Dexter's tricks and even reverses some of them to deduce the true nature of the suspect: "Law enforcement". He also nails the identity of Trinity almost immediately after meeting him, and is killed for it.
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Dexter / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Dexter / int_dbb414ed	comment	Dexter provides a Hand Wave that he only injected LaGuerta with a half dose of M99 which for some reason means it won't show up during an autopsy.
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Dexter / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Dexter / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Sonya the nanny from season 5 (played by Maria Doyle Kennedy from Showtime's The Tudors) gets a pretty good amount of screen time and it seems as if she will eventually be important. She isn't. note Except to teach Dexter the importance of spending time with his son and being more present with his family instead of putting his "extracurriculars" first. Louis Greene is seemingly set up as a major antagonist for Season 7. Suddenly, Boom, Headshot!. A case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as Louis' actor got another role and his arc subsequently had to be cut short. When Batista announces in season 7 that he is burnt out on detective work, then buys a restaurant and tells everyone he is retiring, it seems like an obviously telegraphed case of Retirony. It isn't; Batista is alive and well and retired from Miami Metro at the end of the season. He returns to his job in Season 8. Season 8 has multiple red herrings regarding the identity of the Brain Surgeon. The biggest one is A.J. Yates, whom Dexter identifies as the Surgeon and kills; it's not until three episodes later that we learn the real Brain Surgeon is still at large.
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Dexter / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Dexter / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Deb when she returns to the place where Frank Lundy was killed.
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Dexter / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Dexter / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Constantly flirted with in LaGuerta. She was promoted more for political reasons (in part her Twofer Token Minority status) than for her skill, and is often shown to be more interested in her career than good policework. She starts showing much better judgment later in the series, but forfeits a lot of her sympathy after blaming Debra for her own screwup.
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Dexter / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Dexter / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: At the end of Season 2, Deb walks in at exactly the right moment so that Dexter confuses her for Lila and jumps her from behind, kicking off Lila's final attempt at killing Dexter and the children. The only reason the cops find out the Ice Truck Killer's real name is because Angel is in a hospital room with a patient who got transferred from the psych ward. Louis mailing Dexter the ITK hand means that he somehow knows Dexter's dark secret, right? Apparently not.
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Dexter / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Dexter / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Technology — a Motorola RAZR left on in a remote part of the Everglades, in 2007, would likely burn through its battery in under 24 hours, as cell phones tend to do in areas with weak or no cell signal. The one Doakes tried to use kept charge for at least a week, which is impossible even under the best of conditions.
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Dexter / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Dexter / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Deb got hit with this twice in season 7. The first time was a slow burn despair. After finding out that Dexter was the Bay Harbor Butcher, she dipped into a slow descent into depression and anti-anxiety medication. Despite trying to help Dexter through his addiction, the burden of keeping the secret to herself has slowly gotten the better of her. By the end of season 7, the second despair hit a lot quicker and was far more brutal. Faced with the Sadistic Choice to arrest/kill Dexter, or kill LaGuerta, Deb chooses to save her brother. By the season 8 premiere, it's made clear that Deb's decision to save Dexter has turned her into a reckless and borderline suicidal drug addict that can't bear to be around Dexter or Miami P.D. anymore, and resents Dexter for destroying her life.
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Dexter / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
Dexter / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: Dexter's biological father had a prison tattoo, not to mention plenty of the people Miami Metro drags in. Zig-zagged with Quinn, who sports tattoos, is a cop, and has stolen from a crime scene. And one of Dexter's victims early in the series - a valet who liked snuff films.
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Dexter / int_ded22623	type	Combat Compliment
Dexter / int_ded22623	comment	Combat Compliment: Doakes gives Dexter an underhanded one when he discovers that the blood spatter analyst is nearly his equal in hand-to-hand combat: "Lab geek, my ass!"
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Dexter / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Dexter / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: To be fair, Deb did take her shirt off, and any red-blooded straight male would be distracted. Sgt. Batista gets one of these from one of Masuka's (female) forensics students in the season 6 premiere.
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Dexter / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Dexter / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho
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Dexter / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
Dexter / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: In season 5, Debra has sex with Quinn after she breaks down crying, because she just had to clean up the blood-stained bathroom where her sister-in-law was murdered.
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Dexter / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Dexter / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: The series ends with Dexter giving one directly to the camera.
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Dexter / int_e13cafe	type	Office Romance
Dexter / int_e13cafe	comment	Office Romance: It's revealed in season 2 that Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta had an affair with Sergeant Doakes when they used to be partners and a pair of detectives. They broke up but stayed close friends. Angel Batista from Homicide dates one detective from Vice. They're OK because it's allowed to see people from other departments. When they broke up, one of Batista's colleagues says to Angel that office romances never work out, but asks whether he can ask her out. LaGuerta, a boss of Homicide, and Sergeant Angel Batista start a sexual affair in season 4. Their superior Captain Matthews wants them to either break up or have Angel transferred to another department. They decide to marry and the pro-family politics allows them to stay together and both at Homicide department. Season 6 begins with them being Amicably Divorced. Deb Morgan and Detective Quinn. They started as Friends with Benefits, but later became a regular couple. Debra's promotion to Lieutenant and the new head of Homicide of Miami Metro PD essentially ends their relationship, although Debra never saw them as something super serious in the first place. There is a very brief romantic flirting between Masuka, a forensics expert, and Ryan, his sexy blonde of an intern. They also had the forbidden teacher/student dynamics. She screwed him over, stealing The Ice Truck Killer's prosthetic hand from the evidence room. He ended their relationship and he fired her as well.
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Dexter / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Dexter / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Dexter's victims try this occasionally, but it never works. Neil Perry tries this on LaGuerta, but fails hard. When The Skinner captures Dexter and prepares to torture him, Dexter chews him out before escaping.
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Dexter / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Dexter / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Dexter has many of them, mostly with Harry, but briefly with Brian. As of Season 6, Travis also has these with Gellar, unbeknownst to the audience for much of the season. They stop shortly after it's revealed to the audience that Gellar was Dead All Along. In one episode of Season 6, Deb implies she has them with Harry as well.
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Dexter / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Dexter / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Almost all the characters in Miami Metro, unless they're particularly close to each other (Angel Batista and Maria LaGuerta during their mariage, siblings Dexter and Debra Morgan, etc.). This sometimes leads to confusion when a character calls out for "Morgan" when Dex and Deb are both present. Subverted to great effect by Doakes to Dexter in episode 2.11 to reflect that in addition to capturing a killer, he now also wants to help Dexter by turning him in.
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Dexter / int_e3315e75	type	Scoundrel Code
Dexter / int_e3315e75	comment	Scoundrel Code: The "Code of Harry" which allows him to uphold a measure of control over his Serial Killer tendencies.
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Dexter / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Dexter / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Dexter is very, very good at improvising when he has to convince somebody that his more suspicious mannerisms definitely aren't those of a homicidal sociopath.
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Dexter / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Dexter / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Astor, Cody, Deb, Rita, Harrison, Angel.
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Dexter / int_e48b8fb9	type	Best Woman
Dexter / int_e48b8fb9	comment	Best Woman: Deb is Dexter's "best man" at his wedding.
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Dexter / int_e49a3a77	type	Offering Another in Your Stead
Dexter / int_e49a3a77	comment	Offering Another in Your Stead: Many of Dexter's victims that end up on his kill table attempt to bribe or bargain with him in return for their freedom. At least one victim, who was part of a larger group of Serial Rapists that Dexter was going after, offered to give him the ringleader. Ironically, said ringleader was already using him as an Unwitting Pawn to lure in Dexter and Lumen. Dexter doesn't even acknowledge the offer, eventually killing both of them.
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Dexter / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Dexter / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Rita with her mother. Jonah Mitchell, in quite an epic one as there's quite a lot for his father to answer for. Astor to Dexter in the wake of Rita's death. Dex imagines his dead, adoptive father talking to him throughout the series. After learning that Harry had an affair with his biological mother, Dex imagined several of these moments in season 2 and 3.
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Dexter / int_e539f64f	type	Kill Him Already!
Dexter / int_e539f64f	comment	Kill Him Already!: LaGuerta tells Debra to do this to Dexter in the finale of Season 7. It turns out badly for LaGuerta.
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Dexter / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Dexter / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Lundy is like Kyle Chutsky except with more screentime and no pinky ring. The Skinner is a torturer who mutilates his victims, similar to Dr. Danco. A marine biologist brought in as a consultant in Season 2 is named Manny and described as a "Prima Donna," similar to a conceited caterer. Tony Tucci and Neil Perry are Expys of a single character from the novels, Daryll, who works as a security guard, is arrested for the Tamiami killings, and confesses to them.
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Dexter / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Dexter / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Dexter used to be a cold-hearted, meticulous, intelligent killer with no capacity for emotion and empathy. He had to put up a front to hide all that by using his then girlfriend Rita and her children. Seasons 3 and 5 are evidence that he's turned into a bumbling idiot, allowing two other strangers to watch his kills and confessing his murderous activities to them. In addition he is more sloppy than ever; one example being the season five finale where he left his blood and fingerprints in the crashed stolen vehicle in a ditch for cops to eventually see. This may or may not be the result of the increasing toll that leading a dual life has, or even Death Seeker tendencies based on his increasing guilt. Deb was originally tough but occasionally emotional, and had a habit of sleeping around. As the series dragged on, the "sleeping around" angle turned into a minimum of one love interest per season. Her strong emotions, which Dexter once commented she worked hard to hide, escalated to the point where she would break down and cry almost every episode. This culminated in the beginning of Season 5, when Deb, immediately after cleaning her murdered sister-in-law's blood off the floor with Quinn's help, broke down crying and had sex with him. Of course, this may all be justified, given the increasing toll her work in homicide has on her. A more minor example is Deb's Cluster F-Bomb tendencies, as seen in this video:
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Dexter / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
Dexter / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: The show finally goes here at the end of Season 6, when, with the help of a curiously enabling therapist, Deb comes to realize that she is romantically in love with Dexter. In season 7, feeling betrayed and angry, she confesses her feelings to him.
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Dexter / int_e71d66e	type	Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!
Dexter / int_e71d66e	comment	Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: In season 2, after her recent traumatic experience of being kidnapped by a serial killer, Deb punches a guy in the nose when he comes up behind her at a bar.
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Dexter / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Dexter / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Batista gets stabbed in season one, Debra comments that she hates feeling so helpless. Masuka just stares blankly, and she asks why he's not making some perverted comment about providing sexual support in a time of need. Masuka just looks at her blankly and responds "My friend got stabbed, and he may die."
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Dexter / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Dexter / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in Rita's ex-husband, Paul. Yes, he was a drug addict who physically and sexually abused his wife, and tried to at least physically abuse his kids, and even after he gets out of prison and gets clean he tries to shove himself back into Rita's life in the most aggressive way. But he genuinely does seem to have cleaned up his act, seems like he's trying to be a better person who sometimes lapses back into bad habits (notably, playing the "domineering male" card), and genuinely wants to do his best by his kids. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of trying to play Alpha Wolf with Dexter one too many times. Whether or not he ultimately deserved what happened to him is a very complicated question.
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Dexter / int_e923c801	type	Did Not Die That Way
Dexter / int_e923c801	comment	Did Not Die That Way: Dexter believed Harry to have died of heart disease, but he was revealed to have committed suicide after seeing what Dexter was really capable of, and what he had trained him to do.
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Dexter / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Dexter / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: Some of their uses of real-life Miami locations are just plain wrong. A particularly egregious example is when a villain is noted to have had a rich upbringing, demonstrated by going to a Westland Prep School in Hialeah. Nevermind the fact that Hialeah has no prep schools and that it's a low-to-mid income city, and that they've somehow confused Westland High School (which is in Hialeah, Florida) with Westland School in Los Angeles (which is a prep school), but Westland High School was founded in 2007, making it completely impossible for a middle aged man to be an alumni of it. Sure, most non-Floridians wouldn't even notice, but all of Miami facepalmed when that sentence was uttered.
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Dexter / int_ea1c4fb2	type	Ditch the Bodyguards
Dexter / int_ea1c4fb2	comment	Ditch the Bodyguards: After the FBI suspect that Doakes is the Bay Harbor Butcher, Dexter is given a protective detail since they assume the Butcher will come after him. He slips away from them by climbing out the window of his apartment.
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Dexter / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Dexter / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Deb delivers a shot straight to a perp's nuts in "Buck the System".
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Dexter / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Dexter / int_eb251937	comment	Stan Liddy in season 5 as well. Although he's a Dirty Cop, and is trying to expose Dexter mostly for his own benefits so that he will be reinducted into the police force, he is still trying to catch a serial killer. Dexter kills him, and Quinn is subsequently suspected of the murder.
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Dexter / int_eb48170d	type	Cramming the Coffin
Dexter / int_eb48170d	comment	Cramming the Coffin: In season 3, not wanting to divulge the methods of his usual lifestyle, Dexter teaches Miguel Prado to dispose of bodies by burying them past the point of visibility within a to-be-used grave, intending them to be hidden beneath a new coffin.
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Dexter / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Dexter / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Lila, oh so much. She caused a fire just to try and control Dexter. She then tried getting revenge against Dexter just because he left her. She tricks the authorities into thinking Batista raped her due to rough sex and taking a date rape drug, stalked Rita and then tried to murder Dexter, Astor and Cody in the season finale because Dexter chose Rita and the kids over her. She's also responsible for murdering fan-favorite Doakes all for the sake of winning Dexter's approval. He most certainly does not appreciate it.
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Dexter / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Dexter / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Vince is a bit of a jerkass and prone to making rude comments, though he's also a Butt-Monkey at the same time. In Season 3 he gets softened. No one turns up to a conference he speaks at or reads an article he gets published and he begins acting polite for a while. The other characters apologise and say that they preferred him before. This is further developed in Season 4 when he agrees to keep Deb company for Thanksgiving and shows genuine dismay at having to keep a secret from Dexter about his marriage. Doakes, especially in season one, most clearly in episode one. It doesn't matter if a coworker gives you the creeps, berating them and yelling profanity at them as you demand they do something for you is behavior that would be likely to get you fired if you weren't best buds with the boss. He becomes gradually more sympathetic as the show goes on. In Season 2 he even got a Pet The Dog moment about his failed marriage so that his death would be more tragic, making Lila less sympathetic.
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Dexter / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Dexter / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Dexter and his brother Brian Moser. Ironically it's Abel who kills Cain here.
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Dexter / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Dexter / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Part of Deb's undercover work on vice at the start of the series is to bait a client who is killing prostitutes.
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Dexter / int_ed5657ad	type	Aren't You Forgetting Someone?
Dexter / int_ed5657ad	comment	Aren't You Forgetting Someone?: No one in the Mitchell family says they are thankful for Arthur during Thanksgiving. He doesn't take it well.
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Dexter / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
Dexter / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: Dexter perfected dismembering corpses into an art form. Since he is an intelligent Serial-Killer Killer raised by a Dirty Cop, every step of the process is planned out in advance. A key part is Dexter using a surgical saw to cut up the corpses of his victims into six even parts and wrapping them up in garbage bags before dumping them out at sea.
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Dexter / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Dexter / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Deb suffers from this.
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Dexter / int_ee22ccb3	type	Lecherous Stepparent
Dexter / int_ee22ccb3	comment	Lecherous Stepparent: In season 5, Astor runs away with one of her new friends back to her old house to get drunk. Dexter is initially furious (Astor is only 12), but comes around when he discovers that the friend's stepdad is sexually abusive and Astor was trying to help her. He beats the guy up instead, since "disappearing" him would draw too much attention at that point.
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Dexter / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
Dexter / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: In season 4, when Debra learns that the Trinity Killer works in the school system during Thanksgiving with children in the room:
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Dexter / int_f19ff224	type	TheUNFavourite
Dexter / int_f19ff224	comment	Harry was also neglectful and emotionally distant towards Debra, leading her to believe she was The Un-Favourite. While Harry was having to spend most of his time teaching Dexter how to act human, this still doesn't excuse his actions towards Debra.
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Dexter / int_f273b1cb	type	Devil in Plain Sight
Dexter / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: Lampshaded memorably in the very first episode: Later, Quinn. But it takes Rita's death for him to start to suspect anything.
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Dexter / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
Dexter / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Lila in season 2. She's obsessed with Dexter, gets a colleague of his falsely accused of rape, and tries to kill both Dexter and his two stepchildren in a fire. The final episode of the season, in which she is the main villain, is even called "The British Invasion". Isaak Sirko in season 7. He's actually Ukrainian but spent most of his youth in England and speaks a very sophisticated British English, even correcting his American associate's drawled pronunciation at one point.
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Dexter / int_f4d8befd	type	Tableau
Dexter / int_f4d8befd	comment	Beth Dorsey after her thwarted attempt at executing Travis Marshall's 'Wormwood' tableau (Season 6).
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Dexter / int_f4fcc961	type	TV Telephone Etiquette
Dexter / int_f4fcc961	comment	TV Telephone Etiquette: The entire cast does this all the time, at least once literally every episode if this troper isn't mistaken. Dexter is notoriously bad about never, ever saying goodbye at the end of a call, which sticks out so glaringly because he's on the phone so often with so many people, many for whom he cares a lot about, and yet he doesn't have the courtesy to ever say goodbye. In fact, on the rare occasion he does say goodbye, it's actually quite jarring.
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Dexter / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Dexter / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Lots of it, most notably for Apple, José Cuervo Silver, and Nokia.
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Dexter / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Dexter / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: While Hannah is somewhat more sociopathic than Lumen, the similarity is definitely there.
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Dexter / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Dexter / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Dexter takes a dying Isaak to where he dumped Viktor so they can have a semblance of this.
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Dexter / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
Dexter / int_f6698528	comment	Former Army Ranger Doakes is regularly compared to Dexter; Good/Bad People doing Good/Bad Things for Good/Bad Reasons. Doakes actually performs a Vigilante Execution - a Tonton Macoute he recognized from his operations in Haiti. Soldiers in general are implicated as well; another Ranger talks about how killing, even in the line of duty, naturally turns people into sociopaths.
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Dexter / int_f6c36157	type	Stab the Salad
Dexter / int_f6c36157	comment	Stab the Salad: Used frequently, which is unsurprising with this show being what it is. Outside the opening sequence, the most notable examples are the opening scenes for the second, third, and fourth seasons.
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Dexter / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
Dexter / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: Kristen Miller plays the chick Tricia at Dexter's 20th anniversary high school reunion who decides to give Dexter a blow job and takes her top off while doing it.
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Dexter / int_f6ef4ff9	type	Break-In Threat
Dexter / int_f6ef4ff9	comment	Break-In Threat: The Ice Truck Killer sneaks into Dexter's apartment several times, and leaves calling cards each time (dismembered dolls, smiley faces). However, Dexter's reaction to the intrusion subverts the trope: he realizes that it isn't a threat, but rather an invitation to "play."
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Dexter / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
Dexter / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: While searching for a Nanny for Harrison.
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Dexter / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Dexter / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: The Lieutenant of Miami Metro PD at the end of season 1 and beginning of season 2, Esme Pascal, got hit by this between seasons. She's shown to be a Reasonable Authority Figure, a very competent cop, and a pretty good person. But when she suspects her fiance is cheating on her (he is, mind you) she completely breaks down and handles her investigation into his infidelity... poorly, to say the least.
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Dexter / int_f7887c47	type	Born Detective
Dexter / int_f7887c47	comment	Born Detective: Both of Harry's kids become detectives in their own ways, just like Harry himself. Deb officially, Dexter...less officially.
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Dexter / int_f81fb215	type	Choke Holds
Dexter / int_f81fb215	comment	Choke Holds: While Dexter prefers to sedate his targets, he's been known to strangle them into unconsciousness. Acceptable, considering what he plans to do with them doesn't really require them to be in the best health anyway. His brother was considerably more fond of the sleeper hold, although his goals were basically the same. The Trinity Killer also uses sleeper holds.
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Dexter / int_f863bb6d	type	Battle Trophy
Dexter / int_f863bb6d	comment	Battle Trophy: Dexter takes a blood sample from every killer he's killed. Until season 7, when he stops after Deb confronts him for it, and destroys them all.
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Dexter / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
Dexter / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: Louis Greene develops a video game where you get to play a serial killer and wants Dexter's opinion on whether the blood spatter mechanics are realistic. Dexter refuses to even look at the game and tells Louis that making that type of game is just wrong.
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Dexter / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Dexter / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Dexter in the final episode.
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Dexter / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Dexter / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Deb's total inability to speak Spanish, despite being a homicide detective in Miami. Babies who watch Dora the Explorer know more en español than her. Dexter's employment and close involvement with police investigations, yet lack of a badge.
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Dexter / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Dexter / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: In the episode "Swim Deep":
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Dexter / int_fb1327b2	type	Tranquillizer Dart
Dexter / int_fb1327b2	comment	Tranquillizer Dart: Dexter usually uses a syringe of M99 animal tranquilizer, which really does work that fast. It also causes significant damage to the kidneys and frequently stops hearts, but his victims won't be alive for much longer anyway. In Season 5, however, victim Boyd Fowler manages to shoot Dexter with an actual tranquilizer gun before going down.
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Dexter / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Dexter / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Without ever stating it out loud, Sergeant Batista heavily implies this to intern Louis when he starts dating Batista's little sister Jamie. It's portrayed as just being overly protective of her, but the boyfriend in question turns out to be a scumbag regardless. Subverted later on when Jamie starts a secret relationship with Batista's colleague Quinn. He's supportive of it when he finds out, but wants Quinn to man up by applying for the vacant Sergeant post as Batista himself is now Lieutenant.
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Dexter / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Dexter / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: It takes several decades, but Dexter ultimately manages to track down and kill all the criminals who were responsible for his mother's murder by chainsaw (and, indirectly, Dexter's own obsession with murder), including the guy who wielded the weapon and the boss who ordered the hit.
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Dexter / int_fb93e0f9	type	No Love for the Wicked
Dexter / int_fb93e0f9	comment	No Love for the Wicked: In the pilot, Dexter says, "I don't understand sex. Not that I have anything against women, and I certainly have an appropriate sensibility about men, but when it comes to the actual act of sex, it's always just seemed so undignified." He starts dating a rape victim, Rita Bennett, to avoid any sexual intimacy while still appearing normal to outsiders. Later on, it turns out that he is pretty sexual but has an aversion towards sex because his partners somehow get a glimpse of what he's really like: a serial killer who's Hiding in Plain Sight. He sticks with Rita because somehow, she doesn't. A straighter example would be Jordan Chase, the Arc Villain of Season 5. He spearheaded the multiple rapes of several young women with his gang, but Jordan himself appears to be quite uninterested in sex or any other kind of intimacy. He does not participate in the rapes and when a woman with Stockholm Syndrome for Jordan tries to caress him, he quietly brushes her off. He was just in it for the power he wielded over other people's lives.
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Dexter / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
Dexter / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: More than once, most notably the entire plot of Season 2, when Dexter and the rest of Miami Metro are investigating the Bay Harbor Butcher—who is Dexter.
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Dexter / int_fd253c63	type	Vampire Detective Series
Dexter / int_fd253c63	comment	Vampire Detective Series: Dexter isn't technically a vampire, but he's obsessed with blood and kills only at night, so we'll take it. He fits all the requirements for the Vampire Detective Series except #4. (1) He is a cop (a blood analyst) (2) wants to be normal and (3) has a lot of daddy issues (his are 75% positive but it's a big deal). His daddy made him what he is, too. He (5) has lots of flashbacks about his earlier life, and he (6) only kills other killers. He fits even #4 after the Lumen story arc.
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Dexter / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Dexter / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Miguel Prado seems extreme when compared to Dexter. And perhaps Dexter himself is an extremist when compared to Doakes. And Doakes probably is compared to most of the other cops. It's all a scale, really.
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Dexter / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Dexter / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: This affects all the characters to some extent, but it's most pronounced with LaGuerta, whose portray tends to vary wildly between being the Team Mom and by far and away the most sensible and competent of the main characters, or being a borderline incompetent who refuses to take responsibility for her mistakes and has no problem throwing others under the bus to aid her own career.
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Dexter / int_fdfd52d9	type	Gross-Up Close-Up
Dexter / int_fdfd52d9	comment	Gross-Up Close-Up: The opening credits, depicting Dexter's morning routine, shown in extreme close-up and shot to be reminiscent of his hack-n-slash murders.
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Dexter / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
Dexter / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: Dexter's flashbacks. Baby Harrison sitting in Rita's blood in the Season 4 finale.
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Dexter / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Dexter / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Animals in general, and dogs in particular, loathe Dexter. Subverted by Brother Sam's murderer being figured out by Dexter by the fact that it didn't bark at him in the kill footage.
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Dexter / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Dexter's relationship with Deb is full of this as he emotionally supports her, lets her live with him after she's traumatized by her kidnapping and saves Quinn, someone he strongly dislikes from prison for the sake of her happiness. Quinn giving Angel a huge check so he can open a bakery. Dexter's conversation with Jeremy in episode 7 where he sees himself in the boy and makes an attempt to reach out to and help him. Matthews may be a Politically Incorrect Hero who is vindictive to Laguerta, but he has a sincere soft spot for the Morgans due to his friendship with Harry. Despite all his hate for Dexter, Doakes tries to be supportive in Season 1 when Dexter freaks out at the room full of blood and actually tries to comfort him when he's planning to turn himself in in Season 2. Doakes never holds Angel's honesty against him during the Internal Affairs issue after Doakes killed a man in cold blood who happened to be part of a Haitian death squad several years ago. He even publicly shames the officer who tried to harass Angel.
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Dexter / int_ff9e9dde	type	Once a Season
Dexter / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: Dexter's apartment gets broken into by an antagonist at least once every season (by the Ice Truck Killer, James Doakes, Ramon Prado, the Trinity Killer, Stan Liddy, Travis Marshall, Isaak Sirko, and the Brain Surgeon).
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Dexter / int_ffb975c7	type	Third Act Stupidity
Dexter / int_ffb975c7	comment	Third Act Stupidity: In the penultimate episode of Season 8, Dexter captures Big Bad Oliver Saxon but, instead of doing the practical thing by just killing him, decides to leave him to Deb. So, of course, Saxon ends up shooting Deb and escaping.
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Dexter / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Dexter / int_fff371b4	comment	Dexter used to be a cold-hearted, meticulous, intelligent killer with no capacity for emotion and empathy. He had to put up a front to hide all that by using his then girlfriend Rita and her children. Seasons 3 and 5 are evidence that he's turned into a bumbling idiot, allowing two other strangers to watch his kills and confessing his murderous activities to them. In addition he is more sloppy than ever; one example being the season five finale where he left his blood and fingerprints in the crashed stolen vehicle in a ditch for cops to eventually see. This may or may not be the result of the increasing toll that leading a dual life has, or even Death Seeker tendencies based on his increasing guilt.
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Dexter	hasFeature	I Can Change My Beloved / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Can Live With That / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Knew There Was Something About You / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Lied / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Regret Nothing / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Shall Taunt You / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I "Uh" You, Too / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Warned You / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	I Would Say If I Could Say / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	If Only You Knew / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Ignorance Is Bliss / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Immediate Sequel / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Immoral Journalist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Impossibly Mundane Explanation / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Inappropriate Hunger / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Incriminating Indifference / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Indirect Serial Killer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Indulgent Fantasy Segue / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Infraction Distraction / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Inner Monologue / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Instant Sedation / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Instrumental Theme Tune / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Interchangeable Asian Cultures / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Intimate Psychotherapy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	It's Always Sunny at Funerals / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	It's Always Sunny in Miami / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Jack the Ripoff / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Jekyll & Hyde / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kidnapped by an Ally / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kill Tally / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Killer Cop / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Killer Finale / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kinda Busy Here / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kinky Cuffs / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kinky Spanking / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Kudzu Plot / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Lady Macbeth / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Land Downunder / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Language Barrier / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Last Episode Theme Reprise / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Laughably Evil / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Lawful Good / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Lecherous Stepparent / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Let's You and Him Fight / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Living a Double Life / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Living with the Villain / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Lovable Sex Maniac / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Love Forgives All but Lust / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Loves the Sound of Screaming / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mad Artist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Magical Nanny / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Make the Dog Testify / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Malevolent Architecture / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Malignant Plot Tumor / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Manic Pixie Dream Girl / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Master Poisoner / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Matricide / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mayâ€“December Romance / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mid-Season Twist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mighty Lumberjack / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Miranda Rights / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mirror Scare / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mistaken for Junkie / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mistaken for Misogynist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Monster Fangirl / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Monster Misogyny / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Montage Out / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mood Dissonance / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Mood Lighting / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Moral Sociopathy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Morning Routine / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Moving-Away Ending / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Murder by Suicide / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Murder Simulators / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Murder-Suicide / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Must State If You're a Cop / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	My Sister Is Off-Limits / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Names to Trust Immediately / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Narrating the Obvious / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Naughty Under the Table / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Neck Snap / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Neurodiversity Is Supernatural / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Neutral Evil / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Never Hurt an Innocent / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Nightmare Fetishist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	'90s Anti-Hero / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Nipple and Dimed / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	No Delays for the Wicked / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	No Love for the Wicked / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	No Warrant? No Problem! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Noble Demon / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Nominal Hero / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Not Blood Siblings / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Not in Front of the Kid / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Not in My Contract / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Not so Dire / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Obstructive Vigilantism / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Offering Another in Your Stead / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Office Romance / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Offscreen Breakup / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Offscreen Inertia / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Omniscient Database / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	On the Rebound / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Once a Season / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	One of Our Own / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Only in Florida / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Only in Miami / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Opening Shout-Out / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Pædo Hunt / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Parental Favoritism / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Parody Sue / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Parting-from-Consciousness Words / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Pater Familicide / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Pedophile Priest / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Perma-Stubble / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Permissive Parents / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Persecuting Prosecutor / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Photos Lie / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Platonic Declaration of Love / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Playing Nice for Now / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Please, I Will Do Anything! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Poetic Serial Killer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Polite Villains, Rude Heroes / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Principles Zealot / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Prisons Are Gymnasiums / int_24e41891
Profit	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	hasFeature	Promotion to Opening Titles / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Pseudo-Crisis / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Psycho Psychologist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Psychotic Smirk / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Publicly Discussing the Secret / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Punch a Wall / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Punk in the Trunk / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Pyromaniac / int_24e41891
RadarSystems	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	hasFeature	Rage Against the Reflection / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Rain of Blood / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Random Smoking Scene / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Rape and Revenge / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Real Men Cook / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Redemption Equals Sex / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Reflective Eyes / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Regularly Scheduled Evil / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Reluctant Psycho / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Resigned in Disgrace / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Revealing Cover-Up / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Reverse Whodunnit / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Revival / int_24e41891
Ripliad	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	hasFeature	Robbing the Dead / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Romantic Plot Tumor / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Rooftop Confrontation / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Rule #1 / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Rule of Pool / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Run for the Border / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Rustproof Blood / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sarcasm Failure / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sassy Black Woman / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Saved by the Coffin / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Scare 'Em Straight / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Scare the Dog / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Scary Flashlight Face / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Scary Surprise Party / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Schedule Fanatic / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Scoundrel Code / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Secret Chaser / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Secret Identity / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Secret-Keeper / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Secret Relationship / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Secret Society Group Picture / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Seduction as One-Upmanship / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Self-Mutilation Demonstration / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sensei for Scoundrels / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Serial Killer Baiting / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Serial-Killer Killer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Serial Rapist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sexy Mentor / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Shoot the Television / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Siblings in Crime / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Signature Laugh / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sinister Nudity / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Skyward Scream / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Slashed Throat / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sleep Deprivation / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sleeping Dummy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sleeping with the Boss / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Slow-Motion Pass-By / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Slowly Slipping Into Evil / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Slumber Party Ploy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Snuff Film / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Socially Awkward Hero / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sociopathic Hero / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sociopathic Soldier / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sorry That I'm Dying / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Spicy Latina / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Spirit Advisor / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Spoiled by the Format / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Stab the Salad / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Stage Names / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Stalker without a Crush / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Staredown Faceoff / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Story Arc / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Straight Edge Evil / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Strapped to an Operating Table / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Strong Girl, Smart Guy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Stun Guns / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Suicidal Sadistic Choice / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Suicide Dare / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Suicide Is Shameful / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sunday Evening Drama Series / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sunshine Noir / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Super Identikit / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Superhero Episode / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Superhero Paradox / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Superheroes Stay Single / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sure, Let's Go with That / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Suspicious Spending / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sword over Head / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Symbolic Blood / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sympathetic Murderer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Sympathetic P.O.V. / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Take Care of the Kids / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Taken Off Life Support / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Talk to the Fist / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Tattooed Crook / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Taxidermy Is Creepy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Teeth Flying / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Terrifying Rescuer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	That One Case / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	That's What I Would Do / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Butcher / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Cowl / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Ending Changes Everything / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Ex's New Jerkass / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The First Cut Is the Deepest / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Illegal / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Internet Is for Porn / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Killer Becomes the Killed / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Killer in Me / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Lab Rat / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Mob Boss Is Scarier / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Mountains of Illinois / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Ophelia / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Perfect Crime / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Plot Reaper / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Profiler / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Sponsor / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The Topic of Cancer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed) / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Thematic Rogues Gallery / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Theme Serial Killer / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Themed Stock Board Game / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Theory Tunnel Vision / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	There Are No Coincidences / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	There Will Be Toilet Paper / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	These Gloves Are Made for Killin' / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	They Fight Crime! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	They Look Just Like Everyone Else! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Third Line, Some Waiting / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Through His Stomach / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Tin Man / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Token Minority / int_24e41891
TonyGoldwyn	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Town Girls / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Trail of Blood / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Tranquillizer Dart / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Trauma-Induced Amnesia / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Treadmill Trauma / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Triple Shifter / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Trolling Creator / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Tropaholics Anonymous / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Troubled, but Cute / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Two First Names / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Ãœbermensch / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Undercover When Alone / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Unnervingly Heartwarming / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Use Your Head / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Vampire Detective Series / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Variations on a Theme Song / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Victim of the Week / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Viewer-Friendly Interface / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Vigilante Execution / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Villainous Parental Instinct / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Villainy Discretion Shot / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Vomiting Cop / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Wacky Cravings / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Wakeup Makeup / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	What If the Baby Is Like Me / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	White Male Lead / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	White Shirt of Death / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Wink "Ding!" / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Witch with a Capital "B" / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	With My Hands Tied / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Woman Scorned / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Working Out Their Emotions / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Worthy Opponent / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Wouldn't Hurt a Child / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Wrong-Name Outburst / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	You Know What You Did / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	You Monster! / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	You Should Have Died Instead / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	You Taste Delicious / int_24e41891
Pogo	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	hasFeature	No Problem with Licensed Games / Sugar Wiki / int_24e41891
Dexter's Laboratory	seeAlso	Dexter
Dexter	hasFeature	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Lap Pillow / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Minored in Ass-Kicking / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Planning with Props / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Surrogate Soliloquy / int_24e41891
Dexter	hasFeature	Would You Like to Hear How They Died? / int_24e41891

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