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Reaper
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Reaper is an Urban Fantasy Comedy series that ran on the The CW from September 2007 to May 2009. It starred Bret Harrison, Tyler Labine, and Missy Peregrym, and with Ray Wise in the role of Satan.Meet Sam Oliver. He's a college drop-out working at the Work Bench with his two best friends, Ben and Sock, and the woman who he's had a crush on since high school, Andi. Then he turns twenty-one and learns that his parents accidentally sold his soul to the Devil before he was born. Now he has to work for the Devil as a bounty hunter for escaped souls.One could call it a comedic Spiritual Successor to Brimstone.The show was cancelled after the second season. There were talks to continue the series as a comic book, though nothing seems to have materialized on that front. | |
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The Gambling Addict | |
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The Gambling Addict: Alan Townsend. | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World! | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World!: The Devil leaves a fake one of these when he uses Psychic-Assisted Suicide on someone. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: Sam and Andi and Sock and Josie in the episode "Rebellion." | |
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Walking Wasteland | |
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Walking Wasteland: Cady. She's mostly a nice girl, though there have been hints of Yandere tendencies, but flowers and small animals die in her presence. She may or may not be the devil's daughter. | |
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Read the Fine Print | |
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The Devil responds by trying to kill the man since he's under no obligation not to do so (since the clause preventing the mans early death would only count if the man signed the contract). | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Sam is referred to as a "bounty hunter" for most of the series. Only once is he ever called a "Reaper." | |
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Tropaholics Anonymous | |
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Tropaholics Anonymous: The Devil runs an AA meeting to promote relapse. The demon resistance under Steve also ran a meeting to talk about their attempts to do good and avoid evil. Sample day: Did some recycling, put quarters in a stranger's parking meter, almost ate a child. | |
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TheDevil | |
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Alan Townsend, if only for the fact that his plan to fly to Vatican City to be protected from The Devil clearly didn't factor in the several hours that The Devil would have to get to him while he was on the plane. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Again, Sam/Sock/Ben anyone? | |
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Diabolus ex Machina | |
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Diabolus ex Machina: In the season 2 finale, there is a perfectly logical opportunity to end the series — Sam will win the contest, he and Andi go free, and the devil is sad. Presumably in order to make way for Season 3, the Diabolus is employed: picking up on some rather vague hanging plot threads, an angel comes out of nowhere and ruins everything by breaking Sam's hand. And then the show got canceled. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Episode 4: The Monster of the Week is a woman scorned, and controls a swarm of bees. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: True to form, Satan really likes to make these and, of course, he usually exploits Exact Words as much as he possibly can, and sees to it that there is always an ironic twist or two included somewhere in said deals. The protagonist is the victim of once such deal that was made by his parents before he was born, that forces him to work for the Devil as the title character. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: the "Get Out of Hell Free" card used in "Greg, Schmeg" to null and void Greg's deal with the Devil. | |
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Kryptonite Factor | |
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Kryptonite Factor: The Devil seems nearly omnipotent but has some weaknesses that even humans can exploit (although, Magnificent Bastard that he is, any or all of these could be carefully disseminated disinformation). Most notably, he cannot enter a circle without an invitation (he has to enter through corners) nor can he see or hear anything that goes on inside. He can also be killed by the sword of the Archangel Michael, though he has that safely hidden away. He is also weakened when people, humans or demons, do good deeds. It's stated that if they had not been killed, Steve's group of rebel demons would have successfully defeated the Devil in 400 years or so by doing good deeds. For a being that existed long before Earth was created, that probably seemed like a very immediate threat. | |
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Ironic Hell | |
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Ironic Hell: Although we never see it first-hand, apparently this is the case for most souls. | |
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Babies Make Everything Better | |
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Babies Make Everything Better: Averted in "I Want My Baby Back", where the baby of an escaped soul is the primary conflict of the plot. The boys get away with dumping the kid off on Tony who is apparently a natural parent (as all gay demons are bound to be), but this only works for so long as The Devil wants the baby's soul in Purgatory, and it's generally a bad idea to take things back from demons. | |
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Divine Parentage | |
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Divine Parentage: Cady might be the devil's daughter. And Sam might be the devil's son. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Ted Gallagher. Especially funny when the trope was still called Ted Baxter. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Given their level of income, the main cast has maybe three outfits apiece. Sock is the most noticeable in this regard because one of his shirts is prominently stained. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: Referenced often. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Work Bench, the Home Depot/Best Buy Fictional Counterpart. Averted elsewhere. Sam's Prius is heavily featured thanks to Toyota paying a promotional consideration, and the first episode features Sam using, what else, a Dirt Devil as a vessel. They also usually don't bother to cover logos on the wide shots when Sam and company are stealing massive amounts of merchandise yet again. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: The Devil admits to "swinging both ways". | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: Subverted. At first it seems like the devil owning Sam's soul looks like the best thing that's ever happened to him: he gets a cool job as a hunter of escaped souls, powers specially designed for each soul so he shouldn't have too much trouble with them, and the big guy's inside advice on how to get laid. However, the devil also occasionally screws with Sam's life just for the hell of it, and he can't say anything about it to the girl he really loves since it would jeopardize her ownership of her own soul. | |
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Narcissist | |
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Narcissist: This is The Devil's weakness. The secret to beating him in a contest is to bring a mirror to the competition ground with you, because The Devil is incapable of not looking at his own reflection. | |
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Cain and Abel and Seth | |
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Cain and Abel and Seth: subverted as Cady doesn't get involved in the Sibling Rivalry and it's never really confirmed if she's the Devil's daughter. | |
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Discriminate and Switch | |
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Discriminate and Switch: Steve and Tony initially assume Sam and the others stopped hanging out with them because they're gay, until Sam mentions it's because they're demons. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: The Devil, in "Rebellion," is revealed to have set Sam, Sock, and Ben in their new apartment next door to two demons who happen to be members of a demonic underground dedicated to fighting the Devil with goodness. Because of Sam's special relationship with the Devil, the demons devise a plan to trap the Devil and kill him: which is just what the Devil wants. He kills all the demons in the rebellion (except for one), because the goodness plan would have eventually worked in about 400 years. What's more: The Devil left a series of clues that he easily could have avoided. Giving them gifts meant for the escaped soul that Sam is chasing, and putting his own name on the lease are the big ones. This allows Ben to figure out what's going on exactly one moment too late to stop it. | |
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Weapons That Suck | |
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Weapons That Suck: In the first episode, Sam is given a demonic Dirt Devil vacuum in order to recapture a soul that escaped Hell. | |
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Escaped from Hell | |
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Escaped from Hell: It's Sam's job to capture souls who had escaped Hell and bring them back. Exactly how they escaped isn't revealed until later in the series: the demon Gladys was helping some escape. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Dumping an ordinary woman is bad enough. Dumping a demoness who's got a crush on you and is really, really trying to overcome her murderous cannibalistic urges is criminally and suicidally insane! | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: At the end of the first season, Tony tests if Sam is the son of the Devil by dropping a laundry machine on him. If Sam dies, it proves he's human (but still dead). If Sam uses his demonic powers to save himself, Tony will execute his plan to kill Sam. | |
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Chess with Death | |
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Chess with Death: Sam plays coin toss with the Devil. He loses. He plays again and is going to win... but an angel CRUSHES HIS HAND. Cause the forces of good don't want him to win. While it's all part of their plan, they really didn't need to be such assholes about it. | |
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I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship | |
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I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Andi, when she realizes that she really likes Sam romantically. | |
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Firefighter Arsonist | |
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Firefighter Arsonist: The very first infernal fugitive Sam is tasked with capturing is Ned Schmecker, an arsonist from The '50s who died trying to burn down his parents' house. Escaping from Hell in present day, he continues his fire-starting antics whilst disguised as a fireman, now with Playing with Fire powers. | |
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Summoning Ritual | |
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Summoning Ritual: Subverted: You can summon the Devil by calling him on his cell. (The area code is Phoenix.) | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: several. The most gratuitous was Ben in the second-to-last episode. Absolutely necessary for the plot. | |
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Animated Tattoo | |
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Animated Tattoo: One of the escaped souls. | |
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Anti-Anti-Christ | |
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Anti Anti Christ: The presumed spawn of Satan is fairly depressed to learn that it's his apparent destiny to end the world. He takes comfort from the fact that he's not really all that good at anything, so he'll probably suck at that, too. Subverted in that Sam is not the only son of the Devil. Satan's been around a long time, and has a lot of kids. And he's disappointed in each and every one of them. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Sam | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The Devil owns Sam's soul, as well as Andi's. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: A prominent plot device in the first season is if you stand inside a circle of any kind (even a chalk-drawn circle on the side walk), the Devil will be unable to hear what you're saying if he's not physically present; the characters occasionally use this to their advantage by standing inside a circle when they're having a conversation they don't want the Devil to hear. Come the second season, this plot device is abandoned, and the characters never bother to draw a circle even when discussing something they wouldn't want the Devil to know about. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Sock verges on this from time to time. | |
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Freaky Is Cool | |
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Freaky Is Cool: Sock tells Sam this about having Devil powers: Sam disagrees | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: A bunch of rebellious demons set up a human sacrifice so that Sam can get out of his deal with the Devil. When Sam protests, saying he won't send an innocent soul to Hell in his place, Tony contends that the guy isn't innocent, he's a drug dealer who tried to sell him weed in the park. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: While Sam, Ben, and Sock might not be particularly smart about other things, some of their plans to capture souls are really elaborate and complicated. Ben is slightly smarter than Sam, they are both much smarter than Sock. That being said, none of them are intellectuals. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: Every mortal in the cast. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The Devil seems to treat Sam like a son, giving him advice on dating, although he can be mean, too. | |
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Innocent Fanservice Girl | |
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Innocent Fanservice Girl: Sock's stepsister is blissfully unaware that he's got the hots for her. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_54321e11 | |
Reaper / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
Reaper / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: Tony, as well as most of the other fallen angels. And Sam, as the son of the Devil. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_575fd5e2 | |
Reaper / int_58b42f3d | type |
Trickster Mentor | |
Reaper / int_58b42f3d | comment |
Trickster Mentor: The Devil to Sam. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_59fe174d | type |
Devil, but No God | |
Reaper / int_59fe174d | comment |
Devil, but No God: God is mentioned several times but never appears or intervenes until the end of the series, when an angelic Steve sabotages Sam's attempt to get out of his contract with the Devil. This implies that God actually wants Sam to keep working for the Devil, which might make this a Justified Trope. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_59fe174d | |
Reaper / int_5cd8680b | type |
Doorstop Baby | |
Reaper / int_5cd8680b | comment |
Doorstop Baby: Sorta, a baby was left over after Sam reaped a soul. Baby Carriage also comes into play. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_5cd8680b | |
Reaper / int_5d414804 | type |
Just Friends | |
Reaper / int_5d414804 | comment |
Just Friends: Andi wants to remain just friends with Sam, even when he wants more until she decides to be his girlfriend. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_5d414804 | |
Reaper / int_5dfa0fde | type |
Omniscient Morality License | |
Reaper / int_5dfa0fde | comment |
Omniscient Morality License: Steve breaks Sam's hand to prevent him from winning his rematch with the Devil, citing an undefined greater good and orders from "upstairs". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_5dfa0fde | |
Reaper / int_5f798c84 | type |
Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere | |
Reaper / int_5f798c84 | comment |
Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Alan Townsend escapes from his deal with the devil by winning a poker game. The condition of his release is that he is forbidden to sin again or he goes directly back to Hell. The problem with this is that he's a gambling addict and gambling is a sin. He eventually ends up back in Hell when the devil arranges for his plane to be grounded in Las Vegas. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Reaper | hasFeature |
Reaper / int_5f798c84 | |
Reaper / int_60426489 | type |
Citizenship Marriage | |
Reaper / int_60426489 | comment |
Citizenship Marriage: Ben gets into one. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_60426489 | |
Reaper / int_62fd5552 | type |
Bavarian Fire Drill | |
Reaper / int_62fd5552 | comment |
Bavarian Fire Drill: Employed by Sock every once in a while. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Reaper | hasFeature |
Reaper / int_62fd5552 | |
Reaper / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
Reaper / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Sam's friends do not have superpowers, but the three of them are able to capture souls with ease with their know how from the Work Bench. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_6411dac8 | |
Reaper / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
Reaper / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Andi in the finale. It doesn't go well. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_6439de78 | |
Reaper / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
Reaper / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: A lot of problems come from Sam's inability to tell Andi about his problem with the devil. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_653c5c73 | |
Reaper / int_677c65ea | type |
Scream Discretion Shot | |
Reaper / int_677c65ea | comment |
Scream Discretion Shot: Subverted. The shot pulls back and you hear a scream, but the person doing the screaming is extremely happy. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_677c65ea | |
Reaper / int_6a2ae11f | type |
Improbable Weapon User | |
Reaper / int_6a2ae11f | comment |
Improbable Weapon User: For each job, Sam gets a new vessel to use to capture the escaped soul. They range from the reasonable (e.g. a taser, a whip, a scythe) to the bizarre (e.g. a remote-control toy car, a dove, or bubble solution). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Reaper | hasFeature |
Reaper / int_6a2ae11f | |
Reaper / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Reaper / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: One of the escaped souls is named Jack King, who uses sperm banks to trick women into carrying his children. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_6bda9a30 | |
Reaper / int_7241785e | type |
You Can't Fight Fate | |
Reaper / int_7241785e | comment |
You Can't Fight Fate: One guy manages to weasel out of his Deal with the Devil. The Devil gets his soul anyway. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Reaper | hasFeature |
Reaper / int_7241785e | |
Reaper / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
Reaper / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: Sam, constantly. He plays a major role in undoing the demon rebellion. As the series progresses, though, he becomes more savvy and sometimes comes out ahead. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_733e007a | |
Reaper / int_7360a6b6 | type |
Noble Demon | |
Reaper / int_7360a6b6 | comment |
When The Devil confronts Gladys the DMV Demon about allowing souls to escape from hell, her face says it all. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_7360a6b6 | |
Reaper / int_73f7975f | type |
Jerkass Gods | |
Reaper / int_73f7975f | comment |
Jerkass Gods: Some of God's actions may come across as jerkass-y (having an angel break Sam's hand to keep him bound to The Devil for unspecified reasons) or petty (punishing the Devil for his rebellion by making it impossible for him to eat ice cream). | |
Reaper / int_73f7975f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_73f7975f | |
Reaper / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
Reaper / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: John. Sam's ex-girlfriend, Cady, says that she's going to New Mexico for a short amount of time while taking a break with Sam. She never appears in the series again. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_754df088 | |
Reaper / int_771f6307 | type |
Brother–Sister Incest | |
Reaper / int_771f6307 | comment |
Brother–Sister Incest: One of Sam's girlfriends, Cady, is implied but never confirmed to be a daughter of the Devil. If she is, that means Sam slept with (what he believes to be) his own half sister. | |
Reaper / int_771f6307 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_771f6307 | |
Reaper / int_77e8d49d | type |
Clingy MacGuffin | |
Reaper / int_77e8d49d | comment |
Clingy MacGuffin: The vessels tend to stick with Sam no matter how much he tries to get rid of them. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_77e8d49d | |
Reaper / int_7aba8180 | type |
Job Title | |
Reaper / int_7aba8180 | comment |
The show's title, as a Job Title where the job is one word long. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_7aba8180 | |
Reaper / int_7ea2a915 | type |
Animation Bump | |
Reaper / int_7ea2a915 | comment |
Animation Bump: The live-action equivalent: the Pilot was directed by Kevin Smith. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_7ea2a915 | |
Reaper / int_7fd142ef | type |
Shared Universe | |
Reaper / int_7fd142ef | comment |
Shared Universe: With Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, as Sam and Sock appear in at least one episode. | |
Reaper / int_7fd142ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_7fd142ef | |
Reaper / int_807ceed9 | type |
Outlaw Couple | |
Reaper / int_807ceed9 | comment |
Outlaw Couple: Had a pair of escaped souls in an Outlaw Couple relationship. The woman is played by Harmony the vampire. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_807ceed9 | |
Reaper / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Reaper / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking / Disproportionate Retribution: The old sins. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_808cbaeb | |
Reaper / int_80b5924 | type |
Left Hanging | |
Reaper / int_80b5924 | comment |
Left Hanging: Cancellation is a bitch. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_80b5924 | |
Reaper / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
Reaper / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: Are Sam and Andi damned or not? Why on Earth would Steve breaking Sam's hand be for the best? | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_82accf22 | |
Reaper / int_83b44e80 | type |
Straight Gay | |
Reaper / int_83b44e80 | comment |
Straight Gay: Tony | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_83b44e80 | |
Reaper / int_83f3983b | type |
Necessarily Evil | |
Reaper / int_83f3983b | comment |
Necessarily Evil: The Devil sees himself like this; he believes the bad souls need severe punishments for their crimes and they need to be returned to hell. He also believes that his deals cull the herd between true good souls and bad ones since he never forces people to accept his offers. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_83f3983b | |
Reaper / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
Reaper / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Ben hooks up with a demoness named Nina after she kidnaps him. She can transform between looking like a winged monster and a pretty blonde. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_8485d41a | |
Reaper / int_87b8f581 | type |
Refusal of the Call | |
Reaper / int_87b8f581 | comment |
Refusal of the Call: Sam, in the second episode, tries to leave the vessel behind. It follows him. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_87b8f581 | |
Reaper / int_87e661e8 | type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
Reaper / int_87e661e8 | comment |
Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Sam, Ben and Sock once had to search the sewers for an escaped soul made of green nuclear-waste goo. The sewers were fairly dank and smelly, but they were easily big enough for three people to walk through. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_87e661e8 | |
Reaper / int_89631688 | type |
The Chosen One | |
Reaper / int_89631688 | comment |
The Chosen One: Sam is special even for a Reaper: Satan regularly talks to him. He might even be the Devil's son. He's special even as one of the devil's children. It is implied God had a plan for him, but we never find out what it is. Series 2 implies the reason the Devil favours Sam to be his eventual successor over his other children, such as the more obviously evil, Morgan, is that while their personalities are in line with his own and willingly obey him, they don't have any drive to complete the tasks he assigns them. Sam on the other hand, despite his protests, is the only one who actually gets the job done. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Reaper | hasFeature |
Reaper / int_89631688 | |
Reaper / int_8c3241aa | type |
One-Hour Work Week | |
Reaper / int_8c3241aa | comment |
One-Hour Work Week: The characters do have jobs at the Work Bench (and its one of the major settings), but the boss is so terribly incompetent that they can come to work, clock in, and just leave. Later, Sam's girlfriend Andi takes over the job and, being in on the Reaper secret, lets them go whenever they need to. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Reaper | hasFeature |
Reaper / int_8c3241aa | |
Reaper / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Reaper / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Sam has to save his old Sadist Teacher from an escaped soul wanting to kill him in revenge, and it would have been better had they just let him get killed first. Fortunately he got his comeuppance in the end. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
Reaper / int_99c49c21 | type |
Villains Blend in Better | |
Reaper / int_99c49c21 | comment |
Villains Blend in Better: In one episode, the next escaped-from-hell soul that the protagonist Sam must capture is a thirteenth-century Mongolian warrior. Sam's employer urges him to hurry lest the Mongolian adapt to our world well enough to start conquering it. It never goes that far, but after the heroes lose the Mongolian for several days, he's wearing an expensive tailored suit by the time they catch up with him. Subverted in that he's still a roaring, raving and destructive brute attacking Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese restaurants. Doubly subverted when the heroes attempt to repeat a previously successful trick and scare the Mongolian with the ringing of a cell phone. The Mongolian grins and shows them his brand-new Bluetooth head-set. | |
Reaper / int_99c49c21 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_99c49c21 | |
Reaper / int_9ab3da1a | type |
Evil Mentor | |
Reaper / int_9ab3da1a | comment |
Evil Mentor: The Devil wants to take Sam under his wing | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_9ab3da1a | |
Reaper / int_a4e9a09e | type |
Dude, Where's My Reward? | |
Reaper / int_a4e9a09e | comment |
Dude, Where's My Reward?: Pretty much the story of Sam's life. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_a4e9a09e | |
Reaper / int_a63bb3bd | type |
Ascended Demon | |
Reaper / int_a63bb3bd | comment |
Ascended Demon: Had a group of demons who were trying to overthrow Lucifer through being nice. One of them apparently ascended to angelhood after death, though the finale indicates that angels can be pretty ruthless too. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_a63bb3bd | |
Reaper / int_a6bf7a7b | type |
Ambulance Chaser | |
Reaper / int_a6bf7a7b | comment |
Ambulance Chaser: One of the villains was one who returned from the dead with leech powers. Bloodsucking attorney indeed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_a6bf7a7b | |
Reaper / int_a8a5e4ed | type |
Christianity is Catholic | |
Reaper / int_a8a5e4ed | comment |
Christianity is Catholic: The show tries to make its theological underpinnings as ambiguous as possible, but whenever we get exposition (especially from Ben) the result is clearly Catholic. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_a8a5e4ed | |
Reaper / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Reaper / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: When The Devil confronts Gladys the DMV Demon about allowing souls to escape from hell, her face says it all. Alannote a gambling addict who will go to Hell if he sins a single time, when he realizes that the plane he's in is stopping over in Las Vegas en route to the Vatican, and he's been given $100 in poker chips. And the Devil is right behind him. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_ad1db87c | |
Reaper / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Reaper / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: sometimes Sock and Ben, always the Devil. Occasionally Gladys and Andi. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_ae3d6438 | |
Reaper / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
Reaper / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Nina. Her demon form... not so much. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_b032e4ed | |
Reaper / int_b1dde8fd | type |
Loophole Abuse | |
Reaper / int_b1dde8fd | comment |
Loophole Abuse: In The Cop, the detective sells his soul for catching five high profile killers. Satan then turns around and gives him four and the fifth ends up with the detective shooting himself since he failed to specify what he meant by catch thoroughly enough. Satan admits it was a little sneaky. Used against the devil himself in one episode where a man makes a deal for all the material wealth he wants but refuses to sign the contract for his soul. The man argues that he doesn't have to sign the contract with the devil since he's under no obligation to sign it until the devil's side of the bargain is fulfilled; which logically means the devil cannot have his soul until he says so (which will be never). Sam angrily argues that the mans blatant materialism and endless greed will inevitably condemn the mans soul to hell anyway. The man agrees that Sam has a point but states he plans on repenting at the eleventh hour (a loophole the Devil himself claims does actually work). The Devil responds by trying to kill the man since he's under no obligation not to do so (since the clause preventing the mans early death would only count if the man signed the contract). The man then proceeds to simply repent on the spot and sell all of his material possessions; meaning the devil would have to trick him again to claim his soul. The Devil gives up and decides to not go after him after that, since the man is clearly more trouble than he's worth. But not before punishing Sam since it was his job to get the contract signed in the first place. | |
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Reaper / int_b1dde8fd | |
Reaper / int_b25547b1 | type |
Pink Is Erotic | |
Reaper / int_b25547b1 | comment |
Pink Is Erotic: In "Coming to Grips", an escaped soul calling himself Jack King started working in a sperm bank and selling his sperm to oblivious mothers and becoming a father to hundreds of children who aren't aware of their relation to him or their half-siblings. Jack is a narcissistic pervert who has the power to multiply himself and wears a salmon pink dress shirt in the final confrontation within a hospital that's covered with pink wallpaper. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_b25547b1 | |
Reaper / int_b4754f84 | type |
The Worm That Walks | |
Reaper / int_b4754f84 | comment |
The Worm That Walks: A woman made of bugs. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Reaper / int_b4754f84 | |
Reaper / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Reaper / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Especially in the early episodes, Sam frequently decides it's a good idea to tell the Prince of Darkness off to his face. Then again, if you could do this and get away with it (as Sam obviously can), wouldn't you? He is also frequently shocked and offended that Satan, known as the Father of Lies, would lie to him. Not to mention how frequently Sam trusts Sock, of all people, with aspects of his job. Sam's parents are the worst of the whole bunch for thinking they could trick the DEVIL. You didn't honestly expect the Prince of Lies to play fair did you? Sam announcing to the escaped souls that he's a bounty hunter. Because, you know, element of surprise is overrated. Alan Townsend, if only for the fact that his plan to fly to Vatican City to be protected from The Devil clearly didn't factor in the several hours that The Devil would have to get to him while he was on the plane. | |
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Toad Licking | |
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Toad Licking: One the escapees from Hell was a stoner whose preferred method of getting high was licking toads. Fittingly, his demonic power was having a prehensile, Overly-Long Tongue. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies: The season one finale was heavily promoted as, "Someone Will Die". However, it seems that this death is John, buried alive and presumed dead by the characters. In the last few minutes Linda seems to have dug the still-alive man out of the ground. In a later episode, it was revealed that the commercials were technically correct. John is no longer alive. Apparently Exact Words matter when making a Deal with the Devil. | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: A wannabe rocker whose great idea of a stage name is just "Ryan" almost does a literal Deal with the Devil and becomes the even-more-ludicrous-sounding "Ryän". | |
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Preserve Your Gays | |
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Preserve Your Gays: Tony, is the only survivor after the Devil killed all the other demons, and his boyfriend Steve is then redeemed and goes to Heaven as an angel. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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Plucky Comic Relief: Ben and Sock are often relegated to this role | |
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Where Everybody Knows Your Flame | |
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Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Sam meets the Devil a one of these places once. | |
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I Lied | |
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I Lied | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sam's brother disappears after the second episode. Josie vanishes after the first season. | |
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Satan | |
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Satan: Sam's boss and father. | |
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There Is Only One Bed | |
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There Is Only One Bed: Deliberately invoked by Sock when he and everybody went to the mining town to find the soul to get with Kristen. It works. | |
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Establishing Shot | |
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Establishing Shot: _epartment of Motor Vehicles | |
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Inconvenient Summons | |
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Inconvenient Summons: How the Devil meets Sam. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out The premise owes more than a bit to Ghost Rider, but there's a lot of smaller nods as well, most blatantly to Ghostbusters in the first and third episodes. One episode deals with a soul of an assassin named Léon. The assassin is named after the actual assassin of President Mckinley, Leon Czolgosz, making this more of a historical in-joke. In one second-season episode, The Devil mentions having contracted an advertising agency to improve Hell's image. This mirrors the plot of The Hades Business, a short story by Terry Pratchett, which was the first thing Pratchett ever published. (The story is collected in A Blink of the Screen.) | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Sprong. Though he deserves it. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: The show's title, as a Job Title where the job is one word long. Episodes: Rebellion | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: The last line of the series, followed by a reveal that leaves Sam and Andi speechless. | |
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Tarot Troubles | |
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Tarot Troubles: Villain of the Week tarot reader lady understood that Sam is working for Satan by drawing several devil cards in a row. | |
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Flirty Stepsiblings | |
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Flirty Stepsiblings: In season 2, Sock finds out that his mom had gotten remarried to a Japanese man and he now has a stepsister. A noticeably attractive stepsister with no personal boundaries. Their interaction is then played for laughs. They eventually do have sex, but then her dad finds out, hits him over the head and sends her back to Japan. | |
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Dangerous 16th Birthday | |
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Dangerous 16th Birthday: The 21st birthday is the dangerous one. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: The show plays with this trope with Nina. She's a demon, so as she says herself for one thing she can't help but be a little attracted to evil, and for another 'bad boys' are what she's used to by default. She's initially attracted to Ben because of his caring nature, but is put off a little when he gets too clingy. She even lampshades the trope, saying bad boys "treat you like crap, but at least it's exciting". She eventually decides to go back to Ben, but kisses Sam after being attracted to the dark side she thinks he has from being the Devil's son. This later comes back when Nina seems attracted to Morgan, but this turns out to be a ruse so she can lure Morgan to a group of demons so she can kill him. | |
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Pointy-Haired Boss | |
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Pointy-Haired Boss: Ted, mild overlap with Bunny-Ears Lawyer. While Ted is a jerk that almost no one likes, he seems fairly good at his actual job. Until he gets fired, and for excellent reason. | |
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Continuity Creep | |
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Continuity Creep: Started off as a Soul of the Week show, but about halfway through season one it started with the demon rebellion arc and examining the thorny questions of who Sam's dad is. The most likely candidate is the Devil himself. | |
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Rage Quit | |
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The Devil gives up and decides to not go after him after that, since the man is clearly more trouble than he's worth. But not before punishing Sam since it was his job to get the contract signed in the first place. | |
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Bounty Hunter | |
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Bounty Hunter: Sam works as a bounty hunter for the Devil: instead of escaped criminals, he catches escaped souls. | |
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Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism | |
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Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism: Sock attempts to cheer Sam up by telling him a story about a girl he knew in 11th grade who got shipped off to convent school for getting pregnant in high school. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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Monster of the Week: practically all the escaped souls Sam catches are these. | |
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Only Good People May Pass | |
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Only Good People May Pass: Alan Townsend takes advantage of this to hide from The Devil after he wins his freedom from his contract. He hides in a cemetary, which is consecrated ground. This prevents The Devil from tempting him into sin. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: The Devil loves screwing with Sam, and it becomes worse when Morgan is in the picture. Morgan fits this as well, although he doesn't realize it. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Morgan and Sam. | |
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Devil's Job Offer | |
Reaper / int_ebf8525f | comment |
Devil's Job Offer: The premise. Sam's parents sold him to the devil before he was born and now the devil has come to collect - by making Sam track down souls who have escaped hell and sending them back. | |
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Tricked into Signing | |
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Tricked into Signing: In "My Brother's Reaper", Sam had to get a guy to sign the contract for his soul, so he slipped it in with a delivery receipt. Unfortunately for Sam, the guy knew what he was up to and signed it with an alias. | |
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Soul-Sucking Retail Job | |
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Soul-Sucking Retail Job: Sam and his friends spend as much time dealing with the incompetent management and obnoxious customers of The Work Bench as they do chasing down escaped damned souls. It's a toss-up which job is worse. | |
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? | |
Reaper / int_ef0a5ce | comment |
The man agrees that Sam has a point but states he plans on repenting at the eleventh hour (a loophole the Devil himself claims does actually work). | |
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Drama-Preserving Handicap | |
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Drama-Preserving Handicap: Sam had his hand broken right before he could beat the Devil in a game of coin-tossing and win his soul back. By an angel, no less!. | |
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Evil Feels Good | |
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Evil Feels Good: The Devil clearly has fun getting a reaction from Sam and clearly enjoys tempting humans, he even encourages Sam to be evil because of how much fun he'll have. | |
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Devil in Plain Sight | |
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Devil in Plain Sight: The Devil, appropriately (or strangely) enough, who apparently sets off no alarm bells when he's interacting with humans other than Sam. | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
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Averted elsewhere. Sam's Prius is heavily featured thanks to Toyota paying a promotional consideration, and the first episode features Sam using, what else, a Dirt Devil as a vessel. They also usually don't bother to cover logos on the wide shots when Sam and company are stealing massive amounts of merchandise yet again. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: One episode has this exchange: | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: Sam, Sock and Ben have one of Ted. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: Sock gets one in the finale. On accident. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: The Devil seems like a pretty relaxed, happy, friendly guy. Then Sam saves a random guy's soul from him, and the Devil congratulates him on doing so... right before the Devil collapses several giant shelves on top of Sam. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Sam and Andi until "Coming to Grips" | |
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Cast from Lifespan | |
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Cast from Lifespan: Kissing a succubus takes years off the end of your life. You temporarily gain super-strength, super-speed, and the good effects of a hundred cups of coffee. | |
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Cut Short | |
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Cut Short: The series was cancelled, resulting in this. | |
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