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ParaNorman

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245 feature instances
159 referencing feature instances

ParaNorman	type	TVTItem
ParaNorman	label	ParaNorman
ParaNorman	page	ParaNorman
ParaNorman	comment	This page contains unmarked spoilers.ParaNorman is a stop-motion animated comedy horror film from Laika Animation Studios, better known for their success with Coraline. It's directed by Chris Butler (the main storyboard artist on Coraline) and Sam Fell (an Aardman alum and director of Flushed Away) based off a script written by Butler, and was released in August 2012.The film follows the titular protagonist, Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), living in a small town in Massachusetts. With the "gift" of speaking to the dead, Norman is considered an outcast by the majority of the town, most of which is populated by useless adults and nasty kids. When the town comes under siege by zombies, ghosts, and witches, only he can actually save the town from these creatures, not to mention a three-hundred-year-old curse.Now has a shout out and a character page.
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ParaNorman / int_10ca13e4	type	Stereotype Flip
ParaNorman / int_10ca13e4	comment	Stereotype Flip: While Alvin is a pretty stereotypical example of The Bully, everyone sees him as a complete loser who's not much higher on the social ladder than Norman. Even his victims think he's pathetic. Mitch is your standard popular Dumb Jock, but his popularity seems to come in part from being actually a nice person. Despite being nice, he expresses fear and distrust of socially outcast groups, despite being a member of one such group himself, showing that even members of socially discriminated groups can still be fearful and prejudiced.
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ParaNorman / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
ParaNorman / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The rest of the Babcock family to Norman, especially his father, who is kind of a jerk to Norman during most of the movie.
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ParaNorman / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
ParaNorman / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Courtney sees Norman as this, although in the scene at the town hall
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ParaNorman / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
ParaNorman / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Norman has one when he learns that the witch was eleven years old when she died and the witchcraft she was accused of was the ability to talk to ghosts.
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ParaNorman / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
ParaNorman / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer spoils nearly every joke, even if it does not spoil the plot for the most part. However, the Japanese trailer did spoil the plot. TV spots aired around the time of the Olympics showed the zombies getting along well with Norman, spoiling that they aren't the mindless villains the film initially sets them up to be.
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ParaNorman / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
ParaNorman / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: It's even darker than Coraline — which is saying something. It also only got a PG rating, despite being probably one of the darkest PG-rated movies out there.
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ParaNorman / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
ParaNorman / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Played both for drama and laughs, sometimes simultaneously. The second half of the movie plays almost all of the classic Zombie Apocalypse tropes totally straight, except that it's the terrified, outnumbered, and helpless zombies who are running from the bloodthirsty mob of townspeople. Also, in the flashback to Aggie's sentencing, when Judge Hopkins gives his speech, note the shot of the then-living Puritans slowly stalking mercilessly towards Aggie and surrounding her. Their slow movements, pale faces, and blank expressions makes them appear far more chillingly zombie-like than they are as actual zombies. Additionally, the townsfolk denying or trying to justify why they became a ruthless mob bears some resemblance to a grown childhood bully trying to pretend their past tormenting didn't happen.
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ParaNorman / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
ParaNorman / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: The current citizens of Blithe Hollow go from being distrustful of Norman at best to trying to kill him when he's protecting the zombies.
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ParaNorman / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
ParaNorman / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: When the witch's ghost is wreaking havoc amongst the town, Norman's mother, Sandra, asks her husband, Perry, if it has anything to do with Norman.
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ParaNorman / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
ParaNorman / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: The bar owner. When she realizes the man asking for help is not drunk or crazy and that there really are zombies, she shouts, "KILL 'EM IN THE HEAD!"
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ParaNorman / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
ParaNorman / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Norman wants his father's approval, but for much the movie, his dad thinks he's either insane or lying at turns, and refuses to even entertain the idea of listening to his son. He even literally says "Well done, son," near the end of the movie after Norman puts Agatha to rest.
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ParaNorman / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
ParaNorman / int_188668f2	comment	Redemption Quest: The zombies are cursed to be trapped in the afterlife as the living dead, but they put themselves through even worse suffering trying to do something to help Agatha pass on by moving past the hurt that they brought about.
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ParaNorman / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
ParaNorman / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Justified with Aggie, considering the memory of her has continued into the present day as a completely insulting caricature. And the fact that the modern townsfolk let blind fear drive their actions, much like her executioners did.
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ParaNorman / int_1ae27a74	type	Fridge Horror
ParaNorman / int_1ae27a74	comment	Then the rest of the town tries to kill Norman when he's protecting the zombies. Things would have gotten ugly if his sister had not stepped in.
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ParaNorman / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
ParaNorman / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Mitch, who even gets a Shirtless Scene, and constantly gets Courtney Distracted by the Sexy.
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ParaNorman / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
ParaNorman / int_1b590025	comment	In the opening scene, we're introduced to Norman's grandmother, and all seems normal, but when he relays her request about the thermostat to his father, he angrily chews him out for saying that since she died a while ago, establishing Norman's ghost-seeing powers in a rather abrupt manner.
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ParaNorman / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
ParaNorman / int_1b60dcba	comment	While Alvin is a pretty stereotypical example of The Bully, everyone sees him as a complete loser who's not much higher on the social ladder than Norman. Even his victims think he's pathetic.
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ParaNorman / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
ParaNorman / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Little girl Aggie had no idea how to explain her ability to see and speak to the dead in terms that her accusers could see in any way except as "witchcraft". In trying, she basically admits to being "guilty", and is executed for it. Old Mr. Prenderghast clearly had decades during which he could have written out detailed instructions for whoever took over the task of keeping the witch asleep. Indeed, that information probably was in his study. But, being rather insane, his collection of information is a tangled mess that only makes sense to his irrational mind. He also seems to assume that Norman already knows what to do and just needs to be pushed into doing it.
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ParaNorman / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
ParaNorman / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The "witch" of Blithe Hollow is revealed to be an eleven year old girl named Agatha Prenderghast. The mere thought of an eleven year old girl being sentenced to death by hanging is quite brutal as it could have taken 20 minutes or longer for the "witch" to be killed.
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ParaNorman / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
ParaNorman / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Blithe Hollow is a rundown little small town, the locals have a low tolerance for any behavior that lies outside the norm, and it of course has a dark secret.
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ParaNorman / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
ParaNorman / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: It's a film built on morbid concepts, and while some of them are portrayed as dead serious, there are still comedic moments related to them, like Norman's slapsticky struggle to take the book from Uncle Prenderghast's stiffened corpse.
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ParaNorman / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
ParaNorman / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Norman's grandmother at the beginning says (in regards to the zombie movie he's watching) that it would be better if they just sat down and talked to each other. In the climax, Norman ends the witch's curse by talking to her.
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ParaNorman / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
ParaNorman / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Sandra tells Norman the reason Perry is always angry is because he's afraid for Norman. He initially believed his dad is afraid of him, which was how Judge Hopkins and the other zombies felt about Aggie.
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ParaNorman / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
ParaNorman / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Oh boy, there's a lot. Zombies come back from the dead to wreak havoc on a sleepy town thanks to a witch's curse. Except the witch was an innocent little girl, the zombies are completely harmless and rather pathetic compared to anything in Norman's horror movies, and the town uses the little girl's trial and hanging to pull in tourists and sell cheesy merchandise.
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ParaNorman / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
ParaNorman / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Alvin, the former bully, warms up to Norman after being attacked by zombies and realizing Norman's ability to talk to ghosts isn't made up after all.
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ParaNorman / int_24d85d41	type	Disappears into Light
ParaNorman / int_24d85d41	comment	Disappears into Light: A variant; when a ghost is finally at rest, they fade away in this manner to move on to the afterlife.
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ParaNorman / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
ParaNorman / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The book to stave off the witch's curse is a storybook retelling of "Sleeping Beauty". While the story existed in oral tradition all over Europe (and its colonies) for centuries, this version clearly owes much to Charles Perrault's version of the fairy tale, which wasn't translated into English until 1729, seventeen years after Agatha's execution. Possibly excusable if the first Prendergast to tell the story (from memory) bought the book so their successor would have a written copy.
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ParaNorman / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
ParaNorman / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: Norman. He's 11 years old, and is the only one in town who can undo the curse, since his uncle (who also can talk to the dead) died.
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ParaNorman / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
ParaNorman / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: A couple on a date coo at each other over wine while out the window behind them, Mitch's car tumbles and bounces down the hill. While Norman's family watches his school play, literally every single other parent in the audience is recording the show on a video camera.
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ParaNorman / int_29476563	type	Crusty Caretaker
ParaNorman / int_29476563	comment	Crusty Caretaker: According to the novelization, Mr. Prenderghast is the caretaker of the Blithe Hollow Cemetery.
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ParaNorman / int_2adc858b	type	In the End, You Are on Your Own
ParaNorman / int_2adc858b	comment	In the End, You Are on Your Own: Norman must face Agatha alone, and the trees form an impenetrable barrier separating him from the help of his family.
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ParaNorman / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
ParaNorman / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: When Alvin first tries to run away from the zombies, he exclaims "I think I peed my pants!"
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ParaNorman / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
ParaNorman / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Aggie was so intent on punishing those who wronged her that she became just as angry and spiteful as them. In the present day, it doesn't take long for the townsfolk to whip themselves into such a frenzy about the zombies that they're willing to kill Norman for it.
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ParaNorman / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
ParaNorman / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Aggie to Norman. Both are children ostracized by the people of Blithe Hollow for their ability to speak to ghosts, share similar physical appearances, and Norman is likely Aggie's distant descendant.
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ParaNorman / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
ParaNorman / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Puritans sentenced Agatha to death for witchcraft, wrongly believing that she would threaten Blithe Hollow with her powers. Her Vengeful Ghost turned them into zombies to make them suffer the same persecution she faced. As a result, the modern citizens of Blithe Hollow mistake the appearance of the zombies for a Zombie Apocalypse.
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ParaNorman / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
ParaNorman / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Salma. Lampshaded by Norman when he calls her asking for advice.
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ParaNorman / int_3300f2be	type	Extra-Strength Masquerade
ParaNorman / int_3300f2be	comment	Extra-Strength Masquerade: The television news report the day after the events of the movie suggests that the rest of the world attributes the entire supernatural event to a "freak tornado" hitting Blithe Hollow.
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ParaNorman / int_337ef720	type	Ghostly Animals
ParaNorman / int_337ef720	comment	Ghostly Animals: In addition to human ghosts, Norman can see the ghosts of animals, including a raccoon and a dog, the horse of a Civil War soldier, and a flying bird ghost.
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ParaNorman / int_33a82edb	type	HammerSpace
ParaNorman / int_33a82edb	comment	Hammerspace: The bar owner, after yelling that they should kill the zombies, pulls a large shotgun from seemingly nowhere.
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ParaNorman / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
ParaNorman / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: Agatha, an innocent child, was condemned to death as a witch by a fearful society. History nearly repeats at the city hall, with the protests of Norman's parents drowned out by the yelling of the mob, showing just how powerless they are to stop it.
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ParaNorman / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
ParaNorman / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The Power of Friendship versus three hundred years of festering hatred and anger over an unjust death. Rousseau Was Right.
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ParaNorman / int_38c0af3a	type	Poor Man's Substitute
ParaNorman / int_38c0af3a	comment	Poor Man's Substitute: In-Universe. Word of God likens the town to a B-list version of Salem, Massachusetts.
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ParaNorman / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
ParaNorman / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: A lot of the scenery and vehicles have a distinct look of being from The '70s, especially the Babcocks' station wagon and Mitch's van. Also, all the TVs are old-style CRTs. Nonetheless, even the kids have pre-smart cell phones, and they use the Internet to search for information about the witch (Norman mentions Google by name). Note that the film is canonically set in 2012, the 300th anniversary of the witch being executed in 1712.
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ParaNorman / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
ParaNorman / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Alvin's lock-picking method; he just smashes the window, reaches through it and opens the door that way. And he's proud of this, too!
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ParaNorman / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
ParaNorman / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: The man who's torn between waiting to get his chips from the vending machine and running in fear from the Puritan zombies. He eventually does run off... only to run BACK, while screaming, to retrieve the chips.
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ParaNorman / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
ParaNorman / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: The Blithe Hollow Puritans sentenced little Aggie to death because they thought she was an evil witch who would curse the town. As it turns out, they were right. Boy howdy, were they ever right.
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ParaNorman / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
ParaNorman / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Or rather, living humans are bastards. Fear and paranoia can drive humans to do horrendous things, including trying to lynch a child, more than once. The dead are either victims of great cruelty, completely harmless, trying to help, or all of the above.
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ParaNorman / int_3e848d5c	type	Cast of Snowflakes
ParaNorman / int_3e848d5c	comment	Cast of Snowflakes: Each and every character has their own unique design, with differently exaggerated features and proportions helping to set their silhouettes apart.
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ParaNorman / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
ParaNorman / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It's not easy for Blithe Hollow to cope with the fact that they burned down the town hall and almost killed an innocent boy (Norman) out of misplaced fear. So when the day is done, they try to justify how they got swept up in the mob mentality. Thanks to modern technology and a massive numbers advantage, the townspeople pose far more of a danger to the zombies than the zombies do to them. In fact, throughout most of the climax it's the zombies who are running from the humans, rather than the other way around. It turns out that this was exactly the nature of the curse; to make Agatha's judge, jury, and executioners rise from the dead and be completely helpless against the humans as punishment. The living aren't being cursed nearly as much as the small group of people who condemned the witch. The story of how the witch's curse came about? Where an evil, cackling old crone was brought to justice, and then cursed the whole town out of pure spite? Yeah, it's complete crap. The "witch" was an innocent child who was murdered by a Kangaroo Court run by prejudiced Puritans. She never hurt anyone while she was alive, and was hung solely because the townsfolk didn't understand her, and feared her because of that. She then cursed her killers so they'd get a taste of their own medicine. Magical elements aside, anyone with a working knowledge of the Salem witch trials can tell you that this is far closer to what really happened than most common portrayals. Agatha being nothing more than a child when she was tried for being a witch is, unto itself, a harsh but true reality about witch hunts. In those days, witch hunts made no distinction if you were man or woman, old or young: anyone can be a victim to mass hysteria.
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ParaNorman / int_3f4613f8	type	Smart People Wear Glasses
ParaNorman / int_3f4613f8	comment	Smart People Wear Glasses: Salma.
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ParaNorman / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
ParaNorman / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The zombie movie Norman watches in the beginning. The props are obviously rubber, the acting is unnatural, the girl has to shove a boom mic out of frame...
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ParaNorman / int_418a10e2	type	Motion Blur
ParaNorman / int_418a10e2	comment	Motion Blur: To achieve this effect in Stop Motion, the animators actually sculpted smear frames◊.
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ParaNorman / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
ParaNorman / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: The quiet small town of Blithe Hollow is filled to the brim with ghosts, who can only be seen by the protagonist, Norman. When the town is invaded by zombies, the human residents quickly prove to be more Ax-Crazy than the undead.
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ParaNorman / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
ParaNorman / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Alvin when he opens the front door of Mr. Prenderghast's place, only to see a zombie on the other side. One of the zombies when they see what became of Blithe Hollow in their long absence.
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ParaNorman / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
ParaNorman / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Courtney is a self-centered teenager, but she's not a bad person, and she's the first one to step up in Norman's defense and convince the town to give her little brother a break.
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ParaNorman / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
ParaNorman / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Judge sentences a young girl to be hanged for talking to the dead. Then the rest of the town tries to kill Norman when he's protecting the zombies. Things would have gotten ugly if his sister had not stepped in.
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ParaNorman / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
ParaNorman / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After the credits, a stop-motion video of how Norman's figure was made is shown. He then gets up and walks off-screen. Which is made rather impressive when you consider that the entire 10-second sequence has to have taken over two weeks of taking a picture, nudging a part, taking a picture, nudging a part, taking a picture, nudging a part...
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ParaNorman / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
ParaNorman / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: The girl in the horror flick Norman watches. She doesn't even have any dialogue — all she does is shriek in terror.
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ParaNorman / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
ParaNorman / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Norman realizes what his uncle wanted him to do — merely suppress the menace annually — is not enough, and seeks a permanent solution.
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ParaNorman / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
ParaNorman / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Well, it is made by the company that made Coraline, but ParaNorman ups Laika's game in a multitude of ways. The autumnal New England foliage is even more beautiful and vibrant than before.
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ParaNorman / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
ParaNorman / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: Sort of, anyway. During a vision Norman has while putting on the school play, a tree grabs him and warns him that the "dead are coming." Played straight before the final confrontation. Agatha uses trees to trap and separate Norman from his family, then attempts to use spiked roots to impale Norman to prevent him from reaching her.
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ParaNorman / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
ParaNorman / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: In this movie, it's the humans who are the aggressive attackers and the ghosts and zombies who just want to help. In fact, the Puritan zombies were actually much worse people when they were still human. At the same time, a big theme of the movie is that people often do bad things because they're afraid, not because they're inherently cruel. When they realize there's nothing to be afraid of, they're much kinder.
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ParaNorman / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
ParaNorman / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Agatha's extra supernatural abilities.
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ParaNorman / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
ParaNorman / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Deconstruction. Norman tries to take the constant bullying with grace, but often finds his heroics hampered by almost every living person's low opinion of him. It doesn't help that the witch (in fact, an 11-year-old girl) died because of this.
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ParaNorman / int_4cecb933	type	Signs of Disrepair
ParaNorman / int_4cecb933	comment	Signs of Disrepair: At one point, the "Witchy Weiners" sign falls down... and the W in Witchy blinks in and out.
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ParaNorman / int_4e6fe81	type	Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
ParaNorman / int_4e6fe81	comment	Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: Alvin worries that the zombies will eat his brains, and Norman tells him not to worry.
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ParaNorman / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
ParaNorman / int_4e7c4536	comment	One of Norman's magic-induced flashbacks makes a girlish sob into a Wham Line of epic proportions, as it reveals who the witch actually was: an 11-year-old girl. Followed by the witch's crime: "You were speaking to the dead!"
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ParaNorman / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
ParaNorman / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: The Judge (as well as the other zombies) know that the curse is their fault because of what they did to a little girl. They were only trying to tell Norman how to stop it the whole time.
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ParaNorman / int_4f905a07	type	If You Can Read This
ParaNorman / int_4f905a07	comment	If You Can Read This: The background text in the movie is absolutely rife with jokes, puns, and unusual bits of humor, such that it's almost impossible to catch all of it in one viewing. There's Salma's "My First Fusion Reactor" book and a "The Hands of Fate" board game, just to name a few...
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ParaNorman / int_4ff31e76	type	Playing a Tree
ParaNorman / int_4ff31e76	comment	Playing a Tree: Neil's part in the school play.
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ParaNorman / int_50488b6e	type	Freaky Is Cool
ParaNorman / int_50488b6e	comment	Freaky Is Cool: Pretty much the sole reason why Neil befriends Norman. He's absolutely delighted to discover that Norman can talk to his dead ghost dog.
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ParaNorman / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
ParaNorman / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Sheriff Hooper (the motorcycle cop) is one.
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ParaNorman / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
ParaNorman / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Subverted. Courtney uses it around Judge Hopkins, but Norman tells her not to use "the z-word." However, the zombies are generally referred as such by others, especially the angry mob of townsfolk.
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ParaNorman / int_5296dbd4	type	Face/Heel Double-Turn
ParaNorman / int_5296dbd4	comment	Face/Heel Double-Turn: Sort of, and in both cases, it's posthumous. The whole tragedy began when merciless Puritan fanatics sentenced a little girl to hanging just because she had powers they didn't understand. Fast forward three hundred years, and the zombies of those same Puritans have had a very long time to realize the horror of what they did, while Agatha, despite getting her revenge, has spent all those years clinging to her hatred and refusing to let go, even when it means hurting innocent people in the process.
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ParaNorman / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
ParaNorman / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: Which Norman calls Agatha out on. Her Ghostly Goal was to take revenge on the fundamentalist Puritans who unjustly murdered her. Well, she got her revenge, and then some, and three hundred years later, she's still lashing out at people. It's no longer about justified vengeance and now she's just an angry child trying to hurt the world to distract herself from her own pain and suffering.
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ParaNorman / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
ParaNorman / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Neil, who considers reading a 26-page manual an achievement. Mitch doesn't seem to do much better. Alvin can't even spell his own name when trying to make bathroom graffiti.
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ParaNorman / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
ParaNorman / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and ends with Norman watching a horror movie with his grandmother. Not counting screams and zombie grunts, both the first and last lines are "So... What's happening now?"
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ParaNorman / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
ParaNorman / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: Courtney: "I do too listen! And whatever it was you just said, itâ€™s not working!"
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ParaNorman / int_5369c081	type	Invisible Parents
ParaNorman / int_5369c081	comment	Invisible Parents: We know Neil and Mitch must have them, if only because of "Mom's exercise DVDs", but they're never seen.
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ParaNorman / int_539e3dc1	type	Restored My Faith in Humanity
ParaNorman / int_539e3dc1	comment	Restored My Faith in Humanity: At the climax of the film, Norman talks down the main antagonist, in part by reminding her that there are good people in the world, some of whom cared about her when they were alive, and that her personal crusade for vengeance is keeping her apart from them.
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ParaNorman / int_544f9e3c	type	Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises
ParaNorman / int_544f9e3c	comment	Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Realistically done and a really nice touch to The Reveal. When Norman gets a vision of the Blithe Hollow witch trial, he thinks he's being placed in her role again and doesn't see the accused until he hears someone crying from behind him. His eyes widen in shock◊, and he turns around to see that Agatha, the "witch" of Blithe Hollow, is a girl his age.
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ParaNorman / int_55172a70	type	Zombie Gait
ParaNorman / int_55172a70	comment	Also, in the flashback to Aggie's sentencing, when Judge Hopkins gives his speech, note the shot of the then-living Puritans slowly stalking mercilessly towards Aggie and surrounding her. Their slow movements, pale faces, and blank expressions makes them appear far more chillingly zombie-like than they are as actual zombies.
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ParaNorman / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
ParaNorman / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The ghosts all over town are a pretty friendly bunch overall. Likewise, the zombies were only malicious before they died; in their (un)death, they just want to atone for their sin of killing the "witch," Agatha, who in turn is simply angry over the wrongs committed against her.
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ParaNorman / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
ParaNorman / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Norman against Aggie, who is just scared and very angry.
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ParaNorman / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
ParaNorman / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Norman and Mr. Prenderghast, as well as Aggie. It's a family trait, which apparently goes with the "speaking to the dead" ability.
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ParaNorman / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
ParaNorman / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: At the end of the film, Courtney decides to stop flirting with Mitch and invites him to a movie. Unaware that she had been flirting with him all the time, Mitch happily mentions that his boyfriend is a Chick Flick nut.
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ParaNorman / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
ParaNorman / int_5c554458	comment	Mitch is your standard popular Dumb Jock, but his popularity seems to come in part from being actually a nice person. Despite being nice, he expresses fear and distrust of socially outcast groups, despite being a member of one such group himself, showing that even members of socially discriminated groups can still be fearful and prejudiced.
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ParaNorman / int_5c9ccf46	type	One of the Kids
ParaNorman / int_5c9ccf46	comment	One of the Kids: Mitch. He's 20 years old and out of school, but his Dumb Jock nature puts him on a level with the elementary-school-age kids he ends up hanging out with for the night.
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ParaNorman / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
ParaNorman / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The importance of forgiveness and not getting overcome by anger. Also, don't give in to blind fear and mob mentality, because they can make you do monstrous things.
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ParaNorman / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
ParaNorman / int_5d3e7c6	comment	The story of how the witch's curse came about? Where an evil, cackling old crone was brought to justice, and then cursed the whole town out of pure spite? Yeah, it's complete crap. The "witch" was an innocent child who was murdered by a Kangaroo Court run by prejudiced Puritans. She never hurt anyone while she was alive, and was hung solely because the townsfolk didn't understand her, and feared her because of that. She then cursed her killers so they'd get a taste of their own medicine. Magical elements aside, anyone with a working knowledge of the Salem witch trials can tell you that this is far closer to what really happened than most common portrayals. Agatha being nothing more than a child when she was tried for being a witch is, unto itself, a harsh but true reality about witch hunts. In those days, witch hunts made no distinction if you were man or woman, old or young: anyone can be a victim to mass hysteria.
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ParaNorman / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
ParaNorman / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Of the whole gang, Courtney is the only girl.
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ParaNorman / int_5ec9de7d	type	Distress Ball
ParaNorman / int_5ec9de7d	comment	Distress Ball: Enforced in-universe by the actress in the horror flick Norman is watching in the beginning. A zombie shambles towards her character, and she just stands there screaming. For a very long time, long enough to run away, find a weapon, or do anything but scream. (Her annoyed glance at the camera hints she's not exactly thrilled with this.)
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ParaNorman / int_5f251b1b	type	Poor Man's Porn
ParaNorman / int_5f251b1b	comment	Poor Man's Porn: Neil enjoys freeze-framing his mother's aerobics instruction tape to look at the ample-bottomed instructor.
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ParaNorman / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
ParaNorman / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Neil is seen climbing awkwardly over the fence in Norman's backyard when leaving, falling over to the other side. Right after he falls, the gate opens right next to him.
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ParaNorman / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
ParaNorman / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Subverted in that the appearance of the zombies does freak the townspeople out, but they then quickly gather weapons and attack them, and the zombies are instantly overwhelmed because they are not strong, numerous, vicious, or infectious. Wonderfully subverted even further in the town hall scene. The zombies and kids hide inside as questing arms burst through the walls and windows and grab at them, much like in any Romero movie. That's right, LIVING people are breaking down the walls in an attempt to attack the undead.
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ParaNorman / int_60c96f24	type	Portmantitle
ParaNorman / int_60c96f24	comment	Portmantitle: "Paranormal" + "Norman."
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ParaNorman / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
ParaNorman / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: This appears to be a family trait for the Prenderghasts, as Agatha, Uncle Prenderghast, and Norman all demonstrate this ability. Unfortunately, all of them are ostracized by the town because of it (although in Uncle Prenderghast's case it's implied rather than stated), and for Aggie and nearly Norman, it proves fatal.
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ParaNorman / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
ParaNorman / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Zig-zagged all over the place. Played straight with Norman's grandmother, who advises and loves her grandson after death just as she did while alive. Subverted with most of the other ghosts, including Mr. Prenderghast, who are too wrapped up in their own obsessions to offer much useful guidance. Inverted with Norman and Aggie, as he is a living person trying to help guide a spirit.
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ParaNorman / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
ParaNorman / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: The seven Puritans took a young girl away from her mother, and as Judge Hopkins told her how she was to be hanged by the neck until she died, they were eerily calm as the girl cried from fear. They later subvert this, having had a Heel Realization during their centuries-long undeath, and realize how monstrous and cruel they were.
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ParaNorman / int_65e25170	type	Gym Bunny
ParaNorman / int_65e25170	comment	Gym Bunny: Mitch. He's extremely muscular, and at the town hall, to keep in shape, he does bicep curls with a pair of books.
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ParaNorman / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
ParaNorman / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Agatha Prenderghast has very interesting powers, carried over, presumably, from life. However, she's the only one to display such powers — all the other ghosts are talkative at best. Uncle Prenderghast also destroys a bathroom when he fulfills his unfinished business and passes on. Considering their abilities in life, perhaps the ghosts of mediums have stronger abilities.
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ParaNorman / int_67b8ae16	type	Favouritism Flip Flop
ParaNorman / int_67b8ae16	comment	Favouritism Flip-Flop: At the end of the film, Alvin explains to a couple of girls that he and Norman have been real close for years now. Seeing how Alvin was Norman's bully/tormentor up until just the previous night, that statement is technically true.
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ParaNorman / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
ParaNorman / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Courtney is delighted when Mitch answers the door wearing nothing but a Modesty Towel.
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ParaNorman / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
ParaNorman / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Mitch to Neil, and Courtney towards Norman, eventually.
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ParaNorman / int_698d7dad	type	Lovecraft Country
ParaNorman / int_698d7dad	comment	Lovecraft Country: Blithe Hollow is the Salem witch trials variation, with thick, dark forests everywhere and the sins of Puritan settlers still haunting the land.
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ParaNorman / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
ParaNorman / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The witch is just a scared and angry little girl, and the ritual book really isn't anything but a bedtime story. Oh, and Mitch is gay.
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ParaNorman / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
ParaNorman / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Prenderghast literally means "ghost catcher" or "ghost holder." Norman means "northerner" or "north-man". Even before the Norman conquest in the year 1066, it was used to describe outsiders or people who didn't belong or were not natives. Sandra (the name of Norman's mother) means "defender." Blithe means to show a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper. Considering the town's portrayal of the legend, it's appropriate. (It also recalls Noel Coward's ghost story, Blithe Spirit.) Agatha means "good" in Greek. Too bad the other townspeople of her time didn't take that to heart.
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ParaNorman / int_6cdd367e	type	Cosmetic Horror
ParaNorman / int_6cdd367e	comment	Cosmetic Horror: The school drama teacher. Mrs. Henscher's daytime makeup is awful, but her puke-green facial mask is bad enough that only her talking saves her from being mistaken for a zombie.
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ParaNorman / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
ParaNorman / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Of both stereotypical zombie movies and of the Salem Is Witch Country tropes. At first, it seems to be simply spoofing the genre with the old zombie movies that Norman watches, before deconstructing the concept of "evil witches and mindless zombies" by making both of them into tragic characters. Aggie was an innocent little girl who was executed for her powers despite not hurting anyone with them, and while the Puritan zombies initially crossed the Moral Event Horizon by sentencing Aggie to death, they've all suffered a Fate Worse than Death and have spent the last several hundred years trying to atone for what they did. The zombies are actually trying to help the protagonists break the curse so they can rest in peace. Not to mention, that in the third act of the film, it's the zombies who run and hide in terror from the vicious, mindless hordes of living townspeople, and the living townspeople are the only ones who outright try to kill Norman without any provocation on his part.
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ParaNorman / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
ParaNorman / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: The zombie of the judge manages to grab Norman, who sheds his jacket and runs away. The zombie can be seen staring at it in confusion for a second before tossing it aside.
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ParaNorman / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
ParaNorman / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: No one in this movie is outright evil.
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ParaNorman / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
ParaNorman / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: All the ghosts glow pale green to underscore their undead state. The witch's powers glow bright green to emphasize her supposed evil nature.
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ParaNorman / int_74c7bf4e	type	Forced Meme
ParaNorman / int_74c7bf4e	comment	Forced Meme: In-Universe: "That's so Alvin!"
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ParaNorman / int_75bfffd4	type	Bat Scare
ParaNorman / int_75bfffd4	comment	Bat Scare: A swarm of insects startles Norman when he goes to Uncle Penderghast's house to retrieve the book.
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ParaNorman / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
ParaNorman / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: Norman takes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that pushes the bounds of the movie's PG rating, but never once stops trying to reason with the witch's ghost.
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ParaNorman / int_794fd8a4	type	Popular Is Dumb
ParaNorman / int_794fd8a4	comment	Popular Is Dumb: Courtney is a cheerleader and Mitch is a jock, and both seem to be very popular.
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ParaNorman / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
ParaNorman / int_7a19a69b	comment	Not Quite the Right Thing: The Prenderghast line (specifically those that can see the dead) have been duty-bound to keep the witch's curse at bay by reading from a book once a year. However, that ritual is simply reading a little girl bedtime stories so she'll stay asleep, but it does nothing to resolve the anger and resentment that have been fueling her curse in the first place.
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ParaNorman / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
ParaNorman / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Courtney manages to find herself on both sides of the trope. She's infatuated with Mitch, who doesn't reciprocate since he's gay with a boyfriend and has no idea she's been trying to flirt with him. Meanwhile, Alvin likes Courtney, but she doesn't reciprocate since she's much older, and he's a bit of a creep about it.
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ParaNorman / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
ParaNorman / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: "Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war!"
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ParaNorman / int_7b2ae131	type	All Guys Want Cheerleaders
ParaNorman / int_7b2ae131	comment	All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Subverted. Mitch is gay and has no idea Courtney has been trying to flirt with him.
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ParaNorman / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
ParaNorman / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Norman to the zombies after finding out what they did to Agatha. During the climax:
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ParaNorman / int_7bc076de	type	Hartman Hips
ParaNorman / int_7bc076de	comment	Hartman Hips: Courtney and her mom. Taken to extremes with the aerobics instructor Neil likes to freeze-frame on. The actress in the horror flick has a rather ample rear.
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ParaNorman / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
ParaNorman / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: In-Universe, the school play about the witch's curse is admitted to be historically inaccurate, portraying the witch as a stereotypical Wicked Witch who cursed the entire town be attacked by the zombies of the Puritans who tried her. In reality, the Puritans were driven by their fear-motivated religious fanaticism to executing an 11-year-old girl on charges of witchcraft just because she talked to ghosts and they didn't understand it.
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ParaNorman / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
ParaNorman / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: Downplayed. Initially, the exact time period of the movie is a bit fuzzy. All the TVs, most of the cars, and the movies that Norman watches seem to come from The '70s, but all the kids have cell phones and Internet access, and during the school play, all the parents (as in literally all the parents) have 2000s-era video recorder cameras. However, it is indirectly revealed that it takes place in August 2012 according to the grave sites, the 300th anniversary signs, and a brief look at a computer website Salma looks at.
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ParaNorman / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
ParaNorman / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The "witch" is an (extremely psychically powerful) little girl who lost it when she was accused and executed, and keeps the seven Puritans who sentenced and executed her trapped in undeath for three centuries as punishment. She then unleashes the zombies on the town, and nearly kills one of her descendants when he tries to talk her down from her rage.
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ParaNorman / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
ParaNorman / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mr. Prenderghast and his predecessors all diligently protected the town from the witch's curse... but by keeping the witch's and Puritans' spirits trapped for centuries while only stalling the curse for a year at a time. Ironically, it's only Mr. Prenderghast's screw up in not telling his successor what unmarked place in the wood he should perform the "ritual" at that allows it to be lifted permanently.
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ParaNorman / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
ParaNorman / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The drama teacher not only chews the scenery with every line she says, but she insists that her student actors do the same thing. Uncle Prenderghast is one as well, rambling insanely and theatrically at Norman even after he dies.
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ParaNorman / int_8355aa1b	type	Revenge Is Not Justice
ParaNorman / int_8355aa1b	comment	Revenge Is Not Justice: The witch, Agatha, was persecuted for her supernatural powers and eventually executed. During her trial, she cursed her accusers to return as zombies, subjecting them to the same torment she felt at their hands. However, this does not come to pass until Norman fails to keep her spirit asleep and Agatha exacts vengeance by wreaking havoc on the town. Eventually, Norman points out that as awful as everyone was to her, that does not give her the right to cause suffering, and for doing this, she's no better than the townsfolk.
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ParaNorman / int_8360f8c1	type	CamelCase
ParaNorman / int_8360f8c1	comment	CamelCase: The title, ParaNorman, since it's a portmanteau including a proper noun.
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ParaNorman / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
ParaNorman / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Turns out Mitch is gay and has a boyfriend, disappointing Courtney, who has been trying to flirt with him for the whole film.
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ParaNorman / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
ParaNorman / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Well, the Puritans were quite right that Agatha had dangerous powers and could become an "evil witch", they just didn't consider that she would do so as a direct consequence of their accusations. When defending the zombies from the angry mob, one of the townsfolk calls Norman a necromancer. While Norman obviously didn't raise the zombies like most common depictions of necromancers, his ability is actually closer to the original idea of necromancy; communing with the dead to divine the future.
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ParaNorman / int_8713e490	type	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him
ParaNorman / int_8713e490	comment	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: Although this trope is normally the more benign version of its fatal counterpart, Agatha has already killed her accusers, and her form of "taunting" is a Fate Worse than Death meant to reveal how awful her victims were. Norman confronts her with the fact that this makes her just as bad as them, which in this case is particularly true given that her former persecutors have learned that what they did was horribly evil and are torturing themselves even more than she is harming them.
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ParaNorman / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
ParaNorman / int_875615dd	comment	The Witch of Blithe Hollow was not an evil old crone practicing black magic, but a scared little girl with abilities neither she nor the townsfolk understood, who was executed by the townspeople for something she had no control over, which is much closer to what the Salem Witch Trials actually were in real life. Moreover, while her Freudian Excuse is sympathetic, it's still only an excuse — she's a scared, angry child lashing out in the only way she knows how, and Norman forces her to understand that her violent cursing of the town and its people is understandable, but still not justified or the right thing to do.
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ParaNorman / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
ParaNorman / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: The Judge and the other zombies are actually a kind of Revenant Zombie. They have intelligence, they're not infectious, and they aren't hungry for brains, but like any revenant, they are driven by a single, burning purpose. In their case, they mean the town no harm at all; they only want to break Agatha's cycle of revenge so they may finally rest in peace.
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ParaNorman / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
ParaNorman / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Mr. Penderghast's spirit passes on, his duty fulfilled by getting Norman to promise he'll read from the book at the witch's grave to stop the witch's curse. Apparently it didn't occur to him in life or death that Norman wouldn't know where the witch's grave was. Ironically, it's thanks to this failure that Norman is able to find the grave (the zombies that come back to life do know where the grave is) AND lift the curse for good.
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ParaNorman / int_8d1f1cd6	type	Zombie Advocate
ParaNorman / int_8d1f1cd6	comment	Zombie Advocate: Norman, when he realizes the zombies have intelligence and are afraid too. His sister, Neil, Mitch, and Alvin back him up on this to the rest of the town.
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ParaNorman / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
ParaNorman / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Courtney, though her hair may or may not be dyed, as none of her family has hair as brightly blonde as hers.
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ParaNorman / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
ParaNorman / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: All the zombies, except for the Judge, who is the only one to speak to Norman.
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ParaNorman / int_9315c635	type	Lovable Jock
ParaNorman / int_9315c635	comment	Lovable Jock: Mitch is not particularly bright, but he's not mean to anybody either.
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ParaNorman / int_9335ac5d	type	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
ParaNorman / int_9335ac5d	comment	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Norman and Aggie, and for much the same reason too.
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ParaNorman / int_9398f2b0	type	Get Back in the Closet
ParaNorman / int_9398f2b0	comment	Get Back in the Closet: In some foreign language versions of the film, Mitch says he has a girlfriend instead of a boyfriend.
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ParaNorman / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
ParaNorman / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Courtney does this to defend Norman and the zombies from the angry mob, calling them out for being adults and yet lacking any common sense.
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ParaNorman / int_944cd768	type	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up
ParaNorman / int_944cd768	comment	Additionally, the townsfolk denying or trying to justify why they became a ruthless mob bears some resemblance to a grown childhood bully trying to pretend their past tormenting didn't happen.
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ParaNorman / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
ParaNorman / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Agatha when Norman takes apart her actions and ideology, telling her that she isn't morally superior after all. "I don't like this story!" Even before then, she completely loses it when Norman manages to convince the townsfolk to spare the zombies. She's probably sore over the fact that they were shown the mercy that she was not.
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ParaNorman / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
ParaNorman / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Norman's Hilariously Abusive Childhood seems to consist of dodging bullies at school, being berated at home, and being a pariah in town. Social Services Does Not Exist either. His father, in particular, alternates between believing Norman has a problem and Norman is lying, and seems to think browbeating him will fix it in either case. No one thinks "this kid needs real help."
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ParaNorman / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
ParaNorman / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Agatha Penderghast, the ghost of a supposed witch who unleashed zombies on the town to avenge her execution, although it was intended as punishment more for the zombies than the current-day townspeople.
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ParaNorman / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
ParaNorman / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: One of the townspeople, who was the first to break the news about the zombies to the rest of the town, can be heard saying after the curse is broken to a reporter, "It wasn't my idea, they forced me into it!"
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ParaNorman / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
ParaNorman / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: Aggie falls asleep on Norman's shoulder and fades away, moving on.
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ParaNorman / int_991a3be9	type	Ridiculously Alive Undead
ParaNorman / int_991a3be9	comment	Ridiculously Alive Undead: Discussed. When Norman, who can communicate with the undead, is translating a zombie's moans, Norman's father says, "Please don't tell me he needs to go to the bathroom." (He doesn't.)
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ParaNorman / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
ParaNorman / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Agatha's death. The thought of an innocent 11-year-old girl being sentenced to hanging is very unsettling. Not to mention how it's suggested that the zombies chasing Norman the whole film were killed by Aggie's "witch powers" after sentencing her to death.
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ParaNorman / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
ParaNorman / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Judge Hopkins in his past life. He sentenced an innocent little girl to death, thus starting this whole mess. However, it's somewhat Averted by his Heel Realization in his now-zombified state.
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ParaNorman / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
ParaNorman / int_9b54d536	comment	Unlike the goofy Mr. Prenderghast, Agatha the witch serves as the Evil Counterpart as well as the Big Bad. She's what Norman would be if he embraced his desire to be mean back to the people who treat him badly. Norman, however, seeks to save the townspeople and learns to value the people who care about him, while Agatha only sought to make them suffer and completely forgot about the people who loved her in the process.
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ParaNorman / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
ParaNorman / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The practice for the school play, especially Salma's concern about the portrayal of the witch not being historically accurate. During the opening B-Movie, Norman's grandma suggests that instead of running, the girl in the film could try to reason with the zombie. Early in the film, Neil tells Norman that he'd be a bully too if he was strong and stupid like Alvin. When Norman confronts Agatha, one of the thing he tells her is that using her power to terrorize the townfolk just makes her a bully. Mitch's total lack of response to Courtney's flirting is a hint that he's not into any women, and that he's already taken. After the play, Sandra tells Norman "Sometimes we do/say things because we are scared." This line is said later by Norman. The fact that Norman is the only one who can interact with his dead grandma foreshadows his special gift.
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ParaNorman / int_9dc46ce8	type	Otherworldly Communication Failure
ParaNorman / int_9dc46ce8	comment	Otherworldly Communication Failure: The zombie horde seemingly destroying the town and trying to kill Norman actually are benign and just want to ask for Norman's help in breaking the curse placed upon them and the town. Norman, using his ability to speak to ghosts, eventually comes to realize this, and has to convince the rest of his town that they aren't evil.
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ParaNorman / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
ParaNorman / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	We see early on how it looks to everyone else; he ducks around nothing, constantly talks to empty space, and even stops at roadkill to pet the air above it. As it's not until shortly thereafter we get to see through his eyes, it's pretty clear he comes across as a Cloud Cuckoo Lander at best.
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ParaNorman / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
ParaNorman / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Both Norman and Neil have very noticeable ones, Norman's being a clarinet with acoustic guitar in the background, and Neil's being a simple keyboard riff with a xylophone and what seems to be bongos in the background. Mr. Prenderghast has one as well; a simple strings tune. Even Agatha gets one, sounding like a modern take on the soundtrack of a zombie chase scene from the '80s. It plays during fights with her, and in the epic final fight with her, to fit the occasion, some violin is mixed in.
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ParaNorman / int_a1257d6	type	Fat Best Friend
ParaNorman / int_a1257d6	comment	Fat Best Friend: Neil is one to Norman, and he's well-aware of it.
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ParaNorman / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
ParaNorman / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Mitch and Alvin are pretty strong given their ages, and not too bright either.
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ParaNorman / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
ParaNorman / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have We Done?: Judge Hopkins and the other zombies have spent the last 300+ years regretting their actions against Agatha. When confronted by Norman about Agatha's death, Hopkins confesses that their actions were out of fear and out of the belief that they were doing the right thing.
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ParaNorman / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
ParaNorman / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Alvin gets poked in the eyes repeatedly by a zombie arm.
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ParaNorman / int_a4ca50be	type	Collective Groan
ParaNorman / int_a4ca50be	comment	Collective Groan: The reaction of the group after the library at Neil's elation that he finished a whole book in one night. A book that is twenty-seven pages long. Even better, they were looking for records on the accused witch, and Neil's choice of reading was an old asbestos installation manual.
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ParaNorman / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
ParaNorman / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: A little girl tears off a zombie's arm, and later on lights her teddy bear on fire and chucks it through a window in order to set the town hall alight.
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ParaNorman / int_a7601fd0	type	Big Ol' Unibrow
ParaNorman / int_a7601fd0	comment	Big Ol' Unibrow: Salma has one◊.
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ParaNorman / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
ParaNorman / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Alvin is frequently seen trying to woo girls, but never comes close to impressing them. He's aware of it, too.
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ParaNorman / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
ParaNorman / int_a80ad52c	comment	Judge Hopkins is a deconstruction of the Hanging Judge, as he legitimately did what he thought was best, and his decision wasn't motivated by sadism or cruelty, but by a values system that all the people of Blithe Hollow agreed with. He's also a deconstruction of the stereotypical zombie characters, as he and his fellow zombies have come to regret their actions over the hundreds of years they've been dead, and in the climax, it's the zombies who flee in terror from the hordes of bloodthirsty townspeople.
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ParaNorman / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
ParaNorman / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Pretty much the witch's curse the town is famous for. The seven Puritans are said to be damned to walk the earth as the undead. They're all very aware of their punishment when the curse comes into full effect and they rise from their graves.
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ParaNorman / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
ParaNorman / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Most of the adults range from Too Dumb to Live to entirely oblivious, when they aren't just plain Ax-Crazy.
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ParaNorman / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
ParaNorman / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Norman with the ghosts, one of whom is the town loon, voiced by John Goodman. Neil and Salma are implied to be one, at least before the former takes interest in Norman.
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ParaNorman / int_aa9bdb08	type	Youthful Freckles
ParaNorman / int_aa9bdb08	comment	Youthful Freckles: Neil. Mitch has some too.
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ParaNorman / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
ParaNorman / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: The supposed witch of Blithe Hollow, Agatha Prenderghast, Used to Be a Sweet Kid who, like Norman, happened to have the ability to speak to the dead. She cursed the zombies in revenge for killing her for being different. She became so obsessed with making the townspeople pay for what they did to her that she completely forgot about the people who loved her, and almost completely lost herself in her rage. When she is finally able to find peace with the help of Norman, Agatha Disappears into Light to move on to the afterlife upon realizing that the only thing she really wanted was to see her mother again after the townspeople separated them. The Judge (as well as the other zombies) have come to regret their actions over the hundreds of years they've been dead. When Aggie is finally at rest, they Disappear into Light to move on to the afterlife, looking scared and regretful.
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ParaNorman / int_ac1a6ce3	type	Cute Ghost Girl
ParaNorman / int_ac1a6ce3	comment	Cute Ghost Girl: Agatha, once Norman calms her down, is a sweet kid who just wants to be with her mommy again.
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ParaNorman / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
ParaNorman / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: In the Babcock family alone, there's Norman, Courtney, and Grandma.
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ParaNorman / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
ParaNorman / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Centuries ago, the citizenry of the town condemned and executed a young innocent girl for being a witch. Since then, consciously or not, the town has distorted her memory into a hideous caricature, which makes Agatha more angry with each passing year...
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ParaNorman / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
ParaNorman / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Courtney, which may be incidentally why she's something of an Ensemble Dark Horse. The Hartman Hips certainly don't hurt.
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ParaNorman / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
ParaNorman / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Justified with Norman, since the whole town, including his father, tend to scorn him for being able to talk to the dead, since no one believes him. It's more of a defense mechanism.
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ParaNorman / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
ParaNorman / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Most obviously for the zombies, who are forced to live afterlives of horrifying suffering for what they did several hundred years ago, but also Agatha herself, who remains on Earth as a being of almost pure fear and hate, unable to pass on until she confronts her own desire for vengeance and recognizes it as a mindset that's really worse than useless.
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ParaNorman / int_b33d17a0	type	Sickly Green Glow
ParaNorman / int_b33d17a0	comment	Sickly Green Glow: All the ghosts glow pale green, to underscore their deadness. The witch's powers glow a bright green to underscore her apparent evilness.
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ParaNorman / int_b3c730b	type	Celestial Deadline
ParaNorman / int_b3c730b	comment	Celestial Deadline: Norman is supposed to read from Uncle Prenderghast's book at the witch's grave before sunset. When he finds the apparent spot, it doesn't work and the curse takes effect despite his efforts, but that's because he was at the Puritans' burial site, not the witch's grave.
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ParaNorman / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
ParaNorman / int_b5171e10	comment	The supposed witch of Blithe Hollow, Agatha Prenderghast, Used to Be a Sweet Kid who, like Norman, happened to have the ability to speak to the dead. She cursed the zombies in revenge for killing her for being different. She became so obsessed with making the townspeople pay for what they did to her that she completely forgot about the people who loved her, and almost completely lost herself in her rage. When she is finally able to find peace with the help of Norman, Agatha Disappears into Light to move on to the afterlife upon realizing that the only thing she really wanted was to see her mother again after the townspeople separated them.
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ParaNorman / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
ParaNorman / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "What do you think you're doing firing at civilians?! That is for the police to do!"
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ParaNorman / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
ParaNorman / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: The school drama teacher. When whipping up the mob, she makes a Julius Caesar reference ("Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war!").
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ParaNorman / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
ParaNorman / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Norman has two of these in his relatives, who are All of the Other Reindeer among the townspeople because of having the ability to speak to the dead: Mr. Prenderghast is what Norman would be if he had completely (and bitterly) resigned to everyone's expectations about him being weird. Unlike the goofy Mr. Prenderghast, Agatha the witch serves as the Evil Counterpart as well as the Big Bad. She's what Norman would be if he embraced his desire to be mean back to the people who treat him badly. Norman, however, seeks to save the townspeople and learns to value the people who care about him, while Agatha only sought to make them suffer and completely forgot about the people who loved her in the process.
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ParaNorman / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
ParaNorman / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: While rehearsing for the school play, the drama teacher passionately demands that the students properly reflect the Puritan characters that they're portraying. But when Salma points out that her witch costume - consisting of a stereotypical warty nose, pointy hat and broomstick - isn't historically accurate, the teacher simply rebuts that it isn't supposed to be.
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ParaNorman / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
ParaNorman / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: One of the main themes of the film. The witch's curse ravages the town because Aggie refused to forgive the Puritans who executed her, and only when Norman convinces her to let go of her vengeance can she peacefully move on.
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ParaNorman / int_b797948e	type	Ass Kicks You
ParaNorman / int_b797948e	comment	Ass Kicks You: The police officer smacks Mitch's van, which has all of the kids and one of the zombies inside, with just her hips, and the truck gets forcibly knocked away.
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ParaNorman / int_b808f0b3	type	Scarily Specific Story
ParaNorman / int_b808f0b3	comment	Scarily Specific Story: Played for Drama. Norman is originally tasked with reading a generic bedtime story that's been used to keep the witch asleep for centuries, though the book quickly ends up destroyed. When Norman finally confronts the witch, he decides to tell her a story about a little girl who could see ghosts but was killed because everyone was afraid of her, retelling the witch's own tragic past. Ultimately, he succeeds in finally calming her down and allowing her to see she's not so different to the townspeople who tormented her.
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ParaNorman / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
ParaNorman / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Doesn't Neil◊ kinda looks like Tucker Albrizzi◊, his voice actor?
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ParaNorman / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
ParaNorman / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Norman's grandma also calls his father a jackass.
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ParaNorman / int_be977433	type	Good-Times Montage
ParaNorman / int_be977433	comment	Good-Times Montage: A deleted scene has Norman and Neil go through one after they play fetch with the ghost of the latter's dog. Unfortunately for Norman, the writers felt that this concluded his Character Arc of opening up to and trusting living people too early.
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ParaNorman / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
ParaNorman / int_c145f69b	comment	The witch cursed the entire town to be attacked by the zombies of the people who executed her. Subverted in the end. Aggie wasn't cursing the town to be attacked by zombies, she was cursing the zombies to go through the same thing she went through.
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ParaNorman / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
ParaNorman / int_c335b9ec	comment	Thanks to modern technology and a massive numbers advantage, the townspeople pose far more of a danger to the zombies than the zombies do to them. In fact, throughout most of the climax it's the zombies who are running from the humans, rather than the other way around. It turns out that this was exactly the nature of the curse; to make Agatha's judge, jury, and executioners rise from the dead and be completely helpless against the humans as punishment. The living aren't being cursed nearly as much as the small group of people who condemned the witch.
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ParaNorman / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
ParaNorman / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: The movie's novelization goes the extra mile compared to the typical tie-in novel for children and takes the form of a hardcover (with the cover underneath the jacket based on the Prenderghast book featured within the film). It also serves as the lore manual, with some extra details on the characters, such as how Grandma's death affected Norman, the strange circumstances of his birth, the witch trials in Blithe Hollow, and other material.The character Salma is also something of an Ascended Extra in the book, having some more lines and such.
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ParaNorman / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
ParaNorman / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Norman Babcock and the witch, Agatha Prenderghast, who's a distant relative on his mother's side. One of Agatha's accusers looks an awful lot like an older Alvin. Sandra looks like an older version of Courtney◊.
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ParaNorman / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
ParaNorman / int_c66f2bb5	comment	Witch Hunt: One of these is what causes all the trouble in the first place. If Agatha had never been sentenced to death on suspicion of being a witch, she would've never laid a curse on the Puritans who sentenced her or haunted the town until the present day.
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ParaNorman / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
ParaNorman / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: See the page.
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ParaNorman / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
ParaNorman / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	Smash to Black: Well, Smash to White. Right as Norman grabs Agatha's hand, the scene immediately cuts to a silent white screen. It's especially jarring since the previous scene is quite noisy, being the dramatic final fight between the two.
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ParaNorman / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
ParaNorman / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Agatha, tragically. Her unfulfilled revenge and the efforts of her descendants have trapped her in Blithe Hollow as a furious revenant for three hundred years.
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ParaNorman / int_c9d9a85f	type	Hot Witch
ParaNorman / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: When the people of Blithe Hollow capitalize on the execution of a supposed witch in its colonial past, most of them use the Wicked Witch archetype. A billboard for the casino, however, depicts her as a young woman in a skimpy outfit with a wad of bills in her generous cleavage. This can come off as unsettling after the later revelation that Agatha, the real "witch" of the story, was actually an 11-year-old girl.
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ParaNorman / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
ParaNorman / int_caa28b82	comment	Norman with the ghosts, one of whom is the town loon, voiced by John Goodman.
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ParaNorman / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
ParaNorman / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: Zombies are the first type of supernatural creature to invade the town.
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ParaNorman / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
ParaNorman / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost, given their similar genre (family/horror/comedy/mystery), settings (Salem-esque, Massachusetts), and subject manner (how a town's witch-related legends and past affects them in the present). However, ParaNorman inverts the order of the films' shared plot points to create significantly contrasting themes. In The Witch's Ghost, the witch is initially presented as an innocent and unjustly executed Hero with Bad Publicity by her descendant (who is a successful author respected by his community as well as secretly supernatural), and the twist is that she was Evil All Along and her ghost enacts Roaring Rampage of Revenge upon the town in the third act. In ParaNorman, the inciting incident is that the curse of an executed witch is coming into effect over a Massachusetts town, and the third act twist is that the witch's descendant (a bullied and ostracized child who openly claims to have supernatural abilities) discovers the "witch" was innocent and unjustly executed, and the curse is her restless ghost lashing out from the trauma of being murdered by her community.
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ParaNorman / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
ParaNorman / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Norman has apparently told a lot of people about his ability, and they all think he's either insane or lying for attention, but worthy of ridicule either way. This makes it really difficult for him to get their support when the dead actually rise. In keeping with this trope, Norman even has a prophetic vision in public... that earns him even more ire from his father and more taunting from his schoolmates.
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ParaNorman / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
ParaNorman / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Both "the witch" and the zombies, the former by being just an angry little girl lashing out at everyone out of revenge and the latter for executing Agatha out of fear and feeling genuinely remorseful for it now.
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ParaNorman / int_d075a135	type	Now What?
ParaNorman / int_d075a135	comment	Now What?: "So what's happening now?" Also counts as Leaning on the Fourth Wall and a Meaningful Echo.
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ParaNorman / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
ParaNorman / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: The film is one towards vintage zombie movies, which themselves are parodied during the opening scene with the "feature presentation" card and narm-y acting of the lead actress of said Show Within a Show. The movie's surprising darkness for its rating is reminiscent of old PG-rated films that could get away with racier content before the invention of the PG-13 rating. Yes, in a meta way, the rating is a throwback!
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ParaNorman / int_d260f885	type	Fighting Back Is Wrong
ParaNorman / int_d260f885	comment	Fighting Back Is Wrong: The Aesop of the story is that bullying is wrong, even if the other person did it first. The villain is trying to get revenge on the people who killed her, but in the end Norman makes her realize that she has become as bad as they are.
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ParaNorman / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
ParaNorman / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Norman's dead grandmother.
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ParaNorman / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
ParaNorman / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Alvin for Courtney, who is not exactly impressed.
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ParaNorman / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
ParaNorman / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Norman's "weapon" against Agatha, being the first person in centuries to really understand her. Just like her, he's been ostracized by the people of Blithe Hollow for being able to talk to ghosts.
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ParaNorman / int_d5b6d628	type	Black Comedy Pet Death
ParaNorman / int_d5b6d628	comment	Black Comedy Pet Death: There's Bub, a ghost dog belonging to Norman's best friend, who died from being run over by an animal rescue van. He now appears as a head and a butt separated by several feet of space, and Neil accidentally kisses his butt, mistaking it for his head.
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ParaNorman / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
ParaNorman / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: The people of Blithe Hollow decide to murder a child who claims to be able to talk to ghosts twice — once in Puritan times, once in the present.
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ParaNorman / int_e0e3a0ba	type	Salem Is Witch Country
ParaNorman / int_e0e3a0ba	comment	Salem Is Witch Country: Deconstructed and ultimately Subverted, as Blithe Hollow preferred to cash in on their blood-soaked history of witch hunts for tourism rather than deal with their dark past. So they operate on historical revisionism, including leaving out that not only was said witch a little girl, not any kind of witch at all, but also had Norman's ability to see the dead.
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ParaNorman / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
ParaNorman / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The witch used to be a sweet little girl whose only power was the ability to see ghosts. Her other, more terrifying powers only emerged after the townsfolk sentenced her to death by hanging.
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ParaNorman / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
ParaNorman / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: To Return of the Living Dead Part II, with a group of kids led by a young male child, as well as including his older sister and a guy she's interested in, trying to survive a Zombie Apocalypse in a movie filled with Black Comedy. Plus, the outbreak is caused by the meddling of the child's bully (although it's eventually revealed that Norman was trying to conduct the ritual in the wrong place, so the zombies would have awoken anyway), though the bully doesn't become a zombie here, unlike the other film.
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ParaNorman / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
ParaNorman / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Mitch. Who knew?
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ParaNorman / int_e49a80fb	type	Technical Euphemism
ParaNorman / int_e49a80fb	comment	Technical Euphemism: Neil insists that he does not have boobs and that they're called "pectorals". Alvin punches him there and Neil groans, "Ow, my boobs!"
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ParaNorman / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
ParaNorman / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: The mob at the town hall. Parodied when they drop all their weapons — including a bowling ball.
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ParaNorman / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
ParaNorman / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Whereas the Puritans carried out their execution of Aggie, an 11-year-old girl, out of fear and desire to protect the town, they've been trying to make amends for their actions ever since. However, the current citizens of Blithe Hollow are quite cruel to what they thought was a mentally ill boy for no good reason, and can't even claim they were truly led by fear.
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ParaNorman / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
ParaNorman / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: Mr. Prenderghast and Norman have this ability. It apparently runs in the family. Way back in the family — all the way back to Agatha in the 18th century.
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ParaNorman / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
ParaNorman / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: In a decidedly mundane manner; Agatha's execution is the core of the city's identity and tourism industry. That she's unable to move on, stuck as an angry, hateful ghost that's been haunting the town the whole time, is incidental.
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ParaNorman / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
ParaNorman / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: In-Universe. The actress in the cheesy zombie movie Norman watches screams in horror at the zombie walking toward her, but he's walking so slowly, thus forcing her to scream for so long, that she stops to cast an annoyed look off-camera (presumably at the director), and then resumes screaming.
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ParaNorman / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
ParaNorman / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Norman puts Aggie's soul at rest through simple (though very persistent) discussion and reasoning.
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ParaNorman / int_e95cdad7	type	Improbable Hairstyle
ParaNorman / int_e95cdad7	comment	Improbable Hair Style: Norman's hair is always sticking straight up. Even if he combs it or it gets all mussed up, it'll always pop back to its original state a moment later.
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ParaNorman / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
ParaNorman / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: The antagonist of this movie is really just a scared and angry little girl sentenced to death by a judge, who in turn was just doing what seemed to be the best for the people of his town.
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ParaNorman / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
ParaNorman / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: A repeated theme with much of the main cast. Norman's openness about his abilities leaves him ostracized from the rest of the town, who somewhat justifiably think he's crazy for talking to ghosts that no one else can see. Judge Hopkins is a deconstruction of the Hanging Judge, as he legitimately did what he thought was best, and his decision wasn't motivated by sadism or cruelty, but by a values system that all the people of Blithe Hollow agreed with. He's also a deconstruction of the stereotypical zombie characters, as he and his fellow zombies have come to regret their actions over the hundreds of years they've been dead, and in the climax, it's the zombies who flee in terror from the hordes of bloodthirsty townspeople. The Witch of Blithe Hollow was not an evil old crone practicing black magic, but a scared little girl with abilities neither she nor the townsfolk understood, who was executed by the townspeople for something she had no control over, which is much closer to what the Salem Witch Trials actually were in real life. Moreover, while her Freudian Excuse is sympathetic, it's still only an excuse — she's a scared, angry child lashing out in the only way she knows how, and Norman forces her to understand that her violent cursing of the town and its people is understandable, but still not justified or the right thing to do. The townspeople of Blithe Hollow are shown to be not so different from the zombies, reacting to their appearance with extreme violence and aggression, and with shots of their attacks deliberately paralleling iconic zombie attack scenes. Thanks to modern technology and a massive numbers advantage, the townspeople pose far more of a threat to the slow-moving, shambling zombies than the zombies do to them. Their lynch-mob mentality gets so bad that they actively try to kill Norman, who's only a child, just for being different — exactly like the zombies did when they were alive.
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ParaNorman / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
ParaNorman / int_edfacbac	comment	Taken to extremes with the aerobics instructor Neil likes to freeze-frame on.
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ParaNorman / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
ParaNorman / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Neil gives one too many reasons for why the other kids pick on him.
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ParaNorman / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
ParaNorman / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: An odd example, given that the subjects are already dead. It's only possible for the zombies to pass on after they assist Norman in helping Agatha to do the same, by reasoning with her about her need to let go of the pain and hatred that they caused her, and her desire for vengeance.
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ParaNorman / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
ParaNorman / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": The kids in the school pageant read their lines in such an unenthusiastic monotone that Norman's prophetic outburst, if anything, improved the play a thousand times over.
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ParaNorman / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
ParaNorman / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Norman and Aggie look like gender-flipped clones of each other. Since she obviously didn't live long enough to actually be his direct ancestor, this is more for thematic reasons than to imply any familial connection, though since his uncle has the same last name as her, he could be descended from an unmentioned sibling or cousin.
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ParaNorman / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
ParaNorman / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Norman is considered this by some, but Aggie is more a terribly wronged one. We see early on how it looks to everyone else; he ducks around nothing, constantly talks to empty space, and even stops at roadkill to pet the air above it. As it's not until shortly thereafter we get to see through his eyes, it's pretty clear he comes across as a Cloud Cuckoo Lander at best. There's also the nameless kid in the mob that sets her teddy-bear on fire and chucks it through a broken window. She also carries around a zombie's arm for a short portion of the movie before giving it back.
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ParaNorman / int_f417235b	type	Supernatural Floating Hair
ParaNorman / int_f417235b	comment	Supernatural Floating Hair: In contrast to the town's Wicked Witch perceptions of her, the witch's ghost manifests as an electric spirit, with hair that floats upward and turns into lightning.
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ParaNorman / int_f48d0f54	type	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
ParaNorman / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Aggie is just a justifiably angry child throwing the mother of all tantrums. The zombies are just trying to relieve the curse they brought upon themselves through fear and hysteria. Even the angry mob of humans turns out to be not beyond reason.
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ParaNorman / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
ParaNorman / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Norman has to fight a supernatural menace to protect a town that largely scorns him, but over time, a growing number of townspeople realize that his ability to speak to the dead is real. While the movie finishes out with said townspeople too occupied with justifying their own moblike behavior to properly apologize to Norman, he does earn his family's support and realizes that he has a true friend in Neil.
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ParaNorman / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
ParaNorman / int_f76842b1	comment	Little girl Aggie had no idea how to explain her ability to see and speak to the dead in terms that her accusers could see in any way except as "witchcraft". In trying, she basically admits to being "guilty", and is executed for it.
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ParaNorman / int_f76eaaff	type	Entertainment Above Their Age
ParaNorman / int_f76eaaff	comment	Entertainment Above Their Age: Norman is only about eleven, but he frequently watches violent horror movies.
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ParaNorman / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
ParaNorman / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Mitch accidentally runs over a zombie, the head comes to life and growls at him. He freaks out and kicks it. When he gets back in the car, Courtney and the others are freaking out over a man apparently coming back to life, Mitch is more impressed by how far he kicked the zombie's head. And earlier, Norman tries to give Neil the brush-off by saying he prefers to be alone. Neil's response?
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ParaNorman / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
ParaNorman / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "KILL 'EM IN THE HEAD!"
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ParaNorman / int_fc47c7f9	type	The Future Is Shocking
ParaNorman / int_fc47c7f9	comment	The Future Is Shocking: The Puritan zombies awaken in the modern day, and are shocked to see such things as a bar, sexy advertisements, and a TV window display broadcasting endless scenes of war, violence, and scantily-clad pop stars.
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ParaNorman / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
ParaNorman / int_fd4f8299	comment	Subverted with Judge Hopkins. He sentenced an innocent girl to death for talking to the dead, not because he hated her for being different from others, but because he thought it would be good for the townspeople.
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ParaNorman / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
ParaNorman / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: You can actually, quite literally, see the spittle flying when Judge Hopkins is handing down the sentence to Aggie. Appropriately enough for the trope name, he loses the hamminess once he becomes 1) a zombie and 2) a good guy.
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ParaNorman / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
ParaNorman / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The cheesy zombie flick Norman watches in the opening cuts away just as the girl is attacked by the zombie. In the ending, the now-zombified girl is briefly seen munching on a severed limb.
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ParaNorman / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
ParaNorman / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: The witch cursed the entire town to be attacked by the zombies of the people who executed her. Subverted in the end. Aggie wasn't cursing the town to be attacked by zombies, she was cursing the zombies to go through the same thing she went through. Subverted with Judge Hopkins. He sentenced an innocent girl to death for talking to the dead, not because he hated her for being different from others, but because he thought it would be good for the townspeople.
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ParaNorman / int_ff38c97b	type	Exotic Eye Designs
ParaNorman / int_ff38c97b	comment	Exotic Eye Designs: Norman's irises and pupils are faceted. It seems to be a trait for those in the family who can see ghosts, as both Mr. Prenderghast and Aggie have faceted eyes as well.
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ParaNorman	hasFeature	Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Attack of the Town Festival / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Awful Truth / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Bat Scare / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Bathos / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Big Ol' Eyebrows / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Black Comedy Burst / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Black Comedy Pet Death / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Bratty Teenage Daughter / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Bully and Wimp Pairing / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Burn the Witch! / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Cast of Snowflakes / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Celestial Deadline / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Cement Shoes / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Completely Different Title / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Crapsack World / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Creepy Child / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Crosses the Line Twice / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Crossover Ship / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Cry for the Devil / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Cute Ghost Girl / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Dark Magical Girl / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Deconstructive Parody / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Dirty Kid / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Eating the Eye Candy / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Entertainment Above Their Age / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Exotic Eye Designs / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Face/Heel Double-Turn / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Fandom-Enraging Misconception / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Fat Best Friend / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Fate Worse than Death / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Female Gaze / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Fighting Back Is Wrong / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Films of 2010â€“2014 / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Flirtatious Smack on the Ass / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Forgiveness / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Friendly Zombie / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Get Back in the Closet / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Ghost Shipping / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Ghostly Animals / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Great Big Gay Metaphor / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Grey-and-Gray Morality / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Halloweentown / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Hanging Judge / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Hartman Hips / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Have You Tried Not Being a Monster? / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	He Who Fights Monsters / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Heel Realization / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Hollywood New England / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Horror Comedy / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Hot Witch / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	I Resemble That Remark! / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Implied Trope / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Incompatible Orientation / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Invisible to Normals / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Jerkass Realization / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Kid Hero / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Kirk Summation / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	LGBT Representation in Media / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Lack of Empathy / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Lantern Jaw of Justice / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Less Embarrassing Term / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Lightmare Fuel / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Lovable Jock / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Lovecraft Country / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Manly Gay / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Modesty Towel / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Monster Media / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Moving Right Through / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Muggles Do It Better / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Must Make Amends / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Not-So-Imaginary Friend / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	One-Word Title / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Otherworldly Communication Failure / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Our Zombies Are Different / int_170487d5
Para Norman	seeAlso	ParaNorman
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Parachute in a Tree / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Pay Evil unto Evil / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Playing a Tree / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Police Brutality / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Portmantitle / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Powered by a Forsaken Child / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Psychic Children / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Queer Establishing Moment / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Quieting the Unquiet Dead / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Rainbow Lens / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Redemption Quest / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Repression Never Ends Well / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Restored My Faith in Humanity / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Revenant Zombie / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Revenge Is Not Justice / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Ridiculously Alive Undead / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Salem Is Witch Country / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Same Content, Different Rating / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Sassy Black Woman / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	"Say My Name" Trailer / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Scary Fiction Is Fun / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	School Play / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Screaming Woman / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Script Swap / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Scully Box / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Shadow Archetype / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Shaming the Mob / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Shock and Awe / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Sickly Green Glow / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Sinister Scraping Sound / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Skewed Priorities / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Someone's Touching My Butt / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Sorry, I'm Gay / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Spirit Advisor / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Spiritual Antithesis / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Spooky Kids Media / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Stock Quotes / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Stop Motion / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Stubborn Hair / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Suburban Gothic / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Supernatural Floating Hair / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Supernatural Light / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Technical Euphemism / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_170487d5
The Millennium Age of Animation	seeAlso	ParaNorman
ParaNorman	hasFeature	The Snack Is More Interesting / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	There's No / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Took a Level in Kindness / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Top-Heavy Guy / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Torches and Pitchforks / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Tortured Monster / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Unabashed B-Movie Fan / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Undead Child / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Undeath Always Ends / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Van Helsing Hate Crimes / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Villain of Another Story / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	White-and-Grey Morality / int_4d9f9bb5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Wicked Witch / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Witch Hunt / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Witch Works / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	World of Jerkass / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Worthless Treasure Twist / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Zig-Zagging Trope / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Zombie Advocate / int_170487d5
ParaNorman	hasFeature	Zombie Apocalypse / int_170487d5
Paranorman	sameAs	ParaNorman
ParaNorman	hasFeature	I See Dead People / int_170487d5
paranorman	sameAs	ParaNorman

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