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* BigBad: The original and undisputed best in his franchise, a position that has only been usurped once.
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* TheBarber: Obviously
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* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: With the help of an asylum inmate, he manages to escape from the asylum.
* WrongfullyCommitted: Poor Tobias gets placed in Fogg Asylum for trying to speak up about Sweeney Todd.

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* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: With the help of an asylum inmate, he manages to escape from the asylum.
Fogg Asylum.
* WrongfullyCommitted: Poor Tobias gets placed in Fogg Asylum for trying to speak up about Sweeney Todd.
Todd's true character.

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* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: With the help of an asylum inmate, he manages to escape from the asylum.
* WrongfullyCommitted: Poor Tobias gets placed in Fogg Asylum for trying to speak up about Sweeney Todd.



* TheConfidant: He informs Johanna to the last known whereabouts of her fiance and of Sweeney Todd.

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* TheConfidant: He informs Johanna to the last known whereabouts of her fiance fiancé and of Sweeney Todd.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a local magistrate, and doesn't doubt Jeffrey for a second when he says that Todd is suspicious--Blunt already knew of Todd because of an incident he was involved in where a woman accused him of having stolen her husband's shoes but nothing at the time could definitely point to him having done any wrong. He masterminds a sting operation which successfully catches Todd trying to kill him, after which the demon barber is promptly arrested and hanged for his crimes.

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* BadBoss: He threatens to cut the throat of Tobias, later a disguised Johanna, if they get too nosy in his shop.



* BadBoss: He threatens to cut the throat of Tobias, later a disguised Johanna, if they get too nosy in his shop.


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* ForYourOwnGood: She believed arranging her daughter's marriage to Lupin is a fair exchange to gain salvation for her soul. Johanna doesn't buy it one bit.
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* PoisonIsEvil: How she meets her demise, and by the trickery of Sweeney Todd no less.


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* DotingParent: Mr. Oakley loves his only child to the point he couldn't say no to his daughter's love for Mark.
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* SerialKiller

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* SerialKillerSerialKiller: Sweeney's preferred method of killing is by means of a trick barber's chair which deposits his victims down into the cellar below, in such a way that most people snap their necks when they land. If any survive the fall, Sweeney takes his razor to their throat.
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\n* MistakenForCheating: He stupidly mistook Johanna's meeting with Colonel Jeffery for hooking with another guy when he was thought lost at sea, which got him imprisoned in Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in the first place.

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* TheBarber: Obviously
* BadBoss: He threatens to cut the throat of Tobias, later a disguised Johanna, if they get too nosy in his shop.


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* EvilChef: Specifically with pies, but it counts.
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* DisguisedInDrag: She dresses up as a boy in an attempt to access Sweeney's shop. Incredibly, it works.



* SpannerInTheWorks: It is his survival of the trap that allows him to call for Sweeney's arrest.



* TheAlcoholic: He is very drunk, more so during his visit to the Oakley house.

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* TheAlcoholic: He is very drunk, more so during his visit to the Oakley house.house.
* DirtyOldMonk: Debatable.

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* SerialKiller



* RavenHairIvorySkin: She is described to have dark hair and light skin.





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\n* DistressedDude: He was a prisoner beneath Mrs. Lovett's pie shop.




* TheConfidant: He informs Johanna to the last known whereabouts of her fiance and of Sweeney Todd.



* PapaWolf: He comes to the defense of his daughter against marrying Lupin with some help.



!!Reverend Lupin

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!!Reverend LupinLupin
* TheAlcoholic: He is very drunk, more so during his visit to the Oakley house.
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!The Main Characters

!!Sweeney Todd
!!Mrs. Lovett
!!Johanna Oakley
!!Mark Ingestrie

!Minor Characters

!!Tobias Ragg
!!Colonel Jeffery
!!Sir Richard Blunt
!!Mr. Oakley
!!Mrs. Oakley
!!Reverend Lupin

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