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** Derf speculates that if Jeff had gotten help his life would have been a miserable one where he would be on prescription drugs mostly. But Derf adds, he is certain that Jeff would still have preferred that to the life he did live.
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His classmate grew up to be [[SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer]].
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During his teenage years in suburban UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, aspiring cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf attended Revere High School. He led a normal existence, with a close circle of friends, a loving family, and aspirations of leaving small-town life after entering an art college. He went through the same triumphs and travails of adolescence as most of his peers. There were no details in his life which stood out in any significant way. Except one.
His classmate was [[SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer]].
His classmate was [[SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer]].
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During his teenage years in suburban UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, aspiring cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf attended Revere High School. He led a normal existence, with a close circle of friends, a loving family, and aspirations of leaving small-town life after entering an art college. He went through the same triumphs and travails of adolescence as most of his peers. There were no details in his life which stood out in any significant way. Except one.
At the time.
His classmatewas grew up to be [[SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer]].
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** Also invoked later when, during a field trip with classmates to Washington DC, Jeff uses a payphone and talks an aide into letting him and Neil visit ''the Vice President of the United States''.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jeff's early friend/acquaintance, Oliver, was likely this for Jeff. Jeff was gay (but hated it) and preferred handsome [[{{Hunk}} hunks]] and PrettyBoy [[{{Twink}} twinks]] (common denominator being 'fit and with little body hair'). Oliver was a small, slightly-doughy, barely post-pubescent effeminate nerd (who could easily be mistaken for a boyish-looking girl) who liked Neil Sedaka [[note]]a schmaltzy singer who had some pop hits in the early Sixties (such as 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do' & 'Calendar Girl') who wasn't, at this point, anything ''remotely'' resembling "cool"[[/note]]. Leaving the poor little guy to "the wolves" was likely not just a selfish way for Jeff to escape from being bullied...but to signal that he wasn't into Oliver ''that way.''
* AdaptationNameChange: A number of supporting characters' names are not what they were in RealLife. ''Lloyd Figg'' was not really "Lloyd Figg", Oliver Zlatka (Jeff's Neil Sedaka-loving sort-of-friend from early in the film) may or may not have existed and Cindy Zlatka (the suicide discussed in the fishing scene) likely didn't go by that name. "Neil" and "Kent" were likely also pseudonyms (only John/Derf and Mike go by their real names). The girl who was Jeffrey Dahmer's prom date was really named Bridget Geiger [[note]]Though it's unknown if "Geiger" is her married or maiden name[[/note]], not "Brenda".
* AdolfHitlarious: Derf's talent show act in the GraphicNovel.
* AdaptationNameChange: A number of supporting characters' names are not what they were in RealLife. ''Lloyd Figg'' was not really "Lloyd Figg", Oliver Zlatka (Jeff's Neil Sedaka-loving sort-of-friend from early in the film) may or may not have existed and Cindy Zlatka (the suicide discussed in the fishing scene) likely didn't go by that name. "Neil" and "Kent" were likely also pseudonyms (only John/Derf and Mike go by their real names). The girl who was Jeffrey Dahmer's prom date was really named Bridget Geiger [[note]]Though it's unknown if "Geiger" is her married or maiden name[[/note]], not "Brenda".
* AdolfHitlarious: Derf's talent show act in the GraphicNovel.
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* AdolfHitlarious: Derf's talent show
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: A likely interpretation of the brief subplot in the beginning with Jeff and Oliver. Oliver is bullied for being nerdy and likely gay and he may have had a crush on Jeff, which Jeff thwarts by basically treating his friend like garbage and running away when the bullies attack (also so Jeff wouldn't get bullied himself).
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** Lloyd Figg comes off as this. Subverted in that Lloyd merely grows up to be some troublemaker who still lives with his mom rather than a homicidal maniac. The "Class Psycho" was really just a very disturbed edgelord who's existence is to be the RedHerring.
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** Lloyd Figg comes off as this. Subverted in that Lloyd merely grows up to be some troublemaker who still lives with his mom rather than a homicidal maniac. The "Class Psycho" was really just a very disturbed edgelord who's whose existence is to be the RedHerring.
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** Downplayed with Dahmer, the animal carcasses he finds and dissolves for their bones were roadkill he finds already dead. The worst we see him do is disembowel a live fish during a fishing trip and getting really close to killing a neighborhood dog but thankfully stopped himself before carrying out the deed. Derf's author's notes and testimonies from Dahmer himself stated that the mutilated dog head on a stake in the woods was already dead when Dahmer found it, Derf clarifies that this was not the same dog he was close to killing earlier in the story. It's stated in subsequent notes that Dahmer did hunt and kill small animals like squirrels and toads and people around town found dead animals nailed to trees.
** Played straight with Lloyd Figg in the graphic novel who ran over dogs with his car [[ForTheEvulz for kicks.]] Even ''Dahmer'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]] was mortified by this and he stopped hanging with Figg as a result.
** Played straight with Lloyd Figg in the graphic novel who ran over dogs with his car [[ForTheEvulz for kicks.]] Even ''Dahmer'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]] was mortified by this and he stopped hanging with Figg as a result.
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** Downplayed with Dahmer, the Dahmer. The animal carcasses he finds and dissolves for their bones were roadkill he finds already dead. The worst we see him do is disembowel a live fish during a fishing trip trip, and getting really close to killing a neighborhood dog but thankfully stopped stopping himself before carrying out the deed. Derf's author's notes and testimonies from Dahmer himself stated that the mutilated dog head on a stake in the woods was already dead when Dahmer found it, it; Derf clarifies that this was not the same dog he was close to killing earlier in the story. It's stated in subsequent notes that Dahmer did hunt and kill small animals like squirrels and toads toads, and people around town found dead animals nailed to trees.
** Played straight with Lloyd Figg in the graphicnovel novel, who ran over dogs with his car [[ForTheEvulz for kicks.]] Even ''Dahmer'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]] was mortified by this and he stopped hanging with Figg as a result.
** Played straight with Lloyd Figg in the graphic
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** There's even photos of this real-life event...here's actual [[https://i.ibb.co/MG6rjDL/Annotation-2020-05-21-031432.png Revere High yearbook]] pics of Derf's big blockbuster Hitler routine.
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** There's even photos of this real-life event...here's actual [[https://i.ibb.co/MG6rjDL/Annotation-2020-05-21-031432.png Revere High yearbook]] pics yearbook pics]] of Derf's big blockbuster Hitler [[spoiler:Hitler]] routine.
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* ConsummateLiar: Derf notes that Jeff is great at deceiving others, which would become a very useful skill once he becomes a murderer.
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* ConsummateLiar: Derf notes that Jeff is great at deceiving others, which would become a very useful skill once he becomes a murderer.SerialKiller.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Right after his awkward visit to Dr. Matthews, the jogger, Jeffrey does this.
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* DisappearedDad: Despite doing his best to get his son less introverted and more interested in doing things, Jeff's father Lionel frequently made himself absent to escape his volatile marriage to Joyce. Like all the other adults in his life, he is not there when Jeff needs him most and thus completely misses the warning signs of his evolving pathology.
* DownerEnding: Dahmer becomes a SerialKiller, and the reader is left with the impression that his murders could've been prevented.
* DownerEnding: Dahmer becomes a SerialKiller, and the reader is left with the impression that his murders could've been prevented.
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* DisappearedDad: Despite doing his best to get his son less introverted and more interested in doing things, Jeff's father Lionel frequently made makes himself absent to escape his volatile marriage to Joyce. Like all the other adults in his life, he is not there when Jeff needs him most and thus completely misses the warning signs of his evolving pathology.
* DownerEnding: Dahmer becomes a SerialKiller, and the reader is left with the impression that his murderscould've could have been prevented.
* DownerEnding: Dahmer becomes a SerialKiller, and the reader is left with the impression that his murders
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--> '''Narration:''' Dahmer lived in rural Bath, Ohio, in the rolling countryside just outside grimy, crumbling, Akron. The Rubber City was an industrial powerhouse gone bust in the great seventies recession. Times were tough. The tire factories were closing. Once bustling, Downtown Akron was now a ghost town of boarded-up stores. People were leaving the area in droves. Akron was dying.
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--> '''Narration:''' Dahmer lived in rural Bath, Ohio, in the rolling countryside just outside grimy, crumbling, Akron. The Rubber City was an industrial powerhouse gone bust in the great seventies Seventies recession. Times were tough. The tire factories were closing. Once bustling, Downtown Akron was now a ghost town of boarded-up stores. People were leaving the area in droves. Akron was dying.
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* EvilCounterpart: Derf notes that he and Jeff had almost the exact same background. Both boys were the sons of chemists, both had one younger sibling (a brother), both lived in [[TheFifties Fifties]] ranch houses on hillsides. The main difference was that while Derf's family was stable and supportive, [[FreudianExcuse Jeff's was neither]][[note]]Unlike the movie and Graphic Novel, Derf was [[https://i.ibb.co/KqH67VX/teenderf.png also a mop-haired kid with glasses]] like Dahmer...Derf was basically a more well-adjusted, dark-haired Anti-Dahmer[[/note]].
** Subverted in regards to Lloyd Figg, whom Jeff is compared to. Lloyd appears blatantly AxCrazy next to the more quiet and awkward Jeff...but Jeff is the one that became a SerialKiller.
** Subverted in regards to Lloyd Figg, whom Jeff is compared to. Lloyd appears blatantly AxCrazy next to the more quiet and awkward Jeff...but Jeff is the one that became a SerialKiller.
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* EvilCounterpart: Derf notes that he and Jeff had almost the exact same background. Both boys were the sons of chemists, both had one younger sibling (a brother), both lived in [[TheFifties Fifties]] ranch houses on hillsides. The main difference was that while Derf's family was stable and supportive, [[FreudianExcuse Jeff's was neither]][[note]]Unlike the movie and Graphic Novel, Derf was [[https://i.ibb.co/KqH67VX/teenderf.png also a mop-haired kid with glasses]] like Dahmer... Derf was basically a more well-adjusted, dark-haired Anti-Dahmer[[/note]].
** Subverted in regards to Lloyd Figg, whom Jeff is compared to. Lloyd appears blatantly AxCrazy next to the more quiet and awkward Jeff... but Jeff is the one that became a SerialKiller.
** Subverted in regards to Lloyd Figg, whom Jeff is compared to. Lloyd appears blatantly AxCrazy next to the more quiet and awkward Jeff... but Jeff is the one that became a SerialKiller.
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--> '''Narration:''' Some instinct warned me off. I was always wary of Dahmer. I was willing to hang out with him at school, but there was no way I was going to forge a closer friendship.
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--> '''Narration:''' [[SpiderSense Some instinct warned me off. off.]] I was always wary of Dahmer. I was willing to hang out with him at school, but there was no way I was going to forge a closer friendship.
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** On the part of Revere High School. Back in TheSeventies, public schools did not have the stringent security practices of today. Jeff carried his bottles of alcohol to school in a briefcase -- something students then and now simply don't carry -- and no school staff thought to look inside the briefcase because it didn't fit their profile of the average "stoner."
** [[PoliceAreUseless Also the police]]. They pull over Jeff after his first murder and believe his story that the bags in his trunk are full of garbage, even though he's driving to the landfill at 3 a.m. and the body parts inside the bags (in the middle of summer) would have reeked.
*** This even continued after Dahmer committed more murders, including the Milwaukee police [[WhatAnIdiot giving him back one of his victims]] despite being naked ''with a drill wound in his head''.
** [[PoliceAreUseless Also the police]]. They pull over Jeff after his first murder and believe his story that the bags in his trunk are full of garbage, even though he's driving to the landfill at 3 a.m. and the body parts inside the bags (in the middle of summer) would have reeked.
*** This even continued after Dahmer committed more murders, including the Milwaukee police [[WhatAnIdiot giving him back one of his victims]] despite being naked ''with a drill wound in his head''.
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** [[AdultsAreUseless On the part of Revere High School. School.]] Back in TheSeventies, public schools did not have the stringent security practices of today. Jeff carried his bottles of alcohol to school in a briefcase -- something students then and now simply don't carry -- and no school staff thought to look inside the briefcase because it didn't fit their profile of the average "stoner."
** [[PoliceAreUseless Also thepolice]]. police.]] They pull over Jeff after his first murder and believe his story that the bags in his trunk are full of garbage, even though he's driving to the landfill at 3 a.m. ''at three in the morning'' and the body parts inside the bags (in the middle of summer) would have reeked.
*** This even continued after Dahmer committed more murders, including the Milwaukee police [[WhatAnIdiot giving him back one of his victims]] despite being naked ''with a drill wound in his head''.reeked.
** [[PoliceAreUseless Also the
*** This even continued after Dahmer committed more murders, including the Milwaukee police [[WhatAnIdiot giving him back one of his victims]] despite being naked ''with a drill wound in his head''.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stuff about the future Dahmer murders get alluded to in random lines and objects (sometime with a bit of dark humor)...
** Jeff's mom under-cooks chicken and declares "WE EAT OUR MISTAKES!" [[note]]Jeff stated in interviews that he never really wanted to kill anyone but somehow just did...and he got into cannibalism[[/note]].
** When Jeff is told to give the thighs or drumsticks (which he wanted) to his little brother, David, Jeff protests the potential ParentalFavoritism concerning David with "But I like dark meat!" [[note]]Dahmer's 17 victims, with a few exceptions, tended to be black, Latino or Central Asian[[/note]].
** During the D.C. trip; Jeff shares a room with a black male student he never met before and starts asking weird questions about whenever blacks and whites look the same inside their bodies [[note]]See note concerning the "dark meat" thing, above[[/note]].
** Jeff's dad gives him barbells...which he would later use to kill Stephen Hicks [[note]]Jeff would later die in similar fashion in 1994[[/note]].
** Jeff's mom under-cooks chicken and declares "WE EAT OUR MISTAKES!" [[note]]Jeff stated in interviews that he never really wanted to kill anyone but somehow just did...and he got into cannibalism[[/note]].
** When Jeff is told to give the thighs or drumsticks (which he wanted) to his little brother, David, Jeff protests the potential ParentalFavoritism concerning David with "But I like dark meat!" [[note]]Dahmer's 17 victims, with a few exceptions, tended to be black, Latino or Central Asian[[/note]].
** During the D.C. trip; Jeff shares a room with a black male student he never met before and starts asking weird questions about whenever blacks and whites look the same inside their bodies [[note]]See note concerning the "dark meat" thing, above[[/note]].
** Jeff's dad gives him barbells...which he would later use to kill Stephen Hicks [[note]]Jeff would later die in similar fashion in 1994[[/note]].
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Double-Subversion in Jeff; On one hand, he does become one of the grisliest [[SerialKiller serial killers]] in modern history. However; He's presented somewhat semi-sympathetically (at first) in TheMovie and GraphicNovel and he comes off more as a ReluctantPsycho than a gleeful sadist.
* FreudianExcuse: Derf contrasts his own home life with Jeff's, which was marked by constant fights between his parents, the erratic and possibly insane behavior of his mother Joyce, and the lack of any support from either his family or the teachers at Revere High when Jeff's gruesome sexual fantasies begin to manifest and he feels the need to drown them with alcohol.
* FreudianExcuse: Derf contrasts his own home life with Jeff's, which was marked by constant fights between his parents, the erratic and possibly insane behavior of his mother Joyce, and the lack of any support from either his family or the teachers at Revere High when Jeff's gruesome sexual fantasies begin to manifest and he feels the need to drown them with alcohol.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Double-Subversion in Jeff; Jeff. On one hand, he does become one of the grisliest [[SerialKiller serial killers]] in modern history. However; He's However, he's presented somewhat semi-sympathetically (at first) in TheMovie the comic and GraphicNovel and he comes off more as a ReluctantPsycho than a gleeful sadist.
* FreudianExcuse: Derf contrasts his own home life with Jeff's, which was marked by constant fights between his parents, the erratic and possibly insane behavior of his mother Joyce, and the lack of any support from either his family or the teachers at Revere High when Jeff's gruesome sexual fantasiesbegin began to manifest and he feels felt the need to drown them with alcohol.
* FreudianExcuse: Derf contrasts his own home life with Jeff's, which was marked by constant fights between his parents, the erratic and possibly insane behavior of his mother Joyce, and the lack of any support from either his family or the teachers at Revere High when Jeff's gruesome sexual fantasies
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** The very end of the book. In 1988, Derf meets up with two high school pals and they reminisce about other classmates. Jeffrey (just beginning his spree in earnest at this point in time) is brought up. [[spoiler:Derf jokes that Jeff is "probably a serial killer by now."]]
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** The very end of the book. In 1988, Derf meets up with two high school pals and they reminisce about other classmates. Jeffrey Jeff (just beginning his spree in earnest at this point in time) is brought up. [[spoiler:Derf jokes that Jeff is "probably a serial killer by now."]]
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* HormoneAddledTeenager: Since this is Jeffrey Dahmer we're talking about, this manifests in ''very'' disturbing ways.
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* HormoneAddledTeenager: Since this is Jeffrey Dahmer we're talking about, this manifests in ''very'' ''[[NightmareFetishist very]]'' [[NightmareFetishist disturbing ways.ways]].
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* {{Irony}}: A lesson of sorts in not judging books by their covers; Lloyd Figg (especially in the movie) makes a big show of being a huge psycho edgelord while Jeffrey looked relatively normal and well-behaved (Even Derf [[https://i.ibb.co/ZK4tV1V/Annotation-2020-05-18-142959.png in the lunchroom lampshades]] this when Figg's having a meltdown) in compassion...it was the latter who became a genuine SerialKiller.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lloyd Figg, a crude, disruptive, kleptomaniacal student that Derf regards as the class psycho and someone [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Jeff]] is offended by. [[spoiler: He's even Derf's first guess when he hears that someone from his high school class is a serial killer.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Lloyd Figg, a crude, disruptive, kleptomaniacal student that Derf regards as the class psycho and someone [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Jeff]] is offended by. [[spoiler: He's even Derf's first guess when he hears that someone from his high school class is a serial killer.]]
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* {{Irony}}: A lesson of sorts in not judging books by their covers; Lloyd Figg (especially in the movie) makes a big show of being a huge psycho edgelord while Jeffrey looked Jeff looks relatively normal and well-behaved (Even (even Derf [[https://i.ibb.co/ZK4tV1V/Annotation-2020-05-18-142959.png in the lunchroom lampshades]] this when Figg's having a meltdown) in compassion...comparison... but it was is the latter who became becomes a genuine SerialKiller.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lloyd Figg, a crude, disruptive, kleptomaniacal student that Derf regards as the class psycho and someone [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Jeff]] is offended by.[[spoiler: He's [[spoiler:He's even Derf's first guess when he hears that someone from his high school class is a serial killer.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Lloyd Figg, a crude, disruptive, kleptomaniacal student that Derf regards as the class psycho and someone [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Jeff]] is offended by.
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* LivingProp: Jeff's little brother, David, comes off as a borderline case. He doesn't get much characterization and only a few lines. Justified in that not much was known about him other than him being "the normal one" who was a high-achiever and favored by the parents (and Backderf knew even less about him).
* LivingWithTheVillain: Closer to ''"Going To School With The Villain"''.
* LonersAreFreaks: Awkward, bespectacled, roadkill collecting & dissecting, alcoholic, ClassClown, closeted-homosexual future SerialKiller freaks.
* {{Megane}}: Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a [[https://i.ibb.co/8mDZr0n/Annotation-2020-05-09-130852.png bad-looking guy]], physically and the lovely PrettyBoy heart-throb, Creator/RossLynch playing him only compounds the ''Megane''-vibe.
* LivingWithTheVillain: Closer to ''"Going To School With The Villain"''.
* LonersAreFreaks: Awkward, bespectacled, roadkill collecting & dissecting, alcoholic, ClassClown, closeted-homosexual future SerialKiller freaks.
* {{Megane}}: Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a [[https://i.ibb.co/8mDZr0n/Annotation-2020-05-09-130852.png bad-looking guy]], physically and the lovely PrettyBoy heart-throb, Creator/RossLynch playing him only compounds the ''Megane''-vibe.
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* LivingProp: Jeff's little brother, David, comes off as a borderline case. He doesn't get much characterization and only a few lines. Justified in that not much was is known about him other than him being "the normal one" who was a high-achiever and high-achiever, was favored by Jeff's parents, was beneath Backderf's notice at the parents (and Backderf knew even less about him).
time given his younger age, and has legally changed his name and lived in anonymity since Jeff's crimes were exposed.
* LivingWithTheVillain: Closer to''"Going "Going To School With The Villain"''.
Villain".
* LonersAreFreaks:Awkward, bespectacled, Freaks of the "[[NoSocialSkills awkward]], [[FourEyesZeroSoul bespectacled]], [[CollectorOfTheStrange roadkill collecting & dissecting, alcoholic, collecting/dissecting]], [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]], ClassClown, closeted-homosexual [[ClosetGay closeted-homosexual]], future SerialKiller freaks.
* {{Megane}}: Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a [[https://i.ibb.co/8mDZr0n/Annotation-2020-05-09-130852.png bad-looking guy]], physically and the lovely PrettyBoy heart-throb, Creator/RossLynch playing him only compounds the ''Megane''-vibe.SerialKiller" variety.
* LivingWithTheVillain: Closer to
* LonersAreFreaks:
* {{Megane}}: Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a [[https://i.ibb.co/8mDZr0n/Annotation-2020-05-09-130852.png bad-looking guy]], physically and the lovely PrettyBoy heart-throb, Creator/RossLynch playing him only compounds the ''Megane''-vibe.
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* {{Nerd}}: Portrayed realistically. Jeffrey and the Dahmer Fan Club are social outcasts but with none of the academic awesomeness or stereotypical interests usually associated with that.
* NightmareFetishist: In junior high, Jeff collects roadkill and dissolves the carcasses in pickle jars filled with acid, and later steals a fetal pig from the school lab to dissect. He moves on to live animals capable of feeling fear and pain, and leaves their bones strewn around an altar-like rock in the woods. Then Jeff realizes he is sexually aroused at the thought of corpses, his fantasies of which become so obsessive that he claims his first victim after graduating from high school.
* NightmareFetishist: In junior high, Jeff collects roadkill and dissolves the carcasses in pickle jars filled with acid, and later steals a fetal pig from the school lab to dissect. He moves on to live animals capable of feeling fear and pain, and leaves their bones strewn around an altar-like rock in the woods. Then Jeff realizes he is sexually aroused at the thought of corpses, his fantasies of which become so obsessive that he claims his first victim after graduating from high school.
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* {{Nerd}}: Portrayed realistically. Jeffrey Jeff and the Dahmer Fan Club are social outcasts but with none of the academic awesomeness or stereotypical interests usually associated with that.
* NightmareFetishist: In junior high, Jeff collects roadkill and dissolves the carcasses in pickle jars filled with acid, and later steals a fetal pig from the school lab to dissect. He moves on to live animals capable of feeling fear and pain, and leaves their bones strewn around an altar-like rock in the woods. Then Jeff realizes he is sexually aroused at the thought of corpses, his fantasies of which become so obsessive that he claims his first victim just weeks after graduating from high school.
* NightmareFetishist: In junior high, Jeff collects roadkill and dissolves the carcasses in pickle jars filled with acid, and later steals a fetal pig from the school lab to dissect. He moves on to live animals capable of feeling fear and pain, and leaves their bones strewn around an altar-like rock in the woods. Then Jeff realizes he is sexually aroused at the thought of corpses, his fantasies of which become so obsessive that he claims his first victim just weeks after graduating from high school.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: After Derf's standup routine as Hitler, he goes to get some water and runs into Dahmer, having a brief chat with him. Derf makes a note that yes, he did indeed have a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer while dressed as Adolf Hitler and that in hindsight it's one of the most surreal moments of his life.
* ParentalAbandonment: What triggers Jeff's final MoralEventHorizon. First, Lionel abandons Jeff by leaving the house and divorcing Joyce. (In fairness, Wiki/TheOtherWiki mentions that Lionel did continue to look after Jeff and urged him to turn his life around. Though Derf argues it was too late by this point.) Then, Joyce secretly moves to Wisconsin with David, leaving Jeff completely alone in the house. Derf considers these incidents to be devastating blows for Jeff, and links the abandonment by his parents to his desire to keep his victims from ever leaving him.
* ParentalAbandonment: What triggers Jeff's final MoralEventHorizon. First, Lionel abandons Jeff by leaving the house and divorcing Joyce. (In fairness, Wiki/TheOtherWiki mentions that Lionel did continue to look after Jeff and urged him to turn his life around. Though Derf argues it was too late by this point.) Then, Joyce secretly moves to Wisconsin with David, leaving Jeff completely alone in the house. Derf considers these incidents to be devastating blows for Jeff, and links the abandonment by his parents to his desire to keep his victims from ever leaving him.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: After Derf's standup routine as Hitler, [[spoiler:Hitler]], he goes to get some water and runs into Dahmer, having a brief chat with him. Derf makes a note that yes, he did indeed have a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer while dressed as Adolf Hitler [[spoiler:Adolf Hitler]] and that in hindsight it's one of the most surreal moments of his life.
* ParentalAbandonment: What triggers Jeff's final MoralEventHorizon. First, Lionel abandons Jeff by leaving the house and divorcing Joyce. (In fairness, Wiki/TheOtherWiki mentions that Lionel did continue to look after Jeff and urged him to turn his life around. Though Derf argues it was too late by this point.) Then, Joyce secretly moves to Wisconsin with David, leaving Jeff completely alone in the house. Derf considers these incidents to be devastating blows for Jeff, and links the abandonment by his parents to his desire to keep his victims from ever leaving him. It's probably no coincidence that Dahmer's murder of Steven Hicks took place shortly after these events.
* ParentalAbandonment: What triggers Jeff's final MoralEventHorizon. First, Lionel abandons Jeff by leaving the house and divorcing Joyce. (In fairness, Wiki/TheOtherWiki mentions that Lionel did continue to look after Jeff and urged him to turn his life around. Though Derf argues it was too late by this point.) Then, Joyce secretly moves to Wisconsin with David, leaving Jeff completely alone in the house. Derf considers these incidents to be devastating blows for Jeff, and links the abandonment by his parents to his desire to keep his victims from ever leaving him. It's probably no coincidence that Dahmer's murder of Steven Hicks took place shortly after these events.
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*** DoubleSubversion in that, in RealLife, the dog was already dead when he found it. Dahmer may have been a horrific SerialKiller of young men but he wasn't a zoosadist. He was a huge animal-lover and was horrified at Lloyd Figg's evil pastime of dog-based vehicular slaughter.
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*** DoubleSubversion in that, in RealLife, the dog was already dead when he found it. Dahmer may have been a horrific SerialKiller of young men but he wasn't a zoosadist. He was a huge animal-lover and was horrified at Lloyd Figg's evil pastime of dog-based vehicular slaughter.dogslaughter.
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* ReluctantPsycho: Dahmer comes across as one during his high-school years, drinking himself into insensibility as his only way of dealing with the sadistic and necrophiliac drives that would cause him to become a serial murderer.
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* ReluctantPsycho: Dahmer comes across as one during his high-school high school years, drinking himself into insensibility as his only way of dealing with the sadistic and necrophiliac drives that would cause him to become a serial murderer.
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: Jeffrey in darker moments in the GraphicNovel.
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** Also; Young people hitchhiking was a regular thing (how Jeff met his first victim) and mimicking the severely-disabled was considered the height of comedy rather than DudeNotFunny.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A point of sorts concerning Jeffrey Dahmer and Lloyd Figg. Jeff, while creepy, was mainly a quiet, withdrawn, somewhat nice-looking young man (with occasional bursts of BlackComedy-goofing off). Lloyd Figg...however...was a violent, cruel freak who was blatantly AxCrazy. It was comparably-more normal-ish Jeff...not Lloyd...who turned out to be the gruesome cannibal serial killer. Figg in the movie is basically presented as the "Class Psychopath" straight out of the Manson Family whom everyone would assume would become some sort of Homicidal Maniac or something.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A point of sorts concerning Jeffrey Dahmer and Lloyd Figg. Jeff, while creepy, was mainly a quiet, withdrawn, somewhat nice-looking young man (with occasional bursts of BlackComedy-goofing off). Lloyd Figg...however...Figg, however, was a violent, cruel freak who was blatantly AxCrazy. It Yet it was comparably-more normal-ish Jeff...Jeff, not Lloyd...Lloyd, who turned out to be the gruesome cannibal serial killer. Figg in the movie is basically presented as the "Class Psychopath" straight out of the Manson Family whom everyone would assume would become some sort of Homicidal Maniac or something.killer.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Pretty much Jeff's attitude after his mother moved out. Until this point, he was mostly mortified by his own sexual urges and fantasies and became TheAlcoholic in an attempt to drown them away. But when mom moved...he gave in and killed Steven Hicks.
* TragicKeepsake: Almost all of Derf's sketches from high school show [[TheCameo cameos]] of Jeff as a humorous character. He becomes the mascot for a fictitious candidate for student body president and appears in the inner cover art for Revere High's 1978 yearbook, with all of the characters surrounding him speaking in "Dahmerisms." (Jeff would have been on the cover proper if the yearbook committee hadn't spiked it.) The book also shows a photo of Jeff [[http://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/photos/35/16/24_backderfdahmer_2012_04_20_bk01_z.jpg joking around]] at school.
* UnPerson: The Dahmer Fan Club organizes a prank where they sneak Jeff into group photos of student organizations where he doesn't belong. A faculty member furiously [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d3Mf2yg1z8g/UMUjuJj1rqI/AAAAAAAAH0o/bMhaT0jLd4E/s1600/tumblr_m6xekydpqQ1qc948xo1_1280.png scribbles over]] Jeff's face in one of the pictures when she finds out, while all of the other pictures are removed by the yearbook committee. That picture becomes a symbol of "Dahmer's wasted youth."
** Revere High in real life concerning a "Wall of Fame" they have where dozens of photo collages for each year's Graduating Class. The photo collection of the Class of 1978 is absent due to Dahmer being among that group of photos.
* TragicKeepsake: Almost all of Derf's sketches from high school show [[TheCameo cameos]] of Jeff as a humorous character. He becomes the mascot for a fictitious candidate for student body president and appears in the inner cover art for Revere High's 1978 yearbook, with all of the characters surrounding him speaking in "Dahmerisms." (Jeff would have been on the cover proper if the yearbook committee hadn't spiked it.) The book also shows a photo of Jeff [[http://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/photos/35/16/24_backderfdahmer_2012_04_20_bk01_z.jpg joking around]] at school.
* UnPerson: The Dahmer Fan Club organizes a prank where they sneak Jeff into group photos of student organizations where he doesn't belong. A faculty member furiously [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d3Mf2yg1z8g/UMUjuJj1rqI/AAAAAAAAH0o/bMhaT0jLd4E/s1600/tumblr_m6xekydpqQ1qc948xo1_1280.png scribbles over]] Jeff's face in one of the pictures when she finds out, while all of the other pictures are removed by the yearbook committee. That picture becomes a symbol of "Dahmer's wasted youth."
** Revere High in real life concerning a "Wall of Fame" they have where dozens of photo collages for each year's Graduating Class. The photo collection of the Class of 1978 is absent due to Dahmer being among that group of photos.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Pretty much Jeff's attitude after his mother moved out. Until this point, he was mostly mortified by his own sexual urges and fantasies and became TheAlcoholic in an attempt to drown them away. But when mom moved...Joyce moved away, he gave in and killed Steven Hicks.
* TragicKeepsake: Almost all of Derf's sketches from high school show [[TheCameo cameos]] of Jeff as a humorous character. He becomes the mascot for a fictitious candidate forstudent body class president and appears in the inner cover art for Revere High's 1978 yearbook, with all of the characters surrounding him speaking in "Dahmerisms." (Jeff would have been on the cover proper if the yearbook committee hadn't spiked it.) The book also shows a photo of Jeff [[http://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/photos/35/16/24_backderfdahmer_2012_04_20_bk01_z.jpg joking around]] at school.
* UnPerson: The Dahmer Fan Club organizes a prank where they sneak Jeff into group photos of student organizations where he doesn't belong. A faculty member furiously [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d3Mf2yg1z8g/UMUjuJj1rqI/AAAAAAAAH0o/bMhaT0jLd4E/s1600/tumblr_m6xekydpqQ1qc948xo1_1280.png scribbles over]] Jeff's face in one of the pictures when she finds out, while all of the other pictures are removed by the yearbook committee. That picture becomes a symbol of "Dahmer's wasted youth."
**"[[note]]In RealLife, Revere High in real life concerning has a "Wall of Fame" they have where featuring dozens of photo collages for each year's Graduating Class. The photo collection of the Class of 1978 is absent due to Dahmer being among that group of photos.[[/note]]
* TragicKeepsake: Almost all of Derf's sketches from high school show [[TheCameo cameos]] of Jeff as a humorous character. He becomes the mascot for a fictitious candidate for
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Right after his awkward visit to Dr. Matthews, the jogger, Jeffrey does this.
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* AdaptationNameChange: A number of supporting characters' names are not what they were in RealLife. ''Lloyd Figg'' was not really "Lloyd Figg", Oliver Zlatka (Jeff's Neil Sedaka-loving sort-of-friend from early in the film) may or may not have existed and Cindy Zlatka (the suicide discussed in the fishing scene) likely didn't go by that name. "Neil" and "Kent" were likely also pseudonyms (only John/Derf and Mike go by their real names). The girl who was Jeffrey Dahmer's prom date was really named Bridget Geiger [[note]]Though it's unknown if "Geiger" is her married or maiden name[[/note]], not "Brenda".
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Well...sort of...with Lloyd Figg. In the comic he is a [[https://i.ibb.co/ng9hRWN/Comic-Figg.png very ugly fat guy]] with curly-hair, sideburns and geeky fashion sense. In the movie he is a [[https://i.ibb.co/z2xtLyM/Movie-Figg.png slender, androgynous, scary kid]] with long stringy wild hair who resembles a more unhinged Charles Manson wannabe.
** More straight-forward with the dog Dahmer [[https://i.ibb.co/JBWHRpN/doggo1.png considered killing]] but [[https://i.ibb.co/m97tNYH/doggo2.png thankfully didn't]][[note]]Then again; Derf's drawing style makes every sentient, whenever human or critter, weird or ugly-looking[[/note]].
** Derf Backderf was in RealLife, a [[https://i.ibb.co/KqH67VX/teenderf.png dorky-looking kid]] with NerdGlasses and not...well...[[https://i.ibb.co/QbZBKz5/Annotation-2020-04-10-045049.png Alex Wolff]]. The GraphicNovel has him similar to RealLife but glasses-free (He's the guy on the upper-left of the cover shown above. Only the earlier comic version was accurate). Derf probably went sans-glasses in the GraphicNovel due to [[https://i.ibb.co/r4JD2TH/Annotation-2020-04-16-054221.png looking almost]] indistinguishable from Jeffrey Dahmer in the original comic.
** Dahmer's prom date in the movie was played by a more [[https://i.ibb.co/x74RVQT/Screenshot-2021-06-21-135419.png conventionally]] attractive [[https://i.ibb.co/9bD7Dmr/Screenshot-2021-06-21-135001.png woman]] whereas in RealLife and the GraphicNovel, she was [[https://i.ibb.co/Mk77mm0/Screenshot-2021-06-21-134200.png more frumpy]] and [[https://i.ibb.co/tp7S1Ld/Screenshot-2021-06-21-135059.png plain]][[note]]They try to make up for this by having the actress portray her as an awkward HollywoodHomely with a jerky walk[[/note]].
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the film, Neil goes through a HeelRealization and recognizes that their treatment of Jeff is exploitative, apologizing to Jeff as being inappropriate. He even tells one of the guys "He isn't a side show attraction".
** This is less-apparent but hinted with Derf in the end, though he feebly tries to placate Jeff with "We were just having fun" and attempting to gift his weird "Jeff Drawings" to Jeff (who refuses). He also seems to waver between genuine concern and feigned guffaws during Jeff's "Command Performance" at the Mall.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Joyce in the graphic novel is a deeply troubled soul and is utterly self-absorbed, with Backderf stating that she effectively abandoned Jeff and guilt-tripped him into not revealing her whereabouts to her ex-husband. In the film Joyce is barely there, and is more a normal mother save for a few quirks and her leaving Dahmer is more nonchalant and mostly pleasant.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Believe it or not, Jeff is even worse in the film adaptation as he is shown [[spoiler:attempting to kill Backderf]], something that Derf does not recollect or depict in the comic.
** Backderf and the Dahmer Fan Club are portrayed as somewhat more exploitative of Jeff. Jeff even outright says that he does not like the cartoons Backderf has made of him [[note]]He initially enjoys the drawings, though...but once he figures out that Derf's bunch are just using him, he changes his tune[[/note]]. In the comic, Derf insists there was no malice on their part as they were social outcasts themselves and that they found Jeffrey to be a genuinely funny guy. Jeffrey's own feelings on the matter are never made clear in the story, but Derf notes that Jeffrey said in later interviews that he looked back on his high school years fondly.
** Lloyd Figg in the comic is a FatBastard with serious anger and behavioral issues who's mostly laughed at. Lloyd Figg in the movie is a slim, wild-haired freak who's genuinely feared.
** More straight-forward with the dog Dahmer [[https://i.ibb.co/JBWHRpN/doggo1.png considered killing]] but [[https://i.ibb.co/m97tNYH/doggo2.png thankfully didn't]][[note]]Then again; Derf's drawing style makes every sentient, whenever human or critter, weird or ugly-looking[[/note]].
** Derf Backderf was in RealLife, a [[https://i.ibb.co/KqH67VX/teenderf.png dorky-looking kid]] with NerdGlasses and not...well...[[https://i.ibb.co/QbZBKz5/Annotation-2020-04-10-045049.png Alex Wolff]]. The GraphicNovel has him similar to RealLife but glasses-free (He's the guy on the upper-left of the cover shown above. Only the earlier comic version was accurate). Derf probably went sans-glasses in the GraphicNovel due to [[https://i.ibb.co/r4JD2TH/Annotation-2020-04-16-054221.png looking almost]] indistinguishable from Jeffrey Dahmer in the original comic.
** Dahmer's prom date in the movie was played by a more [[https://i.ibb.co/x74RVQT/Screenshot-2021-06-21-135419.png conventionally]] attractive [[https://i.ibb.co/9bD7Dmr/Screenshot-2021-06-21-135001.png woman]] whereas in RealLife and the GraphicNovel, she was [[https://i.ibb.co/Mk77mm0/Screenshot-2021-06-21-134200.png more frumpy]] and [[https://i.ibb.co/tp7S1Ld/Screenshot-2021-06-21-135059.png plain]][[note]]They try to make up for this by having the actress portray her as an awkward HollywoodHomely with a jerky walk[[/note]].
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the film, Neil goes through a HeelRealization and recognizes that their treatment of Jeff is exploitative, apologizing to Jeff as being inappropriate. He even tells one of the guys "He isn't a side show attraction".
** This is less-apparent but hinted with Derf in the end, though he feebly tries to placate Jeff with "We were just having fun" and attempting to gift his weird "Jeff Drawings" to Jeff (who refuses). He also seems to waver between genuine concern and feigned guffaws during Jeff's "Command Performance" at the Mall.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Joyce in the graphic novel is a deeply troubled soul and is utterly self-absorbed, with Backderf stating that she effectively abandoned Jeff and guilt-tripped him into not revealing her whereabouts to her ex-husband. In the film Joyce is barely there, and is more a normal mother save for a few quirks and her leaving Dahmer is more nonchalant and mostly pleasant.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Believe it or not, Jeff is even worse in the film adaptation as he is shown [[spoiler:attempting to kill Backderf]], something that Derf does not recollect or depict in the comic.
** Backderf and the Dahmer Fan Club are portrayed as somewhat more exploitative of Jeff. Jeff even outright says that he does not like the cartoons Backderf has made of him [[note]]He initially enjoys the drawings, though...but once he figures out that Derf's bunch are just using him, he changes his tune[[/note]]. In the comic, Derf insists there was no malice on their part as they were social outcasts themselves and that they found Jeffrey to be a genuinely funny guy. Jeffrey's own feelings on the matter are never made clear in the story, but Derf notes that Jeffrey said in later interviews that he looked back on his high school years fondly.
** Lloyd Figg in the comic is a FatBastard with serious anger and behavioral issues who's mostly laughed at. Lloyd Figg in the movie is a slim, wild-haired freak who's genuinely feared.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Not everything in this comic or its film adaptation is really what happened.
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** In the film, Derf's final meeting with Jeff is portrayed as very tense, with Jeff almost making an attempt to kill him. In the comic Derf notes he does not even recall the last time he met Dahmer. The encounter the scene is based on was with Mike (not Derf) and their conversation was amicable, if awkward, rather than tense and threatening.
** Derf is in several scenes in the film where he was not present in the comic or real life, like the school trip to Washington DC or the prom (Derf notes the irony that Jeffrey Dahmer went to the prom but he didn't.).
** There's more to the "stalking the jogger" subplot in the movie. The jogger's a Family Practice doctor so Jeffrey sets up a physical exam in the Jogger's clinic...and basically tricking the man into touching Jeffrey's genitals via the TurnYourHeadAndCough routine. The clinic scene is not in the comic.
** There's a scene in the movie where Jeff's in the woods by his house with Lloyd Figg where Lloyd shows off a gun and tries playing RussianRoulette, which Jeff wisely refuses and is genuinely freaked out by. This isn't in the comic.
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** Jeff's brother David only appears in a single panel in the comic. Derf notes that he purposely excluded David from the story since he was a much younger kid beneath his notice back then and Derf never witnessed what part David played in Jeff's life. In the film his role is still minor but he appears in multiple scenes and even showcases a sympathetic side to Jeff with him having a bit of a BigBrotherInstinct towards his little brother.
** Lionel Dahmer doesn't appear much in person and is mostly a peripheral character in the comic, since Derf rarely interacted with him. In the film he is a major character.
** The jogger becomes an actual supporting character with lines and everything rather than a literal "extra" Jeff obsesses over. He's a GP doctor named Dr. Matthews. Jeff in the movie even has an appointment with him.
** Derf is in several scenes in the film where he was not present in the comic or real life, like the school trip to Washington DC or the prom (Derf notes the irony that Jeffrey Dahmer went to the prom but he didn't.).
** There's more to the "stalking the jogger" subplot in the movie. The jogger's a Family Practice doctor so Jeffrey sets up a physical exam in the Jogger's clinic...and basically tricking the man into touching Jeffrey's genitals via the TurnYourHeadAndCough routine. The clinic scene is not in the comic.
** There's a scene in the movie where Jeff's in the woods by his house with Lloyd Figg where Lloyd shows off a gun and tries playing RussianRoulette, which Jeff wisely refuses and is genuinely freaked out by. This isn't in the comic.
* AscendedExtra:
** Jeff's brother David only appears in a single panel in the comic. Derf notes that he purposely excluded David from the story since he was a much younger kid beneath his notice back then and Derf never witnessed what part David played in Jeff's life. In the film his role is still minor but he appears in multiple scenes and even showcases a sympathetic side to Jeff with him having a bit of a BigBrotherInstinct towards his little brother.
** Lionel Dahmer doesn't appear much in person and is mostly a peripheral character in the comic, since Derf rarely interacted with him. In the film he is a major character.
** The jogger becomes an actual supporting character with lines and everything rather than a literal "extra" Jeff obsesses over. He's a GP doctor named Dr. Matthews. Jeff in the movie even has an appointment with him.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Lionel Dahmer in TheMovie.
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* MoodWhiplash: Amusing scenes in the movie tend to be abruptly followed by something dark (and vice versa)...
** Dahmer is "befriended" by Derf and his pals and a few scenes the newly-minted "Dahmer Fan Club" goofing off ensues...then Dahmer returns home to see his mother frantic and searching for pills and he hyperventalates at the horror of the situation...then his new "friends" come over and they do more silly teen boy dumbassery, like annoy a "Popular Girl" who had since graduated who was still living at home.
** The fishing scene starts out as a nice, mundane, bit...then Dahmer decided to cut up the fish he cought like a horror movie villain, weirding out Derf.
** The big Mall Scene antics seem silly in the first few seconds...but it becomes a rather sad, disturbing scene quickly...with Dahmer finally realizing he's being used.
** Dahmer is "befriended" by Derf and his pals and a few scenes the newly-minted "Dahmer Fan Club" goofing off ensues...then Dahmer returns home to see his mother frantic and searching for pills and he hyperventalates at the horror of the situation...then his new "friends" come over and they do more silly teen boy dumbassery, like annoy a "Popular Girl" who had since graduated who was still living at home.
** The fishing scene starts out as a nice, mundane, bit...then Dahmer decided to cut up the fish he cought like a horror movie villain, weirding out Derf.
** The big Mall Scene antics seem silly in the first few seconds...but it becomes a rather sad, disturbing scene quickly...with Dahmer finally realizing he's being used.
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* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath: In the film, the sky is gray and overcast when Jeff meets Steven Hicks.
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* RussianRoulette: In TheMovie; Lloyd Figg tries playing this with Jeff. Jeff would have none of it.
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* SirSwearsALot: Lloyd Figg in the movie version.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Jeffrey Dahmer; Meet Jogging Doctor. In the movie; Jeff even sets up an appointment for an exam so he could trick the doctor into touching his "area" via the TurnYourHeadAndCough.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jeff's friend, Oliver, from early in the film. The kid who was a Neil Sedaka fan who would get bullied by jocks for being AmbiguouslyGay. We last see him during the humorous "Jeff sneaks into class photos where he doesn't belong" montage.
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A film adaptation was released in 2017 starring Alex Wolff as teenage Backderf and Creator/RossLynch as teenage Jeffrey Dahmer.
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** Dahmer's prom date in the movie was played by a more conventionally attractive woman whereas in RealLife and the GraphicNovel, she was more frumpy and plain.
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*** [[DoubleSubvertion Double-subverted]] in that, in RealLife, the dog was already dead when he found it. Dahmer may have been a horrific SerialKiller of young men but he wasn't a zoosadist. He was a huge animal-lover and was horrified at Lloyd Figg's evil pastime of dog-based vehicular slaughter.
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*** [[DoubleSubvertion Double-subverted]] DoubleSubversion in that, in RealLife, the dog was already dead when he found it. Dahmer may have been a horrific SerialKiller of young men but he wasn't a zoosadist. He was a huge animal-lover and was horrified at Lloyd Figg's evil pastime of dog-based vehicular slaughter.
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* {{Sadist}}: Jeff gets off on seeing animals being butchered, and laughs when other people get hurt.
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* {{Sadist}}: Jeff gets off on seeing animals being butchered, and laughs when other people get hurt.
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** Slightly subverted in that Dahmer wasn't a regular animal-killer (apart from small things like frogs and bugs) and not a zoosadist in RealLife. The dog that was gutted and it's skull put on a stick was already dead when Jeff found it.
*** [[DoubleSubvertion Double-subverted]] in that, in RealLife, the dog was already dead when he found it. Dahmer may have been a horrific SerialKiller of young men but he wasn't a zoosadist. He was a huge animal-lover and was horrified at Lloyd Figg's evil pastime of dog-based vehicular slaughter.
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* TeensAreShort: Averted completely, it's even lampshaded the fact that Jeff had a growth spurth early in the comic in which he was not only muscular but also tall.
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* TeensAreShort: Averted completely, it's even lampshaded the fact that Jeff had a growth spurth spurt early in the comic in which he was not only muscular but also tall.
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*** This even continued after Dahmer committed more murders, including the Milwaukee police [[WhatAnIdiot giving him back one of his victims]] despite being naked ''with a drill wound in his head''.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Well...sort of...with Lloyd Figg. In the comic is a [[https://i.ibb.co/ng9hRWN/Comic-Figg.png very ugly fat guy]] with curly-hair, sideburns and geeky fashion sense. In the movie he is a [[https://i.ibb.co/z2xtLyM/Movie-Figg.png slender, androgynous, scary kid]] with long stringy wild hair who resembles a more unhinged Charles Manson wannabe.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Well...sort of...with Lloyd Figg. In the comic he is a [[https://i.ibb.co/ng9hRWN/Comic-Figg.png very ugly fat guy]] with curly-hair, sideburns and geeky fashion sense. In the movie he is a [[https://i.ibb.co/z2xtLyM/Movie-Figg.png slender, androgynous, scary kid]] with long stringy wild hair who resembles a more unhinged Charles Manson wannabe.
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* DyingTown: Akron, Ohio, which Bath is a suburb of. Like most Rust Belt cities at the time, Akron's once booming rubber industry was struggling from the 1970s economic recession.
--> '''Narration:''' Dahmer lived in rural Bath, Ohio, in the rolling countryside just outside grimy, crumbling, Akron. The Rubber City was an industrial powerhouse gone bust in the great seventies recession. Times were tough. The tire factories were closing. Once bustling, Downtown Akron was now a ghost town of boarded-up stores. People were leaving the area in droves. Akron was dying.
--> '''Narration:''' Dahmer lived in rural Bath, Ohio, in the rolling countryside just outside grimy, crumbling, Akron. The Rubber City was an industrial powerhouse gone bust in the great seventies recession. Times were tough. The tire factories were closing. Once bustling, Downtown Akron was now a ghost town of boarded-up stores. People were leaving the area in droves. Akron was dying.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals:
** Downplayed with Dahmer, the animal carcasses he finds and dissolves for their bones were roadkill he finds already dead. The worst we see him do is disembowel a live fish during a fishing trip and getting really close to killing a neighborhood dog but thankfully stopped himself before carrying out the deed. Derf's author's notes and testimonies from Dahmer himself stated that the mutilated dog head on a stake in the woods was already dead when Dahmer found it, Derf clarifies that this was not the same dog he was close to killing earlier in the story. It's stated in subsequent notes that Dahmer did hunt and kill small animals like squirrels and toads and people around town found dead animals nailed to trees.
** Played straight with Lloyd Figg in the graphic novel who ran over dogs with his car [[ForTheEvulz for kicks.]] Even ''Dahmer'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]] was mortified by this and he stopped hanging with Figg as a result.
** Downplayed with Dahmer, the animal carcasses he finds and dissolves for their bones were roadkill he finds already dead. The worst we see him do is disembowel a live fish during a fishing trip and getting really close to killing a neighborhood dog but thankfully stopped himself before carrying out the deed. Derf's author's notes and testimonies from Dahmer himself stated that the mutilated dog head on a stake in the woods was already dead when Dahmer found it, Derf clarifies that this was not the same dog he was close to killing earlier in the story. It's stated in subsequent notes that Dahmer did hunt and kill small animals like squirrels and toads and people around town found dead animals nailed to trees.
** Played straight with Lloyd Figg in the graphic novel who ran over dogs with his car [[ForTheEvulz for kicks.]] Even ''Dahmer'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]] was mortified by this and he stopped hanging with Figg as a result.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: After Derf's standup routine as Hitler, he goes to get some water and runs into Dahmer, having brief chat with him. Derf makes a note that yes, he did indeed have a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer while dressed as Hitler and that in hindsight it's one of the most surreal moments of his life.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: After Derf's standup routine as Hitler, he goes to get some water and runs into Dahmer, having a brief chat with him. Derf makes a note that yes, he did indeed have a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer while dressed as Adolf Hitler and that in hindsight it's one of the most surreal moments of his life.
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** Backderf and the Dahmer Fan Club are portrayed as somewhat more exploitative of Jeff. Jeff even outright says that he does not like the cartoons Backderf has made of him [[note]]He initially enjoys the drawings, though...but once he figures out that Derf's bunch are just using him, he changes his tune[[/note]].
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** Backderf and the Dahmer Fan Club are portrayed as somewhat more exploitative of Jeff. Jeff even outright says that he does not like the cartoons Backderf has made of him [[note]]He initially enjoys the drawings, though...but once he figures out that Derf's bunch are just using him, he changes his tune[[/note]]. In the comic, Derf insists there was no malice on their part as they were social outcasts themselves and that they found Jeffrey to be a genuinely funny guy. Jeffrey's own feelings on the matter are never made clear in the story, but Derf notes that Jeffrey said in later interviews that he looked back on his high school years fondly.
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* {{Nerd}}: Jeffrey (but with none of the academic awesomeness usually associated with that).
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* {{Nerd}}: Portrayed realistically. Jeffrey (but and the Dahmer Fan Club are social outcasts but with none of the academic awesomeness or stereotypical interests usually associated with that).that.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: After Derf's standup routine as Hitler, he goes to get some water and runs into Dahmer, having brief chat with him. Derf makes a note that yes, he did indeed have a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer while dressed as Hitler and that in hindsight it's one of the most surreal moments of his life.
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[[caption-width-right:320:Portrait of the Monster as a Young Man.]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:Portrait of the Monster as a Young Man.]]
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* TeensAreShort: Averted completely, it's even lampshaded the fact that Jeff had a growth spurth early in the comic in which he was not only muscular but also tall.
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* HarsherInHindsight: InUniverse. "Dahmer is [[spoiler: probably a serial killer by now]]!"
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* HarsherInHindsight: InUniverse. "Dahmer InUniverse:
** The very end of the book. In 1988, Derf meets up with two high school pals and they reminisce about other classmates. Jeffrey (just beginning his spree in earnest at this point in time) is[[spoiler: probably brought up. [[spoiler:Derf jokes that Jeff is "probably a serial killer by now]]!"now."]]
---> "And we all ''laughed''."
** The sketches Derf drew of Jeff as the "Minister of Propaganda" for the Dahmer Fan Club. He put Jeff in his drawings for student election flyers and Revere High's yearbook (where the other characters are all speaking in "Dahmerisms.")
** The very idea of the Dahmer Fan Club in the first place.
** The very end of the book. In 1988, Derf meets up with two high school pals and they reminisce about other classmates. Jeffrey (just beginning his spree in earnest at this point in time) is
---> "And we all ''laughed''."
** The sketches Derf drew of Jeff as the "Minister of Propaganda" for the Dahmer Fan Club. He put Jeff in his drawings for student election flyers and Revere High's yearbook (where the other characters are all speaking in "Dahmerisms.")
** The very idea of the Dahmer Fan Club in the first place.
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* TheStinger: At the very, ''very'' end of the book, after the comic epilogue, after the text epilogue, after the author's notes, comes two final comic pages depicting the moment [[spoiler: Derf finds out that Dahmer has become a killer.]]
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* TheStinger: At the very, ''very'' end of the book, after the comic epilogue, after the text epilogue, after the author's notes, comes two final comic pages depicting the moment [[spoiler: Derf [[spoiler:Derf finds out that Dahmer has become a killer.been arrested for multiple murders.]]
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* JokeAndReceive: "Dahmer is probably a serial killer by now!" "And we all ''laughed''."
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* JokeAndReceive: "Dahmer is probably [[spoiler:probably a serial killer by now!" now!]]" "And we all ''laughed''."
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Derf's comic, later expanded into a much longer graphic novel, chronicles the years he spent together with Dahmer in high school, unknowingly witnessing his friend's [[FromNobodyToNightmare transformation]] into one of the most infamous SerialKillers in modern history. Along the way, Derf asks pertinent questions about why nobody – [[AdultsAreUseless especially the adults]] – ever figured out Dahmer was tormented by what in hindsight were painfully obvious personal demons.
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Derf's comic, later expanded into a much longer graphic novel, chronicles the years he spent together with Dahmer in high school, unknowingly witnessing his friend's [[FromNobodyToNightmare transformation]] into one of the most infamous SerialKillers [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] in modern history. Along the way, Derf asks pertinent questions about why nobody – [[AdultsAreUseless especially the adults]] – ever figured out Dahmer was tormented by what in hindsight were painfully obvious personal demons.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jeff's early friend/acquaintance, Oliver, was likely this for Jeff. Jeff was gay (but hated it) and preferred handsome [[{{Hunk}} hunks]] and PrettyBoy [[{{Twink}} twinks]] (Common denominator being 'Fit and with little body hair'). Oliver was a small, slightly-doughy, barely post-pubescent effeminate nerd (who could easily be mistaken for a boyish-looking girl) who liked Neil Sedaka [[note]]a schmaltzy singer who had some pop hits in the early Sixties (such as 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do' & 'Calendar Girl') who wasn't, at this point, anything ''remotely'' resembling "Cool"[[/note]]. Leaving the poor little guy to "the wolves" was likely not just a selfish way for Jeff to escape from being bullied...but to signal that he wasn't into Oliver, ''that way.''
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jeff's early friend/acquaintance, Oliver, was likely this for Jeff. Jeff was gay (but hated it) and preferred handsome [[{{Hunk}} hunks]] and PrettyBoy [[{{Twink}} twinks]] (Common (common denominator being 'Fit 'fit and with little body hair'). Oliver was a small, slightly-doughy, barely post-pubescent effeminate nerd (who could easily be mistaken for a boyish-looking girl) who liked Neil Sedaka [[note]]a schmaltzy singer who had some pop hits in the early Sixties (such as 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do' & 'Calendar Girl') who wasn't, at this point, anything ''remotely'' resembling "Cool"[[/note]]."cool"[[/note]]. Leaving the poor little guy to "the wolves" was likely not just a selfish way for Jeff to escape from being bullied...but to signal that he wasn't into Oliver, Oliver ''that way.''
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* HumanLadder: Not in the sense of being used for something but, rather, as impersonating objects; Some of Derf's drawings of Dahmer have this as a theme...with Jeff depicted as random objects like bird-feeders, telephone poles, coat-racks, bags of groceries, etc.
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Derf's comic, later expanded into a much longer graphic novel, chronicles the years he spent together with Dahmer in high school, unknowingly witnessing his friend's [[FromNobodyToNightmare transformation]] into one of the most depraved SerialKiller infamous SerialKillers in modern history. Along the way, Derf asks pertinent questions about why nobody – [[AdultsAreUseless especially the adults]] – ever figured out Dahmer was tormented by what in hindsight were painfully obvious personal demons.
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* {{Megane}}: Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a [[https://i.ibb.co/8mDZr0n/Annotation-2020-05-09-130852.png bad-looking guy]], physically and the lovely PrettyBoy [[https://i.ibb.co/1ZrgzG9/Pretty-Ross-Lynch.png heart-throb]], Creator/RossLynch playing [[https://i.ibb.co/17QR4C8/Ross-Lynch-As-Dahmer.png him only]] compounds the ''Megane''-vibe.
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* {{Megane}}: Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a [[https://i.ibb.co/8mDZr0n/Annotation-2020-05-09-130852.png bad-looking guy]], physically and the lovely PrettyBoy [[https://i.ibb.co/1ZrgzG9/Pretty-Ross-Lynch.png heart-throb]], heart-throb, Creator/RossLynch playing [[https://i.ibb.co/17QR4C8/Ross-Lynch-As-Dahmer.png him only]] only compounds the ''Megane''-vibe.
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* HenPeckedHusband: Lionel Dahmer in TheMovie.
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* HenPeckedHusband: HenpeckedHusband: Lionel Dahmer in TheMovie.TheMovie.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Since this is Jeffrey Dahmer we're talking about, this manifests in ''very'' disturbing ways.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Since this is Jeffrey Dahmer we're talking about, this manifests in ''very'' disturbing ways.
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* HormoneAddledTeenager: Since this is Jeffrey Dahmer we're talking about, this manifests in ''very'' disturbing ways.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Well...sort of...with Lloyd Figg. In the comic is a [[https://i.ibb.co/ng9hRWN/Comic-Figg.png very ugly fat guy]] with curly-hair, sideburns and geeky fashion sense. In the movie; [[https://i.ibb.co/z2xtLyM/Movie-Figg.png He's a slender]], androgynous, scary kid with long stringy wild hair who resembles a more unhinged Manson Family wannabee.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Well...sort of...with Lloyd Figg. In the comic is a [[https://i.ibb.co/ng9hRWN/Comic-Figg.png very ugly fat guy]] with curly-hair, sideburns and geeky fashion sense. In the movie; movie he is a [[https://i.ibb.co/z2xtLyM/Movie-Figg.png He's a slender]], slender, androgynous, scary kid kid]] with long stringy wild hair who resembles a more unhinged Charles Manson Family wannabee.wannabe.
