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* HowWeGotHere: Subverted. The film opens with a colorized scene of Bella [[DrivenToSuicide throwing herself]] in [[SlowMotionFall slow motion]] from London Bridge. Then we cut to a black-and-white scene ([[MonochromePast implying a past event]]) showing her at Baxter's house. But it's later revealed that the bridge scene in fact preceeded the rest of the story and that it was her body's revival that set the plot in motion.
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* HowWeGotHere: Subverted. The film opens with a colorized scene of Bella [[DrivenToSuicide throwing herself]] in [[SlowMotionFall slow motion]] from London Bridge. Then we cut to a black-and-white scene ([[MonochromePast implying a past event]]) showing her at Baxter's house. But it's later revealed that the bridge scene in fact preceeded preceded the rest of the story and that it was her body's revival that set the plot in motion.
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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Bella never learned to absorb societal hang-ups about sex because she's so young. When she discovers self-pleasure, she immediately offers to stimulate Mrs. Prim and Max. Later she suggests to Max in the street to touch each other's genital pieces and she openly asks Duncan for sex whenever she feels like it.
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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Bella [[LovableSexManiac Bella]] never learned to absorb societal hang-ups about sex because she's so young. When she discovers self-pleasure, she immediately offers to stimulate Mrs. Prim and Max. Later she suggests to Max in the street to touch each other's genital pieces and she openly asks Duncan for sex whenever she feels like it.
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* MonochromeToColor: The movie switches from DeliberatelyMonochrome to color for the second chapter of the movie where Bella finally gets out of the GildedCage and starts to enjoy her freedom with Duncan in Lisbon.
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* OnscreenChapterTitles: The story is segmented by surreal interstitials announcing the title of the chapters.
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* OnscreenChapterTitles: The story is segmented by surreal interstitials announcing the title of the six chapters.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The book is split into four parts, with the largest, the second, being what is adapted to screen. Even this is somewhat truncated as the book gives significant focus to the landscape, architecture, and history of Glasgow, where most of it is set.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The book is split into four parts, with the largest, the second, being what is adapted to the screen. Even this is somewhat truncated as the book gives significant focus to the landscape, architecture, and history of Glasgow, where most of it is set.
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* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler: With it being increasingly obvious that he intends to imprison Bella inside the mansion under the guise of curing her "amnesia" (with an outright threat of shooting her in the head if she tries to leave), Alfie attempts to reframe the situation as him being sure that she will be as happy in their marriage as she was before. An incredulous Bella lampshades that this is the same before where she ultimately threw herself off a bridge.]]
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* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler: With it being increasingly obvious that he intends to imprison Bella inside the mansion under the guise of curing her "amnesia" (with an outright threat of shooting her in the head if she tries to leave), Alfie attempts to reframe the situation as him being sure that she will be as happy in their marriage as she was before. An incredulous Bella lampshades that this is the same as before where when she ultimately threw herself off a bridge.]]
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* GothicHorror: The film is a strange case of a story that borrows many elements from this genre, including human reanimation via mad science, a mysterious suicide, a rake with ill intentions toward the heroine, and the heroine spending a stint imprisoned in a gloomy old manor by a sinister nobleman, but spins them into a much more hopeful and bright ComingOfAge story. The biggest Gothic influence is ''{{Literature/Frankenstein}}'', but here the MadScientist is a loving (if overprotective) father-figure and his creation is a beautiful and inquisitive young woman, whose voyage into understanding the world broadens her horizons and makes her even more empathetic instead of alienating her from it the way FrankensteinsMonster was alienated when ''he'' wandered Europe.
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* GothicHorror: The film is a strange case of a story that borrows many elements from this genre, including human reanimation via mad science, a mysterious suicide, a rake with ill intentions toward the heroine, and the heroine spending a stint imprisoned in a gloomy old manor by a sinister nobleman, but spins them into a much more hopeful and bright ComingOfAge story. The biggest Gothic influence is ''{{Literature/Frankenstein}}'', but here the MadScientist is a loving (if overprotective) father-figure father figure and his creation is a beautiful and inquisitive young woman, whose voyage into understanding the world broadens her horizons and makes her even more empathetic instead of alienating her from it the way FrankensteinsMonster was alienated when ''he'' wandered Europe.
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* MoodLighting: The scenes set in Alexandria are given an jaundiced yellow tone, adding to the discomfort Bella feels upon witnessing extreme poverty and inequality for the first time.
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* MoodLighting: The scenes set in Alexandria are given an a jaundiced yellow tone, adding to the discomfort Bella feels upon witnessing extreme poverty and inequality for the first time.
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* UnproblematicProstitution: Zig-zagged. Fitting her status as TheShameless, Bella has absolutely no moral hang-ups about being a prostitute, and is confused when Duncan reacts so violently to the fact. She genuinely enjoys sex, doesn't seem to mind the appearance or personality of anyone she sleeps with (only complaining about the occasional smell), and overall walks away from the experience glad she did it. But she eventually learns that not every prostitute is nearly as pleased with their job (especially her friend and eventual lover Toinette), and that [[MissKitty Madame Swiney]], despite providing her with a job and occasional praise, is exploiting her. The film posits that prostitution is not essentially immoral, but ''is'' another form of capitalist exploitation, since Madame Swiney is running the house in order to pay for the care of her granddaughter.
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* UnproblematicProstitution: Zig-zagged. Fitting her status as TheShameless, Bella has absolutely no moral hang-ups about being a prostitute, and is confused when Duncan reacts so violently to the fact. She genuinely enjoys sex, doesn't seem to mind the appearance or personality of anyone she sleeps with (only complaining about the occasional smell), and overall walks away from the experience glad she did it. But she eventually learns that not every prostitute is nearly as pleased with their job (especially her friend and eventual lover Toinette), and that [[MissKitty Madame Swiney]], despite providing her with a job and occasional praise, is exploiting her. The film posits that prostitution is not essentially immoral, but ''is'' another form of capitalist exploitation, exploitation since Madame Swiney is running the house in order to pay for the care of her granddaughter.
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* ActorAllusion: While in Lisbon, Bella notes an aquarium full of zebra fish, the same kind of fish as the character of Gil, voiced by Creator/WillemDafoe in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
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* ActorAllusion: While in Lisbon, Bella notes an aquarium full of zebra fish, zebrafish, the same kind of fish as the character of Gil, voiced by Creator/WillemDafoe in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
* AlliterativeName: Bella Baxter and Max [=McCandles=].
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* AlliterativeName: Bella Baxter and Max [=McCandles=].
* AutopsySnackTime: When studying medicine in Paris, we see Bella casually eating a croissant while examining an opened-up body in the dissection hall.
* BioPunk: While the rest of the world has technology with a Steampunk aesthetic, Dr. Baxter seems more interested in dissecting human cadavers and surgically creating MixAndMatchCritters. He eats using an advanced system of machines in place of a stomach, and his initial issue with having sex with Bella is less an aversion to pseudo-incest and more that it would take "all of London's electrical power" for him to sexually perform at all as a result of his own father's experimentation on him. (After that, however, his "paternal feelings" kicked in and he saw her as too much of a daughter.)
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* BioPunk: While the rest of the world has technology with a Steampunk aesthetic, Dr. Baxter seems more interested in dissecting human cadavers and surgically creating MixAndMatchCritters. He eats using an advanced system of machines in place of a stomach, and his initial issue with having sex with Bella is less an aversion to pseudo-incest and more that it would take "all of London's electrical power" for him to sexually perform at all as a result of his own father's experimentation on him. (After that, however, his "paternal feelings" kicked in and he saw her as too much of a daughter.)
* CountryMatters: When Duncan is at the end of his rope with Bella in Paris, he lets out a prolonged "Cuuuuuuuuuuuuunt" scream at her.
* EiffelTowerEffect: The first shot of Paris shows an unfinished Eiffel Tower.
* ExactEavesdropping: Back at the Blessington mansion, Bella is at the right time and place to overhear Alfie and a doctor planning her sedation and subsequent surgery.
* FishEyeLens: Some scenes are shot with a superwide fisheye lens adding to the film's quirkiness.
* FoodSlap: Bella does it repeatedly.
** She playfully throws pieces of kippers at Max at the breakfast table.
** Later she tosses a glass of beverage at Duncan in anger at the ballroom.
** Finally she throws the cocktail glass with a chloroform-gin mix into Alfie's face which ends up sedating him.
** She playfully throws pieces of kippers at Max at the breakfast table.
** Later she tosses a glass of beverage at Duncan in anger at the ballroom.
** Finally she throws the cocktail glass with a chloroform-gin mix into Alfie's face which ends up sedating him.
* AGoodWayToDie: At the end, [[spoiler:Godwin dies peacefully in his bed surrounded by Max and Bella]].
* HandshakeRefusal: When Max meets Bella, she refuses his handshake and rather hits him in the face.
* HowWeGotHere: Subverted. The film opens with a colorized scene of Bella [[DrivenToSuicide throwing herself]] in [[SlowMotionFall slow motion]] from London Bridge. Then we cut to a black-and-white scene ([[MonochromePast implying a past event]]) showing her at Baxter's house. But it's later revealed that the bridge scene in fact preceeded the rest of the story and that it was her body's revival that set the plot in motion.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Bella makes loud moaning sounds when she pleasures herself with an apple at the breakfast table.
* InNameOnly: The film differs radically from Alasdair Gray's 1992 source novel.
* InternalReveal: In the last chapter of the movie, Bella finally learns about her creation.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The ballroom scene at Lisbon ends with Bella [[FoodSlap tossing a glass of beverage at Duncan in anger]] and then the scene cuts to them having passionate sex at their room.
* IntroDump: In an early scene at the dissection hall, Max lectures his fellow students about Godwin Baxter being an [[CharacterShilling outstanding surgeon]] and that his father founded the place.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Bella makes loud moaning sounds when she pleasures herself with an apple at the breakfast table.
* InNameOnly: The film differs radically from Alasdair Gray's 1992 source novel.
* InternalReveal: In the last chapter of the movie, Bella finally learns about her creation.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The ballroom scene at Lisbon ends with Bella [[FoodSlap tossing a glass of beverage at Duncan in anger]] and then the scene cuts to them having passionate sex at their room.
* IntroDump: In an early scene at the dissection hall, Max lectures his fellow students about Godwin Baxter being an [[CharacterShilling outstanding surgeon]] and that his father founded the place.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Arriving in Paris stripped of any money, Duncan calls Bella a "selfish, thoughtless, careless bitch". Bella retorts that she is not thoughtless.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: The film includes a fair amount of it. Bella even plays with a corpse's penis at the start.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: The film includes a fair amount of it. MadonnaWhoreComplex: A gender-inverted example. Bella even plays does on more than one occasion say that her relationship with a corpse's penis at the start.Duncan is "just for fun" and implies that she will discard him eventually to marry Max.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: A gender-inverted example. Bella does on more than one occasion say that her relationship with Duncan is "just for fun" and implies that she will discard him eventually to marry Max.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: A gender-inverted example. MaleFrontalNudity: The film includes a fair amount of it. Bella does on more than one occasion say that her relationship even plays with Duncan is "just for fun" and implies that she will discard him eventually to marry Max. a corpse's penis at the start.
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* PottyFailure: An early sign of Bella being in an infant state is her leaving a pee puddle in the hall.
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* TableSpace: Bella and Godwin dine at the opposite end of a large table. The same happens at the end with her and Alfie Blessington at their mansion.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Bella vomits on an observation platform above Lisbon after having too many pastries.
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* YouMonster: At Paris, a devasted Duncan calls Bella a monster sent from hell to torture him.
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* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: As part of the story being set in an AlternateUniverse, there are strangely shaped hot-air balloons in the sky above Lisbon.
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* ArtNouveau: The film's spectacular production design blends Art Nouveau style with {{Steampunk}}.
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* ArtNouveau: The film's spectacular production design blends Art Nouveau style with {{Steampunk}}.
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* ActorAllusion:
** While in Lisbon, Bella notes an aquarium full of zebra fish, the same kind of fish as the character of Gil, voiced by Creator/WillemDafoe in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
** While in Lisbon, Bella notes an aquarium full of zebra fish, the same kind of fish as the character of Gil, voiced by Creator/WillemDafoe in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
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**ActorAllusion: While in Lisbon, Bella notes an aquarium full of zebra fish, the same kind of fish as the character of Gil, voiced by Creator/WillemDafoe in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
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* AlternateUniverse: The world as depicted in this film uses {{Steampunk}} technology and ArtNouveau styling on most buildings, and while Bella's behavior certainly shocks the people around her, her unconventional fashion sense and unstyled hair don't seem to make any impact on how's she's perceived at all. The older buildings in London combine the aforementioned ArtNouveau style with Brutalism, which wasn't introduced until the 1960s in the real world. On top of the visual divergences from reality, the plot hinges on Frankensteinian mad science as easily practicable, just untried. What makes it an alternate universe and not just an AnachronismStew is that one of Duncan and Bella's dining companions in Lisbon alludes to ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' as a "new play of [[Creator/OscarWilde Wilde's]]" that just opened back in London, which sets the story concretely in 1895.
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* AlternateUniverse: AlternateUniverse:
** The world as depicted in this film uses {{Steampunk}} technology and ArtNouveau styling on most buildings, and while Bella's behavior certainly shocks the people around her, her unconventional fashion sense and unstyled hair don't seem to make any impact on how's she's perceived at all. The older buildings in London combine the aforementioned ArtNouveau style with Brutalism, which wasn't introduced until the 1960s in the real world. On top of the visual divergences from reality, the plot hinges on Frankensteinian mad science as easily practicable, just untried. What makes it an alternate universe and not just an AnachronismStew is that one of Duncan and Bella's dining companions in Lisbon alludes to ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' as a "new play of [[Creator/OscarWilde Wilde's]]" that just opened back in London, which sets the story concretely in1895.1895.
** London's Tower Bridge appears in the background of some shots, but the design of the bascule is slightly different from how we know it today, and is in fact based on an old design for the actual bridge that wasn't realized.
** The world as depicted in this film uses {{Steampunk}} technology and ArtNouveau styling on most buildings, and while Bella's behavior certainly shocks the people around her, her unconventional fashion sense and unstyled hair don't seem to make any impact on how's she's perceived at all. The older buildings in London combine the aforementioned ArtNouveau style with Brutalism, which wasn't introduced until the 1960s in the real world. On top of the visual divergences from reality, the plot hinges on Frankensteinian mad science as easily practicable, just untried. What makes it an alternate universe and not just an AnachronismStew is that one of Duncan and Bella's dining companions in Lisbon alludes to ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' as a "new play of [[Creator/OscarWilde Wilde's]]" that just opened back in London, which sets the story concretely in
** London's Tower Bridge appears in the background of some shots, but the design of the bascule is slightly different from how we know it today, and is in fact based on an old design for the actual bridge that wasn't realized.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In Paris, one of Bella's johns brings his two young sons with him, saying that he wants them to gain experience in lovemaking firsthand. We're led to believe that the man wants Bella to [[{{Squick}} have sex with his underage sons]], but instead, he has sex with Bella while his sons observe and take notes.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In Paris, one of Bella's johns brings his two young sons with him, saying that he wants them to gain experience in lovemaking firsthand. We're led to believe that the man wants Bella to [[{{Squick}} have sex with his underage sons]], but instead, [[ProfessionalSexEd he has sex with Bella while his sons observe and take notes.notes]].
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* DoYouWanttoCopulate: Bella never learned to absorb societal hang-ups about sex because she's so young. When she discovers self-pleasure, she immediately offers to stimulate Mrs. Prim and Max.
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* DoYouWanttoCopulate: DoYouWantToCopulate: Bella never learned to absorb societal hang-ups about sex because she's so young. When she discovers self-pleasure, she immediately offers to stimulate Mrs. Prim and Max. Later she suggests to Max in the street to touch each other's genital pieces and she openly asks Duncan for sex whenever she feels like it.
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* {{Foil}}: Max and Duncan are the film's main contenders for Bella's regard. At the start of the story, Max is sincere but also awkward and passive, going along with Baxter's aim to keep Bella confined and ignorant of her origins, while Duncan is suave, charismatic and facilitates Bella's departure to freedom and exploring the world. As the story progresses, however, Max grows more confident and willing to speak his mind, particularly when it comes to Baxter's treatment of Felicity, while Duncan is humiliated, bankrupted and driven to madness by Bella's refusal to cater to his whims. Duncan is enraged when he learns that Bella has turned to sex work, while Max takes the news (mostly) in stride, stressing that Bella's body is her own and confessing to being envious of the men who spent so much time with her. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Duncan, despite his numerous failings, is a]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking fantastic]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lover, while Max clearly needs to work on his kissing skills.]] [[spoiler:Finally, while Duncan confronts Bella with her mother's husband Alfie and nearly ruins her life, Max assists her in ridding herself of the threat Alfie poses for good.]]
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* {{Foil}}: Max and Duncan are the film's main contenders for Bella's regard. At the start of the story, NiceGuy Max is sincere but also awkward and passive, going along with Baxter's aim to keep Bella confined and ignorant of her origins, while Duncan is suave, charismatic and facilitates Bella's departure to freedom and exploring the world. As the story progresses, however, Max grows more confident and willing to speak his mind, particularly when it comes to Baxter's treatment of Felicity, while Duncan is humiliated, bankrupted and driven to madness by Bella's refusal to cater to his whims. Duncan is enraged when he learns that Bella has turned to sex work, while Max takes the news (mostly) in stride, stressing that Bella's body is her own and confessing to being envious of the men who spent so much time with her. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Duncan, despite his numerous failings, is a]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking fantastic]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lover, while Max clearly needs to work on his kissing skills.]] [[spoiler:Finally, while Duncan confronts Bella with her mother's husband Alfie and nearly ruins her life, Max assists her in ridding herself of the threat Alfie poses for good.]]
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* KidsAreCruel: When Bella still has the mental faculties of a child, she kills a frog purely out of childish sadism and delights in stabbing the eyes of a cadaver. Max is clearly creeped out by her behavior, but he falls for her just the same.
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* KidsAreCruel: When Bella still has the mental faculties of a child, she kills a frog purely out of childish sadism and delights in [[EyeScream stabbing the eyes eyes]] of a cadaver. Max is clearly creeped out by her behavior, but he falls for her just the same.
* SexualEuphemism: Bella calls sex "furious jumping" even long after she knows what sex is, and orgasms are "happiness". Masturbation, therefore, is "making happiness".
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* UnusualEuphemism: Bella calls sex "furious jumping" even long after she knows what sex is, and orgasms are "happiness". Masturbation, therefore, is "making happiness".
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* AbusiveParents: Dr. Godwin Baxter's father made him the subject of all sorts of twisted "experiments", resulting in his scarred appearance.
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* IdiotHero: Bella openly admits her ability to think logically is "not the best," and she often gets tricked and manipulated by the people around her. Justified, as she literally has the brain of an infant, and over time she grows to be as intelligent as her creator.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Bella doesn't understand basic etiquette and constantly embarrasses Duncan with her unintentionally rude comments, such as blithely commenting on Martha's lack of a sex life and discussing a bordello client's ugliness right in front of him.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Bella doesn't understand basic etiquette and constantly embarrasses Duncan with her unintentionally rude comments, such as blithely commenting on Martha's lack of a sex life and discussing a bordello client's ugliness right in front of him.
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* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Bella qualifies as a particularly twisted variation on this trope, as both Max and Duncan fall in love with her while she is mentally a child. [[spoiler:Once she matures into an "adult", Duncan loses interest due to her newfound intellect whereas Max's desire to marry her increases significantly.]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Deconstructed. Bella is more or less a manic pixie for Duncan, but [[spoiler:his carefree lifestyle and attitude are utterly broken by the time she realizes she's too good for him, and he's driven crazy by her to the point of being committed to an asylum. Given how he behaves, he probably deserves it.]]
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* SexGod: For all that he's an insufferable, chauvinistic, cowardly cad, Duncan Wedderburn is ''great'' in bed. Part of Bella's character development is realizing that no matter how good he is at [[UnusualEuphemism furious jumping and making happiness for Bella]], he's simply not operating on her level and doesn't deserve her time.
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* WifeHusbandry: Discussed. Max originally believes that Godwin must have created Bella to be his mistress. Godwin explains that he considered it at first, but his growing paternal love for her (assisted by his inability to have sex) soon erased any carnal desire.
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Alfie Blessington plans to forcibly impregnate Bella after having her clitoris removed. Throughout Bella's months traveling Europe, she's never shown to menstruate, and has unprotected sex with dozens of men while working in Madame Swiney's bordello without becoming pregnant. Bella probably ''can't'' have children to begin with, presumably as a consequence of the surgery that Godwin performed on her body.]]
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Alfie Blessington plans to forcibly impregnate Bella after having her clitoris removed. Throughout Bella's months traveling Europe, she's never shown to menstruate, and has unprotected sex with dozens of men while working in Madame Swiney's bordello without becoming pregnant. Bella probably ''can't'' have children to begin with, presumably either due to the TraumaticCSection Godwin used to deliver her baby or as a consequence of the surgery that other surgeries Godwin performed on her body.to resurrect her.]]
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