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* CompositeCharacter: the character of Sheriff Merle Karnopp is an amalgam of various law enforcement officials involved in the Starkweather case: in particular, the real Sherriff Merle C. Karnopp of Lancaster County who investigated the first four murders and instigated the manhunt for Starkweather and Fugate, and Sheriff Earl Heflin of Converse County who arrested Starkweather.
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* CluelessDeputy: Sheriff Karnopp's primary deputy is his brother-in-law Dale, who is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Karnopp has prevent him from trampling all over the first crime scene, and he is keen to write the first murder off as being the work of a drifter, until Karnopp points out all the factors that make that unlikely.
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* CluelessDeputy: Sheriff Karnopp's primary deputy is his brother-in-law Dale, who is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Karnopp has prevent him from trampling all over the first crime scene, and he is keen to write the first murder off as being the work of a drifter, until Karnopp points out all the factors that make that unlikely. Is somewhat counterbalanced by his unwavering loyalty and bravery.
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* CluelessDeputy: Sheriff Karnopp's primary deputy is his brother-in-law Dale, who is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Karnopp has prevent him from trampling all over the first crime scene, and he is keen to write the first murder off as being the work of a drifter, until Karnopp points out all the factors that make that unlikely.
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* MistakenForPregnant: A RunningGag is people either assuming or asking Caril Ann if she is pregnant, and her insisting that she has just put on weight. This appears to be an embellishment created for the film, as the real Fugate was not pregnant when she was arrested, and there is no indication that there was any suspicion she ever was.
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* MistakenForPregnant: A RunningGag (for want of a better term) is people either assuming or asking Caril Ann if she is pregnant, and her insisting that she has just put on weight. This appears to be an embellishment created for the film, as the real Fugate was not pregnant when she was arrested, and there is no indication that there was any suspicion she ever was.
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* MistakenForPregnant: A RunningGag is people either assuming or asking Caril Ann if she is pregnant, and her insisting that she has just put on weight. This appears to be an embellishment created for the film, as the real Fugate was not pregnant when she was arrested, and there is no indication that there was any suspicion she ever was.
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* TheFaceless: 'The Dark Man' always has his face fully wreathed in shadow from his fedora; no matter the lighting around him is doing. Justified, as he is a manifestation of Charlie's darkest impulses and only exists inside Charlie's head.
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* VillainProtagonist: Follows Charles Starkweather as he murders eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Charlie can go from seemingly calm and polite to a raging fury in the blink of an eye.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on the real life killing spree of Starkweather and Fugate.
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* ImaginaryEnemy: Charlie is tormented by a manifestation of his darker impulses known as as 'The Dark Man' (or 'The Mentor') who calling him weak and pathetic and goading him into killing to prove himself a real man.
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* ImaginaryEnemy: Charlie is tormented by a manifestation of his darker impulses known as as 'The Dark Man' (or 'The Mentor') who calling calls him weak and pathetic and goading goads him into killing to prove himself a real man.
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* TheSheriff: Sheriff Merle Karnopp of Lancaster County is a dedicated lawman who finds the body of Starkweather's first victim, and becomes the driving force behind the manhunt to to catch Starkweather and Fugate.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp.Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment, and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp.
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* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Charlie decides to not to commit robbery and murder and is driving away from the gas station. His infuriated ImaginaryEnemy, the Dark Man, starts calling him a coward and chickenshit. That last one so stings Charlie that he turns the car around, drives back to the gas station and kills the attendant.
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* IResembleThatRemark: Charlie screams "I ain't no coldblooded killer!" at his terrified victim just before he puts a bullet in head.
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* ImaginaryEnemy: Charlie is tormented by a manifestation of his darker impulses known as as 'The Dark Man' (or 'The Mentor') who calling him weak and pathetic and goading him into killing to prove himself a real man.
* InTheBack: Charlie prefers to shoot his victims in the back.
* IResembleThatRemark: Charlie screams "I ain't no coldblooded killer!" at his terrified victim just before he puts a bullet in her head.
* InTheBack: Charlie prefers to shoot his victims in the back.
* IResembleThatRemark: Charlie screams "I ain't no coldblooded killer!" at his terrified victim just before he puts a bullet in her head.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The first act of sociopathy the young Charles Starkweather commits--at the Dark Man's urging--is to stomp a toad to death.
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* CigarChomper: Tough as nails and cunning as a fox country lawman Sheriff Merle Karnopp always has--an often unlit--cigar clenched in his teeth.
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* CigarChomper: Tough as nails Tough-as-nails and cunning as a fox cunning-as-a-fox country lawman Sheriff Merle Karnopp always has--an often unlit--cigar clenched in his teeth.
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* AutoErotica: At the drive-in, Charlie and Caril Ann are having a deep and meaningful conversation in the front seat of the car while Bob and Barbara are engaging in some very heavy petting in the back seat.
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* ILoveTheDead: After murdering Robert and Carol, Charlies starts to lift Carol's skirt, preparatory to raping her corpse, but is interrupted by Caril Ann. He tries to deny it but she points out that he is hard 'down there'.
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* CigarChomper: Tough as nails and cunning as a fox country lawman Sheriff Merle Karnopp always has--an often unlit--cigar clenched in his teeth.
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* OutlawCouple: Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.
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* GunStruggle: Charlie holds a shotgun on a mechanic and forces him to fix the jammed emergency brake on the car he is trying to steal. When Charlie is distracted by a passing police car, the mechanic grabs the gun and starts trying to wrench it out of Charlie's hands. He eventually succeeds and Charlie is forced to flee.
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* PopTheTires: When chasing Charlie's car, Sheriff Merle Karnopp tells his deputy Dale to lean out the window and shoot the tyres on Charlie's car. Dale misses, even with a shotgun, but it does force Charlie to stop.
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* IResembleThatRemark: Charlie screams "I ain't no coldblooded killer!" at his terrified victim just before he puts a bullet in head.
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* WouldHarmAChild: Caril Ann bashes her kid sister in the face with a [[PistolWhipping shotgun butt]].
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* SpreeKiller: Based on the life of spree killer Charles Starkweather. Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.
* WouldHarmAChild: Caril Ann bashes her kid sister in the face with a [[PistolWhipping shotgun butt]].
* WouldHarmAChild: Caril Ann bashes her kid sister in the face with a [[PistolWhipping shotgun butt]].
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* SarcasticConfession: Robert and Carol pick up Charlie and Caril Ann, and Robert asks what they were doing out in the middle of nowhere, Charlie replies "We just killed an old man, slept in his house, and then our car got stuck in the mud".
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* ShowerOfLove: After murdering August Meyer and getting their car out of the mud, Charlie and Caril Ann share a romantic shower.
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''Starkweather'' is a 2004 film directed by Byron Werner, written by Stephen Johnston, and starring Brent Taylor and Shannon Lucio.
Since childhood, Nebraska farm-boy Charles Starkweather has a schizophrenic Mr. Hyde side, a nameless dark figure, who inspires him to be cruel for the kicks. Having grown up to be a 19 year old garbageman and fallen in love with weird 14 year old girl Caril Ann Fugate, he gets completely out of control, killing off her entire family and various other singles or groups during their ensuing inter-state car-chase, hunted down by sheriff Merle Karnopp and a growing army of cops and press, then unprecedented.
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* PistolWhipping: Caril Ann smashes her kid sister in the face with a shotgun butt.
* Really17YearsOld: Caril Ann is 14 years old but described as having the body of an 18 year old.
* ARealManIsAKiller: This is what Charlie's dark side believes, and keeps goading Charlie into committing murders to prove his manhood.
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Since childhood, Nebraska farm-boy Charles Starkweather has a schizophrenic Mr. Hyde side, a nameless dark figure, who inspires him to be cruel for the kicks. Having grown up to be a 19 year old garbageman and fallen in love with weird 14 year old girl Caril Ann Fugate, he gets completely out of control, killing off her entire family and various other singles or groups during their ensuing inter-state car-chase, hunted down by sheriff Merle Karnopp and a growing army of cops and press, then unprecedented.
!!Tropes:
* PistolWhipping: Caril Ann smashes her kid sister in the face with a shotgun butt.
* Really17YearsOld: Caril Ann is 14 years old but described as having the body of an 18 year old.
* ARealManIsAKiller: This is what Charlie's dark side believes, and keeps goading Charlie into committing murders to prove his manhood.
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