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* TakeThat: Mommy & Daddy are pretty much UpToEleven Expies of the Reagans, as indicated by how they address each other. Considering their villainous antics, it's obvious the homage was not meant as an admiring one.
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* TakeThat: Mommy & Daddy are pretty much UpToEleven exaggerated Expies of the Reagans, as indicated by how they address each other. Considering their villainous antics, it's obvious the homage was not meant as an admiring one.
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* BadassAdorable: Fool is a cute and remarkably innocent preteen boy who manages to [[spoiler:trick Daddy into killing Prince]] and then, after escaping from Mommy and Daddy's house of horrors once, comes back again as part of plan to free Alice and the People Under the Stairs because he (correctly) doesn't trust the police to do anything. [[spoiler:He ultimately faces down Daddy Robeson and threatens to kill him with a rigged explosive if the madman doesn't surrender... then blows him up when the maniac calls his bluff.]]
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* BadassAdorable: Fool is a cute and remarkably innocent preteen boy who manages to [[spoiler:trick Daddy into killing Prince]] and then, after escaping from Mommy and Daddy's house of horrors once, comes back again as part of a plan to free Alice and the People Under the Stairs because he (correctly) doesn't trust the police to do anything. [[spoiler:He ultimately faces down Daddy Robeson and threatens to kill him with a rigged explosive if the madman doesn't surrender... then blows him up when the maniac calls his bluff.]]
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Daddy takes more blunt trauma to the head and a few shots to the nards in this movie, but he never seems to slow down.
** As well as a fireplace poker actually breaking in half after it hit him once.
** As well as a fireplace poker actually breaking in half after it hit him once.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Daddy has shades of this, dancing around yelling "I got him!" when he thinks he's killed Fool.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Despite being a grown man, Daddy has shades of this, can act surprisingly childish at times, dancing around yelling "I got him!" in joy or whimpering when he thinks he's killed Fool.done something wrong, which adds to the impression that Mommy is normally the more dominant of the two. The fact he acts this way whilst being a murderous cannibal only fuels the impression that something is deeply ''wrong'' with him.
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* TakeThat: Mommy & Daddy are pretty much UpToEleven Expies of the Reagans, as indicated by how they address each other. Considering their villainous antics, it's obvious the homage was not meant as an admiring one.
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''The People Under the Stairs'' is a 1991 [[HorrorComedy horror comedy movie]] directed by Creator/WesCraven. It's the story of a young boy, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname called Fool]] (Brandon Adams), whose family is about to be evicted from their apartment by the evil landlords, who want to develop their building once they're gone. Fool's mother is sick and needs an operation, but Fool's sister can't come up with enough money. Fool wants to be a doctor, but his family doesn't have enough money to ever send him to medical school. Fortunately, his sister's boyfriend Leroy (Creator/VingRhames) and his accomplice Spencer (Jeremy Roberts) have a plan to rob the landlord's house; and they need Fool's help to do it.
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''The People Under the Stairs'' is a 1991 [[HorrorComedy horror comedy movie]] directed by Creator/WesCraven. It's the story of a young boy, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname called Fool]] (Brandon Adams), whose family is about to be evicted from their apartment by the evil landlords, who want to develop their building once they're gone. Fool's mother is sick and needs an operation, but Fool's sister can't come up with enough money. Fool wants to be a doctor, but his family doesn't have enough money to ever send him to medical school. Fortunately, his sister's boyfriend Leroy (Creator/VingRhames) and his accomplice Spencer (Jeremy Roberts) have a plan to rob the landlord's landlords' house; and they need Fool's help to do it.
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* AbusiveParents: Played to ridiculous levels by the villains. [[spoiler:Zig-zagged in that they have no real children of their own, but they still fit the bill otherwise.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Played to ridiculous levels by the villains. [[spoiler:Zig-zagged in The Robesons, who are introduced verbally and emotionally abusing their daughter Alice. The movie later establishes that they have no real children physically abuse her as well, such as when "Mommy" forces her to clean up blood, then roughly manhandles her into a bathtub full of boiling hot water and viciously scrubs her clean, and implies that "Daddy" may sexually lust after Alice as well. Alice then reveals to Fool that [[MadwomanInTheAttic the People Under The Stairs]] are her brothers, who were physically mutilated (mostly by having their own, but [[TongueTrauma tongues severed to make them mute]] for breaking their parents' rules before being banished to live in the basement. [[spoiler:It later turns out that they still fit the bill otherwise.are abusive ''foster'' parents, having stolen their "children" from their real parents and then brought them up as their own.]]
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* BarrierBustingBlow: [[spoiler:The "Stairmaster", the leader of the
* BigScrewedUpFamily: After escaping from the Robeson house, Fool is told by his grandfather that the Robesons got their start as morticians who profited by selling cheap coffins at overinflated prices, then moved into crooked real estate deals. As they got wealthier, they got prospectively greedier and crazier; even in his grandfather's time, the kids avoided the Robeson house. It's very strongly implied that the Robesons are lovers as well as being brothers and sisters, and they may not be the first incestuous generation. Then there's their "children", and the cannibalism...
* BondageIsBad: Daddy Robeson dresses up in a gimp suit like body armor when hunting intruders in the house. It's clearly meant to showcase just how crazy and evil he is.
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* CoolGuns: Daddy's weapons of choice are a pump-action shotgun and a Desert Eagle.
** It's a slightly interesting footnote that both the guns used in the film are expensive import models. For all Mommy and Daddy's hoarding, they like the pricey hardware.
** It's a slightly interesting footnote that both the guns used in the film are expensive import models. For all Mommy and Daddy's hoarding, they like the pricey hardware.
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* CoolGuns: Daddy's weapons of choice are a pump-action shotgun and a Desert Eagle.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The titular people under the stairs. They're just victims of Mommy and Daddy.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The titular people under the stairs. They're not monsters, they're just victims of Mommy and Daddy.
%% * TheDreaded: The Robeson family have been regarded as figures to avoid for generations, with Fool's grandfather telling him that kids have been avoiding their family home since ''he'' was a kid.
* DevouredByTheHorde: Invoked but subverted. [[spoiler:At the climax, it seems that the People Under the Stairs are going to eat Mommy alive, but they don't. They beat her andDaddy. But cut her throat before throwing her down the neighborhood finally stands up to them.stairs into the basement.]]
* DevouredByTheHorde: Invoked but subverted. [[spoiler:At the climax, it seems that the People Under the Stairs are going to eat Mommy alive, but they don't. They beat her and
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* TheFool: Fool's nicknamesake. Played fairly straight; Fool gets by because he's clever, but he's damn lucky every time it counts.
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* EvilMatriarch: Mommy Robeson, who is an abusive mother to her daughter and sons, as well as an implied willing participant in Daddy's spree of murder and cannibalism. It's implied several times that she may actually be the dominant figure in their relationship. [[spoiler:That said, when she gives Daddy an ArmorPiercingSlap for saying she should have let him kill Alice, he responds by grabbing her neck one-handed and starting to choke her.]
* TheFool:Fool's nicknamesake. Played fairly straight; Fool was literally nicknamed after the Tarot card of the same name, and it's a MeaningfulName; Fool gets by because he's clever, but he's damn lucky every time it counts.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The people under the stairs aren't particularly interested in eating people, it's just that Daddy starves them.
** There are hints that Daddy is this by choice. We only see that he's eating meat at the beginning of the movie, but he keeps spitting out buckshot. They never leave the house. He uses that gun on intruders. Do the math. [[spoiler: He's shown feeding on Leroy's body before tossing him to the 'kids'.]]
** There are hints that Daddy is this by choice. We only see that he's eating meat at the beginning of the movie, but he keeps spitting out buckshot. They never leave the house. He uses that gun on intruders. Do the math. [[spoiler: He's shown feeding on Leroy's body before tossing him to the 'kids'.]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: ImAHumanitarian:
** Thepeople under People Under the stairs aren't particularly interested in eating people, it's just Stairs are fed on the flesh of anyone whom the Robesons kill. It's not that they ''like'' this diet, but Daddy starves them.
them and refuses to feed them anything else.
**There The Robesons are hints that Daddy is this by choice. We only see that he's eating meat at more subtly implied to feed on their kills as well. At the beginning start of the movie, but he Daddy keeps spitting out buckshot. They never leave buckshoot from a very strange looking roasted ribcage. [[spoiler:If you play close attention in the house. He uses that gun on intruders. Do the math. [[spoiler: He's shown feeding on Leroy's body before tossing scene where Daddy butchers Leroy and feeds some of him to his "sons", there is blood smeared around his mouth, making it clear that he's enjoyed a cut or two in the 'kids'.process.]]
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* MadeOfIron: Daddy takes more blunt trauma to the head and a few shots to the nards in this movie, but he never seems to slow down.
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* MadeOfIron: Daddy takes a ''ridiculous'' amount of trauma over the course of the film. Fool breaks a brick of some kind over his head, punches him the balls, smashes a plugged-in ceramic lamp on his head, breaks a fireplace poker over the back of his head, drops a brick down the length of a chimney onto his head, and trips him into falling down some stairs.. [[spoiler:He is finally killed when he is standing at ground zero for a dynamite explosion, which hurls him the length of the basement into a wall before he falls down into the flooded sub-basement, where if he wasn't already dead anyway, he presumably drowned.]]
Daddy takes more blunt trauma to the head and a few shots to the nards in this movie, but he never seems to slow down.
Daddy takes more blunt trauma to the head and a few shots to the nards in this movie, but he never seems to slow down.
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* TheSpeechless: Roach. Mommy cut his tongue out for talking back.
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* TheSpeechless: Roach. Roach and the People. Mommy cut his tongue their tongues out for talking back.
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* KidHero: Fool. This is taken to ''Film/HomeAlone'' levels at a few points.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Fool goes from a timid coward not wanting to enter the house, to a clever genius who [[spoiler:kills their rabid dog by luring him to a wall to get stabbed by Daddy]]. He goes back to the house without fear, sets the rest of the trapped boys free and [[spoiler:blows the house up with dynamite, killing Daddy]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: Fool goes from a timid coward kid not wanting to enter the house, to a clever genius who [[spoiler:kills their rabid dog by luring him to a wall to get stabbed by Daddy]]. He goes back to the house without fear, sets the rest of the trapped boys free and [[spoiler:blows the house up with dynamite, killing Daddy]].
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** Alice begins as a shy innocent damsel afraid of Mommy and Daddy to an impressive hero in her own right, who quickly turns the tables on them and gets angry when they threaten to kill Fool, attacks Mommy from above when she attempts to kill Fool's Sister, and then stabs and weakens her, ultimately making Mommy afraid of her instead, and giving the rest of the boys a chance to maul her to death.
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** Alice begins as a shy innocent damsel afraid of Mommy and Daddy to an impressive hero in her own right, who quickly turns the tables on them and gets angry when they threaten to kill Fool, attacks Mommy from above when she attempts to kill Fool's Sister, and then stabs and weakens her, ultimately making Mommy afraid of her instead, and giving the rest of the boys People a chance to maul her to death.
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''The People Under the Stairs'' is a 1991 [[HorrorFilms horror movie]] directed by Creator/WesCraven. It's the story of a young boy, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname called Fool]] (Brandon Adams), whose family is about to be evicted from their apartment by the evil landlords, who want to develop their building once they're gone. Fool's mother is sick and needs an operation, but Fool's sister can't come up with enough money. Fool wants to be a doctor, but his family doesn't have enough money to ever send him to medical school. Fortunately, his sister's boyfriend Leroy (Creator/VingRhames) and his accomplice Spencer (Jeremy Roberts) have a plan to rob the landlord's house; and they need Fool's help to do it.
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''The People Under the Stairs'' is a 1991 [[HorrorFilms [[HorrorComedy horror comedy movie]] directed by Creator/WesCraven. It's the story of a young boy, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname called Fool]] (Brandon Adams), whose family is about to be evicted from their apartment by the evil landlords, who want to develop their building once they're gone. Fool's mother is sick and needs an operation, but Fool's sister can't come up with enough money. Fool wants to be a doctor, but his family doesn't have enough money to ever send him to medical school. Fortunately, his sister's boyfriend Leroy (Creator/VingRhames) and his accomplice Spencer (Jeremy Roberts) have a plan to rob the landlord's house; and they need Fool's help to do it.
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* CastingGag: This is not the first time Creator/EverettMcGill and Creator/WendyRobie play an [[Series/TwinPeaks eccentric married couple]].
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** It's a slightly interesting footnote that both the guns used in the film are expensive import models. For all Mommy and Daddy's hoarding, they like the pricey hardware.
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Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" (Creator/WendyRobie) and "Daddy" (Everett [=McGill=]) are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice (AJ Langer) and a boy called Roach (Creator/SeanWhalen), Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
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Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" (Creator/WendyRobie) and "Daddy" (Everett [=McGill=]) (Creator/EverettMcGill) are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice (AJ Langer) and a boy called Roach (Creator/SeanWhalen), Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
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Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" (Wendy Robie) and "Daddy" (Everett [=McGill=]) are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice (AJ Langer) and a boy called Roach (Creator/SeanWhalen), Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
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Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" (Wendy Robie) (Creator/WendyRobie) and "Daddy" (Everett [=McGill=]) are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice (AJ Langer) and a boy called Roach (Creator/SeanWhalen), Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Inverted. The main character is black and the first person to die is the white accomplice.
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[[caption-width-right:302:If these walls could talk, they’d '''scream'''.]]
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* StandardFiftiesFather: Daddy is both an amusing and horrifyingly absurdist subversion of one.
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Daddy's main weapon is a pump-action shotgun that can have [[BayonetYa a bayonet attacked to it for stabbing people through the walls]].
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Daddy's main weapon is a pump-action shotgun that can have [[BayonetYa a bayonet attacked attached to it for stabbing people through the walls]].
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''The People Under the Stairs'' is a 1991 [[HorrorFilms horror movie]] directed by Creator/WesCraven. It's the story of a young boy, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname called Fool]], whose family is about to be evicted from their apartment by the evil landlords, who want to develop their building once they're gone. Fool's mother is sick and needs an operation, but Fool's sister can't come up with enough money. Fool wants to be a doctor, but his family doesn't have enough money to ever send him to medical school. Fortunately, his sister's boyfriend Leroy and his accomplice Spencer have a plan to rob the landlord's house; and they need Fool's help to do it.
Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" and "Daddy" are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice and a boy called Roach, Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" and "Daddy" are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice and a boy called Roach, Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
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''The People Under the Stairs'' is a 1991 [[HorrorFilms horror movie]] directed by Creator/WesCraven. It's the story of a young boy, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname called Fool]], Fool]] (Brandon Adams), whose family is about to be evicted from their apartment by the evil landlords, who want to develop their building once they're gone. Fool's mother is sick and needs an operation, but Fool's sister can't come up with enough money. Fool wants to be a doctor, but his family doesn't have enough money to ever send him to medical school. Fortunately, his sister's boyfriend Leroy (Creator/VingRhames) and his accomplice Spencer (Jeremy Roberts) have a plan to rob the landlord's house; and they need Fool's help to do it.
Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" (Wendy Robie) and "Daddy" (Everett [=McGill=]) are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice (AJ Langer) and a boy calledRoach, Roach (Creator/SeanWhalen), Fool attempts to escape the house and reveal the truth to the world.
Breaking into the house proves to be the easy part; it's getting back out that's the problem. The house is built like a fortress, and designed to keep something in. Electrified doors, a vicious guard dog, strange creatures in the basement, and a bizarrely extensive security system prevent them from leaving before the owners return. "Mommy" (Wendy Robie) and "Daddy" (Everett [=McGill=]) are back, and they're [[AxCrazy armed and crazy]]. They quickly dispatch Leroy and feed him to their "sons", a pack of mutilated boys that they keep captive in the basement, and set out to hunt Fool through the house. With the help of their daughter Alice (AJ Langer) and a boy called
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* AxCrazy: Mommy and Daddy Robeson are both murderously insane. They abduct, abuse, and mutilate children, and murder any other person who comes into their house and sees too much. Daddy is more openly physically violent, but Mommy is every bit as cruel, especially when she's stressed.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Mommy and Daddy Robeson, a duo of depraved child kidnappers.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Mommy and Daddy Robeson, a duo of depraved child kidnappers. Of the two, Mommy is clearly the dominant partner.
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** Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and their watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily. Subverted after [[spoiler:Prince is killed, and she almost immediately decides to get another dog, suggesting he's completely replaceable to her.]]
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** Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and their watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily. Subverted after [[spoiler:Prince is killed, killed. She's upset that Prince died and that Daddy was stupid enough to do it by accident, but she almost immediately decides to get another dog, suggesting he's completely replaceable to her.]]
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* BondOneLiner: Fool has some good ones, especially [[spoiler: at the end when he blows up Mommy and Daddy's house — raining down the amassed wealth of bills that were stolen from the community.]]
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* BondOneLiner: Fool has some good ones, especially [[spoiler: at the end when he blows up Mommy and Daddy's house — raining down causing the amassed wealth of bills that were stolen from the community.community to come raining down.]]
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* BondOneLiner: Fool has some good ones, especially [[spoiler: at the end when he blows up Mommy and Daddy's house — raining down the amassed wealth of bills that were stolen from the community.]]
--> '''Alice:''' Fool, are you okay?
--> '''Fool:''' I feel like a million dollars.
--> '''Alice:''' Fool, are you okay?
--> '''Fool:''' I feel like a million dollars.
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* BadassAdorable: Fool becomes this over the course of the film.
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* RescueRomance: Fool is definitely Alice's KnightInShiningArmor and goes to great lengths to save her. In turn, she does her best to protect him. When Fool comes back for her later, they have a HeldGaze when holding hands, and later hug. Even Daddy is convinced there is something going on between them.
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* AbusiveParents: Played to ridiculous levels by the villains.
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* AbusiveParents: Played to ridiculous levels by the villains. [[spoiler:Zig-zagged in that they have no real children of their own, but they still fit the bill otherwise.]]
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* IdiotBall: Even with an entire ''crowd'' there, nobody [[spoiler: thinks of watching or detaining "Mommy" after Alice knocks her out]] near the end.
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* IdiotBall: IdiotBall:
** Even with an entire ''crowd'' there, nobody [[spoiler: thinks of watching or detaining "Mommy" after Alice knocks her out]] near the end.
** Even with an entire ''crowd'' there, nobody [[spoiler: thinks of watching or detaining "Mommy" after Alice knocks her out]] near the end.
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* PetTheDog: Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and their watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily.
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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
** Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and their watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily. Subverted after [[spoiler:Prince is killed, and she almost immediately decides to get another dog, suggesting he's completely replaceable to her.]]
** Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and their watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily. Subverted after [[spoiler:Prince is killed, and she almost immediately decides to get another dog, suggesting he's completely replaceable to her.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Mommy and Daddy are openly racist, shamelessly using slurs to denote black people.
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* PetTheDog: Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and the watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily.
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* PetTheDog: Mommy only seems to be genuinely affectionate to her husband and the their watchdog Prince. And even that is played extremely creepily.creepily.
** Leroy acts like a total asshole to Fool for most of his screentime, but in his final seconds being gunned down by Daddy calls out for Fool to run in an apparent last act of genuine concern for him.
** Leroy acts like a total asshole to Fool for most of his screentime, but in his final seconds being gunned down by Daddy calls out for Fool to run in an apparent last act of genuine concern for him.
