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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). He has since done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments (although his efforts have also been helped by the longstanding sexism and misogyny within the Bureau). It gets even worse when it's revealed he ''really'' hates Starling because, at his core, she reminds him of a girl he knew in high school who humiliated him sexually.
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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). twice since then). He has since therefore done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments (although his efforts have also been helped by the longstanding sexism and misogyny within the Bureau). It gets even worse when it's revealed he ''really'' hates Starling because, at his core, she reminds him of bears a passing resemblance to a girl he knew in high school who humiliated him sexually.sexually (which may have also triggered him as it's implied Krendler's closeted and in deep denial).
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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). He has since done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments (although his efforts have also been helped by the longstanding sexism and misogyny within the Bureau).
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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). He has since done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments (although his efforts have also been helped by the longstanding sexism and misogyny within the Bureau). It gets even worse when it's revealed he ''really'' hates Starling because, at his core, she reminds him of a girl he knew in high school who humiliated him sexually.
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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). He has since done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments.
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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). He has since done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments.assignments (although his efforts have also been helped by the longstanding sexism and misogyny within the Bureau).
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* PassedOverPromotion: Getting Buffalo Bill ''should'' have made Clarice's career. Instead, thanks to Krendler's malign influence and pettiness (on top of the existing sexism and misogyny within the Bureau), Clarice's tenure at the Bureau has been stalled out in the interim and has been denied assignments and promotions that should have been hers.
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* EvilIsPetty: Krendler has never forgiven Clarice for beating him to Buffalo Bill (on top of later rejecting his drunken advances in the interim between the books). He has since done everything in his power at the DOJ to wreck her career and block her from advancing from deserved promotions and assignments.
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* BadassBoast: The letter that Lecter leaves for Mason after killing Pazzi ends with this.
-->'''Lecter:''' Since you want to see me so badly, let me give you some words of comfort, and you know I never lie. Before you die you will see my face.
-->'''Lecter:''' Since you want to see me so badly, let me give you some words of comfort, and you know I never lie. Before you die you will see my face.
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* UndressingTheUnconscious: Clarice is rendered unconscious by a gunshot wound and wakes up wearing [[GoGoEnslavement an evening gown instead of the casual clothes she was wearing earlier]]. Which never happened in the ''book'' — although Clarice does end up wearing the evening gown, she's allowed to put it on without Lecter being in the room. Nor does Lecter ever undress her, except to tend her injuries.
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* UndressingTheUnconscious: Clarice is rendered unconscious by a gunshot wound and wakes up wearing [[GoGoEnslavement an evening gown instead of the casual clothes she was wearing earlier]]. Which never happened in the ''book'' — Clarice isn't shot with a gun, but a tranquilizer dart, and although Clarice she does end up wearing the evening gown, she's allowed to put it on without Lecter being in the room. Nor does Lecter ever undress her, except to tend her injuries.
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-->'''Starling:''' It's whimsy. It's ''whimsy'', and it's what got him caught the first time.
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* VillainHasAPoint: After being suspended from duty, Clarice has a brief WhatYouAreInTheDark moment: having met Mason Verger, she ''might'' be willing to let him get away with having Lecter privately murdered - ''"he had a grievance"'' - but Mason plans to have Lecter tortured and mutilated, and [[EveryoneHasStandards that she can't let slide.]]
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* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:Cordell, frequently abused by his employer, needs minimal prompting from Hannibal to shove Mason into the pig pit.]]
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* BigFancyHouse: Muskrat Farm, the Verger family's estate.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Vergers.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Vergers.
