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''The String of Pearls, or Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' is a penny dreadful tale written in 1846-47 penned by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest where the antagonist Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut.

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''The String of Pearls, or Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' Street'', or simply ''Sweeney Todd'' is a penny dreadful tale written in 1846-47 penned by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest where the antagonist Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut.
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This is the original story of the infamous Demon Barber, which would receive a [[DerivativeWorks/SweeneyTodd number of adaptations]] in both stage play and film, before a new stage play by Christopher Bond, based off the original but with an entirely new story, would capture the imagination and be adapted into a [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet musical]] that would also be later adapted into a [[Film/SweeneyTodd Tim Burton film]]. Also was adapted into a HiddenObjectGame.

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This is the original story of the infamous Demon Barber, which would receive a [[DerivativeWorks/SweeneyTodd number of adaptations]] in both stage play and film, before a new stage play by Christopher Bond, based off the original but with an entirely new story, would capture the imagination and be adapted into a [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet musical]] that would also be later adapted into a [[Film/SweeneyTodd [[Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet Tim Burton film]]. Also was adapted into a HiddenObjectGame.
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* MacGuffin: the eponymous string of pearls
* NeckSnap: What usually happens with Sweeney's victims after falling through the trap door.

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* %%* MacGuffin: the eponymous string of pearls
* %%* NeckSnap: What usually happens with Sweeney's victims after falling through the trap door.
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This is the original story of the infamous Demon Barber, which would receive a number of adaptations in both stage play and film, before a new stage play by Christopher Bond, based off the original but with an entirely new story, would capture the imagination and be adapted into a [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet musical]] that would also be later adapted into a [[Film/SweeneyTodd Tim Burton film]]. Also was adapted into a HiddenObjectGame.

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This is the original story of the infamous Demon Barber, which would receive a [[DerivativeWorks/SweeneyTodd number of adaptations adaptations]] in both stage play and film, before a new stage play by Christopher Bond, based off the original but with an entirely new story, would capture the imagination and be adapted into a [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet musical]] that would also be later adapted into a [[Film/SweeneyTodd Tim Burton film]]. Also was adapted into a HiddenObjectGame.
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Turpin has appeared in far less than you would expect. He is limited to the musical adaptation of the Bond play and its film adaptation.


* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Sweeney Todd is completely unsympathetic and motivated by greed in the original book while later installments give him redeeming qualities and change his motivations to revenge against Judge Turpin (who does not appear here either). Sweeney also mostly kills using a trapdoor, using the iconic razor only if his victims survive the fall.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Sweeney Todd is completely unsympathetic and motivated by greed in the original book while later installments give him redeeming qualities and change his motivations to either revenge against Judge Turpin (who does not appear here either).or jealousy. Sweeney also mostly kills using a trapdoor, using the iconic razor only if his victims survive the fall.
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** Mrs. Lovett had plans to kill Mark and make him part of her meat pies once his usefulness has reached its end. Fortunately, she doesn't get the chance.

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** Todd and Mrs. Lovett had plans to kill Mark and make him part of her the meat pies once his usefulness has reached its end. Fortunately, she doesn't get the chance.
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* NeckSnap: What usually happens when Sweeney's victims after falling through the trap door.

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* NeckSnap: What usually happens when with Sweeney's victims after falling through the trap door.




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** Mrs. Lovett had plans to kill Mark and make him part of her meat pies once his usefulness has reached its end. Fortunately, she doesn't get the chance.

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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Mrs. Lovett helps dispose of Sweeney's victims [[spoiler:by baking them into her signature meat pies and distributing them to her customers]].



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Seeing no need to keep her alive, Todd gets rid of Mrs. Lovett with poisoned wine without her knowing it was poisoned until it was too late.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Seeing no need to keep her alive, Todd gets rid of Mrs. Lovett with poisoned wine without her knowing it was poisoned until it was too late.
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Sweeney's threat to a disguised Johanna: "By all that's furious, I'll tear out your teeth with red-hot pincers, and scoop your eyes from their gory sockets with an old oyster knife. Damn you, I'll—I'll flay you!"
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The plot concerns the disappearance of the fiance of Johanna Oakley in the midst of the mysterious disappearances of customers who pay a visit to the shop of the peculiar barber by the name of Sweeney Todd. Meanwhile, the business of the pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett has been a success. As time goes on and an investigation is launched, everything falls into place as the people of London are revealed the terrible truth.

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The plot concerns the disappearance of the fiance fiancé of Johanna Oakley in the midst of the mysterious disappearances of customers who pay a visit to the shop of the peculiar barber by the name of Sweeney Todd. Meanwhile, the business of the pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett has been a success. As time goes on and an investigation is launched, everything falls into place as the people of London are revealed the terrible truth.



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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sweeney Todd is caught and executed for his crimes, Mark and Johanna are reunited and married, and Fogg's Asylum is taken down. However, some hundreds of victims were killed and made into Mrs. Lovett's pies, and the poor citizens who used to frequent her shop will never look at pies the same way again...]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sweeney Todd is caught and executed for his crimes, Mark and Johanna are reunited and married, and Fogg's Asylum is taken down. However, some hundreds of victims were killed and made into Mrs. Lovett's pies, and the poor citizens who used to frequent her shop will never look at pies the same way again...]]



%%* PaymentPlanPitch: ''Easy shaving for a penny, as good as you will find any.''

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%%* * PaymentPlanPitch: Sweeney advertises his barber shop as follows - ''Easy shaving for a penny, as good as you will find any.''



* TheReveal: Mark tells the horrid truth to Mrs. Lovett's customers with this line;

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* TheReveal: Mark tells the horrid truth to Mrs. Lovett's customers with this line;line.




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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Seeing no need to keep her alive, Todd gets rid of Mrs. Lovett with poisoned wine without her knowing it was poisoned until it was too late.

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