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* HopeSpot: Lily seems safe from Shaw before she tries to call her mother and ends up aught by him through the reflection of her cell phone screen.

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* HopeSpot: Lily seems safe from Shaw before she tries to call her mother and ends up aught caught by him through the reflection of her cell phone screen.
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* PsychopathicManChild: Shaw, who treats the poor students running around as toys, and is FauxAffablyEvil until someone points out what a pathetic waste of space he is.

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* PsychopathicManChild: PsychopathicManchild: Shaw, who treats the poor students running around as toys, and is FauxAffablyEvil until someone points out what a pathetic waste of space he is.

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* ComesGreatInsanity: Implied with Shaw - and it's also how John convinces Ritchie to leave the dimension.


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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Implied with Shaw - and it's also how John convinces Ritchie to leave the dimension.
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* IChooseToStay: Narrowly averted by Ritchie, who gets called out with an AntiEscapismAesop by John. Played a bit straighter with Adam, Miranda and Carter, who reject Lily's pleas to escape the dimension, due to recognizing that their already dead in the real world and choose to stay as the house collapses, awaiting whatever comes next for them.

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* IChooseToStay: Narrowly averted by Ritchie, who gets called out with an AntiEscapismAesop by John. Played a bit straighter with Adam, Miranda and Carter, who reject Lily's pleas to escape the dimension, due to recognizing that their they're already dead in the real world and choose to stay as the house collapses, awaiting whatever comes next for them.



** Ritchie blames himself for Adam getting ahold of his book (and thus going to Shaw's dimension to begin with).

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** Ritchie blames himself for Adam getting ahold a hold of his book (and thus going to Shaw's dimension to begin with).



* SkepticNoLonger: Miranda tries to deny what they saw after Carter and Adam die. Being killed herslef and ending up in the dream realm cures her of this, and she's accepting of what happened and helpful to the group afterwards.

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* SkepticNoLonger: Miranda tries to deny what they saw after Carter and Adam die. Being killed herslef herself and ending up in the dream realm cures her of this, and she's accepting of what happened and helpful to the group afterwards.
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* NotSoDifferent: How John convinces Ritchie to leave the dimension - he points out that Shaw was a visionary, too.
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* MythologyGag: It might be a coincidence Ritchie having the opportunity to take a higher power that involves leaving behind his physical body is a storyline he also had in the comics (although unlike there, he chooses not to).

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* IChooseToStay: Narrowly averted by Ritchie, who gets called out with an AntiEscapismAesop by John.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Shaw's downfall is aided by the presence of Adam and the other kids who he'd killed and sent to his dimension.
* HopeSpot: Lily seems safe from Shaw before she tries to call her mother and ends up aught by him through the reflection of her cell phone screen.
* IChooseToStay: Narrowly averted by Ritchie, who gets called out with an AntiEscapismAesop by John. Played a bit straighter with Adam, Miranda and Carter, who reject Lily's pleas to escape the dimension, due to recognizing that their already dead in the real world and choose to stay as the house collapses, awaiting whatever comes next for them.


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* MoralityPet: Adam is the only student who Ritchie seems to show attention towards or connection to at the beginning of the episode.


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* SkepticNoLonger: Miranda tries to deny what they saw after Carter and Adam die. Being killed herslef and ending up in the dream realm cures her of this, and she's accepting of what happened and helpful to the group afterwards.
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* FinalGirl: Although the John and Ritchie survive, Lily still fills this role to her friends.

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* FinalGirl: Although the John and Ritchie survive, Lily still fills this role to her friends.
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'''Season 1, Episode 10''':

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'''Season 1, Episode 10''':11''':

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* ImpaledWIthExtremePrejudice: How Miranda dies.

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* ImpaledWIthExtremePrejudice: IChooseToStay: Narrowly averted by Ritchie, who gets called out with an AntiEscapismAesop by John.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
How Miranda dies.
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* FinalGirl: Although the series main characters [[AndZoidberg and Ritchie]] survive, Lily fills this role.

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* FinalGirl: Although the series main characters [[AndZoidberg John and Ritchie]] Ritchie survive, Lily still fills this role.role to her friends.

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* DareToBeBadass: John's speech to Ritchie.

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* DareToBeBadass: John's speech to Ritchie.Ritchie has shades of this.



* EmpathicEnvironment: Shaw's dimension, which is [[OverlyLongRunningGag dark and creepy]] as long as he's in charge - but once Ritchie takes over, it becomes a beautiful, sunlit meadow.

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* EmpathicEnvironment: Shaw's dimension, which is [[OverlyLongRunningGag [[OverusedRunningGag dark and creepy]] as long as he's in charge - but once Ritchie takes over, it becomes a beautiful, sunlit meadow.


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* PsychopathicManChild: Shaw, who treats the poor students running around as toys, and is FauxAffablyEvil until someone points out what a pathetic waste of space he is.
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* ComesGreatInsanity: Implied with Shaw - and it's also how John convinces Ritchie to leave the dimension.



* CueTheSun: How Ritchie defeats Shaw.
* DareToBeBadass: John's speech to Ritchie.



* EmpathicEnvironment: Shaw's dimension, which is [[OverlyLongRunningGag dark and creepy]] as long as he's in charge - but once Ritchie takes over, it becomes a beautiful, sunlit meadow.



* NotSoDifferent: How John convinces Ritchie to leave the dimension - he points out that Shaw was a visionary, too.



* SoftSpokenSadist: Shaw is this, with a dash of FauxAffablyEvil.

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* SoftSpokenSadist: Shaw is this, with a dash of FauxAffablyEvil.FauxAffablyEvil.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Ritchie's view on Shaw.
* YourMindMakesItReal: How Shaw's dimension works.

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* AGodAmI: Shaw, who feels like one. Ritchie proves him wrong.

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* AGodAmI: Shaw, who feels like one. Ritchie proves him wrong.wrong, and then averts the trope himself.


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* RealityWarper: Shaw, as long as he's in his dimension. Ritchie becomes a stronger version than he, having actually studied the principles extensively.

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* AGodAmI: Shaw, who feels like one. Ritchie proves him wrong.



* BreakTheCutie: Poor Lily. Although she shows

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* BreakTheCutie: Poor Lily. Although she shows signs of a possible recovery in the end, she's still pretty messed up.
* CowardlyLion: Ritchie is ''freaked out'' at the thought of going to Shaw's dimension, but he still buckles down to save Lily.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: John gets a brief one while in Shaw's dimension, complete with nails going through his hands.



* ImpaledWIthExtremePrejudice: How Miranda dies.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: John, at the start of the episode. Lily and Ritchie echo the sentiment at one point.



* NervousWreck: Ritchie is still this after Newcastle. He's taken to self-medicating. The end of the episode indicates

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** Ritchie blames himself for Adam getting ahold of his book (and thus going to Shaw's dimension to begin with).
* ManlyTears: Ritchie, being consumed by guilt over Adam's fate. John manages to blink his away.
* NervousWreck: Ritchie is still this after Newcastle. He's taken to self-medicating. The end of the episode indicatesindicates that he's decided to try and pull himself out of it.
* SlashedThroat: How Adam ultimately dies, although he gets defensive wounds.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Shaw is this, with a dash of FauxAffablyEvil.

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A group of college students sit in a creepy graveyard (in the creepy dark) in order to cast a spell. Talking about the research of one Richard Shaw, they decide to cast a spell from the book he claims allowed him to travel to other worlds. Having clearly never seen a horror movie in their entire lives, they decide to explore the dark [[RunningGag (and creepy!)]] dimension they end up in. Horror movie hijinks ensue.


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A group of college students sit in a creepy graveyard (in the creepy dark) in order to cast a spell. Talking about the research of one Richard Jacob Shaw, they decide to cast a spell from the book he claims allowed him to travel to other worlds. Having clearly never seen a horror movie film in their entire lives, they decide to explore the dark [[RunningGag (and creepy!)]] dimension they end up in. Horror movie hijinks ensue.

in... and John gets into the mix when they turn out to be students of his old friend Ritchie.

It really doesn't help matters when they also start to end up dead.



* AgentScully: Miranda. It doesn't save her.
* ApatheticTeacher: Ritchie is this at the start of the episode, being such a NervousWreck that he teaches his class via tape recordings. It's subverted when he learns that his students are in danger.
* BigFun: Carter, who makes some good-natured cracks, and ends up dead first.



* BreakTheCutie: Poor Lily.
* DrowningMySorrows: John starts the episode with a toast ToAbsentFriends (Specifically, Gary).
* FourIsDeath: The group of students who tries out the spell is made up of four people. Only one survives.

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* BreakTheCutie: Poor Lily.
Lily. Although she shows
* DrowningMySorrows: John starts the episode with a toast ToAbsentFriends (Specifically, (specifically, Gary).
* FinalGirl: Although the series main characters [[AndZoidberg and Ritchie]] survive, Lily fills this role.
* FourIsDeath: The group of students who tries out the spell is made up of four people. Only one survives.survives.
* ItsAllMyFault: Adam, who feels responsible for the deaths of his friends. His sense of guilt leads him to go back into Shaw's dimension - where, tragically, he dies.
* NervousWreck: Ritchie is still this after Newcastle. He's taken to self-medicating. The end of the episode indicates
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'''Season 1, Episode 10''':
!A Whole World Out There
A group of college students sit in a creepy graveyard (in the creepy dark) in order to cast a spell. Talking about the research of one Richard Shaw, they decide to cast a spell from the book he claims allowed him to travel to other worlds. Having clearly never seen a horror movie in their entire lives, they decide to explore the dark [[RunningGag (and creepy!)]] dimension they end up in. Horror movie hijinks ensue.


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!Tropes present in this episode include:
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The guy who ''isn't'' a member of the group, and asks to be hidden? He's actually Shaw in disguise.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Lily.
* DrowningMySorrows: John starts the episode with a toast ToAbsentFriends (Specifically, Gary).
* FourIsDeath: The group of students who tries out the spell is made up of four people. Only one survives.

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