History Recap / TheTwilightZone2019S2E9TryTry

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Discussed. Marc explains that women go for the bad boys instead of the NiceGuy because bad boys ooze confidence.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Before the security guards even arrive, Claudia fends Marc off and knocks him down herself. She threatens doing this any other time Marc tries in another loop. It deters him enough that in the next loop, he leaves Claudia alone.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Discussed. Marc explains that women go for the bad boys instead of the NiceGyu because bad boys ooze confidence.

* AttemptedRape: Marc attacks Claudia with intent to rape her at the very least when she turns down his advances.

* LackOfEmpathy: Marc. After spending years living in a time loop which only affects him, he's come to believe that no one else is "real", since after each day, that version of them simply vanishes when it's reset. He doesn't even care about Claudia, who he claims to love, and is even willing to commit murder or rape.

* TheSociopath: Due to being stuck in a time loop, Marc has come to believe that he is the only "real" person in the world, since everyone else will cease to exist once the day restarts, and believes that gives him the right to do whatever he wants, including trying to rape or murder Claudia.
* SmugSnake: Once Marc's facade breaks, he's revealed to have this personality, with a condescending attitude and no respect at all for other people's feelings, not even Claudia (who he claims to love). He is also, however, far less capable than he claims to be, as when his process his shown we learn that it takes him several tries for any detail he wants to go even decently well, and Claudia shows him he is not really able to improvise.

* NoNameGiven: It's revealed that one of the many lies "Marc Wheeler" told Claudia is that his first name is "Marc" with a c. It's never revealed what his real name is, wether it's Mark Wheeler or something entirely different.

* WouldHitAGirl: First, Marc states his intent to rape Claudia. Then, he tries to murder her with a sword.

* JustJokingJustification: When Marc gets mad at Claudia for rejecting him, he tells her “You’re lucky I’m nice”. Claudia then asks him what he means by that and he tries to backpedal by saying that he was “just kidding”.

* EpicFail: Lampshaded (or, rather, rubbed in Marc's face) by Claudia. Despite cornering her and being physically larger ''and'' armed with a sword, Claudia completely wipes the floor with him when he tries to assault her, and as the cops take him away she taunts him asking how many loops he had gone through, only for her to kick his ass without any preparation. It's even more humiliating when you realize that not only Claudia was unarmed, she also did nothing but punch him repeatedly in the exact same way every time, showing just how badly he absorbs new information.

* MeaningfulName: The man stuck going around in circles is named Mark ''Wheeler''.

* SmugSnake: Once Marc's facade breaks he reveals to have this personality, with a condescending attitude and no respect at all for other people's or their feelings, not even Claudia (who he claims to love). He is also, however, far less capable than he claims to be, as when his process his shown we learn that it takes him several tries for any detail he wants to go even decently well, and Claudia shows him he is not really able to improvise.
* StalkerWithACrush: Marc, who has a crush on Claudia, is shown to be one. He's been trying to win her over for a long time using his time loops, and she's suitably creeped out upon learning this. Worse, after she rejects this, Marc quickly gets violent.

* LackOfEmpathy: Marc. After spending years stuck living in a time loop which only affects him, he’s come to believe that no one else is “real”, since after each day, that version of them simply vanishes when it's reset. He doesn’t even care about Claudia, who he claims to love, and is even willing to commit murder or rape.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Before the security guards even arrive, Claudia fends Marc off and knocks him down herself. She threatens doing this any other time Marc tries in another loop. It deters him enough that in the next loop he leaves Claudia alone.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The plot can be seen as one for ''Film/GroundhogDay'' and loops like it depicts in general. Marc has concluded that no one else matters or is even truly real, since after each day that version of them simply vanishes when it's reset. Thus he's grown to feel no compunction about murder or rape. Unlike Phil in the film, he's too self-centered to change and thus, it's implied, will be stuck in the loop forever.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Claudia realizes how uninhibited Marc has become after her rejecting him and he reacts with hostility. Marc then openly says that he could kill her as the day will just reset. By now, he's gotten her alone in a fairly isolated part of the museum they're visiting too...

* HateSink: Marc is a vile PsychopathicManchild with NoEmpathy who would rape or murder a woman just to try and alleviate his boredom.

* NoEmpathy: Marc. After spending years stuck living in a time loop which only affects him, he’s come to believe that no one else is “real”, since after each day, that version of them simply vanishes when it's reset. He doesn’t even care about Claudia, who he claims to love, and is even willing to commit murder or rape.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's not made clear if "Marc Wheeler" is even the villain’s real name, as he has lied about many things in an attempt to get Claudia to fall in love with him. At the very least, he lied about his name being spelled "Marc" instead of "Mark" because he learned she had a secret crush on a boy named Marc when she was a kid.

* EpicFail: Lampshaded (or, rather, rubbed in Marc's face) by Claudia. Despite cornering her, being physically larger ''and'' armed with a sword, Claudia completely wipes the floor with him when he tries to assault her, and as the cops take him away she taunts him asking how many loops he had gone through, only for her to kick his ass without any preparation. It's even more humiliating when you realize that not only Claudia was unarmed, she also did nothing but punch him repeatedly in the exact same way every time, showing just how badly he absorbs new information.

** Claudia jokingly threatens to kick Marc’s ass if he doesn’t tell her his secret. In the climax, she ''does'' kick his ass when he attacks her.

* SanitySlippage: It's debatable how good he was ever to start with but being trapped in an infinite loop with no way out has pushed Marc well past breaking point and made him perfectly willing to do awful things just to break the monotony.
* SelfInflictedHell: The final narration implies Marc is trapped in the loop so that he might work to become a better person. However, his selfishness and entitlement prevent him from ever seeing that.

* CurbStompBattle: When Marc attacks Claudia, she defeats him very quickly and he doesn’t even land a single hit on her.

** Marc again in two of the loops tries to save Claudia from the truck with disastrous consequences: in one causes the truck to derail and hit another car, and in the other he ends up ''throwing her under''. The latter is particularly bad after seeing that, without his intervention, she actually avoids the truck without any issues.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Marc is a literal example of this. He claims that after reliving the same day over a thousand times, he’s lost his old perspective of good and evil, and he believes people only do good things to make themselves look good.

** Claudia jokingly threatens to kick Marc’s ass if he doesn’t tell her his secret. In the climax, she does kick his ass when he attacks her.