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Orphan
- Kind of a Black Comedy example with Esther's casual, "I know. They fuck." when Kate tries to give her The Talk and her dumbfounded reaction to her response.
- Esther tricks Max into helping her against Sister Abigail and finding John's gun, which isn't funny. Her, for no reason at all, putting a single bullet in the chamber and asking Max if she "wants to play", to which the now-terrified Max can only shake her head? So unnecessarily and childishly evil that it becomes kinda funny.
- The way Esther just casually drinks soda after almost suffocating Danny.
Orphan: First Kill
- The mid-way twist of the film turns what's been a competent but familiar retread of the first film into a dark comedy about three evil people trying to keep up their terrible facades, and naturally, Played for Laughs.
- After Leena escapes the asylum, she hides inside Dr. Anna's car till they reach her house, then hits her in the head with an iron bar and uses her house to prepare for her next steps. While it's fairly Nightmare Fuel, there's something darkly comedic about Leena taking her sweet time to 1) look at herself in the mirror, 2) play the piano dramatically, 3) crack a bottle open and sip some wine while 4) browsing the net for missing children she can impersonate, then 5) sign the name on her little bible and 6) look through some clothes... all the while covered in blood, before finally cleaning up to dress up like a child. Then she goes for the door, and discovers Anna was still alive and bleeding from her head the whole time, before sheepishly apologizing with "It usually takes only one (blow to the head to kill people)", and then bashes the poor woman's head in again... and gets splattered with blood all over again.
- What's Leena's reaction to Tricia shooting Detective Donnan, revealing both her own psychopathy and the fact that she sees right through Leena's disguise?
- In the next morning of forging their Enemy Mine con, Tricia informs Leena that they must meet Dr. Seegar, who is suspicious of Leena because she "talked to a parrot" and called it Sydney, which was a macaw that has since passed. Leena (like most people might) is confused, and Tricia gives a snappy answer that implies she is also annoyed by that Distinction Without a Difference, Leena's blunder or the fact Dr. Seegar is so suspicious over (what she believes to be) an abducted child not knowing the difference.Tricia: All macaws are parrots. Not all fucking parrots are macaws.
- As if Tricia's insane plan to force Esther into a mutual con to continue fooling Allen and everyone else isn't ludicrous and shortsighted enough, she actually mentors Leena into how to dress and manipulate people into actually believing she's a sweet little girl. While also showing off the clothes she bought for her and discussing which ones she liked the most. It has to be seen to be believed.
- When Gunnar talks down to Leena, boasting how he controls her, she slaps him. When he threatens to kill her if she does it again, she instantly calls his bluff.
- At one point Tricia corners Leena and castigates her for thinking Allen would ever accept or love her as a partner. Not funny at all, but her final note of saying "I'm going to go upstairs and fuck my husband" is just so hilariously cruel.
- After Esther escapes, she steals a car and books it down the highway. She rocks a pair of sunglasses, puts on Tricia's lipstick and puffs on a cigarette, all the while Michael Sembello's "Maniac" blares over the radio. It's an image as blatantly ridiculous as it is legitimately cool.
- The fact she's pulled over by a cop in minutes, has to put out her cigarette in a hurry and when approached replies as if she was a normal driver, asking if there's something wrong. We're left wondering if she's still playing the part of a naughty kid playing with her parents' car keys, or did she try dropping the façade for a moment to trick the cop into thinking she's just a normal dwarf driving her own car? It doesn't work because Tricia called the cops on "Esther", but it's still funny. Especially since she's still wearing Tricia's lipstick when the cop speaks to her.
