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* {{Corpsing}}: Marcus is definitely not immune to this.

** The entity that David Farrant and Sean Manchester were chasing after in the "Highgate Vampire Hunters" episode was described as a ghost - like being with "Psychic Vampire" abilities (although the ''real'' story in that episode was those two guys and their feud, which overshadowed the paranormal case that started it).

** Very much averted for most of the show, as there have been many informative, factual episodes about real-life Satanism in its various forms. However, this ''trope'' was discussed at-length during the episodes about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse Satanic Ritual Abuse]], and how it was exploited in order to convince Americans in the 80's and 90's that [[YouCanPanicNow evil wicked Satanists]] [[ThinkOfTheChildren were out to steal their children.]]

-->'''Henry (as Alexei):''' Daddy, do you think ''I'' could grow wings and fly like a bird...?

* DelicateAndSickly: In their series on UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk, one of the factors that allowed Rasputin to gain the power he did was that Tsar Nicholas II's son Alexei was a hemophiliac, a condition only Rasputin could reliably alleviate and which the Romanovs kept ''very'' secret, lest it be known that Nicholas's heir be a weak, sickly child. Henry presents Alexei as a child constantly on his deathbed, explicitly comparing it to Colin Craven of ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''.

** Henry's take on the plumber (who in real life, was not like what Henry depicts) in the "Dennis Nilsen" episodes returns in a [[CaptainErsatz different role in the "Enfield Poltergeist" episodes, being as Cockney, foul-mouthed and feces-obsessed as ever.

** Henry's take on the plumber (who in real life, was not like what Henry depicts) in the "Dennis Nilsen" episodes returns in a [[CaptainErsatz different]] [[{{Expy}} role]] in the "Enfield Poltergeist" episodes, being as Cockney, foul-mouthed and feces-obsessed as ever.

* {{Expy}}: While Ben compares Henry's impression of Jerry Brudos to his impression of Charles Ng, Henry later acknowledges that he's consciously doing it as essentially [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Eric Cartman]].

* The entity that David Farrant and Sean Manchester were chasing after in the "Highgate Vampire Hunters" episode was described as a ghost - like being with "Psychic Vampire" abilities (although the ''real'' story in that episode was those two guys and their feud, which overshadowed the paranormal case that started it).

--> "...and that's when the cannibalism started..." - Jeffrey Dahmer from his [[https://youtu.be/iWjYsxaBjBI?t=712 interview]] on ''Inside Edition''.

** The first 13 Episodes had a different theme song (suspenseful horror film music). Episode 14 is when the familiar theme with the {{Sampling}} debuts. The switch happens during the 2 Part "Chasing The Bogeyman" Episodes ([[https://youtu.be/DlL-ptqA8lw Ep. 13]] & [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_Grq9xKik Ep.14]]). However, the early version of the current theme music was a much longer version with even more samples (the version we hear now is actually a shorter mix).

--> "...and that's when the cannibalism started..." - Jeffrey Dahmer from his [[https://youtu.be/v6rgKYUxIU4?t=883 1993 interview]] on ''Inside Edition''.

''[[http://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com The Last Podcast On The Left]]'' is a horror and true-crime based [[BlackComedy comedy]] podcast and is part of the [[http://www.lastpodcastnetwork.com The Last Podcast Network]]. The show was originally created by Ben Kissel and Marcus Parks in 2011. Shortly after its creation, Henry Zebrowski joined Marcus and Ben as the third host of the show.

** Henry imagines [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys Mr. Muggs]], the official mascot of Jonestown, as one of these, communicating his displeasure and annoyance via a {{Film/Congo}}-style voice synthesizer.

** The trio take the time, in the first episode of the Israel Keyes series, to mock the NuMetal genre, with Music/LinkinPark getting particular disdain and only Korn and Slipknot getting a pass. It doesn't help that Keyes himself exclusively listened to it.
*** Keyes himself gets derided as a "Bargain Basement BTK" by Marcus for being nowhere near as hardcore as the media made him out to be.

** They also note the time period their sources are published, as those published closer to the event tend to be more sensationalised, while those published more recently benefit from newer research and the passage of time.
** Mark David Champan, the killer of {{Music/John Lennon}}, is noted as an extreme example of this trope. Between his undiagnosed behavioural disorder(s) and the multiple narratives he's given, the hosts admit that they can't really tell how much of it is real or not. The fact that the [[ImaginaryFriend Little People]] turned out to be more rational than their own creator causes them to doubt even ''that'' account.

** The hosts refer to this idea as the "Least Dead". They note how multiple serial killers, such as Gary Ridgway and Robert Pickton, were able to get away with their crimes because their main targets were prostitutes, whose deaths garnered little official attention, or ''black'' prostitutes, who got basically none. The Robert Pickton case also draws attention to First Nations women, who somehow got even ''less'' attention than black prostitutes.

* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: A recurring theme in, of all things, the Jonestown series. The crew is highly amused by the fact that one of Jim Jones' early means to make ends meet was selling spider monkeys door to door and they cannot stop laughing when they play a clip of the daughter-in-law of a Peoples Temple follower explaining how her mother-in-law first met Jones when he sold her a monkey to replace her previous one which had ''hung itself''. Later on, Marcus relates how Peoples Temple eventually got a chimpanzee named Mr. Muggs as their mascot, whom Henry imagines as an OnlySaneMan communicating his displeasure at the madness around him via a ''Film/{{Congo}}'' style voice synthesizer.

* ScrewTheRulesImFamous: Jack Unterwager pulled off an extreme version of this by becoming a bestselling author while in jail for his first murder. The celebrity status he got from this served as a shield that allowed him to keep killing, since neither the public, media nor the intellectuals of Austria wanted to believe that he hadn’t actually reformed.

* BerserkButton:
** For Marcus, it's lazy or sloppy police work. From all of his research, he knows just how easy it is for heinous crimes to go unpunished when police don't do their jobs, and he will deliver ''scathing'' criticisms on any law enforcement whose laziness lets a killer go free. Seen most prominently in the Robert Pickton series.
** For Ben, it's harm against children. As someone who used to work with kids in a YMCA, Ben is very sensitive to the idea of children being put in harms way, and is usually the first to voice his displeasure when children become the victims of various killers.

** For Ben, its harm against children. As someone who used to work with kids in a YMCA, Ben is very sensitive to the idea of children being put in harms way, and is usually the first to voice his displeasure when children become the victims of various killers.

* BerserkButton: For Marcus, it's lazy or sloppy police work. From all of his research, he knows just how easy it is for heinous crimes to go unpunished when police don't do their jobs, and he will deliver ''scathing'' criticisms on any law enforcement whose laziness lets a killer go free. Seen most prominently in the Robert Pickton series.

** SerialKiller, Richard Ramirez actually believed in this form of Satanism as did (to some degree) many of the guys in the "Norwegian Black Metal" episodes (although they wavered between this and a of Norse Paganism, which was often perverted with White Supremacist nonsense).

** Scandinavians in the "DeathMetal" episodes either veer between "The Swedish Chef" and "Stereotypical German". Likewise, Dennis Nilsen varies between "thick {{Scotireland}}" and "Cockney" (in RealLife, Nilsen was neither and had a posh Scottish-tinged English accent due to being in England for so long).