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* [[Art Shift]]: Includes effects to suggest an old movie. |
* [[Art Shift]]: Includes effects to suggest an old movie. |
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: Foster Brenner, as it would suggest. |
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Foster Brenner, as it would suggest. |
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* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: {{spoiler|The Spectre traps Aimee in a tornado of 100 dollar bills and makes them both completely rigid and razor sharp. She quickly dies in a bloody mess.}} |
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: {{spoiler|The Spectre traps Aimee in a tornado of 100 dollar bills and makes them both completely rigid and razor sharp. She quickly dies in a bloody mess.}} |
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* [[Disposable Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|She is guilty.}} |
* [[Disposable Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|She is guilty.}} |
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* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: To 60s/70s style horror like ''[[ |
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: To 60s/70s style horror like ''[[Rosemary's Baby]]'' and ''[[The Exorcist]]'' ''and'' detective/crime movies like ''[[Dirty Harry]]''. |
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* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: {{spoiler|Does he have to kill Aimee?}} |
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: {{spoiler|Does he have to kill Aimee?}} |
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* [[Paper Master]]: Temporarily, as seen under [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] |
* [[Paper Master]]: Temporarily, as seen under [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] |
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* [[The Seventies]]: Where the short takes place. |
* [[The Seventies]]: Where the short takes place. |
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* [[Shooting Superman]]: {{spoiler|Aimee}} fires several shots into Jim and they go straight through him. Then {{spoiler|she}} throws the gun at him and it goes through him as well. |
* [[Shooting Superman]]: {{spoiler|Aimee}} fires several shots into Jim and they go straight through him. Then {{spoiler|she}} throws the gun at him and it goes through him as well. |
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Some of the puppets resemble ''[[Nosferatu]]'' and [[The Exorcist|the possessed girl)]]. |
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** {{spoiler|The first target is killed by a giant King Kong puppet.}} |
** {{spoiler|The first target is killed by a giant King Kong puppet.}} |
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* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Jim Corrigan |
* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Jim Corrigan |
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[[Category:DC Showcase The Spectre]] |
[[Category:DC Showcase: The Spectre]] |
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[[Category:Western Animation]] |
[[Category:Western Animation]] |
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Tropes used in DC Showcase: The Spectre include:
- Anti-Hero: The Spectre is Type IV.
- Art Shift: Includes effects to suggest an old movie.
- Asshole Victim: Foster Brenner, as it would suggest.
- Beauty Mark: Aimee Brenner
- Blondes Are Evil: Aimee paid off a couple of people to kill her own father.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: The Spectre traps Aimee in a tornado of 100 dollar bills and makes them both completely rigid and razor sharp. She quickly dies in a bloody mess.
- Disposable Love Interest: She is guilty.
- George Lucas Throwback: To 60s/70s style horror like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist and detective/crime movies like Dirty Harry.
- Good Is Not Nice: Does he have to kill Aimee?
- Paper Master: Temporarily, as seen under Death of a Thousand Cuts
- Pay Evil Unto Evil
- The Seventies: Where the short takes place.
- Shooting Superman: Aimee fires several shots into Jim and they go straight through him. Then she throws the gun at him and it goes through him as well.
- Shout-Out: Some of the puppets resemble Nosferatu and the possessed girl).
- The first target is killed by a giant King Kong puppet.
- Skunk Stripe: Jim Corrigan
- Vehicular Assault: The Spectre possesses a target's car and drops it nose down on him.