DC Showcase: The Spectre

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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.