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* [[Actor Shared Background]]: Eva Green shares Angelique's French origins.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: To the original ''[[Dark Shadows]]'' series, as well as soap opera twists and turns in general.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: {{spoiler|Julia Hoffman, who has her own not-entirely-reputable reasons for "curing" Barnabas this time around.}} See [[Sequel Hook]].
* [[The Ageless]]: Angelique is perpetually young thanks to her witchcraft.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Willie Loomis, the manor's caretaker ([[Jackie Earle Haley]]), and Dr. Julia Hoffman, the live-in psychiatrist ([[Helena Bonham Carter]]).
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Barnabas is trapped in a coffin for 200 years.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Barnabas is a Type IV. While he is [[Apologetic Attacker|apologetic]], he has few qualms about [[Horror Hunger|murdering numerous innocent people to satisfy]] his vampiric [[Blood Lust]], or [[Charm Person|ensnaring minions]] in pursuit of his goals. On the positive side, he also has a strong sense of familial devotion, doing everything in his power to enrich and protect his descendants. And his love for Victoria is genuine.
* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Barnabas converses in a most quaint and peculiar 18th-century verbiage.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Barnabas apologizes both times before murdering two packs of innocent people. He voices regret to at least one of construction workers, but explains that after 200 years, he's ''very'' thirsty.
* [[As Himself]]: [[Alice Cooper]] - though nobody accounts for why he looks 40 years older than he should have been. A bit of [[Self-Deprecation]] there : Cooper's cameo was originally supposed to be a CG representation of his younger self, but Cooper thought he looked uglier then than he did now, and decided to stand in himself.
* [[Beat Still My Heart]]: {{spoiler|As Angelique is defeated by the ghost of David's mother, she plunges her hand into her shattered chest, pulls out her still-beating heart, and shows it to Barnabas in a last desperate attempt to make him feel something for her. It doesn't work, the heart evaporates and she dies.}}
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Barnabas, Josette.
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* [[Creepy Long Fingers]]: Barnabas develops these when Angelique curses him to become a vampire.
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: [[Inverted]]. {{spoiler|After having been smashed against a chandelier, the villainous Angelique dies in a crucifixion pose.}}
* [[Cry for the Devil]]: One may feel sympathy towards Angelique - sure, her actions have been downright evil and she's a [[Manipulative Bastard]], but she's also been repeatedly rejected by Barnabas and according to him, she "cannot love".
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]:
** Barnabas. Sure he can't endure sunlight, but he's gained immortality and vampiric powers.
** {{spoiler|Carolyn, who's been turned into a werewolf}}.
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* [[Denser and Wackier]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Barnabas.
** Elizabeth too.
{{quote|(About Dr. Hoffman) "She's probably sleeping off one of her legendary hangovers."}}
** [[World of Snark|Everyone really]].
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** Helena Bonham Carter plays this straight and does an excellent job with the accent.
* [[Fantastic Romance]]: Barnabas and Angelique/Victoria/{{spoiler|Dr. Hoffmann}}.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Angelique, again.
* [[Femme Fatalons]]: Angelique's. Barnabas has the male version.
* [[Final Battle]]: In which {{spoiler|Carolyn is revealed to be a werewolf, Angelique is killed by the ghost of David's mother, and Collinswood Manor is destroyed}}.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Barnabas. His responses to the notoriously-tacky 70s is a major source of the movie's humor.
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Hoffmann falls for her patient Barnabas. Later subverted, as it's revealed that she is more interested [[Vampire Vannabe|in his vampire blood]] than his personality.}}
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* [[Fur Against Fang]]: Played with. {{spoiler|It's werewolf vs. witch, and the werewolf is fighting on the vampire's side.}}
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: [[Alice Cooper]] is the "ugliest woman" Barnabas has ever seen.
* [[The Good Guys Always Win]]: Although would've been a [[
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Angelique.
* [[Haunted Heroine]]: Maggie/Victoria, quite literally.
* [[Haunted House]]
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Barnabas suggests the Collins family throw a ball. Cue "We always had the biggest, most wonderful balls" and "This family could use some balls".
* [[Hollywood New England]]: Both flavors (refined but decaying "Codfish Aristocracy" and gruff fishermen).
* [[Hot Witch]]: Angelique.
* [[Identical Grandson]]: Maggie is probably a descendant of Josette's family, hence the resemblance between the two and the fact that Maggie can see the ghost of Josette.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Probably what Angelique was thinking when she locked Barnabas in that coffin; the first ''and'' second time.
* [[If I Can't Have You]]
{{quote|'''Angelique''': ''If I can't have you, I'll destroy you. And your family.''}}
* [[I See Dead People]]: Maggie/Victoria and David.
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* [[Lady Drunk]]: Dr. Julia Hoffman.
* [[Lady in Red]]: Angelique turns up to the Collins' Ball looking absolutely stunning in a [http://www.beyondhollywood.com/dark-shadows-2012-movie-preview-images-and-videos/dsd_fullbody_busshelter_angelique_rgb/ sequined red dress].
* [[Lecherous Licking]]: Made creepier by the fact that Angelique has a [[Overly Long Tongue|long, snake-like tongue]].
* [[Light Feminine and Dark Feminine]]: [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - Victoria (the light feminine) is usually seen wearing pastels, in contrast to Angelique (the dark feminine) who wears mostly black and midnight blue.
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Maggie Evans thinks her real name will not impress the Collins so she looks for another name, sees an advertisement for the [[Olympic Games|Winter Olympics]] in Victoria, British Columbia, and renames herself Victoria Winters.
* [[Literally Shattered Lives]]: {{spoiler|Angelique seems to be made of some sort of ceramic and shatters progressively during the climatic fight.}}
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* [[Looks Like Cesare]]: Johnny Depp, as usual. {{spoiler|Maggie / Victoria at the end.}}
* [[Lovecraft Country]]: It's Maine. [[Sarcasm Mode|Nothing supernatural ever happens round here]]. [[Stephen King|Right, Steve?]]
* [[Love Hungry]]: Angelique regarding Barnabas.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]] / [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Angelique.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Barnabas is in love with Maggie/Victoria, but also has a sizzling relationship with Angelique, who is still in love with him after 196 years (cue the massive amounts of [[Foe Yay]] and [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|UST]]).
* [[Madonna-Whore Complex]]: Josette and Victoria are the virtuous, conservatively dressed, asexual good girls. Angelique is the [[Absolute Cleavage|cleavage-baring]], sexually aggressive villainess.
* [[Mama Bear]]: In the climatic fight, Elizabeth wields a shotgun against Angelique to protect her family.
** {{spoiler|The ghost of David's mother. She may be deceased, but if you threaten her child, she'll hit you with one hell of a banshee shriek.}}
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Alluded to by Victoria at the end as an obstacle to her relationship with Barnabas.
* [[Mind Control]]: One of the perks of being a vampire is that you can do this.
* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]: Barnabas visiting Collinsport for the first time in 196 years, [[The Seventies|in 1972]].
* [[Monster Mash]]: Vampires, witches, ghosts, {{spoiler|and werewolves}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: After a very serious opening, the film morphs into a [[Black Comedy]]. However, the film does switch back to a darker tone at times.
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* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailers play up the broad comedy and [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] aspects of the film and make Barnabas look more like a straightforward (if quirky) hero rather than [[Anti-Hero]] he is. [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer|The Maggie/Victoria plot is also never alluded to.]]
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Barnabas and Angelique do ''not'' pull any punches during their climatic fight.
* [[Not Good with Rejection]]: After Barnabas rejects her love, Angelique goes on to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] (see above), curse Barnabas to be a vampire, lock him in a coffin for almost 200 years, and spend those consequent 200 years sabotaging his family for revenge.
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Angelique is shown to be wearing one back in the late 18th century as she is casting the spell to {{spoiler|cause Josette to fall from Widow's Peak.}}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Christopher Lee]] as Clarney.
** [[Alice Cooper]] [[As Himself]].
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Barnabas fits the classic definition. [[Weakened by the Light|Sunlight]] and silver make him [[Man On Fire|spontaneously combustive]].
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Carolyn takes on a mostly human form with big hairy wolf legs, sharp teeth, golden eyes, and claws. Also, it seems she can transform at will}}.
** {{spoiler|Or the final fight probably happened during a full moon}}.
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Johnny Depp. Tim Burton, too.
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: Angelique is portrayed as a [[Complete Monster]] for the way she terrorizes Barnabas and his family; but Barnabas' unethical actions (such as mind control and murder) tend to be glossed over.
* [[Psychotic Lover]]: Angelique, and ''how''.
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Angelique can be seen to be wearing one as she excuses herself to march into Collinswood Manor and face off against Barnabas in what would be the [[Final Battle]].
* [[Really 700 Years Old|Really 200 Years Old]]: Angelique. And Barnabas, of course.
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: {{spoiler|Barnabas finally ends up with Maggie, in whom Josette is apparently reincarnated}}.
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* [[The Reveal]]: The climatic fight reveals that {{spoiler|Carolyn is a werewolf}}.
* [[Revenge by Proxy]]: Angelique has spent the last two hundred years ruining the Collins family as revenge against Barnabas for spurning her. When he escapes his coffin, she steps up her efforts.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Copious beautiful shots of woods, lakes, and cliffs. Also the interior of the mansion.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: In the final scene of the film, {{spoiler|Dr Hoffman is shown underwater opening her eyes, implying she was successfully turned into a vampire and thus will probably be back to give Barnabas grief. For fun, this scene recalls a shot of the drowned Shelley Winters, in 1955's ''[[Night of the Hunter]]''.}}
* [[The Seventies]]: [[Turned Up to Eleven]].
* [[Shaggy Search Technique]]: Roger unsuccessfully attempts this to find the hidden treasure room. Barnabas is not amused.
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Barnabas and {{spoiler|Angelique, when she dies after being attacked by the ghost of David's mother.}}
* [[Ship Tease]]: A lot between Barnabas and Angelique.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** At one point Angelique spews out green vomit at Barnabas, as the possessed Regan did in ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
** During the finale, part of the staircase comes alive as a snakelike beast, similar to ''[[Beetle Juice]]''.
** Dr. Hoffman and Barnabas have a conversation about how filthy and disgusting life in England was. [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Helena Bonham Carter]] were the two leads in ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd]]'', which is set in such a place in London.
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Angelique gives Barnabas one in an early scene between them, leaving a lipstick mark around his mouth.
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: Bella Heathcote gets a few seconds as Josette and none as Victoria.
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]]: Angelique lights up afterwards.
* [[Supernatural Proof Father|Supernatural Proof Mother]]: Elizabeth, to the point of hiring a psychologist to examine David. And then came Barnabas...
* [[Table Space]]: Carolyn eats at the far end of the table.
* [[Title Drop]]: Once, by Barnabas.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: Collinsport. The curse surrounding the Collins family is, however, unknown to the townsfolk.
* [[Trash the Set]]: {{spoiler|Collinwood manor burns to the ground during Barnabas and Angelique's [[Final Battle]].}}
** [[Johnny Depp]] mentions in an interview that the filming of his and [[Eva Green]]'s sex scene resulted in a lot of trashed hotel rooms.
* [[Vampire Bites Suck]]: No other way of putting it.
* [[Vampire Vannabe]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Hoffman is using Barnabas' blood to turn herself into a vampire in order to stop her aging.}}
* [[Vampires Are Rich]]: In his life, Barnabas was the heir of an affluent colonial family. Over time, the family fortune dwindled, but fortunately {{spoiler|Barnabas' father left behind some treasure}}.
* [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]]: Barnabas used to be quite handsome and knew his way with the ladies. His undead appearance may be freaky and creepy, but he still has romantic encounters of varying depth with three female characters.
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* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Angelique vomits [[Covered in Gunge|green, bug-filled slime]] onto Barnabas a la ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
* [[Wall-Bang Her]]: And ceiling, couch, and floor bang her.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Angelique tells Barnabas several times she likes the idea of the two of them ruling over Collinsport together as two super-powered immortals, but he refuses.
{{quote|'''Angelique''': I'm going to offer you a business proposal, Barnabas. My final offer; either you agree to rule this little pond of mine side by side, partners ''and lovers''...Or I put you back in the box.
'''Barnabas''': I have already prepared my counter-proposal. It reads thusly: ''You may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!'' }}
* [[Weakened by the Light]]: Barnabas actually catches fire when exposed to the sunlight for a relatively short period of time.
* [[What Year Is This?]]: Uttered verbatim by Barnabas.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Barnabas can't endure the idea of seeing Victoria age and die, so he asks Angelique to turn him back into a mortal. She refuses, naturally. {{spoiler|[[Take a Third Option|The problem is solved at the end, when he bites Victoria to save her from a fatal fall]]}}.
* [[Wizards Live Longer]]: Angelique is a witch, and hasn't aged a day in 196 years.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: The entire plot is put in motion by Barnabas refusing Angelique's love.
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