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{{quote| '''Vampira''': I thought you were a fag.<br />
'''Ed''': I'm not a fag, just a transvestite. }}
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]/[[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: Bela Lugosi's motivation for starring in Ed Wood's flicks goes from earning a quick buck to rediscovering the sheer joy of acting.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Ed is extremely generous and goodhearted, desperately trying to help his idol get back into the limelight.
* [[No Budget]]: Par for the course for Ed's movies.
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* [[Phony Psychic]]: Criswell.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Ed Wood, again.
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: See "[[Berserk Button]]" above.
* [[Production Posse]]: Each new Ed Wood film is made with more or less the same cast and an unchanging crew. See [[True Companions]] below.
* [[Real Person Cameo]]: Conrad Brooks, an actor in Ed's compan played in the movie by Brent Hinkley, himself appears as a bartender.
* [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]/[[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|Horrible]]: In-universe reactions to Ed Wood's work boil down to these two.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Again, this was pretty much inevitable.
* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: In-universe: Ed Wood is unshakably convinced that his creations are fine cinema.
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* [[The Unintelligible]]: George "The Animal" Steele had to work with a voice coach to imitate Tor Johnson's voice. Tor's combination of Swedish accent and jowelly enunciation means he practically mangles every line that [[Ed Wood (Creator)|Ed Wood]] writes. Not that comprehension is a particularly great loss.
** Steele didn't exactly do a good job. The strange, booming voice he works into the role is far from Johnson's own voice.
* [[Very Loosely Based Onon a True Story]]: Among other things, the ending captions leave out that Wood ended up a broken, alcoholic porno director. Various other facts are manipulated throughout. But fans of Wood still like this film on the grounds that, well, it comes across as the biopic he would have filmed about himself.
* [[Viewers Areare Morons]]: Subverted; while Wood shows a blatant disregard for things like visual continuity and set quality, and justifies this by saying that no-one really pays attention to the smaller details, he does so because he's projecting his own way of watching films onto the audiences, rather than considering them to be... well, morons.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
* [[White Dwarf Starlet|White Dwarf Star]]: Bela Lugosi.
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Ed is this all over.
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