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* [[Berserk Button]]: Towards the climax {{spoiler|when Jim hurts Kim, Edwards immediately gets enraged and kills him literally with his bare hands}}. It also counts as [[Beware the Nice Ones]].
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Edward retreats back to the castle after a series of misunderstandings. Once Edward defends Kim by killing Jim, Kim tells the townspeople that Edward and Jim killed each other. The elderly Kim admits she never saw Edward again after that night. Edward still lives alone in the castle and his ice sculptures are the reason it snows in town.}}
* [[Blood
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Many people seem to know a doctor who could help him get real hands, but they never seem to actually give the information of who or where.
* [[Blessed With Suck]] / [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Guess who.
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* [[Dreaming of a White Christmas]]: Averted and then played with. There's no snow at all in this town and Bill Boggs staples fake snow on the rooftop of their house at one point. However, Edward essentially brings this to Kim when he carves the ice angel, {{spoiler|and continues to bring snow to the entire town even when he's once more confined to the castle at the end}}.
* [[DVD Commentary]]: Two - One with Burton, and one with Danny Elfman that combines this with an isolated music track.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Elephant in The Living Room]]: Almost completely averted for everyone who is introduced to Edward. People are either fascinated with Edward's hands or perceive it as just a very minor quirk. Bad first impression notwithstanding, Kim is the only one who feels awkward after being formally introduced to him.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Being rather frail of health at this point, [[Vincent Price]] fainted under the hot studio lights in the scene where he dies. Tim Burton reportedly kept the shot of him on the floor in the final movie.
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* [[Freaky Is Cool]]: Used in-story: At first, Edward and his talents are warmly welcomed by most of the neighborhood because they're refreshingly unusual.
* [[Genre Blind]]: A question: if you're an Avon representative and see a big, ominous-looking house on the top of a random mountain, and the sky over it looks overcast, and the inside is empty and dusty, do you go in? 'Cause that's what Peg does in the beginning! Nothing bad comes of it, but if this were the case in a ''horror movie'', she'd be [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]/[[Scars Are Forever]] : Edward has many small scars on his face, due to his own hands and having no one to tend to him after the Inventor's death. The latter trope is played with: one of the first things Peg does when she meets him and realizes he's friendly is tend to them so they won't get infected. She later uses makeup -- she is an Avon lady after all -- to help conceal them to an extent, as well as to counteract his pale skin.
* [[The Grotesque]]: Edward might be the most famous modern example of this trope.
* [[It Got Worse]]: {{spoiler|Edward's rescue of Kevin being mistaken as an attack, and the resulting hysteria, leaves nothing left for Edward to do but, as Kim tells him, "Run."}}
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** In a more platonic sense, {{spoiler|even though Peg loves Edward very much, she soon realizes that bringing him to live with her family was a mistake, and it would be better if he lived in his tower where he's safe.}}
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Jim is an especially nasty one.
* [[Laser
* [[Looks Like Cesare]]: Edward. Very, very much.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Kim, Edward, and Jim.
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* [[No Name Given]]: Edward's "father."
* [[Nosy Neighbor]]: All of them.
* [[One
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kim is more or less this throughout the movie; for the first half she's the only one that sees Edward's condition as odd (which, in reality, it would be), and for the second half she's the only one who doesn't perceive Edward as a malicious man.
** The cop who helps Edward and Kim could count too.
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