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* ''Hellraiser: Hellworld'' (2005)
* ''Hellraiser: Revelations'' (2011)
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* [[Above Good and Evil]]: The Cenobites, usually, there was Pinhead's little descent into [[Chaotic Evil]] in ''Hell on Earth''.
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* [[Boom Headshot]]: Kirsty's MO in ''Hellseeker'' (though in a few instances, it appears to have been a [[Coup De Grace]]).
* [[Broad Strokes]]: [[Word of God]] has stated the Boom! Studios comics will essentially be taking this approach to the post-''Hellbound'' sequels.
* [[Brother
* [[Call Back]]: ''Revelations'' to the first film in many scenes. Niko is essentially a younger Frank, and even his first opening the box is a visual callback to Frank doing the same. {{spoiler|As is Niko stealing someone else's skin.}} There's even a callback to the original novella when someone looks up the word 'Cenobite' in a dictionary and reads the actual definition aloud.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: While most of the Deaders in the seventh film just look like disheveled people with some injury relating to their death, Marla looks like an outright rotting zombie, apparently her lack of faith in Winter being the cause of this.
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* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Marla (depending on how rotten she is in a particular scene) in ''Deader''.
* [[Cyborg]]: Most of the ''Hell on Earth'' Cenobites.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Yes, [[Serial Escalation|even for a series like this]]. The fifth (''Inferno'') and sixth (''Hellseeker'') films don't have the [[Gorn]] from the other films and are more psychological, dealing with characters who have become ensnared by the box. Instead of immediately getting dragged in and ripped apart by Pinhead and his cronies, they live out a personal Hell with manifestations of their wrongdoings tormenting them. [[Downer Ending|No happy endings are to be found here]]. At the end, Pinhead - who acts more like a judge - Gives a [[Hannibal Lecture]] and drops a [[Laser
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: More evident in the first two films, in which the antagonists are invariably human and the Cenobites, despite being [[Demonic Invaders]], are clearly only an interested third party and in fact assist the protagonist in both films. Pinhead even explicitly describes his group as "angels to some, demons to others" in the first film.
** Even more so in the novel, where (except for the [[Mind Rape|soul rape]] you forever thing) the Cenobites are [[Affably Evil|quite amiable]], and do not renege on their deal with Kirsty as they do in the movie.
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: People who describe (or [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|dismiss]]) ''Hellworld'' as "Pinhead killing hackers online".
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Detective Joseph Thorne in ''Inferno''. He cheats on his wife with prostitutes, neglects his family, brutalizes his informant, steals evidence, does drugs, frames his partner...
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The female Cenobite inserting her fingers into her own exposed trachea in the first film - among innumerable other examples likely to make you ill.
* [[Doomed By Canon]]: ''Hellraiser: Bloodline''. You know that the past attempts of the Merchant family are completely useless throughout the entire film. If they weren't, then Dr. Paul Merchant would not have still been trying to undo his ancestor's mistake at the film's start.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Amy Klein}} may not have been taken by Cenobites, but {{spoiler|she's still dead, though}}.
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Pinhead's human self, Captain Elliot Spencer... and probably Pinhead himself.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: A surprisingly large, detailed one.
* [[
** [[Subverted Trope|Angelique is the princess of HELL.]]
*** Further subverted. {{spoiler|After she fails to corrupt the modern descendant of Lemarchand, Pinhead takes her to Hell with him and remakes her in his image. The next time we see her, she's just another Cenobite in his retinue.}}
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** Especially subverted in ''Hellseeker''. {{spoiler|Kirsty lives, but she's murdered people to escape this time. Since her husband went to Hell partly due to his desire to murder her, this implies she's finally condemned herself.}}
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: A rather literal example in the first movie. While moving furniture, Larry cuts his hand on a protruding nail and bleeds all over the floor. It's this blood that Frank first uses to reconstruct his body and return to the world of the living. If not for that stupid nail, Larry, Julia and Kirsty might have just gone on living in the house, and Frank might have stayed in Hell.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Show up quite often, and not just in the film set in space.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: ''Hellworld'', and all the made-for-video sequels to some extent. Before that, the second film, with many a movie critic complaining that the climax didn't make sense. At the very least, figuring out what the Leviathan Configuration does, and what happened at the end {{spoiler|when Tiffany resolved it}} will take [[Wild Mass Guessing|some guesswork]] on the viewer's part.
* [[Going for The Big Scoop]]: Joey in ''Hell on Earth'', Amy in ''Deader''.
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* [[Hell Seeker]]: There are several characters with this mindset, and for some of them it even kind of works out: they're turned into cenobites, and enjoy it.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Kirsty}} in ''Hellseeker''.
* [[Hey
** Also, in ''Hellbound'' we have Lt. Gorman from ''[[Alien|Aliens]]''.
** ''Hell on Earth'' has [[Deep Space Nine|Jadzia Dax]].
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* [[Motive Decay]]: Pinhead. In the early installments he put a great deal of emphasis on the idea that his victims, on some level, wanted pain, and had even sought him out. In Hellbound, he even stopped the other cenobites from attacking a traumatized girl who'd been tricked into solving the lament configuration. By Bloodline, though, he was actively attempting to drag the entire world into Hell, whether they liked it or not.
* [[Nasty Party]]: {{spoiler|The Host's}} plan in ''Hellworld''.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Nice job {{spoiler|restoring Pinhead's humanity}}, Kirsty. Too bad that his evil side no longer follows his rules.
** In ''Revelations,'' just before {{spoiler|Pinhead drags Niko away, Ross shoots him, saying that he has more of a claim to Niko's life than anyone. Niko even thanks him with his last breath, as he's now spared an eternity with the Cenobites. Pinhead, annoyed, promptly gives Ross a [[Hannibal Lecture]] explaining that the suffering Niko would've endured is beyond what vengeance would call for, and calls him out for having acted purely out of a selfish need to be the instrument of vengeance himself. To satiate their appetite and claim their debt of flesh, they take his wife as a replacement for Niko.}}
* [[Not So Different]]
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*** Incidentally, that was a line taken directly from the novella where Kirsty is twenty-six and a friend rather than the daughter. Doesn't make it any less creepy though.
* [[Peek a Boo Corpse]]: Played about as straight as possible in the first film.
* [[Pre
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''Bloodline''.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Pinhead, Butterball, Chatterer and the Female all die shortly after remembering their humanity in ''Hellbound''.
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{{quote| '''J.P. Monroe''': "Jesus Christ!"<br />
'''Pinhead''': "Not quite." }}
* [[Spin
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: An entire sequence in ''Hell on Earth'' just has Joey running down the street as stuff explodes around her.
* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: Tiffany in ''Hellbound'', after seeing the Channard Cenobite:
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* [[Throw It In]]: Andrew Robinson thought "Jesus wept" sounded so much cooler than the scripted line "Fuck you". He was right.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: {{spoiler|Channard}}'s reaction after {{spoiler|his transformation into a cenobite}} is to question why he had any doubts about it.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Larry}} from the first film. Paying so little attention to your house and to your wife's strange behavior can get you killed. And {{spoiler|Kyle}} from the second. Went to a house where {{spoiler|Julia}} was, then decided to split up, didn't ask a strange woman who she was and what was doing there, and when she started to behave oddly didn't run away. [[What an Idiot!]] indeed.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|Julia}} went from being a reluctant and remorseful killer who tried her best to save {{spoiler|Larry Cotton}} from Frank in the first film to a hardened killer in the second, who took great joy in being evil. Probably an after-effect from being {{spoiler|betrayed, killed, tortured and ressurected.}}
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Pinhead is prone to these as well.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "We'll tear your soul...APAAAAAAHHHHT."
* [[The Power of Blood]]: The first three films have Frank, Julia and Pinhead coming back via blood.
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