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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: This applies mostly to the second film: is Kevin really just a nice boy looking to do a good deed for Christmas, or a sadistic psychopath? At the end of the film, Kevin lures Harry and Marv from Duncan's Toy Chest, to his uncle's house to put them through hell, and then into Central Park where he calls the police. If all Kevin really wanted to do was stop Harry and Marv from robbing the toy store, he could have lured them directly into the park; instead, he catapults them onto cars, pummels them with bricks, wrenches and bags of cement, shoots them with staple guns, electrocutes them, sets them on fire, throws them through floors, etc. Sounds like stuff [[Saw|Jigsaw]] would pull. [[Freudian Excuse|Perhaps he was taking his anger at his family out on the Wet/Sticky Bandits.]] (After all, his mom, older brother and uncle especially treated him horribly in both films)

** Additionally, is Marv somehow actually dumber in the second film (possibly due to the head injuries he sustained in the first film and/or additional head injuries he sustained in prison), or is he ''drunk''?

* [[Designated Villain]]: Natalie in ''Home Alone 4''. We're supposed to hate her just because she's rich, is dating the dad after he divorced the mom, and doesn't want her Christmas ruined.

* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: The fourth movie, universally agreed on there.

* [[Genre Turning Point]]: This made family-oriented film-making a much more attractive proposition for studios, in tandem with the animation revival the previous year's ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' inspired.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Nothing graphic of course, but you might say that Harry and Marv bicker like an old married couple, and you might also note that (aside from the made for TV sequel, which ignores continuity in many ways, and removes Harry from the story) neither of the thieves mentions having a girlfriend or a wife, or wears a wedding ring. This would also explain why Harry puts up with Marv, since he is certainly not the brains of the operation and not much use for brawn either, being defeated by a child.

* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]: Many of the people are watching the series mainly only because of the traps at the second half of the film.

* [[Love to Hate]]: Harry and Marv. Yes, they're bad guys, but they completely steal the show.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:

** HELLOOO KEVIIIN!! Doubles as in-universe Nightmare Fuel for Kevin.

** Highlights of the booby traps: the nail through Marv's foot, the tarantula, the glass ornament stepping, the scenes with the furnace, and ''the electric sink.'' That wasn't Kevin down there in that scene...that was [[The Good Son|Henry Evans]]!

** In ''Home Alone 2'', near the end, when they're standing over Kevin, paint all over them looking like ''dried blood'', crazy [[Slasher Smile|slasher smiles]]...and the line "My, how the tables have turned". ''Brrrr''.

** In the first, after falling on the broken glass, he then ''walks on it'' instead of simply clearing the way. Really, Marv is just [[Too Dumb to Live]].

** Remember, Marv is the one that pushed for the "Wet Bandits" motif in the first movie. After being arrested, a cop jokingly thanks him for that, saying, "Now we know which houses you hit."

* [[The Woobie]]: Marv, particularly in the second film, considering everything that Kevin does to him and Harry, with the latter being more of a [[Jerkass Woobie]].