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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: A ''lot'' of people thought Oskar's dad was gay in the Swedish film due the scene where his friend comes over for drinks and Oskar acts uncomfortable. [[Word of God]] (and the original book) clarifies that that he was just an alcoholic and that his friend was a drinking buddy.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Hakan in the book.
* [[Anti
* [[Battle Discretion Shot]]: The climax of both films where {{spoiler|Eli/Abby slaughters all of the bullies}}. See [[Gory Discretion Shot]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't screw with a vampire's best friend. {{spoiler|The bullies at the end learn the hard way.}}
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* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The Morse code ending to both films.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Even two of the bullies are fairly sympathetic (and one of them even {{spoiler|stays alive}} in the end).
** Averted in the novel, in that while Oskar stabs trees with a knife to take out his anger, shoplifts and has an obsession with serial killers, and {{spoiler|sets fire to the school}}, the bullies do horrible things such as [[Moral Event Horizon|threaten to throw him on railway tracks]] (in plain view of the public!) and {{spoiler|drown him}}, and that other guy is a glue sniffing, shop lifting, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|porn magazine]] reader.
** Hellishly averted during that book-only scene in the public library.
* [[Coming of Age Story]]: Oddly heartwarming. Kind of.
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*** Actually, in the film there's a scene where you see the scars rather explicitly, but no explanation how he got them.
*** The remake hints at it, but never outright states it (and a deleted scene {{spoiler|disproves}} it). It's implied that Owen saw what {{spoiler|Abby}} looks like naked, but apart from a briefly surprised expression (that could be taken as embarrassment), it is not elaborated on.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Enemy to All Living Things]]: One possible interpretation of the reaction of the cats to Eli and other vampires.
** Oskar describes the feeling upon seeing Eli's "bloodthirsty" face as the same natural fear everyone has of fire or sharp objects.
* [[Evil
* [[Fan Disservice]]: {{spoiler|Eli's crotch. Physically twelve years old, and she didn't start off as a girl. If you disagree, seek therapy.}}
* [[The Faceless]]: Used in the English-language film to signify this is principally a tale about childhood ([[Not Growing Up Sucks|more or less]]), with adult characters mostly peripheral and often fleeting. Owen's island-like status is emphasised by his absent father only making one scene by telephone, and his mother – a fairly constant presence in the book – appears numerous times yet is ''never once seen properly on camera'': she varies from being a distant figure, a ghostly reflection or obscured by a door, to fully visible yet thrown way out of focus or seen only from the neck down; even a passport-type photo glimpsed in her wallet is crumpled to the point of indistinguishability.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In the book, a policeman muses on the religious symbolism of the name Eli. The other policeman responds "Should I include that in the report?"
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Eli's vampire powers let her easily take down men twice her size.
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: In the Swedish film at least Oskar is somewhat effeminate in comparison to the more androgynous Eli ( {{spoiler|who is, of course, really a castrated boy}}).
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: And how!
* [[Nightmare Face]]: Averted with Eli... and played deadly straight with Abby.
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* [[Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere]]
* [[Weakened By the Light]]: Vampires and sunlight.
* [[White
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] by Eli, who despite having lived for over 200 years, is somewhat mentally limited by being physically 12.
** Although at least in the movie, there's a decent question of how much is genuine and how much is a necessary act.
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