My Soul to Take: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Agent Mulder]]: Jeanne-Baptiste (the black chick who got her throat sliced) during the first murders. She flips with Paterson 16 years later and takes the [[Agent Scully]] spot, and even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it.

* [[Agent Scully]]: Paterson starts off as this, and then becomes the [[Agent Mulder]] for no apparent reason.

* {{spoiler|[[Asshole Victim]]: Brandon: he gets a girl pregnant by manipulating her, bullies Bug and Alex, and it's a good bet [[Moral Event Horizon|he was going to rape Brittany in the woods]] before The Ripper catches up with them}}.

* [[Bait and Switch]]:

'''Bug:''' "I buried a friend... my condor costume." }}

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: {{spoiler|Averted with Jerome. Unless you count The Ripper, he's the last of the victims to die}}.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The biggest knife in the kitchen.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Leah, complete with [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Averted with Jerome. He simply uses standard blindness techniques for mobility and identification.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: The Ripper, naturally.

* [[Fauxshadow]]: {{spoiler|Careful attention is paid in the beginning to Leah's creepy reaction to the murders, but nothing actually comes of it. She just ends up an angry, maladjusted girl, and is not The Ripper}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Final Girl|Final Boy]]: Bug.}}

* [[Genre Savvy]]: The whole town knew The Ripper would come back some day, and a few knew how souls worked.

* [[Harassing Phone Call]]

* [[Lust Object]]: Brittany, for Brandon. He's none too subtle about it either.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Fang's ratings of physical pain. Pretty much anything exchanged between Bug and Alex, but most notably: "It feels fucking great."

* [[Ms. Exposition]]: Jeanne-Baptiste, whose only purpose as a character is to explain how some souls are just too evil to stay dead.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Not as bad as most, but there was some stuff shown out of context, particularly scenes from near the beginning of the movie that took place 16 years prior to the main events (most notably a news broadcast). There are a couple clips shot just for the trailer as well.

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Jerome, who (although legitimately blind) pretends he "accidentally" went into the girls' bathroom instead of the boys' to support a recon mission for Bug and Alex.

{{spoiler|'''Paterson:''' (''shoots Abel'')}} "That's for shut the fuck up!" }}

* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|We see a lot of Bug's schizophrenic tendencies and his inexplicable proficiency with the folding blade, setting him up as The Ripper, but his odd behavior turns out to be something else entirely}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Slashed Throat]]}}

* [[Ship Sinking]]: An in-universe example: Fang makes sure Brittany doesn't get any ideas about hooking up with Bug by insisting that Brandon is a better match for her, even though Brittany's reaction implies she might have a crush on Bug. May also tries to do this with Bug by saying Brittany is a little too "sophisticated" for him. {{spoiler|It doesn't really matter in the end, as Brittany gets gutted}}.

* [[Split Personality]]: The Riverton Ripper. One of them [[Gollum Made Me Do It|is evil]].

** Actually, the majority of the movie (after the opening) is arguably an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] of this.

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|In the beginning when Jay is killed, you can hear him say "Alex."}}

* [[Stupid Evil]]: Yeah, Ripper, try to pin the murders of 6 people, {{spoiler|including a cop}} on a {{spoiler|blind kid}}. I'm sure nobody will question that.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: {{spoiler|Bug's father was the killer, and there is a plotline about whether or not his father's spirit is controlling him. However, a brief shot from the trailer clearly shows him fighting the killer, meaning it's someone else.}}

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Crotch dog."

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Arguably the [[Animal Motif]] of the condor. The idea established at the end seems to be {{spoiler|the other kids' souls were going to Bug because he's the condor and "eats death"}}. Whether that's sufficient is up to you.

** The slash marks in Bug's shirt are diagonal down the shoulder blades, exactly where a set of angel wings would be.

** Why was "Vengeance" etched into the blade of the Ripper's knife? What was he getting vengeance for? Why was he killing people at all?

 

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