Ratman's Notebooks: Difference between revisions

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* [[Does Not Like Women]]: Ratman. He gets better.

* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]:}} The 1971 movie

* [[Dragon in Chief]]: Ben

* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Ben

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Averted in the book, but played straight in the movies.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]

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* {{spoiler|[[Gainax Ending]]}}: The 2003 movie

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: With {{spoiler|Mister Martin (but only in the book; a certain deleted scene from the 2003 movie should NOT be watched by the faint of heart)}}, very much not the case with {{spoiler|Socrates}}

* [[Half Human Hybrid]]: The general public believes Ratman to be one of these (in no small part due to his disguise)

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: The general public believes Ratman to be one of these (in no small part due to his disguise)

* {{spoiler|[[Happy Ending]]:}} ''Ben'' (the movie, not the song of the same name)

* [[Hard Work Montage]]: The 2003 movie

* [[It Got Worse]]: From the POV of the townspeople.

* [[Killed Mid Sentence]]: {{spoiler|The end of the book, although the "killed" bit is open for debate}}

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: {{spoiler|The end of the book, although the "killed" bit is open for debate}}

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Martin, when he kills Socrates.}} Up until this point, the novel reads something like a dark satire about various human foibles. Only from this point onward does it truly feel like a horror story.

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: One of the elevator scenes in the 2003 movie.

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* [[Meganekko]]: Eve in ''Ben''.

* [[Missing Mom]] (but not initially)

* [[My God What Have I Done]]

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]

* [[Mythology Gag]]: In the 2003 remake, a television is turned on to a radio station, and the song ''Ben'' by Michael Jackson is played. This is especially interesting, because the song, ''Ben'' was written for the sequel of the same name to the original 1971 Willard, but it would stand to reason that in the world of the 2003 remake, there has been no movie Willard and thus no sequel. So in the 2003 film, the song exists out of nowhere.

* [[No Name Given]]: EVERYBODY except Martin, Ben, and Socrates.

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* [[Villainous BSOD]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome]]: The 2003 movie. When Willard starts "hearing things", a bunch of children's voices are thrown in for apparently no reason other than to add to the disorienting effect.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The 2003 movie. When Willard starts "hearing things", a bunch of children's voices are thrown in for apparently no reason other than to add to the disorienting effect.

* [[~~Whos~~ Laughing Now]]

* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]

* [[You Dirty Rat]]

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]