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* [[Blood Knight]]: The Hessian.
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Ichabod. A ''lot''.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Maybe that's another main reason why the Hessian spared the little girl's life
* [[Cool Horse]]: Next up on ''[[Pimp My Ride|Pimp My Horse]]'', we examine the Hessian's ride, Daredevil, as an example of Doing It Right.
* [[Cow Tools]]: The autopsy sequence.
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* [[Eagle-Eye Detection]]: Ichabod's preferred method for solving the streak of murders.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: According to the [[DVD Commentary|director's commentary]] on the DVD, during the scene in the church where the doctor is killed by a blow to the head, they accidentally hit Ian McDiarmid so hard that he ended up having to go to hospital.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning
** It's also mentioned somewhere on the DVD (maybe the 'making of') that Tim Burton specifically asked the special effects guys to make the heads of the victims of the Headless Horseman pop off and spin a few times after being beheaded. Cue demonstration of said special effects.
* [[Fainting]]: Ichabod. A ''lot''. Though he does manage to hold out until the scary thing is over.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Johnny Depp as Crane, though to be fair he's from New York in 1799.
** Technically, every major character in the movie with the exception of the Hessian Horseman would have been born a Brit (if you date the foundation of the US to the Treaty of Paris in 1783)
* [[Fascinating Eyebrow]]: Ichabod's initial reaction to anything intriguing or unusual.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Lady Von Tassel was still alive when the Horseman went back to the Hollow. He presumably has...plans...for her.}}
* [[Fan Service]]: Burton's arm candy girlfriend at the time, [[Lisa Marie]], shows up in some dream sequences.
** As Ichabod's gorgeous mother. The script actually called for a scene for her to dance while loosening her top, until she was pretty much topless.
*** Ichabod ''himself'' counts as this.
* [[Flaming Sword]]: Not actually in flames, but it is so hot from the fires of hell that it cauterizes any wounds it inflicts.
* [[For the Evulz]]:
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: {{spoiler|Brom}}
* [[Headless Horseman]]
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* [[Hellish Horse]]: Daredevil.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Twice.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: How the Hessian Horseman was killed... [[Dead to Begin With|originally]]...
* [[Horror Struck]]: Ichabod, after seeing the Horseman up-close for the first time.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Ichbod's mom.
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* [[Hot Witch]]: Ichabod's mom, although her status as a witch is debatable. {{spoiler|Also Lady Von Tassel can be considered an evil example since she doesn't fit the [[Vain Sorceress]] trope}}
** It's pretty much proven that Katrina is a witch (or just practices witchcraft), since she was seen making a potion and chanting a spell when Icabod fell ill.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Baltus van
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted ''twice''. One victim was beheaded whilst in its mother's womb.
* [[In Name Only]]: Pretty much. In the Irving's story, Ichabod Crane was a school teacher who fully believed in ghosts, and the headless horseman never went on a killing spree.
* [[Innocent Bystander]]: Ichabod survives many encounters with the Horseman on account of this. The Horseman is shown to ignore anyone who doesn't directly interfere with his taking heads or doesn't get in his way. [[Too Dumb to Live|Not that Brom listened...]]
* [[It's Going Down]]: The windmill. Monster movies hate windmills.
** To be fair, this was not an uncommon fate for windmills of the time, minus the hell-monster part. [[The More You Know|Flour is surprisingly flammable. Even ''explosive''.]]
* [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: Note to city slickers: Forests are supposed to be noisy.
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: {{spoiler|Presumably the reason why the Horseman doesn't go for Katrina.}}
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* [[Light Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|Ichabod's father's eye-searingly white church hides a dungeon filled with torture devices.}}
** Played with with Katrina. As she the only character to dress in light colors and ride a white horse, her significance is clear immidiately to a [[Genre Savvy]] viewer. When combined with her witchcraft, this makes her legitimately suspcious by the time {{spoiler|Ichabod accuses her of controlling the horseman. In the end, though, [[Light Is Good|she turns out to be a good guy after all.]]}}
{{quote|'''Ichabod''': Villainy wears many masks, none of which is so dangerous as virtue.}}
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Sure the Headless Horseman can't enter hallowed ground {{spoiler|but that doesn't mean he can't tie a piece of the fence to a rope, impale his next victim and drag him out that way before beheading him}}.
* [[Lovable Coward]]: Ichabod. Even after he toughens up a bit toward the end, he is still in the habit of using women and children as [[Human Shield
* [[Lovecraft Country]]: The town of Sleepy Hollow and surrounding spooky woods comprise a spiritual cousin, at least.
* [[Mood Lighting]]: The entirety of the movie except the ending scene is shot with a creepy blue filter. The "red" blood is actually orange.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The horror tone of the scenes with the Horseman are interspersed with the darkly comedic scenes with the bumbling Ichabod Crane.
{{quote|'''[[Roger Ebert]]''': It's as if the Horseman gallops ahead in a traditional horror film, and Depp and Burton gallop right behind him in a satire.}}
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: When the true villain is finally revealed,
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Brom's fake Horseman prank closely mirrors Ichabod's encounter with the horseman in ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow''.
* [[Noble Demon]]: The Horseman.
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* [[Protective Charm]]: Katrina's pentagram.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The pre-headless Horseman once worked for the Redcoats, not for money but for the love of killing.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: {{spoiler|The Headless Horseman is revealed to be this. He's actually manipulated by Lady Van Tassel to kill for her own revenge and this time, unlike in his previous life, he feels no pleasure in
* [[Reality Ensues]]: {{spoiler|Katrina's father manages to get to the church, whose property the Horseman can't enter. He thinks he's safe. Then the Horseman snaps off a fencepost, ties it to a rope, throws it through the window like a spear, and drags him out of the church.}}
* [[Scary Scarecrows]]
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* [[The Voiceless]]: The Hessian unless we should count: ''YAAAARRRRGGH''.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: {{spoiler|Lady Van Tassel}}
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|the Witch of the Western Woods, who looks like a wicked witch but just wants to help}}.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Both Ichabod and Young Masbath fall into this trope. Ichabod by body-tackling {{spoiler|Lady Van Tassel}} off her horse and Young Masbath by smacking her over the head with a heavy tree branch!
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: The Hessian is sent {{spoiler|by Lady Van Tassel}} to murder the midwife of the town and her family. {{spoiler|He kills the father right away and the midwife hides her young son under the floor to protect him. She's killed next. The Hessian seems about ready to walk away... before stabbing his sword into the floor. The next scene shows him [[Off with His Head|dropping something into his sack]] as he leaves the house.}}
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