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* [[Irony]]: When called by the killer, Sidney, who dislikes horror movies, badmouths them, saying they all just involve some eye candy girl who always runs upstairs instead of out the front door. When Ghostface attacks moments later, Sidney tries to run out the door, can't, and seeing no other option, runs upstairs.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Subverted with Randy, who attributes his survival to being a virgin.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: {{spoiler| After it's revealed they are the killers, much of Billy and Stu's actions seem to embody this trope. In Stu's case, when Sid's attack causes the school to close, he offers a party and provides the booze for those he would try to kill in a heartbeat. In Billy's case, he lets Randy in when Randy thinks Stu is the killer. Though the latter is subverted when Billy ends up shooting Randy.}}
* [[Murder Simulators]]: The killer states that violent movies "don't create psychos, they only make psychos more creative."
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Lampshaded.
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* [[Viewer Stock Phrases]]: "Look behind you!" is played with in the sequence where Randy watches ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' and says this to [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] in the movie -- but also, unknowingly, to himself, as the killer is approaching him from behind. Meanwhile, a couple of people in a van outside, watching the exchange on a video camera, are saying the same thing to him. However, because the video they're watching is on a time delay, and whatever is going to happen is already over, they are powerless to help him -- just as Randy cannot change what happens in ''Halloween'', and the ''Scream'' audience [[Post Modernism|can't change what happens in the movie]] ''[[Post Modernism|they're]]'' [[Post Modernism|watching]]. Whew!
** Played with even more when Randy says, "Look behind you, Jamie!" He's talking to [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], but guess what the actor playing Randy is named?
== ''Scream 2'' ==
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