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** Christie was fond of having a sympathetic character turn out to be a murderer, because these types of characters tend not to be suspected by the reader. However, the notion that fans would ''still'' find these characters sympathetic after their guilt had become clear beyond a doubt would certainly make her mind boggle.

** Philip Lombard seems to be gaining himself a bit of a fandom in recent years, if the artwork pairing him up with a Mary Sue on [[Deviant ART]] is any indication. Hmm...[[Draco in Leather Pants|Lombard in leather pants, maybe?]]

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Arguably, what all the guests' crimes basically are. [[Holier Than Thou|Emily Brent]] is the one fans vilify the most for her crime. Agatha Christie possibly knew about this and made her even ''more'' horrifying in the play by giving her a monologue where she admits she [[Break the Cutie|completely and totally broke poor Beatrice down]] by more or less implying she's a slut whom no one will ever take in and that the father of her child would never dream of marrying her. Even [[Yandere|Vera Claythorne]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|is horrified]], and ''that's'' saying something, considering what ''she'' did. Interestingly enough, [[Misaimed Fandom|fans don't give her as hard of a time as they do Miss Brent,]] as she is [[Sympathetic Murderer|mildly sympathetic]], but of course, not everyone feels the same way.

** And then there's Philip Lombard, who is something of an [[Anti-Hero]] in the book regardless of what he did. The Russian film version, however, changes that. He ceases to be even a semi-likeable character when {{spoiler|he ''rapes'' an already mentally unstable Vera Claythorne, and it is subtly implied this plays a part in her [[Driven to Suicide|breakdown]] at the end.}}

 

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