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.

* [[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 Found the Body]]: The set-up. Unusually, {{spoiler|it was confirmed that the Ripper did indeed die...but, we never found out [[What Happened to the Mouse?|what happened to his body]]}}.

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Abel:''' (''about to shoot a paramedic'')}} "This is for you, you cunt!"

{{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]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]: At the very end, we're told Alex murdered his abusive stepfather. Alex himself is not around by then, but...}}

* [[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}}.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Very minor example. Alex gets Bug to go along with his "recon mission" by convincing him that he'll get to hear what Brittany thinks of him. So Bug plants his cell phone in the girls' bathroom and the two listen in on the conversation.

* [[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.

* [[They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason]]: Leah torments Bug out of resentment for their past, and never says a thing about it until he lays down an [[Armor-Piercing Question]]. She confesses, and flies into a rage afterwards by destroying a dollhouse with a guitar.

{{quote|"She's in my prayer group. ''Duh''."}}

* [[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.}}

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