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* [[All There in the Manual]]: According to the script, Vulnavia is a clockwork creation of Phibes'. The actual movie leaves her nature more ambiguous.
* [[Animal Assassin]]
* [[Anti
* [[Black Cloak]]: Phibes wears one at the beginning as he flamboyantly plays his organ, complete with ominous black hood. He dons a white cloak in the climax.
* [[Book Ends]]: Phibes plays Felix Mendelssohn's ''War March Of The Priests'' twice on his organ. The first time opens the movie. He plays it a second time {{spoiler|as he prepares to join his wife in death}} towards the end.
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* [[Kill It With Ice]]: Dr. Hedgepath is frozen to death with an ice-spewing machine.
* [[Large Ham]]: All through mime, yet.
* [[Lip Lock]]: Completely averted; Phibes' throat is too damaged for normal speech, so he communicates by plugging himself into outlets and then - [[For Science!|with science]] - speaking through them. Which is to say, Vincent Price acts his character in mime, and then supplies voiceover later. This made his only dialogue scene a bit tricky for Joseph Cotten, who didn't always know when to start speaking.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: A [[Running Gag]] is that people keep getting Trout's name wrong and calling him after other types of fish.
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** Though he does know enough about surgery to safely {{spoiler|cut open a boy's chest and plant a key inside him.}}
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: As a virtuoso organist, Phibes naturally loves to play his theatre organ in his lair.
* [[Pimped
* [[Poetic Serial Killer]]
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Well, except for Trout, and even he is powerless to prevent most of the deaths despite figuring out Phibes' modus operandi fairly early on.
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