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* [[Creepy Housekeeper]]: Mrs. Danvers
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* [[Dark Secret]]: Rebecca's {{spoiler|murder.}}
* [[Death By Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. Danvers.}}
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* [[Handsome Lech]]: Favell.
* [[Haunted Heroine]]: Figuratively speaking. The second Mrs. De Winter is obsessed with Rebecca, to the point that she ''feels'' like Rebecca is haunting the house. Mrs. Danvers helps things along...
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** In the 1997 adaption, Maxim is [[Game of Thrones|Tywin Lannister]], the second Mrs de Winter is [[Merlin (TV)|Morgause]] and Mrs Danvers is [[The Avengers (TV)|Mrs Peel]].
* [["I Am" Song]]: "I'm An American Woman".
* [["I Want" Song]]: "''Zeit in einer Flasche''".
* [[Its a Costume Party I Swear]]: The fancy dress ball held in the second Mrs. de Winter's honour. It ''was'' in fact a costume party, {{spoiler|but Mrs. Danvers suggested M. de W. II dress up as a certain painting in the house, something Rebecca had done in the past, in order to humiliate her.}}
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: {{spoiler|Jack Favell and Rebecca, first cousins and lovers alike.}}
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* [[Suicide By Cop]]: Rebecca {{spoiler|manipulated Maxim into shooting her after learning she had cancer by pretending to be pregnant with another man's child.}} Because of the production code, {{spoiler|this is amended in the film version into Rebecca dying in a convenient fall just as Maxim was ready and willing to pull the trigger.}}
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Several characters mention how attractive and charming Rebecca was in life, but she never appears onscreen (or in the text of the novel).
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Described to the first Mrs. de Winter:
{{quote| "Tall, slim, dark, very handsome?" said Colonel Julyan quietly.}}
* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: See Suicide By Cop.
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