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* [[The Lost Lenore]]: Shelly just may be the most iconic example of this trope in comic book history.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Officer Albrecht and Captain Hook, both named after members of Joy Division/New Order. Eric's last name (gleaned from a file folder with Hook's thumb obscuring the middle) begins with "c" and ends with "s"; it very well may be "Curtis".
** Meaningful Chapter Name: Chapters of the comic are song titles or verses from iconic bands such as [[
*** And [[
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Like you would not believe. He spends half his time shirtless and the other half in skin-tight clothes, he's got scars and troubled pasts galore, and there's even a twenty-page pin-up section.
** He's [[Bishonen|androgynously sexy]] enough in more than a few drawings that [[Even the Guys Want Him]].
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* [[Heel Realization]]: T-Bird, [[Complete Monster|an unrepentant rapist and murderer]] throughout the film, is visibly shaken and on the verge of tears after recognizing Eric Draven, a man he had killed.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Eric.
* [[Hoist
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: Eric's death and return from the grave take place on Devil's Night. ''City of Angels'' had its resurrection scene on All Saints' Day, and its climax at a Day of the Dead festival.
* [["I Am Becoming" Song]]: [[
** Although if you listen to the lyrics closely, it's clear that the song was written from the comic's plot, not the movie's.
* [[Impaled
* [[It Always Rains At Funerals]]:
** [[Inverted Trope]]. It's raining when Eric crawls out of his grave.
** [[Subverted Trope]] at the end of the film {{spoiler|after Eric returns to the grave, the rain is easing off when Sarah places Shelly's ring on the headstone. ''It can't rain all the time'', after all.}}
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Top Dollar has an entire cabinet full of swords, but uses a katana to fight Eric during the climax. Eric grabs one from the cabinet himself during the gang boss massacre. Ironic since Michael Wincott, the actor who plays Top Dollar, is an accomplished ''fencer'' in real life. The trope is somewhat averted earlier in the film, when a rapier (the [[The Princess Bride (
* [[Knife Nut]]: Tin Tin.
* [[Large Ham]]: Top Dollar, especially in his [[Motive Rant]] scene.
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* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: "It can't rain all the time."
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: What Top Dollar and his Devil's Night gang like to do. Eric blows up Gideon's pawnshop as well as T-Bird's car with him inside.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Gideon, literally so. Just ''could not shut up'' when dealing with either Eric or Top Dollar. Eric blew up his shop. {{spoiler|Top Dollar [[Impaled
* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]: Top Dollar.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: T-Bird pretty much loses his mind the moment he recognizes Eric. Considering the verses he's quoting from John Milton's [[Paradise Lost]] ("Abashed the Devil stood ..."), this might also qualify as a [[Heel Realization]].
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** One early script treatment from the first film has Eric Draven referred to as one of the Furies, members of the Greek Pantheon so terrifying even the ''Gods'' themselves didn't dare cross them, least they suffer their wrath.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Shelly.
* [[Rape
* [[Ravens and Crows]]
* [[Recurring Element]]: The basic plot is always the same (Protagonist is killed by bad guys, along with someone else close to him, revenge ensues) and all the protagonists' names reference crow or raven (Draven, Corven, Corvis, Cuervo).
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** Just remember what The Lady of the Manners always says: Friends do not let friends dress like The Crow.
*** She also says, though, that if you really want to, you should go right ahead, to hell with what anybody says, provided you put ''effort'' into it.
** Parodied in the ''[[
** Heck, [[
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