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=== [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatre)|The musical]] ===
=== [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|The musical]] ===


* [[Alternate Show Interpretation]]: The most recent Broadway revival, in which all of the characters are portrayed as inmates enacting the events in a madhouse.
* [[Alternate Show Interpretation]]: The most recent Broadway revival, in which all of the characters are portrayed as inmates enacting the events in a madhouse.
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** [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Mrs. Lovett, who is something of a [[Love Martyr]].
** [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Mrs. Lovett, who is something of a [[Love Martyr]].


=== [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Film)|The 2007 film]] ===
=== [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|The 2007 film]] ===


* [[Complete Monster]]: Judge Turpin and the Beadle
* [[Complete Monster]]: Judge Turpin and the Beadle
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** The scene with Toby in the evil basement, when the poor kid finally learns what's in the pies -- and then has to watch as the just-murdered Beadle Bamford gets dumped right down into the basement with him. And then Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney come down into the sewer looking for him because they want to murder him too.
** The scene with Toby in the evil basement, when the poor kid finally learns what's in the pies -- and then has to watch as the just-murdered Beadle Bamford gets dumped right down into the basement with him. And then Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney come down into the sewer looking for him because they want to murder him too.
** When Sweeney finds out Lovett lied to him, he takes her off her guard by dancing with her - and throws her into the furnace. Unlike the stage play, we can see exactly what happens as she screams and thrashes while she burns up.
** When Sweeney finds out Lovett lied to him, he takes her off her guard by dancing with her - and throws her into the furnace. Unlike the stage play, we can see exactly what happens as she screams and thrashes while she burns up.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Hey girls, it's [[Twilight (Literature)|Caius]] playing Anthony!
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Hey girls, it's [[Twilight (novel)|Caius]] playing Anthony!
* [[Tear Jerker]]: "Forget my face."
* [[Tear Jerker]]: "Forget my face."
** The rape scene.
** The rape scene.
** "Not While I'm Around" is more of a [[Fridge Horror]] tearjerker, since it all goes waaaaaay downhill from there.
** "Not While I'm Around" is more of a [[Fridge Horror]] tearjerker, since it all goes waaaaaay downhill from there.
** The final scenes with Todd, {{spoiler|taking the dead Lucy on his arms, and Toby slashing his throat and he cradling her while slowly dying}}. Todd may have ended being an [[Ax Crazy|ax crazy]] psychopath, but the look on his eyes is the look of a completely broken man. Can you say [[Stoic Woobie]]?
** The final scenes with Todd, {{spoiler|taking the dead Lucy on his arms, and Toby slashing his throat and he cradling her while slowly dying}}. Todd may have ended being an [[Ax Crazy]] psychopath, but the look on his eyes is the look of a completely broken man. Can you say [[Stoic Woobie]]?


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