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* [[Big No]]: Issued by Sweeney when Mrs. Lovett informs him of his wife's rape at the end of "Poor Thing".
** And again at the end, when he realizes that {{spoiler|the Beggar Woman whose throat he just slit ''was'' his wife}}.
* [[Blackmail]]: Pirelli attempts to extort Sweeney Todd on {{spoiler|recognizing him as Benjamin Barker, the barber who taught him his craft as a child. He becomes Sweeney Todd's first victim as a result.}}
* [[Black Comedy]]: Despite its dark subject matter, the show is surprisingly funny, especially "A Little Priest".
* [[Bowdlerise]]: [[wikipedia:Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street#School Edition|The Other Wiki]] has details on the high school-appropriate version of this show.
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* [[Double Entendre]]: "You will be guaranteed, without a penny's charge...''the closest shave you will ever know''."
** "We'll serve anyone... meaning *anyone*..."
* [[Downer Ending]]: Only Anthony and Johanna make it out of the play intact. {{spoiler|Todd gets his revenge, but realizes he murdered his wife and she never died. He kills Mrs. Lovette by tossing her in her own oven, and allows a vengeful Toby to kill him. Toby snaps, singing "Patty Cake" as an angry mob comes for him.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: The Beadle fills this role for Judge Turpin.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Lucy poisoned herself, according to Mrs. Lovett. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Except she never said that she died]]}}...
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* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Lucy Barker.
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Judge Turpin's trial of Benjamin Barker is anything but fair.
* [[Karmic Death]]:
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** Likewise, {{spoiler|Mrs Lovett is baked to death inside her own oven}}.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Judge Turpin and the Beadle are dog kicking machines. Senseless acts of evil include:
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** Pirelli's brutal treatment of poor Toby also qualifies as a [[Kick the Dog]] moment.
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Sweeney begins his transition into a [[Serial Killer]] by {{spoiler|killing Adolfo Pirelli}}.
* [[Kick the Morality Pet]]: Depending on the staging, Mrs. Lovett does truly grow fond of Toby. She even makes a muffler for him! Then when Toby tells Mrs. Lovett he suspects that Mr. Todd may hurt her and vows to protect her especially after finding Pirelli's things, Mrs. Lovett decides that {{spoiler|she and Sweeney Todd have to murder him to keep their secret because Toby may not know the details, but he can sense all is not right}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]}}: Were you expecting a revenge tragedy to have a happy ending? {{spoiler|Sweeney Todd, Judge Turpin, Lucy, and Mrs. Lovett are all dead. Only Toby, Johanna, and presumably Anthony are all alive. The police burst into the bakehouse just after Toby has slit Sweeney's throat, and is deliriously repeating Mrs. Lovett's secret of how to make the pies juicy and tender. "Three times, that's the secret.. three times through the grinder." This suggests that Toby is on his way to a [[Bedlam House]]. Anthony and Johanna are also there with the police, though their presence is not explained (probably the fact that Johanna just witnessed two grisly murders has to do with it, though), and whether or not they get anything resembling a happy ending is left open to interpretation}}.
* [[Kill the Ones You Love]]: {{spoiler|Sweeney kills Lucy unaware that she is actually the beggar}}.
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* [[Moment Killer]]: Anthony walks into the barbershop for one of his trademark [[What an Idiot!|interruptions]] right after Mrs. Lovett suggests to Sweeney that they can "have a life together". [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]], especially if you're not a Sweeney/Lovett fan.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Johanna for Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. Mrs. Lovett in some stagings expresses horror at Judge Turpin taking Johanna as his ward after raping her mother, and she is more than happy to have Anthony bring Johanna to the pie shop. Indeed, Sweeney Todd's last bit of humanity lights up every time Anthony comes up with a plan to rescue Johanna from Judge Turpin, and he seems to agree to {{spoiler|let her run away with Anthony in the end.}} The sign that Todd has truly gone over the deep end is when {{spoiler|he tries to murder a disguised Johanna, not recognizing her, after she witnesses him killing the judge.}}
* [[Murder by Cremation]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. Lovett}}.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: After realizing {{spoiler|that the old beggar woman he killed was Lucy}}, Sweeney Todd has this reaction, before {{spoiler|turning his anger towards Mrs. Lovett, who told a bit of a [[Jedi Truth]]}}.
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