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* [[Ax Crazy]]: For justified reasons, Eric is barely in touch with this reality and often pauses to recount some memory that suddenly resurfaces or to quote lyrics or verse at his victims before brutalizing them. "What the hell you talkin' 'bout, man!" is a frequent reaction.

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Sort of. After returning from the dead, Eric finds that he has a magical power over stray cats, who eerily follow him everywhere. (The cats don't actually do anything bloody or cruel, however, as Eric does.) Subverted with Gabriel in both the comic and the movie, who has [[Light Is Good|white fur and is named after a Biblical angel]]. In the comic, Gabriel was the pet of an old woman who was murdered by Tin Tin purely [[For the Evulz]]; in the movie, he belongs to Eric and Shelly and stays in their (condemned) apartment after they're murdered. (In the movie, Gabriel ''does'' become angry and bites Skank, but that was only because the thug grabbed him.)

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: One of the more unnerving aspects of the comic are the fact that the antagonists don't rape, murder and steal for some specific goal; they mostly do it because they can, or because they feel like it.

* [[The Lost Lenore]]: Shelly just may be the most iconic example of this trope in comic book history.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Eric takes one off the first thug he kills, and wears it for the rest of the film.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Albrecht.

* [[Bloodstained Glass Windows]]: The final showdown takes place inside and on top of a great Gothic church.

* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: Top Dollar is a collector of antique weapons, and he uses a rapier to execute Gideon. Also see [[Katanas Are Just Better]] below.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Eric during the big boardroom shootout and Top Dollar at the church.

* [[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.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Top Dollar is defeated by the misery he caused to Eric and Shelly.

* [[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.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Hannah Foster, aka Talon (the second Crow in the series).

* [[Bouncer]]: Funnily enough, Eric starts working as one at the Black Out club where his band used to play (and still plays).

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Just like Brandon Lee in the movie, Mark Dacascos gets to show off his martial art skills in pretty much every episode.

* [[Cool Bike]]: Eric owns one.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Funboy, eventually becoming [[The Atoner]].

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: What the Lazarus group is involved with.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: In comparison to the Brandon Lee movie.

* [[Magic Music]]: In one episode.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Eric does this to Top Dollar in lieu of killing him in the first episode.

== Tropes common to the franchise ==

* [[Animal Eye Spy]]: The avengers of the series have the ability to see through the eyes of the title bird.

* [[Back From the Dead]]

* [[Code Name]]: All the gang members have them. Lampshaded by Detective Torres in the movie:

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Completely averted. Eric is never condemned in-story for his acts of revenge, and in fact the entire premise of the story rests on [[Unfortunate Implications|the troubling stipulation that Eric actually must kill the villains in order to rejoin Shelly in Heaven]]. Strangely enough, the 1994 movie was marketed as a horror film (perhaps due to its "supernatural" content and nihilistic palette, and also because it happens to take place around Halloween), but the "monster" of the piece is actually completely sympathetic, and he does not experience a [[Face Heel Turn]] even in the midst of his bloodiest rampages.

** The trope is actually [[Lampshade Hanging|mentioned outright]] in the comics, and it's implied that Eric's awareness of this is what causes him to {{spoiler|give Funboy a painless death}}.

** It is clear though that not one of the Killers feel any remorse and, as the rings in the pawn shop show, have done it many other times. And some deaths, such as T-Bird's, are played as being quite horrific.

** This trope is in fact a big part of the comic. While Eric kills nameless mooks (and some with name) without remorse, he spends time with all main targets, asking them if they remember him (they do) to see their reaction. Only {{spoiler|Funboy}} shows any signs of regret and is saved from his wrath. Others mock him, taunt him or try to bargain with him. Thus he kills them in cold blood. {{spoiler|Funboy says that he would regret, or apologize but his soul is so twisted that even he admits that he is evil and beyond redemption. Thus Eric grants him painless death by forced suicide.}}

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]

* [[Unfinished Business]]: In ''both'' senses of the phrase.

* [[Wretched Hive]]: Detroit, where the story takes place.

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