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* [[Cult Classic]]: Typically cited by reviewers as the definitive example of a cult film.
* [[Designated Hero]]: Brad, literally, in the opening credits.
* [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]]: Despite being the main characters of the film, and despite having a decent fanbase, Brad
* [[Director Displacement]]: The movie is more often associated with creator and writer Richard O'Brien rather than director Jim Sharman.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]
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'''Dr. Scott''': Unt I did!
'''AP#1''': What the fuck's an "Unt"?!
'''AP#2''': Three fourths of a Cunt!<ref>...and that's more than ''you'll'' ever see!</ref>
* [[Ear Worm]]: Half of the songs featured fall under this trope, but perhaps most famously, ''[[Dance Sensation|Time Warp]]'', which was ranked and voted 338 out of 2006 songs featured in the Triple M Essential 2006 Countdown.
* [[Epileptic Trees]]: A common fan guess is that Janet's pregnant at the end, thanks to Frank's line "I've laid the seed/It should be all you need" in "You Better Wise Up, Janet Weiss". This supposedly would've been confirmed outright in the never-made sequel ''Revenge of the Old Queen''.
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* [[Evil Is Sexy]]:
** Frank is sexy. This can be attested to by pretty much every fan of this movie.
** It's not just the movie version either
** Riff-Raff and Magenta both have large fan bases, and not without reason.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Riff Raff/Frank-N-Furter slash fanfics exist.
* [[Hype Backlash]]: This movie is one acquired taste.
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Rocky is only called "Rocky Horror" in the credits and the comic book. The movie just calls him "Rocky" (the narrator refers to him as "Rocky Horror" during "The Sword of Damocles" in the stageshow; his part was cut out for the movie version).
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Frank, of course. ([[Incredibly Lame Pun]], [[Stealth Pun]], and [[Historical In-Joke]] rolled into one. [[Small Name, Big Ego|I slay me with my cleverness.]])
** Actually, Frank, Magenta, Columbia and Riff Raff (and very often Janet as well) are ALL very common ship launchers! Just take a few moments to look through the many [[Fan Fics]]!
* [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]: Magenta and Columbia.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Brad! Just kidding. It's Frank... mostly when he's manipulating others for his own amusement. He's able to get away with his actions too, until {{spoiler|Riff Raff turns on him
* [[Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales]]:
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** Despite some of the more dated depictions of queer people, it remains one of the most popular films in queer cinema to this day.
* [[Narm Charm]]: The movie is ridiculously camp and that's why people love it.
* [[Non Sequitur Scene]]:
** The only thing that could keep "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul" from being a [[Non Sequitur Scene]] is the fact that the dinner scene calls back to it. With little or no warning, [[Meat Loaf]] rides out of a walk-in freezer on a motorcycle, sings a song, and
** In the original play, Eddie is mentioned by Columbia before Riff
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Meat Loaf]]'s role as Eddie in ''Rocky Horror''. He bursts out of a freezer (on a motorcycle, of course), sings a song, and is not seen or heard from again.
▲** The only thing that could keep Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul from being a Non Sequitur Scene is the fact that the dinner scene calls back to it. With little or no warning, [[Meat Loaf]] rides out of a walk-in freezer on a motorcycle, sings a song, and {{spoiler|gets murdered}}. That's about as much of a non-sequitur as it can get.
▲** In the original play, Eddie is mentioned by Columbia before Riff & Magenta (and the Phantoms) tells them to keep quiet...Which foreshadows Eddie's inevitable appearance, musical number, {{spoiler|and death}}. However, this foreshadowing (for some reason) was cut from the film causing Eddie's appearance and musical number to be totally out-of-nowhere. It's a a bizarre case of the character's scene being a Non Sequitur Scene, yet having the character being important to the plot.
* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Generally hated by gamers and ''Rocky Horror'' fans alike.
* [[Relationship Sue]]: There are, believe it or not ([[You Have to Believe Me|though, seriously, it's true]]) several ''Rocky Horror Picture Show'' [[fanfic]]s that involve Dr. Frank N Furter finding his true love... often a female [[Mary Sue]]. Yes, ''that'' [[Ax Crazy|Dr. Frank N Furter.]]
** What's worse is that a lot of these fanfics end up having the [[Mary Sue]] "love interest" causing Frank to change his "evil ways" almost immediately due to The [[Power of Love]]. Yes, the [[Relationship Sue]] is able to make Frank give up his lustful ways and settle down with one person.
*** Perhaps it's a naive attempt to reconcile [[Evil Is Sexy]] with a concept of [[Purity Sue|chaste purity and Love At First Sight]]. What the hell? [[Misaimed Fandom|Isn't anyone else fond of Frank]] ''[[Misaimed Fandom|because]]'' [[Misaimed Fandom|he's]] [[Ax Crazy]]?
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Among the principal musicians who performed the music for the film is the keyboardist Rabbit, who would later become the touring keyboardist for [[The Who]].
* [[Signature Song]]: "Time Warp" is the most well known song even among people who haven't seen the movie, with "Sweet Transvestite" coming in second.
* [[Superfluous Solo]]: Brad's song "Once in a While" was added because he was the only major character who didn't get a solo. It was then cut from the movie for being weak, compared to the other songs.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The [[Audience Participation]] made note of how the beginning of "Over At The Frankenstein Place" sounded a lot like the middle section of [[The Beatles]]' "A Day In The Life" ("Woke up/Fell outta bet/Dragged a comb across ma head...").
* [[Sympathetic Sue]]: Seriously, at least 73% of all Rocky Horror [[fanfic]]s try to make Riff Raff and Magenta far more pitiful than they are in the film. Yes, the ''same'' Riff Raff and Magenta who {{spoiler|kill Rocky, Frank, and Columbia}} out of pure spite.
** In the play, {{spoiler|Frank was the only one killed out of spite. Columbia [[Taking the Bullet|dove in front of the first shot]], while Rocky attempted to attack Riff in his grief. And in the film, Columbia is more [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|killed by accident]] than out of spite like Frank and Rocky are
** Likewise, there are quite a few fanfics that portray Frank in the same way. Um, since when are we supposed to feel sorry for the guy who {{spoiler|tricked two innocent people into having sex with him, brutally murdered a guy from whom he removed half a brain}} (
*** It's likely due to the fact that Frank's final song
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|They Changed It, Now It Sucks!]]: How most fans felt about the TV adaptation.
* [[Too Cool to Live]]: {{spoiler|Eddie}}, literally, in Frank's book.
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: O'Brien said that ''Eddie's Teddy'' was added to the play to stop viewers feeling sorry for Eddie, but they still do anyway.
* [[The Woobie]]: Poor Rocky, who appears to be only slightly smarter than your average house pet, goes through a lot of grief in one night without having any idea why. Most fans sympathize very strongly with Columbia, who really gets treated like dirt.▼
* [[Vindicated by History]]: A rare example where one could actually see its evolution from a flop [[B-Movie]] into a pop-culture behemoth, as the now-famous [[Audience Participation]] which has kept it alive all these years started ''just'' as the film was finishing its original theatrical run.
▲* [[The Woobie]]: Poor Rocky, who appears to be only slightly smarter than your average house pet, goes through a lot of grief in one night without having any idea why. Most fans sympathize very strongly with Columbia, who really gets treated like dirt. Her only friend appears to be Magenta, who later betrays her by turning her into a statue.
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