The Stepfather: Difference between revisions

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* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Due to its PG-13 status, the remake.

** He kills all his onscreen victims via some form of oxygen deprivation.

* [[Blood Splattered Wedding Dress]]: Carol Grayland at the end of ''Stepfather II''.

* [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress]]: Carol Grayland at the end of ''Stepfather II''.

* [[The Bluebeard]]

* [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick]]: Non-verbal example. Both the original and the remake begin with the stepfather going about his daily routine... [[Reveal Shot|then it reveals he's murdered his current family]].

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Non-verbal example. Both the original and the remake begin with the stepfather going about his daily routine... [[Reveal Shot|then it reveals he's murdered his current family]].

* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Jackie in the remake.

* [[But Not Too Gay]]: Its only pretty close to the end of the remake that we realize Jackie and Leah are lovers, and not just roomates or something.

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* [[Improvised Weapon]]: A board and phone in the original, plus random gardening equipment in ''Stepfather III''.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Brutally averted in the first few minutes of the original film, where the butchered body of a little girl is shown.

* [[~~Its~~ All About Me]]: Susan in the remake, so much so that [[Up to Eleven|she seems overly obnoxious compared to most other examples on that page]]. Her oldest son is unhappy with the stepfather and her best friend tries to point out the oddities in her new husband's behavior, but she refuses to hear anything bad about the man, always countering the arguments with how good he is to her, how happy he makes her.Its actually quite possible she wasn't really oblivious to the warning signs so much as deluding herself into ignoring them.

* [[It's All About Me]]: Susan in the remake, so much so that [[Up to Eleven|she seems overly obnoxious compared to most other examples on that page]]. Her oldest son is unhappy with the stepfather and her best friend tries to point out the oddities in her new husband's behavior, but she refuses to hear anything bad about the man, always countering the arguments with how good he is to her, how happy he makes her.Its actually quite possible she wasn't really oblivious to the warning signs so much as deluding herself into ignoring them.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: The stepfather in the remake. He survives, gets away and is last seen charming another single woman with kids.

** Susan was never called out for ignoring all the warning signs that her fiance is a serial killer and thus leading to the deaths of a neighbor, her ex-husband, and her sister. Though considering that the word possibly have gotten out that her fiance is a serial killer and that she was indirectly responsible for the deaths of those three, chances are that she will eventually.

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* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: The stepfather seems to think of himself as this, and at one point is explicitly compared to [[Leave It to Beaver|Ward Cleaver]].

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The stepfather is a very cheerful individual, unless someone makes him angry.

* [[The Un Reveal]]: Four films and the stepfather still doesn't have an origin... or even a real name.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Four films and the stepfather still doesn't have an origin... or even a real name.

** Doctor Danvers calls him "Bill Krieger" in the second film, though they don't actually outright state if that's his real name, or an old alias. The stepfather also apparently tells Danvers about his past... offscreen... he also could've been lying.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Susan in the remake cannot take a hint that her fiance is a murderer to save her life. Neighbor claiming she saw his face on ''[[Americas Most Wanted]]''? Susan passes it off as someone else. Ex-husband saying that Susan's youngest son was ''throttled'' by her fiance? She does not bring it up again. <ref> [[Truth in Television|To be fair, it can be hard to believe your ex-husband when he tells you your new beau is a psycho.]]</ref> Her sister telling Susan that her fiance left as soon as he had to fill out some employment forms, Susan ''laughs'' it off. You know you have a dumb as shit character when she does not get the message when her fiance is pointing a knife at her, along with a whole bunch of weapons laid out on the table, saying that she should punish her son more, then ask, "[[Arc Words|Who Am I here?]]". [[What an Idiot|Mother of the year.]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Susan in the remake cannot take a hint that her fiance is a murderer to save her life. Neighbor claiming she saw his face on ''[[Americas Most Wanted]]''? Susan passes it off as someone else. Ex-husband saying that Susan's youngest son was ''throttled'' by her fiance? She does not bring it up again. <ref> [[Truth in Television|To be fair, it can be hard to believe your ex-husband when he tells you your new beau is a psycho.]]</ref> Her sister telling Susan that her fiance left as soon as he had to fill out some employment forms, Susan ''laughs'' it off. You know you have a dumb as shit character when she does not get the message when her fiance is pointing a knife at her, along with a whole bunch of weapons laid out on the table, saying that she should punish her son more, then ask, "[[Arc Words|Who Am I here?]]". [[What an Idiot!|Mother of the year.]]

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: The stepfather obviously dies at the end of the first film, but shows up with only a large scar where he got stabbed in the sequel. Likewise, ''Stepfather II'' ends with him getting a claw hammer in the chest, which he also somehow survives.

* [[Very Loosely Based On a True Story]]: The inspiration for the series was mass murderer John Emil List, who killed his entire family, fled to Virginia, assumed another identity, remarried and wasn't caught for eighteen years.

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: The inspiration for the series was mass murderer John Emil List, who killed his entire family, fled to Virginia, assumed another identity, remarried and wasn't caught for eighteen years.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

* [[You're Not My Father]]