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{{quote|''"Someone's taking all of these stories, and making them reality."''|Natalie, in the first film}}
 
After the vitality boost given by the success of ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]]'', [[Slasher MoviesMovie]]s returned to mainstream media and [[Follow the Leader|followers were sure to follow]]. The ''Urban Legend'' series was one of those followers, along with ''[[I Know What You Did Last Summer (Film)|I Know What You Did Last Summer]]'' and ''[[Valentine (Film)|Valentine]]''.
 
The movies share a similar premise; someone is killing young adults, taking cues from well-known [[Urban Legends|urban legends]]. In first two films (1998's ''Urban Legend'' and 2000's ''Urban Legends: Final Cut''), murders were done by traditional masked killers. In the third one (the 2005 [[Direct to DVD]] release ''Urban Legends: Bloody Mary''), murders were committed by an actual urban legend character.
 
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=== {{tropelist|These examples happened to someone who knows someone you know: ===}}
 
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: [[Police Are Useless|And cops too]].
** The latter is actually lampshaded by Reese Wilson, the main cop (well, campus police officer) in the first movie:
{{quote| '''Reese Wilson:''' You know what really chaps my hide? The way you pledged an oath to serve and protect -- and then you don't give a rat's ass when something really happens!}}
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Damon in the first film has this reputation.
{{quote| (Reese told him that Damon is missing)<br />
'''Dean Adams''': Missing? He's not missing! It's the weekend. He's most likely shacked up in some motel with a girl. Or a guy... farm animal... whatever! Weren't you ever eighteen?<br />
'''Reese Wilson''': Not that kind of eighteen. }}
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: The killer of the first film prefers an axe. {{spoiler|And as it later turns out, she fits the [[Woman Scorned|other sense]] [[Revenge|of the phrase]] as well}}.
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Sandra in the second film. She was supposedly so bad that she couldn't make it in a porn film.
* [[Body Horror]]: Heather's death in the third film recreates the UL of a spider laying it's eggs on sleeping person's cheek.
* [[Call Back]]: First film ends as it started after opening credits, group of people discussing urban legends.
* [[Can't Spit It Out]]: In the first film's opening, a gas station attendant tries to warn Melanie about the killer in her backseat but is unable to do this due to his stuttering.
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* [[Date Rape Averted]]: Bloody Mary's backstory involves this in the third film....
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Prank]]}}: {{spoiler|Ends up kicking off the plot of the first movie. Natalie and her friends play a prank involving an urban legend that ends up getting a guy killed. His girlfriend Brenda is not pleased}}.
* [[Dead MansMan's Chest]]: ...but then she is accidentally killed and put in here.
* [[Death Byby Mocking]]: Damon in the first film.
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: Given the fact that she is the sluttiest girl of Pendleton University, it was inevitable for Tosh.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: David in ''Bloody Mary''.
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Teacher]]}}: {{spoiler|Prof. Solomon in the first sequel}}.
* [[Final Girl]]: {{spoiler|Natalie}} in the first film. {{spoiler|May}} in the second.
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* [[Groin Attack]]
* [[In the Hood]]: Killer of the first film dresses in a hooded parka.
* [[Make -Out Point]]: Damon tries to score with Natalie at one. Then the killer shows up and kills him.
* [[Menacing Stroll]]: Killers of the first two films move like this.
* [[Mirror Scare]]
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: In the opening scene of the first film, a woman mistakes a gas station attendant for this (or a rapist, it's not entirely clear), when he was really trying to warn her about the murderer {{spoiler|hiding in the back seat of her car}}.
* [[My Car Hates Me]]: Damon's car in the first film.
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: Done, but not shown in the first movie.
* {{spoiler|Organ Theft}}: {{spoiler|Brenda plans to remove one of Natalie's kidneys to keep up with the urban legend inspired kills.}}
* [[Peek -a -Boo Corpse]]: Natalie runs into a row of these in the first film. So does Amy in the second film.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]:
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Tosh in the first film.
* [[Red Headed Heroine]]-Natalie in the first film.
* [[Red Herring]]: Stanley Hall massacre of 1973 in the first film.
** Not to mention two prominent horror film killers play roles in the first film.
* {{spoiler|[[Revenge Byby Proxy]]}}: {{spoiler|Both killers in the first two films have this motivation}}.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: In the third film, Grace has a room full of drawings based on urban legends.
* [[Sarcastic Clapping]]
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* [[Sins of Our Fathers]]: Plot of the third film.
* [[Slumber Party]]: Main characters of the third film are having one in the opening.
* [[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]]: Bloody Mary, though you can see her face fine.
* [[Trilogy Creep]]: A film called ''Ghosts of Goldfield'' was originally going to be released as the fourth Urban Legends film, but it was decided at the last minute to release it independently.
* [[Toilet Humor]]: Third film has a farting dog.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: Teased at the end of ''Final Cut'', when it's revealed {{spoiler|Brenda is working at the facility Professor Solomon is placed in}}.
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