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* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:In the final volume, it's revealed that Lola was aware of both Nigel and Sam's activities for years without telling either of them]].

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* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:In the final volume, it's revealed that Lola was aware of both Nigel and Sam's sociopathic nature and murderous activities for years without telling either of them]].them--for ''years'' in the case of the latter]].

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* AssholeVictim: Cherry ''fucking'' Gherkins, who's incredibly unpleasant to everyone except her husband.

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* AssholeVictim: Cherry [[spoiler:Cherry ''fucking'' Gherkins, who's incredibly unpleasant to everyone except her husband.]]



* FamilyBusiness: Samantha's hardware store originally belonged to her parents.

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* FamilyBusiness: Samantha's hardware store originally belonged to her parents.parents, while she at first hated the idea of owning it but relented when she only had a few options.



* FurryConfusion: There are non-anthropomorphic animals in this world. For example, Samantha encounters a regular bear and a fox.

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* FurryConfusion: There are non-anthropomorphic animals in this world. For example, Samantha encounters a regular bear and a fox.fox in wild after she buries another one of her victims in the first issue.



* PrecisionFStrike: Samantha's narration drops an f-bomb after she finds out that someone isn't following the unspoken rules, stating that it would be '''A major fucking problem.'''



* TooDumbToLive: In Issue 6, [[spoiler:Nigel is on the lookout for new victims and has clearly got a specific person in mind, even though killing someone else in his style after framing Samantha as the killer would exonerate her.]]

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* TooDumbToLive: TooDumbToLive:
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In Issue 6, [[spoiler:Nigel is on the lookout for new victims and has clearly got a specific person in mind, even though killing someone else in his style after framing Samantha as the killer would exonerate her.]]


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* VillainProtagonist: Sam is the main protagnist and just so happens to be a SerialKiller.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the end, Samantha successfully pins all her murders on Nigel, the sheriff apologizes for suspecting her, and the town slowly goes back to normal. There's also no indication that Sam is going to stop killing people]]

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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the end, Samantha successfully pins all her murders on Nigel, the sheriff apologizes for suspecting her, and the town slowly goes back to normal. There's also no indication that Sam is going to stop killing people]]people, only that she might take a short break for all the excitement to die down.]]



* CallBack: [[spoiler: In the final issue, after Sam paralyzes Nigel, she decides to taunt him in the exact way he did when he framed her in issue 4. By tauntingly running him through how she set this trap up and how she's going to frame the scene up against him. And then taunting him over him "killing" the victim involved. Only difference is, Sam targeted someone Nigel ''actually'' cared about]]

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* CallBack: [[spoiler: In the final issue, after Sam paralyzes Nigel, she decides to taunt him in the exact way he did when he framed her in issue 4. By tauntingly running him through how she set this trap up and how she's going to frame the scene up against him. And then taunting him over him "killing" the victim involved. Only difference is, Sam targeted someone Nigel ''actually'' cared about]]about.]]

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sam mentions that she regards Lola as the closest thing she has to an actual friend, and seems to be genuinely worried about her physical condition. [[spoiler:Nigel also seems to care about his mother--she may be the ''only'' one he feels a connection to, besides Sam]].

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sam mentions that she regards Lola as the closest thing she has to an actual friend, and seems to be genuinely worried about her physical condition. [[spoiler:Nigel [[spoiler:Not that this stops her from killing Lola as part of her revenge against Nigel. Nigel also seems to care about his mother--she may be the ''only'' one he feels a connection to, besides Sam]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sam kills Nigel, meaning he won't be killing anyone else, but she was also able to convince everyone she was innocent, leaving her free to continue her own killings.]]

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* BeneathNotice: Issue 6 shows that [[spoiler:Nigel]] is virtually ignored by a lot of people in Woodbrook, with a lot of people he interacts with being unable to remember his name or remembering it wrong. He clearly resents this.
* BeneathSuspicion: Both Sam and the real killer- the former is just the friendly owner of the local hardware store, while the latter [[spoiler:is just Lola's nice son.]]



* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:After he starts killing, Nigel becomes almost intoxicated on the euphoria he got from murdering people and leaving the whole town utterly terrified. It proves to be his downfall, because he got so hyped up on how good it felt that he obviously didn't think that anyone could hurt him or stop him, and as Issue 6 shows, that's not the case at all.]]



* MatureAnimalStory: One about a serial killer looking for another serial killer.

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* MatureAnimalStory: One about a serial killer looking for hunting another serial killer.



* RedHerring: [[spoiler:After hearing from Bertie that he had heard a sneeze after Melody (the only other person working on his float) had supposedly left the room due to her flower allergy, Sam sees her sneezing near flowers and begins to suspect her as the other killer. After tricking Melody into leaving the house, Sam sneaks in and discovers Melody's terrible secret: After the death of her husband, Melody made a dummy in his likeness and has treated it as if it were alive for decades. Oh, and she's not the killer]].
* SecondPersonNarration: The first four issues are in first-person narration, but Issue 5 switches to second-person.

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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:After hearing from Bertie that he had heard a sneeze after Melody (the only other person working on his float) had supposedly left the room due to her flower lavender allergy, Sam sees her sneezing near flowers and begins to suspect her as the other killer. After tricking Melody into leaving the house, Sam sneaks in and discovers Melody's terrible secret: After the death of her husband, Melody made a dummy in his likeness and has treated it as if it were alive for decades. Oh, and she's not the killer]].
* SecondPersonNarration: The first four issues are in first-person narration, but Issue 5 switches to second-person.second-person, and then back to first-person for Issue 6.
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* CallBack: [[spoiler: In the final issue, after Sam paralyzes Nigel, she decides to taunt him in the exact way he did when he framed her in issue 5. By tauntingly running him through how she set this trap up and how she's going to frame the scene up against him. And then taunting him over him "killing" the victim involved. Only difference is, Sam targeted someone Nigel ''actually'' cared about]]

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* CallBack: [[spoiler: In the final issue, after Sam paralyzes Nigel, she decides to taunt him in the exact way he did when he framed her in issue 5.4. By tauntingly running him through how she set this trap up and how she's going to frame the scene up against him. And then taunting him over him "killing" the victim involved. Only difference is, Sam targeted someone Nigel ''actually'' cared about]]

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* CallBack: [[spoiler: In the final issue, after Sam paralyzes Nigel, she decides to taunt him in the exact way he did when he framed her in issue 5. By tauntingly running him through how she set this trap up and how she's going to frame the scene up against him. And then taunting him over him "killing" the victim involved. Only difference is, Sam targeted someone Nigel ''actually'' cared about]]
-->[[spoiler: Sam: I don't pretend to know what love is... ...''your mother did, though.'' She knew all about what you'd been doing, and still went on loving you. Did you know she knew? That's ''so'' special. How could you ''kill'' her, Nigel? The only person in this whole world who loved you. How could you ''do'' that to her? '''''[[BoomHeadshot Oh well.]]''''']]



* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:In the final volume, Samantha tells a paralyzed Nigel that Lola knew he was the Woodbrook murderer all along and went on loving him anyway. He's not exactly in a position to answer, but he ''does'' start tearing up]].

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* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:In the final volume, Samantha tells a paralyzed Nigel that Lola knew he was the Woodbrook murderer all along and went on loving him anyway. She then asks, tauntingly, if he knows that she knew. He's not exactly in a position to answer, but he ''does'' start tearing up]].starts ''tearing up'' after she says this]].



* PlotAllergy: Samantha learns that Nigel is also allergic to lavender.

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* PlotAllergy: Samantha learns that Nigel [[spoiler: Nigel]] is also allergic to lavender.

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