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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is far more of a serious horror film than the other four appearances of the Wolfman. It is also the only one to feature Wolfman as the sole monster (not counting the werewolf who passes the curse to Larry), as all of the others are [[MonsterMash Monster Mashes]].
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* HateSink: After the death of her daughter, Jenny's mother and friends storm Gwen's home to demand an answer from Gwen as to why her daughter was left alone. When Gwen's father won't permit an audience, Jenny's mother starts [[KickTheDog throwing harsh accusations]] about Gwen being a BitchInSheepsClothing and that she deliberately left Jenny to her fate. This gives the audience someone to root against when Larry comes along to chase them off.
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* HateSink: After the death of her daughter, Jenny's mother Mrs. Williams and friends storm Gwen's home to demand an answer from Gwen as to why her daughter was left alone. When Gwen's father won't permit an audience, Jenny's mother Mrs. Williams starts [[KickTheDog throwing harsh accusations]] about Gwen being a BitchInSheepsClothing and that she deliberately left Jenny to her fate. Later, she starts spreading rumors that Larry is but a human serial killer, despite that this is blatant slander. This gives the audience someone loathsome to root against when Larry comes along to chase them off.against, as the titular wolfman ''is'' technically the protagonist.
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* HateSink: After the death of her daughter, Jenny's mother and friends storm Gwen's home to demand an answer from Gwen as to why her daughter was left alone. When Gwen's father won't permit an audience, Jenny's mother starts [[KickTheDog throwing harsh accusations]] about Gwen being a BitchInSheepsClothing and that she deliberately left Jenny to her fate. This gives the audience someone to root against when Larry comes along to chase them off.
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* {{Uberwald}}: The setting is nominally 1940s Wales, but with gypsies, black forests, half-timbered cottages, and the old nobility residing in the ancestral castle, Llanwelly is more a sort of British branch of Überwald.
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* {{Uberwald}}: The setting is nominally 1940s Wales, but with gypsies, the Romani, black forests, half-timbered cottages, and the old nobility residing in the ancestral castle, Llanwelly is more a sort of British branch of Überwald.
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* PlayingTheHeartStrings: This takes the form in Salter and Skinner's score of a single Gypsy violin over Maleva's reciting of the Gypsy valediction, "The way you walked was thorny..."
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Maria Ouspenskaya's old gypsy fortune teller, Maleva.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Maria Ouspenskaya's old gypsy fortune teller, Maleva.
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* PlayingTheHeartStrings: This takes the form in Salter and Skinner's score of a single Gypsy violin over Maleva's reciting of the Gypsy Romani valediction, "The way you walked was thorny..."
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Maria Ouspenskaya's oldgypsy fortune teller, Maleva.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Maria Ouspenskaya's old
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the Gypsy Maleva ("mal" ''and'' "evil"!), who is one of the more helpful characters in the film.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the Gypsy Bela's mother Maleva ("mal" ''and'' "evil"!), who is one of the more helpful characters in the film.
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* CheerfulFuneral: A Christian priest finds it utterly alien that gypsies would mourn the passing of Bela, a fellow gypsy, with celebrations and even a whole carnival. The movie implies that they were celebrating the fact that Bela is now [[spoiler: freed from being a werewolf. But he has passed the curse on to Lawrence Talbot.]]
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* CheerfulFuneral: A Christian priest finds it utterly alien that gypsies the Romani would mourn the passing of Bela, a fellow gypsy, Bela with celebrations and even a whole carnival. The movie implies that they were celebrating the fact that Bela is now [[spoiler: freed from being a werewolf. But he has passed the curse on to Lawrence Talbot.]]
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* HumanToWerewolfFootprintsHumanToWerewolfFootprints: After his first time as a werewolf, we see mud footprints of a big wolf from outside the mansion into the high opened window and ending changing into human footprints at Larry's bedroom.
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** Despite looking nothing like one, Larry's wolf-form is often mistaken for an actual wolf, both in this film and the sequels, rather than a man, as we would imagine. This implies that in-universe, Larry transforms into a much more lupine creature than the special effects and censors of the day would allow.
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** Despite looking nothing like one, Larry's wolf-form is often mistaken for an actual wolf, both in this film and the sequels, rather than a man, as we would imagine. In ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' the characters mistaken a wolf mask full with snout and pointed ears with the Wolf Man. This implies that in-universe, Larry transforms into a much more lupine creature than the special effects and censors of the day would allow.
