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* BerserkButton: Wilbur cracking "wolf" jokes is this to Talbot.

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* BerserkButton: Wilbur cracking "wolf" jokes is this to Talbot.Talbot, since he's the Wolf Man and is ''not'' happy about Wilbur's unknowing insensitivity towards his condition.



* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Sandra, Dracula and the Wolf Man]].
* TheDragon: The Monster and Sandra are this to Dracula.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Sandra, [[spoiler:Sandra apparently dies via being thrown through a window by the Monster; a bat-form Dracula and the Wolf Man]].
Man later fall to their seeming deaths in the water]].
* TheDragon: The Monster and Sandra are this to Dracula.Dracula's chief servants.



* GrandFinale: It may not have been intended this way, but this ended up being the final entry in the "main" Franchise/UniversalHorror series that had begun in 1931 with the original ''Dracula'' and ''Frankenstein'' films. Although Universal Horror movies continued to be produced with characters like The Mummy - who got his own A&C film a few years later - those films had no narrative connection to the Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man films. As such, this marks the final canonical appearance of the versions of Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Monster as originally played by Lugosi, Chaney and (initially) Boris Karloff.

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* GrandFinale: It may not have been intended this way, but this ended up being the final entry in the "main" Franchise/UniversalHorror series that had begun in 1931 with the original ''Dracula'' and ''Frankenstein'' films. Although Universal Horror movies continued to be produced with characters like The Mummy - -- who got his own A&C film a few years later - -- those films had no narrative connection to the Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man films. As such, this marks the final canonical appearance of the versions of Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Monster as originally played by Lugosi, Chaney and (initially) Boris Karloff.



* ImplacableMan: The Monster relentlessly pursues the heroes for much of the last act of the film. This film is actually the first - and one of the only - films to actually depict the Monster as embodying this trope, even though the concept of the Monster being an implacable man is one of its most enduring stereotypes.

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* ImplacableMan: The Monster relentlessly pursues the heroes for much of the last act of the film. This film is actually the first - -- and one of the only - -- films to actually depict the Monster as embodying this trope, even though the concept of the Monster being an implacable man is one of its most enduring stereotypes.



%%* ItWasHereISwear: Basis of many gags.
%%* JerkAss: [=McDougal=].

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%%* * ItWasHereISwear: Basis The basis of many gags.
%%* JerkAss: [=McDougal=].
gags, as Wilbur keeps trying to tell Chick about the presence of a monster, only for it not to be there when they get back.
* {{Jerkass}}: [=McDougal=], who's rude and foul-tempered to pretty much everyone, and constantly blames Chick and Wilbur for the disappearance of his two monster exhibits.



%%* MadScientist: Sandra Mornay.

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%%* * MadScientist: Sandra Mornay.Mornay, who works for Dracula and is intended to put a new brain in the Monster's body for him.



%%* NoIndoorVoice: [=McDougal=].

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%%* * NoIndoorVoice: [=McDougal=].[=McDougal=] is constantly yelling angrily at everyone.



* WouldHitAGirl: The Monster could not care less what gender [[spoiler:Sandra is]]. Having [[spoiler:a female villain]] die - and rather horrifically, too - was rather rare for 1940s cinema, so this also applies to the movie in general.

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* WouldHitAGirl: The Monster could not care less what gender [[spoiler:Sandra is]]. Having [[spoiler:a female villain]] die - -- and rather horrifically, too - -- was rather rare for 1940s cinema, so this also applies to the movie in general.
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* GrandFinale: It may not have been intended this way, but this ended up being the final entry in the "main" Franchise/UniversalHorror series that had begun in 1931 with the original ''Dracula'' and ''Frankenstein'' films. Although Universal Horror movies continued to be produced with characters like The Mummy - who got his own A&C film a few years later - those films had no narrative connection to the Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man films. as such this marks the final canonical appearance of the versions of Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Monster as originally played by Lugosi, Chaney and (initially) Boris Karloff.

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* GrandFinale: It may not have been intended this way, but this ended up being the final entry in the "main" Franchise/UniversalHorror series that had begun in 1931 with the original ''Dracula'' and ''Frankenstein'' films. Although Universal Horror movies continued to be produced with characters like The Mummy - who got his own A&C film a few years later - those films had no narrative connection to the Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man films. as such As such, this marks the final canonical appearance of the versions of Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Monster as originally played by Lugosi, Chaney and (initially) Boris Karloff.
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* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:The Invisible Man delivers one at the end, courtesy of Vincent Price]].

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''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein''[[note]](the onscreen title is actually ''Bud Abbott [and] Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein'', but we're using the current one because it is more known)[[/note]] is a 1948 horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton. It is a {{crossover}} between Creator/{{Universal}}'s MonsterMash horror films and its Creator/AbbottAndCostello series of comedies.

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''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein''[[note]](the onscreen title is actually ''Bud Abbott [and] Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein'', but we're using the current one because it is more known)[[/note]] is a 1948 horror comedy HorrorComedy film directed by Charles Barton. It is a {{crossover}} between Creator/{{Universal}}'s MonsterMash horror films and its Creator/AbbottAndCostello series of comedies.
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* ComicTrio: The movie has Chick as the Schemer (irate, tries to muscle in on Wilbur's LoveTriangle), Wilbur as the Dingbat (IdiotHero and ButtMonkey), and Talbot as the OnlySaneMan.

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