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* CoolGuns: Henry has a collection of several.
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* BashBrothers: Abraham and his friend Will Johnson.

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* BashBrothers: Abraham and his friend [[Creator/AnthonyMackie Will Johnson.Johnson]].
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->''"A guy only gets that drunk when he wants to kiss a girl or kill a man. So which is it?"''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine President by day. Hunter by night.]]'']]
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->''"Only the living can kill the dead."''
-->-- '''Henry Sturges'''

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->''"Only ->''"History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the living can kill battle, but forgets the dead.blood. Whatever history remembers of me, if it remembers me at all, it shall only remember a fraction of the truth. For whatever else I am - a husband, a lawyer, a president - I shall always think of myself first and foremost as a hunter."''
-->-- '''Henry Sturges'''
'''Abraham Lincoln'''
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* AnAxeToGrind: Abe's weapon of choice.
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* {{Main/Foreshadowing}}: Lincoln's father says to his boss, Barts: "You get another penny from me, Mister Barts, it will come with a fist, wrapped around it." [[spoiler:Lincoln kills Adam by gut-punching him with a silver watch-chain wrapped around his fist.]]
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** There's no historical evidence that Willie Johnson, Lincoln's valet, could fight with pistols atop a moving train.
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* BoomStick: [[spoiler:Abe's axe, the handle of which is converted to a single-shot muzzle-loader.]]
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* DecoyConvoy: Abe and a few crewmen are securing a train that carries silverclad things to be used against the Confederacy vampires in the Civil War. Predictably, the vampires -- including Adam -- try ambushing the train. [[spoiler:Only to find out that the train contains no silver, except for Abe's pocket watch (which he uses to kill Adam). The real silver stocks are in a separate train that goes underground, and that convoy goes safely, allowing the Union side to decisively win the war with silver bullets.]]

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* DecoyConvoy: Abe and a few crewmen are securing a train that carries silverclad things to be used against the Confederacy vampires in the Civil War. Predictably, the vampires -- including Adam -- try ambushing the train. [[spoiler:Only to find out that the train contains no silver, except for Abe's pocket watch (which he uses to kill Adam). The real silver stocks are in a separate train that goes underground, being carried by freed slaves, and that convoy goes safely, allowing the Union side to decisively win the war with silver bullets.]]
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Considering this is a film about President Abraham Lincoln fighting vampires, this is to be expected.

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* AnAxeToGrind: Abe's weapon of choice.
* AssholeVictim: A thug is trying to rape a woman when he is killed by Sturges, [[spoiler:who is revealed to be a vampire himself]].



* AttemptedRape: A thug does this to a woman in an alley.



* AnAxeToGrind: Abe's weapon of choice.
* AssholeVictim: A thug is trying to rape a woman when he is killed by Sturges, [[spoiler:who is revealed to be a vampire himself]].
* AttemptedRape: A thug does this to a woman in an alley.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. Henry in the book is brooding and continues to mourn his loved ones but Movie!Henry is quite TheHedonist as Abe first officially meets him while he's having sex in the bath.

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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. Henry in the book is brooding and continues to mourn his loved ones but Movie!Henry the movie's Henry is quite TheHedonist as Abe first officially meets him while he's having sex in the bath.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Vampires fight each other aplenty in the book, but the movie demonstrates that vampires cannot harm each other, as "only the living can kill the dead."

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* AdaptationalWimp: Vampires fight each other aplenty regularly in the book, but the movie demonstrates that vampires cannot harm each other, as "only the living can kill the dead."



* AttemptedRape: A thug does this to a woman in a street alley.

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* AttemptedRape: A thug does this to a woman in a street an alley.



* DecoyConvoy: Abe and a few crewmen are securing a train that carries silverclad things to be used against the Confederacy vampires in the Civil War. Predictably, the vampires - including Adam - try ambushing the train. [[spoiler:Only to find out that the train contains no silver, except for Abe's pocket watch (which he uses to kill Adam). The real silver stocks are in a separate train that goes underground, and that convoy goes safely, allowing the Union side to decisively win the war with silver bullets.]]

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* DecoyConvoy: Abe and a few crewmen are securing a train that carries silverclad things to be used against the Confederacy vampires in the Civil War. Predictably, the vampires - -- including Adam - -- try ambushing the train. [[spoiler:Only to find out that the train contains no silver, except for Abe's pocket watch (which he uses to kill Adam). The real silver stocks are in a separate train that goes underground, and that convoy goes safely, allowing the Union side to decisively win the war with silver bullets.]]



* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: While Lincoln gives up vampire hunting after he settles down with Mary Todd and becomes president, he winds up personally leading the defense of the [[spoiler: fake]] convoy of silver along with his two closest advisers.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In addition to the differences established in the book, the film has vampires being able to turn invisible, and also making it so that they're physically incapable of killing each other [[spoiler: (which is why Henry trains disciples like Abe; they can do what he can't).]]

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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: While Lincoln gives up vampire hunting after he settles down with Mary Todd and becomes president, he winds up personally leading the defense of the [[spoiler: fake]] [[spoiler:fake]] convoy of silver along with his two closest advisers.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In addition to the differences established in the book, the film has vampires being able to turn invisible, and also making it so that they're physically incapable of killing each other [[spoiler: (which [[spoiler:(which is why Henry trains disciples like Abe; they can do what he can't).]]



* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you've seen ''any'' trailer for the film, you'll know that the climax takes place on top of a train-and that it'll eventually come crashing down on a burning bridge.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you've seen ''any'' trailer for the film, you'll know that the climax takes place on top of a train-and train -- and that it'll eventually come crashing down on a burning bridge.
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* BlackBestFriend: Will Johnson is this to Lincoln.

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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: While Lincoln gives up vampire hunting after he settles down with Mary Todd and becomes president, he winds up personally leading the defense of the [[spoiler: fake]] convoy of silver along with his two closest advisers.



* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: While Lincoln gives up vampire hunting after he settles down with Mary Todd and becomes president, he winds up personally leading the defense of the [[spoiler: fake]] convoy of silver along with his two closest advisers.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Lincoln and the Union aren't just fighting to abolish slavery and keep the United States together, but also to rid the country of the vampires who have been perpetuating slavery all along.

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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Lincoln and the Union aren't just fighting to abolish slavery and keep the United States together, but also to rid the country of the vampires who have been perpetuating slavery all along. In terms of comparisons to RealLife, Abe in the movie is shown to be a vocal and physical protester of slavery, being best friends with the former slave and the real Lincoln's valet William H. Johnson and getting into fights on his behalf since childhood. Even in the book, Lincoln worked to abolish slavery mostly to cut off the vampiric population's food supply.
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''Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'' is a film adaptation of [[Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter the book of the same name]]. It was released in 2012 and directed by [[Film/{{Wanted}} Timur Bekmambetov]], produced by Creator/TimBurton, and starring [[Theatre/BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson Benjamin Walker]] in the title role. Seth Grahame-Smith adapted the screenplay himself.

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''Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'' is a film adaptation of [[Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter the book of the same name]]. It was released in 2012 and directed by [[Film/{{Wanted}} Timur Bekmambetov]], produced by Creator/TimBurton, and starring [[Theatre/BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson Benjamin Walker]] Creator/BenjaminWalker in the title role. Seth Grahame-Smith adapted the screenplay himself.

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