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* AmbiguousDisorder: Becky has serious rage issues, and enjoys killing a little too much.
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* {{MacGuffin}}: Becky finds a key with a strange engraving on it, and Dominick reveals during the home invasion that he wants it for some unspoken plan. No details are given on what the key opens nor what Dominick's greater plan is.

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* {{MacGuffin}}: Becky finds a key with a strange engraving [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valknut valknut]] engraved on it, and Dominick reveals during the home invasion that he wants it for some unspoken plan. No details are given on what the key opens nor what Dominick's greater plan is.
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* StartOfDarkness: At the end of the movie, the sheriff's main concern is that the incident will be Becky's, as he is worried about the sheer amount of violence she committed.
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* TheUnreveal: The films leaves a bunch of unanswered questions about the {{MacGuffin}}, to wit:
** [[spoiler:What was Dominick going to do with the key?]]
** [[spoiler:Who hid the key in Wilsons' cabin?]]
** [[spoiler:How did Dominick knew exactly where in the house the key was hidden?]]

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Every time Becky is shown handling the key Dominick is after, and otherworldly chime can be heard in the music score, but it is never specified if this means they key is a supernatural artifact of some kind. Then there's the fact that Dominick seems to think the key will allow him to change the world... somehow.







































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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After [[spoiler: Dominick tortures and shoots her father]], Becky goes completely ape-shit and spends the rest of the movie [[spoiler:brutally and gruesomely killing every single one of them.]]
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--> "''Becky is as strong-willed and as vindictive as they come [[spoiler:and you just tortured and killed her only living parent.]]"

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--> "''Becky "Becky is as strong-willed and as vindictive as they come [[spoiler:and you just tortured and killed her only living parent.]]"
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* ItsPersonal: As Kayla tells Dominick [[spoiler: "Becky is as strong-willed and as vindictive as they come and you just tortured and killed her only living parent."]]

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* ItsPersonal: As Kayla tells Dominick [[spoiler: "Becky Dominick
--> "''Becky
is as strong-willed and as vindictive as they come and [[spoiler:and you just tortured and killed her only living parent."]]
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* ItsPersonal: As Kayla tells Dominick [[spoiler: "Becky is as strong-willed and as vindictive as they come and you just tortured and killed her only living parent."]]
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* SlasherSmile: Becky has several of these as she proceeds to become more unhinged as the film goes on.
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* EyeScream: Becky stabs Dominick in the eye, and the criminal is forced to cut it out, completely onscreen the whole time.

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* EyeScream: Becky stabs Dominick in the eye, and the criminal is forced to cut it out, completely onscreen the whole time.
time - first via an attempt by scissors and later more successfully via knife.
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Apex, tired of the killing and disgusted with Dominick's actions, betrays his boss and helps Becky kill him, hoping for redemption. Becky just shoots him in the head for revenge.]]

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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Apex, tired of the killing and disgusted with Dominick's actions, betrays his boss and helps Becky kill him, hoping for redemption. Becky just shoots him in the head for revenge.revenge, due to him directly having a hand in torturing her father earlier in the film.]]

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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/KevinJames, known pretty much exclusively for playing friendly, annoying goofballs, here plays the utterly humorless, despicable Dominick.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/KevinJames, known pretty much exclusively for playing friendly, annoying goofballs, here plays the utterly humorless, despicable Dominick.
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* BlackComedy: Some of the violence reaches such absurd, ridiculous examples that it reaches hilarious levels.

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* BlackComedy: Some of the violence reaches such absurd, ridiculous examples levels that it reaches hilarious levels.
goes into hilarity.
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-> "''There once was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was'' horrid."

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-> --> "''There once was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was'' horrid."



->[[spoiler: "''I'm sorry. I should never have left you alone to fix it. There's no undoing the things I've done, but maybe, by saving you--''"]]

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->[[spoiler: -->[[spoiler: "''I'm sorry. I should never have left you alone to fix it. There's no undoing the things I've done, but maybe, by saving you--''"]]



-> "''I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but I'm doing it for [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain your kind]] as much as mine...you see, the races all were created with a divine purpose, but our modern world has blurred and distorted that purpose. But that's all about to change.''"

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-> --> "''I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but I'm doing it for [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain your kind]] as much as mine...you see, the races all were created with a divine purpose, but our modern world has blurred and distorted that purpose. But that's all about to change.''"



-> "''There was a little girl. Who had a little bullet right in the middle of her forehead.''"

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-> --> "''There was a little girl. Who had a little bullet right in the middle of her forehead.''"
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* AFatherToHisMen: Dominick claims as much, calling Apex his "son" and claiming himself and his fellow criminals are a "brotherhood." [[spoiler: Pretty much subverted when Dominick casually threatens Harrison's life and later shoots Apex without blinking for standing in his way.]]
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* ActionGirl: Becky wages war with four murderous escaped prisoners[[spoiler:, and ''wins'']].

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* ActionGirl: Becky wages war with four murderous escaped prisoners[[spoiler:, prisoners[[spoiler: and ''wins'']].
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Things somehow [[FromBadToWorse get even worse]] when a ruthless gang of escaped convicts, lead by the Neo-Nazi [[BigBad Dominick]] (James), show up at the lake house in search of a mysterious key. With Jeff, Kayla and Ty taken as hostages, Becky begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Dominick, quickly utilizing the situation as an outlet for her anger and bringing into question who is the predator and who is the prey.

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Things somehow [[FromBadToWorse get even worse]] when a ruthless gang of escaped convicts, lead by the Neo-Nazi [[BigBad Dominick]] (James), show up at the lake house in search of a mysterious key. With Jeff, Kayla and Ty taken as hostages, Becky begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Dominick, quickly utilizing the situation as an outlet for her anger and bringing into question [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted who is the predator and who is the prey.prey]].
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior'': Becky shoplifts, barely speaks, let alone shows kindness, to anyone except her dogs, and doesn't hesitate one bit to begin slaughtering the criminals invading her home.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior'': TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Becky shoplifts, barely speaks, let alone shows kindness, to anyone except her dogs, and doesn't hesitate one bit to begin slaughtering the criminals invading her home.


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* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: After getting fed up with her tenacity and realizing her murderous potential, Dominick offers Becky a place at his side. She responds by telling him to "shut (his) face."]]

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* BadassBoast: Becky gives one to her enemies when she starts picking them off:
-> "''There once was a little girl, whose hair was in curls, atop her forehead.

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* BadassBoast: Becky gives one to her enemies when she starts picking them off:
off, quoting a poem:
-> "''There once was a little girl, whose hair who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was in curls, atop her forehead.
good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was'' horrid."


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* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Apex tries to give a tearful, remorseful speech only for Becky to shoot him dead.]]
->[[spoiler: "''I'm sorry. I should never have left you alone to fix it. There's no undoing the things I've done, but maybe, by saving you--''"]]


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* MotiveRant: Dominick gives a vague but no less threatening one to Kayla when she calls him out on his reasons for tormenting their family.
-> "''I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but I'm doing it for [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain your kind]] as much as mine...you see, the races all were created with a divine purpose, but our modern world has blurred and distorted that purpose. But that's all about to change.''"

* PreMortemOneLiner: Dominick tries to give one to Becky, in a callback to her BadassBoast.
-> "''There was a little girl. Who had a little bullet right in the middle of her forehead.''"
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''Becky'' is a 2020 action-horror film directed by Jonathan Millot and Cary Murnon, starring Lulu Wilson, Creator/Kevin James, and Creator/JoelMcHale.

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''Becky'' is a 2020 action-horror film directed by Jonathan Millot and Cary Murnon, starring Lulu Wilson, Creator/Kevin James, Creator/KevinJames, and Creator/JoelMcHale.
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''Becky'' is a 2020 action-horror film directed by Jonathan Millot and Cary Murnon, starring Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, and Joel [=McHale=].

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''Becky'' is a 2020 action-horror film directed by Jonathan Millot and Cary Murnon, starring Lulu Wilson, Kevin Creator/Kevin James, and Joel [=McHale=].
Creator/JoelMcHale.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"''Becky, you're clearly a special girl!''"]]
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* EyeGore: Becky stabs Dominick in the eye, and the criminal is forced to cut it out, completely onscreen the whole time.

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* EyeGore: EyeScream: Becky stabs Dominick in the eye, and the criminal is forced to cut it out, completely onscreen the whole time.



* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: Apex comes to feel this way after he ''does'' hurt children.

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* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: WouldntHurtAChild: Apex comes to feel this way after he ''does'' hurt children.
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''Becky'' is a 2020 action-horror film directed by Jonathan Millot and Cary Murnon, starring Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, and Joel [=McHale=].

Things haven't been the same for young teenager Becky (Wilson) ever since her mother died. Her mood has turned sullen, she's grown prone to great bouts of anger, and her father, Jeff ([=McHale=]), has gotten a new lover, leaving Becky a bitter, troublemaking youth. It only gets more frustrating for Becky when Jeff takes her on a trip to their lake house, reveals that he's marrying his girlfriend, Kayla, and has invited her and her son Ty to the lake house with them for the weekend, sending Becky stomping off into the forest in a rage.

Things somehow [[FromBadToWorse get even worse]] when a ruthless gang of escaped convicts, lead by the Neo-Nazi [[BigBad Dominick]] (James), show up at the lake house in search of a mysterious key. With Jeff, Kayla and Ty taken as hostages, Becky begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Dominick, quickly utilizing the situation as an outlet for her anger and bringing into question who is the predator and who is the prey.

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!!''Becky'' provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Becky wages war with four murderous escaped prisoners[[spoiler:, and ''wins'']].

* AntiHero: Becky is facing off with sociopathic criminals no doubt, but her inner rage and coldly cruel personality makes her far from pure. [[spoiler: She even seems positively ''smug'' about her brutal victory over the villains by the end.]]

* BadassBoast: Becky gives one to her enemies when she starts picking them off:
-> "''There once was a little girl, whose hair was in curls, atop her forehead.

* BigBad: Dominick leads the home invasion of the lake house.

* BlackComedy: Some of the violence reaches such absurd, ridiculous examples that it reaches hilarious levels.

* CanineCompanion: Though Becky has two dogs--Dora and Diego--it is Diego who follows her around and works with her throughout the movie.

* CensoredChildDeath: The camera cuts away before Apex kills two young children, though their screams haunt him throughout the movie.

* TheChessmaster: Dominick certainly thinks of himself as a master planner, remarking that he's spent every second of the 50,000+ hours he's been in prison formulating his escape plan. [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], this claim is thrown into major dispute when a teenage girl is capable of utterly dismantling him and every plan he throws at her.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Jeff is subjected to this by Dominick, who stabs him in parts of his body with a poker pulled fresh from the flames just so Becky will hear her father scream in pain.

* CombatPragmatist: Due to her smaller size, Becky is forced to rely on dirty tricks, booby traps, and [[ImprovisedWeapon whatever she can find lying around]] to take down the criminals.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of the kills are absolutely brutal and grotesque, notably [[spoiler: Harrison getting shredded by a motorboat propeller and Dominick getting his head ran over by an ATV then ''lawnmower''.]]

* DieHardOnAnX: Specifically, "Die Hard at a lake house."

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Apex will kill defenseless men and even smacks Becky around, but he draws the line at killing children thanks to the increasing regret he feels after Dominick forced him to kill two children during their escape.

* EyeGore: Becky stabs Dominick in the eye, and the criminal is forced to cut it out, completely onscreen the whole time.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Dominick puts up a friendly, polite attitude, even while torturing and killing innocent people.

* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler: Dominick tortures and shoots Jeff in front of Becky, and later promises to force Ty to watch as he kills the boy's mother.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Apex, tired of the killing and disgusted with Dominick's actions, betrays his boss and helps Becky kill him, hoping for redemption. Becky just shoots him in the head for revenge.]]

* HostageForMacGuffin: Dominick and his gang take Becky's family hostage, hoping to use them to get her to hand over the key.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Becky uses a variety of these, from broken rulers to ''lawn mowers''.

* KickTheDog: The escaped convicts seem to thrive on this trope. Dominick viciously mocks Becky throughout the film, [[spoiler: notably taunting her at the end that she's now an orphan]], and Cole literally shoots one of Becky's dogs dead just because he "hates dogs."

* {{MacGuffin}}: Becky finds a key with a strange engraving on it, and Dominick reveals during the home invasion that he wants it for some unspoken plan. No details are given on what the key opens nor what Dominick's greater plan is.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dominick is a Neo-Nazi with all sorts of Swastika tattoos adorning his head, and he regularly makes jabs at Kayla about her race, even comparing Jeff loving her to dogs who "mix breeds." His untold master plan involves returning "(Kayla's) kind" to beneath white people.

* ShoutOut: Becky's two beloved dogs are named [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]] and [[WesternAnimation/GoDiegoGo Diego]].

* SmugSnake: Dominick believes himself to be a brilliant revolutionary who will change the world and outsmart all his enemies, but Kayla rightfully calls him out as delusional, backwards and stupid.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior'': Becky shoplifts, barely speaks, let alone shows kindness, to anyone except her dogs, and doesn't hesitate one bit to begin slaughtering the criminals invading her home.

* UndyingLoyalty: Apex seems to have this for Dominick, which Dominick finds invaluably useful to himself, even challenging Apex to shoot him if his loyalty is wavering. [[spoiler: It takes Dominick refusing to let Becky go even after he's obtained the key for Apex to truly turn on him.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: From the moment he steps into the lake house and finds his sought-after key missing, Dominick goes from calm and collected to flustered and panicked, and gets increasingly volatile until he's screaming in rage and showing his true, sadistic colors by the end of the film.

* WouldHurtAChild: Dominick's entire gang are trying to kill Becky to retrieve the key, but Dominick is an especially bad example. He forces Apex to kill two children during their escape and threatens to blow Ty's leg off before trying to throttle the boy.

* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: Apex comes to feel this way after he ''does'' hurt children.

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