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* DealWithTheDevil: The Collector tries to bribe or threaten each character into helping him get the Key.

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* DealWithTheDevil: The Collector tries to bribe or threaten each character into helping him get the Key. [[spoiler: He never gives a single person who gives in and takes his offer the thing they damned themself for, and mocks them the whole way.]]
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--> '''Collector:'''' Is that a yes?
--> '''[[spoiler:Irene]]:''' No, that's me giving you the finger, asshole.

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--> '''Collector:'''' Is that a yes?
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'''[[spoiler:Irene]]:''' No, that's me [[FlippingTheBird giving you the finger, finger]], asshole.
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* BadassLongcoat: The Collector. He's introduced wearing a nice trenchcoat with a NiceHat. He ditches both after his demonic nature is revealed.

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* BadassLongcoat: The Collector. He's introduced wearing a nice trenchcoat with a NiceHat.nice hat. He ditches both after his demonic nature is revealed.

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* AffablyEvil: The Collector is an evil [=SOB=], but boy he is charming and polite to anyone he meets, even as he tries to corrupt them into eternal damnation, murders them horribly, or attempts to trigger the apocalypse.


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* BadassLongcoat: The Collector. He's introduced wearing a nice trenchcoat with a NiceHat. He ditches both after his demonic nature is revealed.


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* FauxAffablyEvil: The Collector is an evil [=SOB=], but boy he is charming and polite to anyone he meets, even as he tries to corrupt them into eternal damnation, murders them horribly, or attempts to trigger the apocalypse.


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* ManipulativeBastard: The Collector; who screws with the heads of every character through normal or supernatural means.
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TheMovie of the {{Creator/HBO}} television series ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', released in [[TheNineties 1995]]. ''Demon Knight'' tells the story of a [[TheDrifter drifter]] named Frank Brayker (Creator/WilliamSadler) who arrives in Wormwood, Texas, and seeks refuge in a church-turned-hotel where he meets the no-nonsense landlady Irene (Creator/CCHPounder) and her niece Jeryline (Creator/JadaPinkettSmith), [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] Uncle Willy (Creator/DickMiller), [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold prostitute]] Cordelia (Creator/BrendaBakke) and her [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]][=/=]pimp Roach (Creator/ThomasHadenChurch), and fired mailman Wally (Creator/CharlesFleischer) who's hopelessly in love with Cordelia.

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TheMovie of the {{Creator/HBO}} television series ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', directed by Ernest Dickerson and released in [[TheNineties 1995]]. ''Demon Knight'' tells the story of a [[TheDrifter drifter]] named Frank Brayker (Creator/WilliamSadler) who arrives in Wormwood, Texas, and seeks refuge in a church-turned-hotel where he meets the no-nonsense landlady Irene (Creator/CCHPounder) and her niece Jeryline (Creator/JadaPinkettSmith), [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] Uncle Willy (Creator/DickMiller), [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold prostitute]] Cordelia (Creator/BrendaBakke) and her [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]][=/=]pimp Roach (Creator/ThomasHadenChurch), and fired mailman Wally (Creator/CharlesFleischer) who's hopelessly in love with Cordelia.

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* AlienBlood: The Collector and his minions have florescent green blood.

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* AlienBlood: The Collector and his minions have [[SicklyGreenGlow florescent green green]] blood.


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* FaunsAndSatyrs: The Collector's {{Mooks}} are particularity grotesque looking satyrs with long legs that have cloven hooves. Given their demonic nature, it's evoking of the GruesomeGoat.
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** The demonic monsters the Collector summons look quite similar to Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}.

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** The [[https://c7.alamy.com/comp/GHPC48/demon-knight-ritter-der-dmonen-der-collector-billy-zane-befehligt-GHPC48.jpg demonic monsters monsters]] summoned by the Collector summons look quite similar to Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}.
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** The demonic monsters the Collector summons look quite similar to Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}.
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* PrimordialChaos: The forces of evil the Collector works for want to revert the universe to that state by taking back the final key the Demon Knights protect.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: The Key Brayker carries is the last of seven that were scattered across the universe to prevent the forces of evil that existed before the Genesis from taking over. The demons have already successfully taken six of the keys, and as soon as the Collector gets his hands on Brayker's (or it runs out of the holy blood it contains), it won't be just Hell on Earth, the ''entire universe'' will fall back into chaos, "Just like that".

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* CosmicHorrorStory: The Key Brayker carries is the last of seven that were scattered across the universe to prevent the forces of evil that existed before the Genesis from taking over. The demons have already successfully taken six of the keys, and as soon as the Collector gets his hands on Brayker's (or it runs out of the holy blood it contains), it won't be just Hell on Earth, the ''entire universe'' will fall back into chaos, PrimordialChaos, "Just like that".
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* BequeathedPower: Combined with TakeUpMySword with the Key, and the powers that accompany it, being periodically passed on to a new bearer since the Crucifixion. [[spoiler:Brayker tells Jeryline after he's passed on the key to her, that she'll have to do the same thing someday.]]
-->'''Brayker:''' When the stars align, you'll know what to do.

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