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* AnimalMotifs: Cleo is referred to as "the peacock of the air". In the final scene, however, she's more of a chicken.

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* AnimalMotifs: Cleo is referred to as "the peacock of the air". In the final scene, however, she's more of a chicken.''duck.''



* ColorMeBlack: Cleo, whose hatred for the disabled people around her drives the plot, ends up becoming a sort of human chicken.

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* ColorMeBlack: Cleo, whose hatred for the disabled people around her drives the plot, ends up becoming a sort of human chicken.duck.



* FateWorseThanDeath: Cleopatra and Hercules. They don't kill them. Oh, no. That would be far too kind.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: Cleopatra and Hercules. They The freaks don't kill them. Oh, no. That would be far too kind.



* JoinUsDrone: The famous "one of us" chant comes from a titular freaks accepting Cleo as someone who ''has'' joined them, whether she likes it or not. The difference is the context. The first time, they meant it in a friendly way since she was marrying Hans, a friend of theirs, that they considered family. [[spoiler: But when she reveals she was stringing him along. They show her they meant it ''literally'' as well and makes sure her appearance reflects likewise at the end of the movie.]]

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* JoinUsDrone: The famous "one of us" chant comes from a the titular freaks accepting Cleo as someone who ''has'' joined them, whether she likes it or not. The difference is the context. The first time, they meant it in a friendly way since she was marrying Hans, a friend of theirs, that they considered family. [[spoiler: But when she reveals she was stringing him along. They show her they meant it ''literally'' as well and makes sure her appearance reflects likewise at the end of the movie.]]



* LaserGuidedKarma: Cleopatra, who looked down on the freaks, ends up becoming a side-show freak herself. [[note]] In one of the cut scenes, the freaks castrate Hercules, turning him into a falsetto opera singer.[[/note]] Cleopatra is turned into a squawking "Chicken Woman", with her legs amputated, her face scarred, and her vocal chords ruined, along with being stuffed into a humiliatingly silly, sexless chicken costume that removes even the possibility of allowing her to present herself as appealing like some of the female freaks in the rest of the film. [[note]]Her transformation is even more gruesome in the comics adaptation, where the freaks begin by cutting most of her hair off in her trailer then mutilating her hands, feet and muscles of jaw, preventing definitively Cleo to closing her mouth. When she still manages to flee in the storm, they finish the job by shaving her head except for a few wisps left to stand out like clown hair, cutting off her nose and upper lip, burning her skin and ''removing her lower face flesh and most of her tongue, leaving his lower jaw hanging down and unusable ''. Only her beautiful bustline has been left perfectly intact to constantly remind Cleo of her lost beauty. When she's revealed in this state, her new caretaker has been instructed to feed her baby food and merely give her straw to sleep, defecate and urinate in, as though she's been reduced to the mental level of an animal, which the blank stare of her half closed right eye might also bear out- except [[AndIMustScream she's hardly in a position to protest to the contrary]], is she?[[/note]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Cleopatra, who looked down on the freaks, ends up becoming a side-show freak herself. [[note]] In one of the cut scenes, the freaks castrate Hercules, turning him into a falsetto opera singer.[[/note]] Cleopatra is turned into a squawking "Chicken "Duck Woman", with her legs amputated, her face scarred, and her vocal chords ruined, along with being stuffed into a humiliatingly silly, sexless chicken duck costume that removes even the possibility of allowing her to present herself as appealing like some of the female freaks in the rest of the film. [[note]]Her transformation is even more gruesome in the comics adaptation, where the freaks begin by cutting most of her hair off in her trailer then mutilating her hands, feet and muscles of jaw, preventing definitively Cleo to closing her mouth. When she still manages to flee in the storm, they finish the job by shaving her head except for a few wisps left to stand out like clown hair, cutting off her nose and upper lip, burning her skin and ''removing her lower face flesh and most of her tongue, leaving his lower jaw hanging down and unusable ''. Only her beautiful bustline has been left perfectly intact to constantly remind Cleo of her lost beauty. When she's revealed in this state, her new caretaker has been instructed to feed her baby food and merely give her straw to sleep, defecate and urinate in, as though she's been reduced to the mental level of an animal, which the blank stare of her half closed right eye might also bear out- except [[AndIMustScream she's hardly in a position to protest to the contrary]], is she?[[/note]]

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