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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The ''real'' Smiley kills one of the pranksters at the end of the film, and it's heavily suggested that he's going to kill the rest of them both as punishment for their cruel prank on Ashley and for making a mockery of him.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Film/ChainLetter2010'' 2.0.
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* MenacingMask: There is supposedly an urban legend about a serial killer called Smiley [=McGee=] that wears the smiley emoticon on their face: a fleshy-looking, distorted smiley icon. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when the movie reveals that [[spoiler:it is actually a group of individuals who decide to psychologically torment Ashley, the protagonist.]] Then [[DoubleSubvertedTrope double subverted]] when [[spoiler:there is ''in fact'' a ''real'' Smiley [=McGee=] on the loose.]]

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* DeadlyPrank: [[spoiler:It nearly becomes this when Ashley appears to be driven to suicide.]] However, [[spoiler:the "deadly" part only comes in after the prank's apparent completion, when Smiley actually arrives.]]



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Averted. As soon as the group drove Ashley to suicide and they celebrate on the fact, one of the members gets killed by the real Smiley, and since another member was the one who summoned him, he's bound to be next too.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Averted. As KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:As soon as the group drove Ashley to suicide and they celebrate on the fact, one of the members gets killed by the real Smiley, and since another member was the one who summoned him, he's bound to be next too.]]


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* PrankGoneTooFar: [[spoiler:The Smiley prank leads to Smiley getting summoned to kill the Trolls, and the prank nearly drives Ashley to suicide.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Film/ChainLetter'' 2.0.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Film/ChainLetter'' ''Film/ChainLetter2010'' 2.0.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:There's actually no Smiley and that it was all a practical prank. Unfortunately, Ashley doesn't discover this, since she jumps to her death while running away from the fake Smiley, who is revealed to be a group made from her closest friends as a prank. She lives, as the stinger indicates, and the ''real'' Smiley begins to set his sights on the pranksters.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:There's actually no Smiley and that it was all a [[PrankGoneTooFar practical prank. joke]]. Unfortunately, Ashley doesn't discover this, since this before she jumps out a window to her probable death while running away from the fake Smiley, who is revealed to be a group made from her closest friends as a prank. She lives, as the stinger indicates, and the ''real'' Smiley begins to set his sights on the pranksters.]]



* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Ashley’s friends are a [[TheSociopath rather horrible]] kind. They’re in on the plot to terrorise her into trying to kill herself simply [[ForTheEvulz because they think it’s funny.]]]]

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* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Ashley’s friends are a all [[TheSociopath rather horrible]] kind.horrible people]]. They’re in on the plot to terrorise her into trying to kill herself simply [[ForTheEvulz because they think it’s funny.]]]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ashley tries summoning Smiley to kill someone to test the legend out and it works.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ashley tries summoning Smiley to kill someone to test the legend out and it works. [[spoiler:After the prank drives her to near-suicide, one of the group decides to go through the legend's summoning ritual as a joke... and discovers to his horror that Smiley ''actually exists''.]]

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