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* BadassBystander: Charlie holds a shotgun on a mechanic and forces him to fix the jammed emergency brake on the car he is trying to steal. When Charlie is distracted by a passing police car, the mechanic [[GunStruggle grabs the gun and starts trying to wrench it out of Charlie's hands]]. He eventually succeeds and Charlie is forced to flee.
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Since childhood, Nebraska farm-boy Charles Starkweather has a schizophrenic Mr. Hyde side, a nameless dark figure, who inspires him to be cruel for the kicks. Having grown up to be a 19 year old garbageman and fallen in love with weird 14 year old girl Caril Ann Fugate, he gets completely out of control, killing off her entire family and various other singles or groups during their ensuing inter-state car-chase, hunted down by sheriff Merle Karnopp and a growing army of cops and press, then unprecedented.

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Since childhood, Nebraska farm-boy Charles Starkweather has a schizophrenic Mr. Hyde side, a nameless dark figure, who inspires him to be cruel for the kicks. Having grown up to be a 19 year old 19-year-old garbageman and fallen in love with weird 14 year old girl 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate, he gets completely out of control, killing off her entire family and various other singles or groups during their ensuing inter-state car-chase, hunted down by sheriff Merle Karnopp and a growing army of cops and press, then unprecedented.



* CigarChomper: Tough-as-nails and cunning-as-a-fox country lawman Sheriff Merle Karnopp always has--an often unlit--cigar clenched in his teeth.

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* CigarChomper: Tough-as-nails and cunning-as-a-fox country lawman Sheriff Merle Karnopp always has--an often unlit--cigar clenched has a cigar—often unlit—clenched in his teeth.



* CompositeCharacter: The character of Sheriff Merle Karnopp is an amalgam of various law enforcement officials involved in the Starkweather case: in particular, the real Sherriff Merle C. Karnopp of Lancaster County who investigated the first four murders and instigated the manhunt for Starkweather and Fugate, and Sheriff Earl Heflin of Converse County who arrested Starkweather.
* TheFaceless: 'The Dark Man' always has his face fully wreathed in shadow from his fedora; no matter the lighting around him is doing. Justified, as he is a manifestation of Charlie's darkest impulses and only exists inside Charlie's head.

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* CompositeCharacter: The character of Sheriff Merle Karnopp is an amalgam of various law enforcement officials involved in the Starkweather case: in particular, the real Sherriff Merle C. Karnopp of Lancaster County County, who investigated the first four murders and instigated the manhunt for Starkweather and Fugate, Fugate; and Sheriff Earl Heflin of Converse County County, who arrested Starkweather.
* TheFaceless: 'The Dark Man' always has his face fully wreathed in shadow from his fedora; no matter what the lighting around him is doing. Justified, as he is a manifestation of Charlie's darkest impulses and only exists inside Charlie's head.



* ImaginaryEnemy: Charlie is tormented by a manifestation of his darker impulses known as as 'The Dark Man' (or 'The Mentor') who calls him weak and pathetic and goads him into killing to prove himself a real man.

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* ImaginaryEnemy: Charlie is tormented by a manifestation of his darker impulses known as as 'The Dark Man' (or 'The Mentor') who calls him weak and pathetic and goads him into killing to prove himself a real man.



* IResembleThatRemark: Charlie screams "I ain't no coldblooded killer!" at his terrified victim just before he puts a bullet in her head.

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* IResembleThatRemark: Charlie screams "I ain't no coldblooded cold-blooded killer!" at his terrified victim just before he puts a bullet in her head.



* OutlawCouple: Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.

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* OutlawCouple: Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate Fugate, killing 11 people in three months, months and introducing America to spree killing.



* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Caril Ann is 14 years old but described as having the body of an 18 year old.

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* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Caril Ann is 14 years old but described as having the body of an 18 year old.18-year-old.



* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment[[note]]Caril Ann was paroled in 1976[[\note]], and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment[[note]]Caril Ann was paroled in 1976[[\note]], 1976[[/note]], and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment, and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Captions at the end of the film tell what happened to Starkweather, Fugate and Sheriff Karnopp (execution, life imprisonment, imprisonment[[note]]Caril Ann was paroled in 1976[[\note]], and induction into Nebraska Law Enforcement Hall of Fame, respectively).
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''Starkweather'' is a 2004 film directed by Byron Werner, written by Stephen Johnston, and starring Brent Taylor and Shannon Lucio.

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''Starkweather'' is a 2004 film directed by Byron Werner, written by Stephen Johnston, and starring Brent Taylor Creator/BrentTaylor and Shannon Lucio.Creator/ShannonLucio.
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* AxCrazy: Starkweather has got some serious issues, what with murdering 11 people just because he could. The Dark Man, as the very personification of Charles' madness, both qualifies himself and also acts to make Charles give in to his worst impulses.
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* CompositeCharacter: the character of Sheriff Merle Karnopp is an amalgam of various law enforcement officials involved in the Starkweather case: in particular, the real Sherriff Merle C. Karnopp of Lancaster County who investigated the first four murders and instigated the manhunt for Starkweather and Fugate, and Sheriff Earl Heflin of Converse County who arrested Starkweather.

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* CompositeCharacter: the The character of Sheriff Merle Karnopp is an amalgam of various law enforcement officials involved in the Starkweather case: in particular, the real Sherriff Merle C. Karnopp of Lancaster County who investigated the first four murders and instigated the manhunt for Starkweather and Fugate, and Sheriff Earl Heflin of Converse County who arrested Starkweather.

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