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** TheBigBad: Top Dollar, as he's the leader of the gang and the final enemy Eric faces.
** TheDragon: Grange, as he's Top Dollar's primary muscle and clean-up guy.
** TheEvilGenius: Myca, as she has intimate knowledge of the supernatural.
** TheBrute: T-Bird, Top Dollar's man on the street and instigator of atrocities. His minor gang is its own QuirkyMinibossSquad.
** TheChick: Myca again, as she's physically the weakest and rather weird personality-wise.
** TheBigBad: Top Dollar, as he's the leader of the gang and the final enemy Eric faces.
** TheDragon: Grange, as he's Top Dollar's primary muscle and clean-up guy.
** TheEvilGenius: Myca, as she has intimate knowledge of the supernatural.
** TheBrute: T-Bird, Top Dollar's man on the street and instigator of atrocities. His minor gang is its own QuirkyMinibossSquad.
** TheChick: Myca again, as she's physically the weakest and rather weird personality-wise.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In a rather twisted way. Top Dollar, as depraved a villain as he already is, seems to genuinely love his sister despite the incestuous nature of their relationship.
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-->'''Eric:''' Little things used to mean so much to Shelly. I always thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.
-->'''Eric:''' Little things used to mean so much to Shelly. I always thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.
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* MadnessMantra: T-Bird's "There ain't no comin' back, there ain't no comin' back...."
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[[caption-width-right:231:"Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."]]
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" Goth children rejoice! The last costume you will EVER need is here!]]
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* DigitalHeadSwap: Brandon Lee's face was digitally grafted onto a stunt performer's body for a small smattering of scenes not yet shot at the time of his death.
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* DigitalHeadSwap: Brandon Lee's face was digitally grafted onto a stunt performer's body for a small smattering of scenes not yet shot at the time of his death. Most notable is the BecomingTheMask scene. From the time Eric enters the apartment until the end of the obligatory "runs along the rooftops" scene, a stunt man was playing Brandon Lee.
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** "Is that gasoline I smell?" [[spoiler: said by Eric just before destroying Gideon's shop with the gasoline he spilled all over the counter.]]
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* TranquilFury: The beginning of Eric's fight with Tin Tin, he never says a single word or expresses a sound, even when Tin Tin punches him. Then when he finally has Tin Tin pin to the walls he expresses his rage in three words with fury that would make BruceLee and SamuelLJackson proud.
-->'''Eric:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you]].....MURDERERRRR!!!!!
-->'''Eric:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you]].....MURDERERRRR!!!!!
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* ImprovisedWeapon: During his final duel with Top Dollar on the roof of a cathedral, Eric rips off an ornate iron spire to use as an improvised sword against Top Dollar's katana.
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* BattleInTheRain: Despite being set in a city of perpetual rain, this only happens during the climatic fight between Top Dollar and Draven.
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** Possibly justified, in that Eric is deliberately going after them in the order they raped and attacked Shelly.
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* EyeScream: Myca has a fondness for eyes. The first eyes she cuts out were from somebody already dead, making it a slightly less horrific example. We later see two eyeballs which are ''hopefully'' from this person, otherwise it means she's cut out even more eyes.
** [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath Myca's eyes are later pecked out by the Crow]]]].
** [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath Myca's eyes are later pecked out by the Crow]]]].
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* KarmicDeath: "I have something for you, I don't want it anymore".
** Also, [[spoiler:the Crow pecking out Myka's eyes]].
** Also, [[spoiler:the Crow pecking out Myka's eyes]].
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* CoolSword: The sword crafted for a certain [[ThePrincessBride six-fingered man]] is the weapon of choice for Top Dollar.
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* GroinAttack: Where does Eric place the stick of dynamite when he blows up one of Shelly's rapist-murderers? Between the legs, of course.
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* GroinAttack: Where does Eric place the stick of dynamite when he blows up one of Shelly's rapist-murderers? Between the legs, of course. course.
* GunsAkimbo: Eric blasts off with both guns blazing during the boardroom shootout, while Top Dollar gets his moment during the church shootout near the end of the movie.
* GunsAkimbo: Eric blasts off with both guns blazing during the boardroom shootout, while Top Dollar gets his moment during the church shootout near the end of the movie.
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* GroinAttack: Where does Eric place the stick of dynamite when he blows up one of Shelly's rapist-murderers? Between the legs, of course.
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* PercussiveTherapy: Eric plays his guitar and then smashes it in a fit of grief and anger.
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Several alterations were made for the film, the most significant of these being the creation of a mythology in which the crow, rather than being a sardonic talking apparition Eric first sees as he's dying, is an actual bird. In the film, the crow is a MagicalGuide who leads souls to the {{Afterlife}} but is capable of resurrecting someone if their death was particularly unjust and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a can of whup-ass needs openin']]. The film shows Eric [[RiseFromYourGrave coming back to life and clawing his way out of his grave]] and his supernatural powers of healing and resisting mortal injury are explicitly linked to the crow: damage the crow and Eric loses his mojo. Other [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic alterations to the story]] included expansion and development of supporting characters, and Eric himself being more human and relatable, as well as being given a [[MeaningfulName meaningful surname]].
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Several alterations were made for the film, the most significant of these being the creation of a mythology in which the crow, rather than being a sardonic talking apparition Eric first sees as he's dying, is an actual bird.bird (well, actually a raven as they're easier to train). In the film, the crow is a MagicalGuide who leads souls to the {{Afterlife}} but is capable of resurrecting someone if their death was particularly unjust and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a can of whup-ass needs openin']]. The film shows Eric [[RiseFromYourGrave coming back to life and clawing his way out of his grave]] and his supernatural powers of healing and resisting mortal injury are explicitly linked to the crow: damage the crow and Eric loses his mojo. Other [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic alterations to the story]] included expansion and development of supporting characters, and Eric himself being more human and relatable, as well as being given a [[MeaningfulName meaningful surname]].
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Several alterations were made for the film, the most significant of these being the creation of a mythology in which the crow, rather than being a sardonic talking apparition Eric first sees as he's dying, is an actual bird. In the film, the crow is a SpiritGuide MagicalGuide who leads souls to the {{Afterlife}} but is capable of resurrecting someone if their death was particularly unjust and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a can of whup-ass needs openin']]. The film shows Eric [[RiseFromYourGrave coming back to life and clawing his way out of his grave]] and his supernatural powers of healing and resisting mortal injury are explicitly linked to the crow: damage the crow and Eric loses his mojo. Other [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic alterations to the story]] included expansion and development of supporting characters, and Eric himself being more human and relatable, as well as being given a [[MeaningfulName meaningful surname]].
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The 1994 film adaptation of [[TheCrow James O'Barr's comic book, book]], written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, and directed by Alex Proyas, and the Proyas. The first in a series of four ''Crow'' films to date.date.
Several alterations were made for the film, the most significant of these being the creation of a mythology in which the crow, rather than being a sardonic talking apparition Eric first sees as he's dying, is an actual bird. In the film, the crow is a SpiritGuide who leads souls to the {{Afterlife}} but is capable of resurrecting someone if their death was particularly unjust and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a can of whup-ass needs openin']]. The film shows Eric [[RiseFromYourGrave coming back to life and clawing his way out of his grave]] and his supernatural powers of healing and resisting mortal injury are explicitly linked to the crow: damage the crow and Eric loses his mojo. Other [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic alterations to the story]] included expansion and development of supporting characters, and Eric himself being more human and relatable, as well as being given a [[MeaningfulName meaningful surname]].
The film is, obviously, best known because of a tragedy: the accidental death of lead actor Brandon Lee during the filming of his character's death scene. Because of this, and the fact that film is in some ways a more accessible medium than comics, ''The Crow'' is another example of AdaptationDisplacement in action. Even now, some fans are not aware that the lead character in the comic is a mechanic called Eric, not an indie rock guitarist called Eric Draven, or that the "resurrected soul putting the wrong things right" mythology is not a part of the comic book.
A reboot has been in DevelopmentHell for several years. At various points screenplays were supposedly being written by people such as Nick Cave, and and actors such as Mark Wahlburg, Bradley Cooper and Channing Tatum were supposedly in consideration for the role of Eric. As at March 2013, a director (Francisco Javier Gutierrez) has supposedly been confirmed, and the latest actor rumoured to be in discussions to play the lead is James McEvoy. The film will be produced by Edward R. Pressman, who also produced the three previous films in the franchise.
Several alterations were made for the film, the most significant of these being the creation of a mythology in which the crow, rather than being a sardonic talking apparition Eric first sees as he's dying, is an actual bird. In the film, the crow is a SpiritGuide who leads souls to the {{Afterlife}} but is capable of resurrecting someone if their death was particularly unjust and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a can of whup-ass needs openin']]. The film shows Eric [[RiseFromYourGrave coming back to life and clawing his way out of his grave]] and his supernatural powers of healing and resisting mortal injury are explicitly linked to the crow: damage the crow and Eric loses his mojo. Other [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic alterations to the story]] included expansion and development of supporting characters, and Eric himself being more human and relatable, as well as being given a [[MeaningfulName meaningful surname]].
The film is, obviously, best known because of a tragedy: the accidental death of lead actor Brandon Lee during the filming of his character's death scene. Because of this, and the fact that film is in some ways a more accessible medium than comics, ''The Crow'' is another example of AdaptationDisplacement in action. Even now, some fans are not aware that the lead character in the comic is a mechanic called Eric, not an indie rock guitarist called Eric Draven, or that the "resurrected soul putting the wrong things right" mythology is not a part of the comic book.
A reboot has been in DevelopmentHell for several years. At various points screenplays were supposedly being written by people such as Nick Cave, and and actors such as Mark Wahlburg, Bradley Cooper and Channing Tatum were supposedly in consideration for the role of Eric. As at March 2013, a director (Francisco Javier Gutierrez) has supposedly been confirmed, and the latest actor rumoured to be in discussions to play the lead is James McEvoy. The film will be produced by Edward R. Pressman, who also produced the three previous films in the franchise.
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* AdaptationExpansion / AdaptationDistillation: Apart from the additional backstory for why Eric and Shelly were killed in the movie, Top Dollar was changed from just being a low-level drug dealer to being a [[BigBad twisted crime overlord]] with the gang as his hit squad and Myca and Grange backing him up, Sarah was given a much larger role with a prior friendship to Eric and Shelly and a lot of drama was added to the climax, unlike in the comic where Eric just rampages unstoppably through the criminal underworld. On the other hand, Tom-Tom was removed, Funboy was given a much smaller role and any scenes of Eric in the afterlife were excised.
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* AdaptationExpansion / AdaptationDistillation: Apart from the additional backstory for why AdaptationDistillation:
** Eric and Shellywere aren't the random victims of a drive-by crime. In the film, they are brutalised and killed in the movie, after Shelly protests against wrongful tenant relocation.
** Top Dollar was changed from just being a low-level drug dealer to being a [[BigBad twisted crime overlord]] with the gang as his hit squad and Myca and Grange backing himup, up.
** Sherri in the comic book becomes Sarahwas given in the film, and has a much larger role role. She was friends with a prior friendship to Eric and Shelly while they were alive, and at the climax of the film Eric has to save her life when she is threatened by Top Dollar and Myca. Sarah's drug-addicted mother (now called Darla) is much the same character in the comic, but a scene shows her having turned over a new leaf after Eric confronts her over her neglect of Sarah, and hints a reconciliation between mother and daughter.
** A lot of drama was added to the climax, unlike in the comic where Eric just rampages unstoppably through the criminal underworld. On the other hand, Tom-Tom was removed, Funboy was given a much smaller role and any scenes of Eric in the afterlife were excised.
** Eric and Shelly
** Top Dollar was changed from just being a low-level drug dealer to being a [[BigBad twisted crime overlord]] with the gang as his hit squad and Myca and Grange backing him
** Sherri in the comic book becomes Sarah
** A lot of drama was added to the climax, unlike in the comic where Eric just rampages unstoppably through the criminal underworld. On the other hand, Tom-Tom was removed, Funboy was given a much smaller role and any scenes of Eric in the afterlife were excised.
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* AnimalMotifs: Besides the obvious, there's a non-animal one; in the second film the scene is set on the Day of the Dead, and the Crow's face is painted ''like a calaca doll''.
* AscendedExtra: Sarah has much more focus in the movie than her comic counterpart, Sherri; also, Sherri never knew Eric while he was alive, and called him "Mr. Clown Face".
* AscendedExtra: Sarah has much more focus in the movie than her comic counterpart, Sherri; also, Sherri never knew Eric while he was alive, and called him "Mr. Clown Face".
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* BigBad: Top Dollar in the first film, who reveals he was behind everything near the end. He ordered Eric and Shelly's murders, and even started Devil's Night in the first place.
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* BigBad: Top Dollar in the first film, who reveals he was behind everything near the end. He ordered Eric and Shelly's murders, and even started Devil's Night in the first place.
** The focal point of Eric and Shelly's home is a large circular glass window, which Eric was thrown out of to his death.
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** Put it this way: the film has a touching scene where Eric gives Albrecht a meaningful speech about how "nothing is trivial" and how you have to treasure each moment as they come. In the comic he shoots up drugs and self-mutilates in a frenzy of grief and anger. Repeatedly.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: TopDollar in the movie.Dollar.
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** Jimmy in ''Wicked Prayer''.
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* AdaptationExpansion / AdaptationDistillation: Apart from the additional backstory for why Eric and Shelly were killed in the movie, Top Dollar was changed from just being a low-level drug dealer to being a [[BigBad twisted crime overlord]] with the gang as his hit squad and Myca and Grange backing him up, Sarah was given a much larger role with a prior friendship to Eric and Shelly and a lot of drama was added to the climax, unlike in the comic where Eric just rampages unstoppably through the criminal underworld. On the other hand, Tom-Tom was removed, Funboy was given a much smaller role and any scenes of Eric in the afterlife were excised.
* AllThereInTheManual: Top Dollar, Myca, and Grange are never named in the actual film itself.
* AnimalMotifs: Besides the obvious, there's a non-animal one; in the second film the scene is set on the Day of the Dead, and the Crow's face is painted ''like a calaca doll''.
* AscendedExtra: Sarah has much more focus in the movie than her comic counterpart, Sherri; also, Sherri never knew Eric while he was alive, and called him "Mr. Clown Face".
* BadassLongcoat: Eric takes one off the first thug he kills, and wears it for the rest of the film.
* BigBad: Top Dollar in the first film, who reveals he was behind everything near the end. He ordered Eric and Shelly's murders, and even started Devil's Night in the first place.
* {{Big Damn Hero|es}}: Albrecht.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Tin-Tin, the one black member of T-Bird's posse, is the first to die.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Myca and Top Dollar.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final showdown takes place inside and on top of a great Gothic church.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Top Dollar is a collector of antique weapons, and he uses a rapier to execute Gideon. Also see KatanasAreJustBetter below.
* CanonForeigner: Top Dollar's lackeys, Grange and Myca, were made up for the movie.
* TheCastShowoff: The final fight makes good use of Brandon Lee's Kung Fu skills. Three guesses [[BruceLee whom]] he learned those from.
* TheCommissionerGordon: Officer Albrecht is lower on the totem pole, and eventually gets suspended for helping Eric, but the feeling is there.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Officer Albrecht in the comic is a white rookie patrolman, and reports to a black detective by the name of Captain Hook (ha, ha). If you're gonna pay for Ernie Hudson, you might as well use him.
** Top Dollar in the film was also sort of a mash-up of several gangster characters from the comic - though his role in the story mostly stands him in for T-Bird (who, in turn, was relegated to being Top Dollar's lieutenant) and turns him from a drug kingpin into an almost ludicrously depraved monster.
* CoolOldGuy: Mickey, who runs a hotdog stand across the street from Gideon's pawn shop.
* CreatorCameo: O'Barr himself appears in the film as one of the looters robbing Gideon's store: he's the long-haired guy with the tv.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadpanSnarker: Eric in Gideon's shop. Gideon himself too. And Top Dollar. And Albrecht. You know what, pretty much everybody.
** Alex in ''Salvation''.
** Jimmy in ''Wicked Prayer''.
* DigitalHeadSwap: Brandon Lee's face was digitally grafted onto a stunt performer's body for a small smattering of scenes not yet shot at the time of his death.
* DirtyCop: Or rather a few of them in ''Salvation'' are the film's villains.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Eric kills off the members of the gang, only to find out Top Dollar wants a piece of him. Oh, and it turns out [[spoiler:he was the [[TheManBehindTheMan one who gave the orders]] to kill him and Shelly anyway.]]
* TheDon: Top Dollar apparently has authority over all major crime in the city.
* TheDragon: Grange.
* DragonLady: Top Dollar's incestuous consort (whose back is seen to sport a giant, colorful dragon tattoo during her character's introduction) is played by Bai Ling. Enough said.
* DragonTheirFeet: Eric kills off the gang who attacked him and Shelly, eventually killing the leader, T-Bird. Skank, his right hand man, is the last member of the gang to die. While the gang might be considered a QuirkyMinibossSquad to Top Dollar, they were Eric's initial targets.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The criminal gangs in the various movies were pretty ethnically diverse. Even the [[BrotherSisterIncest brother/sister]] team in the first film were of different ethnicities (they were half-siblings).
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Eric's default strategy despite his fighting prowess. Officer Albrecht even lampshades this when his plan is for Eric to draw the bad guys' fire until they run out of ammo. [[spoiler: Too bad his HealingFactor has been disabled at this point]].
* FakeShemp: Since Brandon Lee [[FatalMethodActing died in an accident with dummy bullets]], they had to use a stand-in for some of the scenes and used CGI to composite Brandon's face over his. It mostly worked [[SpecialEffectFailure unless you were paying close attention]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Top Dollar.
* ForTheEvulz: Top Dollar's speech about Devil's Night is about his belief that Devil's Night should be about pointless destruction, not profit.
* GunsAkimbo: Eric during the big boardroom shootout and Top Dollar at the church.
* HeelRealization: T-Bird, an unrepentant rapist and murderer throughout the film, is visibly shaken and on the verge of tears after recognizing Eric Draven, a man he had killed.
** Given his repetition of "There ain't no comin' back," T-Bird could have just been in shock that the laws of his reality had been broken.
** T-Bird dies quoting ([[ItMakesSenseInContext in earnest, this time]]) Lucifer's HeelRealization from ''ParadiseLost''.
* HellBentForLeather: Eric.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Top Dollar is defeated by the misery he caused to Eric and Shelly.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Eric's death and return from the grave take place on Devil's Night. ''City of Angels'' had its resurrection scene on All Saints' Day, and its climax at a Day of the Dead festival.
* IAmBecomingSong: Music/TheCure's "Burn" (the movie's unofficial anthem) thunders on during the sequence where Eric makes himself into the Crow.
** Although if you listen to the lyrics closely, it's clear that the song was written from the comic's plot, not the movie's.
* ImpaledPalm: Eric Draven first demonstrates his regenerating powers by getting shot through the middle of the palm of his hand.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[YouHaveBeenWarned Spoilers]].
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals:
** {{Inverted|Trope}}. It's raining when Eric crawls out of his grave.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} at the end of the film [[spoiler:after Eric returns to the grave, the rain is easing off when Sarah places Shelly's ring on the headstone. ''[[ArcWords It can't rain all the time]]'', after all.]]
* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Used in an unfunny way (unless you've got a [[BlackComedy sick sense of humor]]) when [[BrotherSisterIncest Top Dollar and Myca]] inadvertently kill a woman during a threesome. Hardly nonplussed, [[DepravedBisexual Myca]] decides to keep the woman's [[EyeScream eyes]] as a souvenir.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Top Dollar has an entire cabinet full of swords, but uses a katana to fight Eric during the climax. Eric grabs one from the cabinet himself during the gang boss massacre. Ironic since Michael Wincott, the actor who plays Top Dollar, is an accomplished ''fencer'' in real life. The trope is somewhat averted earlier in the film, when a rapier (the [[Film/ThePrincessBride Six Finger Sword]]) is shown to be the centrally placed in Top Dollar's sword cabinet, and is selected to kill Gideon.
* KnifeNut: Tin Tin.
* LargeHam: Top Dollar, especially in his MotiveRant scene.
* LeParkour: Eric leaps and sprints across the city rooftops in two highly atmospheric scenes.
* LighterAndSofter: Comparably speaking. The movie is very dark, but the character is less manically sociopathic than his comic book counterpart, and the violence is less extreme. This does not imply that the movie is not violent, edgy, and pathos-filled though, merely that the comic it adapts would have reckoned some kind of world-breaking NC-25 rating if it had been adapted in full.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Top Dollar in the movie.
* MeaningfulEcho: "It can't rain all the time".
* MetaCasting AsHimself: O'Barr supposedly based the look of Gideon in the comic on the actor Jon Polito. Jon Polito played the part of Gideon in the film.
* MindRape: "Thirty hours of pain! All at once! All for you!"
* NoNameGiven: Top Dollar, Myca and Grange are not referred to by name until the end credits.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Myca (Top Dollar's Chinese half-sister, played by Bai Ling) normally speaks in a childish idiom that suggests a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and sometimes borders on YouNoTakeCandle. ("I like the pretty lights.") Yet she is really every bit as crafty as her brother, and she even comes up with a scheme to blunt Eric's supernatural power. Plus, she proves herself a capable ActionGirl when she [[spoiler:shoots Lieutenant Albrecht]].
* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler:Subverted. Eric helps a wounded Albrecht have one, but he survives. And (supposedly) quits smoking.]]
** Eric's "You shouldn't smoke these, they'll kill ya" line after taking a puff was ad-libbed by Brandon.
*** A definite HarsherInHindsight moment, that.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The gang who killed Eric and Shelly were employees of Top Dollar. Played with in that while Top Dollar is technically the BigBad of the film, they are the targets of Eric's revenge.
* PetTheDog: A rare anti-hero centric example, as Eric's relationship with Sarah humanizes him and keeps him from becoming the borderline monster that he is in the comics.
* PostRapeTaunt: Tin-Tin taunts Eric Draven, whose girlfriend was raped by him and his friends. He comes to regret these words.
* RaceLift: T-Bird, who is [[AmbiguouslyBrown vaguely African-American or Pacific Islander-American]] in the comic, is played in the movie by Irish-American actor David Patrick Kelly.
* RiseFromYourGrave
* ShapedLikeItself[=/=]ThisIsReality: "This is the really real world! We killed you dead!"
* ShowerScene: Myca, Top Dollar's consort/sister is introduced taking a shower.
* TheSlowWalk: Eric fighting Tin-Tin.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: "It can't rain all the time."
* StuffBlowingUp: What Top Dollar and his Devil's Night gang like to do. Eric blows up Gideon's pawnshop as well as T-Bird's car with him inside.
* TooDumbToLive: Gideon, literally so. Just ''could not shut up'' when dealing with either Eric or Top Dollar. Eric blew up his shop. [[spoiler:Top Dollar [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice rammed a rapier through his throat]] and shot him twice.]]
* UnhandThemVillain: Top Dollar.
* VillainousBreakdown: T-Bird pretty much loses his mind the moment he recognizes Eric. Considering the verses he's quoting from John Milton's ParadiseLost ("Abashed the Devil stood ..."), this might also qualify as a HeelRealization.
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