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* PayPhone: Multiple, since it's TheEighties.

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* BlondesAreEvil: The Warlock has typically angelic-looking long blonde hair, yet he is a thoroughly SatanicArchetype and the BigBad of the movie.


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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: The Warlock has typically angelic-looking long blonde hair, yet he is a thoroughly SatanicArchetype and the BigBad of the movie.

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* CreepySouvenir: A justified case. The Warlock takes the possessed spritualist's eyes, using them as a compass to track Kassandra and Redferne.



* OmnicidalManiac: The Warlock tries to collect the Grand Grimoire to reverse God's work and unmake Creation itself to advance himself in Satan's eyes.

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* OmnicidalManiac: The Though he denies being one, the Warlock tries to collect the Grand Grimoire to reverse God's work and unmake Creation itself to advance himself in Satan's eyes.


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* TheFutureIsShocking: Redferne doesn't approve when Kassandra puts on makeup, as in his time only prostitutes wore that.

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* DeathOfAChild: The Warlock strikes up a conversation with a young boy when he learns his family aren't church-goers. In the next scene, the heroes come across two constables and a grieving mother, staring at the boy's off-screen body and assuming coyotes must have skinned him.
-->'''Redferne''': There's only one reason he'd need the fat of an unbaptized male child.\\
'''Kassandra''': Why?\\
'''Redferne''': [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Flying potion]].



* InfantImmortality: {{Averted|Trope}}. The Warlock strikes up a conversation with a young boy when he learns his family aren't church-goers. In the next scene, the heroes come across two constables and a grieving mother, staring at the boy's off-screen body and assuming coyotes must have skinned him.
-->'''Redferne''': There's only one reason he'd need the fat of an unbaptized male child.\\
'''Kassandra''': Why?\\
'''Redferne''': [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Flying potion]].
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Kassandra, right as she delivers the killing blow to the Warlock by sticking a syringe in his neck and injecting saltwater: "Try saltwater, fuck brain!"

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* TongueTrauma: The Warlock bites Chas's tongue off and makes an omelette of it. Speaking of which...

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* TongueTrauma: The Warlock bites Chas's tongue off and makes an omelette of it. Speaking
* UnexpectedlyRealMagic: The PhonyPsychic is unaware that she's dealing with an actual warlock with real powers. She starts off doing her usual schtick, then becomes ''genuinely'' possessed by Satan and channels his voice, in a real example
of which...the fakeness she usually peddles for a living. It becomes her last day on the job.
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* GreasySpoon: There is a brief scene of Kassandra working at one of these before she becomes embroiled in the plot.
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: In Boston, Redferne is disputing with the cab driver about which route to take to the old church. The driver says, "I've lived here since 1958, what about you?" Of course, Redferne has time-traveled from ''1691'', and Kassandra interrupts with "Don't answer that."

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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: YouDoNOTWantToKnow: In Boston, Redferne is disputing with the cab driver about which route to take to the old church. The driver says, "I've lived here since 1958, what about you?" Of course, Redferne has time-traveled from ''1691'', and Kassandra interrupts with "Don't answer that."
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: In Boston, Redferne is disputing with the cab driver about which route to take to the old church. The driver says, "I've lived here since 1958, what about you?" Of course, Redferne has time-traveled from ''1691'', and Kassandra intercepts with "Don't answer that."

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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: In Boston, Redferne is disputing with the cab driver about which route to take to the old church. The driver says, "I've lived here since 1958, what about you?" Of course, Redferne has time-traveled from ''1691'', and Kassandra intercepts interrupts with "Don't answer that."
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: In Boston, Redferne is disputing with the cab driver about which route to take to the old church. The driver says, "I've lived here since 1958, what about you?" Of course, Redferne has time-traveled from ''1691'', and Kassandra intercepts with "Don't answer that."
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* InstantRunes: Of course, in a movie about witchcraft: "Hexmarks" as they are called by Redferne.

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* InstantRunes: Of course, in a movie about witchcraft: "Hexmarks" "hexmarks" as they are called by Redferne.
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* InstantRunes: Of course, in a movie about witchcraft: "Hexmarks" as they usually called by Redferne.

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* InstantRunes: Of course, in a movie about witchcraft: "Hexmarks" as they usually are called by Redferne.
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* InstantRunes: Of course, in a movie about witchcraft: "Hexmarks" as they usually called by Redferne.
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* HollywoodNewEngland: Mainly later in the movie when the characters fly to Boston. Immediately there's a scene involving TheTaxi, with Celtics memorabilia and a driver with a heavy Boston accent.
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* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Kassandra. She could also qualify as somewhat of a FieryRedhead.
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* PayPhone: Multiple, since it's TheEighties.

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* DismantledMacguffin: The Grand Grimoire is in 3 pieces that must be obtained and put together for it to be used.

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* DismantledMacguffin: DismantledMacGuffin: The Grand Grimoire is in 3 pieces that must be obtained and put together for it to be used.


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* TearsOfBlood: The Mennonite man suffers this when the Warlock comes to his farm.
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* MagicalAccessory: The movie is full of them. The most significant is Kassandra's bracelet, stolen by the Warlock and used to put the RapidAging curse on her.
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* BullyingADragon: The kid with the football teases the Warlock,telling him he's full of shit basically, and that witches are all female and ride on brooms. The Warlock was most likely planning to kill the boy anyway, but you can tell the more the kid talks, the more the Warlock is going to enjoy doing it.

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* BullyingADragon: The kid with the football teases the Warlock,telling Warlock, telling him he's full of shit basically, and that witches are all female and ride on brooms. The Warlock was most likely planning to kill the boy anyway, but you can tell the more the kid talks, the more the Warlock is going to enjoy doing it.
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* BullyingADragon: The kid with the football teases the Warlock,telling him he's full of shit basically, and that witches are all female and ride on brooms. The Warlock was most likely planning to kill the boy anyway, but you can tell the more the kid talks, the more the Warlock is going to enjoy doing it.


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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Redferne is explaining to Kassandra how the Warlock is susceptible to salt, and she thinks it's due to nutritional concerns.

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%%* AntagonistTitle* TheAllegedCar: Kassandra drives a 1964 Chevrolet Corvair; it's in less than mint condition.
* AntagonistTitle: The movie is named for the BigBad.


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* WouldHitAGirl: One of the ''first'' things Redferne does when he meets Kassandra is immediately slap her in the face, presumably for being such a HystericalWoman.
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* EightiesHair: Redferne has a great mullet.


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* BadassLongcoat: Redferne wears one, and stands out terribly once he teleports to TheEighties.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Innocent bystanders and children are viciously killed without a second thought.
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* SalemIsWitchCountry: Boston, which is next door to Salem, plays an important part in the plot.
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: {{Averted|Trope}}. All the clerics featured in the film (the elders from the opening, the priest whose pregnant wife is threatened by Warlock) as well as the Mennonite farm in which one part of the Grimoire is hidden, and the protagonist witch hunter Redferne, are all Protestants. On the other hand, the cosmology of the film includes some catholic-like aspects, such as [[HolyBurnsEvil the power of the holy ground]], and others drawn from European folklore.

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* ChristianityIsCatholic: {{Averted|Trope}}. All the clerics featured in the film (the elders from the opening, the priest whose pregnant wife is threatened by Warlock) as well as the Mennonite farm in which one part of the Grimoire is hidden, and the protagonist witch hunter Redferne, are all Protestants. On the other hand, the cosmology of the film includes some catholic-like aspects, such as [[HolyBurnsEvil the power of the holy ground]], and others drawn from European folklore.
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* GayBestFriend: Chas, Kassandra's roommate. He doesn't last long.


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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Chas. Seems like he would have made a likable character, if he hadn't immediately been rubbed out by the Warlock.

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* DismantledMacguffin: The Grand Grimoire is in 3 pieces that must be obtained and put together for it to be used.



* Macguffin: The Grand Grimoire, which the 2 main characters plus Kassandra spend most of the movie on a mission to find.

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* Macguffin: {{MacGuffin}}: The Grand Grimoire, which the 2 main characters plus Kassandra spend most of the movie on a mission to find.
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* Macguffin: The Grand Grimoire, which the 2 main characters plus Kassandra spend most of the movie on a mission to find.
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* TheQuest: For Redferne to pursue the evil Warlock into the future, secure the Grand Grimoire and prevent the erasure of the universe.

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