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Despite its name and setting, the video game ''VideoGame/Waxworks1992'' has nothing to do with the films, nor does this film have anything to do with ''Film/{{Waxworks}}''.

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Despite its name and setting, the video game ''VideoGame/Waxworks1992'' has nothing to do with the films, nor does this film have anything to do with the 1924 film ''Film/{{Waxworks}}''.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Done to UsefulNotes/MarquisDeSade, who is now one of the most evil men ever existed.

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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Done to UsefulNotes/MarquisDeSade, Creator/MarquisDeSade, who is now one of the most evil men ever existed.
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''Waxwork'' is a horror comedy released in 1988 starring Zach Gallifan, Creator/DavidWarner, Creator/PatrickMacnee, Deborah Foreman, Creator/DanaAshbrook, J. Kenneth Campbell, and Creator/JohnRhysDavies.

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''Waxwork'' is a horror comedy released in 1988 starring Zach Gallifan, Creator/DavidWarner, Creator/PatrickMacnee, Deborah Foreman, Creator/DeborahForeman, Creator/DanaAshbrook, J. Kenneth Campbell, Creator/JKennethCampbell, and Creator/JohnRhysDavies.

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* AffablyEvil:
** Lincoln is nothing but friendly, polite and refined. He may be trying to end the world, but it's all because ''someone'' has to. None of his pleasantry and elegance are fake and his brief rage at his henchman for killing a potential sacrifice turns apologetic when he sees he actually hurt the guy's feelings.
** Count Dracula is nothing but calm, charismatic and just as charming as Lincoln.



* BigDamnHeroes: Upon the rising of the Waxworks' figures, Sir Wilfred shows up with a full force ready to fight to stop the escape of the villains.



* CardCarryingVillain: Lincoln is bombastically dedicated to evil as only David Warner can provide. His reason for ending the world? "Someone has to!"



* DealWithTheDevil

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* DealWithTheDevilDealWithTheDevil: Lincoln made a pact with the devil for power and knowledge with the end of the world as his offering.



* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Mark is absolutely loaded, but not exactly the brightest, at least at first. His idea of dealing with a 40 page essay on dictators is to outsource it to his maid, whose English is terrible. Hilarity predictably ensues.



* SwordFight: Mark duels Scarabis [[InterestingSituationDuel through alternative time periods]] in the climactic fight of the second film.

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* SwordFight: SwordFight:
** The Marquis de Sade, smarting over Mark's humiliation of him, forces a sword fight to see who's "the better man."
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Mark duels Scarabis [[InterestingSituationDuel through alternative time periods]] in the climactic fight of the second film.film.
* TooKinkyToTorture: ''Sarah'', surprisingly. Underneath her sweet demeanor, she's fascinated by the Marquis de Sade and when violently whipped by him, she's enjoying it so much she initially refuses to leave the exhibit with Mark.
* TragicMonster: The werewolf is implied to be infected and unable to control himself. When Tony meets his human guise, the man frantically begs him to run from the cabin before it's too late.
* TranshumanTreachery:
** Being killed in an exhibit corrupts the victim into a monster. China ends up becoming a vampire who tries to sink her teeth into Mark and Tony turns into a savage werewolf.
** The werewolf's human form seems a kind man who begs Tony (in-character as "Jack," whose father was the werewolf's best friend) to flee from the isolated cabin in the woods. Sadly, upon transforming, it turns out the werewolf is vicious, sadistic and gleeful to murder anyone nearby.
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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Dracula serves his guests a meal of what he ''claims'' is steak tartare with red sauce.
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* NoodleIncident: When Tony ends up in the werewolf display, he first asks who slipped acid into his drink ''again''.

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* DamselInDistress: Sarah is one at first, but gradually becomes an ActionGirl.



* DistressedDamsel: Sarah is one at first, but gradually becomes an ActionGirl.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Zombies are included in the exhibits of the first movie. Zombies appear again in the second movie in one of the alternate timelines reminiscient of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''.

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* DistressedDamsel: Sarah is one at first, but gradually becomes an ActionGirl.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Zombies are included in the exhibits of the first movie. Zombies appear again in the second movie in one of the alternate timelines reminiscient reminiscent of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''.



* PetTheDog: Lincoln flips out at his bodyguard for [[spoiler:killing the cop,]] and promptly apologizes and comforts him when he sees that he's visibly upset.

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* PetTheDog: Lincoln flips out at his bodyguard for [[spoiler:killing the cop,]] cop]], and promptly apologizes and comforts him when he sees that he's visibly upset.
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* MercyKill: How Tony dies in the werewolf display. A hunter and his son arrive too late to prevent him from being bitten. After the hunter manages to shoot the main werewolf, Tony starts turning himself to which the hunter shoots him too.


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* PainfulTransformation: Tony when he get bitten in the werewolf display, he starts to transform not long after the main werewolf is killed and it indeed looks painful as he forms fangs, his fingernails grow and his forehead start bulging as his voice switches between anguished groans and growling.
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* FaceHeelTurn / TranshumanTreachery: All of the victims that are killed in the exhibit and brought back to life once the number reaches high enough. Most notable being China, one of Mark and Sarah's friends, who died in the Dracula exhibit, and now an evil vampire herself, nearly sinks her fangs into Mark.

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* FaceHeelTurn / TranshumanTreachery: All of the victims that are killed in the an exhibit get turned into one of that exhibit's waxwork monsters, and brought back come to life along with all the other evil waxworks once the number reaches high enough.ritual is completed. Most notable being China, one of Mark and Sarah's friends, who died in the Dracula exhibit, and now an evil vampire herself, nearly sinks her fangs into Mark. The other victims come back as a werewolf, a zombie, etc. Even the Marquis de Sade's victim comes back as an evil harem girl.
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* SmugSnake: Scarabis. His plan to KillAndReplace the king falls apart when one of the men notices he's not wearing his crest ring.

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* ArtShift: The first film's zombie sequence is in black and white, in homage to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.

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The first film's zombie sequence is in black and white, in homage to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.



* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is killed offscreen by [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Orlok]].]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper]] is killed offscreen by [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} [[spoiler:[[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Orlok]].]]

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