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* [[DownerEnding Downer Everything]]: [[spoiler: In the end, nothing at all has improved for Dawn, and she's in the exact same miserable state as before.]]
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* [[DownerEnding Downer Everything]]: DownerEnding: [[spoiler: In the end, nothing at all has improved for Dawn, and she's in the exact same miserable state as before.]]
** Averted in ''Wiener-Dog'', which through a {{Retcon}} or AlternateUniverse, [[ThrowTheDogABone throws her massive bone]] and implies she may very well be on the way to [[EarnYourHappyEnding getting her happy ending]]. [[spoiler:Dawn has grown up, gotten a steady job as a veterinary nurse, and managed to reunite and reconnect with Brandon.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Despite all her trials and tribulations, Dawns' situation has not improved by the end of the movie. She's just as miserable as she was before.]] When you take the sequel into account, [[spoiler:it becomes a ShootTheShaggyDog story as Dawn's life only gets worse before she finally kills herself.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Despite all her trials and tribulations, Dawns' situation has not improved by the end of the movie. She's just as miserable as she was before.]] before]]. When you take the sequel ''Palindromes'' into account, [[spoiler:it becomes a ShootTheShaggyDog story as Dawn's life only gets worse before she finally kills herself.]]
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* {{Lolicon}}: The obese neighbor who kidnaps Missy and films her twirling in her tutu, but does nothing more. (Far from being traumatized, Missy was happy because she was allowed to gorge on junk food and watch whatever she liked on TV). He is said to have played Santa Claus for the neighborhood children, a possible shout-out to John Wayne Gacy.
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While ''Palindromes'' is considered a nominal sequel, as of 2015, ''Weiner Dog'' has [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/todd-solondz-weiner-dog-julie-delpy-greta-gerwig-brie-larson-1201527570/ begun shooting]].
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While ''Palindromes'' is considered a nominal sequel, as of 2015, ''Weiner ''Wiener Dog'' has [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/todd-solondz-weiner-dog-julie-delpy-greta-gerwig-brie-larson-1201527570/ begun shooting]].was released in 2016.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Pretty much deliberate, as the movie is a BlackComedy.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Pretty much deliberate, as the movie is a BlackComedy.BlackComedy based on bitter {{Irony}}. Playing heavenly [[Theatre/PeerGynt Solveig's Song]] to what the viewer must think is a prelude to a rape is outright jawsdropping... on the second thought, rather brilliant.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Steve.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Steve.SoundtrackDissonance: Pretty much deliberate, as the movie is a BlackComedy.
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* HopeSpot: Ironically, Missy's abduction. For a little while it even seems that Dawn is now appreciated by her family at least.
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* HopeSpot: Ironically, Missy's abduction. For a little while it even seems that looks like Dawn is now appreciated by her family at least.least, and Dawn herself seems to be resolved to take her life into her own hands.
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* HopeSpot: Ironically, Missy's abduction. For a little while it even seems that Dawn is now appreciated by her family at least.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be the way Dawn sprained her finger. Or so he wants Steve to think.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be the way Dawn sprained her finger. Or so he she wants Steve to think.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be the way Dawn sprained her finger.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be the way Dawn sprained her finger. Or so he wants Steve to think.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: In the end, nothing at all has improved for Dawn, and she's in the exact same miserable state as before.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[DownerEnding Downer Everything]]: [[spoiler: In the end, nothing at all has improved for Dawn, and she's in the exact same miserable state as before.]]
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* ClassicalAntiHero: Dawn's an insecure and unloved PinballProtagonist who's trapped in a downward spiral of misery who's either unable or unwilling to improve her situation.
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Despite all her trials and tribulations, Dawns' situation has not improved by the end of the movie. She's just as miserable as she was before.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: When you take the sequel into account. [[spoiler:Dawn's life did not improve once she finally grew up and got out of the hellish neighborhood. She gained weight, got pregnant, and committed suicide.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: When you take the sequel into account. [[spoiler:Dawn's life did not improve once she finally grew up and got out of the hellish neighborhood. She gained weight, got pregnant, and committed suicide.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Despite all her trials and tribulations, Dawns' situation has not improved by the end of the movie. She's just as miserable as she was before.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]:]] When you take the sequel into account. [[spoiler:Dawn's account, [[spoiler:it becomes a ShootTheShaggyDog story as Dawn's life did not improve once only gets worse before she finally grew up and got out of the hellish neighborhood. She gained weight, got pregnant, and committed suicide.kills herself.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]:
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* BlackComedyRape: A number of examples.Brandon arranges ahead of time that he was going to rape Dawn and they reschedule when it doesn't work out the first time. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually go through with it]].
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* BlackComedyRape: A number of examples. Brandon arranges ahead of time that he was going to rape Dawn and they reschedule when it doesn't work out the first time. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually go through with it]].
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While ''Palindromes'' is considered a nominal sequel, as of 2015, ''Weiner Dog'' has [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/todd-solondz-weiner-dog-julie-delpy-greta-gerwig-brie-larson-1201527570/ begun shooting]].
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* ImGoingToDisneyWorld: In the end, Dawn is on the school bus with a band choir traveling to Florida, though it's not said where it was going.
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* ImGoingToDisneyWorld: In a brief phone conversation between Dawn's mother and an unknown friend, it's brought up that Dawn is supposed to be going on a trip to Disney World with the school glee club, and to the mother's bewilderment confides in her friend that she doesn't understand why Dawn would apparently NOT want to go on the trip. In the end, Dawn is on the school bus with a band the choir traveling to Florida, though on the interstate. Though it's not said where it was going.going, it can be assumed that Dawn was forced to go to Disney World with her classmates after all.
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* DawsonCasting: 24 Year old Eric Mabius (Steve Rodgers) is in high school. Four years later he was still in high school for ''CruelIntentions''.
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* DawsonCasting: 24 Year old Eric Mabius (Steve Rodgers) is in high school. Four years later he was still in high school for ''CruelIntentions''.''Film/CruelIntentions''.
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* LoveHurtsLoveHurts: Dawn and to a lesser extent, Brandon.
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*** Mary Ellen Moriarity, a girl who spoke at Dawn's school about the dangers of talking to strangers, was kidnapped while memorizing her lines for "Hello Dolly." It is also hinted that she may have been raped.
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* AlphaBitch: Cookie at school, Missy at home.
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* AlphaBitch: Lolita and Cookie at school, Missy at home.
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* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly the ''raison d'etre'' of anyone who makes Dawn miserable.
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* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly the ''raison d'etre'' of anyone who makes Dawn miserable. For instance, the whole reason why Lolita wanted to watch Dawn take a dump was simply because she could.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Steve.
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* TedBaxter: Steve.
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''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' is a 1995 film by Creator/Todd Solondz.Creator/ToddSolondz. It stars Creator/HeatherMatarazzo in her breakout role, as well as being Solondz's breakout movie as a director.
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''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' is a 1995 film by Todd Solondz. It stars Creator/HeatherMatarazzo in her breakout role, as well as being Solondz's breakout movie as a director.
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''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' is a 1995 film by Todd Creator/Todd Solondz. It stars Creator/HeatherMatarazzo in her breakout role, as well as being Solondz's breakout movie as a director.
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* ComedicCreepyPedophile: The obese neighbor who kidnaps Missy and films her twirling in her tutu, but does nothing more. (Far from being traumatized, Missy was happy because she was allowed to gorge on junk food and watch whatever she liked on TV). He is said to have played Santa Claus for the neighborhood children, a possible shout-out to John Wayne Gacy.
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* {{Lolicon}}: The obese neighbor who kidnaps Missy and films her twirling in her tutu, but does nothing more. (Far from being traumatized, Missy was happy because she was allowed to gorge on junk food and watch whatever she liked on TV). He is said to have played Santa Claus for the neighborhood children, a possible shout-out to John Wayne Gacy.
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* BlackComedy: Darker than the darkest death metal band playing in a pitch-black abyss populated by {{EldritchAbomination}}s who hold teens in a state of AndIMustScream while shouting "bloody murder" in a collective groan composed of the cries of dying children. Ah, TheNineties...
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* BlackComedy: Darker than the darkest death metal band playing in a pitch-black abyss populated by {{EldritchAbomination}}s {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who hold teens in a state of AndIMustScream while shouting "bloody murder" in a collective groan composed of the cries of dying children. Ah, TheNineties...
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* BlackComedyBlackComedy: Darker than the darkest death metal band playing in a pitch-black abyss populated by {{EldritchAbomination}}s who hold teens in a state of AndIMustScream while shouting "bloody murder" in a collective groan composed of the cries of dying children. Ah, TheNineties...
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* CrapsackWorldCrapsackWorld: [[EnforcedTrope Well, it is a Todd Solondz movie.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the characters.characters, to inhuman extremes.
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* NietzscheWannabe: In the semi-sequel ''Palindromes'', [[spoiler: Mark has wholeheartedly embraced nihilism.]]
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* TheSociopath: Lolita.
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* CreepyComedicPedophile: The obese neighbour who kidnaps Missy and films her twirling in her tutu, but does nothing further. He is said to have played Santa Claus for the neighborhood children, a possible shout-out to John Wayne Gacy.
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* CreepyComedicPedophile: ComedicCreepyPedophile: The obese neighbour neighbor who kidnaps Missy and films her twirling in her tutu, but does nothing further.more. (Far from being traumatized, Missy was happy because she was allowed to gorge on junk food and watch whatever she liked on TV). He is said to have played Santa Claus for the neighborhood children, a possible shout-out to John Wayne Gacy.
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* BlackComedyRape: Brandon arranges ahead of time that he was going to rape Dawn and they reschedule when it doesn't work out the first time. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually go through with it]].
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* PhotosLie: The film opens with a close up of a family portrait of the Wiener family in which everyone is beaming happily at the camera (poor Dawn especially)
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* PhotosLie: The film opens with a close up of a family portrait of the Wiener family in which everyone is beaming happily at the camera (poor Dawn especially)especially).