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* AdaptationalVillainy: This version of the Slender Man, unlike his other enigmatic and mysterious incarnations, is portrayed as a pure evil entity who likes to commit acts of malice simply for fun. He's one of the few version of him who displays a clear personality at all, in contrast to his usual portrayal as an enigmatic, unknowable force of nature.

* LeanAndMean: Slendy is very obviously very tall and thin and VERY mean.

* LeanAndMean: [[CaptainObvious Surely not the Slender Man.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: At first, the cast is your standard teenagers up against the monster with nothing but a camera; [[spoiler:then they get guns and take the fight to the Slender Man and his minions]].

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Twice. First Kwekon crush his car into the Slender Man which explodes and kills himself in the process and apparently the monster as well. But the Slender Man actually menages to survive by possessing Brandon. Then, still in Brandon's body, the Slender Man gets beaten by the survivors and ultimately captured by Federal Agents which put him into custody and we're lead to believe that he won't hurt anybody else. But then during an interrogation he turns back into his original form, killing an officer, and escape. He will probably continue his killing spree someplace else.]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The Slender Man gets apparently killed when one of the guys rams a car into him which it subsequently explodes. [[SubvertedTrope He actually survived by possessing the cameraman]].]]

* {{Sadist}}: Apparently, the Slender Man loves to play with his victims instead of simply killing them immediately like turning them against each other or tricking them into killing one of'em and later he even [[spoiler: gloats that they "brightened the week" by coming by in his domain.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: This version of the Slender Man, unlike his other enigmatic and mysterious incarnations, is portrayed as a pure evil entity who likes to commit acts of malice simply for fun. He's the only version who displays a clear personality at all, in contrast to his usual portrayal as an enigmatic, unknowable force of nature.

* VillainousBreakdown: The Slender Man during the climax becomes more and more aggressive as the boys start fightining him back. [[spoiler: After surviving a killing attempt and possessing Brandon, the cameraman, he goes fully into AxCrazy mode by attempting to very sadistically burn one of the crew alive. Nevertheless he gets defeated and ultimately captured by agents. Visibly pissed off by this, during an interrogation he laughs and screams maniacally before returning to his original blank form and kill the interrogator.]]

* IAmHumanitarian: Some of the Slender Man's victims are turned into his unwillingly flesh-eating zombie slaves.

* SilentAntagonist: The Slender Man unsurprisingly never utters a word. He has no mouth after all. [[Spoiler: This is until he gets possession of Brandon's body to comunicate. From here on in he's more talkative.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: The Slender Man during the climax becomes more and more aggressive as the boys start fightining him back. [[Spoiler: After surviving a killing attempt and possessing Brandon, the cameraman, he goes fully into AxCrazy mode by attempting to very sadistically burn one of the crew alive. Nevertheless he gets defeated and ultimately captured by agents. Visibly pissed off by this, during an interrogation he laughs and screams maniacally before returning to his original blank form and kill the interrogator.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: During the final fight, [[spoiler:Kwekon hops into a sedan and plows into him at full speed. The Slender Man is next seen burning away in a giant fireball.]]

* DaylightHorror: Most of the Slender Man's appearances are in broad daylight.

** The cast take the fight to the Slender Man and his puppets, killing many in the process. [[spoiler:Kwekon]] pulls a HeroicSacrifice by ramming a exploding car into him.
** When [[spoiler: the Slender Man possesses Brandon]], he doesn't do much better; [[spoiler:Reese beats him twice, and [[Reese and his girlfriend escape him]] in the end.

* ElementalPowers: The Slender Man seems to love trees and water. Ripples can even be seen in the quarry [[spoiler:when Brandon finds Selina's body.]] Seems to be weak to explosions, though.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler: Except a boy and a girl who get away to safety, the entire crew dies. Brandon gets used by the Slender Man as his new vessel and the officer at the end confirms that there's no survivors left in Bonville.]]

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: In the closing scene, the last survivor is taken over by the Slender Man and becomes him.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: At first, the cast was your standard teenagers up against the monster with nothing but a camera, [[spoiler: then they get guns and take the fight to the Slender Man and his minions]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: This version of the Slender Man, unlike his other enigmatic and mysterious incarnations, is portrayed as a pure evil entity who likes to commit acts of malice simply for fun. He's by far the only version who displays a clear personality.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie
* AxCrazy: The Slender Man is shown in this case to be a deranged sadist who loves killing and manipulate people just to amuse himself. We see more of this [[spoiler: when he uses Brandon as his vessel.]]
* BeingWatched: The whole purpose of the scene with Selina, Reese, and Brandon on the canoe. [[spoiler:Slender Man watches the boat from the shore.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: On one hand, Slendy manages to possess Brandon, but two characters still manage to escape with their lives. Hell, in the fight with Slenderman himself, they still win.]]
* TheBlank: Slender Man himself, as usual.

* CombatTentacles: [[spoiler:You don't expect them, then suddenly he's using them to fling a truck across the yard]].
* ClusterFBomb: At some points, definitely.
-->[[spoiler:Kwekon shoots Dean.]]\\
'''Kwekon:''' Fuck...
-->'''Reese:''' Fuck!
-->'''Kwekon:''' Dude are you okay?
-->'''Reese:''' Fuck!
* DaylightHorror: Most of Tall, Thin and Faceless's appearances are in broad daylight.

** The cast take the fight to Slendy and his puppets, killing many in the process. [[spoiler:Kwekon]] pulls a HeroicSacrifice by ramming a exploding car into him.
** When [[spoiler: Slenderman possessed Brandon]], he doesn't do much better, as Reese beats him in two fights, and escape with his girlfriend.
* DontGoInTheWoods: Given Slenderman's territory...
* ElementalPowers: Slendy seems to love trees and water. Ripples can even be seen in the quarry [[spoiler:when Brandon finds Selina's body.]] Seems to be weak to explosions, though.
* ForTheEvulz: At the first The Slender Man seems like the typical brainless and homicidal monster just like the usual horror movie routine. However at end [[spoiler: after tricking the crew to kill on of'em and possessing Brandon's body it's revealed that all he did until then was simply for pure fun. As he possesses Brandon he even talks, showing a more human-like personality, and thanks the boys for "having brighten the week."]]
* GigglingVillain: Unusually enough, The Slender Man chuckles maniacally [[spoiler: as soon as he takes over Brandon's body.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: In the closing scene, the last survivor is taken over by Slender Man and becomes him/it.]]
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The first half of the movie is a comedy about some teenagers trying, and failing, to make a documentary about deforestation, with bits of horror thrown in. After that, the plot turns into a straight-up horror film with barely any dialogue about cameraman Brandon running through the forest trying to outmaneuver Slender Man.
* HeroicSacrifice: During [[spoiler:the final fight]], after Slendy has gone all OneWingedAngel, [[spoiler:Kwekon]] hops into a sedan and plows into him at full speed. Slendy is next seen [[KillItWithFire withering away in a giant fireball.]]
* ItCanThink: The Slender Man is extremelly cunning in manipulating the protagonists and turning them against each other by playing on their fear and paranoia.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Except a boy and a girl who get away to safety, the entire crew dies. Brandon gets used by Slendy as its new vessel and the officer at the end confirms that there's no survivors left in Bonville.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: The Slenderman gets apparently killed when one of the guys rams a car into him which it subsequently explodes. Turns out The Slenderman actually survived by possessing the cameraman.]]
* NothingIsScarier: At times the movie can be nearly silent.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Slenderman, very predictable, despite getting his ass handed to him earlier, while in Brandon's body, menages to escape custody by killing the officer who was interrogating it and probably it will continue his murderous spree on other innocent victims.]]
* NumerologicalMotif: The movie was released on 11/11/2011, the same repeating number that was used in WebVideo/TribeTwelve. Might count as an Homage.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:After accidentally killing Dean (Slendy had pulled either a MindRape or a Teleportation trick), Kwekon drives a sedan into Slendy at full speed. The resulting fireball seems to finally kill the EldritchAbomination.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: At first, the cast was your standard teenagers up against the monster with nothing but a camera, [[spoiler: then they get guns and take the fight to Slenderman's minions, and Slendy himself]].
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler: When Brandon is possessed by Slendy he talks in a way we could describe as a mixture between his normal voice and an inhuman and demonic one.]]

* ForTheEvulz: At the first The Slender Man seems like the typical brainless and homicidal monster just like the usual horror movie routine. However at end [[spoiler: after tricking the crew to kill on of'em and possessing Brandon's body it's revealed that all he did until then was simply for pure fun. As he possess Brandon he even talks, showing a more human-like personality, and thanks the boys for "having brighten the week."]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Exepct a boy and a girl who get away to safety, the entire crew dies. Brandon gets used by Slendy as its new vessel and the officer at the end confirms that there's no survivor left in Bonville.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Slenderman, very predictable, despite getting his ass handed to him eariler, while in Brandon's body, menages to escape custody by killing the officer who was interrogating it and probably it will continue his murderous spree on other innocent victims.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: This version of the Slender Man, unlike his other enigmatic and mysterious incarnations, is portrayed as a pure evil entity who likes to commit acts of malice simply for fun. He's by far the only version who displays a clearly personality.

* [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Brandon Was a Slender Man]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Let's see, our cast take the fight to Slendy and his puppets, killing many in the process. One pulls a HeroicSacrifice by ramming a exploding car into him.]]
** [[spoiler: When Slenderman possessed Brandon, he doesn't do much better, as Reese beats him in two fights, and escape with his girlfriend.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:During the final fight, after Slendy has gone all OneWingedAngel, Kwekon hops into a sedan and plows into him at full speed. Slendy is next seen [[KillItWithFire withering away in a giant fireball.]] ]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Zigzagged. On one hand, Slendy manages to possess Brandon, but two characters still manage to escape with their lives. Hell, in the fight with Slenderman himself, they still win.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Exepct two boys who get away to safety, the entire crew dies. Brandon gets used by Slendy as its new vessel and the officer at the end confirms that there's no survivor left in Bonville.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Exepct two boys who get away to safety, the entire crew dies either by accident or by being killed by Slendy exepct Brandon who gets used as its new vessel. The officer at the end also confirms that there's no survivor left in Boneville.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Exepct two boys who get away to safety, the entire crew dies either by accident or by being killed by Slendy exepct Brandon who gets used as its new vessel. The officer at the end also confirms that there's no survivor left among the Canadian citizens.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Slenderman, very predictable, despite getting his as handed to him eariler, while in Brandon's body, menages to escape custody by killing the officer who was interrogating it and probably it will continue his murderous spree on other innocent victims.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Slenderman, very predictable, while in Brandon's body, menages to escape custody by killing the officer who was interrogating it and probably it will continue his murderous spree on other innocent victims.]]

* CombatTentacles: [[spoiler:You don't expect them, then suddenly [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome he's using them to fling a truck across the yard]].]]

-->[[spoiler:Kwekon shoots Dean.]]
-->'''Kwekon:''' Fuck...

* AxCray: The Slender Man is shown in this case to be a deranged sadist who loves killing and manipulate people just to amuse himself. We see more of this [[spoiler: when he uses Brandon as his vessel.]]