History Fridge / Dexter

* At the end of series 2, Dexter holds Doakes captive and has long conversations trying to convince him they're NotSoDifferent, it sometimes comes across less as justifying himself for killing people and more like trying to justify killing Doakes and cutting him up. And as Dexter kills a drug dealer after very little research in his preferred manner right in front of Doakes, you can assume Dexter was feeling ''very'' stabby at the time.

* A fridge brilliance of a mythology gag. In Season 2, when Dexter and Lila are having a cup of coffee and she describes how the addiction is, using the words "need" and "a thousand whispering voices" before Dexter uses the term Dark Passenger. In the first chapter of the first book ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'', when Dexter goes after the priest, he uses the same words when it comes to describing his Dark Passenger driving him. Even Lila's "Now" matches how it is in the book (with Lila using it to signify the urge of using drugs, while in the novel, it is used to set Dexter off into securing the priest similar to how he does in the first episode).

* A fridge brilliance of a mythology gag. In Season 2, when Dexter and Lila are having a cup of coffee and she describes how the addiction is, using the words "need" and "a thousand whispering voices" before Dexter uses the term Dark Passenger. In the first chapter of the first book ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'', when Dexter goes after the priest, he uses the same words when it comes to describing his Dark Passenger driving him. Even Lila's "Now" matches how it is in the book (with Lila using it to signify the urge of using drugs, while in the novel, it is used to set Dexter off into securing the priest).

* A fridge brilliance of a mythology gag. In Season 2, when Dexter and Lila are having a cup of coffee and she describes how the addiction is, using the words "need" and "a thousand whispering voices" before Dexter uses the term Dark Passenger. In the first chapter of the first book ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'', when Dexter goes after the priest, he uses the same words when it comes to describing his Dark Passenger driving him. Even Lila's "Now" matches how it is in the book.

** In the pilot episode, Dexter states that "solve rate for murders at about 20%". The 20% happens to apply for killers who aren't as precise and well verse in forensics as Dexter is. The only reason why the Miami PD found out about Dexter's crimes was because of a coincidence of Dexter's body disposal site was discovered by accident. And the entire time throughout Season 2, Dexter has managed to keep from being discovered mostly by being on the inside and using that knowledge to his advantage (with it occasionally backfiring, as with the manifesto he cobbled together to throw his colleagues off). Doakes only discovered he was a killer because he wouldn't let go of the fact that he knew something was up with Dexter and, as Dexter points out, wouldn't leave well enough alone (just as much as it was Dexter antagonizing Doakes twice to get him kicked off the force). The only reason why [=LaGuarta=] got on his trail in Season 7 because he lost track of the blood slide he collected while trying to create a cover story for what Debra saw. So, it's safe to say that Dexter is so well verse in hiding in plain sight that he is able to trick people into thinking he's so dull and normal that they wouldn't have suspected. Even Debra, his adopted sister, knew him longer than everyone else at the force and she had no clue for years (she has even pointed out how well she knows Dexter). So, it's not so much it being just PoliceAreUseless, as it's also Dexter being a MagnificentBastard with knowledge on how law enforcement and forensics work.

*** About the same, since rape stems more from power than sexual attraction.
** Actually, early in Season 1 of the show, it shows Dexter killing people rather slowly while they're awake and aware (such examples include the priest and the therapist).

*** About the same, since rape stems more from power than sexual attraction.

* In season 3, Camilla has terminal lung cancer and asks Dexter to kill her. When speaking to Deb about it, Deb mentions that if that ever happened to her, she'd want someone to pull the plug. [[spoiler: In the series finale, Dexter does just that when Deb is a vegetable. Dexter isn't really killing Deb in his typical way, he's just carrying out her wishes from 5 years prior.]]

* As if [[spoiler: Rita]]'s death wasn't heartbreaking and horrific enough. When you start to think of what a sadistic freak [[spoiler: Arthur Mitchell aka Trinity]] was, just imagine what he said to her. Poor girl had no clue why she was dying... and her baby had to watch.
** What's worse is that her death didn't fit the pattern: [[spoiler:she was a mother of three, not two, and mothers were pushed off buildings. The daughters were bled out in bathtubs.]] So while it could have been him, it could just as easily be an unknown copycat killer.

* At the end of series 2, [[spoiler: Dexter holds Doakes captive and has long conversations trying to convince him they're NotSoDifferent, it sometimes comes across less as justifing himself for killing people and more like trying to justify killing Doakes and cutting him up.]] And as Dexter kills a drug dealer after very little research in his preferred manner right in front of [[spoiler: Doakes]], you can assume Dexter was feeling ''very'' stabby at the time.
* In Series 5, [[spoiler: One of the serial rapists has a tendency to stick three fingers in the mouths of his victims. Creepy enough even before you realise that this guy's other distinguishing feature is that he is a dentist. A children's dentist. He puts those fingers of the mouths of]] children on a regular basis.

* Dexter's kills are not at all like the quickie knife-in-the-chest kills of his TV counterpart. They're slow, torturous vivisections that cause the victim to die in the most agonizing way possible. But hey, the victims are murderers so its just karma right? Until you remember that [[spoiler: Brian]] kills in exactly the same way, and his victims are prostitutes who's only crimes was being reduced to selling themselves to survive.
** Not to mention there's no mention of [[spoiler: Brian]] being asexual like Dexter, so what're the chances he rapes them first?

** Not to mention there's no mention of [[spoiler: Brian]] being asexual like Dexter, so what're the chances he rapes them first?

** Even a {{Badass}} can be worn down somewhat. Plus he had been following Dexter for a long time with literally no results.

* How come Doakes doesn't follow Dexter all the time like he used to? Sure he's now gone through a lot of shit since the second book but that [[BadAss shouldn't stop him.]]

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