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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Gone Girl" in that Amy is psychically missing and [[spoiler: that as a person, she is utterly ''gone.'']]
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** [[spoiler: Greta and Jeff get away with stealing Amy's money. They are never found, let alone prosecuted.]]
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** [[spoiler: Greta [[spoiler:Greta and Jeff get away with stealing Amy's money. They are never found, let alone prosecuted.]]]]
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[spoiler:Nick deciding to stay married to Amy in order to be there for his son and keep tabs on Amy for as long as they both live.]] Margo, his twin, puts another spin on it: [[spoiler:Nick finds Amy more thrilling than any other woman could be. He just wants an excuse to stay]].
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[spoiler:Nick deciding to stay married to Amy in order to be there for his son and keep tabs on Amy for as long as they both live.]] Margo, his twin, puts another spin on it: [[spoiler:Nick finds Amy more thrilling than any other woman could be. He just wants an excuse to stay]].
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* SisyphusVsRock: [[spoiler: Nick deciding to stay married to Amy in order to be there for his son and keep tabs on Amy for as long as they both live]]. Margo, his twin, puts another spin on it: [[spoiler: Nick finds Amy more thrilling than any other woman could be. He just wants an excuse to stay.]]
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The fifth anniversary gift is supposed to be wood, so when Nick [[spoiler:comes to believe that Amy was pregnant when she went missing, he quickly guesses that the clues are leading him to an antique wooden cradle and a pregnancy reveal. This happens to be exactly what Amy's diary claims she's planning—for the benefit of the police who will find the diary. Her true message to Nick is a lot more sinister.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Nick recalls that after Amy apparently changed her mind about wanting a baby, the fertility clinic eventually sent them a notice asking whether they still wanted to use his sperm samples, which would be destroyed otherwise. He passive-aggressively left it lying around for Amy to deal with and when it disappeared, he assumed Amy had thrown it out. As it turns out, she actually did get back to them and request that they save the sperm.]]
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** When asked if the story is based on any real life case, the author said it's not made up of any one case, and specifically points out the disappearance of Laci Peterson as one of those cases that can be considered a model. The similarities aren't difficult to point out:
*** The victim being seen as a kind, pregnant housewife while the husband is a [[spoiler: philandering man who is hated by the public after his mistress reveals herself is an obvious parallel. With Amy planning on committing suicide and her body being found in the ocean and the fact the pregnancy is a lie, it would be easy to believe that Amy is inspired InUniverse by this case]].
*** The victim being seen as a kind, pregnant housewife while the husband is a [[spoiler: philandering man who is hated by the public after his mistress reveals herself is an obvious parallel. With Amy planning on committing suicide and her body being found in the ocean and the fact the pregnancy is a lie, it would be easy to believe that Amy is inspired InUniverse by this case]].
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Amy was this at the start of her and Nick's relationship. [[spoiler: We discover that Amy was [[InvokedTrope trying out being the "Cool Girl"]], which she regards as a vapid male fantasy that she holds in bitter contempt. The "Cool Girl" speech is an angry takedown of this trope; a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about women changing themselves to fit the ideal of the "Cool Girl" who tries to be [[TheLadette "one of the guys"]] and adopts her boyfriend or husband's interests in order to please him. This speech became iconic immediately, and it has been [[http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/cool-girl-new-manic-pixie-dream-girl/ critiqued and debated by feminists]] as either [[BrokenBase a really good speech or a really horrible one]]. The speech is also somewhat ironic, as she condemns women who appear to be happy while remembering her earlier time with Nick differently than it appears on-screen. This is justified with Amy being a sociopath.]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Amy was this at the start of her and Nick's relationship. [[spoiler: We discover that Amy was [[InvokedTrope trying out being the "Cool Girl"]], which she regards as a vapid male fantasy that she holds in bitter contempt. The "Cool Girl" speech is an angry takedown of this trope; a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about women changing themselves to fit the ideal of the "Cool Girl" who tries to be [[TheLadette [[OneOfTheBoys "one of the guys"]] and adopts her boyfriend or husband's interests in order to please him. This speech became iconic immediately, and it has been [[http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/cool-girl-new-manic-pixie-dream-girl/ critiqued and debated by feminists]] as either [[BrokenBase a really good speech or a really horrible one]].him. The speech is also somewhat ironic, as she condemns women who appear to be happy while remembering her earlier time with Nick differently than it appears on-screen. This is justified with Amy being a sociopath.]]
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** Amy's friendships are characterized by this. She'll be obsessed with someone (even platonically), until she grows annoyed by them not indulging her narcissism. At this point, she'll frame them for any crime between stalking to kidnapping and rape to punish them and cause them to be despised by those around them.
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** Amy's friendships are characterized by this. She'll be obsessed with someone (even platonically), until she grows annoyed by them not indulging her narcissism. At [[spoiler:At this point, she'll frame them for any crime between stalking to kidnapping and rape to punish them and cause them to be despised by those around them.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: All over the place between Nick and Amy. Nick interprets himself as the heroic suitor to Amy's UptownGirl, and therefore assumes he'll have public sympathy. Unaware of how well Amy has made him look like her LowerClassLout DomesticAbuser. Amy also gets this played on her when she makes the mistake of assuming that Desi is a straight example of the KnightInShiningArmour, [[spoiler:when he's in fact a devious manipulator and obsessive StalkerWithACrush that is delighted to have Amy where he wants her after many years.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: All over the place between Nick and Amy. Nick interprets himself as the heroic suitor to Amy's UptownGirl, and therefore assumes he'll have public sympathy. Unaware sympathy, [[spoiler:unaware of how well Amy has made him look like her LowerClassLout DomesticAbuser. DomesticAbuser.]] Amy also gets this played on her when she makes the mistake of assuming that Desi is a straight example of the KnightInShiningArmour, [[spoiler:when he's in fact a devious manipulator and obsessive StalkerWithACrush that is delighted to have Amy where he wants her after many years.]]
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** [[spoiler:Amy's parents have to believe that their (pregnant) child was murdered by her own husband.]]
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** [[spoiler:Amy's parents have to believe that their (pregnant) child was murdered by her own husband.]]]] Also invoked when Amy is furious that Rand and Marybeth are treated kindly by the press coverage, which do not mention their extreme debts and overspending, and the failure of their book series.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: [[spoiler:What would happen to Nick and Amy's child? They're both going to find out.]]
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** Subverted. [[spoiler:The more inexperienced Andie may seem like the Betty to Amy's Veronica with Nick being the Archie, but Amy is Nick's wife, while Andie is his 20 year old mistress.]]
** Also subverted with [[spoiler: Desi and Nick to Amy's Archie. Desi may seem like a nice, clean-cut guy--but he also stalks Amy. Nick may seem like a simple guy or even a sociopath, but he is Amy's husband--while millionaire Desi is not.]]
** Subverted. [[spoiler:The more inexperienced Andie may seem like the Betty to Amy's Veronica with Nick being the Archie, but Amy is Nick's wife, while Andie is his 20 year old mistress.]]
** Also subverted with [[spoiler: Desi and Nick to Amy's Archie. Desi may seem like a nice, clean-cut guy--but he also stalks Amy. Nick may seem like a simple guy or even a sociopath, but he is Amy's husband--while millionaire Desi is not.]]
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**Subverted. [[spoiler:The more inexperienced Andie may seem like the Betty to Amy's Veronica with Nick being the Archie, but Amy is Nick's wife, while Andie is his 20 year old mistress.]]
**Also subverted with [[spoiler: Desi and Nick to Amy's Archie. Desi may seem like a nice, clean-cut guy--but he also stalks Amy. Nick may seem like a simple guy or even a sociopath, but he is Amy's husband--while millionaire Desi is not.]]
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* TrashyTrueCrime: Ellen Abbott (an unflattering {{Expy}} of Nancy Grace) runs a TV talk show that's dedicated to tales of women being abused, kidnapped, and (most likely) killed. She lambasts Nick repeatedly on her show (a pre-existing bias before any of the damning evidence turns up). Amy notes that Ellen completely sanctifies the women she discusses, and prefers pregnant women and wives - generally [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome white and middle- or upper-class]] for that reason.
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'''Character tropes go on to the [[Characters/GoneGirl Characters Sheet]].'''
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* AwfulWeddedLife: The whole aim of the book seems to be taking this UpToEleven with Amy and Nick, starting with the question of whether Nick is merely a crummy husband or an outright murderer [[FromBadToWorse and ending in]] [[spoiler:the most demented possible variant on TheBabyTrap from Amy]], with just about every {{Exaggerated}} take on the ways married people can hurt each other in-between.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: The whole aim of the book seems to be taking this UpToEleven up to eleven with Amy and Nick, starting with the question of whether Nick is merely a crummy husband or an outright murderer [[FromBadToWorse and ending in]] [[spoiler:the most demented possible variant on TheBabyTrap from Amy]], with just about every {{Exaggerated}} take on the ways married people can hurt each other in-between.
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Amy's InUniverse opinion of the "Amazing Amy" series her parents write. From what little snippets we see, along with the "Amazing Amy" {{Defictionalization}} released for the movie, she's not wrong.
