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For this episode = [[spoiler:Dean dies at least 102, but only in the Trickster's reality.]]

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For this episode = [[spoiler:Dean dies at least 102, 102 times, but only in the Trickster's reality.]]
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For the series so far = At least 223 humans (of which 3 were witches), 17 ghosts, 13 demons, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 god, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, and 1 zombie.

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For the series so far = At least 223 humans (of which 3 were witches), 17 ghosts, 13 demons, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 god, gods, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, and 1 zombie.
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!!Body count
For this episode = [[spoiler:Dean dies at least 102, but only in the Trickster's reality.]]

For the series so far = At least 223 humans (of which 3 were witches), 17 ghosts, 13 demons, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 god, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, and 1 zombie.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: The first clue Sam has that [[spoiler:the man eating breakfast at the diner]] is more than he appears is when he sees him eating different syrup on his pancakes for the first time in 100 Tuesdays.

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: The first clue Sam has that [[spoiler:the man eating breakfast at the diner]] is more than he appears is when he sees him eating [[spoiler:eating different syrup on his pancakes for the first time in 100 Tuesdays.Tuesdays]].



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: The trickster's intends to teach Sam that his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch co-dependent relationship with Dean]] is not good for him.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: The trickster's [[spoiler:The Trickster's intends to teach Sam that his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch co-dependent relationship with Dean]] is not good for him.]]
* WhatEverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After Sam notices the OutOfCharacterAlert, we just ''cut'' to the next Tuesday.]]
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* [[spoiler:RealityWarper: The trickster.]]
* SeenItAll: After 102 Tuesdays, Sam's seen almost everything to know about the diner and the surrounding area.

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* [[spoiler:RealityWarper: The trickster.Trickster.]]
* SeenItAll: After 102 Tuesdays, Sam's seen almost everything to know about the diner and the surrounding area. [[OutOfCharacterAlert This becomes a plot point.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Dean dying once or twice? Tragic. Dean dying 102 times? Hilarious.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Dean dying once or twice? Tragic. Dean dying 102 times? Hilarious. In a tragic way.



* EverythingTryingToKillYou

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* EverythingTryingToKillYouEverythingTryingToKillYou: And that really does mean everything.



* MoodWhiplash
* NoodleIncident: Alongside some of the deaths, there was one scene when Sam was trying to convince Dean what was going on. As Sam is repeating the random nonsense Dean is saying before he says it, we get to hear, "Sam Winchester wears makeup; Sam Winchester cries his way through sex; Sam Winchester keeps a ruler by the bed and every morning when he wakes up... OKAY!" We never do hear what Sam does.

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* MoodWhiplash
MoodWhiplash: And how.
* NoodleIncident: Alongside some of the deaths, there was one scene when Sam was trying to convince Dean what was going on. As Sam is repeating the random nonsense Dean is saying before he says it, we get to hear, "Sam Winchester wears makeup; makeup. Sam Winchester cries his way through sex; sex. Sam Winchester keeps a ruler by the bed and every morning when he wakes up... OKAY!" We never do hear what Sam does.



* OutOfCharacterAlert: The first clue Sam has that [[spoiler:the man eating breakfast at the diner]] is more than he appears is when he sees him eating different syrup on his pancakes for the first time in 100 Tuesdays.



* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Take [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]

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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Take [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]] Taken UpToEleven



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* KillItWithFire: Apparently Sam tried to stop the time loop by burning the Mystery Spot down, but it didn't work.
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* NecroNonSequitur: Some of the ways Dean dies gets rather silly and improbable.

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* NecroNonSequitur: Some of the ways Dean dies gets get rather silly and improbable.
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* BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many death, but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].

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* BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many death, deaths, but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].
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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Take [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]

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* BreakTheCutie

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* BreakTheCutieBreakTheCutie: Poor, poor Sam
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Dean dying once or twice? Tragic. Dean dying 102 times? Hilarious.



* GroundhogDayLoop

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* GroundhogDayLoopGroundhogDayLoop: Sam gets trapped in one.


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* NecroNonSequitur: Some of the ways Dean dies gets rather silly and improbable.


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** How exactly did Sam find out that the waitress is a terrible shot with a bow and that one of the customers wears a bunny suit at night?


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* SeenItAll: After 102 Tuesdays, Sam's seen almost everything to know about the diner and the surrounding area.
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* NoodleIncident

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* NoodleIncidentNoodleIncident: Alongside some of the deaths, there was one scene when Sam was trying to convince Dean what was going on. As Sam is repeating the random nonsense Dean is saying before he says it, we get to hear, "Sam Winchester wears makeup; Sam Winchester cries his way through sex; Sam Winchester keeps a ruler by the bed and every morning when he wakes up... OKAY!" We never do hear what Sam does.
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* BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many deaths and [[spoiler:six months/sixty years in Hell after the first Wednesday]], but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].

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* BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many deaths and [[spoiler:six months/sixty years in Hell after the first Wednesday]], death, but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou



* EverythingTryingToKillYou

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* EverythingTryingToKillYou** Also the Trickster's interest in getting Sam over his codependency and accepting he's going to lose Dean. [[spoiler: Sam doesn't know Dean will come back - or that the Trickster has a marked interest in getting them to Play Their Roles.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie
** Averted, as [[spoiler: Dean dies at least 102 times, but only in the Trickster's reality]].

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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Dean's first death.

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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Dean's first death.death, and his last one.

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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Dean's first death.

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* JugglingLoadedGuns: IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Dean's first death.
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Dean's first death.
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* ShoutOut: ''TheXFiles'' and [[Memes/RealLife "Dingoes ate my baby."]]

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* ShoutOut: To ''TheXFiles'' and [[Memes/RealLife "Dingoes ate my baby."]]






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\n\n* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: The trickster's intends to teach Sam that his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch co-dependent relationship with Dean]] is not good for him.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many deaths and [[spoiler:six months/sixty years in Hell after the first Wednesday]], but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].

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* BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many deaths and [[spoiler:six months/sixty years in Hell after the first Wednesday]], but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].
* BreakTheCutie


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* EverythingTryingToKillYou


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* MoodDissonance


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* ShoutOut: ''TheXFiles'' and [[Memes/RealLife "Dingoes ate my baby."]]


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* EarWorm: Asia's "Heat of the Moment", "Mystery Spot"'s answer to "[[Film/GroundhogsDay I Got You Babe]]".

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* EarWorm: Asia's "Heat of the Moment", "Mystery Spot"'s answer to "[[Film/GroundhogsDay "[[Film/GroundhogDay I Got You Babe]]".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Dean getting crushed by the piano after coming up with the plan to keep him alive past midnight.]] Not only does this foreshadow how this plan ''[[DoomedToFail bombs]]'', but it also foreshadows [[spoiler: the Trickster's intent for sticking Sam in the loop; try as he might, Dean ''will'' die no matter what Sam tries to do to save him]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Dean getting crushed by the piano after coming up with the plan to keep him alive past midnight.]] Not only does this foreshadow how this plan ''[[DoomedToFail ''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption bombs]]'', but it also foreshadows [[spoiler: the Trickster's intent for sticking Sam in the loop; try as he might, Dean ''will'' die no matter what Sam tries to do to save him]].
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* EarWorm: Asia's "Heat of the Moment".
* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: Dean getting crushed by the piano after coming up with the plan to keep him alive past midnight.]] Not only does this foreshadow how this plan ''[[DoomedToFail bombs]]'', but it also foreshadows [[spoiler: the Trickster's intent for sticking Sam in the loop; try as he might, Dean ''will'' die no matter what Sam tries to do to save him]].

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* EarWorm: Asia's "Heat of the Moment".
Moment", "Mystery Spot"'s answer to "[[Film/GroundhogsDay I Got You Babe]]".
* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Dean getting crushed by the piano after coming up with the plan to keep him alive past midnight.]] Not only does this foreshadow how this plan ''[[DoomedToFail bombs]]'', but it also foreshadows [[spoiler: the Trickster's intent for sticking Sam in the loop; try as he might, Dean ''will'' die no matter what Sam tries to do to save him]].
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* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: Dean getting crushed by the piano after coming up with the plan to keep him alive past midnight.]] Not only does this foreshadow how this plan ''[[DoomedToFail bombs]]'', but it also foreshadows [[spoiler: the Trickster's intent for sticking Sam in the loop; try as he might, Dean ''will'' die no matter what Sam tries to do to save him]].
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* DeathMontage: Of Dean's deaths, naturally.

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Sam is forced to relive Tuesday over and over again, and Dean dies in a different way every time.

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Sam One Tuesday, Dean suddenly dies before his year is forced to relive Tuesday over up. [[GroundhogDayLoop Again, and over again, and Dean dies in a different way every time.
again.]] Sam is the only one who is aware of the time loop, but no matter what he does he can't save his brother from dying.



* BewareTheNiceOnes -- Sam 'snaps' after the first Wednesday

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* BewareTheNiceOnes -- Sam 'snaps' BittersweetEnding: Dean survives without any memory of his many deaths and [[spoiler:six months/sixty years in Hell after the first WednesdayWednesday]], but Sam is changed by the experience and [[DarkerAndEdgier it]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope shows]].



* DespairEventHorizon: Being forced to watch his big brother die over and over again was bad enough, but Sam ''snaps'' when [[spoiler:the loop ends, but Dean still dies and stays dead. For ''six months''.]]
* EarWorm: Asia's "Heat of the Moment".



* RealityWarper
* TimeSkip
* EarWorm -- Asia's "Heat of the Moment"


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* RealityWarper
[[spoiler:RealityWarper: The trickster.]]
* TimeSkip
* EarWorm -- Asia's "Heat of
TimeSkip: Half a year after the Moment"

first Wednesday.
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Sam is forced to relive Tuesday over and over again, and Dean dies in a different way every time.
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\n*EarWorm -- Asia's "Heat of the Moment"

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\n* TimeSkip

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