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* KilledMidSentence: Orin.
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* KilledMidSentence: Orin.[[spoiler:Orin dies mid-sentence (and mid-song) from asphyxiation.]]
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%%* AltoVillainess: Audrey II, though see AmbiguousGender, below.
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* CrosscastRole: Mrs. Luce, usually, since the tradition is for all the characters who offer Seymour fame and fortune to be played by a single (male) actor.
* CrowdSong: "Skid Row", "Don't Feed The Plants".
* CrosscastRole: Mrs. Luce, usually, since the tradition is for all the characters who offer Seymour fame and fortune to be played by a single (male) actor.
* CrowdSong: "Skid Row", "Don't Feed The Plants".
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* CrosscastRole: Mrs. Luce,
* CrowdSong: "Skid Row", and "Don't Feed The
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* DooWopProgression: The chorus of "Dentist". Appropriate, given the time era.
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* DooWopProgression: The chorus of "Dentist"."Dentist!". Appropriate, given the time era.
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* ExactWords: The refrain of "The Meek Shall Inherit" promises that "the meek are gonna get what's coming to them, by and by". Seymour gets what's coming to him, all right- [[spoiler: in the karmic sense of the term.]]
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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
** The refrain of "The Meek Shall Inherit" promises that "the meek are gonna get what's coming to them, by and by". Seymour gets what's coming to him, all right- [[spoiler: in the karmic sense of theterm.term]].
** A play-only example: Audrey sings a song about wanting to live with Seymour "somewhere that's green". [[spoiler:In the DarkReprise of the song that she sings moments before her death, she tells Seymour to feed her to Audrey II so a part of her can always be with him, and she is happy to finally end up "somewhere that's green" --- the inside of a man-eating plant.]]
** The refrain of "The Meek Shall Inherit" promises that "the meek are gonna get what's coming to them, by and by". Seymour gets what's coming to him, all right- [[spoiler: in the karmic sense of the
** A play-only example: Audrey sings a song about wanting to live with Seymour "somewhere that's green". [[spoiler:In the DarkReprise of the song that she sings moments before her death, she tells Seymour to feed her to Audrey II so a part of her can always be with him, and she is happy to finally end up "somewhere that's green" --- the inside of a man-eating plant.]]
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%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters
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* TheIngenue: Audrey (the human)
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* TheIngenue: Audrey (the human)human).
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* IronicEcho:
-->'''Seymour:''' You're a monster, and so am I!\\
'''Audrey II:''' ''Feed me!''
-->'''Seymour:''' You're a monster, and so am I!\\
'''Audrey II:''' ''Feed me!''
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* IronicEcho:
-->'''Seymour:''' You'reIronicEcho: Audrey sings about wanting to live "somewhere that's green", referring to an idyllic suburb with a monster, and so am I!\\
'''Audrey II:''' ''Feed me!''lawn. In the stage play, the song gets a DarkReprise [[spoiler:right before Audrey's death]], ending on that same line, this time referring to [[spoiler:the inside of Audrey II, where her body will be lain after her death]].
-->'''Seymour:''' You're
'''Audrey II:''' ''Feed me!''
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** As well as its DarkReprise and the villainous version in "Feed Me" (where Audrey II persuades Seymour to kill people to keep it fed).
** "Skid Row" (where Seymour expresses a desire to get out of Skid Row), "Grow For Me" (where Seymour begs Audrey II to start growing), and "Mushnik and Son" (where Mushnik wants to adopt Seymour as his son to have a piece of the pie upon learning of his success with Audrey II) also qualify--and, to a lesser degree, "Now (It's Just The Gas)" (where Orin pleads for his life while suffocating on nitrous oxide) and "The Meek Shall Inherit" (where Seymour is torn between destroying Audrey II or continuing to feed the carnivorous plant for his own ends).
** "Skid Row" (where Seymour expresses a desire to get out of Skid Row), "Grow For Me" (where Seymour begs Audrey II to start growing), and "Mushnik and Son" (where Mushnik wants to adopt Seymour as his son to have a piece of the pie upon learning of his success with Audrey II) also qualify--and, to a lesser degree, "Now (It's Just The Gas)" (where Orin pleads for his life while suffocating on nitrous oxide) and "The Meek Shall Inherit" (where Seymour is torn between destroying Audrey II or continuing to feed the carnivorous plant for his own ends).
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** As well as its DarkReprise and the villainous version in "Feed Me" (where [[spoiler:where Audrey II persuades Seymour to kill people to keep it fed).
fed]].
** "Skid Row" (where Seymour expresses a desire to get out of Skid Row), "Grow For Me" (where Seymour begs Audrey II to start growing), and "Mushnik and Son" (where Mushnik wants to adopt Seymour as his son to have a piece of the pie upon learning of his success with Audrey II) also qualify--and, to a lesser degree, "Now (It's Just The Gas)" (whereOrin [[spoiler:Orin pleads for his life while suffocating on nitrous oxide) oxide]]) and "The Meek Shall Inherit" (where Seymour is torn between destroying Audrey II or continuing to feed the carnivorous plant for his own ends).
** "Skid Row" (where Seymour expresses a desire to get out of Skid Row), "Grow For Me" (where Seymour begs Audrey II to start growing), and "Mushnik and Son" (where Mushnik wants to adopt Seymour as his son to have a piece of the pie upon learning of his success with Audrey II) also qualify--and, to a lesser degree, "Now (It's Just The Gas)" (where
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Mushinik, who cares somewhat for Seymour (though more for money) and for Audrey, who he constantly advises to drop her abusive boyfriend.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Mushinik, Mushnik, who cares somewhat for Seymour (though more for money) and for Audrey, who he constantly advises to drop her abusive boyfriend.
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* JobSong: "Dentist" is a song about Orin's job as a psychopathic dentist.
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* JobSong: "Dentist" "Dentist!" is a song about Orin's job as a psychopathic dentist.
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* LeitMotif: Quite a few. Just to name one example, the tune to Mushnik And Son appears three times, not counting in the song itself.
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* LeitMotif: {{Leitmotif}}: Quite a few. Just to name one example, the tune to Mushnik And Son appears three times, not counting in the song itself.
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%%* WanderlustSong
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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Audrey counts as a subversion. She ''thinks'' she's one, but she's really TheIngenue.
** Right before "Suddenly Seymour" she implies, but doesn't outright state, that [[spoiler:she moonlit as a stripper when the flower shop was doing poorly, and met Scrivello while working that job]]. Still, that doesn't make her a SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl by itself.
** Right before "Suddenly Seymour" she implies, but doesn't outright state, that [[spoiler:she moonlit as a stripper when the flower shop was doing poorly, and met Scrivello while working that job]]. Still, that doesn't make her a SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl by itself.
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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl: Audrey counts as a subversion. She ''thinks'' she's one, but she's really TheIngenue.
** Right before "Suddenly Seymour" she implies, but doesn't outright state, that [[spoiler:she moonlit as a stripper when the flower shop was doing poorly, and met Scrivello while working that job]]. Still, that doesn't make her aSeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl by itself.
** Right before "Suddenly Seymour" she implies, but doesn't outright state, that [[spoiler:she moonlit as a stripper when the flower shop was doing poorly, and met Scrivello while working that job]]. Still, that doesn't make her a
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* TheBerserker: Seymour in the final scene. [[spoiler:Once Twoey's true intentions are revealed, Seymour goes wild and tries killing it in a furious rage. [[TheHeroDoes He fails]]]].
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* TheBerserker: Seymour in the final scene. [[spoiler:Once Twoey's true intentions are revealed, Seymour goes wild and tries killing it in a furious rage. [[TheHeroDoes [[TheHeroDies He fails]]]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:Seymour fails this in a big way. And "The Meek Shall Inherit" stresses this, when he sings that "Even though I'll be poor and unemployed / The vegetable ''must be destroyed''", but then changes his mind when he thinks about Audrey.]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:Seymour fails this in a big way. And "The Meek Shall Inherit" stresses this, when he sings that "Even though I'll sings, "You got no alternative, Seymour, ol' boy / Though it means you'll be poor broke again and unemployed / It's the only solution, ''it can't be avoided'', / The vegetable ''must be destroyed''", but then changes his mind when he thinks about Audrey.]]
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'''Audrey II:''' ''Smackin' her 'round, always talkin' so tough!''\\
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'''Audrey II:''' ''Smackin' her 'round, around and always talkin' so tough!''\\
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* PredecessorCastingGag: Lee Wilkof, the original Seymour, played Seymour's father figure Mr. Mushnik in a 2003 production and again in a 2018 production.
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* AssholeVictim: Orin. He's a sadistic misogynist who beats and belittles Audrey, so naturally he'd be the plant's first meal.
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%%** Orin.
%%** Possibly also [[spoiler:Mr. Mushnik]], depending on how the actor and director play it.
%%** Orin.
%%** Possibly also [[spoiler:Mr. Mushnik]], depending on how the actor and director play it.
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%%** Orin.
%%** Possibly also [[spoiler:Mr. Mushnik]], depending on how
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* BigBad: Audrey II.
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* BigBad: Audrey II.II, the manipulative ManEatingPlant who sweet-talks Seymour into feeding it people.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Audrey talks about her past with Orin:
-->'''Audrey:''' You know where I met him? In the gutter.\\
'''Seymour:''' the gutter?\\
'''Audrey:''' The Gutter, it's a nightspot.
-->'''Audrey:''' You know where I met him? In the gutter.\\
'''Seymour:''' the gutter?\\
'''Audrey:''' The Gutter, it's a nightspot.
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* LaceratingLoveLanguage: A cut song, "The Worse He Treats Me", would have {{discussed|Trope}} and {{parodied|Trope}} this trope, as Audrey discusses her relationship with her abusive boyfriend Orin, taking his beatings as a sign of love. The song was meant to show more of Audrey's self-loathing mindset than Orin's actual affection, but the writers realized the song was in poor taste regardless and cut it.
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* CatchPhrase:{{Cephalothorax}}: Audrey II is just a big head on a stalk.
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* {{Cephalothorax}}: Audrey II is just a big head on a stalk.
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An Asshole Victim can't have a Karmic Death. The trope is for victims of circumstance who just happen to be assholes.
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** Orin.
** [[spoiler:Seymour]] also counts, it being his KarmicDeath.
** Possibly also [[spoiler:Mr. Mushnik]], depending on how the actor and director play it.
** Orin.
** [[spoiler:Seymour]] also counts, it being his KarmicDeath.
** Possibly also [[spoiler:Mr. Mushnik]], depending on how the actor and director play it.
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