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* BloodBrothers: Nathan and Richard sign a contract in blood per Richard's instruction, and then Nathan clasps Richard's hand while they're still bleeding to seal the deal.
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* BloodBrothers: BloodOath: Nathan and Richard sign a contract in blood per Richard's instruction, and then Nathan clasps Richard's hand while they're still bleeding to seal the deal.
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* BrokenAce: Richard. He's so handsome that EvenTheGuysWantHim, charismatic, affluent, intelligent enough to graduate university before he's even in his twenties and implied to be the BigManOnCampus when he's there. But he's a mess of self-loathing, ParentalIssues and internalised homophobia and he channels these feelings into violence and sadism.
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* AbusiveParents: Richard's delusions of Nietzschean superhumanity are how he deals with the fact that his parents blatantly favour his younger brother. It's implied that this is at least in part due to homophobia.
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* AbusiveParents: Richard's delusions of Nietzschean superhumanity are how he deals with the fact that his parents father blatantly favour prefers his younger brother.son. It's implied that this is at least in part due to homophobia.
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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Richard's entire characterisation. His academic overachieving and delusions of Nietzschean superhumanity are how he deals with his internalised homophobia and the fact that his parents blatantly favour his younger brother. [[BreakTheHaughty The 'superiority' part diminishes]] over the course of the play.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Invoked [[Spoiler: and ultimately subverted.]] Both boys are eminently screwed up, but Nathan is presented as merely hapless and troubled, and seems a lot like just a desperate, needy teenager who probably just could have benefited from a few generous heaps of therapy; while Richard is played as pure charismatic sociopath, except for being unnervingly childish and unable to show much emotion beyond fear and giddy joy when he's not being frighteningly calm. [[spoiler: This is because Nathan is the one telling the story, and he's an UnreliableNarrator with a vested interest in portraying himself as this to ensure that he gets parole. Ultimately, Nathan is just as bad as Richard... and even more cunning about it.]]
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Invoked [[Spoiler: and [[spoiler:and ultimately subverted.]] Both boys are eminently screwed up, but Nathan is presented as merely hapless and troubled, and seems a lot like just a desperate, needy teenager who probably just could have benefited from a few generous heaps of therapy; while Richard is played as pure charismatic sociopath, except for being unnervingly childish and unable to show much emotion beyond fear and giddy joy when he's not being frighteningly calm. [[spoiler: This is because Nathan is the one telling the story, and he's an UnreliableNarrator with a vested interest in portraying himself as this to ensure that he gets parole. Ultimately, Nathan is just as bad as Richard... and even more cunning about it.]]
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* SlapSlapKiss: "Everybody Wants Richard" is frequently staged like this, and culminates in Nathan grabbing Richard and kissing him.
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* PetTheDog: After treating Nathan as an AbhorrentAdmirer for the first few scenes, during "There's Nothing Like A Fire" Richard caves in and makes it clear to Nathan how attracted he is to him.
-->''"There's nothing like the glow of sizzling embers... to brighten your face."''
-->''"There's nothing like the glow of sizzling embers... to brighten your face."''
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* AbusiveParents: Richard's delusions of Nietzschean superhumanity are how he deals with the fact that his parents blatantly favour his younger brother. It's implied that this is at least in part due to homophobia.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Richard. We find out in "Everybody Wants Richard" that he sleeps with women as well as with Nathan, but we never get confirmation if this is genuine bisexuality or just Richard trying to conceal the fact that he's queer.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Both boys are eminently screwed up, but Nathan is presented as merely hapless and troubled, and seems a lot like just a desperate, needy teenager who probably just could have benefited from a few generous heaps of therapy; while Richard is played as pure charismatic sociopath, except for being unnervingly childish and unable to show much emotion beyond fear and giddy joy when he's not being frighteningly calm.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Nathan. He acts this way through the whole show, though the clearest example is in "Everybody Wants Richard", where he reminds Richard that even though Richard's fully capable of manipulating other people into going along with him, he's the only one who can keep up (see: PairTheSmartOnes).
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Nathan. Nathan loves to present himself as this. He acts this way through the whole show, though the clearest example is in "Everybody Wants Richard", where he reminds Richard that even though Richard's fully capable of manipulating other people into going along with him, he's the only one who can keep up (see: PairTheSmartOnes).PairTheSmartOnes).
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Subverted. Nathan pressurising a clearly unwilling Richard into sex in "Thrill Me" is extremely disturbing.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Subverted. Nathan pressurising a clearly unwilling Richard into sex in "Thrill Me" is extremely disturbing.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Invoked [[Spoiler: and ultimately subverted.]] Both boys are eminently screwed up, but Nathan is presented as merely hapless and troubled, and seems a lot like just a desperate, needy teenager who probably just could have benefited from a few generous heaps of therapy; while Richard is played as pure charismatic sociopath, except for being unnervingly childish and unable to show much emotion beyond fear and giddy joy when he's not being frighteningly calm. [[spoiler: This is because Nathan is the one telling the story, and he's an UnreliableNarrator with a vested interest in portraying himself as this to ensure that he gets parole. Ultimately, Nathan is just as bad as Richard... and even more cunning about it.]]
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The score is notable for its spareness- two singers and a piano, though the piano arrangement was made more delicate and complex for the 2006 production. This remains the official version.
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The score is notable for its spareness- two sparseness--two singers and a piano, though the piano arrangement was made more delicate and complex for the 2006 production. This remains the official version.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Richard and Nathan murder a kid, get caught, and go to jail. And if you know your history, then you also know [[spoiler:that Nathan gets paroled and Richard is murdered in prison.]]
* ForTheEvulz / ItAmusedMe: Richard's motive for killing the kid is essentially, "I'm bored, I'm better than everyone and I can get away with it, so why not?"
* ForTheEvulz / ItAmusedMe: Richard's motive for killing the kid is essentially, "I'm bored, I'm better than everyone and I can get away with it, so why not?"
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* ForegoneConclusion: Richard and Nathan murder a kid, get caught, and go to jail. And if you know your history, then you also know [[spoiler:that Nathan gets paroled and Richard is murdered in prison.]]
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*ForTheEvulz / ItAmusedMe: ForTheEvulz[=/=]ItAmusedMe: Richard's motive for killing the kid is essentially, "I'm bored, I'm better than everyone everyone, and I can get away with it, so why not?"
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