History WMG / SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet

Sherlock Holmes! Over time, the barbershop is forgotten and left to rot, until it's purchased and set to be renovated...and that's when they discover the bodies. Scotland Yard is summoned, lestrade is confused by...something, he calls Holmes and Watson. Story writes itself from there.

[[WMG: Mrs. Lovett had an illegitimate child with someone and eventually her great great so many great granddaughter would be [[Film/FightClub Marla Singer]]]]

Not only do they look the same, but both shared a similar sweet but neurotic personality, both were hopeless romantics, and both became [[spoiler: crazed and murderous after the woman they love was killed by her boyfriend.]]

It will be called: "Sweeney Todd 2: Turpin's Revenge". Turpin somehow survived. Anthony and Joanna will hit a rocky patch in their relationship when Anthony is tempted by the hot new female lead, a perky ActionGirl in skimpy clothing. The plot will focus on two villains: Turpin and Toby, who is now a murderer as bad as Todd used to be. Todd will have been returned to life as a dark antihero, and his only chance to escape an eternity in hell is to defeat Turpin once and for all. The climax will be an epic razor-blade duel between Todd and Turpin on top of Big Ben (which, anachronistically, will be in London), interspersed with a tense chase scene as Anthony, Joanna and the new female lead try to apprehend Toby, who is fleeing through the sewers after having killed Anthony's long-lost twin brother. At the end, Todd kills Turpin and is allowed entry to heaven, Anthony learns that Joanna is his one true love, and the new action girl gets Toby to change his evil ways. At the end of the film, they team up, leaving it open for a third film or an animated series in which TheyFightCrime.

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Todd:
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay.
I sleep all night and I work all day.


MOUNTIES:
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Todd:
I cut down trees. I eat my lunch.
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin'
And have buttered scones for tea.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He eats his lunch.
He goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he goes shoppin'
And has buttered scones for tea.
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.


Todd:
I cut down trees. I skip and jump.
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women's clothing
And hang around in bars.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps.
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around in bars?!
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Todd:
I cut down trees. I wear high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra.
I wish I'd been a girlie,
Just like my dear Papa.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He wears high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra?!
[talking]
What's this? Wants to be a girlie?! Oh, My!
And I thought you were so rugged! Poofter!
[singing]
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
He's a lumberjack, and he's okaaaaay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

* [[http://susieboo22.deviantart.com/#/d3eae1e You were right!]]

...only instead of a Mr. T, she'll fall for a [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Mistah J.]]

* Her husband, whom she hates, is an [[LargeHam over-the-top]], [[ItsAllAboutMe show-off]], VillainInNameOnly [[FunnyForeigner Italian]] barber who is killed early, instead of the over-the-top, Belgian innkeeper who [[KarmaHoudini gets away without any consequences]] after all he's done. Pirelli's abusive treatment of Toby reflects the treatment he gave to their children and Cosette. Signor Pirelli carelessly sharps the knife ''on Toby's hand'' when he's trying to be impressive, the same way M. Thénardier makes Anzelma cut herself by punching a window to inspire pity. The way he treats Toby in general represents the abusive treatment both gave to Cosette, of which she feels guilty, which is why she bonds with Toby. Furthermore, Toby himself represents Gavroche. Mme. Thénardier blames herself for his death. Toby is a HeartwarmingOrphan who loves Mme. Thénardier, and she loves him back. When he realizes Sweeney is evil, she has to lock him in the basement where Sweeney will kill him. In LesMiserables, it was because of ParentalAbandonment that Gavroche had become [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour the way he was]], so eager to fight in a barricade he got himself killed. In this alternative version, Gavroche lives because Mrs. Lovett raised him, even if her methods were [[BreakTheCutie questionable]].

He didn't look crazy when he killed Sweeney he looked vengeful and disgusted. He will no doubt be traumatized by the events but I don't think it's impossible that his morality would have survived the experience. Perhaps he'll come away from it with a grim determination to make sure monsters like Todd and Lovett never go un-opposed. It's overly optimistic considering the nature of the story but it's possible.