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6 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} "Your luck just ran out."]]]] |
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8 | ''Leprechaun'' is a 1993 horror-comedy film starring Creator/WarwickDavis as the titular character who although not named in the movies is given the off-screen name "Lubdan". A bunch of people go to a rural farmhouse in UsefulNotes/NorthDakota for a holiday and discover not only a pot of gold but the rightful owner. The leprechaun will kill any who touches his gold but has a weakness to wrought iron and four-leaf clovers, which cancel out his magic. Despite negative reviews, the film went on to spawn a franchise, currently consisting of seven films (or eight if one counts the [[Film/LeprechaunOrigins much-maligned "reboot"]].) |
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10 | !!I WANT ME TROPES! |
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12 | * AssholeVictim: The deputy that was smart enough to pull the leprechaun over. |
13 | * BlandNameProduct: Lucky Clovers cereal. Which makes it stranger when they refer to Lucky Charms in the dialog: "''Fuck you, Lucky Charms''". |
14 | * BottomlessMagazines: Subverted. When O'Grady shoots at the Leprechaun with a revolver, he reloads after just two shots. |
15 | ** Played straight with Nathan firing the shotgun. He fires numerous rounds and never reloads. |
16 | * BratsWithSlingshots: Alex places the four-leaf clover into a wad of gum and then uses his slingshot to defeat the leprechaun. |
17 | ---> '''Alex:''' Fuck you, Lucky Charms! |
18 | * BulletTime: Used briefly in the pogo stick death scene. |
19 | * BullyingADragon: A highway cop is an asshole to the Leprechaun. Lubdan lacerates his face, tosses his gun, and ultimately [[CopKiller snaps his neck]]. |
20 | * TheCavalryArrivesLate |
21 | * CreatorCameo: Special effects artist Gabriel Bartalos appears as a diner patron. |
22 | * CassandraTruth: Simple guy he is, nobody believes Ozzie when he says that there's a leprechaun in the basement and how it was going to shine his shoes. |
23 | * ChekhovsGun: Subverted with the deputy's gun. |
24 | ** Alex's slingshot. |
25 | ** The Leprechaun's eagerness to shine shoes comes in handy when the gang needed to distract him. |
26 | ** The gold coin Ozzie accidentally swallows. |
27 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: How our protagonists finally find the four-leafed clover in the first film. |
28 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Caving in a poor sod's chest with a pogo stick, anyone? |
29 | * DeathByFallingOver: Mrs. O'Grady's death. |
30 | * DutchAngle: Used in the first movie when Tori goes to the retirement home. |
31 | * TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The leprechaun is seemingly destroyed by a four-leaf clover, and his body buried in a well, but at the end his disembodied voice vows to return and find his gold.]] |
32 | * EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: True to the legends, a rainbow leads to the leprechaun's pot of gold. |
33 | * EyeScream: Tori pokes the leprechaun's right eye out with a police billy club. Then he gouges up a spare from the corpse. |
34 | * EveryCarIsAPinto: Nathan's truck won't start, twice. |
35 | * FanService: Some relatively tame fanservice occurs — Tori spends the whole film in short shorts, and a chase scene filmed from The Leprechaun's point of view means we get an extended look at her legs and rear end as she runs. |
36 | * FillingTheSilence: When Alex sets the bear trap for the leprechaun in the first movie, voiceover of him saying "how he's going to get him" is added. |
37 | * FoodPorn: Subverted. Tori is visibly disgusted by the meatloaf Nathan is eating at the diner. |
38 | * FourLeafClover: The leprechaun's weakness. |
39 | * FrightDeathtrap: Used against Dan O'Grady's wife. |
40 | %%* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger |
41 | * HardToLightFire: In the prologue, Dan O'Grady tries to burn the leprechaun alive inside its crate, but the match goes out and he’s incapacitated by a HollywoodHeartAttack before he can light another. |
42 | * HollywoodDarkness: Made painfully obvious in the first movie, when Nathan brings a flashlight outside. |
43 | * HollywoodHeartAttack: Dan O'Grady suffers one just before he's going to burn the leprechaun. |
44 | * ImMelting: Leprechaun starts to melt when he swallows the four-leafed clover. |
45 | * ImpactSilhouette: The natural result of a leprechaun on roller skates colliding with a white picket fence in the first film. |
46 | * IronicNurseryTune: Leprechaun is fond of this. |
47 | * ManChild: Ozzie in the first film. |
48 | * NeckSnap: Happens to both Mrs. O'Grady and Deputy Tripet. |
49 | * NoPeripheralVision: When Tori goes to the basement looking for Nathan, both of them miss each other despite the small space. |
50 | * OneWordTitle: ''Leprechaun'' |
51 | * OutsideRide: The Leprechaun attempts it in the first movie, but he can't quite hold on. |
52 | * PeekABooCorpse: Mr. O'Grady at the senior home. |
53 | * PrecisionFStrike: From Alex, the only minor, of all people. |
54 | ---> '''Alex:'''"Fuck you, Lucky Charms!" |
55 | * PsychopathicManchild: The leprechaun from the original movie. |
56 | * SealedEvilInACan: The Leprechaun was imprisoned in a crate for decades for ten years until Ozzie knocks the four-leaf clover off the crate and accidentally sets him free. |
57 | * SequelHook: Leprechaun's declaration at the end of the first film. |
58 | -->"I'll not rest till I have me gold. Curse this well that me soul shall dwell, till I find me magic that breaks me spell!" |
59 | ** And it did get sequels but they weren't connected to the first movie or each other for that matter. |
60 | ** Finally, 25 years later he escaped the well and goes after Tori's daughter. |
61 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Tori is the only female character in the group. |
62 | %%* TheSiege: Last third of the first movie. |
63 | * TakeThat: In the first film, the Leprechaun tries a knock-off of Lucky Charms and promptly spits it out. |
64 | * TeleportationSpam: Done when the leprechaun harasses a cop in the swallow. |
65 | * TemptingFate: Nathan shoots the Leprechaun at point-blank range with a shotgun (after having done so earlier) and says that it's dead, only for it to pop up alive again. |
66 | * VillainOpeningScene: The first scene of the film shows the titular leprechaun coming back to his lair to count his pot of gold. |
67 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Leprechaun is vulnerable to four-leaf clovers. |
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