Line #129 Film/Leprechaun


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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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