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2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Rippner, mainly because of his DracoInLeatherPants[=/=]MrFanservice status (and the fact that he has no back story and his actions can easily be interpreted in various ways). Some fans consider Rippner a [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood misunderstood]] AntiVillain who was just [[PunchClockVillain doing his job]] and had [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuine]] [[InLoveWithTheMark feelings]] for Lisa, but others think of him as a PsychoForHire. Then there are some who even think Rippner was a [[LackOfEmpathy cold-hearted and ruthless]] [[HiredGuns assassin]] who never cared an ounce about Lisa and was only using Lisa's past against her to [[ManipulativeBastard mess with her mind]].
3	* AngelDevilShipping: Rippner/Lisa. Even with BlackAndGrayMorality applied, it is still obvious who is the Devil and who is the Angel in this pairing.
4	* CatharsisFactor: After spending the whole flight physically and mentally tormenting Lisa into compliance, Lisa finally turns it around on Rippner by ''stabbing a pen right through his windpipe'' and foiling the assassination. He attempts to track down and kill Lisa in a VillainousBreakdown, though largely gets his ass physically and mentally handed to him by Lisa as payback for everything he put her through.
5	-->'''Lisa:''' Where's your male-driven fact-based ''logic'' now, Jack?
6	* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Jackson Rippner]] is a "[[PsychoForHire manager]]" who hires himself out to clients to pull off their illicit activities. Paid to arrange the death of Deputy Secretary Charles Keefe at the Lux Atlantic hotel, Rippner takes the hotel's manager, Lisa Reisert, hostage on her red eye flight and threatens the life of her father to force her to change Keefe's reservation to a room where his assassination can be completed. Rippner's assassination of Keefe involves an explosion that will kill not just the man himself, but also his wife, two kids, staff team, and any guests in surrounding rooms. Rippner spends the red eye flight horribly tormenting Lisa, from choking and slamming her against walls to forcing her to recount her rape while he mocks her about it, and when she thwarts his hit on Keefe, Rippner plans to kill Lisa and her father, promising to [[ForcedToWatch force her dad to watch her die]].
7	* CrossoverShip: There's a surprising amount of fics that ship Rippner with [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Jonathan Crane]]. For those of you who want hot [[ScrewYourSelf Cillian Murphy on Cillian Murphy]] action! Of course, some fans have Rippner and Crane be brothers instead. [[{{Twincest}} Or both]].
8	* CultClassic: The fandom is small, but quite devoted.
9	* DracoInLeatherPants: Rippner has a lot of fans who are willing to defend him, despite his manipulative and violent nature. Not surprising, since he's played by Creator/CillianMurphy.
10	* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[LittleMissBadass Rebecca]], the little girl that manages to keep a cool head at a crucial moment and [[spoiler:trip Rippner, which, in hindsight, probably saved Lisa's life.]]
11	* FandomSpecificPlot: Most fanfic is of the ContinuationFic variety, usually following Jackson and Lisa meeting up again after he gets out of jail (whether via making a deal to escape a harsher sentence, escaping, or serving his sentence and possibly getting out on parole). Usually, Jackson tracks Lisa down, but some authors flip their dynamic on its head by having her pursue ''him'', be it for revenge, closure, connection, or some combination of the three.
12	* FanficFuel: For a non-franchise film, it has a lot of fanfic. Common plots involve exploring Jackson Rippner's past (especially the NoodleIncident in which he apparently [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his own parents]]) and who his employers are, Lisa's own past, and {{Continuation Fic}}s picking up from where the movie left off.
13	* FanNickname: Fans (mostly those who ship Rippner and Lisa) jokingly call the movie "a Rom-Com". Probably due to the fact that the relationship between the main characters seemingly starts as a MeetCute, and Creator/RachelMcAdams often being a star of the genre back in the 2000s and early 2010s.
14	* FanonDiscontinuity: Sort of. It's not part of the film proper, but Wes Craven revealed in the DVD commentary that "Jackson Rippner" isn't his real name; just a made-up alias. The fandom tends to ignore this entirely in fanfiction.
15	* FoeYayShipping: Lisa and Rippner's relationship has a very intentional, very sexual undertone to it, and it's canon that Rippner has a crush on Lisa. Lisa initially liked him back, but once she finds out the truth about Rippner, she quickly and understandably gets over it and hates him instead. This does not stop the shipping. At ''all''.
16	%%* HarsherInHindsight: "Wait, did someone break your heart?"
17	* LoveToHate: Rippner's fans that aren't [[DracoInLeatherPants measuring him for a pair of leather pants]] tend to put him in this category, fully admitting that he's a misogynistic, psychotic, murderous piece of slime and loving him to bits for it. Creator/CillianMurphy's performance in depicting Rippner as a psychopathic slimeball helps.
18	* MindGameShip: Rippner's and Lisa's "relationship" is practically built on this, what with the film revolving around the psychological mind play between them.
19	* MisaimedFandom: Rippner's fangirls, big time. The main cause of it being DracoInLeatherPants. See AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
20	* MoralEventHorizon: Rippner more than likely crossed it a long time ago as this seemingly is not the first time he has been a part of assassination and terrorism plots, and he mentions the Keefe assassination is his last job, but viewers are divided between ''which'' of his actions ''shown'' were worse--strangling Lisa in the lavatory, knowing that Keefe's family will get killed in the assassination and willingly allowing it to happen, or [[spoiler:trying to kill Lisa in the end of the film]].
21	* {{Narm}}:
22	** For those who found Rippner getting [[BerserkButton pissed]] over a [[ItMakesSenseInContext sea breeze]] just a little humorous.
23	** When Rippner tries to speak [[spoiler: after getting stabbed with a pen]], he sounds all too much like Christian Bale's Batman. Which is funny, since it's Scarecrow playing the part.
24	* NarmCharm: Jackson Rippner's name is so utterly on-the-nose that it should elicit groans and eye-rolls, but Cillian Murphy is such an intimidating, unsettling presence that no one is laughing for long. It helps that his full name is only said a handful of times, and he even lampshades what a terrible name it is to inflict on your kid.
25	* NoYay: Rippner and Lisa. Rippner is a AxCrazy murderer out to kill Lisa's father and other people and Lisa herself. There's some sexual tension between the two and the scene in the airplane bathroom where he accosts her was dripping with rape metaphors. WordOfGod also says that Rippner developed feelings for Lisa in the entire time he was watching her and that he was jealous of the man who gave Lisa her scar and raped her.
26	* {{Padding}}: Not for the film itself, but for the end credits (which are artificially extended to make the film longer, which is why a movie that only runs 85 minutes ''in total'' has an end credit sequence that lasts for around nine).
27	* ParanoiaFuel:
28	** Wes Craven played on the [[PrimalFear paranoia]] of [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes flight]]: the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation]], {{claustrophobia}}, the feeling of being trapped, and sitting next to a complete stranger, not knowing who they are or what kind of person they are.
29	** In a more general sense, that cute, charming, sweet guy you met turning out to not be charming or sweet, ''[[{{Yandere}} at]] [[PsychoForHire all]]''. Especially unsettling when you remember that [[spoiler:Lisa is a rape victim -- most rapes are committed by someone the victim knows]].
30	** It's mentioned that Rippner [[StalkerWithACrush monitored Lisa prior to the flight]], and was apparently vigilant enough that he knows her routine like the back of his hand and knows where she lives. He was watching her for ''eight weeks'', and Lisa had ''no'' idea...
31	* PsychosexualHorror: If someone writes a shipping fanfic it's really hard to ignore the fact that Rippner is a StalkerWithACrush and Lisa is a [[spoiler: [[RapeAsBackstory rape victim]]]].
32	** In many continuation fanfics Rippner often stalks Lisa again after escaping from hospital or prison. Lisa becomes even more paranoid and reclusive.
33	** In some fanfics (especially if they rewrite the lavatory scene) Rippner straight up rapes Lisa.
34	** Kidnapping is also quite common, since on the plane Rippner suggested would steal her.
35	* RonTheDeathEater: In canon, what we know of Keefe basically amounts to: he's important enough that some very powerful people want him dead, he has a family, and he stays at Lisa's hotel a lot. In ''fanfiction'', however, he's usually portrayed as a CorruptPolitician (with degrees varying from "sleazy and underhanded in the way that many politicians unfortunately are" to "staged the whole assassination thing to look like a hero"), often to make [[DracoInLeatherPants Rippner]] look less evil by comparison, and make his actions retroactively seem more justified.
36	* TheWoobie: Lisa. She spends about 95% of the film ''scared out of her mind'', and for good reason -- a charming stranger she met turned out to be a psychotic terrorist who was hired to force her to either choose to let her father die or be an accomplice to an assassination. [[spoiler:And before the film, she was raped, leaving her with both a physical scar and several deep emotional ones]]. Throughout the flight, she's beaten up, manipulated, intimidated, and forced to comply to a truly heinous demand. It's a miracle she's still sane by the end of the movie.

Context YMMV / RedEye