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Ignoring the continuity of the [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers last]] [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers three]] [[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers films]] of the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' franchise, '''''Halloween [=H20=]: Twenty Years Later''''' picks up the story of Laurie Strode (JamieLeeCurtis). After faking her death to live in peace after the events of [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} Halloween of 1978]], Laurie changes her name to Keri Tate, has a son, and becomes a headmistress for a high school far away from Haddonfield.

Michael Myers, however, has finally tracked Laurie down, and after two decades of waiting, he comes back into her life -- and enters the lives of a number of students, including Laurie's son -- in order to kill her once and for all...
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!! ''Halloween [=H20=]: Twenty Years Later'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* ActionGirl: Laurie has had just about enough of Michael's bullshit.
* AndStarring: There is "introducing Josh Hartnett". He has done quite well for himself ever since.
* BigEater: Sarah. While preparing a massive amount of junk food for a Halloween party, she mentions she's got such an intense love of food that it's actually a goal of hers to get fat.
* BloodyHandprint: Laurie leaves a bloody handprint on the door of a closet, tricking Michael Myers into thinking she was hiding inside.
* CampingACrapper: Averted. A woman and her daughter go to a public bathroom and Michael Myers follows them in. After a tense scene in which the audience assumes he is going to kill them, he ends up stealing the woman's car keys instead.
* CarFu: Laurie hijacks an ambulance van with Michael in it, and runs it off a cliff in order to kill Michael once and for all.
* CaughtInASnare: Laurie has a snare trap set for Michael.
* CharacterDevelopment: Laurie Strode, who goes from a DistressedDamsel to a badass ActionGirl in this movie! Hell, she even provides the page image!
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The subtitle, considering on how ''[=H20=]'' already means that it has been twenty years of the first films events.
* EvilOverlooker: The [[http://i.imgur.com/6N8XZ.jpg poster]] had Michael Myers' BlackEyesOfEvil looming over the frightened-looking protagonists.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Laurie is teaching an English literature class on Mary Shelley's novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. Molly, one of the students, responds to a question about the book and fate with this:
-->"I think that Victor should have confronted the monster sooner. He's completely responsible for Elizabeth's death. He was so paralyzed by fear that he never did anything. It took death for the guy to get a clue."'' She goes on to say that Victor finally confronts the monster because he ''"had reached a point in his life where he had nothing left to lose. I mean, the monster saw to that by killing off everybody that he loved. It was about redemption. It was his fate."
** This foreshadows the final scenes in the movie where [[spoiler:Laurie finally decides to stop running from]] Michael Myers [[spoiler:and confront her monster. After twenty years of living in fear and seeing her loved ones murdered, she had nothing more to lose. It was time to face her fears and end the nightmare.]]
* GroinAttack: Laurie knees Michael in the groin. It doesn't do anything except cause him to give her a nasty glare.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: At the end Laurie turns the tables on Michael Myers and starts hunting him down with an axe.
* NonchalantDodge: Michael's response to Laurie's knife throwing act.
* [[spoiler:OffWithHisHead: Laurie beheads Michael in the end. The next film [[DeathIsCheap changed this greatly]].]]
* OopsIDroppedTheKeys: Molly does this.
* ProlongedPrologue: The prologue goes for almost 20 minutes before the opening credits begin.
* SassyBlackWoman: Ronnie's wife.
* SayMyName: Laurie after she starts hunting Michael:
--> "MICHAAAAEEELLL! MICHAEL!"
* StalkerShrine: It is revealed that Dr. Loomis' office is a shrine to Michael Myers, with three decades worth of newspaper clippings about Myers taped all over the office walls. To add to the creepiness, he also has high school photos of Laurie (Michael's sister) stuck to the wall too.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Marion Whittington and Doctor Loomis. Although it could be somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] with Loomis, since actor, DonaldPleasence did sadly pass away in 1995.]]
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