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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: It's kinda baked right into the format, with the Ghost of Christmas Past stating outright that it's the only day of the year her magic works on, but seemingly almost everything tragic in Ebony's backstory seemed to take place on Christmas Day. Getting taken out of her home and put in foster care, she dumped Bob to focus on her career, Marli was in her fatal car accident. Christmas Past lampshades it; when Ebony asks about visiting a happy New Year's she remembers, the Ghost says she only does Christmas, and it's not her fault that Ebony simply doesn't have that many worth remembering.
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* {{Greed}}: Ebony sells her Christmas [=CDs=] at $25 each. Also, she puts her large crew into fleabag motels, pockets the rest, and forces them to perform on Christmas Day instead of allowing them to go home to be with their families.
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* {{Greed}}: Ebony sells her Christmas [=CDs=] at $25 each. each (standard music albums around that time would typically be somewhere between half to a third of that price.) Also, she puts her large crew into fleabag motels, pockets the rest, and forces them to perform on Christmas Day instead of allowing them to go home to be with their families.
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* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Ebony Scrooge is this in spades. Even her poor back-up singer Patrice, who was and continues to be a fan of her music, learns this upon being hired to be on her crew.
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* NiceCharacterMeanActor: NiceCharacterMeanActor:
** Ebony Scrooge is this in spades. Even her poor back-up singer Patrice, who was and continues to be a fan of her music, learns this upon being hired to be on hercrew.crew.
** Also when with The Ghost of Christmas Present, she outright calls her loyal fans who still bought and quickly sold out her Christmas day concert in spite of its exorbitant price losers.
** Ebony Scrooge is this in spades. Even her poor back-up singer Patrice, who was and continues to be a fan of her music, learns this upon being hired to be on her
** Also when with The Ghost of Christmas Present, she outright calls her loyal fans who still bought and quickly sold out her Christmas day concert in spite of its exorbitant price losers.
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* SorrowfulStutter: In Ebony's ''Behind The Music'' [[BadFuture episode]], Bob had this while speaking about Tim, who was growing gradually sicker throughout the film, passed away and due to the tight schedule she had him on, [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye he wasn't with him when he did.]] He tries to continue, but then asks the interviewer for a moment and breaks down in tears on camera.
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* YouBastard: Ebony’s reaction to Brian [=McKnight=] using her death as a way to become richer (as he and producer Nile Rodgers quickly released a duet the two of them did just after her demise as a memorial single):
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* YouBastard: YouBastard:
** Ebony’s reactionto when the Ghost of Christmas Present shows her accountant Ernie embezzling her money on HookersAndBlow.
** She also has this reaction when Brian [=McKnight=]using uses her death as a way to become richer (as he and producer Nile Rodgers quickly released a duet the two of them did just after her demise as a memorial single):
** Ebony’s reaction
** She also has this reaction when Brian [=McKnight=]
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* ReclusiveArtist: In-universe, this is implied with Terri. After being sued into oblivion, one of the volunteers with Meals on Wheels tries to get her to sing at the homeless center, but she refuses to go out, citing how her voice isn't what it used to be. Also given her surroundings and her appearance, she rarely leaves her apartment and even Ebony's bandmembers were unsure of what happened to her after Desire's breakup. [[spoiler: When Ebony invites her to sing at the big Christmas concert, her voice is still gorgeous, suggesting that her problem was psychosomatic.]]
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* ReclusiveArtist: In-universe, this is implied with surviving bandmate Terri. After being Ebony had sued her into oblivion, one oblivion when Terri tried to start a new Desire after Marli's death and Ebony going solo, leaving her dirt poor. One of the volunteers with Meals on Wheels tries to get her Terri to sing at the homeless center, center where she used to live, but she refuses to go out, citing how her voice isn't what it used to be. Also given her surroundings and her appearance, she rarely leaves her apartment and even Ebony's bandmembers were unsure of what happened to her after Desire's breakup. [[spoiler: When Ebony invites her to sing at the big Christmas concert, her voice is still gorgeous, suggesting that her problem was psychosomatic.more emotional trauma than physical ability.]]
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: After Ebony's redemption, we briefly see Marli manifest at her concert... only now her clothes are white and the chains on them are gone, implying that her role in saving Ebony has also saved her own soul. She smiles at her old bandmates before turning into white light and flying upward, suggesting that she has made it to Heaven.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: After Ebony's redemption, we briefly see Marli manifest at her concert... concert, only now her clothes are white and the chains on them are gone, implying that her role in saving Ebony has also saved her own soul. She smiles at her old bandmates before turning looking upward and disappearing into white light and flying upward, light, suggesting that she has made it to Heaven.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Ebony asks Christmas Past what happened to Terri, Christmas Past asks, "This isn't ''Where Are They Now'', OK, that's on later."
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Ebony asks Christmas Past what happened to Terri, Christmas Past asks, "This isn't ''Where Are They Now'', OK, that's on later." VH1 was known to have a sense of humor about that line and schedule episodes of ''Where Are They Now'' to immediately follow airings of the movie.
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* ALadyOnEachArm: How the Ghost of Christmas Present is introduced, although he has ''three'' (one of which on his leg).
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* DontSplitUsUp: After being taken away from their abusive father on Christmas back in childhood, Ebony and her beloved brother Ronnie are taken away in seperate vehicles as they beg the foster agency's authorities to stay together.
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Bob told ''Behind the Music'' that due to the busy, unrelenting schedule that Ebony had him on, wasn't able to be at Tim's side when he passed away. Thankfully, this was just in Ebony's nightmare and she was able to get him the help he needed for his illness and he was cured by the following Christmas.
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* InformedPoverty: Young Ebony’s family are supposed to be completely destitute, yet are shown living in a large, comfortable, and well furnished home.
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* TwistedChristmas: Ebony hates Christmas due to a variety of hardships that happened to her:
** As a child in [[TheSeventies the 70s]], she and her brother were taken away to foster care from their alcoholic and abusive father, being separated for several years.
** She reunites with her brother as a teen, but refuses to forgive their father was had gotten [[spoiler:temporarily]] sober.
** Another Christmas after she found success, [[MarriedToTheJob she rejects the only man she loved for her career.]]
** Christmas 1990, her best friend Marli Jacob dies in a car crash while under the influence. This was the last straw for her and [[spoiler:until her reform]] she's hated the holiday ever since.
** As a child in [[TheSeventies the 70s]], she and her brother were taken away to foster care from their alcoholic and abusive father, being separated for several years.
** She reunites with her brother as a teen, but refuses to forgive their father was had gotten [[spoiler:temporarily]] sober.
** Another Christmas after she found success, [[MarriedToTheJob she rejects the only man she loved for her career.]]
** Christmas 1990, her best friend Marli Jacob dies in a car crash while under the influence. This was the last straw for her and [[spoiler:until her reform]] she's hated the holiday ever since.
