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* RealAfterAll: In "Stationary Bike," Richard suspects that his meeting with the "metabolism crew" of his body (a group of workmen who clear the fat from his blood) is AllJustADream, but impulsively asks them to mail him one of the baseball caps they wear as proof of their being real. A few weeks after the story concludes, that very cap arrives in the mail for him, confirming their existence.
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* RealAfterAll: In "Stationary Bike," Richard suspects that his meeting with the "metabolism crew" of his body (a group of workmen who clear the fat from his blood) is AllJustADream, but impulsively asks them to mail him one of the baseball caps they wear as proof of their being real. A few weeks after the story concludes, later, that very cap arrives in the mail for him, confirming their existence.
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* AmbiguousSituation: For "Stationary Bike." Did the metabolism work crew always exist, or did Richard [[YourMindMakesItReal will them to life]] after hearing the metaphor from his doctor and painting a picture of it?
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* LiteralMetaphor: At the beginning of "Stationary Bike," Richard's doctor compares the body's metabolism and its ability to clean fat from the body to a work crew that cleans junk from highways. Richard gets a shock when he meets his own body's metabolism, who are literally cleaning fat from a road and are none too happy with his recent diet depriving them of work.
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* LiteralMetaphor: At the beginning of "Stationary Bike," Richard's doctor compares the body's metabolism and its ability to clean fat from the body to a work crew that cleans junk from highways. Richard gets a shock when he meets his own body's metabolism, who are literally cleaning who've been clearing the fat from a road the "road" of his circulatory system and are none too happy with his recent diet depriving them of work.
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* MindScrew: "Stationary Bike" is odd even by King's standards. A painter named Richard visits his doctor, who tells him that he needs to lose weight to lower his cholesterol; the doctor then compares the body's metabolism to a road crew that clears junk--in this case, fat--from the "highway" of the bloodstream. Richard finds the idea intriguing and paints it, then starts riding the titular bike to shed pounds. As he does, he starts having bizarre visions of the metaphor as real, including one member of the crew being DrivenToSuicide because Richard's new diet is depriving them of fat to digest. The climax of the story depicts the remaining members of the team somehow entering the "real world," dismantling the bike, and demanding that Richard ease up on his health craze--keep in mind that Richard is literally talking to ''his own body'' at this point. And while Richard is ready to chalk it up to AllJustADream, he requests--and receives--a matching baseball cap from the crewmen as payment. It's not clear whether or not the metabolism crew was always real, or if Richard [[YourMindMakesItReal dreamed them into existence]] by painting them.
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* TakeAThirdOption: In "Stationary Bike," the heavyset Richard Sifkitz is told that he must lose weight to keep himself alive. Richard agrees, but soon becomes obsessed with exercising and dieting, especially when the [[TitleDrop stationary bike]] he uses to work out begins teleporting him to an alternate world. While there, he meets with allegorical representations of his body's metabolism, who beg him to resume his usual diet and laziness, since his health kick is making them lose work. Richard ultimately finds a middle ground by remaining active and conscious about his food choices, but also indulging in sweets and days off from the gym.
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* BittersweetEnding: "The Things They Left Behind" concludes with Scott realizing the true purpose of his dead coworkers' (who all perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001) desk decorations appearing in his apartment: he's meant to deliver them to their friends and families. While it's bitterly painful for everyone involved, it also gives them a sense of closure and a chance to relive the happy memories they had of the victims, letting the spirits rest.
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* BittersweetEnding: "The Things They Left Behind" concludes with Scott realizing the true purpose of his dead coworkers' (who all perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001) desk decorations appearing in his apartment: he's meant to deliver them to their friends and families. While it's bitterly painful for everyone involved, it also gives them a sense of closure and a chance to relive the happy memories they had have of the victims, letting the spirits rest.
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* GhostlyGoals: In "The Things They Left Behind," Scott originally thinks that his now-dead coworkers, who all perished on September 11th 2001, are tormenting him by placing their desk-decorating knickknacks in his apartment; he feels he deserves it for skipping work that day. However, what the ghosts ''really'' want is his help in delivering the objects to their friends and families, providing everyone involved a sense of closure. "Everyone" also includes Scott himself, as he realizes his workmates aren't angry at him for surviving.
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* GhostlyGoals: In "The Things They Left Behind," Scott originally thinks that his now-dead dead coworkers, who all perished on September 11th 2001, are tormenting him by placing their desk-decorating knickknacks in his apartment; he feels he deserves it for skipping work that day. However, what the ghosts ''really'' want is his help in delivering the objects to their friends and families, providing everyone involved a sense of closure. "Everyone" also includes Scott himself, as he realizes his workmates aren't angry at him for surviving.
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* GhostlyGoals: In "The Things They Left Behind," Scott originally thinks that his now-dead coworkers, who all perished on September 11th 2001, are tormenting him by placing their desk-decorating knickknacks in his apartment; he feels he deserves it for skipping work that day. However, what the ghosts ''really'' want is his help in delivering the objects to their friends and families, providing everyone involved a sense of closure. "Everyone" also includes Scott himself, as he realizes his friends aren't angry at him for surviving.
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* GhostlyGoals: In "The Things They Left Behind," Scott originally thinks that his now-dead coworkers, who all perished on September 11th 2001, are tormenting him by placing their desk-decorating knickknacks in his apartment; he feels he deserves it for skipping work that day. However, what the ghosts ''really'' want is his help in delivering the objects to their friends and families, providing everyone involved a sense of closure. "Everyone" also includes Scott himself, as he realizes his friends aren't angry at him for surviving.
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* DaylightHorror: The scariest portions of ''The Gingerbread Girl'' take place in the middle of a sunny day in the Florida Keys. Emily, the protagonist, is forced to outrun Pickering, the man who kidnapped her with intent to rape. It ends with [[spoiler: one of the only other people on the beach being brutally slaughtered by Pickering and Pickering himself drowning.]]
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* SceneryDissonance: The scariest portions of ''The Gingerbread Girl'' take place in the middle of a sunny day in the Florida Keys. Emily, the protagonist, is forced to outrun Pickering, the man who kidnapped her with intent to rape. It ends with [[spoiler: one of the only other people on the beach being brutally slaughtered by Pickering and Pickering himself drowning.]]
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* NumberObsession: One of the short stories in this collection is ''N.'', written from the point of view of a psychiatrist who is treating a patient with severe Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. The disorder centers around a ring of stones in a field that the patient believes to be a portal holding back an EldritchAbomination from another dimension. If he can see all 8 stones, the portal is secure; if he only sees 7, the portal is in danger of breaching. He also believes that he can strengthen the portal by focusing on "good" and "bad" numbers -- even numbers are good, especially if the individual digits add up to an even number; odd numbers are bad, particularly prime numbers.
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* DaylightHorror: The scariest portions of ''The Gingerbread Girl'' take place in the middle of a sunny day in the Florida Keys. Emily, the protagonist, is forced to outrun Pickering, the man who kidnapped her with intent to rape. It ends with [[spoiler: one of the only other people on the beach being brutally slaughtered by Pickering and Pickering himself drowning.]]
* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of ''N.'', the psychiatrist who had been treating the titular patient ends up infected by his madness and tries to piece together what happened to him. By the story's end, the psychiatrist has [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]], and his sister is beginning to show the same signs of insanity that he did...
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* WeaksauceWeakness: It turns out that Jim Pickering, who has a mansion in the Florida Keys, [[spoiler: ''can't swim.'' Emily defeats him by getting him into the water and letting him drown.]]
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%%* CurseRelay: In ''N'', a psychiatrist is visited by a patient who started suffering from SuperOCD and delusional beliefs about an EldritchAbomination after visiting [[EldritchLocation the Ackerman's field]]. [[spoiler:Soon after that, the patient commits suicide, the doctor decides to go to that place to investigate, and starts manifesting exactly the same symptoms. He also kills himself, so his sister begins her own investigation, and the cycle starts all over again.]]
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%%* CurseRelay: In ''N'', a psychiatrist is visited by a patient who started suffering from SuperOCD obsessive compulsive behavior and delusional beliefs about an EldritchAbomination after visiting [[EldritchLocation the Ackerman's field]]. [[spoiler:Soon after that, the patient commits suicide, the doctor decides to go to that place to investigate, and starts manifesting exactly the same symptoms. He also kills himself, so his sister begins her own investigation, and the cycle starts all over again.]]
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* SuperOCD: The eponymous character in ''N.''.
** His psychiatrist Johnny Bonsaint eventually [[spoiler:becomes like this as well, due to the influence of the field.]]
** His psychiatrist Johnny Bonsaint eventually [[spoiler:becomes like this as well, due to the influence of the field.]]
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* AfterlifeAngst: ''Willa'' is about a number of passengers who are waiting at a rural station for the next train to pick them up after an train wreck. In fact, all of them are ghosts who died in the wreck; the main character David and his fiancee Willa both accept this, while all the others prefer to stay in denial.
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* AfterlifeAngst: ''Willa'' is about a number of passengers who are waiting at a rural station for the next train to pick them up after an a train wreck. In fact, all of them are ghosts who died in the wreck; the main character David and his fiancee Willa both accept this, while all the others prefer to stay in denial.
* GriefInducedSplit: In "The Gingerbread Girl," Emily takes up running to deal with the grief of losing her daughter Amy to cot death. The unhealthy degree to which she pushes herself in this new hobby leads Emily and her husband Henry to agree on a trial separation, whereupon she moves to her father's summer home in Florida.
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* LanguageBarrier: One Hispanic bystander is stymied when Emily calls him for help because she doesn't speak Spanish, but her would-be attacker can. She is able to communicate that he is "loco" and the kitchen shears he was carrying as a weapon falls out onto the sand. When the serial killer tries to dismiss her as "boba perra," the bystander gets the gist of the situation and attempts to protect Emily. [[spoiler:He fails]].
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* LanguageBarrier: One Hispanic bystander is stymied when Emily calls him for help because she doesn't speak Spanish, but her would-be attacker can. She is able to communicate that he is "loco" and the kitchen shears he was carrying as a weapon falls out onto the sand. When the serial killer tries to dismiss her as "boba perra," the bystander gets the gist of the situation and attempts to protect Emily. [[spoiler:He fails]].fails.]]
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* MurderByInaction: [[spoiler:Emily of ''The Gingerbread Girl'' sits back and watches when she realizes Pickering is drowning.]]
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* ''Graduation Afternoon'': A young girl enjoying her high school graduation in Connecticut sees the destruction of New York City by an atomic bomb.
* ''N.'': Takes the form of an email/doctor's notes. A man suffering from OCD believes he has found a gateway to another reality in a field in Maine.
* ''N.'': Takes the form of an email/doctor's notes. A man suffering from OCD believes he has found a gateway to another reality in a field in Maine.
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* ''Graduation Afternoon'': A young girl enjoying graduating teen's day at her high school graduation in Connecticut sees the destruction of New York City by an atomic bomb.
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* ''N.'': Takes the form ofan email/doctor's notes.a doctor's notes and various letters and messages. A man suffering from OCD believes he has found a gateway to another reality in a field in Maine.
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* ''Mute'': A middle-aged salesman vents his frustration at his wife's infidelity to a sleeping deaf mute hitch-hiker he has picked up.
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* ''Mute'': A middle-aged salesman vents his frustration at his wife's infidelity and gambling addiction to a sleeping deaf mute hitch-hiker he has picked up.
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* AfterlifeAngst: ''Willa'' is about a number of passengers who are waiting for the next train to pick them up after an apparent train wreck. In fact, all of them are ghosts who died in the wreck; the main character David and his fiancee Willa both accept this, while all the others prefer to stay in denial.
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* AfterlifeAngst: ''Willa'' is about a number of passengers who are waiting at a rural station for the next train to pick them up after an apparent train wreck. In fact, all of them are ghosts who died in the wreck; the main character David and his fiancee Willa both accept this, while all the others prefer to stay in denial.
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* CurseRelay: In ''N'', a psychiatrist is visited by a patient who started suffering from SuperOCD and delusional beliefs about an EldritchAbomination after visiting [[EldritchLocation the Ackerman's field]]. [[spoiler:Soon after that, the patient commits suicide, the doctor decides to go to that place to investigate, and starts manifesting exactly the same symptoms. He also kills himself, so his sister begins her own investigation, and the cycle starts all over again.]]
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* LoveForgivesAllButLust: As the trucker in "Mute" describes, there were many things that he could forgive about his wife. The issue wasn't her [[spoiler:gambling addiction or embezzlement. It was her leaving him for another man and making the trucker pay for all her debts]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trucker in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photograph that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
* OnceIsNotEnough: Touched on ''The Gingerbread Girl'', when the protagonist has to make a split-second decision after managing to batter the serial killer to the ground using the chair as a club: with the chair now smashed to bits, does she try and get the knife he's carrying to finish him off, or run for it. She runs.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trucker in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photograph that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
* OnceIsNotEnough: Touched on ''The Gingerbread Girl'', when the protagonist has to make a split-second decision after managing to batter the serial killer to the ground using the chair as a club: with the chair now smashed to bits, does she try and get the knife he's carrying to finish him off, or run for it. She runs.
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* LoveForgivesAllButLust: As the trucker salesman protagonist in "Mute" describes, there were many things that he could forgive about his wife. The issue wasn't her [[spoiler:gambling addiction or embezzlement. It was her leaving him for another man and making saddling the trucker pay for two of them with all her debts]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Thetrucker salesman in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photograph that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
* OnceIsNotEnough: Touched on ''The Gingerbread Girl'', when the protagonist has to make a split-second decision after managing to batter the serial killer to the ground using the chair as a club: with the chair now smashed to bits, does she try and get the knife he'scarrying currently laying on top of to finish him off, or run for it. She runs.
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* OnceIsNotEnough: Touched on ''The Gingerbread Girl'', when the protagonist has to make a split-second decision after managing to batter the serial killer to the ground using the chair as a club: with the chair now smashed to bits, does she try and get the knife he's
* PlotTwist: ''Graduation Afternoon'' is about a graduating teen calmly realizing that her relationship with her rich boyfriend is probably about to end... and then she and all the other guests at his parents' Connecticut home abruptly witness [[spoiler: New York City being destroyed by a massive nuclear explosion.]]
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** His doctor, Johnny Bonsaint eventually [[spoiler:becomes like this as well, due to the influence of the field.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trucker in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photographer that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trucker in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photographer photograph that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
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* LanguageBarrier: One Hispanic bystander is stymied when Emily calls him for help because she doesn't speak Spanish, but her would-be attacker can. She is able to communicate that he is "loco" and the kitchen shears he was carrying as a weapon falls out onto the sand. When the serial killer tries to dismiss her as "boba perra," the bystander gets the gist of the situation and attempts to protect Emily. [[spoiler:He fails]].
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: As the trucker in "Mute" describes, there were many things that he could forgive about his wife. The issue wasn't her [[spoiler:gambling addiction or embezzlement. It was her leaving him for another man and making the trucker pay for all her debts]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trucker in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photographer that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: As the trucker in "Mute" describes, there were many things that he could forgive about his wife. The issue wasn't her [[spoiler:gambling addiction or embezzlement. It was her leaving him for another man and making the trucker pay for all her debts]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trucker in "Mute" is struck with this when he thinks [[spoiler:his venting to the hitchhiker about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from her job, indirectly led to the other man killing his ex-wife and new lover. The hitchhiker only took the photographer that the trucker had, and she was found dead later]].
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* {{Confessional}}: The protagonist in ''Mute'' goes to confession and tells his story to a priest, because he believes that he has sinned in some way, but not sure how.
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* AfterlifeAngst: ''Willa'' is about a number of passengers who are waiting for the next train to pick them up after an apparent train wreck. In fact, all of them are ghosts who died in the wreck; the main character David and his fiancee Willa both accept this, while all the others prefer to stay in denial.
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* CurseRelay: In ''N'', a psychiatrist is visited by a patient who started suffering from SuperOCD and delusional beliefs about an EldritchAbomination after visiting [[EldritchLocation the Ackerman's field]]. [[spoiler:Soon after that, the patient commits suicide, the doctor decides to go to that place to investigate, and starts manifesting exactly the same symptoms. He also kills himself, so his sister begins her own investigation, and the cycle starts all over again.]]
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* SurvivorGuilt: In ''The Things They Left Behind'', Scott is unable to shake his guilt at having called in sick and survived [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]. He is able to start overcoming this guilt by [[spoiler:returning the supernatural items of his dead coworkers (which keep appearing in his apartment) to their families]].
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* SurvivorGuilt: In ''The Things They Left Behind'', Scott is unable to shake his guilt at having called in sick and survived [[TheWarOnTerror [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]. He is able to start overcoming this guilt by [[spoiler:returning the supernatural items of his dead coworkers (which keep appearing in his apartment) to their families]].
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* OnceIsNotEnough: Touched on ''The Gingerbread Girl'', when the protagonist has to make a split-second decision after managing to batter the serial killer to the ground using the chair as a club: with the chair now smashed to bits, does she try and get the knife he's carrying to finish him off, or run for it. She runs.
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* OverturnedOuthouse: In ''A Very Tight Place'', Curtis Johnson is locked up in a tipped over portable toilet by his neighbor Tim Grunwald, and left trapped there in the heat of a Florida summer day to die.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts : The protagonist in "Mute," as a result of his wife's addiction. This is combined with NeverWinTheLottery, and she [[spoiler: embezzled over 120,000 dollars and bought ''scratch tickets'' with it, trying to win the jackpot and pay it back]]. The back story is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts : The protagonist in "Mute," as a result of his wife's addiction. This is combined with NeverWinTheLottery, and she [[spoiler: embezzled over 120,000 dollars in total, buying expensive lingerie with the first half of it and bought then ''scratch tickets'' with it, the second half, trying to win the jackpot and pay it all back]]. The back story is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts : The protagonist in "Mute," as a result of his wife's addiction. This is combined with NeverWinTheLottery, and she [[spoiler: embezzled sixty thousand dollars and bought ''scratch tickets'' with it, trying to win the jackpot and pay it back]]. The back story is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts : The protagonist in "Mute," as a result of his wife's addiction. This is combined with NeverWinTheLottery, and she [[spoiler: embezzled sixty thousand over 120,000 dollars and bought ''scratch tickets'' with it, trying to win the jackpot and pay it back]]. The back story is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
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* AnimalTesting: In ''The Cat from Hell'' a guy got rich testing a human heart medication on cats. So many died that a cat has come to avenge this.
* AttackTheMouth: The cat in ''The Cat From Hell'' eventually takes out the hitman, who was sent to kill the cat, by leaping into the hitman's mouth, jamming itself in the hitman's throat, and causing him to choke to death.
* AttackTheMouth: The cat in ''The Cat From Hell'' eventually takes out the hitman, who was sent to kill the cat, by leaping into the hitman's mouth, jamming itself in the hitman's throat, and causing him to choke to death.
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* CatsAreMean: ''The Cat from Hell''. [[spoiler:It kills the hitman by first surprising him while driving, causing him to get temporarily paralyzed by the crash, and before it wears off [[AttackTheMouth the cat leaps into the hitman's mouth]], causing the hitman to choke to death as [[OrificeInvasion the cat crawls down his throat]]. Then the cat leaves by doing a ChestBurster through the stomach.]]
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* CatsAreMean: ''The Cat from Hell''. [[spoiler:It kills Hell'' has a cat driven by vengeance. A pharmaceutical company did drug testing that killed a lot of its fellow felines, so it's going after the president of that company, killing anyone in his way, such as the president's sister, her best friend, his servant, and even the hitman by first surprising him while driving, causing him to get temporarily paralyzed by the crash, and before it wears off [[AttackTheMouth president hires.
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* GroinAttack: The cat in ''The Cat from Hell'' goes after a hitman's crotch with its claws as its penultimate attack (in that the hitman screaming left his mouth wide open for attack).
* OrificeInvasion: In ''The Cat from Hell'' the cat leaps into the mouth of a hitman. It then crawls further into the mouth until the hitman starts to choke. Once the hitman dies from that, the cat then crawls all the way inside.
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** The cat in ''The Cat from Hell'' is effectively one, despite having only one deliberate target. It just takes everyone else out before finally going after that person.
