History Characters / TheLostBoys

* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: David turns Michael after goading him into a race and offering him "wine".

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted as Star appears to be David's girlfriend but starts taking an interest in Michael, who, while still a teen rebel, is a nicer guy than David. The trope is also deconstructed in that even though we don't know how Star came to be involved with David, she doesn't seem to enjoy the life of a vampire very much, since [[spoiler:she refuses to kill, even when David intentionally sets her up with Michael so that he can be her first kill, and the two end up having sex instead]].

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted with Star and David, since she since starts taking an interest in Michael, who, while still a teen rebel, is a nicer guy than David. The trope is also deconstructed in that even though we don't know how Star came to be involved with David, she doesn't seem to enjoy the life of a vampire very much, since [[spoiler:she refuses to kill, even when David intentionally sets her up with Michael so that he can be her first kill, and the two end up having sex instead]].

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-->'''Star''': What do you mean?\\
'''Michael''': Ex-hippies. I came this close to being called Moon Beam or Moon Child or something.

--> '''David:''' ''(to Michael as he's eating some of the Chinese food)'' Maggots. You're eating maggots, Michael, how do they taste?
--> '''Star:''' ''(to Michael as he is about to drink from the bottle of "red wine")'' Don't. It's blood.

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Michael lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his younger brother Sam until the divorce of their parents. Michael and Sam moved with their mother Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their maternal grandpa because they were flat broke.

* SexEqualsLove: Michael and Star really don't share that many lines with each other before they [[spoiler: have sex halfway through the film.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: Michael and Star's first time, which shows them kissing on a bed then cuts to images of clouds in the sky. [[spoiler: The faint bat-noises and constantly shifting camera angles imply that this is actually the POV of the Lost Boys returning home right before sunrise, which might explain why David wasn't upset about Star having sex with Michael instead of making him her first kill; he was in too much of a hurry to get to the cave before sunrise to notice!]] While the original scene lasted about three times longer, it didn't get any more explicit (you can't even be sure if Star is actually topless or Michael just slid down the straps of her camisole).
* {{Totally 18}}: Michael is eighteen during The Lost Boys.
* {{Wacky Racing}}: Michael is challenged by David to a deadly motorcycle race, which Michael loses.

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* {{Attack on the Heart}}: Through the use of his crossbow, Sam kills Dwayne by impaling him into the radio.

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Sam lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his older brother Michael until the divorce of their parents. Sam and Michael moved with their mother Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their maternal grandpa because they were flat broke.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Lucy doesn't believe there are vampires; she believes the more rational explanation that her sons are having trouble coping with the idea of her dating again. Ironically, her current boyfriend [[spoiler: turns out to be the head vampire, who had his "boys" target her sons for recruitment/turning so she would join willingly and complete the "family".]]

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Lucy packed up and took her sons with her from Phoenix, Arizona, to live with her eccentric, widowed father in Santa Carla, California.

* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler: Lucy is willing to let Max bite her in order to spare Michael and Sam. Grandpa saves her from this fate at the last second by crashing his jeep into the house, sending a stake flying through Max's heart.]]

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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Grandpa with his Cool Car]] saves the day in the end.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Grandpa seems to be just another senile old guy, until the end where [[spoiler: his car explodes into the house, killing Max, and it's revealed that he knew Santa Clara was infested with vampires all along.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: He's immediately killed off in ''Comicbook/TheLostBoysTheLostGirl''.]]

--> '''Sam:''' Wait, wait. You ''have'' a TV?
--> '''Grandpa:''' No. I just like to read the TV Guide. Read the TV Guide, you don't need a TV.

!! Vampires

* FeralVampires: One of the [[TropeMaker Trope Makers]]. Instead of being [[VampiresAreRich glamorous aristocrats]], the vampires are portrayed as nomadic hoodlums.

--> '''David:''' In 1906, when the big one hit San Francisco, the ground opened up, and this place took a header, right into the crack. So now it’s ours.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Along with ''Film/NearDark'', this movie rewrote the book on vampires, in the same way ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' and ''Film/TheHowling'' (also both in the same year) rewrote the book on werewolves. Notably, while they have many of the folkloric strengths and weaknesses (even sleeping in native soil is alluded to, with the vampires' lair described as "one big coffin"), the one they play with the most is the "invitation". [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' enter a residence uninvited, but if you ''do'' invite them, you lose all power over them while inside, including attempting to exploit any weaknesses vampires naturally have.]]

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* TheDragon: While initially appearing to be the BigBad, [[spoiler: David is actually this to Max, the actual BigBad.]]

* {{Wacky Racing}}: David challenges Michael to a deadly motorcycle race, which David wins.

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* {{Abusive Parents}}: In the novelization, she comments that her father wished she'd never been born and her mother once almost killed her.

* IllGirl: She became a vampire to escape cystic fibrosis.

* {{Parental Substitute}}: Star is very overprotective of Laddie.
* SexEqualsLove: Star and Michael really don't share that many lines with each other before they [[spoiler: have sex halfway through the film.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: Star and Michael's first time, which shows them kissing on a bed then cuts to images of clouds in the sky. [[spoiler: The faint bat-noises and constantly shifting camera angles imply that this is actually the POV of the Lost Boys returning home right before sunrise, which might explain why David wasn't upset about Star having sex with Michael instead of making him her first kill; he was in too much of a hurry to get to the cave before sunrise to notice!]] While the original scene lasted about three times longer, it didn't get any more explicit (you can't even be sure if Star is actually topless or Michael just slid down the straps of her camisole).
* {{Snicket Warning Label}}: Star warns Michael not to drink from an offered bottle, warning it is blood, but he ignores her advice.

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* {{Number Two}}: Marko was the one who brought the 'wine bottle' containing vampire blood to David.

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* {{Attack on the Heart}}: He gets shot in the chest with arrow by Sam (presumably near the heart) and is thrown and pinned into the stereo, where he is electrocuted until he explodes.

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* SuddenlySpeaking: He doesn't have a single line as a vampire apart from snarls, [[spoiler: but he cries out Star's name exuberantly once cured]].

** Edgar wears Franchise/{{Rambo}}'s red bandana and the way he speaks feels like a Creator/SylvesterStallone impression.

* ShoutOut: Edgar and Alan are named in honor of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: At first the BigBad seems to be David, the vampire pack leader trying to corrupt the main character into joining him, but it's revealed at the end that he answers to Max, who wants Sam and Michael's entire family turned.

* TheQuietOne: Marko has the least lines among all leading and supporting cast members - and by extension the four Lost Boys.

* NomDeMom: The comic ''The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs'' has Grandpa referred to as "Mr. Emerson", which would mean Michael and Sam reverted to their mother's surname after their parents' divorce.

* NomDeMom: The comic ''The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs'' has Grandpa referred to as "Mr. Emerson", which would mean Michael and Sam reverted to their mother's surname after their parents' divorce.

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Michael lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his younger brother Sam, where they lived until the divorce of their parents. Michael and Sam moved with Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their Grandpa because they were flat broke.

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Sam lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his older brother Michael, where they lived until the divorce of their parents. Sam and Michael moved with Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their Grandpa because they were flat broke.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: Vampires can defy gravity to some extent. Gravity has little meaning to vampires.

* {{Flight}}: Vampires can defy gravity to some extent. Gravity has little meaning to vampires.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: Vampires can defy gravity to some extent. Gravity has little meaning to vampires.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: Vampires can defy gravity to some extent. Gravity has little meaning to vampires.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: Vampires can defy gravity to some extent. Gravity has little meaning to vampires.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.

* AffablyEvil: He might enjoy carnage and mischief, but David does seem to genuinely like Michael and aside from a group of Surf-Nazis he's never shown attacking someone who didn't get on his bad side first.

* AffablyEvil: He might enjoy carnage and mischief, but David does seem to genuinely like Michael and aside from a group of surfers he's never shown attacking someone unprovoked.
* DarkReprise: [[spoiler: David repeats Grandpa's closing line in ''The Lost Girl'', only he specifies "vampire hunters".]]