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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Except for possibly Pluto, every Tethered is driven to kill their counterpart above ground and will stop at nothing to make sure it happens.

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LupitaNyongo, Madison Curry (as a child), Ashley [=McKoy=] (as a teenager)

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WinstonDuke

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Shahadi Wright Joseph

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Evan Alex

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LupitaNyongo, Madison Curry (as a child), Ashley Mckoy (as a teenager)

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WinstonDuke

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Shahadi Wright Joseph

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Evan Alex

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->'''Portrayed By:''' [[Creator/TimAndEric Tim Heidecker]]

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ElisabethMoss

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Cali and Noelle Sheldon

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->'''Portrayed By:''' [[Creator/TimAndEric Tim Heidecker]]

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Cali and Noelle Sheldon

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* AGodAmI: When she gives her MotiveRant where she reveals herself as the leader of the Tethered.



* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: In her proper introduction, Red tells the story of a little girl and her shadow, with her being both the shadow and the "original" little girl.
* TheBadGuyWins: Although Adelaide manages to get away, Red succeeds in sparking the Tethereds' revolution, and the ending implies that she's managed to turn Jason against his mother, thus jeopardizing Adelaide's secret.
* BestServedCold: She spends literal ''decades'' plotting her revenge against her Tethered, and the entire movie is devoted to her execution of said revenge.



* BoomerangBigot: Despite her FantasticRacism towards humans, Red herself actually ''is'' human.
* TheChessmaster: Red plays both the Wilsons and the rest of American like a fiddle, and the movie ends with her uprising already in full effect.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even she finds Umbrae's sadism to be disturbing, calling her "a monster".



* FromNobodyToNightmare: She went from a ordinary little girl to the Tethered's DarkMessiah, who leads a revolution that involves killing all of their original counterparts.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Raspy voice aside, Red is perpetually calm and well-spoken, especially during her confrontation with Adelaide in the climax.
* FreudianExcuse: She was captured, trapped in the Tethered world, and replaced by her own Tethered, leading to her going insane and becoming violently delusional as an adult.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She went from a an ordinary little girl to the Tethered's DarkMessiah, who leads a revolution that involves killing all of their original counterparts.counterparts.
* AGodAmI: When she gives her MotiveRant where she reveals herself as the leader of the Tethered.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Spending decades separated from the rest of humanity while being forced to live among feral, psychotic replicas has ''not'' done Red's sanity any good.


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* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: In her efforts to get revenge on her Tethered for replacing her, Red becomes just as monstrous and sociopathic as the rest of them, if not more so.


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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Seeks to get revenge on the Tethered who replaced her and send a message to the world about the horrid conditions that the Tethered are forced to suffer through.
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* NothingIsScarier: One of the most disturbing things about them is how ''little'' we actually know about them. All we know is that they were government experiments. We don't know exactly what for, we don't know how they were made, we don't even know exactly ''what they '''are'''''. The best we know is that they were used to possibly control their original counterparts, but that is about it. And if that's the case, why would the government even want to do that in the first place?

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* NothingIsScarier: One of the most disturbing things about them is how ''little'' we actually know about them. All we know is that they were potentially government experiments. We don't know exactly what for, we don't know how they were made, we don't even know exactly ''what they '''are'''''. The best we know is that they were used to possibly control their original counterparts, but that is about it. And if that's the case, why would the government even want to do that in the first place?
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When Adelaide tells him about her past, he comforts her and tries to lighten the mood. See BewareTheNiceOnes
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* EldritchAbomination: It's strongly hinted that the Tethered aren't of this world. For every individual human being born in the continental United States, there seems to be a Tethered that spontaneously manifests in their exact likeness. Furthermore, they don't respond to pain at all and exhibit a cold, alien mentality free of remorse, they show horrifying levels of coordination when killing people as if they were a single organism, and their true origins and the identities of their creators remain unknown. On top of that, ''[[TheBadGuyWins they may actually succeed in slaying the whole population of America at the end,]]'' and would be free to accomplish their mysterious goals unchallenged.
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* StageMagician: Jason seems to be an aspiring one. He wears a lighter ring for magic tricks, and his pajamas look like a tuxedo.
In the end, [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat he keeps one of the rabbits from the facility as a pet]].]]


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* SecretSecretKeeper: It's implied at the end through a DisapprovingLook [[spoiler: that Jason suspects his mother of being Red and not the real Adelaide]].
* StageMagician: Jason seems to be an aspiring one. He wears a lighter ring for magic tricks, and his pajamas look like a tuxedo. [[spoiler: In the end, [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat he keeps one of the rabbits from the facility as a pet]].]]

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* SecretSecretKeeper: It's implied at the end through a DisapprovingLook [[spoiler: that Jason suspects his mother of being Red and not the real Adelaide]].
Adelaide.
* StageMagician: Jason seems to be an aspiring one. He wears a lighter ring for magic tricks, and his pajamas look like a tuxedo. [[spoiler:
In the end, [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat he keeps one of the rabbits from the facility as a pet]].]]]]

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* ScaryBlackWoman: She is a terrifyingly murderous black woman who speaks with a creepy and raspy ContraltoOfDanger.

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* ScaryBlackWoman: She is a terrifyingly murderous black woman who speaks with a creepy and raspy ContraltoOfDanger.contralto.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: As the Tyler twins say, he's weird. Zora admits that he has trouble focusing. He's fixated on his sparking magic trick, and is almost never seen without his wolfman mask. This has led to some EpilepticTrees over whether or not his Tethered heritage caused some odd mental effects, or whether he's simply a neurodivergent child.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: As the Tyler twins say, he's weird. Zora admits that he has trouble focusing. He's fixated on his sparking magic trick, and is almost never seen without his wolfman mask. This has led to some EpilepticTrees over whether or not his Tethered heritage caused some odd mental effects, or whether he's simply a neurodivergent child.
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* ScaryBlackWoman: She is a terrifyingly murderous Black woman who speaks with a creepy and raspy ContraltoOfDanger.

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* ScaryBlackWoman: She is a terrifyingly murderous Black black woman who speaks with a creepy and raspy ContraltoOfDanger.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: He is an upper-middle-class slacker who would rather relax on his easy chair, take a sip of his drink, and listen to music than look out for intruders at his house that his wife noticed.
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* GolfClubbing: She arms herself with a golf club when entering the Tylers' house, and manages to take down Io and Nix with it. It remains her WeaponOfChoice for the rest of the film.

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* GolfClubbing: She arms herself with a golf club when entering the Tylers' house, and manages to take down Io and Nix with it. It remains her WeaponOfChoice weapon for the rest of the film.
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* UncannyValley: InvokedTrope. Both in the sense that they are ''literal doppelgängers'', and in the whole way they move and act.
* WeaponOfChoice: Their default weapon is scissors, but Pluto the pyromaniac prefers fire.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Aside from Becca seeming more abrasive than her twin, the only obvious distinction between them is that Becca favors wearing light blue while Lindsey prefers black shirts with the names of rock bands.

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