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Written by Creator/AlanMoore, ''Cinema Purgatorio'' was a comic series published by Creator/AvatarPress and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Beginning in 2016 and concluding in 2019, it was one of Moore's final works before his retirement in 2019. This series the centerpiece of a larger AnthologyComic, also titled ''Cinema Purgatorio'', where it ran alongside the {{Urban Fantas|y}}ies ''Code Pru'' and ''The Vast'', the AlternateHistory ''A More Perfect Union'', and the Apocalyptic fantasy ''Modded''.

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Written by Creator/AlanMoore, ''Cinema Purgatorio'' was a comic series published by Creator/AvatarPress and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Beginning in 2016 and concluding in 2019, it was one of Moore's final works before his retirement in 2019. This series was the centerpiece of a larger AnthologyComic, also titled ''Cinema Purgatorio'', where it ran alongside the {{Urban Fantas|y}}ies ''Code Pru'' and ''The Vast'', the AlternateHistory ''A More Perfect Union'', and the Apocalyptic fantasy ''Modded''.
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Written by Creator/AlanMoore, ''Cinema Purgatorio'' was a comic book anthology series published by Creator/AvatarPress and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Beginning in 2016 and concluding in 2019, it was one of Moore's final works before his retirement in 2019. This series was part of a larger AnthologyComic, also titled ''Cinema Purgatorio'', where it ran alongside the {{Urban Fantas|y}}ies ''Code Pru'' and ''The Vast'', the AlternateHistory ''A More Perfect Union'', and the Apocalyptic fantasy ''Modded''.

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Written by Creator/AlanMoore, ''Cinema Purgatorio'' was a comic book anthology series series published by Creator/AvatarPress and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Beginning in 2016 and concluding in 2019, it was one of Moore's final works before his retirement in 2019. This series was part the centerpiece of a larger AnthologyComic, also titled ''Cinema Purgatorio'', where it ran alongside the {{Urban Fantas|y}}ies ''Code Pru'' and ''The Vast'', the AlternateHistory ''A More Perfect Union'', and the Apocalyptic fantasy ''Modded''.
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* TokenGoodCop: Played for BlackComedy. In ''Hushed Up!'', a slapstick shootout between cops and robbers gets all the bystanders killed with their reckless aiming. Only one cop shows anger and calls attention to this, which gets him shot at the end by another member of the force to cover it up.
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* BugWar: "A More Perfect Union" features the forces of the United States under General Lee fighting giant ants.
* GoodTamingEvilTaming: The Americans in "The Vast" bond one trainer per kaiju, treating it with kindness. The Russians use a mass-production approach of beating them into submission.


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* {{Kaiju}}: The monsters in "The Vast" are actually referred to as Kaiju, being mutated creatures mutated beyond recognition.
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* CharacterFilibuster: From ''A King at Twilight'' onward, the protagonists of most of the biopics spend their time monologuing about their life story, troubles in Hollywood, or other random tidbits they know. {{Lampshaded}} by the protagonist in the final issue, where she admits she hates that the movies do this and fervidly believes in ShowDontTell.

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* CharacterFilibuster: From ''A King at Twilight'' onward, the protagonists of most of the biopics spend their time monologuing about their life story, troubles in Hollywood, or other random tidbits they know. {{Lampshaded}} by the protagonist in the final issue, where she admits she hates that the movies that do this and fervidly believes in ShowDontTell.

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* NoNameGiven: The protagonist is never given a name.



* TheyJustDontGetIt: The protagonist is really dense over what the films are actually trying to tell her, up to the end of ''Helluva Girl'' [[spoiler:being a recreation of ''her life'', including murdering her daughter and being shanked in a prison shower. It's not until she gets to that last line does it finally click.]]



** ''One Hell of a Girl'' has the woman trying to clean in the prison showers surrounded by numerous prisoners with screwdrivers. But for what reason?

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** ''One Hell of a Girl'' has the woman mother trying to clean in the prison showers suddenly surrounded by numerous prisoners with screwdrivers. But for what reason?

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* TheOneGuy: Mr. Flicker is the only man in the theatre staff [[spoiler: protagonist included. Considering that the cinema is revealed to be an afterlife and the staff is being punished for their crimes, this as some implications about the criteria. Noticeably, one of them is there for providing victim to her husband, yet said husband doesn't seem to be among the damned souls there.]]



* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted, Mr. Flicker is the only man in the theatre staff [[spoiler: protagonist included. Considering that the cinema is revealed to be an afterlife and the staff is being punished for their crimes, this as some implications about the criteria. Noticeably, one of them is there for providing victim to her husband, yet said husband doesn't seem to be among the damned souls there.]]
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* BornInTheTheatre: Played for horror in ''The Picture Palace Mystery''-- the EldritchAbomination that menaces the protagonists can be just as easily explained as a hair in the projector gate and the film jamming and melting. Unlike most examples of this trope, the characters never consider this, or may even be ''unable'' to. It's briefly played for laughs in the beginning, when Aunt Millie complains that her previous projectionists snuck out parts of her film reels [[PoorMansPorn that could only be called fanservice in the loosest sense of the term]] -- the scene immediately hard cuts to Aunt Millie bringing the Clue Club to the theater after they returned from a family beach trip.

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* BornInTheTheatre: Played for horror in ''The Picture Palace Mystery''-- the EldritchAbomination that menaces the protagonists can be just as easily explained as a hair in the projector gate and the film jamming and melting. Unlike most examples of this trope, the characters never consider this, or may even be ''unable'' to. It's briefly played for laughs in the beginning, when Aunt Millie complains that her previous projectionists snuck out parts of her film reels [[PoorMansPorn that could only be called fanservice in the loosest sense of the term]] -- term]]; the scene immediately hard cuts to Aunt Millie bringing the Clue Club to the theater after they returned from a family beach trip.trip, implying her scenes during the missing sequence were subjected to the same treatment.

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