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* AxCrazy: While many of the Butchers may count, the most obvious example, [[spoiler:Abigail Barker]], isn’t one of them, but is institutionalized in a straitjacket in a padded room with the below-mentioned MadnessMantra once it is found out.
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* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:Agent Barker's]] "They Made Me Watch."" First said just when in the midst of murderous hallucinations, it becomes all the speaker says, over and over, once institutionalized.
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Carroll's brutal stabbing to death by Barker, made more shocking by the fact that it was RealAfterAll.]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Alice is the illegitimate daughter of Sheriff Crane and Ed Warren.]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Alice is the illegitimate daughter of Sheriff Crane and Ed Warren. It’s revealed to the doctors at the end of the third arc, and she herself finds out from Crane when she wakes up at the end of the fourth arc.]]
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* PutOnABus: Alice sits the majority of the fourth arc out, due to [[spoiler:being in a coma after being stabbed by the Butcher of Buckaroo]].
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-->'''Barker:''' ... But Finch ''shouldn’t'' be here. [[spoiler:He’s supposed to be on trial for ''murder''.]]
-->'''Barker:''' ... But Finch ''shouldn’t'' be here. [[spoiler:He’s supposed to be on trial for ''murder''.]]
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-->'''Barker:''' ...--->'''Barker:''' ... But Finch ''shouldn’t'' be here. [[spoiler:He’s supposed to be on trial for ''murder''.]]]]
** From the end of the third arc, as Sheriff Crane demands to be allowed [[spoiler:to come in the ambulance bringing Alice away]].
--->'''Crane:''' [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather She's my daughter, dammit.]]]]
** From the end of the first arc.
** From the end of the third arc, as Sheriff Crane demands to be allowed [[spoiler:to come in the ambulance bringing Alice away]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:ThevBucker of Buckaroo]] murders [[spoiler:the Bee-man]] by cutting dismembering him while alive, one limb at a time.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:ThevBucker [[spoiler:The Bucker of Buckaroo]] murders [[spoiler:the Bee-man]] by cutting dismembering him while alive, one limb at a time.
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* ApocslypticLog: A minor example with Alice's notebook, which has her writing "AM I CRAZY?" over and over again.
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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Officer Vaughan, the Devil Killer.]]]] Also a KillerCop.
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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Officer Vaughan, the Devil Killer.]]
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** The third arc closes on [[spoiler:Barker [[ManchurianAgent murdering]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch Carroll]]... and it's ''not'' one of her {{Hallucinations}}]].
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-->'''Warren:''' Oh, I am very much a monster. Just be thankful I'm a monster with principals.
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-->'''Warren:''' Oh, I am very much a monster. Just be thankful I'm a monster with principals.principles.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Warren's word-for-word response to being caught in the same room as a victim of the Devil Killer.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Warren's word-for-word response to being caught in the same room as a victim of the Devil Killer.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Alice is the illegitimate daughter of Sheriff Crane and Ed Warren.]]
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* FrameUp: [[SinisterMinister Reverend Louis Fairgold]] frames Warren with [[spoiler:taking a bite out of Carroll]] to make him a target of the common people. It doesn’t actually fool the main characters, who realize that the act is not in his MO.
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* AffablyEvil: Warren is a pretty nice guy... but also a completely unrepentant SerialKiller.
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* BigBad: TheMaster, creators of the Buckaroo Butchers.
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* {{Crossover}}: With ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', dealing with the Butchers Mister Fatal and Lucha Eliminador in the first and second issue respectively, and taking place before and during Warren being found out as a SerialKiller.
* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler:Warren and Sherrif Crane dated in high school.]] To say she regrets this is an understatement.
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* NobleDemon: Ed "Nailbiter" Warren himself.
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** In Issue 11, Warren goes berserk when Finch begins ripping off his own nails with his teeth, as nails are "his".
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* DrivenToMadness: Habing driven eightbof the Buckaroo Butchers to school over his career, including Billy/Mister Fatal, Lauren/the Blonde and Warren drives Mister Crowe the bus driver completely mad by the present day, leading him to try a MercyKill by drowning the school kids in a lake by driving into it.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mallory in the sixth issue is... weird. She wants to give birth in Buckaroo so her son can grow up to be a SerialKiller and she can be famous. How any of these have to connect to one another is clearly not something she thought hard on, as Alice just finds her utterly bizarre.
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-->'''Barker:''' ... But Finch ''shouldn’t'' be here. [[spoiler:He’s supposed to be on trial for ''murder''.]]
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''Nailbiter'' is a 30-issue comic series published by Creator/ImageComics, written by Joshua Williamson and illustrated by Mike Henderson, ending in March, 2017.
The series centers around the fictional town of Buckaroo, Oregon, which has produced sixteen of the United States' worst serial killers, each one with particular and peculiar motivations. Its most recent creation is Edward Charles Warren, otherwise known as "Nailbiter" due to his predilection for chewing off his victim's nails. By the series's start Warren has been caught by FBI agent Charles Carrol, however Carrol has since gone missing, leaving it up to his friend and intelligence agent Nicholas Finch to search for him. Nicholas decides to start his search in Buckaroo, where he begins to question why the small town has produced so many murderers.
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!!''Nailbiter'' provides examples of:
* BerserkButton:
** The entire town of Buckaroo would rather not be reminded about the serial killer thing.
** Men who catcalled The Blonde suffered some seriously DisproportionateRetribution.
* BlackComedy: Walter Kenney, The Clown Car Killer.
* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: Warren and Sherrif Crane dated in high school.]] To say she regrets this is an understatement.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** The Blonde targeted men who catcalled her. [[spoiler:She would then rip out their tongues, sew their mouths shut, and ended up parading a dozen of them down the street.]]
** The Book Burner was teased for his illiteracy, so he burned down a library, killing five people.
* DrivingQuestion: Why does Buckaroo keep producing serial killers?
* FemmeFatale: The Blonde.
* {{Fingore}}: Right there in the title -- Warren is obsessed with biting fingernails, to the point that he usually ended up chewing the ends of his victims fingers ''off'' as well.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The story arcs, and by extension the collected editions, all contain the word blood in the title.
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted by Edward Warren, beyond fingernails. He's actually annoyed that most people think he is a cannibal.
* InternalHomage: Every issue that begins a new story arc has a character recreating the cover of issue 1.
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:Agent Barker's]] "They Made Me Watch."
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Several of the Butchers, but in particular [[spoiler:The Butcher of Buckaroo]].
* RedRightHand: In a very meta sense - while the art is stylized, Warren is drawn with inhumanly pale skin, yellowing teeth, and due to ArtEvolution, an impossibly high nose.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Carrol's hotel room is a mild example, trying to crack the secret of Buckaroo, but it doesn't have a patch on [[spoiler: Alice's basement.]]
* TortureTechnician: A part of Finch's job. He's good at it, but not proud of it.
* VillainousCrush: Warren has a ''massive'' crush on Sheriff Sharon Crane. [[spoiler: He never got over his feelings for her when they were an item in high school.]]
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''Nailbiter'' is a 30-issue comic series published by Creator/ImageComics, written by Joshua Williamson and illustrated by Mike Henderson, ending in March, 2017.
The series centers around the fictional town of Buckaroo, Oregon, which has produced sixteen of the United States' worst serial killers, each one with particular and peculiar motivations. Its most recent creation is Edward Charles Warren, otherwise known as "Nailbiter" due to his predilection for chewing off his victim's nails. By the series's start Warren has been caught by FBI agent Charles Carrol, however Carrol has since gone missing, leaving it up to his friend and intelligence agent Nicholas Finch to search for him. Nicholas decides to start his search in Buckaroo, where he begins to question why the small town has produced so many murderers.
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!!''Nailbiter'' provides examples of:
* BerserkButton:
** The entire town of Buckaroo would rather not be reminded about the serial killer thing.
** Men who catcalled The Blonde suffered some seriously DisproportionateRetribution.
* BlackComedy: Walter Kenney, The Clown Car Killer.
* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: Warren and Sherrif Crane dated in high school.]] To say she regrets this is an understatement.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** The Blonde targeted men who catcalled her. [[spoiler:She would then rip out their tongues, sew their mouths shut, and ended up parading a dozen of them down the street.]]
** The Book Burner was teased for his illiteracy, so he burned down a library, killing five people.
* DrivingQuestion: Why does Buckaroo keep producing serial killers?
* FemmeFatale: The Blonde.
* {{Fingore}}: Right there in the title -- Warren is obsessed with biting fingernails, to the point that he usually ended up chewing the ends of his victims fingers ''off'' as well.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The story arcs, and by extension the collected editions, all contain the word blood in the title.
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted by Edward Warren, beyond fingernails. He's actually annoyed that most people think he is a cannibal.
* InternalHomage: Every issue that begins a new story arc has a character recreating the cover of issue 1.
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:Agent Barker's]] "They Made Me Watch."
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Several of the Butchers, but in particular [[spoiler:The Butcher of Buckaroo]].
* RedRightHand: In a very meta sense - while the art is stylized, Warren is drawn with inhumanly pale skin, yellowing teeth, and due to ArtEvolution, an impossibly high nose.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Carrol's hotel room is a mild example, trying to crack the secret of Buckaroo, but it doesn't have a patch on [[spoiler: Alice's basement.]]
* TortureTechnician: A part of Finch's job. He's good at it, but not proud of it.
* VillainousCrush: Warren has a ''massive'' crush on Sheriff Sharon Crane. [[spoiler: He never got over his feelings for her when they were an item in high school.]]
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