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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Cynthia annihilates the family one by one in the finale.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Cynthia annihilates the family one all by one herself in the finale.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Pa brutally whips Teddy for molesting Terri's dead body.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Pa brutally whips Teddy for molesting Terri's dead body.]]
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* TragicHero: In a way, [[spoiler: In a way, Cynthia becomes this. While she slaughters the evil family and survives, she is ultimately unable to overcome her mental issues stemming from the death of her baby, as well as the death of her friends. She'll likely stay behind at the old house forever, thinking that the mummified baby Fanny had is her son.]]
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* TragicHero: In a way, [[spoiler: In a way, Cynthia becomes this. While she slaughters the evil family and survives, she is ultimately unable to overcome her mental issues stemming from the death of her baby, as well as the death of her friends. She'll likely stay behind at the old house forever, thinking that the mummified baby Fanny had is her son.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Cynthia annihilates the family one by one in the finale.]]
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: The cellar, which contains the corpses of other people who have encountered Ma and Pa.
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* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Teddy kills Terri.]]
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* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Teddy [[spoiler:Teddy kills Terri.Terri by shaking her with enough force during a scuffle that he accidentally breaks her neck.]]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: The children kill Lynn by strangling her with a jump rope, while Cynthia utilizes a washtub, a figurine of a knight on a horse, and a pair of knitting needles during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: The children kill Lynn by strangling lynching her with a jump rope, while Cynthia utilizes a washtub, a figurine of a knight on a horse, and a pair of knitting needles during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
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* ThereIsNoGod: [[spoiler: Pa comes home to find his family dead at Cynthia’s hands. Distraught, he walks outside to have a chat with the Almighty... and he responds in the form of Cynthia with Pa’s own shotgun...]]
[[spoiler:-->'''Pa''' My God... oh, God... I wanna talk to you! Yes, I do! I want you to listen to me. Listen... my family... is dead! And we lived by your teachings... I beat it into ‘em! I taught it to them! And what have you done? You did away with them! Well, I got news for you... I renounce you, God! ''(sobs) '' ''I renounce you, and I give my soul to Satan!'']]
[[spoiler:-->'''Pa''' My God... oh, God... I wanna talk to you! Yes, I do! I want you to listen to me. Listen... my family... is dead! And we lived by your teachings... I beat it into ‘em! I taught it to them! And what have you done? You did away with them! Well, I got news for you... I renounce you, God! ''(sobs) '' ''I renounce you, and I give my soul to Satan!'']]
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*ThereIsNoGod: [[spoiler: Pa comes home to find his family dead at Cynthia’s hands. Distraught, he walks outside to have a chat with the Almighty... and he responds in the form of Cynthia with Pa’s own shotgun...]]
[[spoiler:-->'''Pa''' My God... oh, God... I wanna talk to you! Yes, I do! I want you to listen to me. Listen... my family... is dead! And we lived by your teachings... I beat it into ‘em! I taught it to them! And what have you done? You did away with them! Well, I got news for you... I renounce you, God! ''(sobs) '' ''I renounce you, and I give my soul to Satan!'']]
[[spoiler:-->'''Pa''' My God... oh, God... I wanna talk to you! Yes, I do! I want you to listen to me. Listen... my family... is dead! And we lived by your teachings... I beat it into ‘em! I taught it to them! And what have you done? You did away with them! Well, I got news for you... I renounce you, God! ''(sobs) '' ''I renounce you, and I give my soul to Satan!'']]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: The children kill Lynn by strangling her with a jump rope, while Cynthia utilizes a washtub, a figurine of a knight on a horse, and a pair of knitting needles during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
*InTheBack: [[spoiler:How Cynthia kills Pa.]]
*InTheBack: [[spoiler:How Cynthia kills Pa.]]
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* LivingDollCollector: What the daughter of a family calls her "big dollies" are actually the corpses of people her parents have murdered.
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* LivingDollCollector: What the daughter of a family Fanny calls her "big dollies" are actually the corpses of people her parents have murdered.
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* FinalGirl: Deconstructed and reconstructed. [[spoiler:The meek and emotionally fragile Cynthia does indeed become the last girl left standing, but in her survival she ends up losing her sanity and does a FaceHeelTurn when she joins the murderous family as a full-fledged member. This doesn't stop her from going [[HeroicBSOD batshit crazy]] on the family and becoming a killer herself, reconstructing the trope as she in her madness takes out the family of killers one by one.]]
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* AmericanGothicCouple: Befitting the film's title, its poster parodies the Grant Wood painting, with Ma and Pa instead of the father and daughter.
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''American Gothic'' is a 1988 horror film directed by John Hough and starring Creator/RodSteiger, Creator/YvonneDeCarlo, Creator/MichaelJPollard, Sarah Torgov, William Hootkins, and Janet Wright.
Following her release from an institution after the accidental drowning death of her baby, Cynthia accompanies her husband Jeff and their friends Rob, Lynn, Paul, and Terri on a weekend getaway. When their seaplane encounters engine trouble, the group is forced to detour to a remote island. Looking for help, they stumble upon a cottage, occupied by the elderly and old-fashioned Ma and Pa and their adult children Fanny, Woody, and Teddy. The horror begins when the group discover just how psychopathic the family is...
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!!"If you don't finish these tropes, you can't be part of the Clean Plate Club!"
* AxCrazy: Ma, Pa, and their family.
* BittersweetEnding: Heavy on the bitter: [[spoiler:Cynthia kills the family and avenges her friends, but is DrivenToMadness by the whole ordeal, as the last shot shows.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:After spending the entire film railing against "sinners", Pa angrily [[ThereIsNoGod renounces God]] after coming home to find his family dead, seconds before Cynthia kills him with his own shotgun.]]
* ILoveTheDead: [[spoiler:After killing Terri, Teddy rips her top off to molest the corpse.]]
* KnightTemplar: Ma and Pa [[MurderIsTheBestSolution don't take kindly to sinners...]]
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Teddy kills Terri.]]
* PsychopathicManChild: Fanny, Woody, and Teddy are grown adults who were never allowed to grow up mentally and are seriously AxCrazy.
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''American Gothic'' is a 1988 horror film directed by John Hough and starring Creator/RodSteiger, Creator/YvonneDeCarlo, Creator/MichaelJPollard, Sarah Torgov, William Hootkins, and Janet Wright.
Following her release from an institution after the accidental drowning death of her baby, Cynthia accompanies her husband Jeff and their friends Rob, Lynn, Paul, and Terri on a weekend getaway. When their seaplane encounters engine trouble, the group is forced to detour to a remote island. Looking for help, they stumble upon a cottage, occupied by the elderly and old-fashioned Ma and Pa and their adult children Fanny, Woody, and Teddy. The horror begins when the group discover just how psychopathic the family is...
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!!"If you don't finish these tropes, you can't be part of the Clean Plate Club!"
* AxCrazy: Ma, Pa, and their family.
* BittersweetEnding: Heavy on the bitter: [[spoiler:Cynthia kills the family and avenges her friends, but is DrivenToMadness by the whole ordeal, as the last shot shows.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:After spending the entire film railing against "sinners", Pa angrily [[ThereIsNoGod renounces God]] after coming home to find his family dead, seconds before Cynthia kills him with his own shotgun.]]
* ILoveTheDead: [[spoiler:After killing Terri, Teddy rips her top off to molest the corpse.]]
* KnightTemplar: Ma and Pa [[MurderIsTheBestSolution don't take kindly to sinners...]]
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Teddy kills Terri.]]
* PsychopathicManChild: Fanny, Woody, and Teddy are grown adults who were never allowed to grow up mentally and are seriously AxCrazy.
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