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* ArcWords: "I am the future"

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* ArcWords: "I am the future"future!"



* BadassTeacher: Mr. Norris when Stegman and his gang go to far.

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* BadassTeacher: Mr. Norris when Stegman and his gang go to too far.
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* BadassTeacher: Mr. Norris when Stegman and his gang go to far.
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* NooseCatch: The fate of Peter Stegman: falling through a skylight and getting strangled to death in the ropes above the stage.

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* NooseCatch: The fate of Peter Stegman: falling through a skylight and getting (either) strangled to death in or having his {{neck snap}}ped by the ropes above the stage.
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** Also, [[spoiler: Terry after the gang targets him by slaughtering the animals in his biology lab. His drinking spirals, culminating in Terry "teaching" Stegman's class at gunpoint.]]

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** Also, [[spoiler: Terry after the gang targets him by slaughtering the animals in his biology lab. His drinking spirals, culminating in Terry "teaching" forcing Stegman's class at gunpoint.]]
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Andy defuses the hostage situation between Terry and Stegman and the rest of the class he's holding at gunpoint and Terry seems to pull himself together and leave, indicating that while Terry's teaching career is most certainly over, and he's probably facing jail time, he might be able to save himself. Then in the very next scene we see him drinking and stalking Stegman and his gang in his car before he attempts to run them over. Unfortunately, he didn't think the gambit through and he pays for it with his life after accidentally crashing.

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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Andy defuses the hostage situation between Terry and Stegman and the rest of the class he's holding at gunpoint and Terry seems to pull himself together and leave, indicating that while Terry's teaching career is most certainly over, and he's probably facing jail time, he might be able to save himself. Then in the very next scene we see him drinking and stalking Stegman and his gang in his car before he attempts to run them over. Unfortunately, he didn't think the gambit through and he pays for it with his life after accidentally crashing. ]]
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Stegman's home life consists of a deceased father (that Peter himself might have possibly killed in the past) and a mother that continues to shelter and make excuses for him as a misunderstood genius, in spite of his long rap sheet of delinquency, beating and rape charges. Rather than humanize him, this gives his sadism an even more loathsome quality, showing that he's an intelligent, promising young man with genuine promise who hurts people for the sheer thrill of it, and squanders his gifts by using them as excuses; he only demonstrates his talent for piano when he tries to force Norris into admitting him to his music class, then complains to the principal that he, "the best pianist in this school", was kept out because Andy has a personal vendetta against him. Best summed up by this exchange:

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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Stegman's home life consists of a deceased father (that Peter himself might have possibly killed in the past) and a mother that continues to shelter and make excuses for him as a misunderstood genius, in spite of his long rap sheet of delinquency, beating and rape charges. Rather than humanize him, this gives his sadism an even more loathsome quality, showing that he's an intelligent, promising intelligent young man with genuine promise who hurts people for the sheer thrill of it, and squanders his gifts by using them as excuses; he only demonstrates his talent for piano when he tries to force Norris into admitting him to his music class, then complains to the principal that he, "the best pianist in this school", was kept out because Andy has a personal vendetta against him. Best summed up by this exchange:
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Stegman's home life consists of a deceased father (that Peter himself might have possibly killed in the past) and a mother that continues to shelter and make excuses for him as a misunderstood genius, in spite of his long rap sheet of delinquency, beating and rape charges. Rather than humanize him, this gives his sadism an even more loathsome quality, showing that he's an intelligent, promising young man with genuine promise who hurts people for the sheer thrill of it, and squanders his gifts by using them as excuses; he only demonstrates his talent for piano when he tries to force Norris into admitting him to his music class, then complains to the principal that he, "the best pianist in this school", was kept out because Andy has a personal vendetta against him. Best summed up by this exchange:
-->'''Andy:''' You know the amazing thing? I think Stegman's actually a brilliant kid.\\
'''Terry:''' ''[dismissive]'' So was the Marquis de Sade.

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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Andy defuses the hostage situation between Terry and Stegman and the rest of the class he's holding at gunpoint and Terry seems to pull himself together and leave, indicating that while Terry's teaching career is most certainly over, and he's probably facing jail time, he might be able to save himself. Then in the very next scene we see him drinking and stalking Stegman and his gang in his car before he attempts to run them over. Unfortunately, he didn't think the gambit through and he pays for it with his life after accidentally crashing.
** After [[spoiler: Terry's death, Andy's wife, who said she would stand by him as long as he stayed at the school changes her mind and elects to stay with her mother until after the baby is born. She doesn't leave soon enough to avoid being attacked by Stegman and his gang.]]



* LargeHam: [[spoiler: While McDowall's performance is really understated and chilling throughout most of the film, he really lets loose in the scene where he's trying to run over Stegman, cackling and shrieking maniacally.]]



* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: Stegman proves to be one when he is really pure evil by raping Andrew Norris' wife and slaughtering one of his teachers rabbits, making the teacher lose his sanity as a result.]]

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* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: Stegman proves to be one when he is really pure evil by raping Andrew Norris' wife and slaughtering one of his teachers rabbits, Terry Corrigan's biology animals and putting them on display, making the teacher Terry lose his sanity as a result.]]
** [[spoiler: After Terry's car flips and explodes, a number of the gang members crow around the wreck, even warming their hands on it like the explosion that killed Terry is nothing more than a campfire.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Terry Corrigan, Andy's only real ally at the school, dies at the beginning of the third act in an attempt to take out Stegman.]]

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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Terry Corrigan, Andy's only real ally at the school, dies at the beginning of the third act in an attempt to take out Stegman.Stegman, driving home the point that Andy's not safe either, and neither is his wife.]]



* SoreLoser: Terry considers himself the one.

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* SoreLoser: Terry considers himself the one.to be one, calling himself a failure as a teacher.
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* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: Terry display all of this when he finally faces down Stegman with his .45 to ask him what an amphibian is.

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* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: Terry display all of this when he finally faces down Stegman with his .45 to ask him what an amphibian is.]]
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'''Andy Norris:''' We're going to have to work with him Terry.
'''Terry Corrigan:''' Oh but Andrew that's going to take an awful lot of work....Ad this would be so much EASIER.

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'''Andy -->'''Andy Norris:''' We're going to have to work with him Terry.
'''Terry -->'''Terry Corrigan:''' Oh Oh, but Andrew that's going to take an awful lot of work....Ad And this would be so much EASIER.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: All the gang are dead and Andy gets away with the killings because there were no witnesses. He and his wife still have to put up with the trauma of the events, not to mention every student in the school seeing Stegman die by hanging, and the likable Terry didn't survivoe to see Stegman's end]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: All the gang are dead and Andy gets away with the killings because there were no witnesses. He and his wife still have to put up with the trauma of the events, not to mention every student in the school seeing Stegman die by hanging, and the likable Terry didn't survivoe survive to see Stegman's end]].



* DramaticGunCock: After [[Stegman is too scared or unable to answer Terry's biology question, Terry cocks the hammer of the .45 he's holding preparing to shoot Stegman.]]

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* DramaticGunCock: After [[Stegman [[spoiler: Stegman is too scared or unable to answer Terry's biology question, Terry cocks the hammer of the .45 he's holding preparing to shoot Stegman.]]


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* FromBadToWorse: The battle between Andy and Stegman gets more and more brutal as the film goes on.
** [[spoiler: Terry's life also spirals once he reluctantly quits hiding in the background, to the point where his lab animals get slaughtered, his alcoholism worsens, he becomes mentally unstable and ends his teaching career by threatening Stegman and his gang to answer questions with a gun. Then he dies trying to kill Stegman.]]


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* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler: After Terry's car flips over in the crash, the underside is quickly engulfed in flames, and the entire car explodes.]]


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* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: Terry display all of this when he finally faces down Stegman with his .45 to ask him what an amphibian is.
-->'''Terry Corrigan:''' Mr. Stegman. What is an amphibian? You should know...We had such a..Wonderful display..Hanging on our wall...You don't know? That's too baad...You....Do not pass....
'''Andy Norris:''' We're going to have to work with him Terry.
'''Terry Corrigan:''' Oh but Andrew that's going to take an awful lot of work....Ad this would be so much EASIER.

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** Also, [[spoiler: Terry after the gang targets him by slaughtering the animals in his biology lab. His drinking spirals, culminating in Terry "teaching" Stegman's class at gunpoint.]]



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: All the gang are dead and Andy gets away with the killings because there were no witnesses. He and his wife still have to put up with the trauma of the events, not to mention every student in the school seeing Stegman die by hanging]].

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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: After kidnapping Andy's wife, the laid-back music teacher slaughters every male member of Stegman's gang, then Stegman himself.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: All the gang are dead and Andy gets away with the killings because there were no witnesses. He and his wife still have to put up with the trauma of the events, not to mention every student in the school seeing Stegman die by hanging]].hanging, and the likable Terry didn't survivoe to see Stegman's end]].



* FanserviceExtra: One girl at the club flashes her breasts. For the other side, the shirtless band member on stage.

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* FanserviceExtra: One girl at the club flashes her breasts. Also, a girl trying to get a job working for Stegman goes completely nude. For the other side, the shirtless band member on stage.



** Played with. [[spoiler: Any stops Terry from shooting Stegman in the head. As a result, Terry goes completely insane and dies trying to kill Stegman with his car later, and Stegman takes advantage of Andy being away from home to corner Andy's wife, where he and the rest of his male cohorts gang rape her.]]

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** Played with. [[spoiler: Any stops Terry from shooting Stegman in the head. As a result, Terry goes completely insane and dies trying to kill Stegman with his car later, and Stegman takes advantage of Andy being away from home a few days later to corner Andy's wife, where he and the rest of his male cohorts gang rape her.]]



* TheLancer: Terry Corrigan is a very reluctant one to Andy Norris. [[spoiler: considering his fate in the film, he wasn't entirely wrong being hesitant.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Stegman spends the whole film running rampant because he's a minor and there are no witnesses to his crimes so he's almost never arrested, and when he is, he's only held briefly due to lack of evidence. After Andy kills him, as well as most of the rest of his gang, Andy isn't prosecuted and gets away with killing him completely because...The police couldn't find any witnesses to Stegman's murder.]]

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* TheLancer: Terry Corrigan is a very reluctant one to Andy Norris. [[spoiler: considering Considering his eventual fate in the film, he wasn't entirely wrong being hesitant.hesitant, no matter how morally right it was.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Stegman spends the whole film running rampant because he's a minor and there are no witnesses to his crimes so he's almost never arrested, and when he is, he's only held briefly due to lack of evidence. arrested. After Andy kills him, as well as most of the rest of his gang, Andy isn't prosecuted and gets away with killing him completely all of them completely, because...The police couldn't find any witnesses to Stegman's murder.]]

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* TheAlcoholic: Terry Corrigan is completely disillusioned and drinks to compensate. His drinking only worsens [[spoiler: when he starts reluctantly teaming up with Andy. After Stegman and his gang get revenge by slaughtering and displaying every animal in his biology lab, Terry is inconsolable and his drinking becomes rampant.]]



* AndStarring: And Creator/RoddyMcDowall as Corrigan.



** Also, [[spoiler: after Terry's "teaching by .45 automatic" class is stopped by Andy, Terry, drunken and crazy, attempts to run over Stegman and the rest of the gang with his car. Sadly, it ends poorly for Terry.]]



* ChekhovsGun: Literally. Terry Corrigan carries a loaded Colt .45 in his briefcase. [[spoiler: After Stegman and his gang drive him to the breaking point, he uses it to teach a biology class where it would be lethal for the students if they get one of his questions wrong.]]



* DramaticGunCock: After [[Stegman is too scared or unable to answer Terry's biology question, Terry cocks the hammer of the .45 he's holding preparing to shoot Stegman.]]



* GunStruggle: A brief one [[spoiler: when Andy disarms Terry.]]



* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: After being driven to drink and insanity by Stegman and his gang, Terry Corrigan holds the entire class at gunpoint and asks them biology questions. Terry seems poised to shoot anyone that answers incorrectly, but Andy disarms him before he can actually kill anyone.]]
** At the end, [[spoiler: Stegman's gang takes Andy's wife hostage in order to try to get Andy alone to kill him.]]



** Terry is trying to kill Stegman hitting his with his car. Granted, he is already insane at that point.

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** Played with. [[spoiler: Any stops Terry is from shooting Stegman in the head. As a result, Terry goes completely insane and dies trying to kill Stegman with his car later, and Stegman takes advantage of Andy being away from home to corner Andy's wife, where he and the rest of his male cohorts gang rape her.]]
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to kill Stegman hitting his with his car. Granted, he is already insane at that point.point, still, it ends poorly for him.]]


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* TheLancer: Terry Corrigan is a very reluctant one to Andy Norris. [[spoiler: considering his fate in the film, he wasn't entirely wrong being hesitant.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Stegman spends the whole film running rampant because he's a minor and there are no witnesses to his crimes so he's almost never arrested, and when he is, he's only held briefly due to lack of evidence. After Andy kills him, as well as most of the rest of his gang, Andy isn't prosecuted and gets away with killing him completely because...The police couldn't find any witnesses to Stegman's murder.]]


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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Andy and Terry [[spoiler: intervene when Stegman is attempting to maim and possibly kill Arthur and Deneen. Terry loses his animals, probably his teaching career after he holds Stegman's class at gunpoint, and eventually his life when he tries to kill Stegman and fails. Andy loses his car, and his wife is gang raped by Stegman and his gang. They attempt to murder Andy as well.]]


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* OnlySaneMan: Terry believes himself to be one, telling Andy to keep his head down and go through the motions. [[spoiler: Ironically, the moment he becomes Andy's lancer, he gets a target on his back and things go horribly for him.]]


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** Terry has one [[spoiler: after the gang slaughters and displays the animals in his biology lab, to the point where he attempts to run Stegman down with his car. Sadly, he fails.]]


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** [[spoiler: Terry attempts one after Andy prevents him from shooting Stegman by trying to run him over with his car, but he crashes and burns instead.]]


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* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Arthur's friend trips out on the PCP Stegman's gang gives him and he climbs the top of the flagpole before falling to his death.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Terry Corrigan, Andy's only real ally at the school, dies at the beginning of the third act in an attempt to take out Stegman.]]


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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Andy literally saves Stegman from taking a bullet to the head. Instead of backing off from the feud, it only intensifies between the pair to the point where Stegman and his gang rape Andy's wife and take her hostage.]]

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Berserk Button is not appropriate for obviously rage-inducing atrocities like this, so Rage Breaking Point is more fitting


* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: When Andy discovers that his wife has been kidnapped and raped, he goes ballistic and kills each member of the gang]].



* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: When Andy discovers that his wife has been kidnapped and raped, he goes ballistic and kills each member of the gang]].



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:[[spoiler: Andy's course of action after seeing the photo of his wife being raped.]]

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It received a thematic sequel in 1990, ''Film/ClassOf1999''.
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* NooseCatch: The fate of Peter Stegman: falling through a skylight and getting strangled to death in the ropes above the stage.

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* DirtyCoward: Stegman [[spoiler:begs Andy to pull him up to safety while stating that he's "just a kid", then tries to stab him while his guard is down. Thankfully, it doesn't work out and he gets [[KarmicDeath what he deserves]].]]
* DisappearedDad: Implied to be Stegman's FreudianExcuse.

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* DirtyCoward: Stegman [[spoiler:begs Andy to pull him up to safety while stating that he's "just a kid", then tries to stab him while and his guard is down. Thankfully, it doesn't work out gang can talk tough when they've got weapons and he gets [[KarmicDeath what he deserves]].]]
* DisappearedDad: Implied
numbers on their victims but they all to be a one freeze in terror when Terry brandishes a gun at him, so shocked they answer questions in his class. In the end [[spoiler:Patsy gives up Stegman's FreudianExcuse.location out of fear of Andy's wrath and Stegman himself tries pleading for his life before trying to stab Andy to death]].



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: With the exception of Stegman, the gang genuinely seem to care for one another, being furious when they find Fallon dead. Barnyard screams Drugstore's real name ("Joshua") when he thinks he's in trouble and is driven into a mad fury to avenge him. Stegman, by contrast, doesn't give a damn.


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* VillainousFriendship: Barnyard screams Drugstore's real name ("Joshua") when he thinks he's in trouble and is driven into a mad fury to avenge him after he's mortally wounded by Andy.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Stegman and the rest of his gang. They're Neo-Nazis.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Stegman and the rest of his gang. They're vocal Neo-Nazis.



* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Stegman and his gang rape Andy's wife.]]

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Stegman and his gang rape Andy's wife.pregnant wife. This ends up being the last straw for Andy.]]



* TeenageWasteland: The school and the town are well on their way to becoming this.

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* TeenageWasteland: The school and the town are well on their way to becoming this. Stegman himself runs a miniature club version of this, as a drug dealer and pimp who recruits various young girls and boys to earn him money.
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* DirtyCoward: Stegman [[spoiler:begs Andy to pull him up to safety while stating that he's "just a kid", then tries to stab him while his guard is down. Thankfully, it doesn't work out and he gets [[KarmicDeath what he deserves]].]]

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Wait nevermind, I'm fucking blind and dumb as shit lol. It literally says she's Stegman's girlfriend.


* DepravedBisexual: Patsy, Stegman's girlfriend, checks out the coke-head applicant, and watches Fallon put her through 'tryouts'. She also seems to greatly enjoy watching the gangrape.



* PsychoLesbian: Patsy, Stegman's girlfriend, checks out the coke-head applicant, and watches Fallon put her through 'tryouts'. She also seems to greatly enjoy watching the gangrape.

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Bisexuals are into guys as well, and this doesn't really explain how Patsy is that.


* DepravedBisexual: Patsy, Stegman's girlfriend, checks out the coke-head applicant, and watches Fallon put her through 'tryouts'. She also seems to greatly enjoy watching the gang-rape.


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* PsychoLesbian: Patsy, Stegman's girlfriend, checks out the coke-head applicant, and watches Fallon put her through 'tryouts'. She also seems to greatly enjoy watching the gangrape.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Averted with the gang who all die brutal deaths. But Andy gets away with killing them although he is a sympathetic version of this trope.]]

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