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* ClockPunk: The life-prolonging Cronos Device is a bio-mechanical clockwork artifact.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Angel starts loudly celebrating and laughing when he sees [[spoiler: Dieter bleeding out on the floor, presuming him to be dead.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Angel is pretty charming when he wants to be.
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* AffablyEvil: Angel is pretty charming when he wants to be. According to Guillermo del Toro himself, Angel probably could have been a friend under different circumstances but unfortunately is unable to think of any solutions to his problems outside of using violence.
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* CrueltyByFeet: Dieter [[spoiler: survives being smacked by Aurora and fed on by Jesús and asks Angel for help. Angel, who'd been celebrating his uncle's death, decides he's had enough and presses his foot to Dieter's throat, killing him.]]
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* CrueltyByFeet: Dieter [[spoiler:survives being smacked by Aurora and fed on by Jesús and asks Angel for help. Angel, who'd been celebrating his uncle's death, decides he's had enough and presses his foot to Dieter's throat, killing him]].
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* HemoErotic: The direction Jesús's actor was given for licking a daub of blood off the floor of a public bathroom? "Lick it like it's champagne in a beautiful woman's navel. Savor it."
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* VoluntaryVampireVictim: Aurora is never afraid of her grandfather, even as he changes quite grotesquely, and helps him however she can, though she doesn't quite grasp the danger of it. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, she sees he's fascinated by a cut on her hand and offers it to him, saying his name. Jesús is tempted, but so revolted with himself that he smashes the scarab, somehow getting home to die in his bed.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Whenever Jesús uses the device, he slips away to do it in some lonely place, leaving his wife and bedroom for the stairwell, or the bathroom, and sometimes has to wave away the attention of other characters. In the commentary del Toro says that this is both part of the addiction metaphor and playing on the sensuality inherent to so much vampire fiction, in this case a 'lonely' sensuality.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: Using the device and consuming blood are both addictive. Jesús starts out being able to hide his use of the Cronos Device and turn away from even raw meat, but he resorts to the Device regularly and licks blood off a bathroom floor halfway through the film.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:Whenever The first two times Jesús uses the device, he slips away to do it in some lonely place, leaving his wife and bedroom for the stairwell, or the bathroom, and sometimes has to wave away the attention of other characters. In the commentary del Toro says that this is both part of the addiction metaphor and playing on the sensuality inherent to so much vampire fiction, in this case a 'lonely' sensuality.
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* HorrorHunger: Jesus Gris gets this after the third "sting" from the Cronos Device, lusting after blood spilt from a nose bleed in a bathroom, and later once [[spoiler:he stabs Dieter.]]
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* HorrorHunger: Jesus Gris gets a moment of this after the third his first "sting" from the Cronos Device, staring at fascination at raw meat in the refrigerator, but he's able to shrug it off. With continued use he finds himself lusting after blood spilt from a nose bleed in a bathroom, and later once [[spoiler:he stabs Dieter.]]
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Aurora's living with her grandparents. Jesús asks her if she can remember her father at all, suggesting her parents are absent.
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* WhiteIsPure: In the commentary track, del Toro describes the pale skin of the vampire found at the start of the film [[spoiler: and the second layer of skin growing on Jesús]] as the result of the user's blood being truly purified by the amulet. Of course, PureIsNotGood.
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* WhiteIsPure: In the commentary track, del Toro describes the pale skin of the vampire alchemist found at the start of the film [[spoiler: and the second layer of skin growing on Jesús]] as the result of the user's blood being truly purified by the amulet. Of course, PureIsNotGood.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Whenever Jesús uses the device, he slips away to do it in some lonely place, leaving his wife and bedroom for the stairwell, or the bathroom, and sometimes has to wave away the attention of other characters. In the commentary del Toro says that this is both part of the addiction metaphor and playing on the sensuality inherent to so much vampire fiction, in this case a 'lonely' sensuality.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Aurora's living with her grandparents.
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* AntiVillain: Angel, who might have been an okay guy had he not been raised by his uncle.
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* AntiVillain: Angel, who might have been an okay guy had he not been raised by his uncle. In the commentary GDT even talks about his sympathetic aspects and says he would've been a friend in different circumstances, but he only knows how to meet setbacks with violence.
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* NasalTrauma: Dieter's broken Angel's nose many times and does so again on-screen as punishment for Angel's failure. After Angel gets yet another round of plastic surgery on his face [[spoiler: he attacks Jesús Gris and has it broken again.]]
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* ReligiousHorror: Jesús finds the amulet in the base of a damaged angel statue after several roaches crawl out of the angel's cracked face. In the commentary track del Toro talks about layers, the religious aspects of the vampire, and the symbolism of the device as being found inside of a rotting angel.
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* WhiteIsPure: In the commentary track, del Toro describes the pale skin of the vampire found at the start of the film [[spoiler: and the second layer of skin growing on Jesús]] as the result of the user's blood being truly purified by the amulet. Of course, PureIsNotGood.
