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''"I always find a book to be that much more compelling when a character stands to lose everything."''


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--> ''"I always find a book to be that much more compelling when a character stands to lose everything."''

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* AdultFear: David's infant son is kidnapped and held hostage by an unstable teenager well on the path to becoming a full-fledged serial killer.


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* IHaveYourWife: David's infant son is kidnapped and held hostage by an unstable teenager well on the path to becoming a full-fledged serial killer.
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--> ''"[[FamousLastWords Sadness. That was always the hardest one for you.]]''"

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--> ''"[[FamousLastWords Sadness.''"Sadness. That was always the hardest one for you.]]''"''"
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* {{Adorkable}}: David Butler has shades of this.
** Rebecca as well.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: After Lucas gets expelled when there was evidence against him that he murdered Rebecca,]] David then tells Lucas that there was actually no restraining order against him. This then leads to Lucas [[spoiler: going to David's house and murder his wife and then kidnap his infant son]].
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* InfantImmortality: Played straight. Lucas kidnaps and threatens the life of David's newborn son in the climax, but he survives.

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* InfantImmortality: Played straight. ImprobableInfantSurvival: Lucas kidnaps and threatens the life of David's newborn son in the climax, but he survives.
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* [[Series/AdventureTime Kent Osborne]] as David Butler

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* [[Series/AdventureTime [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Kent Osborne]] as David Butler
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* VillainHasAPoint: While it in no way justifies his actions, Lucas does have a right to be angry about getting a B+ on his paper because David felt the thesis statement was an improper interpretation of the play. Lucas did adequately back up and argue his thesis with textual evidence and David even admits that the paper was well written.

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* VillainHasAPoint: While it in no way justifies his actions, Lucas does have a right to be angry about getting a B+ on his paper just because David felt the thesis statement was an improper interpretation of the play. Lucas did adequately back up and argue his thesis with textual evidence and David even admits that the paper was well written.
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* VillainHasAPoint: While it in no way justifies his actions, Lucas does have a right to be angry about getting a B+ on his paper because David felt the thesis statement was an improper interpretation of the play. Lucas did adequately back up and argue his thesis with textual evidence and David even admits that the paper was well written.
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''Dismissed'' is a 2017 independent thriller/horror film, marking [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Dylan]] [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck Sprouse]]'s return to acting after a six year hiatus. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on October 27, 2017, and was released worldwide through digital media and video on demand on November 21st of that year.

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''Dismissed'' is a 2017 independent thriller/horror film, marking [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Dylan]] [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck Sprouse]]'s return to acting after a six year hiatus. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on October 27, 2017, and was released worldwide through digital media and video on demand on November 21st of that year. On February 19th, 2018, ''"Dismissed"'' was released on Netflix.
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[Series/FreshOffTheBoat Randall Park]] is prominently featured in the trailer, but has about five minutes of screen time total.

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* AdvertisedExtra: [[Series/FreshOffTheBoat Randall Park]] Creator/RandallPark is prominently featured in the trailer, but has about five minutes of screen time total.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The chemistry teacher, Mr. Sheldon (Randall Park), is fired after Lucas blinds a student during his class. It's alluded that he was a grossly inept teacher and that attributed to his termination, but no word of him is mentioned after he's fired.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The chemistry teacher, Mr. Sheldon (Randall Park), (Creator/RandallPark), is fired after Lucas blinds a student during his class. It's alluded that he was a grossly inept teacher and that attributed to his termination, but no word of him is mentioned after he's fired.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Zigzagged. Rebecca is in love with Mr. Butler, something Lucas figures out quite easily. He uses her crush on him in his quest for sabotaging David, but it fails due to his horrified rejection of Rebecca. When Rebecca is found dead and her sweater is found in Mr. Butler's classroom, both the principal and the police officer believe this to be the case and fire David.

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Zigzagged. Rebecca is in love with Mr. Butler, something Lucas figures out quite easily. He uses her crush on him in his quest for sabotaging David, but it fails due to his horrified rejection of Rebecca. [[spoiler: When Rebecca is found dead and her sweater is found in Mr. Butler's classroom, both the principal and the police officer believe this to be the case and fire David. ]]

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: After Mr. Butler turns her down, Lucas offers to meet with Rebecca and help her, coaching her to write a letter in an example of this.[[spoiler: In reality, he's manipulating her into writing her own suicide note, and kills her.]]



* BitchInSheepsClothing: Lucas is this to Rebecca.[[spoiler: It ends up being the death of her.]]



* ManipulativeBastard: Convince the principal you're an innocent young man unaware of the darkness around him to get what you want? Check. Call your teacher's friend from high school, pay him to come into town and to get your teacher hooked on drugs over a grade, all while avoiding suspicion until you show the teacher the video you took of him shooting up? Check. Convince a girl that trusts you that her [[TeacherStudentRomance crush]] on your teacher is reciprocated, and then kill her when she's outlived her usefulness? Check. Lucas Ward, Manipulative Bastard.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Convince the principal you're an innocent young man unaware of the darkness around him to get what you want? Check. Call your teacher's friend from high school, pay him to come into town and to get your teacher hooked on drugs over a grade, all while avoiding suspicion until you show the teacher the video you took of him shooting up? Check. Convince a girl that trusts you that her [[TeacherStudentRomance crush]] on your teacher is reciprocated, [[spoiler: and then kill her when she's outlived her usefulness? usefulness]]? Check. Lucas Ward, Manipulative Bastard.


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* SatelliteCharacter: Basically the entire cast with the exception of Lucas and David serve little to nothing for the plot, except probably Rebecca.


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* WalkingSpoiler: Rebecca. It's nearly impossible to talk about her [[spoiler: without talking about Lucas murdering her.]]
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WickedCultured: Lucas doesn't carry a backpack, he carries an attaché case. He wears slacks and a buttoned dress shirt almost daily, and slicks his hair back. Exceptional chess player, offers a flawless eulogy for [[spoiler: Rebecca]] in impeccable French, is incredibly well-read and an English prodigy, and quotes Shakespeare. He's ''seventeen at most.''

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* WickedCultured: Lucas doesn't carry a backpack, he carries an attaché case. He wears slacks and a buttoned dress shirt almost daily, and slicks his hair back. Exceptional chess player, offers a flawless eulogy for [[spoiler: Rebecca]] in impeccable French, is incredibly well-read and an English prodigy, and quotes Shakespeare. He's ''seventeen at most.''

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* AffablyEvil: Lucas, until his SanitySlippage causes him to descend into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.



* FauxAffablyEvil: Lucas, until his SanitySlippage causes him to descend into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and this is dropped completely.



* MoralEventHorizon: Lucas crosses the hell out of it when he[[spoiler: tricks Rebecca into writing her own suicide note and then throws her off a building,]] and it all goes downhill from there.



* WhatTheHellHero: Well after Lucas has established that he's out for blood and has attempted to threaten and sabotage David, he decides to flunk him to provoke him. This goads Lucas into piling up a body count.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Well after Lucas has established that he's out for blood and has attempted to threaten and sabotage David, he decides to flunk him to provoke him. This goads Lucas into piling up a body count.count.
WickedCultured: Lucas doesn't carry a backpack, he carries an attaché case. He wears slacks and a buttoned dress shirt almost daily, and slicks his hair back. Exceptional chess player, offers a flawless eulogy for [[spoiler: Rebecca]] in impeccable French, is incredibly well-read and an English prodigy, and quotes Shakespeare. He's ''seventeen at most.''
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** Mr. Butler more than qualifies in the end.
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* PapaWolf: David was just trying to get Lucas to stop ruining his life, but once Lucas [[spoiler:murdered his wife and]] kidnapped his newborn son? He nearly ''murdered him with a paperweight.''

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening credits is a mix of this and a parade of ChekhovsGuns. Notably, the reflection of Lucas in the photo of his mother during the opening credits is a flash forward to Lucas's VillainousBreakdown.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening credits is a mix of this and a parade of ChekhovsGuns.[[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]]. Notably, the reflection of Lucas in the photo of his mother during the opening credits is a flash forward to Lucas's VillainousBreakdown.



* ManipulativeBastard: Convince the principal you're an innocent young man unaware of the darkness around him to get what you want? Check. Call your teacher's friend from high school, pay him to come into town and to get your teacher hooked on drugs over a grade, all while avoiding suspicion until you show the teacher the video you took of him shooting up? Check. Convince a girl that trusts you that her [[TeacherStudentRomance crush]] on your teacher is reciprocated, and then kill her when she's outlived her usefulness? Check. Lucas Ward, Manipulative Bastard.



* MoralEventHorizon: Lucas crosses the hell out of it when he[[spoiler: tricks Rebecca into writing her own suicide note and then throws her off a building,]] and it all goes downhill from there.



* TheSociopath: Gee, wonder who that could be.

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* TheSociopath: Gee, wonder who that could be.While both Mr. Garrett and David refer to Lucas as a psychopath, he actually qualifies as this.
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* TheSociopath: Gee, wonder who that could be.
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* Kent Osborne as David Butler

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* [[Series/AdventureTime Kent Osborne Osborne]] as David Butler



* Chris Bauer as Lucas's father

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* [[Series/TrueBlood Chris Bauer Bauer]] as Lucas's father

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