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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Fashin Designer May Roy, as played by Creator/PeterCapaldi speaks in Capaldi's natural Scottish brogue.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Fashin Fashion Designer May Roy, as played by Creator/PeterCapaldi speaks in Capaldi's natural Scottish brogue.
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* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: [[spoiler: Father Duffy does this, begging Max to stop throttling Claire over food. When Max refuses to back down, in part because he's losing his mind, Duffy ends up killing him.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Fashin Designer May Roy, as played by Creator/PeterCapaldi speaks in Capaldi's natural Scottish brogue.
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* OnlySaneMan: Father Duffy and [[spoiler: Jay, until he becomes the second victim Jay's last act before dying is to pass his loaded gun to Duffy, because he trusts Duffy that strongly.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: Father Duffy and [[spoiler: Jay, until he becomes the second victim Jay's last act before dying is to pass his loaded gun to Duffy, because he trusts Duffy that strongly.]] On the female side of things, Lea fits into this category. [[spoiler: She ends up being the lone survivor.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Most of the players go through this as time goes on, especially [[spoiler: Francis.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Most of the players go through this as time goes on, especially [[spoiler: Francis.]] [[spoiler: Max ends up losing it over the food, and gets put down by Duffy as a result.]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Jay, the armed cop, naturally assumes the role of the group's leader and starts leading the decision making. He ends up being the second victim.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Once Cynthia dies, Francis gets increasingly deranged until he ends up being the primary antagonist, killing three people in short order and attempting to kill Lea.]]
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* JerkAss: Al B for sure, who constantly acts like a dick and plays victim when he's called on it. Claire and Shona have their moments as well, though most of Shona's tendencies are because she's harassed by Claire for her lower class upbringing.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jay, who emerges as the group's leader, but tells it like it is.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: Francis. After his wife dies and he undergoes sanity slippage, he's responsible for multiple on-screen murders and attempts to kill Lea before she ultimately takes him down herself.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jay, who emerges as the group's leader, but tells it like it is.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: Francis. After his wife dies and he undergoes sanity slippage, he's responsible for multiple on-screen murders and attempts to kill Lea before she ultimately takes him down herself.]]
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* TenLittleMurderVictims: A variance of the trope with up to eight victims, rather than 10. Also, rather than one person picking them off, anyone can turn on anyone at any time, even someone who you think is al ally may turn on you.
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* TenLittleMurderVictims: A variance of the trope with up to eight victims, rather than 10. Also, rather than one person picking them off, anyone can turn on anyone at any time, even someone who you think is al an ally may turn on you.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Father Duffy's decision to provide food and charity to the locked up Al B allows Al B to get out of his confinement. His first order of business is to bludgeon Jay to death.]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Father Duffy's decision to provide food and charity to the locked up Al B allows Al B to get out of his confinement. His first order of business is to bludgeon Jay to death.]]]
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* NormalPeople: [[spoiler: Rather than fill the house with criminals that would be willing to quickly kill each other for the money, the hostages are just everyday people, including a married couple. it also includes an armed cop and a Catholic priest, likely just to mess with everyone, or in their own two cases, forcing a decent cop and a servant of God to kill to save themselves.
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* NormalPeople: [[spoiler: Rather than fill the house with criminals that would be willing to quickly kill each other for the money, the hostages are just everyday people, including a married couple. it also includes an armed cop and a Catholic priest, likely just to mess with everyone, or in their own two cases, forcing a decent cop and a servant of God into the position of having to kill to save themselves. themselves.]]
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* BarefootCaptives: [[spoiler: Lea ends up barefoot in the third act and remains so after she escapes the house and ends up being led to a new house with four players from different houses that also were sole survivors, in anticipation of another game.]]
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** [[spoiler:A different ending has Lea walking up in her own apartment, finding the five million and a tape nearby. The tape plays, the Watcher telling her that along with her prize money, she earned the rights to join an exclusive survival club. As the tape ends, it shows nine new people in the same bedroom that the original nine were placed. It then dawns on Lea that she's The Watcher of the new nine.]]
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** [[spoiler:A different ending has Lea walking up in her own apartment, finding the five million and a tape nearby. The tape plays, the Watcher telling her that along with her prize money, she earned the rights to join an exclusive survival club. As the tape ends, it shows nine new people in the same bedroom that the original nine were placed. It then dawns on Lea that she's The Watcher of the new nine. It also hints that the Watcher of her own game was a survivor himself.]]
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* ForcedToKill: [[spoiler: All of the trapped victims. They're locked in an inescapable mansion until only one is left. The longer they wait to kill, the less food they get. They're even psychologically tortured with the knowledge that to escape, they'll have to take down an armed cop and a Catholic priest.]]
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* ForcedToKill: ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler: All of the trapped victims. They're locked in an inescapable mansion until only one is left. The longer they wait to kill, the less food they get. They're even psychologically tortured with the knowledge that to escape, they'll have to take down an armed cop and a Catholic priest. And in the latter's case, a cop and a priest are left to decide whether they'll kill to escape.]]
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* TheVoice: The Watcher is never seen, and is voiced by Jim Carter.
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* BigGood: [[spoiler: Father Duffy is the most decent of the characters, especially after Jay's early exit as the second victim.]]
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* NormalPeople: [[spoiler: Rather than fill the house with criminals that would be willing to quickly kill each other for the money, the hostages are just everyday people, including a married couple. it also includes an armed cop and a Catholic priest, likely just to mess with everyone, or in their own two cases, forcing a decent cop and a servant of God to kill to save themselves.
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* OnlySaneMan: Father Duffy and [[spoiler: Jay, until he becomes the second victim Jay's last act before dying is to pass his loaded gun to Duffy, because he trusts Duffy that strongly.]]
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* ClosedCircle: Once they're trapped in the house,there's no getting out.
* ClothingCombat: [[spoiler:Francis]] uses Max's scarf to [[HangingAround string up]] Al B. Later, [[spoiler:Max]] uses his belt to strangle [[spoiler:Claire]]. [[spoiler: In Al B's case however, while there are hits that he was murdered, and possibly by Francis, we never know for sure his death wasn't a suicide.]]
* ClothingCombat: [[spoiler:Francis]] uses Max's scarf to [[HangingAround string up]] Al B. Later, [[spoiler:Max]] uses his belt to strangle [[spoiler:Claire]]. [[spoiler: In Al B's case however, while there are hits that he was murdered, and possibly by Francis, we never know for sure his death wasn't a suicide.]]
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* ClosedCircle: Once they're trapped in the house,there's house, there's no getting out.
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* ClothingCombat: [[spoiler:Francis]] uses Max's scarf to [[HangingAround string up]] Al B. Later, [[spoiler:Max]] uses his belt to strangle [[spoiler:Claire]]. [[spoiler: In Al B's case however, while there arehits hints that he was murdered, and possibly by Francis, we never know for sure his death wasn't a suicide.]]
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** [[spoiler: May Roy also eventually goes off the deep end and tries to throttle Claire over food.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Max Roy, Claire, and Father Duffy go out this way. The first by Duffy, the latter two by Francis.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Ultimately, [[spoiler: the food. When everyone initially refuses to participate in the murder games, at first, they each get barely enough food to survive, usually one potato or a piece of chicken. After the first death, the food delivered increases tenfold, and continues to be served in massive portions every time someone dies.
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* ChekhovsGun: Ultimately, [[spoiler: the food. When everyone initially refuses to participate in the murder games, at first, they each get barely enough food to survive, usually one potato or a piece of chicken. After the first death, the food delivered increases tenfold, and continues to be served in massive portions every time someone dies. ]]
** Played with [[spoiler: with Jay's gun. While three people are killed by it, it runs out of bullets when there are still two survivors left.]]
** Played with [[spoiler: with Jay's gun. While three people are killed by it, it runs out of bullets when there are still two survivors left.]]
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* ParanoiaGambit: [[spoiler: The watcher speaks once, tells them only one can leave, and then leaves them alone. Jay is left armed, and there are a few things around the house to use as weapon, and there's plenty of alcohol around to help people lose their inhibition for murder, but ultimately, other than controlling the food they're given, (they get a lot more each time someone dies) the watcher does nothing, and several of the early deaths are from either an accident, or the hostage's own paranoia driving them to murder ( I.E. Claire killing Shona.)]]
