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** But then you realize that because the Leprechaun is still alive, he's now on his way to Bismarck to get his gold back. And even with only a tenth of his gold, he has strong magical powers. If he reclaims all his gold, he'll get even more powerful. Or if he DOES get his gold back, he'll have no reason to kill anyone. Your call whether Leprechaun getting back all his gold will be for better or for worse.

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** But then you realize that because the Leprechaun is still alive, he's now on his way to Bismarck to get his gold back. And even with only a tenth of his gold, he has strong magical powers.he's ridiculously dangerous. If he reclaims all his gold, he'll get even more powerful. Or if he DOES get his gold back, he'll have no reason to kill anyone. Your call whether Leprechaun getting back all his gold will be for better or for worse.
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* MacGuffin: Lubdan's gold. All that appears in the movie is the pot itself with no more than 20% of the gold Lubdan once had.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: ''Returns'' discards any sequels made to the original from "Leprechaun 2" to "Back 2 tha Hood" by writing in Lubdan didn't go on any adventures between 1993 and 2018.

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* CanonDiscontinuity: ''Returns'' discards any sequels made to the original movie from "Leprechaun 2" to "Back 2 tha Hood" where he went to Las Vegas and outer space by writing in Lubdan didn't go on any adventures between 1993 and 2018.wake up since 1993.
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** But then you realize that because the Leprechaun is still alive, he's now on his way to Bismarck to get his gold back. And even with only a tenth of his gold, he has strong magical powers. If he reclaims all his gold, he'll get even more powerful. Or if he DOES get his gold back, he'll have no reason to kill anyone. Your call whether Leprechaun getting back all his gold will be for better or for worse.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Lila and Katie succeed in escaping (though Katie's seriously injured from being impaled but fortunately through non-vital organs), Lila's only suffered a few cuts and burns but it's left unclear if Lubdan has lost his desire to kill those two or if he's only putting off pursuing and killing the girls so he can get his gold back from Bismarck first.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Lubdan survived at the end. He hitchhikes a ride on a chicken truck on its way to Bismarck, North Dakota so he can reclaim his gold.


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* LaserGuidedKarma: Both Rose and Meredith's deaths are karmic. Meredith for being a DirtyCoward selling out everyone else to Lubdan to save her own skin, and then Rose for having taken Lubdan's gold for herself because she wanted to trade it in for cash.
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* OffWithHisHead: How Lubdan greeted the mailman, though rather than decapitation it was by running his head over with his own mail carrier truck. He then decapitates Matthew with his own spy drone.

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* OffWithHisHead: How Lubdan greeted the mailman, though rather than decapitation it was by running his head over with his own mail carrier truck. He then decapitates Matthew with his own spy drone. The tiny Lubdans also drop Rose flat-face into a gold shovel-shaped trophy, impaling her in the head.
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Lubdan is never called a "leprechaun", the protagonists even at one point refer it as a lawn gnome or just simply "it".
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As the movie progresses, you'll realize you can't blame Lubdan for wanting to kill the sorority. Rose admits she stole most of his gold and spent most of the cash she got from trading it in for the gold months ago, so the Leprechaun's gold has become unattainable to the girls.
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* OffWithHisHead: How Lubdan greeted the mailman, though rather than decapitation it was by running his head over with his own mail carrier truck.

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* OffWithHisHead: How Lubdan greeted the mailman, though rather than decapitation it was by running his head over with his own mail carrier truck. He then decapitates Matthew with his own spy drone.
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* TwistingTheWords: Meredith and Lubdan make a deal: if Meredith sells out everybody else, Lubdan shall not lay a hand on her. Meredith assumes this means Lubdan will spare her life - Lubdan then claims her assumption was wrong and stabs her in the mouth with a water sprinkler.
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* DirtyCoward: Rose admits that she sold Lila out to Lubdan because Lubdan offered to spare her life in exchange for giving up Lila's locations. Turns out Lubdan lied about sparing her life.

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* DirtyCoward: Rose Meredith admits that she sold Lila out to Lubdan because Lubdan offered to spare her life in exchange for giving up Lila's locations. Turns out Lubdan lied about sparing her life.
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* DirtyCoward: Rose admits that she sold Lila out to Lubdan because Lubdan offered to spare her life in exchange for giving up Lila's locations. Turns out Lubdan lied about sparing her life.
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* ToneShift: Played with. [[TamerAndChaster There is no nudity]] or [[LighterAndSofter even F-word cussing]] in this movie. There was tons of nudity and profanity back in the original ''Leprechaun'' movies. However, there is plenty of bloody gore and violence, and ''Returns'' maintains the R rating as did the older movies.
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ozzie is killed off at the beginning when Lubdan uses his body as his ticket out of the well.

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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ozzie is killed off at the beginning when Lubdan uses his body as his ticket out of the well.well.
* TheVoiceless: Ozzie after he dies and reanimates as a zombie.
* ZombieApocalypse: Lubdan now looks like a zombified version of the original Leprechaun suit worn by Warwick Davis.
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* FriendlyZombie: Ozzie becomes this after the Leprechaun kills him.
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* HollywoodDarkness: The house the protagonists are in doesn't have any electricity, Lubdan destroys the solar panel they installed and the movie takes mostly place at night.
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Lubdan is never called a "leprechaun", the protagonists even at one point refer it as a lawn gnome or just simply "it".

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This is a movie ''all'' about gruesome, bloody killing - so beware of '''SPOILERS'''!!

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This is a movie ''all'' about gruesome, bloody killing - so beware of '''SPOILERS'''!!
'''SPOILERS'''!! They will not be marked because this is a heavily violent, death-oriented movie or else the whole page will be whited out!



* TheBusCameBack: Ozzie returns just to get killed off in minutes.



** Lila wears a necklace her mother bestowed on her to protect her from harm (we mean the Leprechaun).



* RevengeOfTheSequel: Lubdan's first intention when he returns? KILL, KILL, KILL!

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* RevengeOfTheSequel: Lubdan's first intention when he returns? [[KillEmAll KILL, KILL, KILL! KILL!]]
* SpinOffspring: Lila, the main protagonist of the movie, turns out to be the daughter of Tory Redding (played by Creator/JenniferAniston) who was the protagonist of the original ''Leprechaun'' movie.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The sorority thought that Ozzie was crazy and a weirdo... they later see why.

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* {{Homage}}: There's one to the shower scene from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Lubdan literally splits Andy in half between the front and behind.
* {{Homage}}: There's one to the shower scene from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
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''Leprechaun Returns'' is a Creator/{{SyFy}} original movie that serves as a sequel to the 1993 classic comedy horror film ''Leprechaun''. The film is about Lubdan the Leprechaun going upon a killing spree of college students after one of them woke him up by yelling into the same well that

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''Leprechaun Returns'' is a Creator/{{SyFy}} original movie that serves as a sequel to the 1993 classic comedy horror film ''Leprechaun''. The film is about Lubdan the Leprechaun going upon a killing spree of college students after one of them woke him up by yelling into the same well that
where he supposedly died back in '93.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lubdan got woke up by the new arriving sorority girl yelling into his well.
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* RhymingEpisode: Lubdan rhymes all the time now. He didn't do this back in the original movies (besides his rap song at the end of "In Da Hood").

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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ozzie is killed off at the beginning when Lubdan uses his body as his ticket out of the well.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Inverted. While it is 2018, the human protagonists are in a worse situation than the ones who shared the same house they're living in back in 1993. There are no lights, no running water and no Wi-Fi. They try to improvise with solar power and water from local, non-electrical sources.

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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ozzie is killed off at the beginning when Lubdan uses his body as his ticket out of the well. \n* TechnologyMarchesOn: Inverted. While it is 2018, the human protagonists are in a worse situation than the ones who shared the same house they're living in back in 1993. There are no lights, no running water and no Wi-Fi. They try to improvise with solar power and water from local, non-electrical sources.
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* {{Homage}}: There's one to the shower scene from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
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* RevengeOfTheSequel: Lubdan's first intention when he returns? KILL, KILL, KILL!
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* GoodLuckCharm: Ozzie has been carrying giant 4-leaf clovers around him living in constant fear of Lubdan's return.
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* BigNo: Ozzie when he realizes Lubdan woke up.


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lubdan got woke up by the new arriving sorority girl yelling into his well.
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It's been 25 years since his [[Film/Leprechaun last killing spree]], and to make up for lost time (and find gold) it shall be!

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It's been 25 years since his [[Film/Leprechaun [[Film/{{Leprechaun}} last killing spree]], and to make up for lost time (and find gold) it shall be!
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It's been 25 years since his [[Film/Leprechaun last killing spree]], and to make up for lost time (and find gold) it shall be!

''Leprechaun Returns'' is a Creator/{{SyFy}} original movie that serves as a sequel to the 1993 classic comedy horror film ''Leprechaun''. The film is about Lubdan the Leprechaun going upon a killing spree of college students after one of them woke him up by yelling into the same well that

This is a movie ''all'' about gruesome, bloody killing - so beware of '''SPOILERS'''!!

!!WHERE'S ME TROPES?
* CanonDiscontinuity: ''Returns'' discards any sequels made to the original from "Leprechaun 2" to "Back 2 tha Hood" by writing in Lubdan didn't go on any adventures between 1993 and 2018.
* ChestBurster: Happens to Ozzie as Lubdan invokes this.
* MailmanVsDog: One of Lubdan's first victims is a mailman.
* OffWithHisHead: How Lubdan greeted the mailman, though rather than decapitation it was by running his head over with his own mail carrier truck.
* RhymingEpisode: Lubdan rhymes all the time now. He didn't do this back in the original movies (besides his rap song at the end of "In Da Hood").
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ozzie is killed off at the beginning when Lubdan uses his body as his ticket out of the well.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Inverted. While it is 2018, the human protagonists are in a worse situation than the ones who shared the same house they're living in back in 1993. There are no lights, no running water and no Wi-Fi. They try to improvise with solar power and water from local, non-electrical sources.

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