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* WhamLine: "The little girl in that picture [[spoiler: is not really a little girl. She's a grown woman."]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Esther knows '''far''' more about sex than a[[spoiler:seeming]] [[spoiler:seemingly]] 9-year-old should '''ever''' healthily know.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Heh, [[JonAndKatePlusEight a dysfunctional couple named John and Kate.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Sure, the first few results of Esther's psychopathy ''could'' be chalked up to coincidence. But John ''still'' refuses to believe Kate after [[spoiler: Danny's treehouse mysteriously burns down, putting him in the hospital. When Esther just HAPPENED to be near it at the time. [[WhatAnIdiot Must've been spontaneous combustion, right?]]]]
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* [[spoiler: [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild: An odd yet disturbingly literal example.]]]]
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Max, so much that you'll want to hug her from her very first scene. [[AvertedTrope The same]] [[EnfanteTerrible cannot be said]] [[KidsAreCruel for anyone else.]]
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I am clearly a little too obsessed with this movie.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Admit it, nearly all of Esther's initial interactions with her new family come across as really sweet. Can be one hell of a TearJerker when you consider the family's happiness and [[AxCrazy obliviousness to what's coming.]]
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** EvilOrphan: What she ''really'' is. [[spoiler: Even after TheReveal, she may still qualify, considering she ''[[SelfMadeOrphan murdered her own father]]''.]]
** EvilOrphan: What she ''really'' is. [[spoiler: Even after TheReveal, she may still qualify, considering she ''[[SelfMadeOrphan murdered her own father]]''.]]
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** Esther breaking her own arm, especially as the bone very visibly pops out. The fact that it's the ''only'' scene where she shows any real weakness or pain somehow makes it worse.
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* [[spoiler: InfantImmortality: Although subverted in an earlier draft of the script in which Esther [[CompleteMonster murders a 7-year-old girl the Colemans had been planning to adopt, and she is found hung in a closet.]]]]
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In an attempt to find an alternative outlet of love meant for their stillborn child, the Colemans took take in a mysterious 9-year-old Russian orphan called Esther into their family. Max, in her innocence, was estatic ecstatic to finally have a big sister; Daniel was less than enthusiastic due to the bullying he receives at school due to her eccentricities.
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* AssholeVictim: Most of them aren't, but this troper couldn't help but chuckle when [[spoiler:she broke the bully's ankle]]
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**And don't forget the scene where [[spoiler: Kate, after Esther gets away with suffocating Danny, walks up to a rather nonchalant Esther in the middle of a busy hospital and SMACKS HER IN THE FACE.]]
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