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* TongueTrauma: Juliette enjoys rough sex and does such acts as cutting her tongue with a scalpel immediately before kissing Ted.
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* ResignationsNotAccepted: Ted attempts to quit the murder club after learning that many of the killings have not be {{Vigilante Execution}}s as he was led to believe but rather innocent people murdered for sport. Even though Ted can't go to the police because of his own involvement, Jake does not let him quit and tells him that he has enough evidence to be able to frame him for all the murders.

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* DisposableSexWorker: When Jake finally snaps after learning Ted and Juliette are sleeping together, his first act is to hire three prostitutes and murder them in a brutal fashion--with none of the finesse of the group's usual virtually undetectable methods of killing--and invite Ted over to view the bodies.



* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Juliette is turned on by murder and frequently has sex immediately after killing someone. she also enjoys rough sex and does such acts as cutting her tongue with a scalpel immediately before kissing Ted. Jake is also shown to like violent, including having Juliette stick acupuncture needles in his chest and rake her hand over while they are screwing.

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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Juliette is turned on by murder and frequently has sex immediately after killing someone. she She also enjoys rough sex and does such acts as cutting her tongue with a scalpel immediately before kissing Ted. Jake is also shown to like violent, violent sex, including having Juliette stick acupuncture needles in his chest and rake her hand over while they are screwing.
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Juliette is turned on by murder and frequently has sex immediately after killing someone. she also enjoys rough sex and does such acts as cutting her tongue with a scalpel immediately before kissing Ted. Jake is also shown to like violent, including having Juliette stick acupuncture needles in his chest and rake her hand over while they are screwing.
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* DetectiveMole: Several times members of the group perform the official autopsies on their victims, allowing them to easily disguise the real cause of death.
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* VigilanteExecution: Gallo initially frames the murders the group are committing as this and some of them undoubtedly are, such as the [[PaterFamilicide family exterminator]] Ted kills in the hospital. However, When Ted catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in reality, mostly innocent people murdered for sport.

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* VigilanteExecution: Gallo initially frames the murders the group are committing as this and some of them undoubtedly are, such as the [[PaterFamilicide family exterminator]] Ted kills in the hospital. However, When when Ted catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in reality, mostly innocent people murdered for sport.
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* VigilanteExecution: Gallo initially frames the murders the group are committing as this and some of them undoubtedly are, such as the [[PaterFamicide family executor]] Ted kills in the hospital. However, When Ted catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in reality, mostly innocent people murdered for sport.

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* VigilanteExecution: Gallo initially frames the murders the group are committing as this and some of them undoubtedly are, such as the [[PaterFamicide [[PaterFamilicide family executor]] exterminator]] Ted kills in the hospital. However, When Ted catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in reality, mostly innocent people murdered for sport.
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* VigilanteExecution: Gallo initially frames the murders the group are committing as this and some of them undoubtedly are, such as the [[PaterFamicide family executor]] Ted kills in the hospital. However, When Ted catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in reality, mostly innocent people murdered for sport.
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Both [[spoiler:Juliette (Creator/LaurenLeeSmith)]] and [[spoiler:Gwen (Creator/AlyssaMilano)]] are shown naked on autopsy tables. And it is a plot point that both of them have been murdered in ways that did not leave any marks on their bodies.
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* SerialKiller: Dr. Jake Gallo and other pathology residents each kill multiple people in their quest to come up with the perfect murder.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: After murdering Fat Bastard, Ted and Juliette have sex in his living room, with his corpse only a few feet away from them.
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* FatBastard: The man murdered by Juliette and Ted is only identified in the credits as '[[NoNameGiven Fat Bastard]]'. However, given Juliette's story about all of the awful things he did is a lie, how much of a bastard he really is remains unknown.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Juliette and Ted murder the [[NoNameGivven Fat Bastard]] by forcing him to inhale air at -75°F. Juliette then pounds on his chest and shatters his lungs.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Juliette and Ted murder the [[NoNameGivven [[NoNameGiven Fat Bastard]] by forcing him to inhale air at -75°F. Juliette then pounds on his chest and shatters his lungs.


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* NoNameGiven: The man murdered by Juliette and Ted is only identified in the credits as 'FatBastard'.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Juliette and Ted murder the [[NoNameGivven Fat Bastard]] by forcing him to inhale air at -75°F. Juliette then pounds on his chest and shatters his lungs.
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* MadDoctor: All of the doctors involved in the murder game display gross indifference to the sanctity of human life, but, by the end, the leader Dr. Jake Gallo has gone completely psychotic.
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* DeadlyDoctor: A group of residents in prestigious pathology residency program entertains itself with a secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder using their knowledge of medicine and forensic pathology.
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* ChekhovsGun: The crack pipe the doctors smoke before conducting the autopsies on their victims. This is seen often enough that it just becomes part of the doctors' ritual. then [[spoiler:Ted fills the autopsy room with gas which explodes when they light the pipe, killing all of them except Gallo]].

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* ChekhovsGun: The crack pipe the doctors smoke before conducting the autopsies on their victims. This is seen often enough that it just becomes part of the doctors' ritual. then Then [[spoiler:Ted fills the autopsy room with gas which explodes when they light the pipe, killing all of them except Gallo]].
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* ChekhovsGun: The crack pipe the doctors smoke before conducting the autopsies on their victims. This is seen often enough that it just becomes part of the doctors' ritual. then [[spoiler:Ted fills the autopsy room with gas which explodes when they light the pipe, killing all of them except Gallo]].
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* SickbedSlaying: The first person Ted murders is a BungledSuicide on life support in the ICU.
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* PaterFamilicide: The first person Ted kills is a man who shot his wife and children, execution style and then shot himself once in the throat and twice in the stomach. Despite this, he survived and is in the hospital in the ICU.
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* BungledSuicide: The first person Ted kills is a man who [[PaterFamilicide shot his wife and children, exection style]] and then shot himself once in the throat and twice in the stomach. Despite this, he survived and is in the hospital in the ICU.
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* AbononedHospital: The residents use an abandoned basement level of the hospital to conduct autopsies on the corpses of the others' victims to try and determine how they were killed. They then use [[FurnaceBodyDisposal the incinerator in the basement to get rid of the bodies]].

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* AbononedHospital: AbandonedHospital: The residents use an abandoned basement level of the hospital to conduct autopsies on the corpses of the others' victims to try and determine how they were killed. They then use [[FurnaceBodyDisposal the incinerator in the basement to get rid of the bodies]].
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* AbononedHospital: The residents use an abandoned basement level of the hospital to conduct autopsies on the corpses of the others' victims to try and determine how they were killed. They then use [[FurnaceBodyDisposal the incinerator in the basement to get rid of the bodies]].

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Ted Grey, a talented medical student, joins one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs. He quickly becomes entangled with a group of his colleagues who participate in a morbid and deadly competition. The group of students challenge each other to commit perfect murders, using their knowledge of human anatomy and medical expertise to outwit the authorities. As Ted becomes more deeply involved in this disturbing game, he must grapple with his own ethical boundaries and the increasingly dangerous consequences of their actions.

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Ted Grey, a talented medical student, joins one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs. He quickly becomes entangled with a group of his colleagues who participate in a morbid and deadly competition. The group of students residents challenge each other to commit perfect murders, using their knowledge of human anatomy and medical expertise to outwit the authorities. As Ted becomes more deeply involved in this disturbing game, he must grapple with his own ethical boundaries and the increasingly dangerous consequences of their actions.


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* PerfectMurder: Dr. Jake Gallo brings Ted to a secluded wing of the hospital, where he and four other indulge in their after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder.

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* PerfectMurder: ThePerfectCrime: Dr. Jake Gallo brings Ted to a secluded wing of the hospital, where he and four other indulge in their after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder.
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* AutopsySnackTime: Griff cements his status as a {{Jerkass}} by wandering through autopsy room eating a sandwich and making smartass comments while his fellow interns are doing things like cutting open a cadaver's rib cage.



* DeadGuyPuppet: The film opens with a group of interns staging a 'conversation' between a pair of corpses on the dissection tables.



* PerfectMurder: Dr. Jake Gallo brings Ted to a secluded wing of the hospital, where he and four other indulge in their after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder.

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* PerfectMurder: Dr. Jake Gallo brings Ted to a secluded wing of the hospital, where he and four other indulge in their after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder.murder.
* TaintedTobacco: Griff murders a hitchhiker by giving him a poisoned cigarette.
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* ImGoingToHellForThis: The opening scene (consisting of some doctors making corpses 'talk' to each other) ends on this line.

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* ImGoingToHellForThis: The opening scene (consisting of some doctors making corpses 'talk' to each other) ends on this line.line.
* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: Ted impresses Gallo by working out Gallo's latest victim had been poisoned with nitric acid, then stabbed 17 times while still alive before having a bullet put in his head to mask the cause of death.
* PerfectMurder: Dr. Jake Gallo brings Ted to a secluded wing of the hospital, where he and four other indulge in their after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder.
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''Pathology'' is a 2008 crime-horror film directed by Marc Schölermann, written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and starring Milo Ventimiglia, Creator/MichaelWeston, Creator/AlyssaMilano, and Creator/LaurenLeeSmith.

Ted Grey, a talented medical student, joins one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs. He quickly becomes entangled with a group of his colleagues who participate in a morbid and deadly competition. The group of students challenge each other to commit perfect murders, using their knowledge of human anatomy and medical expertise to outwit the authorities. As Ted becomes more deeply involved in this disturbing game, he must grapple with his own ethical boundaries and the increasingly dangerous consequences of their actions.
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* BodyCountCompetition: Although it has less to do with quantity and more to do with "quality" (the competitors must try to find out how the others killed their recent victims).
* ImGoingToHellForThis: The opening scene (consisting of some doctors making corpses 'talk' to each other) ends on this line.

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