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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The audience are self-centered. The truck driver was a bad driver. The motel owner is mean to his kid. The accountant talks about murdering his brother before he dies.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The audience are self-centered. The truck driver was a bad driver. The motel owner is mean to his kid. The accountant talks about murdering his brother before he dies.]]



* FailureGambit: The sheriff and his assistant try to [[spoiler: end the movie early by killing the audience.]]

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* FailureGambit: The sheriff and his assistant try to [[spoiler: end [[spoiler:end the movie early by killing the audience.]]



* NoFourthWall: In-universe example: [[spoiler: over the course of the film all the characters who thought they were watching/making a fiction end up leaning on the fourth wall and finding out it's not there - this is what gets the spectator killed in the end.]]

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* NoFourthWall: In-universe example: [[spoiler: over [[spoiler:over the course of the film all the characters who thought they were watching/making a fiction end up leaning on the fourth wall and finding out it's not there - this is what gets the spectator killed in the end.]]



* PlotTumor: Another in-universe example: [[spoiler: The last spectator's insistence on knowing what happens to the tire causes it to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break through the fourth wall]] and carry on its rampage long after the story was supposed to be over.]]

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* PlotTumor: Another in-universe example: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The last spectator's insistence on knowing what happens to the tire causes it to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break through the fourth wall]] and carry on its rampage long after the story was supposed to be over.]]



* SpannerInTheWorks: In-universe, the [[spoiler: sole surviving]] spectator in a wheelchair throws the sheriff's plan into disarray twice, first by [[spoiler: refusing the poisoned food and forcing the movie to continue after the rest of the audience is dead]], and secondly by [[spoiler: insisting on a final dramatic confrontation that allows Robert to reincarnate as a tricycle.]]

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* SpannerInTheWorks: In-universe, the [[spoiler: sole [[spoiler:sole surviving]] spectator in a wheelchair throws the sheriff's plan into disarray twice, first by [[spoiler: refusing [[spoiler:refusing the poisoned food and forcing the movie to continue after the rest of the audience is dead]], and secondly by [[spoiler: insisting [[spoiler:insisting on a final dramatic confrontation that allows Robert to reincarnate as a tricycle.]]



* StupidEvil: One of the "villains" [[spoiler: poisons the audience with a turkey. To kill the last member of the audience, a wheelchair-bound man, the villain brings him a table with lots of food. After the wheelchair-bound man refuses to eat any of it... the villain eats it all.]]

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* StupidEvil: One of the "villains" [[spoiler: poisons [[spoiler:poisons the audience with a turkey. To kill the last member of the audience, a wheelchair-bound man, the villain brings him a table with lots of food. After the wheelchair-bound man refuses to eat any of it... the villain eats it all.]]



* TrappedInTVLand: The characters all exist within the reality of the film, even the spectators who seem think that they're outside of it.

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* TrappedInTVLand: The characters all exist within the reality of the film, even the spectators who seem to think that they're outside of it.



* VisualPun: Why does the Sheriff have a turkey? Because the whole movie is about his ever more desperate attempts to make the movie end, which he fails to. In other words he is "le dindon de la farce" (literally "the farce's turkey"); aka, the butt of the joke.

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* VisualPun: Why does the Sheriff have a turkey? Because the whole movie is about his ever more desperate attempts to make the movie end, which he fails to. In other words he is "le dindon de la farce" (literally "the farce's turkey"); aka, AKA the butt of the joke.
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* VisualPun: Why does the Sheriff have a turkey? Because the whole movie is about his ever more desperate attempts to make the movie end, which he fails to. In other words he is "le dindon de la farce" (literally "the farce's turkey"); aka, the butt of the joke.
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* MindScrew: A film where a living homicidal psychokinetic rubber tire would already be strange by itself, but the Meta elements increase the pandemonium tenfold.
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* StylisticSuck: Played with, Since the movie is supposed to be weird and bizarre
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* StupidEvil: One of the "villains" [[spoiler: poisons the audience with a turkey. To kill the last member of the audience, a wheelchair-bound man, the villain brings him a table with lots of food. After the wheelchair-bound man refuses to eat any of it... the villain eats it all.]]
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.


* IAteWhat: A boy puts roadkill on the pizza his {{Jerkass}} father ordered him to get.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The audience are self-centered. The truck driver was a bad driver. The motel owner is mean to his kid. The accountant talks about murdering his brother before he dies.]]
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* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: The audience's binoculars let them watch the action wherever it occurs - even indoors.

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