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** Arguably "Teddy" in his final scene. His statement about rather dying a good man than living a monster may be due to a lucid moment in the face of regression back to his delusional state (or, alternatively, he never regressed at all and just maintained the facade of his delusion after the reveal in order to have the lobotomy performed to put an end to his painful memories).
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* StrawNihilist: The Warden rants about his love of violence, and expresses his belief that God put humans on the Earth to spread war and suffering. Although [[spoiler: considering that by the point in the movie where we first meet the warden was when Andrew was coming off the Chlorazapine and [[UnreliableNarrator obviously hallucinating]], we don't really know if that conversation actually happened or was [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness simply a part of Andrew's delusion]].]] Not to mention [[spoiler: he could just be venting his frustrations with the guy he's talking to, who is the most violent and dangerous patient he's ever had to deal with.]]
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* StrawNihilist: The Warden rants about his love of violence, and expresses his belief that there's no true morality, God simply put humans on the Earth to spread war and suffering. Although [[spoiler: considering that by the point in the movie where we first meet the warden was when Andrew was coming off the Chlorazapine and [[UnreliableNarrator obviously hallucinating]], we don't really know if that conversation actually happened or was [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness simply a part of Andrew's delusion]].]] Not to mention [[spoiler: he could just be venting his frustrations with the guy he's talking to, who is the most violent and dangerous patient he's ever had to deal with.]]
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* NietzscheWannabe: The Warden. Although [[spoiler: considering that by the point in the movie where we first meet the warden was when Andrew was coming off the Chlorazapine and [[UnreliableNarrator obviously hallucinating]], we don't really know if that conversation actually happened or was [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness simply a part of Andrew's delusion]].]] Not to mention [[spoiler: he could just be venting his frustrations with the guy he's talking to, who is the most violent and dangerous patient he's ever had to deal with.]]
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* NietzscheWannabe: StrawNihilist: The Warden.Warden rants about his love of violence, and expresses his belief that God put humans on the Earth to spread war and suffering. Although [[spoiler: considering that by the point in the movie where we first meet the warden was when Andrew was coming off the Chlorazapine and [[UnreliableNarrator obviously hallucinating]], we don't really know if that conversation actually happened or was [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness simply a part of Andrew's delusion]].]] Not to mention [[spoiler: he could just be venting his frustrations with the guy he's talking to, who is the most violent and dangerous patient he's ever had to deal with.]]
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* SurrealHorror: Most of Teddy's dreams.
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* InsanityEstablishmentMoment: When the Nazi experimenter writes [[spoiler: Andrew Laeddis on the board, revealing that Teddy and Andrew are the same person]]
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* InsanityEstablishmentMoment: InsanityEstablishmentScene: When the Nazi experimenter writes [[spoiler: Andrew Laeddis on the board, revealing that Teddy and Andrew are the same person]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Most assuredly not always present, but still packs a wallop at [[spoiler:the ending, with the "peaceful" shot of the lighthouse. The previous scene]] makes clear what will happen to Laeddis there.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Andrew blames himself for both murdering Rachel and the death of his children. Had he paid attention to his wife's madness and her pleas for help, his children wouldn't have drowned in the lake.
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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Andrew blames himself for both murdering Rachel Dolores and the death of his children. Had he paid attention to his wife's madness and her pleas for help, his children wouldn't have drowned in the lake.]]
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* TheFundamentalist: Dr. Naehring [[DeliberateValuesDissonance sees the patients as fundamentally dangerous, and prefers lobotomies to actual treatment.]] [[MotiveRant He justifies himself by saying that you must kill a ''monster'' when you see it.]]
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Teddy embodies the noir hero with a troubled background. [[spoiler: But we find out "Teddy" is a coping mechanism for Andrew who cannot hope to process his pain.]]
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* MomentOfLucidity: [[spoiler: Dolores has an infintesimal flash of sanity after murdering her children where she begs Andrew to [[MercyKill set her free.]]
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* MomentOfLucidity: [[spoiler: Dolores has an infintesimal flash of sanity after murdering her children where she begs Andrew to [[MercyKill set her free.]]
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* CuttingBackToReality: In the finale, Teddy manages to get his hands on the firearm that was confiscated from him at the start of the film and hold Dr Cawley and Dr Sheehan at gunpoint. Cawley makes it clear that shooting them is the only way Teddy is going to get off the island, so Teddy shoots him four times in the chest, splattering the board behind him in blood, then turns the gun in Sheehan's direction... and then we cut back to Cawley, who is completely unharmed. [[spoiler: The gun is a toy and always has been: Teddy is actually a patient at the hospital - specifically the mysterious Andrew Laeddis that "Teddy" has been pursuing - and wouldn't be trusted with a real firearm even in the roleplay scenario that's been established for him.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: see GoryDiscretionShot.[[spoiler:Andrew decides that he can no longer live with the truth of his actions and chooses lobotomy.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Andrew is so guilt-ridden over what he has done to his wife and children that he chooses to be lobotomized by faking his regression. As a result, the roleplay therapy Dr. Cawley devised has been discredited.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Andrew blames himself for both murdering Rachel and the death of his children. Had he paid attention to his wife's madness and her pleas for help, his children wouldn't have drowned in the lake.
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* WindmillCrusader: [[spoiler: The main character]].
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--> '''Teddy''': Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or die as a good man?
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* MadDoctor: Averted with Dr. Cawley. In Teddy's world of delusions, Cawley and the rest of the asylum psychiatrists are amoral, evil doctors conducting psychological experiments on the patients in service of the OSS and military. In reality, Cawley is a humane doctor who is doing everything he can to treat Teddy and prevent him from being lobotomized.
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** When Dr. Cawley is first introduced, pay attention to how he speaks about how the mentally ill used to be treated. Before he says "drowned", he quickly glances at Teddy and slightly changes his tone. While this further underscores Dr. Cawley's distaste for what passed as mental health care in the past, it's also [[spoiler: his way of testing Andrew. Dr. Cawley knows that Andrew's children were drowned, and thus even the mention of drowning might be enough to trigger him.]]
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* AmnesiacProtagonistCatalyst: The police officer Teddy [[spoiler:''is'' Andrew Laeddis. But this is a downplayed case since everyone else was aware of it and was just playing along to try and cure him.]]
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*InsanityEstablishmentMoment: When the Nazi experimenter writes [[spoiler: Andrew Laeddis on the board, revealing that Teddy and Andrew are the same person]]
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* AssholeVictim: The concentration camp guards at Dachau, who the Marines [[PayEvilUntoEvil gunned down en masse even after they had surrendered]]. Although it was kept classified for many years, [[TruthInTelevision this really happened.]]
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* AssholeVictim: The concentration camp guards at Dachau, who the Marines American soldiers [[PayEvilUntoEvil gunned down en masse even after they had surrendered]]. Although it was kept classified for many years, [[TruthInTelevision this really happened.]]
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* HeadacheOfDoom: Teddy Daniels suffers a mild headache not long after arriving at Ashecliff, apparently caused by dehydration from sea-sickness. However, the second day on the island ends with Daniels suffering a migraine so powerful that it causes him to collapse, and he has to be helped into bed. According to [[spoiler: "Rachael Solando"]], this has actually been caused by the hospital staff drugging him in the hopes of faking a descent into madness and imprisoning him as a patient. [[spoiler: The truth is much stranger: Daniels is actually Andrew Laeddis, a delusional patient at the hospital, and his headaches are withdrawal symptoms - the result of him being taken off antipsychotic medication.]]
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* CuttingBackToReality: In the finale, Teddy manages to get his hands on the firearm that was confiscated from him at the start of the film and hold Dr Cawley and Dr Sheehan at gunpoint. Cawley makes it clear that shooting them is the only way Teddy is going to get off the island, so Teddy shoots him four times in the chest, splattering the board behind him in blood, then turns the gun in Sheehan's direction... and then we cut back to Cawley, who is completely unharmed. [[spoiler: The gun is a toy and always has been: Teddy is actually a patient at the hospital - specifically the mysterious Andrew Laeddis that "Teddy" has been pursuing - and wouldn't be trusted with a real firearm even in the roleplay scenario that's been established for him.]]
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* GuiltComplex: Teddy is full of guilt for his actions in Dachau and the death of his wife even though it was not his fault. [[spoiler: It's because 'Teddy' is a mask for Andrew feeling a LaserGuidedKarma for ignoring Dolores obvious insanity which led to her killing her children and Andrew giving Dolores a MercyKill.]]
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Cawley is able to break 'Teddy' by asking if the little girl who haunts him, Andrew's daughter Rachel, is not real.]]
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*** [[spoiler: When Teddy is interviewing the staff and forces one of them to admit he breached protocol use the restroom, Chuck can be seen in the background glancing and nodding at one of orderlies, nonverbally assuring him that Teddy is stable.]]
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*** [[spoiler: When Teddy is interviewing the staff and forces one of them to admit he breached protocol to use the restroom, Chuck can be seen in the background glancing and nodding at one of orderlies, nonverbally assuring him that Teddy is stable.]]
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*** [[spoiler: When Teddy is interviewing the staff and forces one of them to admit he breached protocol use the restroom, Chuck can be seen in the background glancing and nodding at one of orderlies, nonverbally assuring him that Teddy is stable.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Your wife drowning your kids would certainly count. And your daughter takes the form of your guilty conscience...]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Your wife drowning your kids would certainly count. And your daughter guilty conscience takes the form of your guilty conscience...daughter...]]
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** Ted Levine's character to Teddy: [[spoiler: "You're as violent as they come."]]
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* CompositeCharacter: Done in-universe example with [[spoiler: Teddy's imaginary Andrew Laeddis. He takes his name and slaying of Dolores from the man Teddy actually is, while his arson is taken from Dolores.]]
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* NightmareOfNormality: By the end, Teddy is certain that the doctors are trying to brainwash him into thinking that he's always been a mental patient and his life as a heroic US Marshal was a delusion. [[spoiler: And then it's completely inverted; he really ''is'' a mental patient and the doctors are trying to awaken him from his delusions.]]
