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* AsideGlance: When Emma gives Kat her hot chocolate, she comments that it's just like her father used to make, before smiling deviously at the audience.


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* CardCarryingVillain: Emma answers the questions on the psychopath test honestly, and smiles when told that she meets the criteria.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Emma seems to warm up to the baby over the course of the film, at least as much as she's capable of, [[spoiler: even asking for them to stay together at the end as he's the only family she has left]].
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* BadNewsInAGoodWay: Emma's test to find out if she's a psychopath ends with a message saying "Congratulations: You're a psychopath.", as if that's a good thing.
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* CompetitionFreak Emma. Especially present even in the first film, best showcased when she - [[spoiler: Murders Stephanie in cold blood over her winning dance-team captain over Emma.]]

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* CompetitionFreak CompetitionFreak: Emma. Especially present even in the first film, best showcased when she - [[spoiler: Murders Stephanie in cold blood over her winning dance-team captain over Emma.]]
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‘''Emma''': Stray Kat has claws!

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‘''Emma''': '''Emma''': Stray Kat has claws!
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* CompetitionFreak Emma. Especially present even in the first film, best showcased when she - [[spoiler: Murders Stephanie in cold blood over her winning dance-team captain over Emma.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution [[spoiler: After Stephanie wins dance-team captain instead of Emma, Emma repays her best friend by triggering her epilepsy which causes her to have a fatal seizure, killing her on the spot.]]
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* ManipulativeBitch: Emma has evolved into this even before the events of the second film, from fooling her aunt for years,[[spoiler:turning the school and her friends against Kat, and framing her for all the murders she has committed and fooling the authorities and social workers.]]
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* AlphaBitch: Emma is a passive-aggressive type. She is exceptionally adept at hiding her true personality behind a facade.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Emma has evolved into this even before the events of the second film, from fooling her aunt for years,[[spoiler:turning the school and her friends against Kat, and framing her for all the murders she has committed and fooling the authorities and social workers.]]

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Emma Emma Emma. The most defining example of this is her personality switches whenever she’s speaking to Kat.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: Emma Emma Emma. The most defining example of this is her personality switches whenever she’s speaking to Kat.



'''Emma''': Stray Kat has claws!

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'''Emma''': ‘''Emma''': Stray Kat has claws!claws!
* ManipulativeBitch: Emma has evolved into this even before the events of the second film, from fooling her aunt for years,[[spoiler:turning the school and her friends against Kat, and framing her for all the murders she has committed and fooling the authorities and social workers.]]



* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Realizing [[spoiler:there's no way they can get out of the burning house, Angela tells Robert to lay down next to her so they can perish together]].
* ManipulativeBitch: Emma has evolved into this even before the events of the second film, from fooling her aunt for years,[[spoiler:turning the school and her friends against Kat, and framing her for all the murders she has committed and fooling the authorities and social workers.]]

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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Realizing [[spoiler:there's no way they can get out of the burning house, Angela tells Robert to lay down next to her so they can perish together]].
* ManipulativeBitch: Emma has evolved into this even before the events of the second film, from fooling her aunt for years,[[spoiler:turning the school and her friends against Kat, and framing her for all the murders she has committed and fooling the authorities and social workers.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Emma Emma Emma. The most defining example of this is her personality switches whenever she’s speaking to Kat.
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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Realizing [[spoiler:there's no way they can get out of the burning house, Angela tells Robert to lay down next to her so they can perish together]].

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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Realizing [[spoiler:there's no way they can get out of the burning house, Angela tells Robert to lay down next to her so they can perish together]].together]].
* ManipulativeBitch: Emma has evolved into this even before the events of the second film, from fooling her aunt for years,[[spoiler:turning the school and her friends against Kat, and framing her for all the murders she has committed and fooling the authorities and social workers.]]
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-->'''Emma''': ''Tio, entiendo claramente. Que bueno que tuvimos esta conversacion.'' (Uncle, I understand clearly. I'm glad we had this talk.)\\
'''Robert''': ''Te tengo en la mira, mijita'' (I'm watching you, girl)

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-->'''Emma''': ''Tio, entiendo claramente. Que bueno que tuvimos esta conversacion.'' (Uncle, ''[[labelnote:Translation]]"Uncle, I understand clearly. I'm glad we had this talk.)\\
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-->'''Robert''': ''¡Te
tengo en la mira, mijita'' (I'm mijita!''[[labelnote:Translation]]"I'm watching you, girl)''mijita''!" ''Mijita'' is a contracted form of ''mi hijita'' ("my little daughter"), normally used affectionately, but used sardonically here.[[/labelnote]]
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* SlippingAMickey: Emma puts crushed pills into a mug of hot chocolate [[spoiler:and gives it to Kat at the climax]].

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* SlippingAMickey: Emma puts crushed pills into a mug of hot chocolate [[spoiler:and gives it to Kat at the climax]].climax, so that it will look as though Kat set the fire then "killed herself to avoid arrest"]].
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'''Kat''': Where should I start? With the housekeeper falling down the stairs? Milo drowning? Mrs. Ellis' car wreck? A babysitter burning to death? A dad getting shot? A stepuncle getting crushed by a car? And now a dog getting chopped up in a park? Coincidences? Or a pattern?\\

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'''Kat''': Where should I start? With the housekeeper falling down the stairs? Milo drowning? Mrs. [[spoiler:Mrs. Ellis' car wreck? A babysitter burning to death? A dad getting shot? A stepuncle getting crushed by a car? And now a dog getting chopped up in a park? park?]] Coincidences? Or a pattern?\\
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* MeaningfulName: Kat is, well, catty, and waiting for a chance to pounce on Emma. Emma even makes this connection.
-->'''Kat''': I know all about you.\\
'''Emma''': ''Do'' tell...\\
'''Kat''': Where should I start? With the housekeeper falling down the stairs? Milo drowning? Mrs. Ellis' car wreck? A babysitter burning to death? A dad getting shot? A stepuncle getting crushed by a car? And now a dog getting chopped up in a park? Coincidences? Or a pattern?\\
'''Emma''': Stray Kat has claws!
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* AgeLift: Assuming both movies take place in the present time of when they were made, Emma should be 13 (since she was 9 in the first movie), but here she's 15 or 16 (it's never exactly specified). Since Creator/MckennaGrace was a case of DawsonCasting in the first movie (she was 12), this allows Grace to be the same age as the character here.
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** A subtle one to the 1956 movie, with Emma whistling "Clair de Lune" (Rhoda's signature piano piece in the first movie) as she cleans up the garage.

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** A subtle one to the 1956 movie, with Emma whistling "Clair de Lune" (Rhoda's signature piano piece in the first movie) piece) as she cleans up the garage.
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''The Bad Seed Returns'' is a 2022 Creator/{{Lifetime}} PsychologicalHorror MadeForTVMovie, directed by Louise Archambault. It's a sequel to the [[Film/TheBadSeed2018 2018 remake]] of ''Literature/TheBadSeed'', continuing the story of VillainProtagonist Emma Grossman (Creator/MckennaGrace). Grace herself co-wrote the screenplay with her father Ross Burge and Barbara Marshall, and also served as one of the executive producers.

Several years after the death of her father David, Emma lives with her aunt Angela (Michelle Morgan) and her family: uncle Robert (Benjamin Ayres) and their infant son Cade. Rather than the cold EnfanteTerrible of the first movie, Emma is now a more outgoing and popular high school-aged girl, but she's still an obsessive, murderous psychopath. Her focus is now on becoming the captain of the school's dance squad, but Kat (Ella Dixon), a mysterious new transfer student, seems to know things about her that could thwart that goal and upend Emma's life. Meanwhile, Emma starts tormenting Angela by targeting Robert and Cade.

!! ''The Bad Seed Returns'' contains examples of:

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Emma sets the house on fire, killing Angela, Robert and Kat, and also successfully frames Kat for it]].
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The movie opens up with Emma abducting a dog and killing it with a knife.
* BullyingADragon: If Kat really suspects Emma of the murders in the first movie, it seems like she ought to go to the authorities, but instead she taunts and threatens Emma over it.
* CallBack:
** The mascot of Emma's high school is the Wasps. A wasp nest was part of a subplot in the ''Film/TheBadSeed2018''.
** Emma also revives [[spoiler:the attempted murder method her father used on her in the first movie--spiked hot chocolate--to kill Kat]].
** A subtle one to the 1956 movie, with Emma whistling "Clair de Lune" (Rhoda's signature piano piece in the first movie) as she cleans up the garage.
* EmoTeen: Kat, with her drab fashion sense, nose ring and DeadpanSnarker attitude qualifies.
* EvilIsPetty: While this trait is already well-established for Emma from the first movie (not to mention her predecessor Rhoda), placing it into the naturally petty world of TeenDrama amplifies the situation greatly for her.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: After first tossing out some vaguely threatening hints to Emma, Kat reveals that she's a former classmate of her's at St. Alban's from the first movie, but Emma doesn't remember her. Having witnessed the aftermath of the deaths of Milo Curtis and Mrs. Ellis, she's figured out that Emma killed them, along with the other murders she committed in the first movie.
* GratuitousSpanish: Robert is a professor of Cuban literature and sprinkles Spanish liberally into his conversation, trying in vain to teach Emma the language. However, after he threatens her, she responds in perfect ''español''.
* HowWeGotHere: The movie starts with the murder of the dog, then about midway through it's established what was going on--[[spoiler:it belonged to Stephanie, her archrival on the dance team]].
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Thankfully we don't see it, but Emma apparently decided to mutilate the dog as much as possible besides killing it.
* NoSocialSkills: Emma is so clueless about dating that she has to do a web search on "what to do when a boy likes you" when Nathan shows interest in her (not to mention that she does this while her uncle is in the hospital and she just cleaned up the garage to remove any evidence that might incriminate her).
* ParlorGames: At the slumber party, Kat leads the girls in a marijuana-fueled game of Never Have I Ever, but it's actually a ruse to reveal Emma as a murderer.
* PsychologicalHorror: With more of an emphasis on the Horror part than the first movie.
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Emma and Robert's Spanish exchange.
-->'''Emma''': ''Tio, entiendo claramente. Que bueno que tuvimos esta conversacion.'' (Uncle, I understand clearly. I'm glad we had this talk.)\\
'''Robert''': ''Te tengo en la mira, mijita'' (I'm watching you, girl)
* RemakeCameo: Patty [=McCormack=], the star of ''Film/TheBadSeed1956'', returns as Emma's psychiatrist Dr. March.
* SequelHook: The movie ends with [[spoiler:Emma and Cade going into foster care together, leading to some horrifying future possibilities for the young boy with his twisted cousin as his caretaker]].
* ShipTease: A cute classmate named Nathan is interested in Emma, but since she's utterly incapable of affection, nothing really happens between them.
* SlippingAMickey: Emma puts crushed pills into a mug of hot chocolate [[spoiler:and gives it to Kat at the climax]].
* SlumberParty: Steph holds one at her house, mainly for the dance team members, but in a spirit of friendship they invite Kat as well.
* StayWithMeUntilIDie: Realizing [[spoiler:there's no way they can get out of the burning house, Angela tells Robert to lay down next to her so they can perish together]].

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