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* * GroundhogDayLoop: A rare non-time loop example. Malcolm kills to make the elixir to have 21 more years to perfect the elixir, which he never success in doing. As Kolchak points out, he's trapped himself in a loop, endlessly repeating a cycle he stubbornly refuses to break.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization shows that Kolchak did actually manage to get his book published, but he had to go on the run from hitmen hired by the authorities back in Las Vegas to silence him, and he didn’t get any of the profits. The guy he yells at in the film who seems to be a publisher is actually a reporter who called him crazy, pissing him off.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization {{novelization}} shows that Kolchak did actually manage to get his book published, but he had to go on the run from hitmen hired by the authorities back in Las Vegas to silence him, and he didn’t didn't get any of the profits. The guy he yells at in the film who seems to be a publisher is actually a reporter who called him crazy, pissing him off.
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** While exploring the Seattle Underground, Kolchak and Louise find a freshly opened bottle of bourbon, and the two suspect they have stumbled on the killer’s lair. Instead, it belongs to the Tramp, who is currently taking a nap.
** Subverted later on by [[spoiler:Charisma Beauty]]’s death, which is set up as one, only for it to turn out to actually be the killer.
** Subverted later on by [[spoiler:Charisma Beauty]]’s death, which is set up as one, only for it to turn out to actually be the killer.
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** While exploring the Seattle Underground, Kolchak and Louise find a freshly opened bottle of bourbon, and the two suspect they have stumbled on the killer’s killer's lair. Instead, it belongs to the Tramp, who is currently taking a nap.
** Subverted later onby with [[spoiler:Charisma Beauty]]’s Beauty]]'s death, which is set up as one, only for it to turn out to actually be the killer.
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* DisposableVagrant: [[spoiler:Kolchak finds the Tramp’s corpse hidden in Malcolm’s lair.]]
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* DisposableVagrant: [[spoiler:Kolchak finds the Tramp’s Tramp's corpse hidden in Malcolm’s Malcolm's lair.]]]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Malcolm, who keeps on a polite and civil act when talking with Kolchak, and is clearly ready to snap and murder him at any moment.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Malcolm, who keeps on a polite and civil act when talking with Kolchak, and is clearly ready to snap and murder him at any moment.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Malcolm, who keeps on a polite and civil act when talking with Kolchak, and is clearly ready to snap and murder him at any moment.
* GroundhogDayLoop: A rare non-time loop example. Malcolm kills to make the elixir to have 21 more years to perfect the elixir, which he never success in doing. As Kolchak points out, he’s trapped himself in a loop, endlessly repeating a cycle he stubbornly refuses to break.
* GroundhogDayLoop: A rare non-time loop example. Malcolm kills to make the elixir to have 21 more years to perfect the elixir, which he never success in doing. As Kolchak points out, he’s trapped himself in a loop, endlessly repeating a cycle he stubbornly refuses to break.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Malcolm, who keeps on a polite and civil act when talking with Kolchak, and is clearly ready to snap and murder him at any moment.
* GroundhogDayLoop: A rare non-time loop example. Malcolm kills to make the elixir to have 21 more years to perfect the elixir, which he never success in doing. As Kolchak points out, he’s he's trapped himself in a loop, endlessly repeating a cycle he stubbornly refuses to break.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Malcolm's elixir of youth has to be renewed every 21 years with the blood of a few women.
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* MadScientist: Well, he’s a mad ''alchemist'', but Malcolm still qualifies.
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* MadScientist: Well, he’s he's a mad ''alchemist'', but Malcolm still qualifies.
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* TranquilFury: [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness In the middle of a heated argument with Vincenzo, Kolchak drops his usual hammy and loud outrage, and quietly growls “You’re getting old, Tony.”]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kolchak and Vincenzo give each other multiple, Vincenzo over Kolchak’s bizarre claims and Kolchak over Vincenzo having lost his nerve.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kolchak and Vincenzo give each other multiple, Vincenzo over Kolchak’s bizarre claims and Kolchak over Vincenzo having lost his nerve.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kolchak and Vincenzo give each other multiple, Vincenzo overKolchak’s Kolchak's bizarre claims and Kolchak over Vincenzo having lost his nerve.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Malcolm’s identity of Dr. Malcolm Richards is remembered as a saint, but it’s because of his genuinely altruistic actions and the people he saved.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Malcolm’s murders are due to his desire to perfect the elixir and share it with mankind, so that mankind can reach a new golden age.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: While a good chunk of it is his own fault, Malcolm’s immortality, stubborn pursuit of perfecting the elixir, and isolation from the world have driven him insane.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Malcolm’s murders are due to his desire to perfect the elixir and share it with mankind, so that mankind can reach a new golden age.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: While a good chunk of it is his own fault, Malcolm’s immortality, stubborn pursuit of perfecting the elixir, and isolation from the world have driven him insane.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Malcolm’s Malcolm's identity of Dr. Malcolm Richards is remembered as a saint, but it’s it's because of his genuinely altruistic actions and the people he saved.
* WellIntentionedExtremist:Malcolm’s Malcolm's murders are due to his desire to perfect the elixir and share it with mankind, so that mankind can reach a new golden age.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: While a good chunk of it is his own fault,Malcolm’s Malcolm's immortality, stubborn pursuit of perfecting the elixir, and isolation from the world have driven him insane.insane.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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''The Night Strangler'' is a 1973 television horror film and a sequel to ''Film/TheNightStalker'', directed by Dan Curtis and written once again by Creator/RichardMatheson. Creator/DarrenMcGavin and Creator/SimonOakland reprise their roles as [[IntrepidReporter Carl Kolchak]] and [[DaEditor Tony Vincenzo]], respectively, and are joined by Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Creator/JohnCarradine, Wally Cox, Creator/MargaretHamilton, and Scott Brady.
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''The Night Strangler'' is a 1973 television horror film and a sequel to ''Film/TheNightStalker'', directed by Dan Curtis and written once again by Creator/RichardMatheson. Creator/DarrenMcGavin and Creator/SimonOakland reprise their roles as [[IntrepidReporter Carl Kolchak]] and [[DaEditor Tony Vincenzo]], respectively, and are joined by Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Creator/RichardAnderson, Creator/JohnCarradine, Wally Cox, Creator/MargaretHamilton, and Scott Brady.
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* FireForgedFriends: Subverted. [[spoiler:Louise hates Kolchak, since him getting her involved in the investigation resulted in her getting run out of Chicago along with him. As she accurately points out, he ruined her life.]]
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* FireForgedFriends: Subverted. [[spoiler:Louise hates Kolchak, since him getting her involved in the investigation resulted in her getting run out of Chicago Seattle along with him. As she accurately points out, he ruined her life.]]
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* ButchLesbian: Wilma, Charisma's girlfriend.
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* FamousLastWords:
--> [[spoiler:'''Richard Malcolm''']]: Why?
--> [[spoiler:'''Richard Malcolm''']]: Why?
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization shows that Kolchak did actually manage to get his book published, but he had to go on the run from hitman hires by the authorities back in Las Vegas to silence him, and he didn’t get any of the profits. The guy he yells at in the film who seems to be a publisher is actually a reporter who called him crazy, pissing him off.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization shows that Kolchak did actually manage to get his book published, but he had to go on the run from hitman hires hitmen hired by the authorities back in Las Vegas to silence him, and he didn’t get any of the profits. The guy he yells at in the film who seems to be a publisher is actually a reporter who called him crazy, pissing him off.
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''The Night Strangler'' is a 1973 television horror film and a sequel to ''Film/TheNightStalker'', directed by Dan Curtis and written once again by Creator/RichardMatheson. Creator/DarrenMcGavin and Simon Oakland reprise their roles as [[IntrepidReporter Carl Kolchak]] and [[DaEditor Tony Vincenzo]], respectively, and are joined by Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Creator/JohnCarradine, Wally Cox, Creator/MargaretHamilton, and Scott Brady.
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''The Night Strangler'' is a 1973 television horror film and a sequel to ''Film/TheNightStalker'', directed by Dan Curtis and written once again by Creator/RichardMatheson. Creator/DarrenMcGavin and Simon Oakland Creator/SimonOakland reprise their roles as [[IntrepidReporter Carl Kolchak]] and [[DaEditor Tony Vincenzo]], respectively, and are joined by Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Creator/JohnCarradine, Wally Cox, Creator/MargaretHamilton, and Scott Brady.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It’s pretty blatant Wilma Krankheimer and Charisma Beauty are a couple, but it’s never stated onscreen outside of Kolchak calling Wilma Charisma’s “husband”.
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--> [[spoiler:'''Richard Malcolm''']]: Why?
--> [[spoiler:'''Richard Malcolm''']]: Why?
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* FireForgedFriends: Subverted. [[spoiler:Louise hates Kolchak, since him getting her involved in the investigation resulted in her getting run out of Chicago along with him. As she accurately points out, he ruined her life.]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: A rare non-time loop example. Malcolm kills to make the elixir to have 21 more years to perfect the elixir, which he never success in doing. As Kolchak points out, he’s trapped himself in a loop, endlessly repeating a cycle he stubbornly refuses to break.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Louise and Charisma Beauty fit the archetype, in spite of being strippers rather than prostitutes.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Louise and Charisma Beauty fit the archetype, in spite of being strippers rather than prostitutes.
* RegularlyScheduledEvil: Deconstructed. Malcolm strikes every 21 years to get the blood he needs for the elixir that keeps him alive, but doing so has trapped him in an endless cycle that has clearly driven him mad.
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* ShrinkingViolet: Wally Cox, the mousy, meek researcher.
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* ShrinkingViolet: Wally Cox, the mousy, meek researcher.researcher.
* TragicVillain: Richard Malcolm was a good man whose desire to help mankind resulted in him going down a dark path in his attempts to perfect the elixir of life, destroying everything he loved and cared about and leaving him a broken shell of a man trapped in a cycle of violence.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Malcolm’s identity of Dr. Malcolm Richards is remembered as a saint, but it’s because of his genuinely altruistic actions and the people he saved.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Malcolm’s murders are due to his desire to perfect the elixir and share it with mankind, so that mankind can reach a new golden age.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: While a good chunk of it is his own fault, Malcolm’s immortality, stubborn pursuit of perfecting the elixir, and isolation from the world have driven him insane.
* TragicVillain: Richard Malcolm was a good man whose desire to help mankind resulted in him going down a dark path in his attempts to perfect the elixir of life, destroying everything he loved and cared about and leaving him a broken shell of a man trapped in a cycle of violence.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Malcolm’s identity of Dr. Malcolm Richards is remembered as a saint, but it’s because of his genuinely altruistic actions and the people he saved.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Malcolm’s murders are due to his desire to perfect the elixir and share it with mankind, so that mankind can reach a new golden age.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: While a good chunk of it is his own fault, Malcolm’s immortality, stubborn pursuit of perfecting the elixir, and isolation from the world have driven him insane.
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* AbortedArc: [[spoiler:The film ends with Kolchak driving Louise and Vincenzo, both of whom had been run out of town along with him, to New York, where he plans to get his story published. By the time of the series, Kolchak and Vincenzo are now working at INS in Chicago and Louise is nowhere to be seen. Louise’s absence is justified, since by the end she hated Kolchak for ruining her life. It is touched on again in an episode of the series, which reveals Kolchak secretly wants a job at a New York newspaper, and the short story ''Don't Even Blink'' mentions that Kolchak’s plan to go to New York was a bust.]]
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* AllTheirInTheManual: AllThereInTheManual: The novelization shows that Kolchak did actually manage to get his book published, but he had to go on the run from hitman hires by the authorities back in Las Vegas to silence him, and he didn’t get any of the profits. The guy he yells at in the film who seems to be a publisher is actually a reporter who called him crazy, pissing him off.
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-> ''"This is the story behind the most incredible series of murders to ever occur in the city of Seattle, Washington. You never read about them in your local newspapers or heard about them on your local radio or television station. Why? Because the facts were watered down, torn apart, and reassembled... in a word, falsified."''
-->--'''Carl Kolchak''', opening narration
-->--'''Carl Kolchak''', opening narration
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Kolchak, Vincenzo, and Crossbinder all burst out laughing when Captain Schubert mistakes the word bifornicate for bicuperate and uses it in the middle of berating Kolchak.
--> ''Schubert:'''' What did I say?
--> ''Schubert:'''' What did I say?
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Charisma Beauty is pretty blatantly gay, and she winds up murdered by Malcolm.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: Wilma Krankheimer is clearly unhappy that her girlfriend Charisma Beauty is a stripper, and often glares at anyone she believes is a customer coming to watch her show or solicit her for sex.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It’s pretty blatant Wilma Krankheimer and Charisma Beauty are a couple, but it’s never stated onscreen outside of Kolchak calling Wilma Charisma’s “husband”.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It’s pretty blatant Wilma Krankheimer and Charisma Beauty are a couple, but it’s never stated onscreen outside of Kolchak calling Wilma Charisma’s “husband”.
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* MadScientist: Well, he’s a mad ''alchemist'', but Malcolm still qualifies.
* TranquilFury: [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness In the middle of a heated argument with Vincenzo, Kolchak drops his usual hammy and loud outrage, and quietly growls “You’re getting old, Tony.”]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kolchak and Vincenzo give each other multiple, Vincenzo over Kolchak’s bizarre claims and Kolchak over Vincenzo having lost his nerve.
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* CatScare:
** While exploring the Seattle Underground, Kolchak and Louise find a freshly opened bottle of bourbon, and the two suspect they have stumbled on the killer’s lair. Instead, it belongs to the Tramp, who is currently taking a nap.
** Subverted later on by [[spoiler:Charisma Beauty]]’s death, which is set up as one, only for it to turn out to actually be the killer.
** While exploring the Seattle Underground, Kolchak and Louise find a freshly opened bottle of bourbon, and the two suspect they have stumbled on the killer’s lair. Instead, it belongs to the Tramp, who is currently taking a nap.
** Subverted later on by [[spoiler:Charisma Beauty]]’s death, which is set up as one, only for it to turn out to actually be the killer.
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* AscendedExtra: Vincenzo gets a lot more focus and depth here than he did in ''The Night Stalker'', where he was just another authority figure giving Kolchak shit who barely appeared.
* AxCrazy: Richard Malcolm has clearly gone insane, and is violent and unhinged, and at one point is shown HearingVoices.
* BigBad: Richard Malcolm, an immortal SerialKiller stalking Seattle.
* BrainlessBeauty: Charisma Beauty.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: Downplayed by the Tramp, an old homeless man living in the Seattle Underground, who comes off more as being a slightly senile and hungover idiot than flat out crazy.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kolchak and Vincenzo.
* DisposableVagrant: [[spoiler:Kolchak finds the Tramp’s corpse hidden in Malcolm’s lair.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Malcolm, who keeps on a polite and civil act when talking with Kolchak, and is clearly ready to snap and Murder him at any moment.
* ShrinkingViolet: Wally Cox, the mousy, meek researcher.
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''The Night Strangler'' is a 1973 television horror film and a sequel to ''Film/TheNightStalker'', directed by Dan Curtis and written once again by Creator/RichardMatheson. Creator/DarrenMcGavin and Simon Oakland reprise their roles as [[IntrepidReporter Carl Kolchak]] and [[DaEditor Tony Vincenzo]], respectively, and are joined by Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Creator/JohnCarradine, Wally Cox, Creator/MargaretHamilton, and Scott Brady.
Some time after the events of the first film, Kolchak is hired by his former boss Tony Vincenzo to work at the Seattle newspaper ''The Daily Chronicle''. Shortly after, a serial killer (Anderson) begins murdering belly dancers by strangling them to death. Sensing a story, Kolchak investigates and find that the killer is apparently immortal, killing women every 21 years. When the authorities refuse to listen, Kolchak enlists the help of belly dancer Louise Harper (Pflug) and shy researcher Titus Berry (Cox) to discover the truth and stop the killer.
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Some time after the events of the first film, Kolchak is hired by his former boss Tony Vincenzo to work at the Seattle newspaper ''The Daily Chronicle''. Shortly after, a serial killer (Anderson) begins murdering belly dancers by strangling them to death. Sensing a story, Kolchak investigates and find that the killer is apparently immortal, killing women every 21 years. When the authorities refuse to listen, Kolchak enlists the help of belly dancer Louise Harper (Pflug) and shy researcher Titus Berry (Cox) to discover the truth and stop the killer.
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