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* BigDamnHeroes: Attempted several times throughout the course of the movie. However, except for [[spoiler: Dale rescuing Allison]], this only succeeds in escalating a nonexistent situation to a deadly one.
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* ButtMonkey: Arguably Tucker, who suffers most of the movie's nonlethal injuries and indignities.
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** Though being WrongGenreSaavy, half the kids were assuming that they were this, if not in on it themselves.
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** Though being WrongGenreSaavy, WrongGenreSavvy, half the kids were assuming that they were this, if not in on it themselves.
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** Though the 'real' college kids were judgmental morons with only the slightest grain of sense between them(even if Allison eventually got better about it).
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* CassandraTruth: When our heroes tell the sheriff what happened, he has hard time believing it first.
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* CassandraTruth: When our heroes tell the sheriff what happened, he has hard time believing it first.first.
** Though Tucker was fully aware of how ridiculous their story sounded, and insisted on trying to hide everything that happened instead. This plan falls through when the sheriff finds them removing the body from the wood chipper.
** Though Tucker was fully aware of how ridiculous their story sounded, and insisted on trying to hide everything that happened instead. This plan falls through when the sheriff finds them removing the body from the wood chipper.
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* DeadlyDodging: Dale does this a lot, obliviously. Tucker as well; it's why Mitch ended up in a woodchipper.
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* DeadlyDodging: Dale does this a lot, obliviously. Tucker as well; it's why Mitch ended up in a woodchipper.wood chipper.
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* DeadlyDodging: Dale does this a lot, obliviously.
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* DeadlyDodging: Dale does this a lot, obliviously. Tucker as well; it's why Mitch ended up in a woodchipper.
** Tucker does this somewhat more intentionally when Jason comes at him with a string trimmer, though he probably didn't intend for [[spoiler: Naomi to get it in the face instead]].
** Tucker does this somewhat more intentionally when Jason comes at him with a string trimmer, though he probably didn't intend for [[spoiler: Naomi to get it in the face instead]].
** Hell, every one of the kids's deaths[[spoiler: , save Chad,]] were brought about by their own hilariously inept attempts to either escape or attack Dale and Tucker.
-->'''Dale:''' You want a killer hillbilly? I'll ''give'' you a killer hillbilly.
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* ManOnFire: Chad accidentally sets Jason on fire.
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* ManOnFire: Chad accidentally sets Jason on fire. Despite Dale and Tucker's attempts at advice, Chloe just makes it worse.
** Though being WrongGenreSaavy, half the kids were assuming that they were this, if not in on it themselves.
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* PsychoPartyMember: [[spoiler:Chad]][[spoiler:Chad. It was so obvious from so early on that it's a wonder this was spoilered at all.]]
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* MistakenForMurderer: The basis of the entire plot.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: One of the college kids is aiming for Tucker and Dale with a gun. Dale, panicking, gives him an useful, albeit situationally mistimed advice to switch the safety off. The kid struggles with it and shoots himself in the face.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: One of the college kids is aiming for Tucker and Dale with a gun. Dale, panicking, gives him an useful, albeit situationally mistimed advice to [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont switch the safety off.off]]. The kid struggles with it and shoots himself in the face.
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* FinalGirl: Allison, thanks to her friends.
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* BrokenAesop: The aesop starts out about not judging people based on appearance: the only truly evil character is a college kid, meaning college kids are no better or worse than hillbillies. [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunately]], the revelation that [[Chad is in fact half-hillbilly]] undermines this. Instead, you get the message that hillbillies are potentially insane murders with a genetic predisposition for evil, and only *real* college kids are safe.
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* BrokenAesop: The aesop starts out about not judging people based on appearance: the only truly evil character is a college kid, meaning college kids are no better or worse than hillbillies. [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunately]], the revelation that [[Chad [[spoiler:Chad is in fact half-hillbilly]] undermines this. Instead, you get the message that hillbillies are potentially insane murders with a genetic predisposition for evil, evil that can manifest the moment they leave civilization, and only *real* college kids are safe.
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* BrokenAesop: The aesop starts out about not judging people based on appearance: the only truly evil character is a college kid, meaning college kids are no better or worse than hillbillies. [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunately]], the revelation that [[Chad is in fact half-hillbilly]] undermines this. Instead, you get the message that hillbillies are potentially insane murders with a genetic predisposition for evil, and only *real* college kids are safe.
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** Made more hilarious by the fact that said gun is a revolver, which means that it doesn't have a safety. The kid shoots himself looking for a safety catch that isn't even there.
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* OnlySaneMan: Jason ''initially'' acts as this for the first half of the movie.
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* NiceGuy: Dale.
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* NiceGuy: Dale.Tucker and especially Dale are so well-meaning and friendly you can't help but feel bad for them as their vacation falls apart.
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* ShrinkingViolet: Dale.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?
-->It's true... you're half hillbilly.
-->No! It's not true! They... they lied to me?! [[hottip:*:Someone please hunt down actual quote.]]
-->It's true... you're half hillbilly.
-->No! It's not true! They... they lied to me?! [[hottip:*:Someone please hunt down actual quote.]]
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted by Jason, who deliberately avoids danger of any kind [[spoiler: until Allison's tea summit, by which point most of the white students are dead]].
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** Applies equally well to the other kids; whereas Chad thinks he's in a revenge-fueled action movie, the rest of them think they're going to be murdered by AxeCrazy hicks. Extra points go to Jason, who acts as the OnlySaneMan[[spoiler: until he accidentally mutilates Naomi]].
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* AxCrazy: Chad gradually descents into this, ultimately becoming a nutjob with a hard-on for hillbilly murder.
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* AxCrazy: Chad [[spoiler:Chad gradually descents into this, ultimately becoming a nutjob with a hard-on for hillbilly murder.]]
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Chad keep insisting in a black and white narrative with himself as the good guy and the hillibillies as the villains.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Chad keep insisting in on a black and white narrative with himself as the good guy and the hillibillies hillbillies as the villains.
* CaliforniaDoubling: [[CanadaEh Alberta]] for West Virginia.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Indirectly invoked by Dale, as Chad accuse him of the atrocities done to his parents - Dale responds by reminding everyone that he was six years old at the time (and also not anywhere near the crime-scene, but never mind that.)
* ChekhovsGun: Chamomile Tea, good thing the lumber mill happened to have some laying around.
* ChekhovsGun: Chamomile Tea, good thing the lumber mill happened to have some laying around.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Indirectly invoked by Dale, as Chad accuse him of the atrocities done to his parents - parents. Dale responds by reminding everyone that he was six years old at the time (and also not anywhere near the crime-scene, but never mind that.)
* ChekhovsGun: ChamomileTea, good tea. Good thing the lumber mill happened to have some laying around.
* ChekhovsGun: Chamomile
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* ConveyorBeltOfDoom: Chad ties Allison to a log at the abandoned saw mill and when the climactic duel starts, he starts the machinery there putting Allison in this position.
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* ConveyorBeltOfDoom: Chad [[spoiler:Chad]] ties Allison to a log at the abandoned saw mill and when the climactic duel starts, he starts the machinery there putting Allison in this position.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Chad would rather kill Allison then let her fall in love with a hillbilly.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Jason with a string trimmer. It does not end well for [[spoiler:Naomi]]
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* IfICantHaveYou: Chad [[spoiler:Chad would rather kill Allison then let her fall in love with a hillbilly.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Jason with a string trimmer. It does not end well for[[spoiler:Naomi]][[spoiler:Naomi]].
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Chad goes from frat boy on a camping trip to AxCrazy awfully quick.
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Chad [[spoiler:Chad goes from frat boy on a camping trip to AxCrazy awfully quick.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Unfortunately, they are just as accident-prone like anyone else in this film.
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** The DVD likewise contains a 15-minute bonus feature called ''Tucker and Dale ARE Evil'', which [[ReCut retells the story from the college kids' point of view]] [[spoiler:while removing the hints that Chad is a psychopath]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Unfortunately, they are just as accident-pronelike as anyone else in this film.
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Unfortunately, they are just as accident-prone
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* SouthernFriedGenius: Dale, sort of. He didn't finish grade school, but apparently has a very good mind for trivia
* StockholmSyndrome: When Allison tries to explain to Chad and Naomi what happenend, Naomi erroneously deducts that she is going through this.
* TelevisionGeography: The movie takes place in the backwoods of West Virginia, but the foliage in the area looks nothing like West Virginia's. West Virginia forests are mostly broadleaf deciduous trees, packed rather densely, but the forest in the movie was coniferous and thin.
* StockholmSyndrome: When Allison tries to explain to Chad and Naomi what happenend, Naomi erroneously deducts that she is going through this.
* TelevisionGeography: The movie takes place in the backwoods of West Virginia, but the foliage in the area looks nothing like West Virginia's. West Virginia forests are mostly broadleaf deciduous trees, packed rather densely, but the forest in the movie was coniferous and thin.
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* SouthernFriedGenius: Dale, sort of. He didn't finish grade school, but apparently has a very good mind for trivia
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* StockholmSyndrome: When Allison tries to explain to Chad and Naomi whathappenend, happened, Naomi erroneously deducts that she is going through this.
* TelevisionGeography: The movie takes place in the backwoods of West Virginia, but the foliage in the area looks nothing like West Virginia's. West Virginia forests are mostly broadleaf deciduous trees, packed rather densely, but the forest in the movie was coniferous andthin.thin... not unlike the forests in [[CaliforniaDoubling Alberta, Canada]].
* StockholmSyndrome: When Allison tries to explain to Chad and Naomi what
* TelevisionGeography: The movie takes place in the backwoods of West Virginia, but the foliage in the area looks nothing like West Virginia's. West Virginia forests are mostly broadleaf deciduous trees, packed rather densely, but the forest in the movie was coniferous and
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* TooDumbToLive: It's not really a good time or place for a cigarette when you're next to a crapload of gasoline, Chloe.
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* TooDumbToLive: It's not really a good time or place for a cigarette when you're next to a crapload of gasoline, Chloe.[[spoiler:Chloe]].
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* TwoFaced: Left side of Chad's [[spoiler:Chad's]] face is badly burnt when he is caught inside an explosion.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Chad is the one who convinces others that they are in a "us against them" situation against crazy backwoods hillbillies. Justified because as he's ''very'' prejudiced against hillbillies.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Tucker gives Dale this speech to convince him to not only save Allison, but to pursue a relationship with her as well.
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* EntitledToHaveYou: [[Spoiler: Chad]] has this for Allison who he believes he is entitled to because they are both 'special' and proceeds to [[spoiler: go more crazy when she falls for Dale, a hillbilly, who he sees as inferior]]
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* EntitledToHaveYou: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Chad]] has this for Allison who he believes he is entitled to because they are both 'special' and proceeds to [[spoiler: go more crazy when she falls for Dale, a hillbilly, who he sees as inferior]]
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* EntitledToHaveYou: [[Spoiler: Chad]] has this for Allison who he believes he is entitled to because they are both 'special' and proceeds to [[spoiler: go more crazy when she falls for Dale, a hillbilly, who he sees as inferior]]
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* HowWeGotHere: The very first scene of the film mixes this with OrIsIt.film.
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* AbuseMistake: The collage kids [[spoiler:and the police]] take for granted that Dale is doing terrible things to Allison.
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** Really, this is arguably the point of the whole movie, givan that almost all the victims die from ''accidental suicide''.
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* DeadlyDodging: Dale does this a lot, obliviously.
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* ShoutOut: [[TheTexasChainsawMassacre Tucker spinning around with the chainsaw]]
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