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* {{Adorkable}}: John is described as such, being a chipper young man who — in Ryan’s eyes — vaguely resembles a golden retriever. [[spoiler:Which makes it so much more tragic when Ryan decides to kill him.]]
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Absolutely no relation to ''Disney/LiloAndStitch.''
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* HumanoidAbomination: It’s never made clear what Stitch is. He’s been theorized to be either [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-542 SCP-542]], a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr draugr]], or a corpse reanimated through sorcery. But whatever he is, he clearly has abilities that could be attributed to a minor EldritchAbomination, such as being able to reach through computer screens.
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* HumanoidAbomination: It’s never made clear what Stitch is. He’s been theorized to be either [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-542 SCP-542]], a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr draugr]], or a corpse reanimated through sorcery. But whatever he is, he clearly has some RealityWarper abilities that could be attributed to a minor EldritchAbomination, such as being able to reach through computer screens.screens and altering peoples' dreams to his own liking.
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* BittersweetEnding: One possible interpretation of the ending, although it's still far heavier on the "bitter" side than the "sweet". [[spoiler:With Ryan dead, Stitch's primary means of tracking down new victims is gone. But everyone else is still dead, and with the stories still up, there's a good chance he'll continue to find victims as long as people still fear him.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: One possible The optimistic interpretation of the ending, although it's still far heavier on the "bitter" side than the "sweet". [[spoiler:With Ryan dead, Stitch's primary means of tracking down new victims is gone. But everyone else is still dead, and with the stories still up, there's a good chance he'll continue to find victims as long as people still fear him.]]
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* EmbarrassingNickname: In the church, Stitch expresses distaste for the name Ryan gave to him.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The names Stitch says he's called across the world all translate to "executioner".
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* ApocalypticLog: The victims' journals and [=DVDs=] act as this. [[spoiler:The series itself becomes one for Ryan by the end.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:And how! Anna is dead, Ryan gets the case taken from him by the FBI, and to top things off, Stitch reveals to Ryan why he’s let him live for so long: because he needs him to fuel people’s fears of Stitch by posting about his crimes on the Internet, leading him directly to them. Wracked with guilt, Ryan calls John over to his house and shoots him out of shame for ruining his life, then explains his intent to kill himself, being unable to live with all the blood on his hands. Although this may be a slightly downplayed example, as [=RepetitiveRoutine=] theorizes that this might cause a decline in Stitch’s food supply.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:And And how! Anna [[spoiler:Anna is dead, Ryan gets the case taken from him by the FBI, and to top things off, Stitch reveals to Ryan why he’s let him live for so long: because he needs him to fuel people’s fears of Stitch by posting about his crimes on the Internet, leading him directly to them. Wracked with guilt, Ryan calls John over to his house and shoots him out of shame for ruining his life, then explains his intent to kill himself, being unable to live with all the blood on his hands. Although this may be a slightly downplayed example, as [=RepetitiveRoutine=] theorizes that this might cause a decline in Stitch’s food supply.]]
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* SerialKiller: Subverted. Initially, this is what Ryan thinks he and Anna will be dealing with, but it turns out that he’s dealing with something far worse that has been around for a long time.
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* SerialKiller: Subverted. Initially, this Stitch is what Ryan thinks he and Anna will be dealing with, but it turns out that he’s dealing with something far worse that has been around for behind three recent grisly murders in Seattle, although he's killed many, many more over a long time.period of time. His M.O. has always remained consistent, though.
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* {{Troll}}: In addition to being a sadistic butcher who kills ForTheEvulz, Stitch also enjoys ruining memories by invading people’s dreams.
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* {{Troll}}: In addition to being a sadistic butcher who kills ForTheEvulz, Stitch also enjoys ruining memories by invading people’s dreams. It helps that he [[spoiler:drives a person to suicide over the Internet by insulting him.]]
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* IdiotBall: Firmly grasped by Ryan when he tries to use [=RepetitiveRoutine=] as bait to catch Stitch. He tries to make him fear Stitch, and once Stitch is in his house, he backpedals, telling him not to be scared. Yeah, like it’s really that easy to not be scared when you’re being chased by an undead abomination. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even close to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], so it would make no sense for him to try and catch Stitch that way.
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* IdiotBall: Firmly grasped by Ryan when he tries to use [=RepetitiveRoutine=] as bait to catch Stitch. He tries to make him fear Stitch, and once Stitch is in his house, he backpedals, telling him not to be scared. Yeah, like it’s really that easy to not be scared when you’re being chased by an undead abomination. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even close to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], so it would make no sense for him to try and catch Stitch that way.
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* IdiotBall: Firmly grasped by InformedJudaism: John refuses to set foot in the church when Ryan when he tries wants to use [=RepetitiveRoutine=] as bait to catch Stitch. He tries to make him fear Stitch, and once Stitch go in because he's Jewish. This is in his house, he backpedals, telling him not to be scared. Yeah, like it’s really that easy to not be scared when you’re being chased by an undead abomination. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even close to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], so it would make no sense for him to try and catch Stitch that way.never elaborated on any further.
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* SanitySlippage: Ryan undergoes this slowly as it becomes more and more clear that the case is unsolvable.
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* BittersweetEnding: One possible interpretation of the ending, although it's still far heavier on the "bitter" side than the "sweet". [[spoiler:With Ryan dead, Stitch's primary means of tracking down new victims is gone. But everyone else is still dead, and with the stories still up, there's a good chance he'll continue to find victims as long as people still fear him.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Stitch, of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. He was (apparently) a nasty person in life and was killed for his crimes, but in death, he’s even worse. Fear is required to fuel his existence, he has some degree of supernatural power, and likes to invade his victims’ dreams.
* EyelessFace: How Stitch gets his name: skin — possibly his own eyelids — is sewn over his eyes. This does not mean that he’s blind, though.
* EyelessFace: How Stitch gets his name: skin — possibly his own eyelids — is sewn over his eyes. This does not mean that he’s blind, though.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Much like Freddy Krueger, Stitch thrives off of people’s fear of him. [[spoiler:When Ryan kills himself, [=RepetitiveRoutine=] says that Stitch is starting to worry about his own starvation.]]
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Much like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger, Krueger]], Stitch thrives off of people’s fear of him. [[spoiler:When Ryan kills himself, [=RepetitiveRoutine=] says that Stitch is starting to worry about his own starvation.]]
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"Case File No.56" (also known as "The Case of Stitch" on the Creepypasta Wiki) is a Website/{{Reddit}} series series[=/=]AlternateRealityGame on the r/nosleep subreddit, written by Redditor Fear_of.
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* NightmareRetardant: Done intentionally in the comments section of "Case File No.56 is closed". [[spoiler:The readers, realizing that Stitch is tracking them through their fear, resolve to start making fun of Stitch, so that he'll be as unscary as possible and will eventually starve.]]
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* NightmareRetardant: Done intentionally InUniverse in the comments section of "Case File No.56 is closed". [[spoiler:The readers, realizing that Stitch is tracking them through their fear, resolve to start making fun of Stitch, so that he'll be as unscary as possible and will eventually starve.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Well, at least, Ryan certainly didn't. John certainly didn't. And with the stories still up on the Internet, it's possible that many future readers will be afraid of Stitch, providing him with what he needs to track them down.]]
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* NightmareRetardant: Done intentionally in the comments section of "Case File No.56 is closed". [[spoiler:The readers, realizing that Stitch is tracking them through their fear, resolve to start making fun of Stitch, so that he'll be as unscary as possible and will eventually starve.]]
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* UncannyValley: InUniverse. Ryan remarks that there is something really off about the nun he encounters in the church. How she "bounces" instead of walks and how her mouth moments are very puppet-like. [[spoiler:Turns out that Stitch had killed her and used her body like a hand puppet.]]
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It can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1452h8/case_file_no56/ here.]][[labelnote:note]]The last two parts are a little more difficult to find, though. They are [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17lyd3/i_am_not_dead_case_file_no56_update/ here]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17og35/case_file_no56_is_closed/ here]][[/labelnote]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: Largely justified because it's not easy for mere detectives to catch a creature like Stitch. [[spoiler:Even the FBI is unlikely to find him.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once her fear starts getting really bad, Anna goes to live with her parents.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Anna's father is torn in half and has his upper body mounted on the wall in place of his bear mount.]]
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Stitch impales a victim with ''with his own rib.''
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It can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1452h8/case_file_no56/ here.]][[labelnote:note]]The last two parts are a little more difficult to find, though. They are [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17lyd3/i_am_not_dead_case_file_no56_update/ here]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17og35/case_file_no56_is_closed/ here]].
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Case File No.56 is a series on the [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] r/nosleep written by Redditor Fear_of.
Ryan Johnson and Anna Reynolds are the two best detectives in Seattle. If there’s a case nobody else in the department can solve, it gets handed down to them. But they may have met their match: a case that even they are incapable of solving. Three brutal murders had hit Seattle, all of them perpetrated by a mysterious, hideous entity that Ryan nicknames Stitch. As the pressure increases for them to solve the case, the two — along with their intern, John Freeman — grow desperate to catch the monster, Stitch slowly infiltrates their lives.
It can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1452h8/case_file_no56/ here.]][[labelnote:note]]The last two parts are a little more difficult to find, though. They are [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17lyd3/i_am_not_dead_case_file_no56_update/ here]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17og35/case_file_no56_is_closed/ here]].
Absolutely no relation to Disney/LiloAndStitch.
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!!Tropes associated with this work include:
* AbortedArc: Ryan was supposed to go spend some time at his father’s house after a nightmare he had in which he was tormented by Stitch, who imitated said father. This is only ever mentioned briefly, and never appears to have happened by the end of the series.
* AbusiveParents: Ryan mentions that his parents used to beat him to discourage him from crying.
* {{Adorkable}}: John is described as such, being a chipper young man who — in Ryan’s eyes — vaguely resembles a golden retriever. [[spoiler:Which makes it so much more tragic when Ryan decides to kill him.]]
* AlliterativeName: [=RepetitiveRoutine=].
* AxCrazy: Stitch, Stitch, Stitch! He’s not so much insane as he is just violent, bloodthirsty, and brutish, though.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:[=RepetitiveRoutine=] … kind of. After his death, he is able to appear on Ryan’s computer screen to give him a pep talk on defeating Stitch.]]
* BodyHorror: Stitch is described as having his spine sticking out of his back, his eyes stitched over with skin, and his limbs sewn back onto his body.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Stitch’s specialty. He can’t leave a body behind without any form of mutilation or dismemberment, and often has a tendency to do so while the victim is still alive.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:And how! Anna is dead, Ryan gets the case taken from him by the FBI, and to top things off, Stitch reveals to Ryan why he’s let him live for so long: because he needs him to fuel people’s fears of Stitch by posting about his crimes on the Internet, leading him directly to them. Wracked with guilt, Ryan calls John over to his house and shoots him out of shame for ruining his life, then explains his intent to kill himself, being unable to live with all the blood on his hands. Although this may be a slightly downplayed example, as [=RepetitiveRoutine=] theorizes that this might cause a decline in Stitch’s food supply.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Ryan, for the lives he ruined.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [=RepetitiveRoutine=] is only ever referred to by his username, even by the FBI.
* EvilIsPetty: Stitch invades Ryan’s dreams, in which he turns the sky gray and kills all the animals in the dream, kills his mother and [[KickTheDog imitates her in front of Ryan]], all because he wants to “[[{{Troll}} ruin [his] best memories]].”
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Well, that and being drawn and quartered and devoured by dogs and forced to piece yourself back together. And possibly self-mutilation.
* {{Expy}}: Stitch, of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. He was (apparently) a nasty person in life and was killed for his crimes, but in death, he’s even worse. Fear is required to fuel his existence, he has some degree of supernatural power, and likes to invade his victims’ dreams.
* EyelessFace: How Stitch gets his name: skin — possibly his own eyelids — is sewn over his eyes. This does not mean that he’s blind, though.
* ForTheEvulz: Yes, Stitch needs to feed. But he clearly takes pleasure in striking fear in his victims and tearing them to pieces.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Much like Freddy Krueger, Stitch thrives off of people’s fear of him. [[spoiler:When Ryan kills himself, [=RepetitiveRoutine=] says that Stitch is starting to worry about his own starvation.]]
* {{Gorn}}: A disproportionate amount of detail is put into Stitch’s murders, and their aftermath.
* {{Hellhound}}: Stitch claims to have some, but they’re never seen.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Or at least leaves a cross burned into its flesh.
* HumanoidAbomination: It’s never made clear what Stitch is. He’s been theorized to be either [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-542 SCP-542]], a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr draugr]], or a corpse reanimated through sorcery. But whatever he is, he clearly has abilities that could be attributed to a minor EldritchAbomination, such as being able to reach through computer screens.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Stitch impales a victim with his own rib.
* IdiotBall: Firmly grasped by Ryan when he tries to use [=RepetitiveRoutine=] as bait to catch Stitch. He tries to make him fear Stitch, and once Stitch is in his house, he backpedals, telling him not to be scared. Yeah, like it’s really that easy to not be scared when you’re being chased by an undead abomination. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even close to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], so it would make no sense for him to try and catch Stitch that way.
* KickTheDog: Stitch manages to do this twice in the same place! First, [[spoiler:he slaughters Anna’s parent’s horses, leaving two alive and feeding one of the dead ones to one of the living ones, then he kills Anna in a manner all too similar to how he was killed, and [[DecapitationPresentation leaves her severed head on Ryan’s car for him to find]]. Understandably, the latter causes Ryan much distress.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:An unhinged Ryan is horrified by the revelation that he has been partly responsible for Stitch’s crimes, and believes that he has to kill John out of guilt for bringing him into the case.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Turns out the reason why [[spoiler:Stitch hasn’t killed Ryan? Is because he needs him to help fuel everyone’s fear to provide him with more victims.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: There are a couple times where Ryan fucked up big time. The first incident is when he tried to bait Stitch by instilling fear in [=RepetitiveRoutine=], which lead Stitch right to his door, and — needless to say — resulted in the brutal death of the Redditor. [[spoiler:The second time is what ultimately drives him to the DespairEventHorizon. By posting those stories about Stitch in the first place, he has given him a huge food supply.]]
* Really700YearsOld: While it’s unknown just how old Stitch is, he has been around since at least the past millennium.
* SceneryGorn: Aside from the graphic descriptions of violence throughout the series, [[spoiler:the scenery when Ryan and John make it to the Reynolds’ place isn’t pretty: with everyone in the house dead, there has been nobody to keep the dishes clean, leaving the flies to eat the food and leaving a pungent odor behind. Then there’s also the miserable state of the surviving horses in the barn, and half the body of Anna’s father mounted on the wall where his bear mount used to be.]]
* SerialKiller: Subverted. Initially, this is what Ryan thinks he and Anna will be dealing with, but it turns out that he’s dealing with something far worse that has been around for a long time.
* {{Troll}}: In addition to being a sadistic butcher who kills ForTheEvulz, Stitch also enjoys ruining memories by invading people’s dreams.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:According to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], Stitch undergoes one after Ryan’s suicide, because now he doesn’t have him to fuel anyone’s fear anymore.]]
Ryan Johnson and Anna Reynolds are the two best detectives in Seattle. If there’s a case nobody else in the department can solve, it gets handed down to them. But they may have met their match: a case that even they are incapable of solving. Three brutal murders had hit Seattle, all of them perpetrated by a mysterious, hideous entity that Ryan nicknames Stitch. As the pressure increases for them to solve the case, the two — along with their intern, John Freeman — grow desperate to catch the monster, Stitch slowly infiltrates their lives.
It can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1452h8/case_file_no56/ here.]][[labelnote:note]]The last two parts are a little more difficult to find, though. They are [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17lyd3/i_am_not_dead_case_file_no56_update/ here]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/17og35/case_file_no56_is_closed/ here]].
Absolutely no relation to Disney/LiloAndStitch.
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!!Tropes associated with this work include:
* AbortedArc: Ryan was supposed to go spend some time at his father’s house after a nightmare he had in which he was tormented by Stitch, who imitated said father. This is only ever mentioned briefly, and never appears to have happened by the end of the series.
* AbusiveParents: Ryan mentions that his parents used to beat him to discourage him from crying.
* {{Adorkable}}: John is described as such, being a chipper young man who — in Ryan’s eyes — vaguely resembles a golden retriever. [[spoiler:Which makes it so much more tragic when Ryan decides to kill him.]]
* AlliterativeName: [=RepetitiveRoutine=].
* AxCrazy: Stitch, Stitch, Stitch! He’s not so much insane as he is just violent, bloodthirsty, and brutish, though.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:[=RepetitiveRoutine=] … kind of. After his death, he is able to appear on Ryan’s computer screen to give him a pep talk on defeating Stitch.]]
* BodyHorror: Stitch is described as having his spine sticking out of his back, his eyes stitched over with skin, and his limbs sewn back onto his body.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Stitch’s specialty. He can’t leave a body behind without any form of mutilation or dismemberment, and often has a tendency to do so while the victim is still alive.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:And how! Anna is dead, Ryan gets the case taken from him by the FBI, and to top things off, Stitch reveals to Ryan why he’s let him live for so long: because he needs him to fuel people’s fears of Stitch by posting about his crimes on the Internet, leading him directly to them. Wracked with guilt, Ryan calls John over to his house and shoots him out of shame for ruining his life, then explains his intent to kill himself, being unable to live with all the blood on his hands. Although this may be a slightly downplayed example, as [=RepetitiveRoutine=] theorizes that this might cause a decline in Stitch’s food supply.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Ryan, for the lives he ruined.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [=RepetitiveRoutine=] is only ever referred to by his username, even by the FBI.
* EvilIsPetty: Stitch invades Ryan’s dreams, in which he turns the sky gray and kills all the animals in the dream, kills his mother and [[KickTheDog imitates her in front of Ryan]], all because he wants to “[[{{Troll}} ruin [his] best memories]].”
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Well, that and being drawn and quartered and devoured by dogs and forced to piece yourself back together. And possibly self-mutilation.
* {{Expy}}: Stitch, of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. He was (apparently) a nasty person in life and was killed for his crimes, but in death, he’s even worse. Fear is required to fuel his existence, he has some degree of supernatural power, and likes to invade his victims’ dreams.
* EyelessFace: How Stitch gets his name: skin — possibly his own eyelids — is sewn over his eyes. This does not mean that he’s blind, though.
* ForTheEvulz: Yes, Stitch needs to feed. But he clearly takes pleasure in striking fear in his victims and tearing them to pieces.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Much like Freddy Krueger, Stitch thrives off of people’s fear of him. [[spoiler:When Ryan kills himself, [=RepetitiveRoutine=] says that Stitch is starting to worry about his own starvation.]]
* {{Gorn}}: A disproportionate amount of detail is put into Stitch’s murders, and their aftermath.
* {{Hellhound}}: Stitch claims to have some, but they’re never seen.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Or at least leaves a cross burned into its flesh.
* HumanoidAbomination: It’s never made clear what Stitch is. He’s been theorized to be either [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-542 SCP-542]], a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr draugr]], or a corpse reanimated through sorcery. But whatever he is, he clearly has abilities that could be attributed to a minor EldritchAbomination, such as being able to reach through computer screens.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Stitch impales a victim with his own rib.
* IdiotBall: Firmly grasped by Ryan when he tries to use [=RepetitiveRoutine=] as bait to catch Stitch. He tries to make him fear Stitch, and once Stitch is in his house, he backpedals, telling him not to be scared. Yeah, like it’s really that easy to not be scared when you’re being chased by an undead abomination. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even close to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], so it would make no sense for him to try and catch Stitch that way.
* KickTheDog: Stitch manages to do this twice in the same place! First, [[spoiler:he slaughters Anna’s parent’s horses, leaving two alive and feeding one of the dead ones to one of the living ones, then he kills Anna in a manner all too similar to how he was killed, and [[DecapitationPresentation leaves her severed head on Ryan’s car for him to find]]. Understandably, the latter causes Ryan much distress.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:An unhinged Ryan is horrified by the revelation that he has been partly responsible for Stitch’s crimes, and believes that he has to kill John out of guilt for bringing him into the case.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Turns out the reason why [[spoiler:Stitch hasn’t killed Ryan? Is because he needs him to help fuel everyone’s fear to provide him with more victims.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: There are a couple times where Ryan fucked up big time. The first incident is when he tried to bait Stitch by instilling fear in [=RepetitiveRoutine=], which lead Stitch right to his door, and — needless to say — resulted in the brutal death of the Redditor. [[spoiler:The second time is what ultimately drives him to the DespairEventHorizon. By posting those stories about Stitch in the first place, he has given him a huge food supply.]]
* Really700YearsOld: While it’s unknown just how old Stitch is, he has been around since at least the past millennium.
* SceneryGorn: Aside from the graphic descriptions of violence throughout the series, [[spoiler:the scenery when Ryan and John make it to the Reynolds’ place isn’t pretty: with everyone in the house dead, there has been nobody to keep the dishes clean, leaving the flies to eat the food and leaving a pungent odor behind. Then there’s also the miserable state of the surviving horses in the barn, and half the body of Anna’s father mounted on the wall where his bear mount used to be.]]
* SerialKiller: Subverted. Initially, this is what Ryan thinks he and Anna will be dealing with, but it turns out that he’s dealing with something far worse that has been around for a long time.
* {{Troll}}: In addition to being a sadistic butcher who kills ForTheEvulz, Stitch also enjoys ruining memories by invading people’s dreams.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:According to [=RepetitiveRoutine=], Stitch undergoes one after Ryan’s suicide, because now he doesn’t have him to fuel anyone’s fear anymore.]]
