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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Only Deb and the kids survive.]]
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* StockholmSyndrome: It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling.
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* StockholmSyndrome: It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling.counseling]].
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In ''Dexter In the Dark'', the titular character takes his stepchildren to a crime scene. His sister Deborah asks his "What the hell is that?", and he responds "They are known as children. They are often the byproduct of marriage, which may be why you are unfamiliar with them". Deborah becomes a single mom in ''Double Dexter''.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Alana was getting away with [[spoiler:eating migrants because no one was missing them]]. Then her stepson Bobby [[spoiler:convinces two underage, wealthy teens that getting eaten would be a good idea]]. The police get involved because the parents become predictably frantic and have enough weight to toss at the cops to find their children.
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* RealityEnsues:
** Alana was getting away with [[spoiler:eating migrants because no one was missing them]]. Then her stepson Bobby [[spoiler:convinces two underage, wealthy teens that getting eaten would be a good idea]]. The police get involved because the parents become understandably frantic and have enough weight to toss at the cops to find their children.
** It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling, assuming it is a form of StockholmSyndrome]].
** Alana was getting away with [[spoiler:eating migrants because no one was missing them]]. Then her stepson Bobby [[spoiler:convinces two underage, wealthy teens that getting eaten would be a good idea]]. The police get involved because the parents become understandably frantic and have enough weight to toss at the cops to find their children.
** It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling, assuming it is a form of StockholmSyndrome]].
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* StockholmSyndrome: It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling.
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* AndIMustScream: The Yodelling Potato. Also Doakes after his tongue, arm and a leg are removed.
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* AndIMustScream: The Yodelling Potato. Also Doakes after his tongue, arm arm, and a leg are removed.removed.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Dexter doesn't want to find Doakes when Dr. Danco manages to kidnap the latter. It solves his problem of Doakes investigating him. Deborah gives him a DeathGlare and tells him he has to help as the OnlySaneMan that understands how Dr. Danco thinks. Dexter groans, and agrees to try. He even questions why he's being so emotional about this. Deborah returns the favor by saving a bound Dexter from Dr. Danco., shooting him point-blank.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Dexter doesn't want to find Doakes when Dr. Danco manages to kidnap the latter. It solves his problem of Doakes investigating him. Deborah gives him a DeathGlare and tells him he has to help as the OnlySaneMan that understands how Dr. Danco thinks. Dexter groans, and agrees to try. He even questions why he's being so emotional about this. Deborah returns the favor by saving a bound Dexter from Dr. Danco., shooting him point-blank.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dexter questions Kyle why not warn the other potential victims on Danco's list. Kyle dismisses it as if they do that, then Danco will get wind of the warning and vanish as well, meaning they won't catch him. Dexter finds this very disingenuous and disturbing that he has more of a moral code than government officials.
* GuileHero: Well, guile serial killer. When Danco manages to catch Dexter, tie him up, and drug him, he's impressed that Dexter is showing no fear. Dexter figures out that Dr. Danco is playing hangman and stalls by talking with him. When he gets two letters right and Danco tries MovingTheGoalposts by saying he spoke out of turn, Dexter offhandedly suggests taking a limb off Doakes. Dr. Danco considers this, and finds it a suitable compromise. Before he can, however, Deborah shows up and shoots.
* GuileHero: Well, guile serial killer. When Danco manages to catch Dexter, tie him up, and drug him, he's impressed that Dexter is showing no fear. Dexter figures out that Dr. Danco is playing hangman and stalls by talking with him. When he gets two letters right and Danco tries MovingTheGoalposts by saying he spoke out of turn, Dexter offhandedly suggests taking a limb off Doakes. Dr. Danco considers this, and finds it a suitable compromise. Before he can, however, Deborah shows up and shoots.
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* RefusesToRescueTheDislike: At first, Dexter doesn't want to save Doakes. The man wants to put him in jail and maybe see him executed. Deborah motivates Dexter to help because he cares about her too much to see her suffer.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler:Brian saves Dexter when he's about to have his flesh chopped off and put on a grill]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dexter is disgusted when he learns that [[spoiler:Samantha wants to be eaten. He agrees with Deborah that it is messed up. Later, he is horrified with himself for sleeping with her while drugged, even though he wasn't in his right mind]].
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Bobby Acosta manages to get off the hook, with his lawyers arguing that Alana's death traumatized him. Dexter goes out into the night to seek him out, to avenge Deborah's loss]].
* OnlySaneMan: With Dexter captured at first, Deborah becomes this. [[spoiler:She returns Samantha to her parents, advising them to get counseling for their daughter to deal with her "wanting-to-be-eaten" obsession]].
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** Alana was getting away with [[spoiler:eating migrants because no one was missing them]]. Then her stepson Bobby [[spoiler:convinces two underage, wealthy teens that getting eaten would be a good idea]]. The police get involved because the parents become understandably frantic and have enough weight to toss at the cops to find their children.
** It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling, assuming it is a form of StockholmSyndrome]].
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** Alana was getting away with [[spoiler:eating migrants because no one was missing them]]. Then her stepson Bobby [[spoiler:convinces two underage, wealthy teens that getting eaten would be a good idea]]. The police get involved because the parents become understandably frantic and have enough weight to toss at the cops to find their children.
** It turns out that [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her eventually. She gets mad at Dexter for leading the police to where she was being held. On hearing about her desires, Deborah tells Samantha's worried parents that she needs counseling, assuming it is a form of StockholmSyndrome]].
* UnwantedRescue: it turns out [[spoiler:Samantha wasn't kidnapped; she ran away so that Alana could eat her. Even Dexter is grossed out by this]].
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:Sociopaths Dexter and Brian die while saving the kids, a decidely non-sociopathic action.]]
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:Sociopaths Dexter and Brian die while saving the kids, a decidely decidedly non-sociopathic action.]]
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The books were adapted into [[Series/{{Dexter}} a TV series in 2006]]. The first season was a more or less faithful adaptation of ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'', but subsequent seasons have spun off into a seperate canon.
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The books were adapted into [[Series/{{Dexter}} a TV series in 2006]]. The first season was a more or less faithful adaptation of ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'', but subsequent seasons have spun off into a seperate separate canon.
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* CanonDisContinuity: Averted. The fourth book does mention Moloch in passing.
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* FunnyAneurysm: In ''Dexter In the Dark'', the titular character takes his stepchildren to a crime scene. His sister Deborah asks his "What the hell is that?", and he responds "They are known as children. They are often the byproduct of marriage, which may be why you are unfamiliar with them". Deborah becomes a single mom in ''Double Dexter''.
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* FunnyAneurysm: FunnyAneurysmMoment: In ''Dexter In the Dark'', the titular character takes his stepchildren to a crime scene. His sister Deborah asks his "What the hell is that?", and he responds "They are known as children. They are often the byproduct of marriage, which may be why you are unfamiliar with them". Deborah becomes a single mom in ''Double Dexter''.
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* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: With the revelation that the DarkPassenger Dark Passenger is a genuine supernatural force.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Once Dexter's daughter, Lily Anne is born, he wants nothing more than to be around her, basking in the warm glow of new fatherhood. He even makes the dark passenger go away for a fair bit of time, and wonders if the new-and-improved non-murderous Dex-Daddy is here to stay.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Once Dexter's daughter, Lily Anne is born, he wants nothing more than to be around her, basking in the warm glow of new fatherhood. He even makes the dark passenger Dark Passenger go away for a fair bit of time, and wonders if the new-and-improved non-murderous Dex-Daddy is here to stay.
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* BadassDamsel: Weiss is ultimately taken out by [[spoiler: Rita.]]
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: See PurpleProse.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: See PurpleProse.AlliterativeTitle: Well, they go:
** ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'' (2004)
** ''Dearly Devoted Dexter'' (2005)
** ''Dexter in the Dark'' (2007)
** ''Dexter by Design'' (2009)
** ''Dexter is Delicious'' (2010)
** ''Double Dexter'' (2011)
** ''Dexter's Final Cut'' (2013)
** ''Dexter is Dead'' (2015)
** ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'' (2004)
** ''Dearly Devoted Dexter'' (2005)
** ''Dexter in the Dark'' (2007)
** ''Dexter by Design'' (2009)
** ''Dexter is Delicious'' (2010)
** ''Double Dexter'' (2011)
** ''Dexter's Final Cut'' (2013)
** ''Dexter is Dead'' (2015)
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--->"Moon. Glorious moon. Full, Fat, Reddish moon, the night as light as day, the moonlight flooding down across the land and bringing joy, joy, joy."
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* PrettyWoman: Played with; Deb starts the series being used in prostitution stings, much to her disgust.
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* AuthorTract
* BadassDamsel: Weiss is ultimately taken out by [[spoiler: Rita.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: That wasn't the killer Dexter just killed...it was the one who kept him from killing, and [[TheUnfettered now he's free.]]
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* InformedAbility: Like stated in the series folder, on Dexter saying the police is powerless and stupid at times, but less noticeable here, because the books expands on his close to supernatural abilities at "hunches" and other things he just doesn't show in the series.
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* InformedAbility: Dexter says his sister Deborah is a great detective, but all we tend to see is her asking Dexter to basically identify the killer for her with his "hunches". She also firmly grabs the IdiotBall in the final book by actually believing Dexter killed Rita when he was obviously being railroaded.
* InformedAttribute: Like stated in the series folder, on Dexter saying the police is powerless and stupid at times, but less noticeable here, because the books expands on his close to supernatural abilities at "hunches" and other things he just doesn't show in the series.
* InformedAttribute: Like stated in the series folder, on Dexter saying the police is powerless and stupid at times, but less noticeable here, because the books expands on his close to supernatural abilities at "hunches" and other things he just doesn't show in the series.
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''Dexter''' is a series of crime novels by Jeff Lindsay.
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* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: With the revelation that the DarkPassenger is a genuine supernatural force.
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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: For given value of hero]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Only Deb and the kids survive]]
* KilledmidSentence: [[spoiler: Well mid-monologue]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Only Deb and the kids survive]]
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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: For [[spoiler:For given value of hero]]
hero.]]
* KillEmAll:[[spoiler: Only [[spoiler:Only Deb and the kids survive]]
survive.]]
*KilledmidSentence: [[spoiler: Well mid-monologue]]
KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Well, mid-monologue.]]
* KillEmAll:
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* GenreSavvy: Dexter often wonders how he gets suckered into half of the things that happen to him ([[spoiler: marriage, expensive caterers, cases, etc.]]) but he is far from DangerouslyGenreSavvy.
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* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: For given value of hero]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:KillemAll: Only Deb and the kids survive]]
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* ''Dexter is Dead'' (2015)
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*[[spoiler: TheHeroDies: For given value of hero]]
*[[spoiler: KillemAll: Only Deb and the kids survive]]
*[[spoiler: KilledmidSentence: Well mid-monologue]]
*DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:Sociopaths Dexter and Brian die while saving the kids, a decidely non-sociopathic action.]]
*[[spoiler: TheHeroDies: For given value of hero]]
*[[spoiler: KillemAll: Only Deb and the kids survive]]
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It centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter analyst in the Miami Metro Police Department. Dexter moonlights as a serial killer in his spare time, which he keeps a secret from his friends and coworkers. His late father Harry taught him to hunt [[SerialKillerKiller only other serial killers]] and how to dodge the law, allowing him to cope with his homicidal urges.
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It centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter analyst in the Miami Metro Police Department. Dexter moonlights as a serial killer in his spare time, which he keeps a secret from his friends and coworkers. His late father Harry taught him to hunt [[SerialKillerKiller only other serial killers]] and how to dodge the law, allowing him Dexter to cope with his homicidal urges.
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** After the second novel, ''Dearly Devoted Dexter,'' Doakes [[soiler: becomes somewhat of a cyborg who keeps his eye on Dexter, waiting for him to be exposed]] over the next four novels. Doakes then has no role whatsoever in ''Dexter's Final Cut.''
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** After the second novel, ''Dearly Devoted Dexter,'' Doakes [[soiler: [[spoiler: becomes somewhat of a cyborg who keeps his eye on Dexter, waiting for him to be exposed]] over the next four novels. Doakes then has no role whatsoever in ''Dexter's Final Cut.''
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**After The first novel, Brian is never mentioned again until the fourth novel. [[spoiler: He returns in the fifth novel and also has a role in the sixth novel.]] In the seventh novel, ''Dexter's Final Cut,'' he is never mentioned at all.
**After the second novel, ''Dearly Devoted Dexter,'' Doakes [[soiler: becomes somewhat of a cyborg who keeps his eye on Dexter, waiting for him to be exposed]] over the next four novels. Doakes then has no role whatsoever in ''Dexter's Final Cut.''
**After The first novel, Brian is never mentioned again until the fourth novel. [[spoiler: He returns in the fifth novel and also has a role in the sixth novel.]] In the seventh novel, ''Dexter's Final Cut,'' he is never mentioned at all.
**After the second novel, ''Dearly Devoted Dexter,'' Doakes [[soiler: becomes somewhat of a cyborg who keeps his eye on Dexter, waiting for him to be exposed]] over the next four novels. Doakes then has no role whatsoever in ''Dexter's Final Cut.''
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* MercyKill: Doakes tries to give one to The Yodelling Potato, but Debra stops him.
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* TheStoic: Doakes and, to a lesser extent, Debra. Dexter himself, as he claims to feel no emotion.
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* TheStoic: Doakes and, to a lesser extent, Debra.Deborah. Dexter himself, as he claims to feel no emotion.
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* TooDumbToLive: Deke[[spoiler:, Debra's new partner;]] it's definitely bad to be one in a Dexter book. Deborah too shows some emotional GenreBlindness that almost gets everyone killed.
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* TooDumbToLive: Deke[[spoiler:, Debra's Deborah's new partner;]] it's definitely bad to be one in a Dexter book. Deborah too shows some emotional GenreBlindness that almost gets everyone killed.
