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* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:As Alan realizes at the very end, Gaunt is so accustomed to winning that he can't remember exactly how it ''feels'' to lose, just that he doesn't want to at any cost, and won't accept it with dignity. The film makes him a GracefulLoser.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Leland Gaunt, of [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]].
* EyeColourChange: Book Gaunt's eyes change color depending on who he is talking to. He seems to adopt whatever color will soothe or ingratiate him to his customers most. In one chapter he even goes full KaleidoscopeEyes.
* EyeColourChange: Book Gaunt's eyes change color depending on who he is talking to. He seems to adopt whatever color will soothe or ingratiate him to his customers most. In one chapter he even goes full KaleidoscopeEyes.
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* {{Expy}}: Leland Gaunt, of [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]].
Iago]], playing people off each other with flattery and slyness, and sowing discord for no discernible human purpose other than that he finds it "diverting" and it's second nature to him by this point. Alan Pangborn also [[PracticallyJoker mentally compares his twisted sense of humor to that of the Joker]], and the description lines up there, too -- he's a tall, lean trickster with a penchant for violence and a disturbingly wide smile, feigning kindness when things are going his way and flying off the handle when they aren't.
* EyeColourChange: Book Gaunt's eyes change color depending on who he is talkingto. He to, and seems to adopt whatever color will soothe or ingratiate him to his customers clientele most. In one chapter he with Ace Merrill, Ace even goes full KaleidoscopeEyes.sees them as KaleidoscopeEyes after he's already enthralled to Gaunt by force and there's no longer any reason to please the customer.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Leland Gaunt initially presents himself as a genial and charismatic shopkeeper, if a bit eccentric. As the novel goes on he begins to drop the pleasantries more and more frequently, showing he is not only crude and nasty, but a profoundly evil being who plays with and destroys people's lives purely for his own amusement. Notably, as
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Brian Rusk survives his suicide attempt in the movie, in the book he is not so lucky.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: The "Flying Corson Brothers" Mike and Dave, who only appear once in a flashback and only exist to give Ace Merrill a sufficient motivation to return to Castle Rock.
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* {{Expy}}: Leland Gaunt, of [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]]. His methods are also quite similar to that of the character Tortuous Convolvulus (Lucius Détritus in the original French) from Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent, who is sent by Julius Caesar to sow discord in the Gaulish village of the heroes.
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* {{Expy}}: Leland Gaunt, of [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]]. His methods are also quite similar to that of the character Tortuous Convolvulus (Lucius Détritus in the original French) from Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent, who is sent by Julius Caesar to sow discord in the Gaulish village of the heroes.
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** Gaunt admits that most of the things that people get from Needful Things are junk, disguised as treasures by an implied magical illusion. The illusion fails sometimes, usually in a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment or when someone else's treasure is seen. This is actually ''all'' they are, too: They're just a thing you want so badly you trick yourself into thinking you need it.
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** Gaunt admits that most of the things that people get from Needful Things are junk, disguised as treasures by both an implied magicalillusion. illusion and the desires of the recipients. The illusion fails sometimes, usually in a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment or when someone else's treasure is seen. This is seen.
--->"Perhaps all the really special things I sell aren't what they appear to be. Perhaps they are actually''all'' gray things with only one remarkable property -- the ability to take the shapes of those things which haunt the dreams of men and women." He paused, then added thoughtfully: "Perhaps they are, too: They're just a thing you want so badly you trick yourself into thinking you need it.are dreams themselves."
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* TheNeedless: Ironically, Gaunt himself; the only way he seems to get tired is by emotional exhaustion, and the apartment above his storefront is completely bare -- no furniture, no bed, no anything save for curtains on the windows to keep it from looking suspicious at street-level. The only necessary thing he gets out of .
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* NonFatalExplosions: Averted [[spoiler:Frank Jewett and George Nelson do NOT escape after their last-minute reconciliation.]]
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* ParanoiaGambit: Gaunt basically pulls a huge one on the entire town. Everyone is assigned to pull a [[DeadlyPrank "prank"]] on someone they have no particular attachment to, positive or negative. Everyone on the receiving end thinks the prank was done by their worst enemy, and sets out for revenge on the wrong person. Even if one of the feuders should come to their senses and restrain themselves from committing any violent acts, the other half of the feud will make sure that there is a violent and fatal confrontation.
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** Gaunt basically pulls a huge one on the entire town. Everyone is assigned to pull a [[DeadlyPrank "prank"]] on someone they have no particular attachment to, positive ornegative. Everyone negative; those on the receiving end thinks think the prank was done by their worst enemy, enemy (as Gaunt chooses what the pranks will be as well, and sets makes them look as suspicious as possible), then set out for revenge on the wrong person. Even if one of the feuders should come to their senses and restrain themselves from committing any violent acts, the other half of the feud will make sure that there is a violent and fatal confrontation.
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After Gaunt is defeated, Reverend Willie and Father Brigham (who had just been trying to kill each other) are seen, badly injured, leaning on each other for support]].
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After Gaunt is defeated, Reverend Willie and Father Brigham (who had just been trying to kill each other) are seen, badly injured, leaning on each other for support]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the book Buster's participation in [[spoiler: blowing up the town]] includes him taking special care to place a package on the desk of the municipal building's one high-ranking woman, because "women don't belong in politics". While he is stark raving mad by this point, this bit is totally within his previous character.
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** In thebook book, Buster's participation in [[spoiler: blowing up the town]] includes him taking special care to place a package on the desk of the municipal building's one high-ranking woman, because "women don't belong in politics". While he is stark raving mad by this point, this bit is totally within his previous character.character.
** Minor character Sonny Jackett is a bluntly racist mechanic who overcharged for poor service on Eddie Warburton's car, then took Eddie to small claims court for trying to get out of the bill, accusing him of playing the race card; Sonny won the case, and enmity has existed between the two ever since, especially after Eddie's car was later ruined by a mysterious electrical fire.[[note]]The narration in Jackett's section all but states this was just another repair mistake by Sonny that went unnoticed, and that he feels persecuted by Eddie's suspicion ("breaking things was not his desire, but his karma").[[/note]] Gaunt even entices Sonny to let his guard down not only by showing knowledge of cars and tools, but by turning the conversation to politics and encouraging his use of racial slurs.
** In the
** Minor character Sonny Jackett is a bluntly racist mechanic who overcharged for poor service on Eddie Warburton's car, then took Eddie to small claims court for trying to get out of the bill, accusing him of playing the race card; Sonny won the case, and enmity has existed between the two ever since, especially after Eddie's car was later ruined by a mysterious electrical fire.[[note]]The narration in Jackett's section all but states this was just another repair mistake by Sonny that went unnoticed, and that he feels persecuted by Eddie's suspicion ("breaking things was not his desire, but his karma").[[/note]] Gaunt even entices Sonny to let his guard down not only by showing knowledge of cars and tools, but by turning the conversation to politics and encouraging his use of racial slurs.
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* CoolOldGuy: In the novel, [[spoiler: Selectman Seaton Thomas. While he's not really seen until the third act, he more than makes up for it once he becomes part of the narrative. He's elderly, and has a heart condition, but when all Hell breaks loose, he's one of the few people in town that hasn't been corrupted by Gaunt, and aids the wounded Norris Ridgewick by driving the car for him in the finale when Norris is trying to help Alan. When Gaunt is driven out of town, Seaton, completely perky, drives Alan, Polly, and wounded Norris to the hospital.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: In the novel, [[spoiler: Selectman Seaton Thomas. While he's not really seen until the third act, he more than makes up for it once he becomes part of the narrative. He's elderly, older, and has a heart condition, weak heart, but when all Hell breaks loose, he's one of the few people in town that hasn't been corrupted by Gaunt, and aids the wounded Norris Ridgewick by driving the car for him in the finale when Norris is trying to help Alan. When Gaunt is driven out of town, Seaton, completely perky, drives Alan, Polly, and wounded Norris to the hospital.]]
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* BadBoss: While Ace Merrill pretty much serves as Gaunt's dragon for a solid portion of the novel, [[spoiler: Gaunt views him no differently than anyone else in the town, and magically creates a video of Merrill driving Alan's wife and son off the road to their deaths in an effort that he leaves for Pangborn to view to get Pangborn to kill Ace as Ace has already been wound up into killing Pangborn.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: After playing from behind for much of the novel, Alan Pangborn finally gets to go one-on-one vs. Gaunt. While he doesn't kill Gaunt, because he doesn't have the power, he does seriously incapacitate him, gets all the souls back that Gaunt took, and forces Gaunt to flee.]]
** [[spoiler: Norris Ridgewick of all people gets one in the finale as well. Ace Merrill takes Polly hostage during the final confrontation and Norris Ridgewick pulls a BoomHeadshot on him from a distance.]]
** [[spoiler: Norris Ridgewick of all people gets one in the finale as well. Ace Merrill takes Polly hostage during the final confrontation and Norris Ridgewick pulls a BoomHeadshot on him from a distance.]]
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* BullyingADragon: Wilma likes picking feuds and considers a murderer who just left an asylum to be a good target. Nettie is generally a gentle and timid woman, but picking a fight with someone mentally unstable is probably not a great idea.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: In the novel, Ace Merrill goes out this way, courtesy of Norris.]]
* BullyingADragon: Wilma likes picking feuds and considers a murderer who just left an asylum to be a good target. Nettie is generally a gentle and timid woman, but picking a fight with someone mentally unstable is probably not a great idea. [[spoiler: As we find out, that's putting it mildly.]]
* BullyingADragon: Wilma likes picking feuds and considers a murderer who just left an asylum to be a good target. Nettie is generally a gentle and timid woman, but picking a fight with someone mentally unstable is probably not a great idea. [[spoiler: As we find out, that's putting it mildly.]]
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* TheChessmaster: Gaunt, unusually for a Stephen King villain, does most of his evil work by having his customers play [[DeadlyPrank "pranks"]] on various townspeople in such a way that plays up their various feuds and insecurities to the point where people have turned against each other, committed murder, and even been DrivenToSuicide.
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* TheChessmaster: Gaunt, unusually for a Stephen King villain, does most of his evil work by having his customers play [[DeadlyPrank "pranks"]] on various townspeople in such a way that plays up their various feuds and insecurities to the point where people have turned against each other, committed murder, and even been DrivenToSuicide. [[spoiler: He ups the ante a tad bit in the final act by selling guns to the now-enraged residents of the town that have bullets that are laced with some sort of poison that will eventually kill a person, even if they are wounded in a non-fatal area, but still he leaves it up to the residents to kill each other, he just makes it easier.]]
* CoolOldGuy: In the novel, [[spoiler: Selectman Seaton Thomas. While he's not really seen until the third act, he more than makes up for it once he becomes part of the narrative. He's elderly, and has a heart condition, but when all Hell breaks loose, he's one of the few people in town that hasn't been corrupted by Gaunt, and aids the wounded Norris Ridgewick by driving the car for him in the finale when Norris is trying to help Alan. When Gaunt is driven out of town, Seaton, completely perky, drives Alan, Polly, and wounded Norris to the hospital.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Keeton and Ace both end up as this. They're set up as major antagonists and assistants to Gaunt, but Norris Ridgewick manages to mortally wound Keeton before Ace finishes him off, and Ridgewick later kills Ace Merrill. Adding to the trope is the fact that Alan Pangborn and Leland Gaunt are so focused on each other they don't even hardly notice Ace has been killed.]]
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* FuzzTherapy: Nettie Cobb's dog Raider was given to her by Polly for this purpose. [[spoiler:Sadly Raider does not make it through the film, and his death is what causes Nettie to finally snap]].
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* FuzzTherapy: Nettie Cobb's dog Raider was given to her by Polly for this purpose. [[spoiler:Sadly Raider does not make it through the film, film or the novel, and his death is what causes Nettie to finally snap]].
** Gaunt himself also qualifies for the reasons stated above in the novel. [[spoiler: He senses immediately that Pangborn is no easy mark, and spends 95% of the novel actively avoiding him. Even when he leaves Pangborn a "Needful Thing," he's nowhere to be found. Justified in that when Pangborn and Gaunt finally do meet face to face, the confrontation ends with Gaunt losing his souls, being severely incapacitated, and being forced to flee. He was 100% right to avoid Pangborn.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Alan Pangborn suffers this when Gaunt seemingly finds the one "Needful Thing" Pangborn is looking for: a video the truth behind what happened during his wife and son's off-screen accident. It drives the up-to-then collected Pangborn into a murderous rage, and it's only thanks to Polly he snaps out of it.[[
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** Several of Gaunt's pawns have this reaction as they manage to break free of his influence. Three of them try to commit suicide. [[spoiler:Two succeed. The third, Deputy Norris Ridgewick, stops himself when he realizes just how badly he was tricked, and takes a level in badass, as seen below, to help stop Gaunt. Polly also realizes her mistake and destroys her arthritis charm in the process]].
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** Several of Gaunt's pawns have this reaction as they manage to break free of his influence. Three of them try to commit suicide. [[spoiler:Two succeed. The third, Deputy Norris Ridgewick, stops himself when he realizes just how badly he was tricked, and takes a level in badass, as seen below, to help stop Gaunt. Polly also realizes her mistake and destroys her arthritis charm in the process]].process. Subverted with Alan, who was on his way to murder Ace after being wrongly convinced Ace murdered his wife and son, but he has an epiphany before he acts on his rage and realizes the tape was faked and Ace didn't kill them.]]
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* AdaptationalMundanity: While Gaunt is practically stated outright to be a demon, very few of his supernatural elements and abilities actually survive the transition between the book and the film. The climax in particular, which is much more epic in the book, is downgraded to Gaunt simply tanking a huge explosion and then arrogantly sauntering to his car.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Of a sort in the movie. While Gaunt is practically stated outright to be a demon, very few of his supernatural elements and abilities actually survive the transition between the book and the film. The climax in particular, which is much more epic in the book, is downgraded to Gaunt simply tanking a huge explosion and then arrogantly sauntering to his car.
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** Polly visits the location where [[''Literature/Cujo'' a mother and her son were trapped in a car by a formerly peaceful St Bernard's]] and this incident gets mentioned a couple of other times throughout the book.
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* HurtingHero: Alan Pangborn has never gotten over his wife and son's death in a car accident several years before.
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-->'''Danforth Keaton:''' Norris Ridgewick. Did you '''fuck''' him?! After the two of you put up those goddamn parking tickets all over my house?!\\
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** Father Brigham, the town's Catholic priest, has long since grown used to the anti-Catholic insults and slights and slurs he hears pretty regularly -- it's part of the job, and they don't bother him too much. But Gaunt's machinations and the resulting "pranks" push him over the edge.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Essentially this is Gaunt's M.O. He does this both directly and indirectly to his victims. He has others play "pranks" on someone else and blame it on their enemy. This drives his victims to paranoia and anger. Eventually, it causes them to snap and kill the person the prank is pinned on.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Essentially this This is Gaunt's M.O. He does this both directly and indirectly to his victims. He has others play "pranks" on someone else and blame it on their enemy. This drives his victims to paranoia and anger. Eventually, it causes them to snap and kill the person the prank is pinned on.
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* HarmfulToMinors: Eleven year old Brian Rusk plays two [[spoiler:seemingly]] harmless pranks on Wilma Jerzyk [[spoiler:one, throwing mud on her clean sheets; two, throwing rocks at her house with messages rubber banded to them. This results in her and Nettie Cobb killing each other. He hears of their deaths and the role of his pranks in their deaths and the guilt drives him to commit suicide in his garage]] in front of his seven year old brother. In the film, after warning him about Gaunt, Brian attempts suicide in front of Pangborn who saves him and ends up in the hospital.
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* HarmfulToMinors: Eleven year old Brian Rusk plays two [[spoiler:seemingly]] harmless pranks on Wilma Jerzyk [[spoiler:one, throwing mud on her clean sheets; two, throwing rocks at her house with messages rubber banded to them. This results in her and Nettie Cobb killing each other. He hears of their deaths and the role of his pranks in their deaths and the guilt drives him to commit suicide in his garage]] in front of his seven year old brother. In the film, after warning him about Gaunt, Brian [[spoiler: attempts suicide in front of Pangborn who saves him and he ends up in the hospital.]]
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'''Myrtle Keaton:''' No! And it's ''our'' house ''buster!''\\
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-->'''Danforth Keaton:''' Norris Ridgewick. Did you '''fuck''' him?! After the two of you put up all those parking tickets in my house?!\\
'''Myrtle Keaton:''' No! And it's ''our'' house ''buster!''\\
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* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Somewhat subverted, as the building itself ''was'' there yesterday and will be there tomorrow: it's run as a perfectly normal small town curio store, complete with "coming soon" signs before the grand opening and regular business hours. ''(Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment.)'' Less suspicious that way. However, it does seem to be mysteriously closed at inconvenient moments, with a different sign in the door each time.
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* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Somewhat subverted, as the building itself ''was'' there yesterday and will be there tomorrow: it's run as a perfectly normal small town curio store, complete with "coming soon" signs before the grand opening and regular business hours. ''(Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment.)'' Less suspicious that way. However, it does seem to be mysteriously closed at inconvenient moments, with a different sign in the door each time. However, the fact that once Gaunt's decided to leave the store has a coating of dust thick enough to suggest the premises have been undisturbed for years, and the only footprints in it are those of the man whose discovered this worrying detail, makes it quite likely that the dozens of people who've walked through the door of Gaunt's shop have been ''somewhere else'' during their time there.
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* AssholeVictim: Wilma Jerzyck has the dubious honor of being the least sympathetic of all of Gaunt's victims. And this list includes an animal-abusing alcoholic, a racist white man, a racist African American, and two pedophiles, among others.
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* AssholeVictim: Wilma Jerzyck has the dubious honor of being the least sympathetic of all of Gaunt's victims. And this list includes an animal-abusing alcoholic, a domestic abuser who believes he's being "persecuted" by Them rather than face up to his embezzlement and general dickheadery, a racist white man, a racist African American, and two pedophiles, among others.
* CannotTellALie: Subverted. There are aspects of Gaunt's character (like the ExactWords prices he negotiates, and his visible anger when accused of deception) which suggest that, like the stories of TheFairFolk or other supernatural bargain-makers, he is not able to lie directly and someone who isn't blinded by their desire would be able to catch him out. As it turns out, he lies directly and frequently, which actually bites him at the climax as [[spoiler: he now wants to negotiate but has absolutely no power to any more because nobody trusts his words at all,]] while a supernatural being that ''could'' be trusted to abide by its word would still have some leverage.
** Polly visits the location where [[''Literature/Cujo'' a mother and her son were trapped in a car by a formerly peaceful St Bernard's]] and this incident gets mentioned a couple of other times throughout the book.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Keeton believes that "Them", a shadowy group of authority figures, is after him. What is actually after him is the Bureau of Taxation, because he's stealing from the town's funds.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Keeton believes that "Them", a shadowy group of authority figures, is after him. What is actually after him is the Bureau of Taxation, because he's stealing from the town's funds. It's never entirely clear how much of this is some sort of hereditary mental illness, and how much of it is him preferring to blame Them for "persecuting" him rather than face up the fact that he's an embezzler and all-round asshole who is universally disliked for perfectly sound reasons.
** Gaunt's glamour always fails whenever it involves touch rather than sight or sound; even while appearing fully human (albeit one with strange hands) and being as charming and comforting as he can, people always feel viscerally disgusted if he ever makes physical contact with them. The narration specifically notes that he makes the movement of giving comforting pats to a crying customer without actually touching her, implying that he is genuinely unable to prevent people being revolted by his touch.
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* HiddenWire: An unknown bar patron warns Ace Merrill: "Man you be talking to wearing a wire".
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* HiddenWire: An unknown bar patron warns Ace Merrill: "Man you be talking to wearing a wire". Ace gets the hell out of there, and wonders afterwards whether the warning was sincere or just a trick by some random guy having a laugh.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gaunt's biggest loss comes because [[spoiler: his main magical power (the ability to make bits of junk become real things with real power provided someone ''believes'' that they're seeing exactly what they want) gets used against him when Pangborn's simple stage magic and shadow puppets take on real power in Gaunt's presence]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gaunt's biggest loss comes because [[spoiler: his main magical power (the ability to make bits of junk become real things with real power provided someone ''believes'' that they're seeing exactly what they want) gets used against him when Pangborn's simple stage magic and shadow puppets take on real power in Gaunt's presence]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Gaunt is explicitly a supernatural being, and [[spoiler: Alan is able to pull off a few magical stunts himself at the climax]], but it's not clear whether the "ghost" of Polly's great-aunt Evvy is a true supernatural visitation or just her own subconscious.
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* ParentalNeglect: After Cora gets the sunglasses from Mr. Gaunt, she pretty much stops paying attention to her sons. [[spoiler:When Brian commits suicide, she doesn't even realize what happened, nor does she care.]]
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* ParentalNeglect: After Cora gets the sunglasses from Mr. Gaunt, she pretty much stops paying attention to her sons. [[spoiler:When Brian commits suicide, she doesn't even realize what happened, nor does she care.]]]] The little we see of her before she falls under Gaunt's influence shows she was pretty detached and uncaring even then.
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: When Cora Rusk angrily storms to Needful Things to see Mr. Gaunt after her visit with the King has been rudely interrupted by the presence of another woman, she doesn't realize that her nightgown is only partially buttoned and showing her privates until Mr. Gaunt points it out to her.
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: When Cora Rusk angrily storms to Needful Things to see Mr. Gaunt after her visit with the King has been rudely interrupted by the presence of another woman, she doesn't realize that her nightgown is only partially buttoned and showing her privates until Mr. Gaunt points it out to her. She doesn't even bother to button up even after it's been pointed out.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the book Buster's participation in [[spoiler: blowing up the town]] includes him taking special care to place a package on the desk of the municipal building's one high-ranking woman, because "women don't belong in politics". While he is stark raving mad by this point, this bit is totally within his previous character.
* ThePowerOfTrust: Played with. Gaunt's pranks on Polly, Sally and Lester would have been completely nullified if they had trusted the people they loved enough to at least ''talk'' to them about what they've apparently done (which Polly realises after the fact). Unfortunately, he has targeted their insecurities sufficiently accurately that they don't until it's too late.
* TheOmniscient: Gaunt's knowledge appears to extend to: knowing exactly what he needs to in order to lure people in with (apparently) their heart's desire, knowing their names before being told, knowing what eye colour they find most appealing so he can make his eyes appear the right shade, knowing exactly what prank will set off which person, and knowing exactly when it needs to be played to have the most effect (though the latter doesn't appear to be infallible, as he frequently psychically communicates with his pawns to guide them through unexpected obstacles, but the guidance he provides is still flawlessly accurate).
** It is not clear whether two "mistakes" with his pranks ([[spoiler: using Polly's current name on the fake xerox rather than the one the alleged senders would have known her by, and showing Annie Pangborn's car crash with her wearing the seatbelt]]) are gaps in his knowledge, laziness/haste/clumsiness on his part, or whether the single wrong detail (which gives the victim a chance to realise they're being tricked if they have the self-discipline to think things through) is something he puts in for his own amusement. It's also possible that, like many other stories involving a deal with supernatural entities, he ''has to'' give the victims that chance to see through his lies in order for the rest of the snare to work.
** It is not clear whether two "mistakes" with his pranks ([[spoiler: using Polly's current name on the fake xerox rather than the one the alleged senders would have known her by, and showing Annie Pangborn's car crash with her wearing the seatbelt]]) are gaps in his knowledge, laziness/haste/clumsiness on his part, or whether the single wrong detail (which gives the victim a chance to realise they're being tricked if they have the self-discipline to think things through) is something he puts in for his own amusement. It's also possible that, like many other stories involving a deal with supernatural entities, he ''has to'' give the victims that chance to see through his lies in order for the rest of the snare to work.
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* TooDumbToLive: Frank Jewett, a school principal and pedophile, keeps child pornography ''in his office desk at the school.'' It's bad enough that he has those proclivities to begin with, but having a position of trust where he is responsible for children, to keep the evidence at his place of work is a special kind of stupid.
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* TooDumbToLive: Frank Jewett, a school principal and pedophile, keeps child pornography ''in his office desk at the school.'' It's bad enough that he has those proclivities to begin with, but having a position of trust where he is responsible for children, to keep the evidence at his place of work is a special kind of stupid.stupid, which he himself ackowledges after being exposed.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Myra's regular [[UnusualEuphemism visits with the King]] after she buys a framed photo of Elvis Presley from Mr. Gaunt. Same case with Cora Rusk, only with a pair of (supposedly) the King's sunglasses.
** Implied with TheFundamentalist Sally Ratcliffe, who feels unusually excited after playing her prank on Frank Jewett.
** Implied with TheFundamentalist Sally Ratcliffe, who feels unusually excited after playing her prank on Frank Jewett.
* SelfAbuse:
** Myra's regular [[UnusualEuphemism visits with the King]] after she buys a framed photo of Elvis Presley from Mr. Gaunt, which she starts spending more and more time doing and neglecting everything else. Same case with Cora Rusk, only with a pair of (supposedly) the King's sunglasses.
** Implied with TheFundamentalist Sally Ratcliffe, who feels unusually excited after playing her prank on Frank Jewett.
** Myra's regular [[UnusualEuphemism visits with the King]] after she buys a framed photo of Elvis Presley from Mr. Gaunt, which she starts spending more and more time doing and neglecting everything else. Same case with Cora Rusk, only with a pair of (supposedly) the King's sunglasses.
** Implied with TheFundamentalist Sally Ratcliffe, who feels unusually excited after playing her prank on Frank Jewett.
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* UnusualEuphemism: [[ADateWithRosiePalms Visiting with the King]].
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* UnusualEuphemism: [[ADateWithRosiePalms Visiting with the King]].King, i.e. masturbating to a magic picture of Elvis that transports you to a dreamworld with him.
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** [[spoiler:In the film, Gaunt is allowed to get away with his crimes completely scot-free. [[GracefulLoser But he doesn't call what he has done in Castle Rock a "rousing success" thanks to Pangborn managing to calm everyone down and Dan blowing up Gaunt's store]]. While there are a few murders, some "lovely" explosions, and considerable property damage, most of the town is still standing and the body count is less. Pangborn and Polly also immediately reconcile after Gaunt leaves.]]
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** [[spoiler:In the film, Gaunt is allowed to get away with his crimes completely scot-free. [[GracefulLoser But he doesn't call what he has done in Castle Rock a "rousing success" thanks to Pangborn managing to calm everyone down and Dan blowing up Gaunt's store]]. While there are a few murders, some "lovely" explosions, and considerable property damage, most of the town is still standing and the body count is considerably less. Pangborn and Polly also immediately reconcile after Gaunt leaves.]]]]
--->'''Polly Chalmers:''' [[spoiler: Can I have my ring back?]]
--->'''Polly Chalmers:''' [[spoiler: Can I have my ring back?]]
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Essentially this is Gaunt's M.O. He does this indirectly to his victims by having others play "pranks" on someone else and blame it on their enemy. This drives his victims to paranoia and anger. Eventually, it causes them to snap and kill the person the prank is pinned on.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Essentially this is Gaunt's M.O. He does this both directly and indirectly to his victims by having victims. He has others play "pranks" on someone else and blame it on their enemy. This drives his victims to paranoia and anger. Eventually, it causes them to snap and kill the person the prank is pinned on.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the extended version of the film, there is a scene where Sheriff Pangborn is fixing Norris' cruiser. It's quickly established that the Sheriff is AFatherToHisMen as they're on a first-name basis and reassures Norris that the breakdown wasn't his fault. We then have Gaunt--though we don't know that yet, but a bell that hangs on the Mercedes' rear view mirror shows up on a green Volvo station wagon--enter the picture in his Mercedes, who proceeds to shear off Norris door, nearly killing them both, and lead Alan on a chase that leads to a crash and his subsequent disappearance. This establishes Gaunt as petty, dangerous, devious, and mysterious.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the extended version of the film, there is a scene where we're introduced to three of the main characters; Pangborn, Norris and Gaunt. Sheriff Pangborn is fixing Norris' cruiser. It's quickly established that the Sheriff is AFatherToHisMen as they're on a first-name basis and reassures Norris that the breakdown wasn't isn't his fault. We then have Gaunt--though we don't know that yet, but a Gaunt--a bell that hangs on the Mercedes' rear view mirror shows up on a green Volvo station wagon--enter wagon and later the main door of the shop--enter the picture in his Mercedes, who proceeds to shear off Norris door, nearly killing them both, and lead Alan on a chase that leads to a crash and his subsequent disappearance. This establishes Gaunt as petty, dangerous, devious, and mysterious.
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Freudean slip, I suppose.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the extended version of the film, there is a scene where Sheriff Pangborn is fixing Norris' cruiser. It's quickly established that the Sheriff is AFatherToThisMen as they're on a first-name basis and reassures Norris that the breakdown wasn't his fault. We then have Gaunt--though we don't know that yet, but a bell that hangs on the Mercedes' rear view mirror shows up on a green Volvo station wagon--enter the picture in his Mercedes, who proceeds to shear off Norris door, nearly killing them both, and lead Alan on a chase that leads to a crash and his subsequent disappearance. This establishes Gaunt as petty, dangerous, devious, and mysterious.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the extended version of the film, there is a scene where Sheriff Pangborn is fixing Norris' cruiser. It's quickly established that the Sheriff is AFatherToThisMen AFatherToHisMen as they're on a first-name basis and reassures Norris that the breakdown wasn't his fault. We then have Gaunt--though we don't know that yet, but a bell that hangs on the Mercedes' rear view mirror shows up on a green Volvo station wagon--enter the picture in his Mercedes, who proceeds to shear off Norris door, nearly killing them both, and lead Alan on a chase that leads to a crash and his subsequent disappearance. This establishes Gaunt as petty, dangerous, devious, and mysterious.
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** Movie Gaunt's car is a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windows that has an unusual-sounding engine and the ability to appear and disappear out of thin air. It does pretty well in a high-speed chase against a more modern police cruiser. It disappears after getting wrecked and blown up and returns as Gaunt's getaway car at the end. He also owns a more humble-looking and non-descript Volvo 740 station wagon when he first arrives at his new store.
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** Movie Gaunt's car is a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windows that has an unusual-sounding engine and the ability to appear and disappear out of thin air. It does pretty well in a high-speed chase against a more modern police cruiser. It disappears after getting wrecked and blown up and returns as Gaunt's getaway car at the end. He also owns a more humble-looking and non-descript green Volvo 740 station wagon when he first arrives at his new store.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the extended version of the film, there is a scene where Sheriff Pangborn is fixing Norris' cruiser. It's quickly established that the Sheriff is AFatherToThisMen as they're on a first-name basis and reassures Norris that the breakdown wasn't his fault. We then have Gaunt--though we don't know that yet, but a bell that hangs on the Mercedes' rear view mirror shows up on a green Volvo station wagon--enter the picture in his Mercedes, who proceeds to shear off Norris door, nearly killing them both, and lead Alan on a chase that leads to a crash and his subsequent disappearance. This establishes Gaunt as petty, dangerous, devious, and mysterious.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Sheriff Pangborn. Much more pronounced in the book than the movie, though.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Sheriff Pangborn. Much more pronounced in the book than the movie, though. The extended version does add several moments to show that he does have a good personal and professional relationship with his people.
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** This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early--in the extended version, Gaunt's first interaction with him is a police pursuit--and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt. After his first in-person meeting with him, he is immediately suspicious and writes down a reminder to check him out. After [[spoiler:Brian Rusk's attempted suicide,]] he tells Norris to contact the State's District Attorney and have them do a background check on Gaunt, stating that he's running some kind of con and is involved somehow.
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** This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early--in the extended version, Gaunt's first interaction with him is a police pursuit--and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt. After his first in-person meeting with him, he is immediately suspicious and writes down a reminder in his notebook to check him out. After [[spoiler:Brian Rusk's attempted suicide,]] he tells Norris to contact the State's District State Attorney General and have them do a background check on Gaunt, Gaunt stating that he's running some kind of con and is involved somehow.
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** This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt and after his first in-person meeting with him, he is immediately suspicious and writes down a reminder to check him out. Later still, he tells Norris to contact the State's District Attorney and have them do a background check on Gaunt, stating that he's running some kind of con.
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** This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early and early--in the extended version, Gaunt's first interaction with him is a police pursuit--and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt and after Gaunt. After his first in-person meeting with him, he is immediately suspicious and writes down a reminder to check him out. Later still, After [[spoiler:Brian Rusk's attempted suicide,]] he tells Norris to contact the State's District Attorney and have them do a background check on Gaunt, stating that he's running some kind of con.con and is involved somehow.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Buster and to some degree even Gaunt himself in the movie. The way he eggs on Pangborn and Buster with grade-school taunts like "Wussy!" destroys his SophisticatedAsHell façade more effectively than any bomb ever could.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Buster and to some degree even Gaunt himself in the movie. The way he eggs on Pangborn and Buster with grade-school taunts like "Wussy!" destroys his SophisticatedAsHell façade more effectively than any bomb ever could. The TNT extended version with its censored language includes even more childish insults, which further reinforces this trope.
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** [[spoiler:In the film, Gaunt is allowed to get away with his crimes completely scot-free. [[GracefulLoser But he doesn't call what he has done in Castle Rock a "rousing success" thanks to Pangborn managing to calm everyone down and Dan blowing up Gaunt's store]]. While there are a few murders, some "lovely" explosions, and considerable property damage, most of the town is still left standing and the body count is less. Pangborn and Polly also immediately reconcile after Gaunt leaves.]]
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** [[spoiler:In the film, Gaunt is allowed to get away with his crimes completely scot-free. [[GracefulLoser But he doesn't call what he has done in Castle Rock a "rousing success" thanks to Pangborn managing to calm everyone down and Dan blowing up Gaunt's store]]. While there are a few murders, some "lovely" explosions, and considerable property damage, most of the town is still left standing and the body count is less. Pangborn and Polly also immediately reconcile after Gaunt leaves.]]
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** This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt and eventually picks up on what is going on.
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** This is somewhat subverted in the film, which has Gaunt meet with Pangborn early and even in the climax has no fear at all of him. However, Pangborn isn't swayed by Gaunt and eventually picks up after his first in-person meeting with him, he is immediately suspicious and writes down a reminder to check him out. Later still, he tells Norris to contact the State's District Attorney and have them do a background check on what is going on. Gaunt, stating that he's running some kind of con.
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** Movie Gaunt's car is a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windows that has an unusual-sounding engine and the ability to appear and disappear out of thin air. It does pretty well in a high-speed chase against a more modern police cruiser. It disappears after getting wrecked and blown up and returns as Gaunt's getaway car at the end.
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** Movie Gaunt's car is a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windows that has an unusual-sounding engine and the ability to appear and disappear out of thin air. It does pretty well in a high-speed chase against a more modern police cruiser. It disappears after getting wrecked and blown up and returns as Gaunt's getaway car at the end. He also owns a more humble-looking and non-descript Volvo 740 station wagon when he first arrives at his new store.
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* CoolCar: Book Gaunt's Tucker Talisman... which is more than just a car. In the movie it's a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windows and no supernatural elements other than an unusual-sounding engine and the ability to appear and disappear out of thin air. It does pretty well in a high-speed chase against a more modern police cruiser. It disappears after getting wrecked and blown up and returns as Gaunt's getaway car at the end.
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* CoolCar: CoolCar:
** Book Gaunt's canary yellow Tucker Talisman... which is more than just a car.In It practically drives itself, has no license plates, doesn't need to be refueled, pays its own tolls, happily cruises at 100+ MPH and doesn't get any attention from the movie it's police.
** Movie Gaunt's car is a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windowsand no supernatural elements other than that has an unusual-sounding engine and the ability to appear and disappear out of thin air. It does pretty well in a high-speed chase against a more modern police cruiser. It disappears after getting wrecked and blown up and returns as Gaunt's getaway car at the end.
** Book Gaunt's canary yellow Tucker Talisman... which is more than just a car.
** Movie Gaunt's car is a black 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer with dark tinted windows
