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* TruthInTelevision: Many child murderers faced the public eye and scorn for their victims being innocent and helpless. Even in prison, other inmates may gang up on them to either beat them, kill them or worse.
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* TruthInTelevision: Many child murderers faced face the public eye and scorn for their victims being innocent and helpless. Even in prison, other inmates may gang up on them to either beat them, kill them them, or worse. worse.
* TheUnfettered: Jem states that the hunters aren't actually being affected by the signal to act torturous and cruel. Rather, they're simply other unaffected people who saw the breakdown of society as an excuse to RapePillageAndBurn. Subverted when it's revealed to all be a ploy.
* TheUnfettered: Jem states that the hunters aren't actually being affected by the signal to act torturous and cruel. Rather, they're simply other unaffected people who saw the breakdown of society as an excuse to RapePillageAndBurn. Subverted when it's revealed to all be a ploy.
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** Victoria simply leaving Damien to die rather than following Jem's instruction to help him fight off the gunman at the beginning is a clue to her instinctual modus operandi of being a DirtyCoward who doesn't actively participate in events, but rather selfishly slinks through them.
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1.) Just describes an event, but not why but not why we'd expect something different. 2.) Same as the first. 3.) Too fantastical as we don't know how a killer would act if they were mindwiped.
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** Victoria videotaped Jemima's torture and murder on her mobile phone. The evidence was used to convict her and her boyfriend since they didn't delete it from the device or any clouds. It didn't help that Jemima disappeared near their house.
** An oddly sobering one amid the science-fiction. At her trial, Victoria tried to claim that her boyfriend manipulated her into taping his murder of Jemima and he was very charismatic. She also apparently didn't have a defense lawyer. The judge didn't buy it, and neither did the jury. Victoria herself looks horrified that she tried that defense.
** TheStinger has Baxter warning everyone to keep their distance from Victoria while videotaping her. She may be mindwiped, but she's still a killer. Sure enough, Victoria tosses some bricks at visitors who got too close while filming on their phones.
** Victoria videotaped Jemima's torture and murder on her mobile phone. The evidence was used to convict her and her boyfriend since they didn't delete it from the device or any clouds. It didn't help that Jemima disappeared near their house.
** An oddly sobering one amid the science-fiction. At her trial, Victoria tried to claim that her boyfriend manipulated her into taping his murder of Jemima and he was very charismatic. She also apparently didn't have a defense lawyer. The judge didn't buy it, and neither did the jury. Victoria herself looks horrified that she tried that defense.
** TheStinger has Baxter warning everyone to keep their distance from Victoria while videotaping her. She may be mindwiped, but she's still a killer. Sure enough, Victoria tosses some bricks at visitors who got too close while filming on their phones.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: You (especially bystanders) are just as bad as the voyeurs. WordOfGod even stated it that the inspiration of this episode was taken from BystanderSyndrome and mob mentality, especially Internet mob mentality, just the spectators don't have anonymity as a cover.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: You (especially bystanders) are just as bad as the voyeurs. WordOfGod even stated it that the inspiration of this episode was taken from BystanderSyndrome and mob mentality, especially Internet mob mentality, just on the spectators don't have anonymity as a cover.internet.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Victoria's punishment for being an accomplice in the murder of a six-year-old girl (having videotaped the incident and doing nothing to help while her boyfriend did the deed) is to have her memories erased on a regular basis and forced into a staged enactment wherein it seems people are out to kill her, and no one will help. At the culmination of the act, Victoria is strapped down, forced to confront what she did in front of a crowd of vicious onlookers and be paraded in front of them while she's screamed and cursed at. Repeat.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Victoria's punishment for being an accomplice in the murder of a six-year-old girl (having videotaped the incident and doing nothing to help while her boyfriend did the deed) is to have her memories erased on a regular basis and forced into a staged enactment wherein it seems people are out to kill her, and no one will help. At the culmination of the act, Victoria is strapped down, forced to confront what she did in front of a crowd of vicious onlookers and be paraded in front of them while she's screamed the recipient of screams and cursed at. curses. The conclusion of her day is to have her memory of the events forcefully and ''painfully'' erased. Repeat.
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* MindScrew: The second half of the episode details not just how the first half was entirely fake and staged, but how the protagonist the audience has been following is revealed to be a horrible murderer, and is reduced to a sobbing mess while she's punished for her crimes. The supposed "villains" meanwhile casually and somewhat smugly go along with their jobs of entertaining nameless onlookers, all while Victoria is breaking down.
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* MindScrew: The second half of the episode details not just how the first half was entirely fake and staged, but how the protagonist the audience has been following is revealed to be a horrible murderer, and is reduced to a sobbing mess while she's punished for her crimes. The supposed "villains" antagonists meanwhile casually and somewhat smugly go along with their jobs of entertaining nameless onlookers, all while Victoria is breaking down.
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* VillainProtagonist: Victoria, in a way, though the episode makes it very clear who the true monsters are. Depends on you, though, whom do you want to root for, as [[LaserGuidedKarma the supposed monsters have a good reason to inflict the torture on Victoria]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The White Bear Justice Park is ostensibly serving extreme justice for a horrible criminal.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The White Bear Justice Park is ostensibly serving extreme justice for a horrible criminal.
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* VillainProtagonist: Victoria, in a way, though the episode makes it very clear who the true monsters are. Depends on you, though, whom do you want to root for, as [[LaserGuidedKarma the supposed monsters have a good reason to inflict the torture on Victoria]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The White Bear Justice Park is ostensibly serving extreme justice for a horrible criminal. Though it's arguably just a transparent excuse for them to profit off of someone else's torment.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The White Bear Justice Park is ostensibly serving extreme justice for a horrible criminal. Though it's arguably just a transparent excuse for them to profit off of someone else's torment.
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* RevengeIsNotJustice: Deconstructed as the story is designed to make the audience question if Victoria truly deserves such a harsh punishment. White Bear Justice Park was designed to punish Victoria for her role in Jemima's death because Victoria recorded her torture, death, and burial at the hands of her boyfriend, Iain Rannoch. While Victoria is definitely complicit in Jemima's death, her punishment is disproportionate because they are mentally torturing her by making her relive the same day every day and ending it by giving her amnesia. Given that Iain committed suicide to escape the consequences of his actions, the White Bear Justice Park is merely punishing Victoria because they're trying to get closure by any means necessary because they couldn't get revenge by torturing Iain.
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* RevengeIsNotJustice: Deconstructed as the story is designed to make the audience question if Victoria truly deserves such a harsh punishment. White Bear Justice Park was designed to punish Victoria for her role in Jemima's death because Victoria recorded her torture, death, and burial at the hands of her boyfriend, Iain Rannoch. While Victoria is definitely complicit in Jemima's death, her punishment is disproportionate because they are mentally torturing her by making her relive the same day every day and ending it by giving her amnesia. Given that Iain committed suicide to escape the consequences of his actions, the White Bear Justice Park is merely punishing Victoria because they're trying to get closure by any means necessary because they couldn't get revenge by torturing Iain. However, the judge at Victoria's sentencing stated that her punishment would be "proportionate" prior to Iain's suicide, implying that she would have ended up in this situation regardless of what Iain had done.
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speculation does not belong on the main page. the proper trope should be No Ending, and stressing we never see her fate.
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* AmbiguousEnding: Does Victoria ever get out of the amnesia-induced torture loop? Is she stuck there till she dies? Or is she eventually executed and put out of her misery? Or do human rights activists have her freed and instead put in a maximum-security prison? The possibilities are endless.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone. There's also the argument to be made that trapping her in this scenario prevents her from eve experiencing genuine remorse, which she shows herself as capable of at the end, and is simply cruelty for its own sake.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone. There's also the argument to be made that trapping her in this scenario prevents her from eve ever experiencing genuine remorse, which she shows herself as capable of at the end, and is simply cruelty for its own sake.
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* RevengeIsNotJustice: Deconstructed as the story is designed to make the audience question if Victoria truly deserves such a harsh punishment. White Bear Justice Park was designed to punish Victoria for her role in Jemima's death because recorded her torture, death, and burial as her boyfriend, Iain Rannoch, killed Jemima. While Victoria is definitely complicit in Jemima's death, her punishment is disproportionate because they are mentally torturing her by making her relive the same day every day and ending it by giving her amnesia. Given that Iain committed suicide to escape the consequences of his actions, the White Bear Justice Park is merely punishing Victoria because they're trying to get closure by any means necessary because they couldn't get revenge by torturing Iain.
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* RevengeIsNotJustice: Deconstructed as the story is designed to make the audience question if Victoria truly deserves such a harsh punishment. White Bear Justice Park was designed to punish Victoria for her role in Jemima's death because Victoria recorded her torture, death, and burial as at the hands of her boyfriend, Iain Rannoch, killed Jemima.Rannoch. While Victoria is definitely complicit in Jemima's death, her punishment is disproportionate because they are mentally torturing her by making her relive the same day every day and ending it by giving her amnesia. Given that Iain committed suicide to escape the consequences of his actions, the White Bear Justice Park is merely punishing Victoria because they're trying to get closure by any means necessary because they couldn't get revenge by torturing Iain.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone. There's also the argument to be made that trapping her in this scenario prevents her from eve experiencing genuine remorse, which she shows herself as capable of at the end, and is simply cruelty for it's own sake.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone. There's also the argument to be made that trapping her in this scenario prevents her from eve experiencing genuine remorse, which she shows herself as capable of at the end, and is simply cruelty for it's its own sake.
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* AntiHero: Baxter and the rest of the participants believe that they are punishing a terrible criminal, but they have a disturbing LackOfEmpathy towards Victoria.
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* AntiHero: Baxter and the rest of the participants believe believe, not totally incorrectly, that they are punishing a terrible criminal, but they have a disturbing LackOfEmpathy towards Victoria.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Basil. He seems like a nice and heroic guy at first before revealing that he's just as homicidal. Then it's subverted when it's revealed he's just an actor pretending to be a serial killer and is actually a pretty jovial guy. Played somewhat more straight with Jem, who is also an employee just pretending to be Victoria's ally, though she's also fairly polite and likable, like Basil.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Basil. He seems like a nice and heroic guy at first before revealing that he's just as homicidal. Then it's subverted when it's revealed he's just an actor pretending to be a serial killer and is actually a pretty jovial guy. Played somewhat more straight with Jem, who is also an employee just pretending to be Victoria's ally, though she's also fairly polite and likable, like Basil.
Basil, just not to Victoria.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone. There's also the argument to be made that trapping her in this scenario prevents her from eve experiencing genuine remorse, which she shows herself as capable of at the end, and is simply cruelty for it's own sake.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed if not worse. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone. There's also the argument to be made that trapping her in this scenario prevents her from eve experiencing genuine remorse, which she shows herself as capable of at the end, and is simply cruelty for it's own sake.
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* PunchClockVillain: The people subjecting Victoria to her life of torture appear to be simply doing their jobs as employees of the park. Although they seem to take great satisfaction in it, given what Victoria did.
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* PunchClockVillain: The people subjecting Victoria to her life of torture appear to be simply doing their jobs as employees of the park.park and are otherwise normal, friendly people who get along with one another off the clock. Although they seem to take great satisfaction in it, given what Victoria did.
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* AntiVillain: Victoria helped kill a little girl, but she's scared, helpless, and hates herself once she finds out what she's done... probably.
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* AntiVillain: Victoria helped kill a little girl, but she's scared, helpless, and hates herself once she finds out what she's done… probably.
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* AdultFear: While Victoria's crimes are being revealed to her, old news broadcasts are shown of the grieving parents of the little girl she helped her boyfriend to kill, begging for the return of their daughter.
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* VigilanteInjustice: A woman has lost her memory and is told that the world is brainwashed and she is being actively hunted. [[spoiler: The twist is that the woman is Victoria Skillane, who was arrested for recording the murder and torture of Jemima Sykes at the hands of Victoria's fiance, Iain Rannoch. Victoria is being repeatedly tortured in the White Bear Justice Park as visitors pay to watch her suffer. The episode is designed to question whether or not Victoria truly deserves this punishment and if the workers at the White Bear Justice Park are in the right to punish her so severely for what she did.]]
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* ForTheEvulz: This seems to have been Victoria and her boyfriend's motivation for their crimes, as evidenced by her recording it.
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* ForTheEvulz: This seems to have been Victoria and her boyfriend's motivation for their crimes, as evidenced by her recording it.it and Victoria's visible lack of remorse in her mugshot.
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