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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Tyler's mother ends up surviving her son... not that she's terribly surprised.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Iron Gates doesn't quite like Castle, but she's willing to let Beckett let Officer Hastings get away with being Lone Vengeance, so long as Lone Vengeance never, ever graces these city streets.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Iron Gates doesn't quite like Castle, but she's willing to let Beckett let Officer Hastings get away with being Lone Vengeance, so long as Lone Vengeance never, ever graces these city streets.streets again.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Iron Gates doesn't quite like Castle, but she's willing to let Beckett let Officer Hastings get away with being Lone Vengeance, so long as Lone Vengeance never, ever graces these city streets.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Cutting someone in half horizontally would be hard enough, bisecting them vertically? Being an experienced butcher doesn't mean you can cut through a dozen bones and a quarter ton of meat in a single slice.
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* {{Foil}}: Paul and Ann reflect Castle and Beckett. Ann has a dead father and is a badass cop to Paul's romantic writer/artist.
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* PullingTheThread: Castle notes that Paul is left handed and insists on continuing the investigation.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Likely she figured it was just inevitable, but Tyler's mother, after seeing his bisected corpse, reacts with mild indifference.
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*SelectiveObliviousness: Gates basically chooses to ignore Officer Hastings’ actions as a vigilante because it would draw unwanted attention to the precinct, arguing that so many people were going around in the Lone Vengenace costume that there’s no way for them to be sure when Hastings was wearing the costume and when someone else was doing it.
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Lone Vengeance's father was killed some time ago, leading her to become a police officer]].

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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Lone Lone Vengeance's father was killed some time ago, leading her to become a police officer]].officer.



* NotSoDifferentRemark: Lone Vengeance/[[spoiler:Ann Hastings]] tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.

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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Lone Vengeance/[[spoiler:Ann Hastings]] Vengeance/Ann Hastings tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Lone Vengeance, or rather, Tony Valenti, cuts off Tyler Faris' hand before slicing him in half.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Lone Vengeance, or rather, Tony Valenti, Valtini, cuts off Tyler Faris' hand before slicing him in half.
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* VomitingCop: Hastings claims that seeing Faris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast." Given that she's the one who did him in, that was likely just her covering her tracks.

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* VomitingCop: Hastings claims that seeing Faris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast." Given that she's the one who did him in, that was likely just her covering her tracks."
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* AnArmAndALeg: Lone Vengeance cuts off Tyler Faris' hand before slicing him in half.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Lone Vengeance Vengeance, or rather, Tony Valenti, cuts off Tyler Faris' hand before slicing him in half.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Lone Vengeance cuts off Tyler Faris' hand before slicing him in half.
* AssholeVictim: Tyler Faris certainly gets this status for being a rapist. Even his own mother isn't horribly shocked to see him on the coroner's slab.



* VomitingCop: [[spoiler: Hastings claims that seeing Farris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast."]]

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* VomitingCop: [[spoiler: Hastings claims that seeing Farris' Faris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast."]]" Given that she's the one who did him in, that was likely just her covering her tracks.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: This exchange between Beckett and Tyler Faris' mother shows just how [[SarcasmMode loved]] he was:
-->'''Beckett:''' (''while taking out her notepad'') Ma'am, I'll need the names of all the enemies your son may have had.\\
'''Mrs. Faris:''' You're gonna need a bigger pad.
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* VomitingCop: [[spoiler:Hastings claims that seeing Farris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast."

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* VomitingCop: [[spoiler:Hastings [[spoiler: Hastings claims that seeing Farris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast.""]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Lone Vengeance/[[spoiler:Ann Hastings]] tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Lone Vengeance/[[spoiler:Ann Hastings]] tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.

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* FreudianExcuse: Lone Vengeance's father was killed some time ago.

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* FreudianExcuse: Lone [[spoiler:Lone Vengeance's father was killed some time ago.ago, leading her to become a police officer]].



* NotSoDifferent: Lone Vengeance/Ann Hastings tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.

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* NotSoDifferent: Lone Vengeance/Ann Hastings Vengeance/[[spoiler:Ann Hastings]] tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.


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* VomitingCop: [[spoiler:Hastings claims that seeing Farris' bisected body made her "thr[o]w up [her] breakfast."
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* KarmaHoudini: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer named Ann Hastings. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.

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* KarmaHoudini: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer named Ann Hastings. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.''numerous'' serious crimes as a vigilante.
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* PretenderDiss: Castle drops one for the writer of the ''Lone Vengeance'' comic.
-->"Trust me, he is no Creator/StanLee. He's not even Sean Elt."

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* ChekhovsGunman: Two from the murder scene. The first is a New York Ledger reporter named Paul Whittaker; the second is officer Ann Hastings.



%% * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens to the murder victim, even said word for word by Castle.
* KarmaHoudini: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.

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%% * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens to the murder victim, The killer's MO on Tyler Faris, splitting him vertically in half. Castle even said word for word by Castle.
mentions the trope word-for-word.
* KarmaHoudini: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer.officer named Ann Hastings. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.



* NotSoDifferent: Lone Vengeance tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.
* SamusIsAGirl: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a woman.

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* NotSoDifferent: Lone Vengeance Vengeance/Ann Hastings tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.
* SamusIsAGirl: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a woman.woman.
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* FreudianExcuse: Lone Vengeance's father was killed some time ago.


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* NotSoDifferent: Lone Vengeance tries to point out to Beckett that they both lost a close parent as kids and both want to take the law into their hands.
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* [[spoiler: FalseFlagOperation: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping her off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens to the murder victim, even said word for word by Castle.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.]]

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* [[spoiler: FalseFlagOperation: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping her off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens to the murder victim, even said word for word by Castle.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.]]



* [[spoiler: [[SamusIsAGirl Lone Vengeance Is A Girl]]]]

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* [[spoiler: [[SamusIsAGirl SamusIsAGirl: Lone Vengeance Is A Girl]]]]turns out to be a woman.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges lest the department be embarrassed. The same officer reappears later in the series, so they weren't even quietly dismissed from the Department, even though they committed numerous assaults.]]
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens to the murder victim, even said word for word by Castle.
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Castle and Beckett chase a murderer who seems to be a costume superhero.

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Castle and Beckett chase a murderer who seems to be a costume superhero.



* [[spoiler: FalseFlagOperation: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping her off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]



* [[SamusIsAGirl Lone Vengeance Is A Girl]]
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping them off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]

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* [[spoiler: [[SamusIsAGirl Lone Vengeance Is A Girl]]
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping them off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]
Girl]]]]
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* [[SamusIsAGirl Lone Vengeance Is A Girl]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges less the department be embarrassed.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges less lest the department be embarrassed.]]
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KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges less the department be embarrassed.]]
KatanasAreBetter: Lone Vengeance makes use of one.
XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping them off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges less the department be embarrassed.]]
* KatanasAreBetter: Lone Vengeance makes use of one.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping them off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]
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Castle and Beckett chase a murderer who seems to be a superhero.

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KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Lone Vengeance turns out to be a police officer. The new Chief refuses to press charges less the department be embarrassed.]]
KatanasAreBetter: Lone Vengeance makes use of one.
XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: A local crime boss frames Lone Vengeance for the murder of the informant tipping them off, knowing the police would automatically pursue the superhero.]]

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