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* BreakTheCutie: Valentine Fawkes. Not only was she in a horribly abusive relationship with her producer, he stalked her for five years while simultaneously driving her career into the ground and cultivating a reputation of her as a liar, thief, and psychotic ex-girlfriend. He then took his new girlfriend and made her into an exact replica of Valentine, stole her songs, and Trezzure gets famous on her work. [[spoiler: and then he murders her best friend on the night of her comeback after a five year hiatus—on Valentine’s Day, no less-and it gets horribly worse from there.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: Valentine Fawkes. Not only was she in a horribly abusive relationship with her producer, he stalked her for five years while simultaneously driving her career into the ground and cultivating a reputation of her as a liar, thief, and psychotic ex-girlfriend. He then took his new girlfriend and made her into an exact replica of Valentine, stole her songs, and Trezzure gets famous on her work. [[spoiler: and And then he murders her best friend right in front of her on the night of her comeback after a five year hiatus—on Valentine’s Day, no less-and less—and it gets horribly worse from there.]]


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* ReplacementGoldfish: Trezzure is one to Royal for Valentine in ''My Valentine.'' Once she realizes this, it doesn’t end well for Royal.


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* StepfordSmiler: Trezzure’s persona in ''My Valentine.'' She even raises her speaking voice by an octave and maintains a mix between a bubbly and dreamy demeanor, espousing the values of peaceful conflict resolution and friendship. Until she doesn’t.

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** ''My Valentine'', bordering on a [[DownerEnding]]. Valentine is finally free of Royal’s abuse and has the rights to her music after five years [[spoiler:because Royal and Trezzure are dead, but the bartender and Nick were killed simply for still being at the bar, and Valentine watched Royal murder “her only ally” and best friend, Julie. Valentine assumes Trezzure’s identity and ends up publicly dropping it during a show while she performs a song about ''how she murdered Trezzure and took over her identity''. A post-credits shot with the Trezzure fans barring the door heavily implies that the last part, however, is all in Val’s head.]]

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** ''My Valentine'', bordering on a [[DownerEnding]].[[DownerEnding Downer Ending]]. Valentine is finally free of Royal’s abuse and has the rights to her music after five years [[spoiler:because Royal and Trezzure are dead, but the bartender and Nick were killed simply for still being at the bar, and Valentine watched Royal murder “her only ally” and best friend, Julie. Valentine assumes Trezzure’s identity and ends up publicly dropping it during a show while she performs a song about ''how she murdered Trezzure and took over her identity''. A post-credits shot with the Trezzure fans barring the door heavily implies that the last part, however, is all in Val’s head.]]


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* BreakTheCutie: Valentine Fawkes. Not only was she in a horribly abusive relationship with her producer, he stalked her for five years while simultaneously driving her career into the ground and cultivating a reputation of her as a liar, thief, and psychotic ex-girlfriend. He then took his new girlfriend and made her into an exact replica of Valentine, stole her songs, and Trezzure gets famous on her work. [[spoiler: and then he murders her best friend on the night of her comeback after a five year hiatus—on Valentine’s Day, no less-and it gets horribly worse from there.]]


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Valentine gives Royal a spectacular one during the climax of ''My Valentine.''

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* BittersweetEnding: By the end of ''Pilgrim'', [[spoiler:Dad and the neighbors are dead and Cody will have to live with the guilt of her wish, but the Pilgrims have been defeated and the survivors have come together for the first time as a family.]]

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** ''My Valentine'', bordering on a [[DownerEnding]]. Valentine is finally free of Royal’s abuse and has the rights to her music after five years [[spoiler:because Royal and Trezzure are dead, but the bartender and Nick were killed simply for still being at the bar, and Valentine watched Royal murder “her only ally” and best friend, Julie. Valentine assumes Trezzure’s identity and ends up publicly dropping it during a show while she performs a song about ''how she murdered Trezzure and took over her identity''. A post-credits shot with the Trezzure fans barring the door heavily implies that the last part, however, is all in Val’s head.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted in ''My Valentine.'' [[spoiler: Nick dies, but he dies after Julie and the bartender are murdered by Royal.
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* {{Gorn}}: There’s an uncomfortably close shot of [[spoiler: Nick’s]] neck when he’s being garroted with a ''guitar string.''
* GoryDiscretionShot: In ''My Valentine'' [[spoiler: when Trezzure bashes Royal’s face in with the base of a microphone stand. Instead of seeing it happen, we get a POV shot of the stand from Royal’s perspective.]]


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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: ''”I’M!! BREAKING!! UP!! WITH!! YOU!!”'' [[spoiler: played to grisly effect, as it’s punctuated by Trezzure beating Royal to death with a microphone stand.]]


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* WhamLine: “Which sweetness? Did you mean me, or her?”
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*AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Trezzure ]] in ''My Valentine''. After [[spoiler: spending the entire episode justifying Royal’s abusive behavior toward Valentine, and toward herself, she snaps and kills Royal once she realizes she was just Valentine’s replacement. She then gets electrocuted by standing in a pool of Julie’s blood when Val kicks a severed mic cord into it after threatening to sue and destroy Valentine and freely admitting she stole her songs and looks for fame.]]

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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''Pilgrim'' was based on a frightening Thanksgiving the screenwriter spent as a child with a Pilgrim reenactor who never broke character.

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** ''My Valentine'' is based on the real life careers and abusive relationships that both [[Music/MarsArgo Mars Argo]] and {{Creator/Poppy}} had with their former producer and ex-boyfriend, Titanic Sinclair.

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** The entire premise of ''My Valentine '' might seem outlandish to anyone who is not familiar with what happened between {{Music/Poppy}}, [[Music/MarsArgo Mars Argo]], and Titanic Sinclair. Sinclair and his then-girlfriend, Brittany Sheets, created the musical duo and web character Mars Argo during the mid-2000s. At the end of the decade, Mars Argo vanished, only to be replaced by ''Poppy'' in 2014–which was uncannily similar to Mars Argo, right down to her wearing ''Argo’s clothes'' during photoshoots and live performances. During a 2018 lawsuit, allegations of Sinclair’s abuse came to light, which were first mocked by Poppy and then echoed when she ended their relationship in 2019.

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** The entire premise of ''My Valentine '' might seem outlandish to anyone who is not familiar with what happened between {{Music/Poppy}}, [[Music/MarsArgo Mars Argo]], and Titanic Sinclair. Sinclair and his then-girlfriend, Brittany Sheets, created the musical duo and web character Mars Argo during the mid-2000s. At the end of the decade, Mars Argo vanished, only to be replaced by ''Poppy'' in 2014–which was uncannily similar to Mars Argo, right down to her wearing ''Argo’s clothes'' during photoshoots and live performances. During a 2018 copyright lawsuit, allegations of Sinclair’s physical and emotional abuse toward Argo came to light, which were first mocked by Poppy during the trial and then echoed when she released a public statement after she ended their relationship romantic and professional relationships in 2019.


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** ''My Valentine'' has three:
*** Valentine Fawkes serves as one to [[Music/MarsArgo Mars Argo]]
*** Trezzure is one for {{Music/Poppy}}
*** Royal is [[spoiler: a far more dangerous, murderous exaggeration of]] Titanic Sinclair

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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: If you are not familiar with certain kinds of American evangelical Christianity, ''Pure'' might seem kind of over the top. In fact, except for the part with the [[spoiler: boys being planted to HoneyTrap the girls as a "test" and guarding the doors with swords]], it's a fairly dead-on depiction of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_ball purity ball]] and the attendant culture.

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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: If AluminiumChristmasTrees:
**The entire premise of ''My Valentine '' might seem outlandish to anyone who is not familiar with what happened between {{Music/Poppy}}, [[Music/MarsArgo Mars Argo]], and Titanic Sinclair. Sinclair and his then-girlfriend, Brittany Sheets, created the musical duo and web character Mars Argo during the mid-2000s. At the end of the decade, Mars Argo vanished, only to be replaced by ''Poppy'' in 2014–which was uncannily similar to Mars Argo, right down to her wearing ''Argo’s clothes'' during photoshoots and live performances. During a 2018 lawsuit, allegations of Sinclair’s abuse came to light, which were first mocked by Poppy and then echoed when she ended their relationship in 2019.
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you are not familiar with certain kinds of American evangelical Christianity, ''Pure'' might seem kind of over the top. In fact, except for the part with the [[spoiler: boys being planted to HoneyTrap the girls as a "test" and guarding the doors with swords]], it's a fairly dead-on depiction of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_ball purity ball]] and the attendant culture.
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* ''My Valentine'' (Valentine’s Day)
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: See IncestSubtext and AbusiveParents above--in ''Pure'', despite her SlasherSmile and general wreaking of havoc, Lilith is not the villain, the girls' terrible fathers are.


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* YourCheatingHeart: Shay and her half-sister are almost the same age in ''Pure'', and their father's claim that he broke up with Shay's mother, unaware she was pregnant, before marrying Jo's mother seems shaky from the start. [[spoiler: All of that is later revealed, unsurprisingly, to be a big old lie; he was two-timing, and he knew Shay's mother was pregnant but didn't support her because he saw her as "a whore".]]
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: If you are not familiar with certain kinds of American evangelical Christianity, ''Pure'' might seem kind of over the top. In fact, except for the part with the [[spoiler: boys being planted to HoneyTrap the girls as a "test" and guarding the doors with swords]], it's a fairly dead-on depiction of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_ball purity ball]] and the attendant culture.


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* IncestSubtext: In ''Pure''. The girls take disturbingly wedding-like photoshoots with their fathers, complete with white dress, (purity) ring, and couple-y poses, during which the main character Shay is visibly uncomfortable. Some of the dresses they have actually are wedding dresses; the preacher's daughter Lacey has a dress which came with a veil, which the cameras linger on ominously. And, of course, the point of the weekend is for the girls and their fathers to sign a contract in which the fathers promise to guard the girls' purity until they're married and it's time to hand it over to their husbands. Combined with how controlling many of the fathers are, the pastor's weird touchy-feely-ness and habitual one-on-one "chats" with the girls, the unseen but traumatizing "Box", the fact the girls' mothers and all other adults are explicitly barred, and [[spoiler: the literal ''cage'' kept around for "disobedient" girls]], it all winds up pointing somewhere very gross. Lucky thing Lilith shows up to ruin the party.
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* SlasherMovie: ''School Spirit''

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* SlasherMovie: ''School Spirit''Spirit'' and ''Midnight Kiss''
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:''Down'',''School Spirit'' and ''Midnight Kiss'']]

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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:''Down'',''School [[spoiler:''Down'', ''School Spirit'' and ''Midnight Kiss'']]
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:''Down'' and ''School Spirit'']]

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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:''Down'' [[spoiler:''Down'',''School Spirit'' and ''School Spirit'']]''Midnight Kiss'']]
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** Much more prominent in ''Midnight Kiss'', the second New Year's episode.
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* DeathByGenreSavviness: In ''Uncanny Annie'', Wendy recognizes that chanting a demon's name is how everyone got killed in ''Film/{{Candyman}}.'' Too bad she still does it...
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:''Uncanny Annie'']]
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* CloningBlues: ''All That We Destroy''
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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- that is, [[{{Troll}} assuming we can trust a single thing he says.

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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- that is, [[{{Troll}} assuming we can trust a single thing he says.]]
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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- that is, assuming we can trust a single thing he says.

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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- that is, [[{{Troll}} assuming we can trust a single thing he says.
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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- assuming we can trust a single thing he says.

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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- that is, assuming we can trust a single thing he says.
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* ILoveTheDead: Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You''- assuming we can trust a single thing he says.
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** "So you're a British Film/AmericanPsycho?"
** [[Film/BlueVelvet "I'll fuck anything that moves!"]]

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** From ''The Body'': "So you're a British Film/AmericanPsycho?"
** From ''I'm Just Fucking With You'': [[Film/BlueVelvet "I'll fuck anything that moves!"]]
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** [[Film/Blue Velvet "I'll fuck anything that moves!"]]

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* ShoutOut:
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** [[Film/Blue Velvet "I'll fuck anything that moves!"]]
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** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Joker]].

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** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried southern, bespectacled [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Joker]].
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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of [[film/Psycho Norman Bates]], down to the mother's decaying corpse.
** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried [[franchise/Batman Joker]].

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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of [[film/Psycho [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]], down to the mother's decaying corpse.
** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried [[franchise/Batman [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Joker]].
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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of [[film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]], down to the mother's decaying corpse.

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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of [[film/{{Psycho}} [[film/Psycho Norman Bates]], down to the mother's decaying corpse.
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** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried franchise/Batman Joker.

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** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried franchise/Batman Joker.[[franchise/Batman Joker]].
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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of film/Psycho Norman Bates, down to the mother's decaying corpse.

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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of film/Psycho [[film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates, Bates]], down to the mother's decaying corpse.
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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of [[film/Psycho Norman Bates]], down to the mother's decaying corpse.
** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried [[franchise/Batman Joker.]]

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** [[spoiler: Brent from ''School Spirit'']] is one of [[film/Psycho film/Psycho Norman Bates]], Bates, down to the mother's decaying corpse.
** Chester from ''I'm Just F*cking With You'' is basically a southern fried [[franchise/Batman franchise/Batman Joker.]]

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