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* HeartIsWhereTheHomeIs: {{Inverted}}. The American guy chooses the UsefulNotes/{{Scot|land}}tish lassie over his [[BigApplesauce New York]] fiancee.
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* {{Retcon}}: After leaving Brigadoon, Tommy mentions that he's struggled to hold conversations with people because he'll hear a phrase that reminds him of Brigadoon and then he'll get lost in the memories. In the following scene, we see this happen three times accompanied to songs being reprised, and two of those three times (with the reprising songs being "Come to Me, Bend to Me", and "I'll Go Home To Bonnie Jean") have him flash back to scenes that he didn't actually witness.
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* {{Retcon}}: After leaving Brigadoon, Tommy mentions that he's struggled to hold conversations with people because he'll hear a phrase that reminds him of Brigadoon and then he'll get lost in the memories. In the following scene, we see this happen three times accompanied to songs being reprised, and two of those three times (with the reprising songs being "Come to Me, Bend to Me", and "I'll Go Home To With Bonnie Jean") have him flash back to scenes that he didn't actually witness.
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* TheAlcoholic: Jeff says he tried to cut down for a girlfriend who constantly pleaded with him to stop, but when he did they had nothing to talk about. [[spoiler: He gets even worse after leaving Brigadoon.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Even after he put the entire village in danger by trying to flee, Harry's death is treated sympathetically. The entire town mourns him and make it clear that while they wanted him to stay, no one wanted him to die; Maggie grieves for him through dance, the wedding grounds to a halt, and the entire village joins the resulting funeral proceedings. Even Jeff, his [[AccidentalMurder accidental]] killer, feels incredibly guilty over it]].
* TheAlcoholic: Jeff says he tried to cut down for a girlfriend who constantly pleaded with him to stop, but when he did they had nothing to talk about. [[spoiler: He gets even worse after leavingBrigadoon.]] Brigadoon and desperately tries to suppress his guilt over killing Harry]].
* TheAlcoholic: Jeff says he tried to cut down for a girlfriend who constantly pleaded with him to stop, but when he did they had nothing to talk about. [[spoiler: He gets even worse after leaving
* AntiVillain: Harry's rage at the entire town of Brigadoon ends up making him decide to [[spoiler:flee the village, even though he knows that doing so will kill everyone inside. However, it's made clear that while he is angry at everyone, his actions are not out of malice, they're out of sheer desperation to escape having to live next to the woman he loves after she's married someone else and a desire to actually make something out of his life]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: The wedding proves to be this for Harry. The rules of Brigadoon's miracle means that he can't leave the town, so his future is limited to the town. He can't put distance between him and Jean to try and get over her, he can't go and study at a university to make something of himself. Her wedding to someone else pushes him over the edge.
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* DespairEventHorizon: The wedding proves to be this for Harry. The rules of Brigadoon's miracle means that he can't leave the town, so his future is limited to the town. He can't put distance between him and Jean to try and get over her, he can't go and study at a university to make something of himself. Her wedding to someone else pushes him over the edge.edge and he [[spoiler:decides to flee the village, even though he knows doing so would kill everyone else. Instead, he ends up getting tripped by Jeff and falls to his death]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Harry is the closest thing the musical has to an actual antagonist, but [[spoiler:he dies at the very beginning of Act II]], leaving the romance plot between Tommy and Fiona as the story's only remaining loose end.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Harry is the closest thing the musical has to an actual antagonist, but [[spoiler:he dies at the very beginning of Act II]], leaving the romance plot between Tommy and Fiona as the story's only remaining loose end.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: PlayedForDrama; Jeff sees the evidence with his own eyes that the city really is from 200 years ago, and even starts to enjoy himself in it, but [[spoiler: convinces himself that it's nothing more than a dream so he doesn't have to deal with his guilt over killing Harry.]]
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* FlatEarthAtheist: PlayedForDrama; Jeff sees the evidence with his own eyes that the city really is from 200 years ago, and even starts to enjoy himself in it, but [[spoiler: convinces himself that it's nothing more than a dream so he doesn't have to deal with his guilt over killing Harry.]] After Tommy makes it come back and leaves him to stay there, the final moments of the musical are Jeff coming to terms with the irrefutable proof that it was all real]].
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: The townsfolk see that Harry Beaton is upset about being stuck in Brigadoon, but they don't seem to understand just ''how'' upset he is, and keep telling him (with varying degrees of sympathy) to get over it and settle down to the small town life he so despises, and watch the woman he loves marry someone else. It's no wonder he eventually snaps.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Harry wants to flee the village [[spoiler:even though it would make Brigadoon disappear forever]] because he would have no say in the life he would live if he were to stay, plus he would be stuck in a small village with the woman he loved who married another man. The men of the village want to stop him, which would condemn him to a life he would absolutely hate, because [[spoiler:they don't want to die]]. No one is happy with the situation, and [[spoiler:the men are all devastated when Harry dies]], but given the circumstances, no one involved has any choice in the matter.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: The townsfolk see that Harry Beaton is upset about being stuck in Brigadoon, but they don't seem to understand just ''how'' upset he is, and keep telling him (with varying degrees of sympathy) to get over it and settle down to the small town life he so despises, and watch the woman he loves marry someone else. It's all genuine attempts to help him and no one in town dislikes him at all, but it's no wonder he eventually snaps.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: The townsfolk see that Harry Beaton is upset about being stuck in Brigadoon, but they don't seem to understand just ''how'' upset he is, and keep telling him (with varying degrees of sympathy) to get over it and settle down to the small town life he so despises, and watch the woman he loves marry someone else. It's all genuine attempts to help him and no one in town dislikes him at all, but it's no wonder he eventually snaps.
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* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: [[spoiler: Despite Tommy's refusal to join Brigadoon, he somehow magically gets to do it 4 months later anyway.]]
* MadLove: Harry Beaton is driven to what's essentially an attempted mass murder-suicide over not being able to be with Jean.
* MadLove: Harry Beaton is driven to what's essentially an attempted mass murder-suicide over not being able to be with Jean.
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* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: [[spoiler: Despite Tommy's refusal to join Brigadoon, he somehow magically gets to do it 4 months later anyway. Mr. Lundie attributes it to ThePowerOfLove.]]
* MadLove: Harry Beaton is driven to what's essentially anattempted [[spoiler:attempted mass murder-suicide murder-suicide]] over not being able to be with Jean.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: The cost of the miracle protecting Brigadoon is that if any of the residents leave, the village and everyone in it will vanish forever. Harry Beaton desperately wants to leave.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: The cost of the miracle protecting Brigadoon is that if any of the residents leave, the village and everyone in it will vanish forever. Harry Beaton desperately wants to leave.leave [[spoiler:and acts on it at the wedding, but he's accidentally killed before he can leave]].
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* DrowningMySorrows: Jeff is already an alcoholic at the beginning, but after [[AccidentalMurder accidentally]] killing Harry Beaton, his drinking gets to the point where even the bartender is concerned.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Inverted. Brigadoon shows up once every one-hundred years, but to the people inside the town those days between are only one night's sleep.
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* TheAlcoholic: Jeff says he tried to cut down for a girlfriend who constantly pleaded with him to stop, but when he did they had nothing to talk about. [[Spoiler: He gets even worse after leaving Brigadoon]].
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* TheAlcoholic: Jeff says he tried to cut down for a girlfriend who constantly pleaded with him to stop, but when he did they had nothing to talk about. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: He gets even worse after leaving Brigadoon]]. Brigadoon.]]
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the film, much of the cast struggles with holding a Scottish accent and you can hear their American accents frequently coming through.
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* DysfunctionJunction: Meg describes her family in "My Mother's Wedding Day"; guests, bride, and groom all getting up to drunken antics, while young Meg watches.
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* GoodShepherd: Mr. Forsythe in the backstory.backstory; he prayed for the miracle.
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* AgentScully: Jeff explains at the beginning that he only believes in what he can perceive with his senses. He's also slower than Tommy to believe in the magical nature of Brigadoon, instead regarding the people of the town as amusing eccentrics.
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* TheSkeptic: Jeff only believes what makes sense to him. Even when Brigadoon's nature is proven to him, he chooses to regard it "as a dream" [[spoiler: though this may be to protect his conciense]].
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* FlatEarthAtheist: PlayedForDrama; Jeff sees the evidence with his own eyes that the city really is from 200 years ago, and even starts to enjoy himself in it, but [[spoiler: convinces himself that it's nothing more than a dream so he doesn't have to deal with his guilt over killing Harry.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Jeff says he tried to cut down for a girlfriend who constantly pleaded with him to stop, but when he did they had nothing to talk about. [[Spoiler: He gets even worse after leaving Brigadoon]].
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* AnythingThatMoves: Meg Brockie. She flirts with one of the visitors, Jeff, and tells him that there aren't enough men in Brigadoon. He replies "Enough for everyone else, or enough for you?" She even gets a song about her long string of boyfriends.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Meg Brockie. She flirts with one of the visitors, Jeff, and tells him that there aren't enough men in Brigadoon. He replies "Enough for everyone else, or enough for you?" She even gets a song about her long string of boyfriends.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Jeff trips Harry, not intending for him to fall to his death.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Harry Beaton is pining for Jean on her wedding day.
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* MadLoveMadLove: Harry Beaton is driven to what's essentially an attempted mass murder-suicide over not being able to be with Jean.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Jeff has a sarcastic remark for everyone.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Maggie is in love with Harry who is in love with Jean who is marrying Charlie. Meg is enamored with Jeff who is uninterested. Tommy is unhappily engaged to Jane but is falling in love with Fiona.
