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* The Shrink: Mendel, naturally. Even if he isn't a very good one.
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* The Shrink: TheShrink: Mendel, naturally. Even if he isn't a very good one.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Marvin and Trina have two children in ''In Trousers'', but only Jason appears in ''March''. What happened to the second child in the years between the two musicals is unexplained.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Marvin and Trina have two children in ''In Trousers'', but only Jason appears in ''March''.''March Of The Falsettos''. What happened to the second child in the years between the two musicals is unexplained.
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Act I Marvin. His pride and ego result in him pushing away the people he craves affection from.
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* LoveHungry: Act I Marvin, who demands that people love him without doing anything in return.
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* MelancholyMusicalNumber: The Games I Play, wherein Whizzer reflects on his relationship with Marvin and why it fell apart.
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* SharpDressedMan: Whizzer, as stated many times during the musical. [[spoiler:However, he winds up being in his hospital clothes for the better part of act 2.]]
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* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: During "In Trousers," Marvin's parents are never present, making him grow into an entitled and demanding adult. However, Marvin tries his hardest to be a good parent to Jason, and tries his hardest to bond with his son, despite being horrible to most other characters during Act One, and [[spoiler: becomes a father Jason can love.]]
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* PsychoPsychologist: Downplayed with Mendel.
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* The Shrink: Mendel, naturally. Even if he isn't a very good one.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Christian Borle, who is apparently one of the most pleasant members of the cast, plays Marvin, who is the closest character the show has to an antagonist in the first act.
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* BSODSong: "Marvin Hits Trina".
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* BSODSong: BSODSong:
** "Marvin HitsTrina".Trina".
** "You Gotta Die Sometime".
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Whizzer dies of AIDS at the end of Act II.]]
** "Marvin Hits
** "You Gotta Die Sometime".
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Whizzer dies of AIDS at the end of Act II.]]
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Marvin, Trina and Jason are almost never shown interacting healthily as a family. They even describe themselves as "tragic" and "a mess".
* FinalLoveDuet: "What Would I Do"
* FinalLoveDuet: "What Would I Do"
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* DefrostingIceKing: Marvin getting back together with Whizzer in Act II is when he really starts to [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]].
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[spoiler: The disease Whizzer contracts is never explicitly named, but is understood by the audience to be AIDS due to it being set in 1981.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Marvin, Trina and Jason are almost never shown interacting healthily as afamily.family until later in Act II. They even describe themselves as "tragic" and "a mess".
* FinalLoveDuet: "What Would IDo"Do".
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[spoiler: The disease Whizzer contracts is never explicitly named, but is understood by the audience to be AIDS due to it being set in 1981.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Marvin, Trina and Jason are almost never shown interacting healthily as a
* FinalLoveDuet: "What Would I
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* JewishAndNerdy: Jason would rather stay home and play chess than socialize. Later, the company bemoans that his all-Jewish baseball team is better at "reading Latin" than actually playing baseball.
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* JewishAndNerdy: JewishAndNerdy / GameOfNerds: Jason would rather stay home and play chess than socialize. Later, the company bemoans that his all-Jewish baseball team is better at "reading Latin" than actually playing baseball.
* TheMasochismTango: Marvin and Whizzer initially, until they get back together in Act II and their relationship becomes more healthy.
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* MinimalistCast: Only five, later seven, characters appear in the show. No background characters are shown.
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* MinimalistCast: Only five, later seven, characters appear in the show. No Only one background characters are character is shown.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''In Trousers'', the first part of the "Marvin Trilogy" which didn't make it into ''Falsettos'', introduced several characters from Marvin's past, as well as alluding to Marvin and Trina's second child and a pet parakeet, none of whom are ever heard from again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''In Trousers'', the first part of the "Marvin Trilogy" which didn't make it into ''Falsettos'', introduced several characters from Marvin's past, as well as alluding to Marvin and Trina's second child and a pet parakeet, none of whom are ever heard from again.again.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The script is littered with Yiddish words and phrases to remind the audience that the characters are Jewish.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The script is littered with Yiddish words and phrases to remind the audience that the characters are Jewish.
