History WesternAnimation / TheSuicideShop

* MsFanservice: Alan's teenage sister Marilyn, though dramatically lacking in the area of self-esteem, gets to be this as she starts [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn exploring]] [[BellyDancer her]] [[BeautifulAllAlong femininity]]. Alan and his friends approve.

* StepfordSmiler: The duet between Lucrèce and Mishima reveals that behind their jovial and blasé attitude towards suicide is that they suffer immense guilt, depression, and unsurprisingly, suicidal thoughts from providing the public the means to go forward with ending their lives. The latter even nearly attempts to poison himself before Lucrèce wakes up just in time to stop him.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The Tuvaches might make a lving selling methods of suicide, but they draw the line at actually assisting in the dirty deed.

** Marilyn character was at the core of an entire subplot cut for the movie. In the novel, for her birthday and since she felt "useless", her parents bought her a special product that would make her kiss venomous and they opened a deadly kissing booth in the shop so that clients could die from a "Death Kiss". This helped Marilyn become a proud BigBeautifulWoman and opening up to her true beauty and sexiness, but turned out sour when she found true love and understood she would never been able to kiss him. [[spoiler: All turned out fine however thanks to Alan's meddling.]]

** As children, Marilyn and Vincent were tasked to follow the clients then inform their parents if an attempted suicide was successful, and so they have both become numb to the concept of suicide and death in general, that as teenagers in the present, repeatedly express a desire to kill themselves, Marilyn especially. Subverted when at the same time, as children, they express that watching suicides is "no fun," [[spoiler:which may explain why they were easily reformed once the titular shop got ruined and have no choice but to spend time with their family.]]

** As children, Marilyn and Vincent were tasked to follow the clients then inform their parents if their attempted suicide was successful, and so they have both become numb to the concept of suicide and death in general, that as teenagers in the present, repeatedly express a desire to kill themselves, Marilyn especially. Subverted when at the same time, as children, they express that watching suicides is "no fun," [[spoiler:which may explain why they were easily reformed once the titular shop got ruined and have no choice but to spend time with their family.]]

* {{Bowdlerisation}}: Possibly. The above description about the distant future and "the Big One" mostly describes the original book while this version merely implies it. In fact, it seems to be set in the present era, which you could justify as a CrapsackWorld.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to the animated film's official art book, Alan's friends apparently do have names, though they're only named [[TheDanza after their voice actors]]. The [[FatBestFriend corpulent one]] is Mathis, [[NerdGlasses the one with the glasses]] is Jules, [[AmbiguouslyBrown the brown-skinned one]] is Simon, and [[BlondBrunetRedhead the redheaded one is named Samuel]].

* BlondBrunetRedhead: Alan and his friends coincidentally consist of this, albeit with two redheads (ginger-haired Alan and copper-haired Samuel), two brunets (black-haired Mathis and chestnut-haired Simon), and one blond (dirty blond-haired Jules).

* AllThereInTheManual: According to the animated film's official art book, Alan's friends apparently do have names, although they're only named [[TheDanza after their voice actors]]. The [[FatBestFriend corpulent]] one is named Mathis, [[NerdGlasses the one with the glasses]] is named Jules, [[AmbiguouslyBrown the slight dark-skinned one]] is named Simon, and [[BlondBrunetRedhead the redhead is named Samuel]].

* BlondBrunetRedhead: Alan and his friends coincidentally consist of this, albeit with two redheads (ginger-haired Alan and copper-haired Samuel), two brunets (black-haired Mathis and mousy-haired Simon), and one blond (dirty blond-haired Jules).

* FourthDateMarriage: Breton for Marilyn's hand in marriage before even knowing her name.

** Alan's friends who are simply credited as "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Alan's friends (Les Copains d'Alan)]]".

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Alan's friend's uncle--called Uncle Dom--helps Alan and the kids with the car that blasts out electronic dance music from the car so loud and powerful, it destroys every gear in the shop. The ensuing chaos also causes Marilyn and Breton to share a dance and fall in love.
** Speaking of whom, [[spoiler: Breton's crepes also help in transforming the shop into a restaurant by the end of the movie despite just appearing by the latter third into the movie.]]

** The young man Marilyn falls in love with was also much more developped in the novel. There, he was the caretaker of the local cemetery and had frequent interactions with the Tuvaches thanks to them being invited several times to the funerals of their clients. He also had a name, Ernest (which was one of the reasons Mishima gladly welcomed him in the family).

** The entire character of Vincent Tuvache was simplified for the movie and his subplot in the novel completely dropped. In the movie he is simply a morbid and complaining teenager with little personality or involvment in the plot. In the novel, he was the most loved of the Tuvache children due to being a self-destructive MadArtist. Suffering from anorexia (understand here a deep hate of food) and painful chronic headaches, he spent his days locked up in his room, experiencing awful nightmares and building disturbing projects (one entire chapter is centered around a maquette he makes for an AmusementParkofDoom centered around suicide). Alan's influence in his life made him deal with his nightmares, gain a love for food and learn about things such as "jokes" and "fun", until he became a cheerful, chubby and jolly young man using his art to help people laugh. All of this was dropped for the movie, though there are remnants of the novel characterization - such as the dark and morbid drawings Vincent makes in the movie.

* AdaptationDistillation: Marilyn attempting to inject poison into her veins to gain a KissOfDeath is not present here, nor is Vincent's anorexia and chronic pain.

** The film dispenses with the book's scene of Alan's parents trying to dispel his optimism by having him join a suicide bomb squad.

** Marilyn character was at the core of an entire subplot cut for the movie. In the novel, for her birthday and since she felt "useless", her parents bought her a special product that would make her kiss venomous and they opened a deadly "kissing booth" in the shop. This helped Marilyn become a proud BigBeautifulWoman and opening up to her true beauty and sexiness (something done in the movie with Alan's gift of a [[BellyDancer silk handkerchief]]), but turned out sour when she found true love and understood she would never been able to kiss him. [[spoiler: All turned out fine however thanks to Alan's meddling.]]

** The young man Marilyn falls in love with was also much more developped in the novel. There, he was the caretaker of the local cemetery and had frequent interactions with the Tuvaches thanks to them being invited several times to the funerals of their clients.

* RunningGag: [[RuleOfThree Done three times]], no less. Marilyn, as a little girl, being thrown off of her chair whenever her dad suddenly opens the cellar door.

* AdaptationDistillation: Marilyn attempting to inject poison into her veins to gain a KissOfDeath is not present here.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book, Alan is described as having curly blond hair, but in here, he has spiky, ginger hair.

** Alan for Alan Turing

** Vincent for Creator/VincentVanGogh

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Alain actually commits suicide in the book, implied to be because [[ButNowIMustGo he feels he has nothing more to do.]] The movie has him live to see how happier everyone has become because of his efforts.]]

** Same with Alan's friends who are simply credited as "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Alan's friends (Les Copains d'Alan)]]".