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* MagnificentBitch (1983 film): [[CoolCar Christine]] is portrayed in the film as [[NighInvulnerability an indestructible car]] who has had a mind of her own from the moment she came off the assembly line. With a possessive love for her new owner Arnie Cunningham, Christine plays hit songs over the radio to communicate with him, while scaring off anyone who threatens their relationship. When she's nearly destroyed by Arnie's bullies, Christine uses her [[HealingFactor healing powers]] to regenerate from the damage, then creatively chases down and [[KickTheSonOfABitch massacres the entire gang]]. When Arnie's friend Dennis challenges her to a duel, Christine accepts, putting up a fierce fight against a tanker and regenerating whenever she seems about to lose. When Arnie is killed trying to stop Dennis, Christine mourns him and mounts a final attack on Dennis and Leigh to avenge his death, and even as she goes down, she taunts them that they will never be rid of her.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The first third of the novel is in the first person. At that point, our narrator gets sidelined -- and apparently Creator/StephenKing didn't realize this was going to be a ''problem'' until he finished the chapter. So, the next third is in the third-person...
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* {{Narm}}: It takes a while before we find out exactly what Buddy did to Christine that was so horrible - and Leigh's reaction makes one think of mutilated babies and the like. It turns out he took a dump on the windscreen, which is bound to prompt an ActuallyPrettyFunny reaction.
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* {{Narm}}: It takes a while before we find out exactly what Buddy did to Christine that was so horrible - and Leigh's reaction makes one think of mutilated babies and the like. It turns out he took a dump on the windscreen, which is bound to prompt an ActuallyPrettyFunny amused reaction.
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** Even setting aside her supernatural powers, Christine herself is a simply gorgeous, badass classic car. In fact, the film may have ''made'' the '58 Plymouth a classic; in real life, it'd been largely forgotten by 1983.
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** Even setting aside her supernatural powers, Christine herself is a simply gorgeous, badass classic car. In fact, the film may have ''made'' ''[[TheRedStapler made]]'' the '58 Plymouth a classic; in real life, it'd been largely forgotten by 1983.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Arnie manages to fight off possession in the final act of the novel. He was with his mother in the car. Did her presence prompt him to fight [=LeBay=]'s influence?]].
** Considering how unsympathetic Arnie's mother is portrayed in the novel, this is borderline SugarWiki/VillainWhitewashingService.
** Considering how unsympathetic Arnie's mother is portrayed in the novel, this is borderline SugarWiki/VillainWhitewashingService.
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* TheWoobie: Dennis, who been friends with Arnie since childhood, becomes this after Arnie spends more time away from Dennis after getting Christine, especially when he is recuperating in a hospital after a football injury.
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* TheWoobie: Dennis, who who's been friends with Arnie since childhood, becomes this after Arnie spends more time away from Dennis after getting Christine, especially when he is recuperating in a the hospital after a football injury.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu384gsCDAk This scene]] where Christine is on fire. The quality of the effects is what made it such a frightening scene.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu384gsCDAk This scene]] where Christine is on fire. The quality of the effects is what made it such a frightening scene. Kudos to stuntman Terry Leonard, who had to drive the burning car while peering out a small clear space in the darkened windshield.
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* EvilIsCool:
** Even setting aside her supernatural powers, Christine herself is a simply gorgeous, badass classic car. In fact, the film may have ''made'' the '58 Plymouth a classic; in real life, it'd been largely forgotten by 1983.
** And setting aside the fact that Buddy Repperton is an intolerable {{Jerkass}}, your average teenage boy (especially in 1983) would probably not mind being seen as a knife-toting rebel with a sharp leather jacket who cruises around town with his friends in a [[Music/TheDeadMilkmen bitchin' Camaro]] drinking beer and listening to Music/TheRollingStones.
** Under Christine's influence, Arnie starts dressing sharper and looking cooler. It stops being appealing when he goes off the deep end, though.
** Even setting aside her supernatural powers, Christine herself is a simply gorgeous, badass classic car. In fact, the film may have ''made'' the '58 Plymouth a classic; in real life, it'd been largely forgotten by 1983.
** And setting aside the fact that Buddy Repperton is an intolerable {{Jerkass}}, your average teenage boy (especially in 1983) would probably not mind being seen as a knife-toting rebel with a sharp leather jacket who cruises around town with his friends in a [[Music/TheDeadMilkmen bitchin' Camaro]] drinking beer and listening to Music/TheRollingStones.
** Under Christine's influence, Arnie starts dressing sharper and looking cooler. It stops being appealing when he goes off the deep end, though.
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* ValuesDissonance: Dennis' father calls Arnie a "good white boy," which goes completely unchallenged by the narration. Also ValuesResonance, as it's in the context of Arnie getting a slap on the wrist for smuggling untaxed cigarettes- the implication being that if he was black he'd face a much harsher sentence.
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* ValuesDissonance: Dennis' father calls Arnie a "good white boy," which goes completely unchallenged by the narration. Also ValuesResonance, ValuesResonance in the sense of being an observation on racism, as it's in the context of Arnie getting a slap on the wrist for smuggling untaxed cigarettes- the cigarettes--the implication being that if he was black he'd face a much harsher sentence.
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* HarsherInHindsight : Our hero getting his leg shattered, the same way King would later on...
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The first third of the novel is in the first person. At that point, our narrator gets sidelined -- and apparently Stephen King didn't realize this was going to be a ''problem'' until he finished the chapter. So, the next third is in the third-person...
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The first third of the novel is in the first person. At that point, our narrator gets sidelined -- and apparently Stephen King Creator/StephenKing didn't realize this was going to be a ''problem'' until he finished the chapter. So, the next third is in the third-person...
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* StealthPun: Christine doesn't actually belong to [=LeBay=] for most of the books, but the words ''his unending fury'' can also be read as ''his unending Fury''. Which she is.
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*** In the home video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literal way.
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*** In the home video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literal way. Likewise, a few years later, he will end voicing another main character [[Anime/CannonBusters kicking ass with his car]].
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*** In the TV Asahi version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YokuShioya, who previously voiced [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Cosmo Yuki]], another hero who have to deal with another killer sentient machine, except replace "killer car" with "OmnicidalManiac [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet-busting]] [[{{Mecha}} giant robot]]".
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*** In the TV Asahi version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YokuShioya, who previously voiced [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Cosmo Yuki]], another hero who have to deal with another killer sentient machine, except replace "killer car" with "OmnicidalManiac "[[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet-busting]] [[{{Mecha}} giant robot]]".
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* FreudianExcuse: Regina Cunningham's childhood and parents were orders of magnitude worse than Arnie's, and the habits she developed to survive them made her a bully to her husband and son as an adult. Since this had results that she considered positive for them (Arnie's excellence in school, etc.), she thought this was a good thing. It was only after she'd already thoroughly botched the Christine situation that she realized how maladaptive it really was.
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*** In the home video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
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*** In the home video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally literal way.
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*** In the TV Asahi version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YokuShioya, who previously voiced [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Cosmo Yuki]], another hero who have to deal with another killer sentient machine, except replace "killer car" with "killer [[{{Mecha}} giant robot]]".
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*** In the TV Asahi version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YokuShioya, who previously voiced [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Cosmo Yuki]], another hero who have to deal with another killer sentient machine, except replace "killer car" with "killer "OmnicidalManiac [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet-busting]] [[{{Mecha}} giant robot]]".
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*** In the hom video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
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*** In the hom home video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
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** In the Japanese dub [[DuelingDubs for home video]], Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
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** In the The Japanese dub of the film, which was [[DuelingDubs dubbed twice]] has this for home video]], Arnie's voice actors:
*** In the TV Asahi version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YokuShioya, who previously voiced [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Cosmo Yuki]], another hero who have to deal with another killer sentient machine, except replace "killer car" with "killer [[{{Mecha}} giant robot]]".
*** In the hom video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
*** In the TV Asahi version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YokuShioya, who previously voiced [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Cosmo Yuki]], another hero who have to deal with another killer sentient machine, except replace "killer car" with "killer [[{{Mecha}} giant robot]]".
*** In the hom video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Roland ''[=LeBay=]'' sells his used junky car. Not at all related to ''[=eBay=].''
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** Roland ''[=LeBay=]'' sells his used junky car. Not at all related to ''[=eBay=].''''
** In the Japanese dub [[DuelingDubs for home video]], Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
** Roland ''[=LeBay=]'' sells his used junky car. Not at all related to ''[=eBay=].
** In the Japanese dub [[DuelingDubs for home video]], Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literally way.
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** Which in turn leads to a BrokenBase, since some consider it strengthens the coding of Christine as a toxic significant other and removes the borderline-incomprehensible and convoluted relationship between [=LeBay=], Arnie, and Christine in favor for a much simpler and emotionally resonant dynamic between Christine and Arnie.
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** Christine's first (more or less) kill wouldn't have been the SugarWiki/AwesomeMoment it was without "Moochie Mix Four" playing in the background.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: You'd think if King wanted to sideline Dennis through injury, he could possibly use the evil car that has a motive for wanting him dead do it (especially since it's been foreshadowed throughout act one), but instead he's randomly taken out in a pointless football game.
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* ValuesDissonance: Dennis' father calls Arnie a "good white boy," which goes completely unchallenged by the narration.
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* ValuesDissonance: Dennis' father calls Arnie a "good white boy," which goes completely unchallenged by the narration. Also ValuesResonance, as it's in the context of Arnie getting a slap on the wrist for smuggling untaxed cigarettes- the implication being that if he was black he'd face a much harsher sentence.
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* FreudianExcuse: Regina Cunningham's childhood and parents were orders of magnitude worse than Arnies, and the habits she developed to survive them made her a bully to her husband and son as an adult. Since this had results that she considered positive for them (Arnie's excellence in school, etc.), she thought this was a good thing. It was only after she'd already thoroughly botched the Christine situation that she realized how maladaptive it really was.
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* FreudianExcuse: Regina Cunningham's childhood and parents were orders of magnitude worse than Arnies, Arnie's, and the habits she developed to survive them made her a bully to her husband and son as an adult. Since this had results that she considered positive for them (Arnie's excellence in school, etc.), she thought this was a good thing. It was only after she'd already thoroughly botched the Christine situation that she realized how maladaptive it really was.
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* FreudianExcuse: Regina Cunningham's childhood and parents were orders of magnitude worse than Arnies, and the habits she developed to survive them made her a bully to her husband and son as an adult. Since this had results that she considered positive for them (Arnie's excellence in school, etc.), she thought this was a good thing. It was only after she'd already thoroughly botched the Christine situation that she realized how maladaptive it really was.
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* ValuesDissonance: Dennis' father calls Arnie a "good white boy," which goes completely unchallenged by the narration.
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** Considering how unsympathetic Arnie's mother is portrayed in the novel, this is borderline SugarWiki/VillainWhitewashingService.
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** Christine's first (more or less) kill wouldn't have been the SugarWiki/AwesomeMoment it was without [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPwo6EJuB0&feature=related Moochie Mix Four]] playing in the background.
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** Christine's first (more or less) kill wouldn't have been the SugarWiki/AwesomeMoment it was without [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPwo6EJuB0&feature=related Moochie "Moochie Mix Four]] Four" playing in the background.
