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4	''Leprechaun Returns'' is a 2018 Creator/{{SyFy}} original movie that serves as a sequel to the classic comedy horror film ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}''. The film is about Lubdan the Leprechaun terrorizing a college sorority after one of them woke him up by yelling into the same well where he supposedly died back in 1993. Yet another reboot of the ''Leprechaun'' film series, but many viewers found this movie a lot more faithful to the original film series (Leprechaun 1, 2, 3, In Space, In the Hood, Back 2 tha Hood) than ''Origins'' was, especially regarding the depiction of the titular character.
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6	This is a movie ''all'' about gruesome, bloody killing - so beware of '''SPOILERS'''!! They will not be marked because this is a heavily violent, death-oriented movie or else the whole page will be whited out!
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8	!!I WANT ME TROPES!
9	* TheAllegedCar: The group's Toyota Prius. In real life, it was never known to be quick, but it can keep pace with contemporary traffic. It's portrayed in the film as electric and so slow that Lubdan is able to catch up with it while riding on a camera drone.
10	* AssholeVictim:
11	** Andy, he was a {{jerkass}} who made surprise scares.
12	** Meredith, as she was a DirtyCoward betraying everyone to Lubdan to save her own skin.
13	* BackForTheDead: Ozzie returns just to get killed off in minutes.
14	* BigNo: Ozzie when he realizes Lubdan woke up.
15	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Before decapitating Matt with his drone, Lubdan quips that "audiences love lots of gore".
16	* CanonDiscontinuity: ''Returns'' discards any sequels to the original movie from "Leprechaun 2" to "Back 2 tha Hood" where he went to Las Vegas and outer space by writing in Lubdan didn't wake up since 1993. [[AmbiguousSituation Unless each Leprechaun is a different character except this one.]]
17	* ChestBurster: Happens to Ozzie as Lubdan invokes this.
18	-->'''Lubdan:''' Papa?
19	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The sorority thought that Ozzie was crazy and a weirdo... they later see why.
20	* DealWithTheDevil: When Lubdan gets trapped in a circle of wrought iron, he offers Lila a wish in exchange for his freedom. He further tempts her (using her late mother's voice) that she can use the wish to bring her mother back. Lila declares that she just wishes him dead and shoves a hose into his mouth whilst Rose pumps the hose with clover juice; blowing the leprechaun to gory bits.
21	* DirtyCoward: Meredith admits that she sold Lila out to Lubdan because Lubdan offered to spare her life in exchange for giving up Lila's location. Lubdan points out that he only promised [[ExactWords not to lay his hands on her]].
22	* DramaticIrony: Ozzie tries telling (or miming) to Lila that he was a key witness to Lubdan's initially defeat when a four-leaf clover was slingshotted into his mouth. If you watch the first ''Leprechaun'' movie, you'd know what Ozzie meant. Lila doesn't get any of it.
23	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Lila and Katie succeed in escaping (though Katie's seriously injured from being impaled but fortunately through non-vital organs), Lila's only suffered a few cuts and burns and while Lubdan is still alive he's put off killing and pursuing them so that he can get his gold back. But then you realize that because Lubdan is still alive, he's now on his way to Bismarck to get his gold back. And even with only a tenth of his gold, he's ridiculously dangerous. If he reclaims all his gold, he'll get even more powerful. Or if he DOES get his gold back, he'll have no reason to kill anyone (though he might still want to). Your call whether Lubdan getting back all his gold will be for better or for worse. Though we'll have to wait and see if he does get his gold back or not.
24	* TheEndOrIsIt: Lubdan survived at the end. He hitchhikes a ride on a chicken truck on its way to Bismarck, North Dakota so he can reclaim his gold.
25	* ExactWords: Ludban promised to not lay his hands on Meredith, so he kills her with a long-range method by [[MindOverMatter hitting her with flying sprinklers]].
26	* FriendlyZombie: Ozzie becomes a zombie ghost after the Leprechaun kills him.
27	* GigglingVillain: Ludban returns to this, maliciously giggling at every turn.
28	* GoodLuckCharm:
29	** Ozzie has been carrying giant 4-leaf clovers around him living in constant fear of Lubdan's return.
30	** Lila wears a necklace her mother bestowed on her to protect her from harm (we mean the Leprechaun).
31	* {{Gorn}}: It's a lot gorier than the previous installments.
32	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Lubdan literally splits Andy in half (vertically) between the front and behind.
33	* HateSink: Meredith is a rude, selfish stoner that can't be relied on by her friends and sells them out to save her own skin.
34	* HollywoodDarkness: The house the protagonists are in loses power more than once (due to a popped fuse, a prank, or other sabotages) and the movie takes mostly place at night.
35	* {{Homage}}:
36	** There's one to the shower scene from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
37	** The way Leprechaun is divided into tiny versions is similar to Ash's evil mirror counterpart in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
38	** Whether by coincidence or design, the way the leprechaun is killed (a hose shoved in his mouth, something pumped into his body until he explodes) is similar to how Chucky was killed in ''Film/ChildsPlay2''.
39	** There are also a few nods to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crichton_Leprechaun the Crichton Leprechaun newscast]], including Rose theorizing that he's actually a crackhead who got a bad batch.
40	* HostileHitchhiker: PlayedForLaughs with Lubdan at the end; he holds up a sign saying "BISMARCK OR BUST" waiting for someone to give him a lift. A chicken truck driver comes along and relents to his pleas. Instead of harming the driver, Lubdan just sits and sulks over both his loss of gold and the loud, feathery birds he has to deal with for the remainder of the trip on the back of the pickup.
41	* IWillShowYouX: A tiny Lubdan stabs Rose in her breast with a hammer (the end with a claw), then he mocks "[[Music/MCHammer STOP! Hammer Time]]!"
42	-->'''Rose:''' I'll give you geriatrics some hammer time!
43	* LaserGuidedKarma: Both Rose and Meredith's deaths are karmic. Meredith for being a DirtyCoward selling out everyone else to Lubdan to save her own skin (with Lubdan killing her anyways upon completion of the deal), and Rose for having taken Lubdan's gold to trade it in for cash she planned on using to upgrade the house.
44	* MacGuffin: Lubdan's gold. All that appears in the movie is the pot itself with no more than 20% of the gold Lubdan once had.
45	* MailmanVsDog: One of Lubdan's first victims is a mailman.
46	* OffWithHisHead: How Lubdan greeted the mailman, though rather than decapitation it was by running his head over with his own mail carrier truck. He then decapitates Matthew with his own spy drone. The tiny Lubdans also drop Rose flat-face into a gold shovel-shaped trophy, impaling her in the head.
47	* RevengeOfTheSequel: Lubdan's first intention when he returns? KILL, KILL, KILL!
48	* SequelHook: Lubdan surviving at the end leaves room open for sequels to come. In the older movies, Lubdan kept getting killed at the end.
49	* ShowerScene: Lila has a shower at one point. Lubdan, being the {{Troll}} that he is, silently stalks outside the shower for a few moments and then [[FlushingToiletScreamingShower flushes the toilet]].
50	* SpinOffspring: Lila, the main protagonist of the movie, turns out to be the daughter of Tory Redding (played by Creator/JenniferAniston) who was the protagonist of the original ''Leprechaun'' movie.
51	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ozzie is killed off at the beginning when Lubdan uses his body as his ticket out of the well. Lila has mentioned that her mother Tory Redding has also passed.
52	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It turns out that fighting a bloodthirsty supernatural monster will traumatize you pretty badly, as this movie reveals that Tory spent the rest of her life paranoid about supernatural monsters coming to get her.
53	* TakeThat:
54	** Lubdan retains his shoe-cleaning compulsion. Except if said shoes are Crocs, in which case he'll put them straight in the trash bin.
55	--->'''Lubdan:''' Probably doin' fashion a favor killing that one.
56	** Lubdan sees the gang try to get away in a rather slow electric car. (The sorority girls are shown to be [[GranolaGirl avid about the environment]])
57	--->'''Lubdan:''' That's the car of the future? Shit...
58	* ToneShift: Played with. [[TamerAndChaster There is little nudity]] or [[LighterAndSofter even F-word cussing]] in this movie. There was tons of nudity and profanity back in the original ''Leprechaun'' movies. Curiously, there's still plenty of bloody gore and violence, and ''Returns'' maintains the R rating as did the older movies. If anything, this reboot has a lot of bleeding and slicing to a level not present or absent on-screen in the older movies (which operated on a low budget and so on-screen bloodshed might not have been affordable).
59	* TwistingTheWords: Meredith and Lubdan make a deal: if Meredith sells out everybody else, Lubdan shall not lay a hand on her. Meredith assumes this means Lubdan will spare her life - Lubdan then claims her assumption was wrong, he was being very literal about simply keeping only his hands off of her and [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves stabs her in the mouth with a water sprinkler]].
60	* {{Unreboot}}: After a [[Film/LeprechaunOrigins poorly-received reboot]], ''Returns'' goes back to the original continuity and discards the reboot entirely (along with every sequel to the original film before ''Returns'').
61	* TheVoiceless: Ozzie after he dies and reanimates as a zombie.
62	* ZombieApocalypse: Lubdan now looks like a zombified version of the original Leprechaun played by Warwick Davis.

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