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2	[[caption-width-right:316:"Turn around..."]]
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4	"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 song by Music/BonnieTyler. While the song is a {{Silly Love Song\|s}}, the video is quite different. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo here]].
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6	The song is the {{Trope Namer\|s}} for TotalEclipseOfThePlot.
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10	!!"Total Eclipse of the Tropes":
11	* {{Animal Motif\|s}}: Doves appear for no explained reason.
12	* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Well, boarding school of ''weirdness'', at least.
13	* DramaticWind: It might be easier to find shots where there ''isn't'' a wind machine directed at Bonnie.
14	* TheEighties: The music video consists of just about every single 80s music video tropes.
15	* GlowingEyes: Some of the students, one of whom can ''fly'', literalizing the hook "Turn around bright eyes."
16	* GreaserDelinquents: Some students dance around dressed like this.
17	* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Twofold:
18	** Lyrics-wise: The singer refers to the presence of her lover's "love like a '''shadow'''" over her; that she is "always in the '''dark'''"; and they "are giving off '''sparks'''". In the final verses, she sings about how "there was '''light''' in [her] life", but "now there's only love in the '''dark'''".
19	** In the music video, light sources (the moon, illuminated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).
20	* {{Ninja}}: Some appear in the video.
21	* RandomEventsPlot: Stuff just ''happens'', and no explanation is ever offered.
22	* RuleOfCool: Downplayed, but, it's as good an explanation as any for what is happening here.
23	* SelectiveObliviousness: It isn't until Bonnie encounters the one boy at the end with Glowing Eyes that she gets a sense that something is wrong.
24	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Some boys making a toast with what is clearly wine.
25	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: ''Ninjas'' in a school! Also about 90% of the video, [[LiteralMusicVideo like the angel guy who cops a feel towards the end]].
26	* WingedHumanoid: A boy has large wings.
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