Line #48 WebVideo/Chapel


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Chapel, A Drug Dealer.]]
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5	->''And now, the latest exploits of America's [[Series/BreakingBad third favorite]] [[Series/{{Weeds}} drug dealer]]...''
6	-->--'''Narrator,''' "[[http://vimeo.com/17838187 Inked]]."
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8	''Chapel'' is a monthly web series about a female Wisconsin drug dealer with terrible luck. Ashley Banks (no, not [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir that one]]) [[JustGotOutOfJail gets out of prison,]] and becomes a drug dealer, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname going by the name]] [[OnlyOneName "Chapel."]]
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10	Not to be confused with [[Series/VengeanceUnlimited Mr. Chapel]], [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Chapel The Evergreen]], or [[Webcomic/TheChapelChronicles Chapel Smith]]. Although WordOfGod says she was named after [[Franchise/StarTrek Nurse Chapel]].
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12	This web series is produced by ''WebVideo/ChadVader'' alum Rob Matsushita and Iver Pictures (formerly Claymore Pictures), and can be found [[http://vimeo.com/channels/chapel here]] or on their [[http://www.iverpictures.com official homepage]]. Emily Mills stars as the eponymous Chapel.
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14	Chapel finished its first season in 2010, followed by a second.
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18	!!This web series contains examples of:
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20	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Chapel manages to [[spoiler: decapitate Porter]] with a sword she bought...at Ren Faire.
21	* ActionSurvivor: Arguably Chapel herself.
22	* AllLowercaseLetters: Almost all titles and credits are done in this style.
23	* AntiHero: Chapel may be a Type III.
24	* ArchEnemy: Burke. Full stop.
25	* BackStory: The pilot episode, [[http://vimeo.com/17858996 "Audited."]]
26	* BerserkButton: Lehaney from "Famed" was apparently in "that movie with the pie." No one gets to say more than that when reminding her of it.
27	* BigApplesauce: The first season finale.
28	* BigBad: A few to choose from, but [[spoiler:Burke, after surviving gunshot wounds to the eye and cheek, then sending a delusional psychopath Chapel's way]] seems to rise to the top. Or did, until Mr. Finley showed up during the second season.
29	* BookSafe: A gun is hidden in an encyclopedia in "Complicated."
30	* BountyHunter: [[StealthPun Butch Sauft]], the man who originally caught Chapel. But [[PunchClockHero it wasn't personal]].
31	--> '''Butch:''' Sorry I caught you.
32	--> '''Chapel:''' Sorry I ''ran.''
33	* BreastAttack: "You just SHOT ME IN THE BOOB!!!"
34	* BulletproofVest: Chapel is offered one while gun-shopping in the second season. She buys it before the gun seller can even finish his pitch.
35	* CameraAbuse: Invoked when Yvonne delivers a point-blank shotgun blast.
36	* ChainedToABed: At the beginning of "Guilted," Chapel wakes up to find herself in a wig and dress and tied to a bed. She's arguably more upset about the dress.
37	* CharacterTitle
38	* CoolShades: Part of Chapel's new look for the second season is a pair of vintage Ray-Ban's.
39	* ClickHello: Benny is told by Burke that he was ''never'' Burke's partner, but a ''gift'' for her real partner. Enter [[spoiler: Yvonne]].
40	* ConvenientMisfire: At the end of "Complicated."
41	* CountryMatters: Benny's nickname for Yvonne in "Battered, Part One." [[spoiler: He lives to regret it]].
42	* CreateYourOwnVillain: Not like they were exactly friends before, but [[spoiler: Burke]] gets a whole lot worse when Chapel doesn't kill her quite thoroughly enough.
43	* CriminalProcedural: Chapel herself falls into the Outsiders/Hangers On category.
44	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The pilot episode, "Audited," is shot mostly in black and white.
45	* DidntWantAnAdventure: In Chapel's case, "I could have finished high school..."
46	* DisproportionateReward: In "Jacked, Part Two," mobster Capobianco tells Chapel that he owes her a favor for saving his life, even though Princess, his own daughter, did a lot more work. Lampshaded by Chapel, who points out that she "only shot the one guy," but Princess insists that Chapel take the favor anyway.
47	--> '''Princess:''' Take it. It's kind of a big deal.
48	* DoubleTap: [[spoiler: Burke]] nails a couple of cops at close range with a silenced .25 Colt in "Handcuffed."
49	* EvilLaugh: Burke, but an honorable mention goes to [[http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150155105545597 Yvonne's crazed giggle]] in "Battered, Part Two."
50	* ExtendedDisarming: A {{Mook}} searches Burke for weapons and finds a sword cane and several handguns. A final patdown causes several more small pistols to fall out from Burke's coat, causing the mook to say, "Jesus. I just started patting her down and she gave birth to a gun store."
51	* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Burke]] takes a bullet to the eyeball in "Extremed."
52	* FacialHorror: Burke, and we're finally shown the extent of the damage in "Neutralized." However, it's hinted that [[spoiler: the mob [[WeCanRebuildHim can rebuild her]]]]...
53	* FantasticDrug: Lots. Chapel doesn't seem to deal in any kind of regular street drugs, but instead, bizarre experimental hallucinogens, like "Fourcolor," which makes the world seem like a comic book, or "Dimestore," which reverses the effects of pain.
54	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Chapel manages to save Yvonne's life, but it doesn't matter--Yvonne still wants revenge.
55	--> '''Chapel:''' Are we cool?
56	--> '''Yvonne:''' Is my brother still dead? ({{Beat}}.) Then I guess we're not cool.
57	* FirstPersonSmartass
58	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The episode "Inked" is done in motion comic format.
59	* FreezeFrameBonus: Going frame-by-frame through the shot of the "Won't It Rule" webpage has a few extra jokes, including a [[ShoutOut Shout Out]] to the creators of WebVideo/ChadVader.
60	* GirlsWithGuns: Um, ''yeah.''
61	* GroinAttack: Female-on-female example, when Chapel kicks Stone in the groin in the episode "Handcuffed."
62	* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: In "Extremed," when [[spoiler: Burke literally has to bite a bullet: "What if it goes off in my mouth?"]] [[LampshadeHanging "That's impossible! You know how unlucky you would have to be?"]]
63	* HowWeGotHere: Used in "Complicated," "Battered, Part One," and "Handcuffed."
64	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: In "Matched," Chapel gets the drop on Burke, who tells her, "Chapel, if you kill me, you will be just like me."
65	--> '''Chapel:''' "No, I'll be just as bad as you. There's a difference."
66	* IKEAWeaponry: Burke assembles one of these in the season one finale. It's the exact same gun used in the movie ''Film/InTheLineOfFire''. [[spoiler: However, it falls apart (being made of plastic and all) when she tries to use it on Chapel.]]
67	* ImportantHaircut: In "Audited," after being grabbed by her hair several times during fights, Chapel gets her hair cut very short. It's more practical than symbolic.
68	* ItGetsEasier: Chapel says this almost exactly in "Famed."
69	--> '''Chapel:''' "I've killed people, you know. Doing this. And the scariest fucking thing about it to me is that every single time [[ItGetsEasier it gets a little bit easier to live with.]] But [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I would kill twice as many people]] just to have [[GrassIsGreener your problems instead of mine..."]]
70	* ItsWhatIDo: Butch responds with this exact phrase when Chapel asks why his research on her was...oddly specific.
71	* LegionOfDoom: Pretty much the story of "Inked."
72	* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler: Burke and Benny's]] gambit during "Guilted."
73	* KickTheDog: In "Famed," when [[spoiler: former movie star Lehaney]] realizes that she's dying, she begs Chapel for help. Chapel's response? [[spoiler: She watches Lehaney bleed out, then takes pictures of her dead body to sell to the press.]]
74	* MortalWoundReveal: [[spoiler: The knife sticking out of Lehaney's chest]] in "Famed."
75	* NeverFoundTheBody: In "Famed:"
76	-->'''Chapel:''' Whoop-dee-hell, you saw four dead bodies. Doesn't make you [[ShoutOut Zoe Bell.]]
77	-->'''Lehaney:''' Don't exaggerate. There weren't ''four'' dead bodies.
78	-->'''Chapel:''' ...[[OhCrap What]]?
79	* NoodleIncident: We never do find out why Burke needed a bullet wound in "Extremed." When asked directly in a flashback, she simply says, [[HandWave "That's not important."]]
80	* NotHerself: In "Guilted," a flashback (told from another character's point of view) shows Chapel behaving very strangely indeed, even commenting that she has to go to a party, because she has "handsome men to impress." Hearing this, Chapel even lampshades it. Later, we find out [[spoiler: that the person telling the story was given faulty information, and that the drug dealer in the story isn't Chapel at all, but ''Burke.'']]
81	* OnTheNext: Done as motion typography using just dialogue from the next episode, along with the title.
82	* PregnantHostage: Who'd have thought it'd be [[spoiler: Burke]]?
83	* PreviouslyOn: Even the ''pilot'' had one when it was first uploaded, but this was cut when new viewers who hadn't seen the original shorts [[LateArrivalSpoiler found it to be filled with spoilers]].
84	* PrivateEyeMonologue
85	* PutOnABus: Labyrinth decides to leave town to see [[spoiler: her and Chapel's mother]]. Labyrinth even goes so far as to say "put me on a bus, I'm outta here!"
86	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Burke's [[spoiler: pregnancy]] was a result of her actress, Kelly Maxwell, [[spoiler: being eight months pregnant during the shooting of the episode]].
87	* RedRightHand: Burke has a creepy half-mask that she sometimes puts makeup on.
88	* RevolversAreJustBetter: When buying a gun in "Loaded," Chapel picks a customized Smith & Wesson .44 magnum, naming this trope for the reason.
89	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Chapel says to [[spoiler: her mother]], "[[spoiler: Dad]] said you were dead."
90	-->[[spoiler: '''Christine Church]]:''' "Yeah, well, [[spoiler: your father]]'s a douchebag."
91	* ScaryShinyGlasses: Grocer's aviators in "Karated." Chapel's own Ray-Ban's are also a variant.
92	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Yvonne seems to prefer using one in more than one episode.
93	* ShoutOut: So many that they got their [[http://vimeo.com/20153422 own movie]], which is [[http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ also]] a ShoutOut.
94	* ShurFineGuns: Will seems to be carrying at least one of these (if not two) in "Extremed."
95	* [[spoiler: SiblingYinYang:]] Crazy theater girl Labyrinth is revealed to be [[spoiler: Chapel's little sister]].
96	* StylisticSuck: Lehaney reading from a movie script in "Famed." It's basically the same opening monologue from "Complicated," with a few cheesy lines thrown in.
97	* SwordCane: Burke alludes to having one in season one and finally uses it in season two.
98	* TagAlongActor: The premise of the episode "Famed:" Lehaney, a once-famous actress, follows Chapel around to research for a possible upcoming role as a drug dealer in a gritty crime drama.
99	* TerribleTrio: Burke, Stone, and Yvonne team up to kill Chapel in "Inked." Burke seems to be the brains, Yvonne the beauty, and Stone the muscle, but these roles are a bit subjective.
100	* TheStinger: Almost every episode has one.
101	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: When Chapel returns to [[spoiler: save Yvonne]] in "Battered, Part Two."
102	--> "Forgot my purse."
103	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Ronny's death]] in "Famed."
104	* TimeSkip: Between Season One and Two.
105	* TriggerHappy: At first, Burke seems to [[DoesntLikeGuns not like guns at all]], but after getting [[spoiler: shot through the eye]], she develops a pretty major gun fetish.
106	* UnknownRival: Chapel isn't even aware that [[spoiler: Burke is still alive]] until the episode "Inked."
107	* VerbedTitle: Every episode.
108	* WakingUpElsewhere: When Chapel has to get out of town at the end of "Inked," Butch Sauft [[TapOnTheHead punches her out.]] She wakes up to see [[spoiler: the Statue Of Liberty. Right next to her.]]
109	* WeMeetAgain: Subverted. A female {{Mook}} says this to Princess. [[spoiler: Princess blows the mook's brains out before she can say anything else, however.]]
110	* WeWillMeetAgain: Burke says this a lot.
111	* WhyWontYouDie: Yvonne says this to Chapel in "Inked." Also counts as a PunctuatedForEmphasis.
112	--> '''Chapel:''' "Offhand, I'd say it's because YOU SUCK AT KILLING ME!!!"
113	* WorthyOpponent: Burke says this to Chapel in "Matched."

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