Ahhh Shit Its the Crow All Over Again

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"Buildings fire, people die...but existent love is forever."

The Crow, released in 1994, is a Cult Archetype adapting James O'Barr's comic book of the same name for the silver screen. David J. Schow and John Shirley wrote the screenplay, Alex Proyas directed, and Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee) starred in what would be his final role.

A year after a group of gang-bangers kill him and his fiancée on their wedding night, Eric Draven (Lee) rises from his grave to extract revenge. Now invulnerable and super-powered, he hunts down and slaughters his murderers with the aid of a crow that serves equally his Magical Guide. Forth the manner, he befriends a local beat cop, Albrecht (Ernie Hudson), and reconnects with a troubled local teen, Sarah (Rochelle Davis), forcing him to retrieve that there was more to life than hatred.

While the film is notable for its stylish activity, gothic art direction and energetic industrial soundtrack, it'south destined to be forever overshadowed by the tragic accidental on-set death of Brandon Lee by a failed special effect.

The moving picture proved to be a hit and was followed by a sequel, The Crow: City of Angels, two spin-off films, The Crow: Salvation and The Crow: Wicked Prayer, and a Goggle box series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven that returns Eric Draven to life (with a new actor) to serve as protagonist.

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This film contains examples of the post-obit tropes:

• Abnormal Ammo: Eric Draven blows up Gideon'southward pawnshop by spilling gasoline all through information technology and firing a blast from a shotgun he'd blimp with dozens of pawned/stolen rings (although it did have a normal charge in it likewise).
• Player Allusion: Ernie Hudson asks if Eric is a ghost.
• Adapted Out:
  • The Skull Cowboy. Scenes with him were filmed, only they ended up on the cut room flooring.
  • Tom-Tom, another member of the gang, was omitted and his role transferred to Skank, who was a minor thug in the comic.
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • Eric and Shelly aren't the random victims of a drive-by offense here. Instead, they are brutalized and killed later Shelly protests confronting wrongful tenant relocation.
  • Top Dollar was changed from just beingness a low-level drug dealer to being a twisted crime overlord with the gang as his hit squad and Myca and Grange backing him upward.
  • Sherri in the comic book becomes Sarah in the movie, and has a much larger part. She was friends with Eric and Shelly while they were live, and at the climax of the moving-picture show Eric has to save her life when she is threatened by Peak Dollar and Myca. Sarah's drug-addicted female parent (now called Darla) is much the aforementioned character in the comic, but a scene shows her having turned over a new leaf afterward Eric confronts her over her fail of Sarah, and hints a reconciliation between mother and daughter.
  • A lot of drama was added to the climax, dissimilar in the comic where Eric just rampages unstoppably through the criminal underworld. On the other hand, Tom-Tom was removed, Funboy was given a much smaller part and any scenes of Eric in the afterlife were excised.
• Accommodation Proper noun Alter: Sherri became Sarah in the film, in add-on to her increased role. Probably considering there'southward another character chosen Shelly and "Sherri" sounds far too similar.
• Adaptational Heroism: Eric Draven is more human and less amoral than his comic book counterpart.
• Adaptational Chore Change: Eric was a mechanic in the comic. In the film, he was made a stone musician as a nod to James O'Barr's musical influences.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Sarah. Justified in that she lives in a gritty underworld and no one takes care of her, so she has to become by on her own.
• Agony Axle: Eric defeats Top Dollar with this trope by Agony Effulgent his fiancée'southward experience of being gang raped, beaten and dying from her injuries over 30 hours later into Top Dollar'due south heed, rendering him incapacitated and vulnerable to the final accident.
• Alas, Poor Villain: T-Bird pretty much loses his mind when he recognizes Eric and realizes how far he's come. "At that place ain't no comin' back," indeed. David Patrick Kelly's performance makes it surprisingly moving.
• All There in the Script: Elevation Dollar, Myca, and Grange are never named in the actual picture show itself.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees:
  • Devil's Night is a real thing in Detroit. Things have gotten better in the 21st century, thanks in large part to customs groups that formed specifically to prevent the arsons, in an effort known equally "Angel'due south Night".
  • T-Bird mentions Lake Erie one time caught on fire "from all the crap floating around in it". This is not far from reality. In the 1960s 2 rivers which flow into Lake Erie, Rouge and Cuyahoga, were then polluted that they caught on fire several times.
• Animal Eye Spy: Eric Draven has among his powers the ability to encounter through the eyes of the title bird.
• Arc Words: "It can't rain all the time."
• Arch-Enemy: Eric Draven has Top Dollar, the crime boss who had him and his fiance murdered.
• Ascended Extra:
  • In the comic, there's that ane little girl whom Eric helps that has a name similar to his expressionless fiancee'southward. She gets a name change (Sarah), a big role in the picture (the bestest buddy of Shelly and Eric), and her mom's involvement with Funboy is upped. From there, she becomes the beloved involvement in the sequel and in one case once more is in the series.
  • Tiptop Dollar was a pretty minor villain in the comic and dies pretty early on. In the moving-picture show, he's the Large Bad.
• Award-Bait Vocal: "It Can't Rain All the Fourth dimension" by Jane Siberry.
• Badass Avowal: This exchange with Albrecht.
• Badass Longcoat: Eric takes information technology off Tin can Tin and sets it aside when he finishes the goons off...and later it's filled with holes from about five hundred bullets.
• Badass in a Overnice Suit: Height Dollar is well dressed, even as he throws down with Eric.
• Barbarian Longhair: Eric has a heavy metal mane. Interestingly, in the comic he had a mullet, but subsequent re-editions made his hair longer.
• Bare-Handed Bract Block: Eric used this technique to catch a knife thrown at his caput, after dodging one such knife and deflecting a 2d.
• Battle in the Rain: Despite being gear up in a metropolis of perpetual rain, this only happens during the climatic fight between Peak Dollar and Draven.
• Boxing Trophy: Eric Draven's Badass Longcoat is taken off Can Tin can, the very first target of his Roaring Binge of Revenge. He afterward takes Funboy and T-Bird's guns.
• Exist Careful What Y'all Wish For: From Myca to Top Dollar, subsequently he wished he was hungry again.

  Myca: Exist careful what you ask for.

  Top Dollar: Yeah, or you may get it, I know.

• Beware the Nice Ones: Eric was a kind person when alive and however has much of the aforementioned personality, sharing a moment of vulnerability with Officer Albrecht and very happy to come across Sarah again. He is also a super-powered vigilante who has no issue slaughtering dozens of mooks in one go.
• Big Bad: Elevation Dollar reveals he was behind everything almost the end. He ordered Eric and Shelly's murders, and even started Devil's Night in the offset identify.
• Big Damn Hero: Albrecht. Just as Grange is about to kill the raven, and by extension, Eric, Albrecht bursts in with a shotgun, has a firefight with Grange and manages to pump 2 rounds into his chest. Unfortunately, he is shot by Myca soon later and is downward, simply survives.
• Blackness Dude Dies First: Technically Eric and Shelley dice first but this flick follows the spirit of the trope and Tin-Tin, the one black member of T-Bird's posse, is the first to die. When the climactic battle starts, Grange is the first ane to become down - shot, ironically, past the other black guy.
• Blame Game: Skank does this when he realizes the reason why Eric wants him dead.

  Skank: It'southward non off-white! It was Funboy's fault. That boy was outta command! T-bird, he came in at that place, (whistles) "Waste 'em both". At present this ghost'due south gonna kill my ass, adjacent!

• Blood-Stained Drinking glass Windows: Afterward a shootout within, the final fight takes place on the roof of a neo-Gothic church, in a rainy dark, overlooking the graveyard.
• Boom, Headshot!: Eric kicks off the battle with Top Dollar's goons by shooting one of them in the head while under the tabular array.
• Bottomless Magazines: In a especially egregious example, during the shootout with the gangsters, Eric manages to fire several dozen bullets each from a pair of revolvers.
• Suspension Out the Museum Slice: Height Dollar is a collector of antiquarian weapons, and he uses a rapier to execute Gideon. Eric likewise steals a katana from his collection while in the midst of mowing through his goons.
• Bring It:
  • Eric Draven comes into a room looking for Skank. Finding him, he asks Top Dollar for him, and he'll get abroad. When Top Dollar responds in the negative, Draven replies: "Well. I see you've made your decision. At present let'due south come across y'all enforce it."
  • Also, when Eric politely asks Albrecht to shoot him when they get-go come across.
• Brother–Sis Incest: Height Dollar and Myca are one-half-siblings who are open about their sexual relationship and their villainy.
• Brother–Sis Team: Top Dollar and his half-sis, Myca, are in accuse of Summit Dollar's criminal syndicate, and she serves as his counselor on supernatural matters. Considering they're villains, their relationship is openly incestuous.
• Brought Downward to Normal: Eric in the finale after losing his invulnerability. Though he still puts upwardly a good fight against Top Dollar.
• Just for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played with. Tin can-Tin can didn't seem to recognize Eric, nor his description of the rape and murder of his girlfriend Shelly, handwaving it as if he does that stuff all the fourth dimension, but it doesn't stop him from taunting Eric most it. Funboy was the only one Eric didn't bring it upward to, not that it mattered since he killed him in the middle of a morphine bender. T-Bird does remember, but considers information technology aboriginal history, playing the trope somewhat straight. Skank remembers enough to know that he's next after seeing Eric kill T-Bird. Superlative Dollar, seeing as he was the 1 who cleared that building, does remember it vividly only treats it as business concern, snidely apologizing for spoiling Eric and Shelly's wedding plans.
• Calling Card: Eric leaves a crow symbol by the bodies of his victims, usually in blood, but on 1 occasion in fire.
• Calling Parents past Their Name: Sarah calls her mother past name at one signal.

  Sarah: You're interim weird. Did you win the lottery or something, Darla?

• Canon Foreigner: Height Dollar'south henchman Grange and his sis-consort Myca, were created for the motion picture.
• Catch and Render: Eric to Tin-Tin, after dodging his first ii knives. Then he closes in for the kill with this memorable line: "Victims... aren't nosotros all?"
• Chekhov's Gun: By laying hands on Albrecht, Eric is able to psychically absorb every agonizing detail of Shelly's 30 hour ordeal, considering of the fact that Albrecht stayed with her the whole time. Eric bottles information technology upwards until his battle with Top Dollar at the cease, when he lays hands on him and transfers all 30 hours all at one time.
• Cigarette Burns: In a bar scene, T-Bird puts a cigar out on his own natural language for laughs.
• Metropolis Noir: Detroit, in a heightened and stylised manner.
• Climbing Climax: The final fight between Eric and Height Dollar takes place atop the bell belfry of an abased church building.
• Comically Missing the Point: Done on purpose by Top Dollar to prove his lack of concern when Gideon and Grange start tell him nigh the Crow:

  Grange: I saw him too. He had a guitar, and he winked at me before he jumped out of a fourth story window.

  Top Dollar: He winked at you? Musicians!

• The Commissioner Gordon: Officer Albrecht becomes Eric'due south biggest marry. Unfortunately, his aiding a vigilante who is on a murder spree against Top Dollar's gang eventually gets him suspended, at which point he takes a more than active hand in things.
• Composite Character:
  • Officer Albrecht in the comic is a white rookie patrolman, and reports to a black detective by the name of Captain Hook (named after Peter Hook, not the Peter Pan grapheme). If yous're gonna pay for Ernie Hudson, you might as well use him.
  • Top Dollar in the film was likewise sort of a mash-up of several gangster characters from the comic— though his role in the story more often than not stands him in for T-Bird (who, in turn, was relegated to beingness Top Dollar's lieutenant) and turns him from a drug kingpin into an about ludicrously depraved monster.
• Cool Guns:
  • Both the Beretta and Taurus varieties are used. Notably, the bad guys and Eric behave Tauruses, and the cops carry Berettas.
  • Funboy uses a Smith and Wesson stainless steel model 629. Due to a combination of a blank cartridge and a squib-loaded bullet lodged in the butt, this is nigh likely the weapon that killed Brandon Lee.
• Cool Old Guy: Mickey, who runs a hotdog stand across the street from Gideon's pawn shop.
• Cool Sword: Top Dollar has a big brandish of swords. His sword of choice, in the center of the display, is an ornate Royal Rapier. The prop is the same one used for the vi-fingered sword in The Princess Helpmate.
• Crapsack World: The world of Detroit is a nocturnal hellscape of crime and urban disuse.
• Create Your Own Hero: Summit Dollar unwittingly created his ain nemesis when he orders T-Bird'south gang to lay waste to several apartments and murder their residents to create anarchy. He never paid it any second thought until Eric Draven returns from the dead to verbal revenge on his killers.
• Creator Cameo: O'Barr himself appears in the film every bit one of the looters robbing Gideon'south store: he's the long-haired guy with the TV.
• Creepy Cathedral: True to its gothic aesthetic, the final battle betwixt Eric Draven, Tiptop Dollar and his minions takes place in an abandoned cathedral.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Top Dollar is forced to experience all thirty hours of Eric's pain at once, giving him an agonizingly painful and thoroughly deserved demise.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Eric Draven was held upwardly similar this by his murderers earlier being blown out the window. 1 year later, upon returning from the dead to avenge himself and his girlfriend, he goes into one of these as he takes every bullet Tiptop Dollar's gang has to offer in the boardroom. His powers have made him bulletproof, and then this doesn't cease him for long.
• Cultured Badass: Eric Draven, at least while he has crow powers. He'southward a guitar playing undead ninja who quotes Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and William Makepiece Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
• Curb-Stomp Boxing: Every fight Eric is in goes pretty much entirely in his favor due to his powers which both grant him superhuman abilities and heal whatsoever wounds he gets instantly. The only 1 to give him any problem is Top Dollar subsequently Eric has lost his invulnerability.
• Danger Takes a Backseat: The Anti-Hero version, done by Eric to T-Bird.
• Night Chick: Myca is an interesting example. She at first appears to be in the film only for Fanservice, and tends to come off every bit The Ditz considering at beginning she makes a prove of barely being able to speak English ("I like the pretty lights"). But she proves to be a Magical Asian, having night cognition about the occult and black magic that the other gang members can't mayhap sympathise - and information technology is she who divines that the titular black bird following Eric Draven around is the source of his zombie-like power, and virtually helps her half-brother triumph past kidnapping the bird, rendering Eric mortal and capable of haemorrhage when he gets shot.
• Dark Is Non Evil: Eric and Shelley were goths, but otherwise squeamish, normal people. Eric looks particularly menacing in his blackness leather outfit and thin, harlequin-inspired makeup, but he doesn't let revenge stand up in the way of his morals.
• Deadpan Snarker: Eric in Gideon's store. Gideon himself too. And Top Dollar. And Albrecht. You know what, pretty much everybody.
• Deadly Euphemism:
  • "Looks like he zigged when he should've zagged."
  • And later, after T-Bird'due south very grisly vigilante slaying: "They had to ID his teeth."
• Depraved Bisexual: Myca, Acme Dollar's sis and supernatural knowledge banker, is in an incestuous human relationship with him. They have a threesome with a daughter whom they accidentally kill, and Myca decides to take her eyes.
• Destination Defenestration: Eric is sent right out of the window of his and Shelly's apartment later getting shot when he and she are murdered. One of Eric'due south revenge kills serves every bit something of an "eye for an eye" for this namely, Skank, who he sends out a window in the aftermath of the large shootout at Pinnacle Dollar's place.
• Didn't Come across That Coming: Obviously nobody from T-Bird's gang expected they would go viciously murdered by a person they killed i yr agone. Best seen with T-Bird who is deep in denial when he recognizes Eric.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • In the comic, Eric merely shoots Tin can-Tin. In the film, he stabs him with his own blades.
  • In the comic, Eric shoots Gideon. In the moving-picture show, he lets him live so he can tell the bad guys that he's coming for them. And so Top Dollar stabs him in the pharynx, so shoots him.
  • In the comic, Eric kills Skank with a sword. In the movie, he throws him out a window.
  • In the comic, Eric but shoots Height Dollar. In the picture show, he plants Shelley's trauma into his caput, which causes him to fall off a building and get impaled on a gargoyle.
  • In the comics, Eric bludgeons T-Bird to decease with a claw hammer. In the film, he blows him up in his own car.
  • Eric was originally only shot in the head past the goons. In the moving-picture show, he was stabbed, shot and thrown out a window.
  • Eric'south and Shelley's deaths are somewhat reversed. In the comic, Eric is shot and paralyzed and forced to watch Shelley's rape, and after dies in the hospital; Shelley dies during her assault. In the picture show, Eric is killed during the gang'south attack, and Shelley survives her assault to die later in the infirmary.
• Digital Caput Bandy: Brandon Lee's face up was digitally grafted onto a stunt performer'due south body for a small smattering of scenes not yet shot at the fourth dimension of his death. Nearly notable is the Becoming the Mask scene. From the time Eric enters the apartment until the cease of the obligatory "runs along the rooftops" scene, a stunt man was playing Brandon Lee.
• Dirty Coward: Skank. He spends most of his screentime whining or crying. When Eric interrupts Meridian Dollar's reunion, Skank immediately tries to escape by using one of the serving girls as a Human Shield.
• Disc-I Last Boss: T-Bird seems to be the Large Bad, equally the leader of the gang who killed Eric and Shelley, but information technology'southward shown halfway through the film that he works for a crime boss known merely as Elevation Dollar.
• Disney Villain Decease: Subverted when Eric fills Top Dollar's head with "Thirty hours of pain!", causing him to reel backwards and fall off the roof of the cathedral they were fighting on — only to exist impaled on the huge curved horns of a gargoyle half-fashion down.
• Disposable Sexual activity Worker: Judging by Top Dollar'due south comment, "I remember we bankrupt this one," the expressionless adult female in his bed was a random prostitute.
• Dispensable Woman: Shelly exists in the story to be murdered, which provides Eric's motivation to render from the dead as the Crow and avenge her.
• The Don: Top Dollar plainly has authority over all major crime in the urban center.

  Meridian Dollar: Nothing happens in this town without my dominance.

• Donut Mess with a Cop: "So many cops, you'd think they were giving away doughnuts".
• The Dragon: Grange is Elevation Dollar's bodyguard and the one tasked to find out more than data about Eric.
• Dragon Lady: Myca, played by Bai Ling, is a forceful queen of offense and blackness magic who sports a giant, colorful dragon tattoo.
• Dragon Their Feet: Eric kills off the gang who attacked him and Shelly, eventually killing the leader, T-Bird. Skank, his right paw homo, is the terminal fellow member of the gang to dice. While the gang might exist considered a Quirky Miniboss Squad to Top Dollar, they were Eric'south initial targets.
• Dramatic Thunder: The final fight confronting Elevation Dollar takes identify on a church building roof during a thunderstorm. The tempest ends equally The Crow stands victorious...
• Drop Dead Gorgeous: As part of his Establishing Graphic symbol Moment, Top Dollar realizes that the naked woman in his bed died at some indicate in the night. He's unfazed.
• Drugs Are Bad: Sarah'due south mother Darla spends her time shooting upwards with Funboy. Eric cures her of her addiction, tells her that morphine is bad for her and that her daughter is waiting for her. He then proceeds to kill Funboy via overdose.
• Empathic Environment: It finally stops raining subsequently Summit Dollar is dead, and Eric returns to his grave at peace.
• Enemy Mime: Played With and lampshaded when Albrecht facetiously refers to the chalk-faced Eric Draven as "a mime from Hell."
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: The criminal gangs in the diverse movies were pretty ethnically various. Even the brother/sis team in the first film were of different ethnicities (they're half-siblings).
• Fifty-fifty Evil Has Standards: T-Bird appears annoyed by the cluttered crowd in The Pit.

  T-Bird: Look at this mess. What's the world coming to?!

• Evil Plan: Top Dollar seeks burn Detroit to the ground For the Evulz.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Large Bad Pinnacle Dollar is played past Michael Wincott, who has a famously deep voice.
  • His right paw man is also voiced past Tony Todd who possesses a similar voice.
• Eye Scream:
  • Myca has a fondness for eyes. When a prostitute dies in her bed, she decides that he likes the dead girl's eyes and cuts them out. We subsequently see her burning an eyeball in a saucer.
  • Myca's ain optics are later pecked out by Eric'southward crow, causing her to fall to her death.
• Fake Shemp: Since Brandon Lee died in an accident with dummy bullets, they had to use a stand-in for some of the scenes and used CGI to composite Brandon'south face over his. Information technology mostly worked unless you were paying close attention.
• Fat Bastard: Gideon. Mayhap also an incompetent i.
• Faux Affably Evil: Top Dollar commonly has a very amiable disposition, speaking casually about horrible topics and even complimenting Eric before he prepares to kill him. However, his total lack of empathy suggests that he does this simply because he's and then confident in his concord on the metropolis that he doesn't demand to impress anyone.
• Finger in a Butt: Eric plugs Funboy'due south gun barrel with his palm, which he casually fires through. Cue the Oh, Crap! when the bullet hole instantly heals.
• Flaming Emblem: Eric did this using explosives and gasoline to turn T-Bird'south own car into a bomb. When the automobile explodes, a trail of flames spread across the pier in a pattern created by Draven'due south accelerant, creating the crow emblem. This is an interesting case in that the graphic symbol did non really have an emblem in-universe. The emblem was used in marketing and the moving picture's logo.
• For the Evulz: Top Dollar'southward speech well-nigh Devil's Night is about his belief that Devil's Night should be about pointless destruction, not profit.

  Summit Dollar: Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy... now that's fun!

• Four Optics, Nothing Soul: Grange sports a rather stylish pair of circular-frame glasses.
• Freudian Excuse: The villainous Top Dollar brings up his plain abusive male parent several times in the film, ultimately revealing that he's killed him.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Eric is a heroic example. A murdered goth-rocker is resurrected as a superpowerful avenging affections.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Eric Draven's render from the grave gifts him with a healing cistron that prevents him from gaining any new scars - but the scars from the bullet wounds that killed him remain clearly visible on his chest when shirtless.
• Good Thing Y'all Can Heal: Eric'due south default strategy despite his fighting prowess. Officeholder Albrecht even lampshades this when his plan is for Eric to draw the bad guys' fire until they run out of ammo. Too bad his Healing Cistron has been disabled at this point.
• A Good Way to Die: After being done with his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Eric Draven lies confronting his tombstone dying, merely right before decease, he is visited by his lover Shelly's spirit, and he dies fully content that both his revenge was done and that he was reunited with his lost beloved.
• Gothic Punk: The flick exposed millions to the Gothic Punk aesthetic.
• Groin Attack: Where does Eric place the stick of dynamite when he blows upwards T-Bird? Between the legs, of course.
• Guns Akimbo: Eric blasts off with both guns blazing during the boardroom shootout, while Meridian Dollar gets his moment during the church shootout nearly the end of the movie.
• Guttural Growler: Top Dollar, as played by the prodigiously raspy Michael Wincott. Even in other foreign dubs of the moving picture he maintains this kind of voice.
• Healing Factor: Eric seems to possess this ability. Right to the point of making a very bad religious joke in between successive on-target revolver blasts.
• Heel Realization: T-Bird dies quoting (in earnest, this time) Lucifer'due south Heel Realization from Paradise Lost, indicating that he knows he is evil and is absolutely terrified at the prospect of facing divine wrath for all his sins.
• Hell-Aptitude for Leather: Eric wears a whole leather outfit.
• The Hero Dies: Eric Draven returns to the grave after avenging his murder.
• Heroic Mortality: The action in this movie is very reminiscent of Hong Kong Blood Opera. It certainly helps that Brandon Lee's outset movie was a Heroic Mortality flick.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Top Dollar is defeated by the misery he caused to Eric and Shelly.
• Holy Backlight: During the "I practise care" scene in the picture show, with Eric silhouetted by the sun in the big window.
• Homage: The author of the original comic named Eric for Erik, the titular tortured and scared maybe-ghost in The Phantom of the Opera. Shelly was named for Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, some other work of fiction dealing with grief, resurrection, and revenge.
• Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Eric'south death and return from the grave take place on Devil's Night, the night before Halloween.
• "I Am Becoming" Song: The Cure's "Burn" (the moving picture'southward unofficial anthem) thunders on during the sequence where Eric makes himself into the Crow. Interestingly, the lyrics utilise the comic's plot, not the movie's.
• I Think Y'all Broke Him: Said by Pinnacle Dollar when he observes that the woman who'd recently been in a threeway with him and Myca has died. Neither are exactly broken upwards by the realization.
• If We Survive This: Of a sudden finding the gustation of cigarettes disgusting afterward being shot, Albrecht mutters, "I'chiliad quitting as of now. If I alive." This is besides a Call-Back to Draven, a walking dead human being, chuckling after stealing Albrecht'south cigarette, that "You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill ya."
• Immune to Bullets: Since he heals from wounds instantly, bullets have no effect on Eric and do nothing more than slow him downwards slightly.
• Impaled Palm: Eric Draven first demonstrates his regenerating powers by impaling his easily on shards of glass lining the broken window he was thrown through. Later, he lets Funboy shoot him through the palm, and so lookout man as the wound instantly heals.
• Impaled with Farthermost Prejudice: Eric kills Tin-Tin by stabbing all of his major organs. In alphabetical society, no less. Plus, Peak-Dollar is impaled on a gargoyle statue after being thrown off the chapel roof by Eric.
• Improvised Weapon: During his final duel with Top Dollar on the roof of a cathedral, Eric rips off an ornate iron spire to use as an improvised sword confronting Peak Dollar's katana.
• Instant Practiced: Eric's powers seem to make him a skilled marksman and hand to manus combatant despite no implication he had those skills prior.
• In the Dorsum: During Eric and Top Dollar's battle on the church rooftops, Eric is momentarily distracted by a distressed Sarah. Top Dollar takes a inexpensive shot by sneaking up behind him and stabbing Eric through the dorsum with his sword.
• Ironic Repeat: Albrect confronts Eric, proverb "you move and you lot're dead". Based on his current situation, Eric's reply is "I'chiliad dead and I move".
• Irony: Eric is immune to bullets later rising from the dead and laughs virtually how bullets tin't hurt him. Because that Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed during product, this is both sad and ironic.
• Information technology Always Rains at Funerals:
  • Inverted. Information technology'southward raining when Eric crawls out of his grave.
  • Subverted at the terminate of the film subsequently Eric returns to the grave, the rain is easing off when the crow gives Shelly's ring to Sarah. It can't rain all the time, after all.
• Information technology's Snowing Cocaine: Superlative Dollar is seen with a ludicrously large pile of coke from which he occasionally snorts equally he gives directions to his underlings.
• Jerkass: Albrecht'due south superior Jenson.
• Junkie Parent: Sarah spends a lot of time running around unsupervised thank you to her mother's morphine habit. A confrontation with Eric does prompt her to try going make clean and being a parent again.
• But Between You and Me: At the end, crime lord Pinnacle Dollar gives the avenging Eric Draven the speech after he impales him through the back. He admits that he's ultimately responsible for the death of Eric and his girlfriend Shelly, and expresses admiration for what he considered a Worthy Opponent. Equally he gets gear up to slit Eric's throat, Eric gives dorsum what Top Dollar's owed - the combined memories of 30 hours of pain experienced by Shelly as she died on the operating table.
• Karmic Expiry:
  • "I have something for yous. I don't want it anymore".
  • Basically everyone from T-Bird's gang:
    • Tin-Tin, as Pocketknife Nut, is killed by being stabbed by pretty much all of his knives.
    • Fun Boy, an apparently heavy user of morphine, is killed when Eric overdoses him with information technology.
    • T-Bird is diddled up in his own car with explosives he planned to start fires with.
    • Skank is sent out a window, much like he and his buddies did to Eric himself.
  • Myca likes to take eyes. She gets hers pecked out by the crow.
• Katanas Are Just Amend: Top Dollar has an entire chiffonier full of swords, but uses a katana to fight Eric during the climax. Eric grabs one from the cabinet himself during the gang boss massacre. Ironic since Michael Wincott, the actor who plays Top Dollar, is an accomplished fencer in existent life. The trope is somewhat averted earlier in the motion picture, when a rapier (the Six Finger Sword) is shown to be the centrally placed in Top Dollar's sword cabinet, and is selected to kill Gideon.
• Knife Nut: Can-Tin, whose predilection for knives is so smashing, he's the but gangster in all of Detroit who doesn't deport a gun. In a chip of cruel irony, Eric uses these same knives to accept Tin-Tin's life (and his jacket) after chirapsia him in a fight.
• Kubrick Stare: Mail service-mortem Eric Draven is quite fond of this. ◊
• Lack of Empathy: Summit Dollar cares admittedly zippo for the hurting he causes. His only reaction to a lover dying in his bed is, "I think we broke this one." He slaughters Gideon for backtalking him. His little heart-to-heart with Eric in the climax betrays no regret over his actions. He fifty-fifty has no reaction to the death of Myca, his sister and consort.
• Big Ham:
  • Top Dollar, especially in his Motive Bluster scene.
  • Eric himself on occasion, such as when he tortures Gideon for information.
  • T-Bird and his gang.
• Le Parkour: Eric leaps and sprints beyond the city rooftops in ii highly atmospheric scenes.
• Licked past the Domestic dog: During Eric's transformation, he pauses to scratch Gabriel the cat that was left to fend for itself afterwards he and his fiancee were murdered. Gabriel, in plough, licks his hand, evidently recognizing him fifty-fifty later on he's been expressionless and buried for a twelvemonth. (Cats have eyes, and cats have long-term memory, but Draven probable doesn't smell like he used to, besides having put on Harlequin-mask confront pigment.)
• Lighter and Softer: Comparably speaking. The movie is very night, but the graphic symbol is less manically sociopathic than his comic book counterpart, and the violence is less extreme. For example, the film has a touching scene where Eric gives Albrecht a meaningful speech about how "nada is trivial" and how y'all accept to treasure each moment as they come up. In the comic he shoots up drugs and self-mutilates in a frenzy of grief and acrimony, repeatedly.
• Lipstick-and-Load Montage: In a non-comedic male example, Eric has one of these correct earlier going out to avenge his and Shelly's deaths, including putting on the famous blackness and white makeup.
• Looks Like Cesare: Eric doesn't just accept pale skin but besides white facepaint.
• The Lopsided Arm of the Law: Detroit has a one-night surge of arson the cops can't do a thing nigh. A double-murder of a public advocate and her boyfriend rates a couple of squad cars that only show up long after the violence. Start killing off criminals, though, and nosotros have multiple squad cars, a large armed response, a helicopter...
• Madness Mantra: T-Bird's "There ain't no comin' back, there own't no comin' back...." And for him, this was truthful.
• Human of Wealth and Taste: Tiptop Dollar wears very fancy, expensive vintage clothing and keeps an array of antique swords nearby. This contrasts with his mooks who all dress in boilerplate clothing (jeans, jackets, etc.)
• Maybe Magic, Mayhap Mundane:
• Meaningful Echo: "Information technology can't rain all the time".
• Meaningful Name: Eric Draven's surname contains "raven," another blazon of black bird similar to a crow.
• Meta Casting As Himself: O'Barr supposedly based the await of Gideon in the comic on the actor Jon Polito. Jon Polito played the office of Gideon in the film.
• Mexican Standoff: T-Bird and his gang briefly have one amongst themselves while drunk. It ends once T-bird shows he'due south simply playing effectually.
• Mind Rape: Hero on villain case: Eric Draven tin experience the sensations and memories of others through touch. When he picks up from Officer Albrecht what his fiancee Shelly went through earlier she died (thirty hours of surgery and intensive care), he's staggered past it all— though he recovers, as he's already undead and probably quite insane from a certain point of view. He besides demonstrates another ability— to transfer the things he knows through bear upon, which he uses to total retributive outcome on Top Dollar, whose orders were responsible for Shelly getting raped and beaten to expiry, and Eric himself being gunned downwardly. Summit Dollar, who while evil is quite live and mostly sane, proves to be unable to stand "thirty hours of pain," all in ane shot...
• Mood Dissonance: Eric Draven's interactions with the gang that killed him jump sentence-to-sentence between silly jokes and cruel violence.
• Mook Horror Evidence: The much more elaborate re-creation of the shootout on the street from the comic, set this fourth dimension up in Elevation Dollar's penthouse suite to a higher place the nightclub he owns. Unlike in the comic, here Eric doesn't actually want to impale anyone except for Skank, one of his fiancée'due south rapists (all of whom were acting on Top Dollar's orders, but Eric doesn't know this notwithstanding)— and was willing to let everyone else alive, including Top Dollar and Myca, if they would simply hand Skank over to him. Only Top Dollar's extreme arrogance drives him to immediately order Eric's execution— and the inevitable result is what looks like two dozen henchmen being slaughtered either by gunfire, Summit Dollar'southward stash of antique weapons, or just being thrown out the window. Ridiculously, they all keep coming at Eric even when it should be clear that they are absolutely no lucifer for him even when all together, yet lone every bit one or two stubbornly persistent men.
• Named Later on Somebody Famous: Captain Albrecht is named after Bernard Albrecht, ameliorate known as Bernard Sumner of Joy Division and New Club. James O'Barr was a fan of Joy Division, and besides used bassist Peter Hook's name for the comic-exclusive Captain Claw.
• Named by the Accommodation: In the original graphic novel, Eric and Shelly'southward last names went unmentioned. The film gave them the surnames of "Draven" and "Webster" respectively.
• Nice Guy: Eric, despite his advent and rampage of revenge, is shown as this. He was a friendly and skilful-natured guy who clearly adored his fiancée prior and helped look after Sarah during her mother's habit and he still cares securely for her afterwards he comes back. He's besides friendly to Officer Albrecht, even sharing a moment of vulnerability with him.
• Nearly-Invulnerability: When he comes back from the dead, Eric is completely invulnerable to being shot or hurt, until a mystic determines killing the homo'due south crow companion leaves him vulnerable.
• No Name Given: Elevation Dollar, Myca and Grange are never named in the film. Similarly, the gang members who kill Eric and Shelly are known just by their nicknames (Tin can-Tin can, T-Bird, Funboy and Skank).
• No-Sell: Eric is a walking instance of this, since he'south a dead man come up back to life; while it's implied he withal feels the pain from beingness wounded, at to the lowest degree briefly, said wounds eventually heal themselves. Subverted near the moving-picture show'due south end when Top Dollar and his gang realize that by taking out the crow itself, they'll be able to finish off Eric, as the crow is Eric's link to our earth.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Skank is a whiner and a coward. He's conspicuously the low man on the totem pole in T-Bird's gang, and compared to Meridian Dollar and Eric he's downright pathetic. You almost feel deplorable for him. Then he gets hitting past a machine, and when the driver steps out to inflict more damage, Skank beats him downward in seconds. The weakest of a gang of vicious thugs is nevertheless a savage thug.
• Oh, Crap!: Pretty much everyone from T-Bird's gang gets one when confronted past the titular character, to varying degree. Also Gideon when Eric No Sells his gunshot.
• Ane Last Smoke: Subverted. Afterwards having shared a smoke with Eric, who ironically tells him "You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill ya," Albrecht gets wounded and asks for a cigarette, just he spits it out and decides to quit. He lives, but hopefully it was withal his final cigarette.
• Ane-Man Army: Eric, when taking out the gangsters in Top Dollar'south headquarters. Being invincible probably helped.
• One-Woman Wail: Not surprisingly, the Graeme Revell score has a lot of this going on.
• Just Sane Man: Grange is this for the bad guys. Of form, this doesn't exactly make him sane, but he'southward the only ane who bothers to act professional.
• Out of Continues: Eric suffers this while his bird is beingness held by Myca. He got improve, and and so he didn't.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: The gang who killed Eric and Shelly were employees of Top Dollar. Played with in that while Height Dollar is technically the Large Bad of the film, they are the targets of Eric'southward revenge.
• Parrot Pet Position: The crow tin sometimes be seen perched on Eric's shoulder.
• Percussive Therapy: Eric plays his guitar and and then smashes information technology in a fit of grief and anger.
• Pet the Domestic dog: A rare anti-hero axial example, every bit Eric's relationships with Sarah and Officer Albrecht humanizes him and keeps him from condign the borderline monster that he is in the comics.
• Photo Doodle Recognition: Albrecht figures out that Eric Draven is the vigilante that's been killing Peak Dollar'due south gang when he draws the distinctive marks from the vigilante's face on the eyes and lips of a flick of Eric.
• Posthumous Character: Eric's girlfriend Shelly Webster was given this treatment, both in flashbacks and from the other characters, such as Eric himself, who came Dorsum from the Dead in order to avenge them both:

  Eric: Petty things used to hateful then much to Shelly. I always idea they were kind of footling. Believe me, nix is little.

• Post-Rape Taunt: Tin can-Can taunts Eric Draven, whose girlfriend he and his buddies gang-raped, by telling him "I shagged her pink ass and she loved it!" Draven soon gives him reason to regret this taunt.
• Practically Joker: Top Dollar. He's an immensely charismatic and theatrical criminal who commits crimes solely for pleasance and goes up against a gothic hero who dresses entirely in black and relies on theatricality and intimidation.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  • "Victims...aren't we all?"
  • "Is that gasoline I smell?"
    • Subverted. Gideon survives.
  • T-Bird gives one to himself that is rather fitting, as it was from Shelly's volume that he took on the dark he and his colleagues murdered her: "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how atrocious goodness was."
• Fix to Die: When Eric Draven faces down Top Dollar's entire gang at the guild, just before the biggest shootout of the movie.

  You're all going to dice.

• Properly Paranoid: Skank, while non very smart and a coward. The 2nd he sees a picture of Eric without the make up he instantly knows who it is and reacts in fear.
• Psycho for Hire: Tin can-Tin, Funboy, T-Bird and Skank, Eric Draven'due south targets of vengeance, who do particularly brutal jobs for the city's kingpin, Pinnacle Dollar. In something of a subversion of the trope, Tiptop Dollar is far more evil than even these psychotic killers.
• Psychometry: Eric has the ability to pick up on memories related to his past by touching things related to said past—including ones that didn't originate with him, every bit seen with the scene with Gideon when he sees Shelly's final moments through the cop's eyes. He somewhen develops the ability to transfer memories and the pain that comes with them by touch, which he uses to completely wreck Top Dollar in the final battle.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Skank is a rapist and a murderer. He besides oftentimes acts like a encephalon-dead hillbilly and is treated as a Butt-Monkey mascot for the residue of the gang, and he cries like a little boy whenever he'south in danger. He eventually becomes so cowardly and pathetic that he essentially turns into an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and the film has to wink back briefly to Skank'southward rape of Shelly to justify Eric's killing of him.
• Purpose-Driven Immortality: As long equally the titular Crow is alive, the person they brought back is immortal and has a Healing Factor. This becomes a problem when Eric loses his immortality because he's already finished off every member of the gang who previously killed him and his girlfriend, but the crime lord who ordered the murder (and was thus indirectly responsible fifty-fifty if he might be the almost culpable) is still breathing, so Eric's soul still tin't balance in peace.
• Pyromaniac: Crime lord Top Dollar is a gangster who institutionalized the yearly arsons of Devil'due south Night that plague Detroit past starting the showtime fires and so expanding the idea each year while reaping profits on the side. At a conference between the major gang leaders he announces that he's grown bored of information technology all, and to elevation himself declares that he'southward going to burn downwards the whole urban center purely for his own entertainment.
• Race Lift:
  • Eric was fully white in the original graphic novel, but Brandon Lee was of mixed European-Chinese descent.
  • T-Bird, who is vaguely African-American or Pacific Islander-American in the comic, is played in the moving picture by Irish-American thespian David Patrick Kelly.
• Rage Against the Reflection: Eric Draven smashes the vanity mirror before applying the trademark makeup of the titular avenger, suggesting a severance with his past self in order to avenge the murder of himself and his fiancée.
• Rape and Revenge: Expanded into rape-and-murder and revenge-from-beyond-the-grave
• Rapunzel Hair: Top Dollar has long black hair (worn loose), which is basically Anime Hair in real life.
• Relative Push button: Tin-Can doesn't seem to recognize Eric's description of the rape and murder of Shelly, but he uses a Mail-Rape Taunt to distract Eric and briefly proceeds an advantage in their fight.

  Eric: Her proper noun was Shelly. You cut her. You raped her.
  Tin-Tin: Shelly, yeah. I shagged her pink ass and she loved it! *headbutts a distracted Eric*

• Reusable Lighter Toss: Eric tosses a reusable lighter after killing T-Bird. The flames make a crow outline.
• Revenant Zombie: Eric is a quintessential revenant only, unlike most, retains compassion for the living likewise as a semblance of his former personality. This is less true in the original comics.
• Ring on a Necklace: After retrieving the engagement ring he gave to Shelly, Eric wears it on a concatenation because the band is likely too small to fit on his fingers and he has to get his easily muddied avenging both their deaths. He eventually gives the ring and necklace to his young friend Sarah, proverb he thinks Shelly would've wanted her to have it. Eric himself no longer needs the ring considering he hopes to be reunited with Shelly soon plenty. Sarah wears information technology around her neck too, probably considering the ring wouldn't fit her kid-sized fingers, plus in this instance the ring is being given as a symbol of friendship and parental-like beloved.
• Rise from Your Grave: Eric rises from his grave in the beginning, literally crawling out of the ground.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Such an extreme example of it that the protagonist comes Back from the Dead to achieve it.
• Rockers Smash Guitars: Subsequently performing the solo of his (un)life on the roof of his old apartment edifice, Eric Draven smashes his guitar.
• Roofhopping: Eric Draven uses this to go around Detroit and get the drop on Can Tin, and to escape from the cops after the big shootout with Top Dollar's men.
• Rooftop Confrontation: The last battle between Eric and Acme Dollar takes place on the roof of a church building.
• Majestic Rapier: Height Dollar is the rex of offense in his city. He'south non interested in mere financial gain, however. He and his sister live a bacchanal of evil and want to spread discord purely for its own sake. He dresses in fine, outdated outfits and has a whole wall of various swords. His weapon of choice is an ornate rapier. Interesting trivia: his rapier is the Six-Fingered Sword from The Princess Helpmate.
• Russian Reversal: Played With:

  Albrecht: (pointing gun at Eric) You motility and you're expressionless!

  Eric: I am dead, and yet I move!

• Sage Love Interest: Myca is a villainous version. While she'southward involved with the crime-lord Superlative Dollar (who also happens to be her own blood brother), he values her more for her supernatural insight.
• Sadist: Meridian Dollar started the tradition of Devil'southward Dark considering he felt regular criminal offence was boring, and decides to lead all of Detroit's criminals to burn the city to the ground For the Evulz.
• Scary Black Man: Grange. Well, he is played past Tony Todd, so information technology'due south a given.
• The Scourge of God: Eric is a far more than donating example than most, with the sinners in question beingness some of the near depraved, murdering, raping sadistic scum you're likely to ever run into, and he even helps a drug aficionado who he justifiably sees equally more a victim than annihilation..
• Series-Killer Killer: Eric, though non just whatsoever serial killer will exercise. It'southward Personal.
• Shaped Similar Itself: When Eric catches up to T-Bird, it takes a while for T-Bird to realize who he is. This is doubtless partially due to the makeup Draven wore, only it might also have been denial, as when he realizes it, he's so confused and frightened he fires off five of these statements in a row.

  ... I know you. I knew I knew yous; I knew I knew you... But you lot can't be you. This is the really real world. We killed you dead! There ain't no comin' dorsum..."

• Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: Eric was practiced friends with Sarah before his murder. Upon returning as a super-powered revenant based on vengeance, he winds upwards meeting her once more. He speaks to her a bit then quotes one of his songs, at which betoken he escapes into the dark and she loses sight of him. The girl calls out, "Eric?"
• Shooting Superman: Even afterwards Eric has shown he heals instantly from bullet wounds, Top Dollar'southward men still try shooting him to put him down.
• Shower Scene: Myca, Top Dollar's consort/sister is introduced taking a shower.
• Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration: Eric gets Blazon Four, thanks to the titular crow which accompanies him (having brought him back from the dead). Merely he's brought down to a Type II for the final showdown later on 1 of the villains severely injures the bird.
• The Tiresome Walk: Occurs when Eric fights Tin-Tin can. He dodges 1 thrown knife, and stalks towards his opponent, teeth bared. He bats the next thrown knife out of the air, and eggs Tin-Tin on to try over again. He catches the third knife, and then throws it back.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Top Dollar is amazingly charismatic and calm almost all the fourth dimension. Though he does accept a couple moments where he loses his temper and hollers, fifty-fifty when being outright insulted and disrespected by Gideon he keeps his absurd and fifty-fifty agrees mayhap he'south "non as large as he thinks." Then he tosses Gideon someone else'south torn out center and, still being chillingly calm, tells the man that's what happened to the last guy who talked back to him like that. Then he runs him through the throat with a sabre for the hell of it, without ever in one case breaking composure.
• Something But They Would Say: "It tin can't pelting all the time."
• Stealth Hi/Cheerio: Eric does that a lot to people. It'southward lampshaded by Albrecht iv times. It's ultimately subverted when, after a especially emotional conversation, Albrecht asks if Eric is going to just vanish out a window or something, and a tearful Eric says that he'd rather use the front door.
• The Stoic: Grange, who continues to be calm and collected even when faced with a Revenant Zombie gunning for his boss.
• Stuff Blowing Up: What Superlative Dollar and his Devil's Night gang similar to do. Eric blows upward Gideon'due south pawnshop also as T-Bird's car with him inside.
• Superpower Lottery: For powers borne from unimaginable pain, being a Crow comes with some sweet abilities including enhanced strength, healing from whatever injuries instantly, being able to dodge bullets and knives easily, [[Animorphism the power to take the form of a crow]], knowing martial arts and being able to use weapons despite not beingness indicated to have these skills while live and existence able to use their own memories and pain equally a devastating weapon.
• Super Strength: Eric's Crow powers make him stiff plenty to overcome any opponent instantly and toss grown men around like rag dolls.
• Tempting Fate: When confronting Eric, Tin-Tin takes out his knives and boasts he never misses. Eric dodges his first throw, slaps his 2nd one aside, and pulls a Take hold of and Return on the tertiary.
• This Cannot Be!: Every bit Eric Draven is about to dispatch T-Bird, T-Bird recognizes him:

  "I know you. I know yous. I knew I knew you, I knew I knew you. But y'all ain't yous. You tin can't be you. We put you through the window. In that location ain't no coming back. This is the really existent world, there ain't no coming back. We killed yous dead, there own't no coming back! There ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming dorsum!"

• This Is Reality: Or so T-Bird keeps telling himself after he recognizes Eric.

  "There own't no coming back. This is the really existent world, there ain't no coming back."

• Together in Death: "Buildings burn, people die, but existent love is forever". The theme of the film, increasingly amplified throughout the subsequent franchise, is that "If ii people are truly meant to be together, zilch tin can keep them apart. Not even death."
• Tomboy: Sarah, who wears hoodies, ripped tights, rides a skateboard and is into Eric's rock music.
• Tom the Nighttime Lord: T-Bird and his crew have some rather ridiclous names for psychotic killers. Lamp Shaded by several characters.
• Too Dumb to Alive:
  • Gideon, literally so. Just could non shut upward when dealing with either Eric or Tiptop Dollar. Eric blew upwardly his shop. Acme Dollar rammed a rapier through his throat and shot him twice.
  • For that matter, Tiptop Dollar himself showed he was just Too Dumb to Live past getting himself involved in the showtime place. He was never on Eric's target list, ever. Had he stepped back and permit Eric finish off Skank like Eric wanted to, Tiptop Dollar would have no doubt lived a long and fruitful life as Detroit's chief boogeyman. But no... he merely had to stick his nose in.
  • Sadly, Eric and Shelley themselves: the happy couple, while being aware of Top Dollar's reputation equally a violent gangster, decide to remain well within his sphere of influence after reporting on his crimes officially, equally opposed to fleeing the firsthand expanse, or at to the lowest degree using an alias. T-Bird waves the paperwork (presumably complete with Shelley'south proper name and address) in Shelley'south face up before he and and his gang rape her to death.
• Toplessness from the Dorsum: Bai Ling has a serious moment in her Shower Scene, showing off Myca'due south tattoo.
• Totalitarian Gangsterism: Top Dollar's crime syndicate regularly engages in arson around Detroit and has the citizens living in those buildings robbed, brutalized, and murdered on a regular basis. At a conference, he suggests that he and his swain gangsters should simply forget about actually profiting from their crimes and instead fire the entire city to the ground for shits and giggles.
• Touch on Telepathy: Eric develops this power after he gets psychometry, and uses information technology to GREAT effect in the end, completely wrecking Top Dollar by forcibly giving him the memories of the last thirty hours of Shelly's life (since his orders were responsible for Shelly getting raped and beaten to death, and Eric himself being gunned down). Top Dollar, who while evil is quite live and mostly sane, proves to exist unable to stand "30 hours of pain," all in one shot...
• Tranquil Fury: The beginning of Eric'south fight with Can Tin can, he never says a single give-and-take or expresses a audio, even when Tin Tin punches him. Then when he finally has Tin Tin pinned to the wall, he screams, "Fuck you lot... murderer!"
• Trashcan Blaze: Tin-Tin is killed while hanging out around one.
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: The various flashbacks from Eric and Shelly's life together before it was all ripped apart. May well exist the codifier for the trope's use in horror movies.
• Unbroken Vigil: Albrecht stayed at Shelly'southward bedside for thirty hours before she died, partly because he hoped she'd regain consciousness and be a witness, partly because he's a decent person. Eric senses this when he meets Albrecht, and later is able to weaponize information technology by forcing those memories onto her attackers:

  "I have something to give you. I don't want information technology anymore. Thirty HOURS OF PAIN!... All at once, all for you."

• Unhand Them, Villain!: Makes a brief advent. Eric shouts "Let her go" and Elevation Dollar responds by shrugging and saying "All right".
• Use Their Own Weapon Confronting Them: Tin Tin is killed with his ain knives, Fun Male child by his ain gun and syringes, and T-Bird by his T-Bird and explosives. Skank is the but exception - he gets thrown out of a window equally Eric was.
• Vigilante Human being: Eric Draven. Although, since he'southward already died and has resurrected as an unkillable zombie, he's technically a Vigilante Matter.
• Villain: Leave, Stage Left: Just every bit Eric Draven is endmost in on Skank, he finds himself in a conference room where Height Dollar and what appears to be most two dozen of his fellow criminals are belongings a coming together. Top Dollar taunts Eric and then orders the whole coiffure to open fire on him - which, of course, touches off a frighteningly violent from-beyond-the-grave vigilante massacre that persuades Top Dollar, Myca, and Grange to flee the scene long before Eric has slaughtered the final baddie. The affair is, Top Dollar never even had to flee in the commencement place: Skank was there too, and Meridian Dollar could have just saved his own life and that of about anybody else in the room if he'd simply allow Eric accept Skank. Fifty-fifty then, Top Dollar would probably have lived if only he hadn't kidnapped Sarah - not to mention that he outright admits that he was the one ultimately responsible for Shelly'south murder once he (supposedly) has Eric beaten.
• Villain Killer: When Eric comes back from the dead, his get-go order of business is to kill the gang responsible. And then, he extends his vengance to the man who gave them their marching orders.
• Villainous Breakdown: T-Bird pretty much loses his heed the moment he recognizes Eric. Because the verses he's quoting from John Milton's Paradise Lost ("Abashed the Devil stood ..."), this might also authorize as a Heel Realization.
• Villainous Incest: Tiptop Dollar and his half-sister Myca. They're both into it, they but both happen to be evil.
• Villainous Valour: Top Dollar braves Draven's fury by refusing to paw over Skank, a low-level thug and Boisterous Weakling.
• Wall of Weapons: Top Dollar has a cabinet filled with swords. Eric pulls a katana from information technology to slash through Top Dollar's minions, while the man himself seems to prefer a Royal Rapier.
• What Beautiful Optics!: Myca is obsessed with collecting eyes. She comments that a dead prostitute has pretty optics and removes them. When she sees the kidnapped Sarah, she says, "Her eyes are so innocent," implying that she'd like to take them as well.
• Whodunnit to Me?: Eric Draven rises from the grave to hunt downwardly the criminals who murdered him and his fiancée.
• Why Won't You Die?: Funboy shoots Eric several times, just to spotter in horror equally his Healing Factor kicks in and closes the wounds right before his eyes, leading him to cry "Don't you ever fuckin' die?" Subverted with Top Dollar, since he stabbed Gideon in neck with his rapier is dying, just not apace enough, and then he shoots him twice for adept measure to finish him off.
• Worthy Opponent: This is Acme Dollar'southward feeling towards Eric by the stop, saying, "Y'all've got a lot of spirit, son. I am gonna miss you."

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