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- Justified in noir film Where Danger Lives to explain why the hero runs off with The Vamp: he has a bad concussion and isn't thinking straight.
Source: Idiot Ball / Film -
Despite Jessie's speech, the two have drifted apart by the time of the story, mostly because of Lije unwittingly demolishing his wife's self-image by trying to explain how the biblical Jezebel was a good person instead of The Vamp.
Source: Manic Pixie Dream Girl -
Contray to the usual image such a weapon might invoke, she is not The Vamp, as she chiefly uses the ribbons to simply restrain her targets (though it could explain her Tragic Flaw of loneliness.)
Source: Weapon of Choice
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