M: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about M. Pick one to read it.

• Putting on the Reichin 472 titlesWhat may be seen as a "prophetic" example, since the Nazis weren't in power yet: Der Schränker's long leather coat may be seen as foreshadowing The Gestapo; more plausibly his leather-coat and rhetor…Read →
• Eagle-Eye Detectionin 65 titlesHow the police get onto Beckert's trail.Read →
• What Is Evil?Rare · in 54 titlesBeckert is pursued by the city's criminal underworld, because the intensive police manhunt is interfering with their business and because they resent police inquiries that imply that they might be as…Read →
• No Mercy for MurderersRare · in 39 titlesSerial killer Hans Beckert is kidnapped by the Berlin mob, who holds a mock trial over whether to kill him or hand him over to the police.Read →
• Sinister Whistlingin 61 titlesIn what is probably the Trope Maker, the titular child killer compulsively whistles "In the Hall of the Mountain King" right before he tracks down his victims.Read →
• Tragic Villainin 467 titlesHans can't help the fact that he's a child murderer.Read →