We all know that Tim Burton loves pancake livid composition , black eye , spirals and stripes — but those are not the only things he have a go at it to boast over and over again !
You ’ll see the same handful of fibre , plot devices , and even facial expressions over and over again , throughout Tim Burton ’s films . We ’ve rounded up some mutual Tim Burton tropes and sorted them into category , for your next drinking secret plan .
Here are 10 thing that turn up in almost every Tim Burton motion picture .
10 ) The Pudgy Weasel
Never desire a smile face with a act of weight in a Burton movie .
Otho – Beetlejuice
Beadle – Sweeney Todd
Limbo – Planet of the Apes
Tweedledee / Tweedledum – Alice in Wonderland
Augustus Gloop – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Francis Buxton – Pee Wee ’s Big Adventure
Finis Everglot – The Corpse Bride
The Penguin – Batman Returns
9 ) The Flashback
What better way to explain your character ’s annoyance , than with a flashback !
Emily sings about her cruddy death – The Corpse Bride
Ichabod Crane dream of his busty mother ’s destruction – Sleepy vacuous
Willy Wonka has screaming flashback to his sad confect - free past times – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The total movie Big Pisces is one flashback after the other
Sweeney Todd remembers his flaxen - haired crime syndicate before they were taken by from him – Sweeney Todd
Bruce Wayne aspiration of his parents – Batman
Alice remembers her Wonderland past and the Hatter his Wonderland war – Alice in Wonderland
- The Same Actors
Burton love to dip from the same well all the time . While some thespian ( Winona Ryder ) have look in two or three Burton film , these cat crop up up over , and over again .
Johnny Depp
Helena Bonham - Carter
Christopher Lee
Jeffrey Jones
7 ) The Monster
The thing that goes jut in the dark . Hardly ever the main role or existent menace , these monsters are built to threaten , propel or go down bounds for Burton ’s cast . But each one is pretty striking .
Oogie Boogie – The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Headless Horseman – Sleepy empty
Sand Worm – Beetlejuice
Jabberwocky – Alice In Wonderland
6 ) The Impossibly Kind Parent Figure
Someone needs a squeeze ! The Burton earth is gourmandize with insanely wonderful parent pattern . That ’s not to say all the other parents are bad , but for each absentee father or psychoneurotic creative person , there ’s usually one senior character quick to pick up the pieces and gather you into a soft waterbed .
The Inventor – Edward Scissorhands
Peg / Bill – Edward Scissorhands
Barbara / Adam – Beetlejuice
Karubi – Planet of the Apes
Alfred – Batman/ Batman Returns
Elder Gutknecht – Corpse St. Bride
Grandpa Joe ( really the whole Bucket family ) – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5 ) The Witch
Whether misunderstood or just no good , Burton loves to fuddle in a sassy beldam to stir the can . Each one of these ladies is an intimidating creature on their own . With great powers that they use to get what they want .
Angelique Bouchard – Dark Shadows
Lady Van Tassel – Sleepy empty
The Witch – Big Pisces the Fishes
Mrs. Lovett – Sweeney Todd
The Red Queen – Alice in Wonderland
Catwoman – Batman Returns
4 ) Nightmare fount
Horrific , bug - eyed panic attack jumps that make the audience jump out of their chairs . You never really get to see Michael Keaton’s“nightmare face”in Beetlejuice , but there are enough more to peck from in that motion picture .
tumid Marge – Pee Wee ’s Big Adventure
Max Shreck ’s Kiss with Catwoman – Batman Returns
The bug - eyed crone in the woods – Sleepy empty
Barbara rip off her face ! – Beetlejuice
The horrific Smilex transformation in Batman , which is also the name of the toothpaste company Charlie ’s begetter figure out for in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory !
3 ) The Punky Rebellious Young Lady
The misunderstood madam snare in a man of their own . These rebel are often the vocalisation of cause in Burton ’s mad , mad world .
Lydia Deetz – Beetlejuice
Ari – Planet of the Apes
Carolyn Stoddard – Dark Shadows
Alice – Alice in Wonderland
Sally – The Nightmare Before Christmas
Emily – Corpse Bride
2 ) The Blonde Ingenue
The other side of the madam coin in Burton ’s world . This director ’s fixation with the innocent , blonde ingenue is so inviolable he ’s be - wigged countless brunette to get that unadulterated bleached from all sin take care . In fact Dark Shadows might be the first Burton movie where the innocent love interest is n’t blonde ( Corpse Bride does n’t reckon , since Victoria ’s hair’s-breadth was some sort of light grey ) .
Sandra Bloom – Big Pisces the Fishes
Katrina Van Tassel – Sleepy vacuous
Kim – Edward Scissorhands
Johanna – Sweeney Todd
Vicki Vale – Batman
Daena – Planet of the anthropoid
The White Queen – Alice In Wonderland
1 ) The Skittish Outcast
Burton has built his intact vocation on the twitchy castaway .
Edward Scissorhands – Edward Scissorhands
Beetlejuice & Lydia – Beetlejuice
Pee Wee – Pee Wee ’s Big Adventure
disturbed Hatter – Alice in Wonderland
Ichabod Crane – Sleepy Hollow
Willy Wonka – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ed Wood – Ed Wood
Sweeney Todd – Sweeney Todd
Barnabas Collins – Dark shadow
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