Dexter

pedigree slide act a major part inDexter , but the show does n’t in a flash explicate why the serial killer take them as trophy , even though they go against the Code of Harry . There are two newDextershows in developing : the prequel seriesDexter : Original Sinand the sequelDexter : Resurrection . Because of them , the serial cause of death has regained a portion of the popularity he had in thebest seasons ofDexter . Those new shows will belike do a lot of lingering questions from the original series andDexter : New Blood , but there ’s already a reply to one magnanimous motion : why does Dexter take blood sliding board as trophy ?

The very practice session of taking blood slides goes against the Code of Harry , the rules and guidelines Harry Morgan gave his adopted son to keep him from being caught . The stock microscope slide are very concrete , biologic evidence that Dexter kill people , and Harry never would have O.K. of him have them . They even caused quite a few issues throughout the show : Doakes intimately catch Dexter because of his blood slides inDexterseason 2 , and they allow Debra line up out he was a consecutive killer inDexterseason 7 . Dexter ’s blood slides were a major problem , but they were n’t actually a secret plan hole .

While Dexter ’s issue one rule was to not get caught , he luxate up quite a few time , lead several characters to discover his killer indistinguishability .

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Dexter Takes Blood Slides Because He’s Obsessed With Blood (Despite Going Against The Code Of Harry)

The show only gives two explanation for why Dexter collects blood slides as trophies . The more mundane of the two is that Dexter simply wanted something to remember his kills by . There are a few second throughout the show where he goes through his box , beak out individual slides and reminisce about whose line of descent he has collected . This idea also fits with real life , as many make love successive killer take in some kind of trophy . Even other sequent killers inDextertook trophies : Miguel Prado collected rings , while the Runaway Killer preserved his dupe ' entire bodies .

In inadequate , Dexter ’s obsession over blood outweighed his trust on the Code of Harry .

The more important account for Dexter ’s blood glide is that he was obsessed with blood . Dexter was covered in his mother ’s blood as a baby , and he was obsessed with it his entire biography . Blood defined everything from his career to his trophies . It ’s hard to say precisely what Dexter believe of rakehell , as he sometimes seemed to hate it , like when he first saw an Ice Truck Killer victim , and he sometimes seemed to get laid it , as evidence by his job as a lineage spattering analyst . In inadequate , Dexter ’s obsession over rakehell outweighed his reliance on the Code of Harry .

Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) in front of a collage of blood slides on a pink background

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Dexter: Early Cuts Explains Where He Originally Got The Idea To Take Trophies

A forgotten internet - series , Dexter : Early Cuts , explains where Dexter got the approximation to start taking prize from . One of Dexter ’s earliest kills , a former U.S. Marine sniper constitute Alex Timmons , was also an avid hunter . Since most of his victims had been innocent tike in Iraq , Dexter used his taxidermy creature head in place of pic of his dupe . Then , while toying with Alex , Dexter cut his cheek and was inspired to put a drop of ancestry on a slide he had in his bagful . He told Alex " A prize . My first . My founding father would n’t approve , but what can I say ? You revolutionise me . "

Dexter : Original Sin will show Dexter ’s earliest kills , but another show already describe some of them years before the prequel serial publication releases .

What Dexter’s Blood Slides Really Mean

Dexter ’s rake sloping trough do n’t just work on as trophy , though , they also accommodate quite a bit of symbolical weight and meaning . On a basic level , the blood coast represent how Dexter is obsessed with the past , like his female parent ’s slaying and his human relationship with Harry . Dexter incessantly clings to his computer storage , and the blood coast are a direction to show that he sustain onto those memories even when they jeopardise his future . There are multiple instances inDexterwhere his search for reply about his yesteryear had fearful issue , like how he spared Trinity to pick up about hiding his forked life and how that led to Rita ’s demise .

ThoughDexter : Early Cutsexplained why Dexter begin take blood line chute , the upcoming showDexter : Original Sincould easily rewrite this moment and Dexter ’s abstract thought .

The parentage slides also do quite a bit of work in givingDexterits suspense . For most of the show , they were veil about in patent quite a little , just behind the grating of his air conditioning unit . Because they were scarce hidden , Dexter ’s blood slides also represent just how close he was at all times to being exposed as a serial killer . If anyone , let in the several people who had searched his apartment , had found his box of slides , he would have been pick up . Dexter was living a very parlous life as a serial killer , and his line slide were a very stark admonisher of that .

Collage of Miguel, Harry, and Brian in Dexter

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His ancestry microscope slide are a mark that Dexter is n’t as different from the the great unwashed he kill as the Code of Harry gain him seem .

On a deeper point , Dexter ’s blood slides uncover something important about his persona . Taking trophies is something that even serial grampus do , and it ’s evidence that Dexter was actually enjoying and reminisce about his kills . His blood slides are a sign that Dexter is n’t as unlike from the mass he kills as the Code of Harry makes him seem . For all his talk of " accept out society ’s shabu , " Dexter still toss off citizenry for his own entertainment . Objectively , he ’s just as much a killer as any one of the dupe he drink down inDexter , and the rip slides are proof of that .

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Dexter is a television series following Dexter Morgan , a blood spatter analyst for Miami Metro Police who on the QT lead a dual life as a vigilante serial slayer . Released in 2006 , the show focuses on Dexter ’s interior conflict as he hunts down crook who elude Justice Department within the legal system .

Michael C. Hall as a young Dexter Morgan next to a watercolor painting of Dexter’s face in Dexter Early Cuts

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Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan softly smirking in front of crime scene tape

Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) grinning at a blood slide in Dexter season 1, episode 1

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