History Film / BringItOn

%%* AlphaBitch: There's one or two on every cheer team.
* AlphaBitch: Winnie, the entire movie in All or Nothing. Ditto for Avery.

* FishOutOfWater:

* MissingTrailerScene: The trailers for the first film are a particularly egregious example of this trope. Star Creator/GabrielleUnion revealed that after test audiences wanted more of the Clovers, the Black cheer squad opposing the lead cast of white cheerleaders, the actresses playing the Clovers were brought in to film additional snippets ''solely'' for marketing in order to make audiences think the Clovers were in the film more than they actually were. The additional footage was not included in the final film or available anywhere outside of the trailers.

* SpoiledSweet: Sky from the fifth movie. She's rich, sweet, and nice, so nice that she asks her father to use his connections to let Lina's friends from L.A. attend Malibu Vista High, in order to help Sea Lions squad to be better.

More mildly the casting of cheerleaders as the heroes is itself oddly subversive (and refreshing) given the nearly universal [[TheCheerleader negative depiction of cheerleading]] in other HighSchool Movies. The films are not beyond a little ribbing at the sport but are clearly sympathetic.

* PantyShot: Bloomer shots, actually but guaranteed. In ''Again,'' Whittier strips down to sports bra and panties.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Nearly all of the female cheerleaders at one point or another. ''Especially'' in the third installment.

* MyGrandmaCouldDoBetterThanYou: In the first movie, the Toros cheer squad is beloved and successful. The Toros ''football'' team, on the other hand, is a dumpster fire. In one game, the Toros players' opponents taunt them by saying that the cheer squad would be more of a challenge. It's heavily implied that the opponents are actually ''right''.

* AlphaBitch: There's one or two on every cheer team.
* AmazonBrigade: Some of the cheerleading teams.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Torrance's little brother.

* BareYourMidriff: The uniforms in the first three movies, and the cheerleaders also do so out of uniform often in at least the first two.
* BettyAndVeronica: Some of the brunette / blonde pairings.
* BetweenMyLegs: During the roll call in part 3.

* BigDamnKiss: Cliff and Torrance at the end of the first film.

* BrainlessBeauty: The villain.

* BrokenPedestal: Big Red to Torrance.
* CaliforniaUniversity: The second movie.

* CuteButCacophonic: Pretty much all the cheerleaders
* DanceOfRomance: Especially the third movie

* FallenPrincess: Torrance, Britney, and arguably Lina.

* FiveManBand: These are usually the main cheerleaders from each time.
* FiveTokenBand: Isis and her team.
* FollowTheLeader: Every movie.
* FriendshipMoment: At the beginning and end of every movie.

* GirlPosse: Each cheerleading squad.

* HeelFaceTurn: In ''All or Nothing''.

* HighSchool: In every movie but the second one.
* HopelessAuditionees: The first movie's audition sequence.

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted. All of the high school cheerleading squads are shown to be autonomous, but they're comprised of members who are all either nearly adults or legally adults by the end of the films in which they appear.

** The outfits are too revealing for high school cheer and the movie features cheer routines that are banned at high school level due to safety.
*** This is eventually addressed in ''All or Nothing'' where a captain defends her use of an illegal move since the competition is a non-sanctioned music video contest.

* AnAesop: The first movie, in particular, "It doesn't matter if you win or lose, but how you play the game."

* CampGay: Les from the first movie.

* DisqualificationInducedVictory: The Toros don't score very well in the semi-finals (using a routine that's the exact duplicate of another squad's routine, which is normally grounds for disqualification) but because they're coach is a fraud who'd been hacking the same cheer routine to different schools, they get to go to the finals anyway.

* FishOutOfWater: Missy starts out as one when she gets on the squad, and is more than a little weirded out by the atmosphere of the cheer tournaments when she first attends one.

* NightmareSequence: At the beginning of each movie.
** ''Worldwide #Cheersmack'' breaks the convention and moves the nightmare sequence to the middle of the movie.

* ShoutOut: [[Creator/ElizaDushku Missy]] is sporting [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Faith's]] tattoo, which she promptly rubs off when told ink is strictly forbidden.
** And again, when the Clovers confront Missy and Torrance, one of them asks, "Can we just beat these Buffys down?" When they decide not to fight them, another Clover says, "You just got touched by an Series/{{Angel}}."
** Or Series/TouchedByAnAngel.

** Not really. Disciplining yourself makes perfection, which Torrance epitomized.

* FunTShirt: Missy wears one of a Buddhist monkey that says over the chest area ''[[{{Fanservice}} Rub here for good luck.]]'' Also counts as GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* DisqualificationInducedVictory: The Toros don't score very well in the semi-finals (using a routine that's the exact duplicate of another squad's routine, which is normally grounds for disqualification) but because they're defending champions they get to go to the finals anyway.

* LovableAlphaBitch: Courtney and Whitney, they are unapologetically mean, elitist and even try to usurp control of the team from Torrence, but are still a part of the Toros, and are friends with the rest of the squad.
* LuckyTranslation: In the first movie, Torrance says "You know, mothers have killed to get their daughters on squads", to which Mrs Shipman replies with "that mother didn't kill anybody. She hired a hit man." The Japanese language allowed for a pun that expressed Mrs Shipman's attitude much more clearly and succinctly:

* NotBad: Torrance's brother Justin begins the day of the finals with a "Cheerleading = Death" t-shirt on, but at the end is cheering the Toros' routine as hard as everybody else, appearing to have a newfound respect.

A ''Bring It On'' for the social media generation. Cheer captain Destiny and her champion team the Rebels are called out by a mysterious team called The Truth (a nod to Anonymous) which leads to the team being challenged by other teams all over the world. Vain, egotistical Destiny, who values her online presence and the number of internet followers she has over anything else, can't stand the humiliation brought on by The Truth so she sets out to prove she's still the best. She starts out by recruiting a group of male street dancers that she conveniently meets after her first encounter with The Truth. Destiny's ego and her refusal to infuse anything new to her routines eventually lead to a clash with her best friend Willow. Can Destiny overcome her selfishness to win back her best friend, hook-up with cute male dancer/photographer Blake, and win the respect of cheerleaders all over the world? I think we all know the answer to that. Vivica A. Fox co-stars as an internet celebrity called Cheer Goddess.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Hannah and Roxanne]] who are members of the Rebels and Destiny's best friends, but in reality are the driving forces behind The Truthand are scoring to publicly embarrass her. Less so with [[spoiler:Roxanne]], who only joined The Truth believing they'd be on a team where their voice would be heard, only to find out that [[spoiler:Hannah]] is just as bad if not worse than Destiny, who has changed, and thus reconciles with their friends and rejoins the Rebels.

-->'''Sarah:''' This is a cheer-saster!
-->'''Ruben:''' A cheer-tastrophe!
-->'''Chelsea:''' A total cheer-clipse of the sun!
-->'''Sarah:''' Not bad.
-->'''Ruben:''' Good one.

* PacManFever: The first movie had Torrance's brother playing TwistedMetal3, and it looks to avert this trope, as it shows him playing on a [=PS1=], with appropriate sound effects, until he makes another gay joke about her cheerleader boyfriend, where she responds by ripping out his controller so hard it pops the machine open, revealing nothing inside.

* BigDamnKiss: Cliff and Torrance at the end of the film.

* BlackBestFriend: The second movie.

* SeriousBuisness: All the films treat cheerleading like this. But to be fair they also show just how much work, training and athleticism cheerleading requires, and how dangerous the sport can be.