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* ShoutOut: In the deepfake conversation between "Beth" and "Deb".
-->'''Deepfake Deb''': Worse comes to worse, we pull a UsefulNotes/TonyaHarding on one of these bitches.
-->'''Deepfake Deb''': Worse comes to worse, we pull a UsefulNotes/TonyaHarding on one of these bitches.
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* NeverTrustATitle: The title is misleading, since the movie's one death is suffered by [[spoiler:cheer mom Rebecca, at the hands of her daughter Olivia]]. The WorkingTitle ''The Cheerleader Conspiracy'' is much closer to the truth.
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* NonIndicativeName: The title is misleading, since the movie's one death is suffered by [[spoiler:cheer mom Rebecca, at the hands of her daughter Olivia]]. The WorkingTitle ''The Cheerleader Conspiracy'' is much closer to the truth.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: AnAesop about sharing too much on social media and the dangers posed by sophisticated deepfake technology.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: AnAesop The ultimate {{Aesop}} of the movie is a warning about sharing too much on social media and the dangers posed by sophisticated deepfake technology.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie being a Tubi original despite the Lifetime pedigree of its ProductionPosse allows it include some elements that you wouldn't usually see on Lifetime, like an openly lesbian character and a DownerEnding.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Rebecca and her daughter Liv]] spends most of the movie being neutral, friendly background characters, but are ultimately revealed as the masterminds of the plot against Beth.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Rebecca and her daughter Liv]] spends spend most of the movie being neutral, friendly background characters, but are ultimately revealed as the masterminds of the plot against Beth.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Rebecca]] spends most of the movie being a neutral, friendly background character, but she's ultimately revealed as the mastermind of the plot against Beth.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Rebecca]] [[spoiler:Rebecca and her daughter Liv]] spends most of the movie being a neutral, friendly background character, characters, but she's are ultimately revealed as the mastermind masterminds of the plot against Beth.
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* StageMom: Marisol thinks her daughter Ashley is the squad's best cheerleader, but that Deb is holding her back to promote Beth, and the two women clash frequently.
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* StageMom: StageMom:
** Marisol thinks her daughter Ashley is the squad's best cheerleader, but that Deb is holding her back to promote Beth, and the two women clashfrequently.frequently.
** Deb to certain extent counts too. After being announced as team captain, Beth doesn't seem entirely happy about it, but Deb convinces her that she's genuinely the team's best cheerleader.
** Marisol thinks her daughter Ashley is the squad's best cheerleader, but that Deb is holding her back to promote Beth, and the two women clash
** Deb to certain extent counts too. After being announced as team captain, Beth doesn't seem entirely happy about it, but Deb convinces her that she's genuinely the team's best cheerleader.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Marisol and Ashley appear to be the only people who have any problems with Deb and Beth, but eventually several seemingly nice characters are revealed to be responsible for the deepfake plot, especially [[spoiler:Liv and her mother Rebecca]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Marisol and Ashley appear to be the only people who have any problems with Deb and Beth, but eventually several seemingly nice characters are revealed to be responsible for part of the deepfake plot, especially [[spoiler:Liv and her mother Rebecca]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Liv and her mother Rebecca]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's Ashley appear to be the only people who have any problems with Deb and Beth, but eventually several seemingly nice characters are revealed to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but be responsible for the ultimate villains, deepfake plot, especially [[spoiler:Liv and her mother Rebecca]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.Rebecca]].
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Liv murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship ''and'' steals Beth's boyfriend Grant]].
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Liv masterminds the deepfakes to ruin Beth's life, then murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship ''and'' steals Beth's boyfriend Grant]].
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* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:Olivia after delivering a fatal blow to Rebecca with a baseball bat]].
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Rebecca]] is killed by her daughter [[spoiler:Liv]].
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-->'''Ashley''': ''([[DeadpanSnarker ultra-sarcastic]])'' Shocking! Coach's daughter makes captain!
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It can be seen [[https://tubitv.com/movies/659502/deadly-cheer-mom here]]. No relation to the earlier Lifetime movie ''Killer Cheer Mom'', though they share a similar villain and are both toplined by well-known actresses (in that movie's case, Creator/DeniseRichards).
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Rebecca]] is killed by her daughter [[spoiler:Liv]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Olivia and her mother Rebecca]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Olivia [[spoiler:Liv and her mother Rebecca]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending leaves it unresolved whether the truth about [[spoiler:Olivia murdering Rebecca]] will ever come out, leading to speculation that it was a deliberate SequelHook.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending leaves it unresolved whether the truth about [[spoiler:Olivia [[spoiler:Liv murdering Rebecca]] will ever come out, leading to speculation that it was a deliberate SequelHook.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Olivia murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship ''and'' steals Beth's boyfriend Grant]].
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Olivia [[spoiler:Liv murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship ''and'' steals Beth's boyfriend Grant]].
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* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia and Rebecca were paying Violet to make them]].
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* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia [[spoiler:Liv and Rebecca were paying Violet to make them]].
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Rebecca]] is killed by her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]].
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Rebecca]] is killed by her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]].[[spoiler:Liv]].
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Olivia murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship]].
* LipstickLesbian: Violet is established early on as preferring relationships with girls (with the other cheerleaders gossiping about her breakup with her girlfriend), but as a (former) cheerleader she's decidedly feminine.
* LipstickLesbian: Violet is established early on as preferring relationships with girls (with the other cheerleaders gossiping about her breakup with her girlfriend), but as a (former) cheerleader she's decidedly feminine.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Olivia murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship]].
scholarship ''and'' steals Beth's boyfriend Grant]].
* LipstickLesbian: Violet is established early on as preferring relationships with girls (with the other cheerleaders gossiping about her breakup with her girlfriend), but as a (former) cheerleader she's decidedly feminine. And this apparently goes for [[spoiler:Sarah]] as well.
* LipstickLesbian: Violet is established early on as preferring relationships with girls (with the other cheerleaders gossiping about her breakup with her girlfriend), but as a (former) cheerleader she's decidedly feminine. And this apparently goes for [[spoiler:Sarah]] as well.
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* AbusiveParents: While they seem to be a perfectly fine mother[=/=]daughter team, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Rebecca]] loathes her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]], subjecting her to verbal abuse like calling her a "bitch" and saying she should've aborted her.
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* AbusiveParents: While they seem to be a perfectly fine mother[=/=]daughter team, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Rebecca]] loathes her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]], subjecting her to verbal abuse like calling her a "bitch" "little bitch" and saying she "I should've aborted her.you the minute I had the chance!"
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Beth Hartford (Tommi Rose) is the star cheerleader at Bridgebay High School, and finds herself named cheer captain. There's some grumbling over this, because her mother Deb (Creator/MenaSuvari) just happens to be the school's cheer coach. Beth is also competing with several of her teammates for a cheer scholarship at Rossmore Carmel University, and seems to have the inside track for it. But when a [[DigitalHeadSwap deepfake]] video of Beth drinking tequila and dissing her teammates goes viral, along with some other incriminating deepfakes, Beth must fight to prove she was framed, with spiteful teammate Ashley (Jazzy Kae) and her pushy mom Marisol (Karla Mosley) as the main suspects.
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Beth Hartford (Tommi Rose) is the star cheerleader at Bridgebay High School, and finds herself named cheer captain. There's some grumbling over this, because her mother Deb (Creator/MenaSuvari) just happens to be the school's cheer coach. Beth is also competing with several of her teammates for a cheer scholarship at Rossmore Carmel University, and seems to have the inside track for it. But when a [[DigitalHeadSwap deepfake]] video of Beth drinking tequila and dissing her teammates goes viral, along with some other incriminating deepfakes, Beth must fight to prove she was framed, with spiteful teammate Ashley (Jazzy Kae) Kae Williams) and her pushy mom Marisol (Karla Mosley) as the main suspects.
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* HollywoodHacking: Deepfake videos, which currently require expensive equipment and vast knowledge to do correctly, are shown in this movie to be a matter of fairly simple copying and pasting.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Almost in RippedFromTheHeadlines territory. The storyline was clearly inspired by the weird saga of Raffaela Spone, a Pennsylvania mom who was accused in 2021 of creating deepfake videos of her daughter's cheerleading rivals vaping, drinking and posing nude. An investigation by ''Magazine/{{Cosmopolitan}}'' showed that the videos were actually real and it was some overzealous police detectives who came up with the deepfake theory, but between spreading the videos and sending threatening texts to the girls, Spone was still charged with criminal harassment and found guilty in March of 2022, just days before this movie debuted.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: Somewhere among the twisty and sordid plotline is AnAesop about sharing too much on social media and the dangers posed by sophisticated deepfake technology.
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* InTheHood:
** When Beth digs up footage of the culprit uploading the deepfake video in the gym, the person is wearing a black hoodie.
** In the opening scene, the person shown doing the DigitalHeadSwap on their computer is wearing a hoodie as well. Why they would need to shroud themselves sitting at home alone at night [[PlotHole is uncertain]].
** When Beth digs up footage of the culprit uploading the deepfake video in the gym, the person is wearing a black hoodie.
** In the opening scene, the person shown doing the DigitalHeadSwap on their computer is wearing a hoodie as well. Why they would need to shroud themselves sitting at home alone at night [[PlotHole is uncertain]].
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* AbusiveParents: While they seem to be a perfectly fine mother[=/=]daughter team, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Jessica]] loathes her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]], subjecting her to verbal abuse like calling her a "bitch" and saying she should've aborted her.
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* AbusiveParents: While they seem to be a perfectly fine mother[=/=]daughter team, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Jessica]] [[spoiler:Rebecca]] loathes her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]], subjecting her to verbal abuse like calling her a "bitch" and saying she should've aborted her.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Olivia and her mother Jessica]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:Olivia after delivering a fatal blow to Jessica with a baseball bat]].
* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:Olivia after delivering a fatal blow to Jessica with a baseball bat]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Olivia and her mother Jessica]], Rebecca]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler:Olivia after delivering a fatal blow toJessica Rebecca with a baseball bat]].
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Olivia]] plots with her mother [[spoiler:Jessica]] to take down Beth, then turns around and [[spoiler:kills Jessica by knocking her out with a baseball bat]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending leaves it unresolved whether the truth about [[spoiler:Olivia murdering Jessica]] will ever come out, leading to speculation that it was a deliberate SequelHook.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Olivia]] plots with her mother [[spoiler:Jessica]] [[spoiler:Rebecca]] to take down Beth, then turns around and [[spoiler:kills Jessica Rebecca by knocking her out with a baseball bat]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending leaves it unresolved whether the truth about [[spoiler:Olivia murderingJessica]] Rebecca]] will ever come out, leading to speculation that it was a deliberate SequelHook.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Jessica]] spends most of the movie being a neutral, friendly background character, but she's ultimately revealed as the mastermind of the plot against Beth.
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* NonIndicativeName: The title is misleading, since the movie's one death is suffered by [[spoiler:cheer mom Jessica, at the hands of her daughter Olivia]]. The WorkingTitle ''The Cheerleader Conspiracy'' is much closer to the truth.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The cops almost immediately arrest [[spoiler:Beth, without bothering to talk to Olivia's neighbors for external confirmation of her timeline for when she got home, or to do the forensic examination that likely would've established Jessica's fatal injury coming from being hit by a blunt object, and Olivia's fingerprints on the clothes of Jessica and Beth]].
* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia and Jessica were paying Violet to make them]].
* TheReveal: Beth and Olivia break into the principal's office to look at surveillance footage and learn that [[spoiler:Olivia's mother Jessica]] is the villain, but then it's revealed that mother and daughter are scheming together against Beth, and late in the film we learn that [[spoiler:Violet was in on it as well, making the deepfakes]].
* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia and Jessica were paying Violet to make them]].
* TheReveal: Beth and Olivia break into the principal's office to look at surveillance footage and learn that [[spoiler:Olivia's mother Jessica]] is the villain, but then it's revealed that mother and daughter are scheming together against Beth, and late in the film we learn that [[spoiler:Violet was in on it as well, making the deepfakes]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: The cops almost immediately arrest [[spoiler:Beth, without bothering to talk to Olivia's neighbors for external confirmation of her timeline for when she got home, or to do the forensic examination that likely would've established Jessica's Rebecca's fatal injury coming from being hit by a blunt object, and Olivia's fingerprints on the clothes of Jessica Rebecca and Beth]].
* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia andJessica Rebecca were paying Violet to make them]].
* TheReveal: Beth and Olivia break into the principal's office to look at surveillance footage and learn that [[spoiler:Olivia's motherJessica]] Rebecca]] is the villain, but then it's revealed that mother and daughter are scheming together against Beth, and late in the film we learn that [[spoiler:Violet was in on it as well, making the deepfakes]].
* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia and
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* FalseConfession: Beth lies and tells the principal that she made the first video so she can out of detention and continue the college cheer workshop.
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* StageMom: Marisol thinks her daughter Ashley is an incredible cheerleader, but that Deb is holding her back to promote Beth, and the two women clash frequently.
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* TheReveal: Beth and Olivia break into the principal's office to look at surveillance footage and learn that [[spoiler:Olivia's mother Jessica]] is the villain, but then it's revealed that mother and daughter are scheming together against Beth, and late in the film we learn that [[spoiler:Violet was in on it as well, making the deepfakes]].
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Beth Hartford (Tommi Rose) is the star cheerleader at Bridgebay High School, and finds herself named cheer captain. There's some grumbling over this, because her mother Deb (Creator/MenaSuvari) just happens to be the school's cheer coach. Beth is also competing with several of her teammates for a cheer scholarship at Rossmore Carmel University, and seems to have the inside track for it. But when a [[DigitalHeadSwap deepfake]] video of Beth drinking tequila and dissing her teammates goes viral, along with some other incriminating deepfakes, Beth must fight to prove she was framed, with spiteful teammate Ashley (Jazzy Kay) Kae) and her pushy mom Marisol (Karla Mosley) as the main suspects.
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''Deadly Cheer Mom'' is a 2022 Creator/{{Tubi}} original TeenDrama[=/=]{{Thriller}} movie, produced by [=MarVista=] Entertainment and directed by Creator/DougCampbell, with a screenplay by Lauren Balson Carter.
Beth Hartford (Tommi Rose) is the star cheerleader at Bridgebay High School, and finds herself named cheer captain. There's some grumbling over this, because her mother Deb (Creator/MenaSuvari) just happens to be the school's cheer coach. Beth is also competing with several of her teammates for a cheer scholarship at Rossmore Carmel University, and seems to have the inside track for it. But when a [[DigitalHeadSwap deepfake]] video of Beth drinking tequila and dissing her teammates goes viral, along with some other incriminating deepfakes, Beth must fight to prove she was framed, with spiteful teammate Ashley (Jazzy Kay) and her pushy mom Marisol (Karla Mosley) as the main suspects.
Although it debuted on Tubi, it looks and feels like a Creator/{{Lifetime}} original movie, which shouldn't be surprising since the director, writer, production company, and several of the actresses are Lifetime regulars, and it fits squarely into Lifetime's "cheerleader thriller" subgenre, though its tone is slightly DarkerAndEdgier than the usual Lifetime fare.
No relation to the earlier Lifetime movie ''Killer Cheer Mom'', though they share a similar villain and are both toplined by well-known actresses (in that movie's case, Creator/DeniseRichards).
!!''Deadly Cheer Mom'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: While they seem to be a perfectly fine mother[=/=]daughter team, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Jessica]] loathes her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]], subjecting her to verbal abuse like calling her a "bitch" and saying she should've aborted her.
* {{Antihero}}: Beth and Deb are sympathetic for being unfairly targeted by the deepfakes, but there's still a running subtext throughout the story of Deb showing blatant favoritism toward her daughter, and Beth being spoiled, entitled and irresponsible because of it. They both seem to have a HeelRealization brought on by the DownerEnding.
* BitchAlert: The EstablishingCharacterMoment for Marisol is when she confronts Deb and berates her for making Beth the team captain.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Olivia and her mother Jessica]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
* TheDogBitesBack: Having been treated horribly by her mother even as they plotted against Beth, [[spoiler:Olivia]] gets revenge on her at the climax.
* CaliforniaUniversity: Beth is trying to get a cheer scholarship to Rossmore Carmel, and Grant wants to go there too so he can be with her.
* CassandraTruth: Beth correctly deduces that [[spoiler:Violet, who's studying animation]] made the deepfakes, but she gets [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslighted]] out of that belief when she confronts the person with her suspicion.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Olivia]] plots with her mother [[spoiler:Jessica]] to take down Beth, then turns around and [[spoiler:kills Jessica by knocking her out with a baseball bat]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending leaves it unresolved whether the truth about [[spoiler:Olivia murdering Jessica]] will ever come out, leading to speculation that it was a deliberate SequelHook.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: A few lines from Deb establishes that her ex-husband (and Beth's father) had substance abuse issues, but the exact nature of them and how the marriage ended are never discussed.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie being a Tubi original despite the Lifetime pedigree of its ProductionPosse allows it include some elements that you wouldn't usually see on Lifetime, like an openly lesbian character and a DownerEnding.
* DigitalHeadSwap: Someone is taking Beth's social media videos and altering them so she appears to be drinking, smoking weed, and saying nasty things about her teammates. Eventually a video of Beth and Deb together taken without their knowledge and altered is used against them.
* DownerEnding: Beth [[spoiler:gets successfully framed by Olivia for the death of Olivia's mother Jessica and ends the movie in jail, while Olivia uses the sympathy factor from being orphaned to [[TheBadGuyWins win the Rossmore Carmel scholarship]]]].
* FalseConfession: Beth lies and tells the principal that she made the first video so she can out of detention and continue the college cheer workshop.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Jessica]] spends most of the movie being a neutral, friendly background character, but she's ultimately revealed as the mastermind of the plot against Beth.
* {{Gaslighting}}: It's not apparent until the climax, but practically everyone in the movie except Deb is doing this to Beth, including several crucial misdirections when she seems to start figuring things out.
* IdiotBall: Beth almost immediately deletes the initial texts threatening her and sending her the first deepfake video, rather than reporting them, which she soons comes to regret. Her FalseConfession while in detention counts as well.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Olivia murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship]].
* LipstickLesbian: Violet is established early on as preferring relationships with girls (with the other cheerleaders gossiping about her breakup with her girlfriend), but as a (former) cheerleader she's decidedly feminine.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Beth sort of straddles the line for this. She's the squad's queen bee, but is generally nice and likable, so she's not really an Alpha Bitch. But she does mouth off a bit to Ashley, and basically backstabs Violet by convincing her mom to cut her from the team, so she's not perfect either.
* {{Nepotism}}: Deb gets accused, mainly by Marisol, of showing favoritism to her daughter Beth.
* NonIndicativeName: The title is misleading, since the movie's one death is suffered by [[spoiler:cheer mom Jessica, at the hands of her daughter Olivia]]. The WorkingTitle ''The Cheerleader Conspiracy'' is much closer to the truth.
* TheOneGuy: Beth's boyfriend Grant is the movie's only significant male character (along with Rossmore Carmel cheer coach Teddy, who only gets a couple of scenes).
* PoliceAreUseless: The cops almost immediately arrest [[spoiler:Beth, without bothering to talk to Olivia's neighbors for external confirmation of her timeline for when she got home, or to do the forensic examination that likely would've established Jessica's fatal injury coming from being hit by a blunt object, and Olivia's fingerprints on the clothes of Jessica and Beth]].
* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia and Jessica were paying Violet to make them]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Violet shows up to the fundraiser in a tight red jumpsuit with well-styled hair, and impresses the girls, especially Sarah.
* TheSlacker: In a lot of ways Beth qualifies, since she seems to rely on Deb and her connections to get her through life. In her conversation with Violet she even admits that she's never given much thought about what she wants to do in life besides cheerleading.
* SlippingAMickey: Someone spikes Beth's water with Oxycodone, leading her to pass out during the Rossmore Carmel cheer workshop.
* TheReveal: Beth and Olivia break into the principal's office to look at surveillance footage and learn that [[spoiler:Olivia's mother Jessica]] is the villain, but then it's revealed that mother and daughter are scheming together against Beth, and late in the film we learn that [[spoiler:Violet was in on it as well, making the deepfakes]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Jessica]] is killed by her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]].
* WildTeenParty: Even though it's the night before the all-important tryouts for the college scholarship, Beth sneaks out of the house and goes to one after Deb goes to bed.
''Deadly Cheer Mom'' is a 2022 Creator/{{Tubi}} original TeenDrama[=/=]{{Thriller}} movie, produced by [=MarVista=] Entertainment and directed by Creator/DougCampbell, with a screenplay by Lauren Balson Carter.
Beth Hartford (Tommi Rose) is the star cheerleader at Bridgebay High School, and finds herself named cheer captain. There's some grumbling over this, because her mother Deb (Creator/MenaSuvari) just happens to be the school's cheer coach. Beth is also competing with several of her teammates for a cheer scholarship at Rossmore Carmel University, and seems to have the inside track for it. But when a [[DigitalHeadSwap deepfake]] video of Beth drinking tequila and dissing her teammates goes viral, along with some other incriminating deepfakes, Beth must fight to prove she was framed, with spiteful teammate Ashley (Jazzy Kay) and her pushy mom Marisol (Karla Mosley) as the main suspects.
Although it debuted on Tubi, it looks and feels like a Creator/{{Lifetime}} original movie, which shouldn't be surprising since the director, writer, production company, and several of the actresses are Lifetime regulars, and it fits squarely into Lifetime's "cheerleader thriller" subgenre, though its tone is slightly DarkerAndEdgier than the usual Lifetime fare.
No relation to the earlier Lifetime movie ''Killer Cheer Mom'', though they share a similar villain and are both toplined by well-known actresses (in that movie's case, Creator/DeniseRichards).
!!''Deadly Cheer Mom'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: While they seem to be a perfectly fine mother[=/=]daughter team, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Jessica]] loathes her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]], subjecting her to verbal abuse like calling her a "bitch" and saying she should've aborted her.
* {{Antihero}}: Beth and Deb are sympathetic for being unfairly targeted by the deepfakes, but there's still a running subtext throughout the story of Deb showing blatant favoritism toward her daughter, and Beth being spoiled, entitled and irresponsible because of it. They both seem to have a HeelRealization brought on by the DownerEnding.
* BitchAlert: The EstablishingCharacterMoment for Marisol is when she confronts Deb and berates her for making Beth the team captain.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than the openly antagonistic Marisol and Ashley, most everyone else who's nice to Beth and Deb turn against them in one way or another, but the ultimate villains, [[spoiler:Olivia and her mother Jessica]], especially seem trustworthy up until TheReveal.
* TheDogBitesBack: Having been treated horribly by her mother even as they plotted against Beth, [[spoiler:Olivia]] gets revenge on her at the climax.
* CaliforniaUniversity: Beth is trying to get a cheer scholarship to Rossmore Carmel, and Grant wants to go there too so he can be with her.
* CassandraTruth: Beth correctly deduces that [[spoiler:Violet, who's studying animation]] made the deepfakes, but she gets [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslighted]] out of that belief when she confronts the person with her suspicion.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Olivia]] plots with her mother [[spoiler:Jessica]] to take down Beth, then turns around and [[spoiler:kills Jessica by knocking her out with a baseball bat]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending leaves it unresolved whether the truth about [[spoiler:Olivia murdering Jessica]] will ever come out, leading to speculation that it was a deliberate SequelHook.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: A few lines from Deb establishes that her ex-husband (and Beth's father) had substance abuse issues, but the exact nature of them and how the marriage ended are never discussed.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie being a Tubi original despite the Lifetime pedigree of its ProductionPosse allows it include some elements that you wouldn't usually see on Lifetime, like an openly lesbian character and a DownerEnding.
* DigitalHeadSwap: Someone is taking Beth's social media videos and altering them so she appears to be drinking, smoking weed, and saying nasty things about her teammates. Eventually a video of Beth and Deb together taken without their knowledge and altered is used against them.
* DownerEnding: Beth [[spoiler:gets successfully framed by Olivia for the death of Olivia's mother Jessica and ends the movie in jail, while Olivia uses the sympathy factor from being orphaned to [[TheBadGuyWins win the Rossmore Carmel scholarship]]]].
* FalseConfession: Beth lies and tells the principal that she made the first video so she can out of detention and continue the college cheer workshop.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Jessica]] spends most of the movie being a neutral, friendly background character, but she's ultimately revealed as the mastermind of the plot against Beth.
* {{Gaslighting}}: It's not apparent until the climax, but practically everyone in the movie except Deb is doing this to Beth, including several crucial misdirections when she seems to start figuring things out.
* IdiotBall: Beth almost immediately deletes the initial texts threatening her and sending her the first deepfake video, rather than reporting them, which she soons comes to regret. Her FalseConfession while in detention counts as well.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Olivia murders her own mother and frames Beth for it]], and not only doesn't get caught, [[spoiler:she wins the scholarship]].
* LipstickLesbian: Violet is established early on as preferring relationships with girls (with the other cheerleaders gossiping about her breakup with her girlfriend), but as a (former) cheerleader she's decidedly feminine.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Beth sort of straddles the line for this. She's the squad's queen bee, but is generally nice and likable, so she's not really an Alpha Bitch. But she does mouth off a bit to Ashley, and basically backstabs Violet by convincing her mom to cut her from the team, so she's not perfect either.
* {{Nepotism}}: Deb gets accused, mainly by Marisol, of showing favoritism to her daughter Beth.
* NonIndicativeName: The title is misleading, since the movie's one death is suffered by [[spoiler:cheer mom Jessica, at the hands of her daughter Olivia]]. The WorkingTitle ''The Cheerleader Conspiracy'' is much closer to the truth.
* TheOneGuy: Beth's boyfriend Grant is the movie's only significant male character (along with Rossmore Carmel cheer coach Teddy, who only gets a couple of scenes).
* PoliceAreUseless: The cops almost immediately arrest [[spoiler:Beth, without bothering to talk to Olivia's neighbors for external confirmation of her timeline for when she got home, or to do the forensic examination that likely would've established Jessica's fatal injury coming from being hit by a blunt object, and Olivia's fingerprints on the clothes of Jessica and Beth]].
* RedHerring: For most of the movie, it looks like [[spoiler:Ashley and Marisol]] are doing the deepfakes of Beth, but it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:Olivia and Jessica were paying Violet to make them]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Violet shows up to the fundraiser in a tight red jumpsuit with well-styled hair, and impresses the girls, especially Sarah.
* TheSlacker: In a lot of ways Beth qualifies, since she seems to rely on Deb and her connections to get her through life. In her conversation with Violet she even admits that she's never given much thought about what she wants to do in life besides cheerleading.
* SlippingAMickey: Someone spikes Beth's water with Oxycodone, leading her to pass out during the Rossmore Carmel cheer workshop.
* TheReveal: Beth and Olivia break into the principal's office to look at surveillance footage and learn that [[spoiler:Olivia's mother Jessica]] is the villain, but then it's revealed that mother and daughter are scheming together against Beth, and late in the film we learn that [[spoiler:Violet was in on it as well, making the deepfakes]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Jessica]] is killed by her daughter [[spoiler:Olivia]].
* WildTeenParty: Even though it's the night before the all-important tryouts for the college scholarship, Beth sneaks out of the house and goes to one after Deb goes to bed.
