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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: Skylar delivers AnAesop to this effect in the movie's closing narration. How much weight it carries coming from someone whose fear has been [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away again]] ([[SequelHook temporarily anyway]])) is up to the individual viewer.

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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: Skylar delivers AnAesop to this effect in the movie's closing narration. How much weight it carries coming from someone whose fear has been [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away again]] again]], ([[SequelHook temporarily anyway]])) anyway]]), is up to the individual viewer.
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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: Skylar delivers AnAesop to this effect in the movie's closing narration. How much weight it carries coming from someone whose fear has been [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away again]] ([[SequelHook temporarily anyway)) is up to the individual viewer.

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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: Skylar delivers AnAesop to this effect in the movie's closing narration. How much weight it carries coming from someone whose fear has been [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away again]] ([[SequelHook temporarily anyway)) anyway]])) is up to the individual viewer.
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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: Skylar delivers AnAesop to this effect in the movie's closing narration. How much weight it carries coming from someone whose fear has been [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away again]] ([[SequelHook temporarily anyway)) is up to the individual viewer.
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* ObliviousToLove: At the beginning of the movie, Skylar is completely blind to the fact that Ryan is in love with her, as well as to the fact that he's scared to ask her out.

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* ObliviousToLove: At the beginning of the movie, Skylar is completely blind to the fact that Ryan is in love with her, as well as to the fact that he's scared to ask her out. The second one is at least justified, since she has no understanding of fear at all.
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* ObliviousToLove: At the beginning of the movie, Skylar is completely blind to the fact that Ryan is in love with her, as well as to the fact that he's scared to ask her out.
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* PapaWolf[=/=]MamaBear: Skylar's parents, to the point where she isn't allowed out on Halloween. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Skylar lacks their monster hunter training and would therefore be extremely vulnerable when the monsters come out on Halloween.

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* PapaWolf[=/=]MamaBear: Skylar's parents, to the point where she isn't allowed out on Halloween. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Skylar lacks their monster hunter training and would therefore be extremely vulnerable when the monsters come out on Halloween.out.
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* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Parents]]: Skylar's parents. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Skylar lacks their monster hunter training and would therefore be extremely vulnerable when the monsters come out on Halloween.

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* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Parents]]: PapaWolf[=/=]MamaBear: Skylar's parents.parents, to the point where she isn't allowed out on Halloween. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Skylar lacks their monster hunter training and would therefore be extremely vulnerable when the monsters come out on Halloween.
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* ImNotAfraidOfYou: One's personal monster can be defeated this way.

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* ImNotAfraidOfYou: One's Ones personal monster can be defeated this way.
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* {{Badass}}: Even with fifteen years worth of fear coursing through her, Skylar proves to be awesome at hunting monsters.

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* {{Badass}}: Skylar. Even with fifteen years worth of fear coursing through her, Skylar she proves to be awesome at hunting monsters.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Deimata. This is the reason Skylar was unable to fearless for fifteen years, as Deimata was the physical embodiment of her fear.

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* SealedEvilInACan: Deimata. This is the reason Skylar was unable to fearless for fifteen years, as Deimata was the physical embodiment of her fear.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Skylar's method of fixing the banner in her first scene aptly demonstrates her fearlesness. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that she spends most of the film after that suffering from crippling terror.


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* LiteralMetaphor: At one point, Henry is literally paralyzed with fear.
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* TheCastShowoff: Olivia Holt gets to display her gymnastics skills, which probably comes as no surprise to her fans, but also reveals an IdolSinger side that has gone largely unexplored until now.


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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Myra]].


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* SequelHook: The end credits show [[spoiler: Deimata cracking her containment unit just a little, hinting that she may escape.]]
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* ActionGirl: Skylar
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* [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil As Long As There Is Fear:]] Deimata sums up the futility of trying to defeat her like this:
-->'''Deimata:''' There will always be monsters because there will always be fear. Fear makes the monsters, not the other way around.
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\n\n* ShutUpHannibal: "Fearless" is a musical one to Deimata.


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* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. [[note]] There was explicitly a ladder available, but she chose to do it this way instead[[/note]] It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.

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* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. [[note]] There [[note]]There was explicitly a ladder available, but she chose to do it this way instead[[/note]] instead.[[/note]] It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.

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* DemonicPossession: Deimata can do this.



* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.

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* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. [[note]] There was explicitly a ladder available, but she chose to do it this way instead[[/note]] It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.training.
* HannibalLecture: The monsters inspire fear in their hosts this way.
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Each monster is the embodiment of somebody's worst fears and as such, knows all of them.


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* AintTooProudToBeg: When Henry defeats his personal monster, it pleads with him to be scared of it.



* BlessedWithSuck: Skylar's inability to feel fear probably seemed really cool until she had to feel fifteen years of it all at once.

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* {{Badass}}: Even with fifteen years worth of fear coursing through her, Skylar proves to be awesome at hunting monsters.
* BlessedWithSuck: Skylar's inability to feel fear probably seemed really cool until she had to feel the fifteen years worth of it that had been repressed got unleashed all at once.



* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.

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* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training. training.
* ImNotAfraidOfYou: One's personal monster can be defeated this way.
* InTheBlood: Monster hunting for Skylar.
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* BigBadBigBad: Deimata
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* WorkingTitle: Was originally going to be called "Who's Your Monster?"


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* WorkingTitle: Was originally going to be called "Who's Your Monster?"


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* SarcasticClapping: Deimata does this while [[spoiler: posessing Myra]] when Skylar suffers stage fright.

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* SarcasticClapping: Deimata does this while [[spoiler: posessing possessing Myra]] when Skylar suffers stage fright.
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* SarcasticClapping: Deimata does this while [[spoiler: posessing Myra]] when Skylar suffers stage fright.
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''Girl vs. Monster'' is a DisneyChannel Original Movie that premiered on October 12, 2012. The film stars Olivia Holt as Skylar, a teenage girl who is incapable of feeling fear. The plot kicks off with Skylar and her friends preparing for the ultimate Halloween Party, where she is supposed to sing with a local rock band headed by LoveInterest Ryan Dean. Unfortunately, that plan gets derailed when her parents tell her she isn't allowed out on Halloween. When Skylar decides to sneakout anyway, she unknowingly unleashes her own personal monster, discovers that she's a fifth generation monster, and experiences fear for the first time.


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''Girl vs. Monster'' is a DisneyChannel Original Movie that premiered on October 12, 2012. The film stars Olivia Holt as Skylar, a teenage girl who is incapable of feeling fear. The plot kicks off with Skylar and her friends preparing for the ultimate Halloween Party, where she is supposed to sing with a local rock band headed by LoveInterest Ryan Dean. Unfortunately, that plan gets derailed when her parents tell her she isn't allowed out on Halloween. When Skylar decides to sneakout anyway, she unknowingly unleashes her own personal monster, discovers that she's a fifth generation monster, monster hunter, and experiences fear for the first time.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Skylar's inability to feel fear probably seemed really cool until she had to feel fifteen years of it all at once.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Deimata. This is the reason Skylar was unable to feel fear for fifteen years, as Deimata was the physical embodiment of her fear.


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* SealedEvilInACan: Deimata. This is the reason Skylar was unable to feel fear fearless for fifteen years, as Deimata was the physical embodiment of her fear.

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''Girl vs. Monster'' is a DisneyChannel Original Movie that premiered on October 12, 2012. The film stars Olivia Holt as Skylar, a teenage girl who is incapable of feeling fear. The plot kicks off with Skylar and her friends preparing for the ultimate Halloween Party, where she is supposed to sing with a local rock band headed by LoveInterest Ryan Dean. Unfortunately, that plan gets derailed when her parents tell her she isn't allowed out on Halloween. When Skylar decides to sneakout anyway, she unknowingly unleashes her own personal monster, discovers that she's a fifth generation monster, and experiences fear for the first time.


!! This film provides examples of:

* AlphaBitch: Myra
* DontTryThisAtHome: Skylar's gymnastics stunt to fix a crooked banner is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] as a "don't try this at home" moment by one of her friends. When Myra later attempts the same stunt, in order to avoid asking Skylar for help, she breaks her neck.
* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Skylar hadn't cut the power in order to sneak out, she wouldn't have released Deimata.
* NoStuntDouble: Olivia Holt has training in gymnastics, cheerleading, and martial arts, so she didn't need one.
* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Parents]]: Skylar's parents. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Skylar lacks their monster hunter training and would therefore be extremely vulnerable when the monsters come out on Halloween.


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