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Not to be confused with WebVideo/{{Lucas}}. Compare with ''Film/{{Angus}}'', another coming-of-age film centering around a social outcast.
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* TheGhost: We never see Lucas's father. Though Lucas makes grandiose claims about him being a lawyer, it's implied that Rina's correct when she suspects him to be a neglectful lush.
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* TheGhost: We never see Lucas's father. Though Lucas makes grandiose claims about him being a lawyer, it turns out that he and Lucas are poor and live in a trailer home, and it's implied that Rina's correct when she suspects him to be a neglectful lush.
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*AllLoveIsUnrequited: Lucas is infatuated with Maggie who doesn't reciprocate his feelings. Meanwhile, Rina seems to be really taken with Lucas, who is completely uninterested in her except as a friend.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Most of Lucas' former tormenters when he's injured show this side of their personalities.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Most of Lucas' former tormenters when he's injured show this side of their personalities.personalities after he's injured.
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* FriendToBugs: Lucas is interested in insects, but he doesn't collect them because that would require killing them. He's obviously heartbroken when one of the jocks riding with Cappie kills that cicada ("locust") that he caught.
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* FriendToBugs: Lucas is interested in insects, but he doesn't collect them because that would require killing them. He's obviously heartbroken when one of the jocks riding with Cappie kills that the cicada ("locust") that he caught.
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*FriendToBugs: Lucas is interested in insects, but he doesn't collect them because that would require killing them. He's obviously heartbroken when one of the jocks riding with Cappie kills that cicada ("locust") that he caught.
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** The football coach put Lucas in the field hoping that he'd get slammed enough around to finally give up and leave him alone, but his reaction to seeing Lucas unconscious and bleeding on the field shows that it wasn't his intent to have Lucas seriously injured.
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** The football coach put Lucas in the field hoping that he'd get slammed around and bruised enough around to finally give up and leave him alone, but his reaction to seeing Lucas unconscious and bleeding on the field shows that it wasn't his intent to have Lucas seriously injured.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even Bruno and the other football players who previously enjoyed tormenting Lucas are visibly shocked and saddened when they see that he was seriously injured on the football field. Bruno and his friends may have wanted to ridicule and humiliate Lucas, but they never wanted to cause him serious harm.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even Most of Lucas' former tormenters when he's injured show this side of their personalities.
**Even Bruno and the other football players who previously enjoyed tormenting Lucas are visibly shocked and saddened when they see that he was seriously injured on the football field. Bruno and his friends may have wanted to ridicule and humiliate Lucas, but they never wanted to cause him serious harm.
**Even Bruno and the other football players who previously enjoyed tormenting Lucas are visibly shocked and saddened when they see that he was seriously injured on the football field. Bruno and his friends may have wanted to ridicule and humiliate Lucas, but they never wanted to cause him serious harm.
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* JerkJock: Subverted with Cappie Roew. Cappie used to bully Lucas, but did a HeelFaceTurn after Lucas helped him keep up with his studies when he fell ill and became Lucas's friend and protector, and he's nothing but a LovableJock in the story proper.
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* JerkJock: Subverted JerkJock:
**Subverted with Cappie Roew. Cappie used to bully Lucas, but did a HeelFaceTurn after Lucas helped him keep up with his studies when he fell ill and became Lucas's friend and protector, and he's nothing but a LovableJock in the story proper.
**Subverted with Cappie Roew. Cappie used to bully Lucas, but did a HeelFaceTurn after Lucas helped him keep up with his studies when he fell ill and became Lucas's friend and protector, and he's nothing but a LovableJock in the story proper.
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*CicadianRhythm: Cicadas (referred to as "locusts") and their sounds appear or are mentioned several times as a recurring motif in the film. When Maggie visits Lucas in the hospital, he says that the cicadas have stopped calling and won't be back for another 17 years.
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* BlatantLies: Lucas tells the principal and coach that his father is an attorney, and tells Maggie that the luxurious house where he does yardwork is his home. In fact, Lucas lives with his father in a dilapidated trailer home next to a junkyard, a rather unlikely lifestyle for a successful lawyer.
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* BlatantLies: Lucas tells the principal and coach that his father is an attorney, and tells Maggie that the luxurious house where he does yardwork is his home. In fact, Lucas lives with his father in a dilapidated trailer home next to a junkyard, not exactly a rather unlikely plausible lifestyle for a successful lawyer.lawyer. Even before that reveal, Lucas' own unkempt appearance and tattered clothes don't exactly suggest wealth either (furthermore, a highly intelligent son of a rich man would probably attend a private school).
