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* FormerTeenRebel: Heather's all but implied to be one. She mentions spending time in juvenile detention where she learned how to pick handcuff locks, identifies the type of bullets Mr. Sharp loads into his gun as SeriousBusiness ammo, and admits her being a cheerleader is her way of making for her past wrongdoings.

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* FormerTeenRebel: Heather's all but implied to be one. She mentions spending time in juvenile detention where she learned how to pick handcuff locks, correctly identifies the type of bullets bullet Mr. Sharp loads into his gun as SeriousBusiness ammo, and admits her being a cheerleader is her way of making up for her past wrongdoings.



* NervousWreck: Evie's introduced at the police station worrying over a psychology paper and getting to the library to study while lamenting that the sight of the victim's 'head exploding' is now stuck in her head. She's also prone to hyperventilating panic attacks and Roland immediately clocks her when she's lying due to this trope.

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* NervousWreck: Evie's introduced at the police station worrying over a psychology paper and getting to the library to study while lamenting that the sight of the victim's 'head exploding' is now stuck in her head. She's also prone to hyperventilating panic attacks and Roland immediately clocks her when she's lying due to this trope.



*TemptingFate: Teresa dismissively says there's no one trying to kill them right before Roland discovers a bomb wired to the bottom of their car.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Emma and Evie.
** When [[spoiler: Zane]] meets Emma and mentions he's unable to contact her father due to him being undercover, she mentions that she's able to do so by getting her call rerouted through a highly secured private phone line. This gives him the idea to tap the college's personal telephone lines to deduce Roland's whereabouts.
** This pays off when Evie obtains Emma's phone number from Roland's phone and calls her to gather data for her psychology paper. The OhCrap look on her face says it all when Holt checks the phone records and mentions [[spoiler: Zane]] probably deduced their location from said call.




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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Eddie Zane kills the sniper Cortland hired to take out the witness after he fails to do so]]

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* AcademicAthlete: Anne is a pre-med student who is also a cheerleader and probably cares more about her classes than her four house mates combined.

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* AcademicAthlete: Anne Evie is a pre-med student with a 4.0 GPA who is also a cheerleader and probably cares more about her classes than her four house mates combined.



* TheAtoner: Heather, who knows how to hotwire a car, tells Sharp that she views cheerleading as a way to make up for her past rather than as a fun pastime or social status tool.

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* TheAtoner: Heather, who knows how to hotwire a car, car and mentions spending some time in juvenile detention, tells Sharp that she views cheerleading as a way to make up for her past rather than as a fun pastime or social status tool.



* BetaCouple: Contemplating the vastness of the universe.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: One cheerleader at one point asks "couldn't you just shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hand?" to which Sharp explains that it doesn't work. [[spoiler: Near the end of the movie, it [[BeyondTheImpossible does]]. As he did not intend to do that, Sharp was more impressed than anybody else who saw it.]]
* BrickJoke: Jimmy the drug dealer who introduces himself and, [[spoiler: who then "moves" out to jail by the time one of his customers comes by looking for him.]]

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* BetaCouple: Contemplating Mr. Sharp walks in on Heather and officer Holt contemplating the vastness of the universe.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: One cheerleader Barb at one point asks "couldn't you just shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hand?" to which Sharp explains that it doesn't work.work in real life. [[spoiler: Near the end of the movie, it [[BeyondTheImpossible does]]. As he did not intend to do that, Sharp was more impressed than anybody else who saw it.]]
* BrickJoke: Jimmy BrickJoke:
**Jimmy
the drug dealer who introduces himself to an undercover Holt and, [[spoiler: who then "moves" out to jail by the time one of his customers comes by looking for him.]]]]
** Barb's hair becomes hot pink due to a dye mishap in one scene. Throughout the rest of the movie her hair's mostly back to normal but still has a few pink streaks leftover.
** She also asks Roland why can't he just shoot the gun out of a bad guy's hand, to which Roland replies is impossible (TruthInTelevision, since it requires way more accuracy than just aiming at the torso). Guess what he does when he confronts [[spoiler: Zane?]]



* ClassPrincess: Head cheerleader Anne has a lot of school spirit and says that they have a sense of responsibility to be role models for the community by being cooperating witnesses in Ranger Sharp's investigation. She does act like a BrattyTeenageDaughter around Sharp at first, but this is mainly in response to how stern and unreasonable he comes across in controlling the lives of his bodyguard charges.

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* ClassPrincess: Head cheerleader Anne has a lot of school spirit and says that they have a sense of responsibility to be role models for the community by being cooperating witnesses in Ranger Sharp's investigation. She does act like a BrattyTeenageDaughter around Sharp at first, but this is mainly in response to how stern and unreasonable he comes across in controlling the lives of his bodyguard teenage charges.



* CurbStompBattle: The five girls want to go to party. Sharp thinks they will not. Then they go to party, where we see another, much more traditional {{Curb Stomp Battle}}.

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* CurbStompBattle: The five girls want to go to party. Sharp thinks they will not. Then they go Cue all of the girls ending up ziplocked to party, where the staircase (or handcuffed to a chair in Teresa's case) in the span of under five minutes. When Anne and Teresa sneak out later to a bar to blow off some steam after the latter's boyfirend breaks up with her, we see another, much more traditional {{Curb Stomp Battle}}.Battle}} when Mr. Sharp takes on a trio of teenage sleazebags who won't take 'No' as an answer from the girls.



** Sharp divorced his wife six years ago and even before then had trouble making time for his daughter.

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** Sharp divorced his wife six years ago and even before then had trouble making time for his daughter.daughter Emma.



* DumbBlonde: [[spoiler: Barb]] starts like one, but it's averted by the end.

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* DumbBlonde: [[spoiler: Barb]] starts like one, but it's averted by the end.end when Heather mentions ''she's'' the one who came up with the plan to rescue Emma.



* FormerTeenRebel: Heather's all but implied to be one. She mentions spending time in juvenile detention where she learned how to pick handcuff locks, identifies the type of bullets Mr. Sharp loads into his gun as SeriousBusiness ammo, and admits her being a cheerleader is her way of making for her past wrongdoings.



* NervousWreck: Evie's introduced at the police station worrying over a psychology paper and getting to the library to study while lamenting that the sight of the victim's 'head exploding' is now stuck in her head. She's also prone to hyperventilating panic attacks and Roland immediately clocks her when she's lying due to this trope.



* PapaWolf: Sharp. ''Specially'' when [[spoiler: one of the girls is almost killed]], and then [[spoiler: his actual daughter is kidnapped...]]

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* PapaWolf: Roland Sharp. ''Specially'' when [[spoiler: one of the girls is almost killed]], and then [[spoiler: his actual daughter is kidnapped...]]



* RealMenCook: After Sharp voices his dislike against the clothes, the underwear, the music, everything the girls do, nobody bats an eye when he cooks up a nice dinner.

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* RealMenCook: After Sharp voices his dislike against the clothes, the underwear, the music, and generally everything the girls do, nobody bats an eye when he cooks up a nice dinner.



* ReallyGetsAround: Heavily implied with Barb. While talking across the campus, in less than a minute, Barb exchanges flirtatious greetings with three different boys she's implied to have had sex with.

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* ReallyGetsAround: Heavily implied with Barb. While talking with Mr. Sharp across the campus, in less than a minute, Barb exchanges flirtatious greetings with three different boys she's implied to have had sex with.
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* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler: The girls by the end]]

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* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler: The girls by the end]]end, when they help capture the villain while maintaining their peppy attitudes and nervousness about the situation]].
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* TheAtoner: Heather, who knows how to hotwire a car, tells Sharp that she views cheerleading as a way to make up for her past rather than as a fun pastime or social status tool.
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* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Among the cheerleaders' fashion proccupations is how "Navel visibility must be maintained."



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* BareYourMidriff: Navel visibility must be maintained.

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