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* EvilEyeshadow: Played straight and subverted with Tania and her clique, who also wear tons and tons of garish makeup.
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* EvilEyeshadow: ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Played straight and subverted with Tania and her clique, who also wear tons and tons of garish makeup.
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* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tania attempts--and fails miserably at--doing this while ironically making one of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MarriedAtFirstSight/comments/sk3smm/alyssa_gives_me_tanya_from_muriels_wedding_energy/ her ugliest facial expressions]] in the entire movie.
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* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tania attempts--and fails miserably at--doing this while ironically making one of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MarriedAtFirstSight/comments/sk3smm/alyssa_gives_me_tanya_from_muriels_wedding_energy/ her ugliest facial expressions]] expressions in the entire movie.]]
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* ManChild: Muriel is a downplayed version of this; she's not the loser others think she is but at the start of the movie she is jobless, without ambition besides getting married, spends all day in her room listening to ABBA songs and lies to boutique workers so that she can take pictures in wedding gowns for free. She does grow up and starts being true to herself, though.
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* ManChild: WomanChild: Muriel is a downplayed version of this; she's not the loser others think she is but at the start of the movie she is jobless, without ambition besides getting married, spends all day in her room listening to ABBA songs and lies to boutique workers so that she can take pictures in wedding gowns for free. She does grow up and starts being true to herself, though.
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* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tania attempts--and fails miserably at--doing this while ironically making one of her ugliest facial expressions in the entire movie.
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* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tania attempts--and fails miserably at--doing this while ironically making one of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MarriedAtFirstSight/comments/sk3smm/alyssa_gives_me_tanya_from_muriels_wedding_energy/ her ugliest facial expressions expressions]] in the entire movie.
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* HulaAndLuaus: Hibiscus Island
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* BouquetToss: The film starts with a dramatic slow-motion bouquet toss, which Muriel catches. Since everyone expects that she will be the last woman to ever get married, her snotty "friends" demand she re-toss it to someone else.
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* BouquetToss: The film starts with a dramatic slow-motion bouquet toss, which Muriel catches. Since everyone expects that she will be the last woman to ever get married, her snotty "friends" demand she re-toss it to someone else.else - and then blame her when the woman she was told to toss it to is upset by it.
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* SexualKarma: Muriel and David Van Arkle have a good time when they finally consummate their marriage. In contrast, adulterer Chook [[TheLoinsSleepTonight cannot perform]] with [[AlphaBitch nasty]] Tania.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Muriel and David Van Arkle when they finally consummate their marriage. In contrast, adulterer Chook cannot perform with [[AlphaBitch nasty]] Tania.
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* RevealShot: After Rhonda has cheerfully informed Tania that Nicole had sex with Chook on Tania and Chook's wedding day, we cut to the "Waterloo" scene and the camera pans around the table to reveal that Nicole has a ''massive'' black eye.
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* StylisticSuck: Muriel's dancing and lip-syncing at the beginning of "Waterloo". She's clearly very unsure of herself and is only going through the motions, whereas Rhonda is really going for it. Over the course of the song Muriel gains more confidence, and by the end they're both totally into it.
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* StylisticSuck: Muriel's dancing and lip-syncing at the beginning of "Waterloo". She's clearly very unsure of herself and is only going through the motions, whereas Rhonda is really going for it. Over the course of the song Muriel gains more confidence, and by the end they're both totally into it. Even Tania and Nicole having a full-on CatFight can't put them off.
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* StylisticSuck: Muriel's dancing and lip-syncing at the beginning of "Waterloo". She's clearly very unsure of herself and is only going through the motions, whereas Rhonda is really going for it. Over the course of the song Muriel gains more confidence, and by the end they're both totally into it.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Joanie's "You're terrible, Muriel." Said with a tone of suppressed awe.
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* CoolBigSister: Joannie seems to see Muriel this way, and, compared to her other siblings, who seldom leave the house, Muriel does have some spunk and initiative.
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* CoolBigSister: Joannie Joanie seems to see Muriel this way, and, compared to her other siblings, who seldom leave the house, Muriel does have some spunk and initiative.
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%%* {{Determinator}}: Muriel given all the bad stuff that happens to her.
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** DisabledSnarker: [[spoiler: Rhonda's cancer has no effect on her snark.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Muriel given all the bad stuff that happens to her.
* {{Determinator}}: Muriel given all the bad stuff that happens to her.
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* {{Determinator}}: Muriel given all the bad stuff that happens to her.
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* HeelFaceTurn: David Van Arkle, Muriel's very unwilling groom [[spoiler: after Muriel's mother dies.]]
** Bill also in the aftermath of the aforementioned and [[spoiler: Deidre leaving him.]]
* GirlPosse: Tania, Nicole, Cheryl and Janine. Becomes a TerribleTrio after [[spoiler: Nicole is kicked out of the possee for having sex with Tania's husband]].
** Bill also in the aftermath of the aforementioned and [[spoiler: Deidre leaving him.]]
* GirlPosse: Tania, Nicole, Cheryl and Janine. Becomes a TerribleTrio after [[spoiler: Nicole is kicked out of the possee for having sex with Tania's husband]].
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** Bill also in the aftermath of the aforementioned and [[spoiler: Deidre leaving him.]]
* HeelFaceTurn:
** David Van Arkle, Muriel's very unwilling groom [[spoiler: after Muriel's mother dies.]]
** Bill also in the aftermath of the aforementioned and [[spoiler: Deidre leaving him.]]
** David Van Arkle, Muriel's very unwilling groom [[spoiler: after Muriel's mother dies.]]
** Bill also in the aftermath of the aforementioned and [[spoiler: Deidre leaving him.]]
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* HotGuyUglyWife: Muriel being ugly is YMMV (one can say she's a [[BigBeautifulWoman BBW]] whose effort at presentation falls flat), but CitizenshipMarriage husband David is a stunner.
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* HotGuyUglyWife: Muriel being is regarded as ugly is YMMV in-universe (one can say she's a [[BigBeautifulWoman BBW]] whose effort at presentation falls flat), but CitizenshipMarriage husband David is a stunner.
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* IWantSong: In her most depressed moments, Muriel will pop a tape into her cassette player and sing along to one of the myriad of Music/{{ABBA}} songs featured in the movie. (Usually ''Dancing Queen'', though, for Muriel, any [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic ABBA]] song will do.)
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Chook.
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* IWantSong: In her most depressed moments, Muriel will pop a tape into her cassette player and sing along to one of the myriad of Music/{{ABBA}} songs featured in the movie. (Usually "Dancing Queen", though, for Muriel, any ABBA song will do.)
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%%* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Chook.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Rhonda.
* ReactionShot: The guests at Muriel's wedding when ABBA's "I Do I Do I Do" blares out.
* ReactionShot: The guests at Muriel's wedding when ABBA's "I Do I Do I Do" blares out.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: ''Muriel, you're beautiful.''
* SourOutsideSadInside: David who is pressured into a marriage of convenience for the sake of his swimming career.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: ''Muriel, "Muriel, you're beautiful.''
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* SourOutsideSadInside:David David, who is pressured into a marriage of convenience for the sake of his swimming career.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: Whatever happened with David's Olympic bid? David's desire to represent Australia stemmed from a fear that his homeland South Africa would be barred from the Games. In real life South Africa ''did'' enter the 1996 Olympics, so perhaps David swam for his home country - having learned from Muriel to be true to himself.
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Whatever happened with David's Olympic bid? David's desire to represent Australia stemmed from a fear that his homeland South Africa would be barred from the Games. In real life South Africa ''did'' enter the 1996 Olympics, so perhaps David swam for his home country - having learned from Muriel to be true to himself.
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Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) is a socially inept young woman who lives in the small Australian resort town of Porpoise Spit with her [[{{Hikikomori}} shut-in siblings]], [[CloudCuckoolander mentally unstable mother]] and emotionally abusive father ([[SleazyPolitician city councilman]] Bill Heslop, played by veteran actor Bill Hunter.) Unemployed and recently ostracized from her group of [[GirlPosse stuck-up friends]], Muriel has begun to feel trapped in her life as a "nobody" and unable to fulfill her life-long dream of having the perfect wedding. Muriel jumps at the chance to impress her friends by following them to a tropical resort -- a vacation that has been financed by Muriel stealing several thousand dollars from her father's bank account.
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Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) is a socially inept young woman who lives in the small Australian resort town of Porpoise Spit with her [[{{Hikikomori}} shut-in siblings]], [[CloudCuckoolander mentally unstable mother]] and emotionally abusive father ([[SleazyPolitician city councilman]] Bill Heslop, played by veteran actor Bill Hunter.) Hunter). Unemployed and recently ostracized from her group of [[GirlPosse stuck-up friends]], Muriel has begun to feel trapped in her life as a "nobody" and unable to fulfill her life-long dream of having the perfect wedding. Muriel jumps at the chance to impress her friends by following them to a tropical resort -- a vacation that has been financed by Muriel stealing several thousand dollars from her father's bank account.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Bettie Heslop. It's implied she has some sort of mild mental problem
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* CloudCuckoolander: Bettie Betty Heslop. It's implied she has some sort of mild mental problem
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* DidNotDieThatWay: Although Muriel's mum Betty [[spoiler: committed suicide]], Bill's girlfriend Deidre tells Muriel and her siblings that Betty had succumbed to a heart attack, possibly in order to save Bill's reputation as a politician.
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* CallingTheOldManOut
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** Also Muriel frequently
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Near the end of the film, [[spoiler:Tania's husband Chook has been arrested for raping a Japanese tourist. Tania thinks it's ridiculous, because Chook ''hates'' the Japanese.]]
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Near the end of the film, [[spoiler:Tania's husband Chook has been arrested for raping a Japanese tourist. Tania thinks it's ridiculous, because Chook ''hates'' the Japanese.]]
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Near the end of the film, [[spoiler:Tania's husband Chook has been arrested for raping a Japanese tourist. Tania thinks it's ridiculous, because Chook ''hates'' the Japanese.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Tania holds a grudge against Rose Biggs for fellating Tania's husband Chook, ''on their wedding day''. However, by the end of the film, Tania and Rose are apparently on good terms again. Why? Tania fellated Rose's husband, and realized that Rose isn't so different from Tania and the rest of her clique. Which later prompts Rhonda to say, "And you three--what a bunch of cocksuckers." Which made Tania and her friends react pretty much the way you'd expect. Muriel herself behaves towards the two people who are loyal to her - Rhonda and her mother - that is not so different from how she was treated by her friends and father.
** Tania is just as obsessed with marriage as Muriel and is so anxious to stay married that she takes back her spouse, a two-time adulterer and convicted rapist. Muriel at least wises up.
** Muriel is a crook and liar just like her father but she does resolve to change at the end of the film.
** Muriel and David are both obsessed with being winners, be it through marriage or an Olympic gold medal.
** Tania is just as obsessed with marriage as Muriel and is so anxious to stay married that she takes back her spouse, a two-time adulterer and convicted rapist. Muriel at least wises up.
** Muriel is a crook and liar just like her father but she does resolve to change at the end of the film.
** Muriel and David are both obsessed with being winners, be it through marriage or an Olympic gold medal.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Tania holds a grudge against Rose Biggs for fellating Tania's husband Chook, ''on their wedding day''. However, by the end of the film, Tania and Rose are apparently on good terms again. Why? Tania fellated Rose's husband, and realized that Rose isn't so different from Tania and the rest of her clique. Which later prompts Rhonda to say, "And you three--what a bunch of cocksuckers." Which made Tania and her friends react pretty much the way you'd expect. Muriel herself behaves towards the two people who are loyal to her - Rhonda and her mother - that is not so different from how she was treated by her friends and father.
** Tania is just as obsessed with marriage as Muriel and is so anxious to stay married that she takes back her spouse, a two-time adulterer and convicted rapist. Muriel at least wises up.
** Muriel is a crook and liar just like her father but she does resolve to change at the end of the film.
** Muriel and David are both obsessed with being winners, be it through marriage or an Olympic gold medal.father.
** Tania is just as obsessed with marriage as Muriel and is so anxious to stay married that she takes back her spouse, a two-time adulterer and convicted rapist. Muriel at least wises up.
** Muriel is a crook and liar just like her father but she does resolve to change at the end of the film.
** Muriel and David are both obsessed with being winners, be it through marriage or an Olympic gold medal.
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: Whatever happened with David's Olympic bid? David's desire to represent Australia stemmed from a fear that his homeland South Africa would be barred from the Games. In real life South Africa 'did' enter the 1996 Olympics, so perhaps David swam for his home country - having learned from Muriel to be true to himself.
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: Whatever happened with David's Olympic bid? David's desire to represent Australia stemmed from a fear that his homeland South Africa would be barred from the Games. In real life South Africa 'did' ''did'' enter the 1996 Olympics, so perhaps David swam for his home country - having learned from Muriel to be true to himself.
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: Whatever happened with David's Olympic bid?
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse?: Whatever happened with David's Olympic bid?bid? David's desire to represent Australia stemmed from a fear that his homeland South Africa would be barred from the Games. In real life South Africa 'did' enter the 1996 Olympics, so perhaps David swam for his home country - having learned from Muriel to be true to himself.
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* TheBogan: Most of the characters depicted (especially Muriel’s family and her vile “friends”) are bogans of the cashed-up variety.
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* PartingWordsRegret: [[spoiler:One of Muriel's brothers calls their mother a "mad bitch," which is the last thing she hears before she commits suicide. The next time we see him, he looks deeply ashamed.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: Chook and Bill Heslop.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Brice, Muriel's first boyfriend.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Tania and her clique. Though how educated they actually are isn't clear, but nevertheless, they're certainly very much shallow, superficial, and profoundly clueless.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Tania and her clique. Though how educated they actually are isn't clear, clear but nevertheless, they're certainly very much shallow, superficial, and profoundly clueless.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Tania and her clique. Though how educated they actually are isn't clear, but nevertheless, they're certainly very much shallow and superficially clueless.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Tania and her clique. Though how educated they actually are isn't clear, but nevertheless, they're certainly very much shallow shallow, superficial, and superficially profoundly clueless.