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* MurderDotCom: During the final dare, the watchers vote on whether Ty should shoot Vee. The vote is yes.
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* MurderDotCom: During the final dare, the [[spoiler:the watchers vote on whether Ty should shoot Vee. The vote is yes.yes, but he and Vee [[FakingTheDead fake it]].]]
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* MurderDotCom: During the final dare, the watchers vote on whether Ty should shoot Vee. The vote is yes.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Tommy does not get to be with Vee, although it's implied he has a shot with Sydney.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Vee picks Ian to make out with because he just so ''happened'' to be a cute guy who was sitting alone in a booth reading her favorite book. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it's not a coincidence -- he admits a watcher came in and handed him the book just before Vee arrived.]]
* CuteBookworm: Vee is incredibly pretty, and spends a good minute having an {{Adorkable}} gush-fest over her favorite book when she sees Ian reading it.
* EverythingIsOnline: A major plot point. After Vee signs up for the game, the game then looks into all her social media pages and everywhere she's mentioned on the internet, and is able to learn effectively everything about her, right down to her favorite book. This is also how the watchers know about Sydney's fear of heights. [[spoiler:It's ''also'' how the game's able to hold Ty and Ian prisoner -- since all their personal information is online, and they handed it over to Nerve, they could easily leak it all.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: The mall dares result in Emma Roberts and David Franco stripping down to their underwear. Let that image sink in.
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* {{Fanservice}}: The mall dares result in Emma Roberts and David Dave Franco stripping down to their underwear. Let that image sink in.
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* IronicName: Vee's full name is "Venus," which she deems ironic due to her terrible luck with boys. (Venus is the Roman goddess of love and sex.) [[spoiler:It becomes less ironic at the movie's end.]]
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* NoodleIncident: We never find out how Michael died.
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* WorthyOpponent: Ty considers Sydney to be this, and even suggests they team up. Sydney does ''not'' return the sentiment. [[spoiler:He also gains a large amount of respect for Vee, but by then, they're not really opponents anymore.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Vee's father is never seen nor mentioned, and it's very clear it's just her and her mom since her brother's death.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Vee's mother outlived Vee's older brother Michael. [[spoiler:At the climax, she thinks it's happened ''again'' when Vee "dies."]]
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* AdultFear: Vee's mother spends much of the film not sure where her daughter is, wondering about the suspicious transactions going on in her account.
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* AdultFear: Vee's mother spends much of the film not sure where her daughter is, wondering about the suspicious transactions going on in her account. [[spoiler:At the climax, she ''sees Vee get shot and die''. Granted, Vee was faking it, but her mother didn't know that! Then you remember that Vee's brother died sometime before the story starts...]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Ty gets a very sympathetic treatment compared to his literary counterpart: Book!Ty was only in it for the prizes and had no problem with the possibility of killing someone to get them. Film!Ty [[spoiler: is being forced to play the game against his will. Eventually, he teams up with Vee to bring an end to it.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: AdaptationalHeroism:
** Ty gets a very sympathetic treatment compared to his literary counterpart: Book!Ty was only in it for the prizes and had no problem with the possibility of killing someone to get them. Film!Ty [[spoiler: is being forced to play the game against his will. Eventually, he teams up with Vee to bring an end to it.]]
** Tommy also gets treated better, as the film removes the plot point about him [[spoiler: giving personal information about Vee to Nerve in exchange for prizes.]]
** Ty gets a very sympathetic treatment compared to his literary counterpart: Book!Ty was only in it for the prizes and had no problem with the possibility of killing someone to get them. Film!Ty [[spoiler: is being forced to play the game against his will. Eventually, he teams up with Vee to bring an end to it.]]
** Tommy also gets treated better, as the film removes the plot point about him [[spoiler: giving personal information about Vee to Nerve in exchange for prizes.]]
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* AdaptedOut: The book strongly implies that there is a wealthy and powerful organization behind Nerve (which is how the developers are able to do things like offer Vee a full-ride to fashion school and a prestigious internship as prizes). The film never addresses how the game is financed and places the blame for Vee's situation solely on the Watchers.
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* AdaptedOut: AdaptedOut:
** The book strongly implies that there is a wealthy and powerful organization behind Nerve (which is how the developers are able to do things like offer Vee a full-ride to fashion school and a prestigious internship as prizes). The film never addresses how the game is financed and places the blame for Vee's situation solely on theWatchers.Watchers.
** Three of the six finalists from the book (Micki, Jen, and Samuel) aren't present in the film.
** The book strongly implies that there is a wealthy and powerful organization behind Nerve (which is how the developers are able to do things like offer Vee a full-ride to fashion school and a prestigious internship as prizes). The film never addresses how the game is financed and places the blame for Vee's situation solely on the
** Three of the six finalists from the book (Micki, Jen, and Samuel) aren't present in the film.
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* GladToBeAliveSex: PG-rated version. After they survive driving at 60 MPH while Ian was blindfolded, Vee pulls him into a ''huge'' kiss.
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** Ian used to be a player in Seattle before coming to New York. Seattle was the setting of the novel.
** Ian's real name turns out to be Sam. In the novel, one of the Seattle finalists was named Samuel.
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** Ian used to be a player in Seattle before coming to New York. Seattle was the setting of the novel.
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** [[spoiler: Ian's real name turns out to beSam.Sam]]. In the novel, one of the Seattle finalists was named Samuel.
** [[spoiler: Ian's real name turns out to be
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Watchers Have Standards]]: The Watchers may have been OK with the several other dangerous dares they had witnessed but [[spoiler: when it appears that they have witnessed a murder]], no one hesitates to log out of Nerve.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Nerve's biggest strength is also it's biggest weakness: Each Watcher is essentially a server unto themselves, so as long as there's at least one Watcher, the game can never be shut down. [[spoiler: However, that means that if ''all'' of the Watchers quit, the game will crash due to not having any servers to run on.]]
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* EncorcedMethodActing: InUniverse. Vee doesn't tell Ian about [[spoiler: her plan with Ty to fake her own murder]], so his reaction is very real.
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* EncorcedMethodActing: EnforcedMethodActing: InUniverse. Vee doesn't tell Ian about [[spoiler: her plan with Ty to fake her own murder]], so his reaction is very real.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Ty gets a very sympathetic treatment compared to his literary counterpart: Book!Ty was only in it for the prizes and had no problem with the possibility of killing someone to get them. Film!Ty [[spoiler: is being forced to play the game against his will. Eventually, he teams up with Vee to bring an end to it.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Watchers are presented in a much more sinister light than they were in the novel, given that the film presents them as solely responsible for everything that happens (see AdaptedOut below).
* AdaptedOut: The book strongly implies that there is a wealthy and powerful organization behind Nerve (which is how the developers are able to do things like offer Vee a full-ride to fashion school and a prestigious internship as prizes). The film never addresses how the game is financed and places the blame for Vee's situation solely on the Watchers.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Watchers are presented in a much more sinister light than they were in the novel, given that the film presents them as solely responsible for everything that happens (see AdaptedOut below).
* AdaptedOut: The book strongly implies that there is a wealthy and powerful organization behind Nerve (which is how the developers are able to do things like offer Vee a full-ride to fashion school and a prestigious internship as prizes). The film never addresses how the game is financed and places the blame for Vee's situation solely on the Watchers.
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** Ian used to be a player in Seattle before coming to New York. Seattle was the setting of the novel.
** Ian's real name turns out to be Sam. In the novel, one of the Seattle finalists was named Samuel.
** Ian used to be a player in Seattle before coming to New York. Seattle was the setting of the novel.
** Ian's real name turns out to be Sam. In the novel, one of the Seattle finalists was named Samuel.
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* Fanservice: The mall dares result in Emma Roberts and David Franco stripping down to their underwear. Let that image sink in.
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* Fanservice: {{Fanservice}}: The mall dares result in Emma Roberts and David Franco stripping down to their underwear. Let that image sink in.
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* Troll: Some of the people commenting on Vee's game, particularly during her Dress dare, could qualify as this.
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* Troll: {{Troll}}: Some of the people commenting on Vee's game, particularly during her Dress dare, could qualify as this.
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* Fanservice: The mall dares result in Emma Roberts and David Franco stripping down to their underwear. Let that image sink in.
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** A scene from the trailer shows Vee trying to report the game to a police officer, who then says, "Vee, don't do it," followed by Vee fearfully asking him how he knows her name. While Vee DOES try to go to the police, this exchange between them doesn't happen in the movie.
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** A scene from the trailer shows Vee trying to report the game to a police officer, who then says, "Vee, don't do it," followed by Vee fearfully asking him how he knows her name. While Vee DOES try to go to the police, cop, this exchange between them doesn't happen in the movie.
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Watchers Have Standards]]: The Watchers may have been OK with the several other dangerous dares they had witnessed but [[spoiler: when it appears that they have witnessed a murder]], no one hesitates to log out of Nerve.
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** At the very end, [[spoiler:when Azhar and Tommy manage to override Nerve's system and reveal all the watcher's real names, they all get a message along with their screen names changing to their legal names: "YOU ARE AN ACCOMPLICE TO MURDER."]]
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** At the very end, [[spoiler:when Azhar and Tommy manage to override Nerve's system and reveal all the watcher's real names, they all get a message along with their screen names changing to their legal names: "YOU ARE AN ACCOMPLICE ACCESSORY TO MURDER."]]
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* Troll: Some of the people commenting on Vee's game, particularly during her Dress dare, could qualify as this.
* Troll: Some of the people commenting on Vee's game, particularly during her Dress dare, could qualify as this.
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->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf:]]''' That title makes you think, doesn't it?\\
'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Statler:]]''' Makes me think what?\\
'''Waldorf:''' Who in the right mind would actually have the ''[[{{Pun}} nerve]]'' to produce this schlock?\\
'''Statler:''' Hey, you're right! It ''does'' make me think that!
->'''Both:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf:]]''' That title makes you think, doesn't it?\\
'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Statler:]]''' Makes me think what?\\
'''Waldorf:''' Who in the right mind would actually have the ''[[{{Pun}} nerve]]'' to produce this schlock?\\
'''Statler:''' Hey, you're right! It ''does'' make me think that!
->'''Both:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
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* {{Badass}}: Players, by definition, have to be this in order to stay in the game, or even ''survive'' as the dares get more and more dangerous. [[spoiler:Ty even comments on what a badass Vee's become by the end.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Vee is a sweet, shy girl, who is ''terrifying'' when she's mad. Just as Sydney.
** Ian is, for the most part, a very nice fellow. [[spoiler:A very nice fellow who was perfectly willing to kill Ty for murdering Vee, and would've done it had Vee not revealed she was still alive before he had a chance to shoot.]]
** Vee is a sweet, shy girl, who is ''terrifying'' when she's mad. Just as Sydney.
** Ian is, for the most part, a very nice fellow. [[spoiler:A very nice fellow who was perfectly willing to kill Ty for murdering Vee, and would've done it had Vee not revealed she was still alive before he had a chance to shoot.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: Vee, who goes from a somewhat hesitant participant in Nerve to [[spoiler:the girl who helped bring the game down.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:After Vee nearly dies, Sydney starts being ''much'' nicer to her, and is a key role in ending the game. Ty, too, turns out to not be so bad.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:After Vee nearly dies, Sydney starts being ''much'' nicer to her, and is a key role in ending the game. Ty, too, turns out to not be so bad.]]
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: [[spoiler:We don't know about Ty and Vee's plan until it's already happened, but it goes off without a hitch.]]
* WasItAllALie: Vee wonders this when [[spoiler:it's revealed Ian purposely provoked a fight between her and Sydney on a dare. However, when he reveals he literally ''can't'' refuse a dare, she almost immediately understands his situation and forgives him.]]
* WasItAllALie: Vee wonders this when [[spoiler:it's revealed Ian purposely provoked a fight between her and Sydney on a dare. However, when he reveals he literally ''can't'' refuse a dare, she almost immediately understands his situation and forgives him.]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: To be fair, most of them are LockedOutOfTheLoop.
* CreepyMonotone: The Nerve app reads dares and instructions in this manner.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of Vee's brother is heavily implied to have been this for their mother.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of Vee's brother is heavily implied to have been this for their mother.
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* DirtyCoward: Many of the watchers, especially at the end. [[spoiler:They'll gleefully egg on players to shoot each other, kidnap them and threaten to steal their identities if they tell the authorities, and ''vote for Vee to die'', but either from the privacy of their own homes, or hiding behind masks. And ''none'' of them use their real name on the app.]]
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* DirtyCoward: Many of the watchers, especially at the end. [[spoiler:They'll gleefully egg on players to shoot each other, kidnap them and threaten to steal their identities if they tell the authorities, and ''vote for Vee to die'', but either from the privacy of their own homes, or hiding behind masks. And ''none'' of them use their real name on the app. Vee and her friends exploit this, faking her death and informing the watchers that they're all now accomplices to murder, leading to them panicking and logging off.]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler:How else do you describe a girl who's willing to fake her own death and exploit the watchers' cowardice to get the game shut down?]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ian tells Vee to just shoot him, so she can win and go free, risking either dying or being seriously injured and still being a prisoner. Vee and Ty have a better idea.]]
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** [[spoiler:Ian tells Vee to just shoot him, so she can win and go free, risking either dying or being seriously injured and still being a prisoner. Vee and Ty have a better idea.]]
** [[spoiler:That better idea is ''staging'' a heroic sacrifice for Vee. Ty "shoots" her (actually blanks and fake blood), and Vee pretends to die. This scares all the watchers into logging off, crashing the game. It worked so well, Ian, who wasn't in on it, nearly kills Ty for it.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Sydney, right before taking on a dare that exploits her fear of heights. [[spoiler:It doesn't help.]]
** [[spoiler:Ian tells Vee to just shoot him, so she can win and go free, risking either dying or being seriously injured and still being a prisoner. Vee and Ty have a better idea.]]
** [[spoiler:That better idea is ''staging'' a heroic sacrifice for Vee. Ty "shoots" her (actually blanks and fake blood), and Vee pretends to die. This scares all the watchers into logging off, crashing the game. It worked so well, Ian, who wasn't in on it, nearly kills Ty for it.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Sydney, right before taking on a dare that exploits her fear of heights. [[spoiler:It doesn't help.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:As far as we know, the creators of Nerve get no comeuppance beyond the game being shut down.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:As far as we know, the creators of Nerve get no comeuppance beyond the game being shut down. Also, since Vee didn't ''really'' die, the watchers aren't really accomplices to murder, and with the game gone, there's no proof that they voted for her to die. Though at least ''they'' don't know that, so they'll have to cope with the guilt (and looking over their shoulder for law enforcement) for the rest of their lives.]]
* LargeHam: Ty [[ChewingTheScenery sure is enjoying that scenery]]. At the climax, almost every word he says is screamed, with some very hammy facial expressions. [[spoiler:Turns out to be totally justified at the climax, though. The reason he's acting so over-the-top is because it's just that -- acting.]]
* LargeHam: Ty [[ChewingTheScenery sure is enjoying that scenery]]. At the climax, almost every word he says is screamed, with some very hammy facial expressions. [[spoiler:Turns out to be totally justified at the climax, though. The reason he's acting so over-the-top is because it's just that -- acting.]]
* ThePowerOfActing: [[spoiler:Ty and Vee put on a ''damn'' convincing show.]]
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* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Vee and Ian kiss after the blindfolded motorcycle ride, but it only becomes offical at the end of the film.]]
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Venus "Vee" Delmonico is a high school senior who has spent her whole life following the crowd, watching her more daring best friend Sydney take risks and have fun. One day, she decides to sign up for a game called Nerve, which is described as "truth or dare, without the truth." Players take on dares for cash rewards. Watchers pay to watch and suggest dares. The game is dangerous and highly illegal, and all who sign up are warned, snitches get stitches. Vee chooses to sign up as a player, and her first dare is to kiss a stranger for five seconds. The guy she chooses, Ian, is also a player, and the watchers soon decide they like Vee and Ian together, and send them more dares to do together. Vee's having fun at first, but the stakes soon grow too high, and Vee realizes she has to bail, and, preferably, get shut down. But the creators of Nerve weren't kidding when they said "snitches" would be punished, and the watchers demand a show...
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Venus "Vee" Delmonico is a high school senior who has spent her whole life following the crowd, watching her more daring best friend Sydney take risks and have fun. One day, she decides to sign up for a game called Nerve, which is described as "truth or dare, without the truth." Players take on dares for cash rewards. Watchers pay to watch and suggest dares. The game is dangerous and highly illegal, and all who sign up are warned, snitches get stitches. Vee chooses to sign up as a player, and her first dare is to kiss a stranger for five seconds. The guy she chooses, Ian, is also a player, and the watchers soon decide they like Vee and Ian together, and send them more dares to do together. Vee's having fun at first, but the stakes soon grow too high, and Vee realizes she has to bail, and, preferably, get the game shut down. But the creators of Nerve weren't kidding when they said "snitches" would be punished, and the watchers demand a show...
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* AttentionWhore: Sydney ''loves'' being the center of attention, which is why she's so good at Nerve.
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:Ty, probably. He comes off as a totally unhinged player who doesn't care what he has to do to win, but it eventually becomes apparent that he's only doing it because he ''has'' to play. At the end, when he's free, he seems pretty together, though shaken by what's happened. The aggressive, crazy guy act was probably just his method of coping.]]
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* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Ty apologizes to Vee just before knocking her out.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Ty isn't the main antagonist, as the trailers and the first 90% of the movie would have you believe. He's a prisoner and can't escape from the game, just like Ian, and becomes Vee's ally at the end.]]
* TrailersAlwaysLie:
** The trailers give the impression Vee's friends told her to play Nerve. In the actual movie, they suggested she sign up, but as a ''watcher'', and were utterly shocked that she chose to be a player.
** [[spoiler:They also give the impression that Ty is the BigBad, but he's not. To be fair, this was probably to hide the fact that he becomes a good guy at the end.]]
** The trailers give the impression Vee's friends told her to play Nerve. In the actual movie, they suggested she sign up, but as a ''watcher'', and were utterly shocked that she chose to be a player.
** [[spoiler:They also give the impression that Ty is the BigBad, but he's not. To be fair, this was probably to hide the fact that he becomes a good guy at the end.]]
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* BringMeMyRedJacket: Literally! [[spoiler:Vee wears a red hoodie at the climax, and gets shot. Subverted in that she doesn't actually die, and the whole thing was staged.]]
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* BringMeMyRedJacket: BringMyRedJacket: Literally! [[spoiler:Vee wears a red hoodie at the climax, and gets shot. Subverted in that she doesn't actually die, and the whole thing was staged.]]
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** Sydney's terrified of heights, and gets a dare to walk across a gap between two windows on a ladder, several meters from the ground. [[spoiler:She can't do it.]]
** Ian later gets a similar dare. [[spoiler:He has to hang from a crane, one-handed, for five seconds. Bear in mind, this is how his friend ''died'' playing Nerve. And the watchers ''know'' this. He makes it, but is clearly terrified the whole time.]]
** Sydney's terrified of heights, and gets a dare to walk across a gap between two windows on a ladder, several meters from the ground. [[spoiler:She can't do it.]]
** Ian later gets a similar dare. [[spoiler:He has to hang from a crane, one-handed, for five seconds. Bear in mind, this is how his friend ''died'' playing Nerve. And the watchers ''know'' this. He makes it, but is clearly terrified the whole time.]]
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[[caption-width-right:220:Do you have the nerve?]]
-->''Welcome to Nerve. Are you a watcher or a player?''
A 2016 technothriller starring Creator/EmmaRoberts and Dave Franco.
Venus "Vee" Delmonico is a high school senior who has spent her whole life following the crowd, watching her more daring best friend Sydney take risks and have fun. One day, she decides to sign up for a game called Nerve, which is described as "truth or dare, without the truth." Players take on dares for cash rewards. Watchers pay to watch and suggest dares. The game is dangerous and highly illegal, and all who sign up are warned, snitches get stitches. Vee chooses to sign up as a player, and her first dare is to kiss a stranger for five seconds. The guy she chooses, Ian, is also a player, and the watchers soon decide they like Vee and Ian together, and send them more dares to do together. Vee's having fun at first, but the stakes soon grow too high, and Vee realizes she has to bail, and, preferably, get shut down. But the creators of Nerve weren't kidding when they said "snitches" would be punished, and the watchers demand a show...
!!Dare: Read about the tropes found in this movie. $500. Do you accept?
* ActionSurvivor: Vee is ''not'' cut out for a lot of what she goes through over the course of the movie, but she pulls through.
* AdrenalineJunkie: Sydney, by her own admission.
* AdultFear: Vee's mother spends much of the film not sure where her daughter is, wondering about the suspicious transactions going on in her account.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Vee likes J.P., who barely knows she exists, and Tommy likes Vee, who doesn't notice.
* AllOrNothing: There's no second place in Nerve. You either get all the money, or you get squat.
* AlphaBitch: Syndey is way more popular than Vee, and ''much'' bitchier. [[spoiler:She learns better by the end.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Ty may be totally nuts and rather aggressive, but then you realize he, like Ian, is trapped in the game, and literally can't stop playing until he wins. And he teams up with Vee in the end to help put an end to the game.]]
* ArcWords: "Are you a watcher or a player?"
* BlackAndNerdy: Azhar, Tommy's hacker friend.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Azhar turns out to be pivotal in bringing the game down.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Ian and Ty played the game the year previous in Seattle, but after their friend died while playing, they tried to "snitch," only to be kidnapped, have all their personal information stolen, as well as that of their family, and losing all their money. They then became prisoners, and cannot opt out of the game. The only way out is to win.]]
* DirtyCoward: Many of the watchers, especially at the end. [[spoiler:They'll gleefully egg on players to shoot each other, kidnap them and threaten to steal their identities if they tell the authorities, and ''vote for Vee to die'', but either from the privacy of their own homes, or hiding behind masks. And ''none'' of them use their real name on the app.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Ty may be willing to go extremely far for the sake of the game, but he will ''not'' kill Vee, and agrees to help Vee and her friends end the game once and for all at the end.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole movie encompasses one ''very'' stressful night.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Vee, as part of a plan between her and Ty, pretends to get shot to scare all the watchers into logging off, effectively crashing the game.]]
* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:Ian's actually named Sam. "Ian" is a name he took on after he became a prisoner of the game.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ian tells Vee to just shoot him, so she can win and go free, risking either dying or being seriously injured and still being a prisoner. Vee and Ty have a better idea.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:As far as we know, the creators of Nerve get no comeuppance beyond the game being shut down.]]
* LonelyRichKid: [[spoiler:Sydney, according to Vee.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Many watchers wear masks to hide their identities.
* TheMostDangerousGame: [[spoiler:The final challenge of Nerve, should you be one of the top two at the end of the night? Shoot the other finalist. Vee and Ty refuse to play ball.]]
* OptOut: There are three ways to stop playing Nerve. Fail, where you screw up a dare and get eliminated, bail, where you say "screw it" and just leave (this trope), and winning, where you make it to the final two and complete the final dare.
* PlayfulHacker: Both Tommy and Azhar, but especially Azhar, are nice, friendly people who have an interest in the darkweb and computer hacking.
* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler:Vee tries to tell an officer about the game to shut it down. Not only does this fail, it gets her kidnapped and nearly gets her killed.
* ReallyGetsAround: Sydney, according to Vee.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: "Bailing" is this, where players decide to quit playing altogether. [[spoiler:Syndey does this about halfway through. Ian and Ty, however, have no such option, as they are "prisoners" -- people who tried to snitch, and now aren't allowed to stop playing until they either die or win, for threat of having their identities stolen and all their personal information leaked.]]
* ShamingTheMob:
** At the film's climax, Vee reprimands the watchers for being willing to dare people to [[spoiler:literally ''kill'' each other for entertainment]], while they themselves hide behind masks and anonymous screen names. [[spoiler:Some listen to her, but not enough.]]
** At the very end, [[spoiler:when Azhar and Tommy manage to override Nerve's system and reveal all the watcher's real names, they all get a message along with their screen names changing to their legal names: "YOU ARE AN ACCOMPLICE TO MURDER."]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Vee goes to [=CalArts=] and continues dating Ian, or rather, Sam.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Vee and Sydney, to the point where you wonder why Vee even sticks around.
!!Dare completed.
[[caption-width-right:220:Do you have the nerve?]]
-->''Welcome to Nerve. Are you a watcher or a player?''
A 2016 technothriller starring Creator/EmmaRoberts and Dave Franco.
Venus "Vee" Delmonico is a high school senior who has spent her whole life following the crowd, watching her more daring best friend Sydney take risks and have fun. One day, she decides to sign up for a game called Nerve, which is described as "truth or dare, without the truth." Players take on dares for cash rewards. Watchers pay to watch and suggest dares. The game is dangerous and highly illegal, and all who sign up are warned, snitches get stitches. Vee chooses to sign up as a player, and her first dare is to kiss a stranger for five seconds. The guy she chooses, Ian, is also a player, and the watchers soon decide they like Vee and Ian together, and send them more dares to do together. Vee's having fun at first, but the stakes soon grow too high, and Vee realizes she has to bail, and, preferably, get shut down. But the creators of Nerve weren't kidding when they said "snitches" would be punished, and the watchers demand a show...
!!Dare: Read about the tropes found in this movie. $500. Do you accept?
* ActionSurvivor: Vee is ''not'' cut out for a lot of what she goes through over the course of the movie, but she pulls through.
* AdrenalineJunkie: Sydney, by her own admission.
* AdultFear: Vee's mother spends much of the film not sure where her daughter is, wondering about the suspicious transactions going on in her account.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Vee likes J.P., who barely knows she exists, and Tommy likes Vee, who doesn't notice.
* AllOrNothing: There's no second place in Nerve. You either get all the money, or you get squat.
* AlphaBitch: Syndey is way more popular than Vee, and ''much'' bitchier. [[spoiler:She learns better by the end.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Ty may be totally nuts and rather aggressive, but then you realize he, like Ian, is trapped in the game, and literally can't stop playing until he wins. And he teams up with Vee in the end to help put an end to the game.]]
* ArcWords: "Are you a watcher or a player?"
* BlackAndNerdy: Azhar, Tommy's hacker friend.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Azhar turns out to be pivotal in bringing the game down.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Ian and Ty played the game the year previous in Seattle, but after their friend died while playing, they tried to "snitch," only to be kidnapped, have all their personal information stolen, as well as that of their family, and losing all their money. They then became prisoners, and cannot opt out of the game. The only way out is to win.]]
* DirtyCoward: Many of the watchers, especially at the end. [[spoiler:They'll gleefully egg on players to shoot each other, kidnap them and threaten to steal their identities if they tell the authorities, and ''vote for Vee to die'', but either from the privacy of their own homes, or hiding behind masks. And ''none'' of them use their real name on the app.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Ty may be willing to go extremely far for the sake of the game, but he will ''not'' kill Vee, and agrees to help Vee and her friends end the game once and for all at the end.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole movie encompasses one ''very'' stressful night.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Vee, as part of a plan between her and Ty, pretends to get shot to scare all the watchers into logging off, effectively crashing the game.]]
* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:Ian's actually named Sam. "Ian" is a name he took on after he became a prisoner of the game.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ian tells Vee to just shoot him, so she can win and go free, risking either dying or being seriously injured and still being a prisoner. Vee and Ty have a better idea.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:As far as we know, the creators of Nerve get no comeuppance beyond the game being shut down.]]
* LonelyRichKid: [[spoiler:Sydney, according to Vee.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Many watchers wear masks to hide their identities.
* TheMostDangerousGame: [[spoiler:The final challenge of Nerve, should you be one of the top two at the end of the night? Shoot the other finalist. Vee and Ty refuse to play ball.]]
* OptOut: There are three ways to stop playing Nerve. Fail, where you screw up a dare and get eliminated, bail, where you say "screw it" and just leave (this trope), and winning, where you make it to the final two and complete the final dare.
* PlayfulHacker: Both Tommy and Azhar, but especially Azhar, are nice, friendly people who have an interest in the darkweb and computer hacking.
* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler:Vee tries to tell an officer about the game to shut it down. Not only does this fail, it gets her kidnapped and nearly gets her killed.
* ReallyGetsAround: Sydney, according to Vee.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: "Bailing" is this, where players decide to quit playing altogether. [[spoiler:Syndey does this about halfway through. Ian and Ty, however, have no such option, as they are "prisoners" -- people who tried to snitch, and now aren't allowed to stop playing until they either die or win, for threat of having their identities stolen and all their personal information leaked.]]
* ShamingTheMob:
** At the film's climax, Vee reprimands the watchers for being willing to dare people to [[spoiler:literally ''kill'' each other for entertainment]], while they themselves hide behind masks and anonymous screen names. [[spoiler:Some listen to her, but not enough.]]
** At the very end, [[spoiler:when Azhar and Tommy manage to override Nerve's system and reveal all the watcher's real names, they all get a message along with their screen names changing to their legal names: "YOU ARE AN ACCOMPLICE TO MURDER."]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Vee goes to [=CalArts=] and continues dating Ian, or rather, Sam.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Vee and Sydney, to the point where you wonder why Vee even sticks around.
!!Dare completed.
