History Film / Nerve

* {{GIFT}}: Half of Nerve's users are the Watchers who make the Players humiliate\endanger themselves behind the safety of hiding themselves behind screen names. [[spoiler: Then Tommy and the hacker collective remove their anonymity, and the Watchers all leave the game to avoid the offline repercussions.]]

* {{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.]]

* TattooAsCharacterType: Of the "personal emblem" variety. One of Vee's dares is to let Ian pick out a tattoo for her to get. He teases her a couple times, pretending to choose something ridiculous, but his ''actual'' choice is really quite sweet: [[spoiler:the image of a lighthouse on her shoulder, because ''To the Lighthouse'' is Vee's favorite book, and the book Ian was reading when they first met.]]

* 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.]]

* TattooAsCharacterType: Of the "personal emblem" variety. One of Vee's dares is to let Ian pick out a tattoo for her to get. He teases her a couple times, pretending to choose something ridiculous, but his ''actual'' choice is really quite sweet: [[spoiler:the image of a lighthouse on her shoulder, because "To the Lighthouse" is Vee's favorite book, and the book Ian was reading when they first met.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Vee gives a particularly brutal one to Sydney at the party, calling her out on her selfish, insensitive behavior. Sydney kinda deserves it for bringing up Vee's deceased brother, though.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Square in the cynical side. Indeed, the movie has a happy ending but the final dares show that most of the watchers (who conform the majority of people involved in the game) are quite awful people.

* BigApplesauce: The film takes place in New York City (the book was in the other coast, namely Seattle).

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[[caption-width-right:220:Do you have the nerve?]]

-->''Welcome to Nerve. Are you a watcher or a player?''

!!Dare completed.

* GladToBeAliveSex: PG-rated version. After they survive driving at 60 MPH while Ian was blindfolded, Vee pulls him into a BigDamnKiss.

!!Dare completed.

->'''[[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!

* 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.]]

* BigBad: [[TheGhost Whoever the hell created Nerve and is responsible for this mess.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Vee gives a particularly brutal one to Sydney at the party, calling her out on her selfish, insensitive behavior.

* 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.]]

** [[spoiler:"No" could've won. Indeed, had the movie been slightly more idealistic, they couldn't have shamed the watchers into logging off. Then again, they probably wouldn't have needed to.]]

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: The Watchers give Vee and Ian the fancy clothes they tried as a dare.

* BigApplesauce: The film takes place in New York City.
* BigBad: Whoever the hell created Nerve and is responsible for this mess.

* GladToBeAliveSex: PG-rated version. After they survive driving at 60 MPH while Ian was blindfolded, Vee pulls him into a ''huge'' kiss.

* {{Mooning}}: The first dare Sydney is shown performing is mooning the crowd at a pep rally: bending oven and flipping up her cheerleader skirt to reveal she is not wearing underwear.

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Vee is wearing panties with a cartoon panda face on the butt. When she strips down to her underwear to change into the fancy dress, one of the watchers comments on this and wondering how old she is.

* HackerCave: The backroom of The Cloud is set up as one.