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* PredatoryBigPharma: Ray's wife and Rachel's mother dies of cancer because the company pulls the miracle medication that was curing her in order to make money. Diana Morgan also turned to the dark side, and away from her initial goal of affordable healthcare, after taking bribes from the company.

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* PredatoryBigPharma: Ray's wife and Rachel's mother dies of cancer because the pharmaceutical company pulls that was making the miracle medication that was curing her pulled it in order to make money. Diana Morgan also turned to the dark side, and away from her initial goal of affordable healthcare, after taking bribes from the company.
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* CrusadingWidow: Ray, after the death of his wife.[[spoiler:..or so you are led to think...]]

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* CrusadingWidow: CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife.[[spoiler:..or so you are led to think...]]
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* PredatoryBigPharma: Ray's wife and Rachel's mother dies of cancer because the company pulls the miracle medication that was curing her in order to make money. Diana Morgan also turned to the dark side, and away from her initial goal of affordable healthcare, after taking bribes from the company.
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Ray is living a happy life in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} with his wife and daughter, when his wife develops cancer and ends up dying because a large pharmaceutical company pulls the miracle drug that could save her life. Later, Ray is contacted by a journalist who has uncovered a conspiracy to profit behind the company's actions. After the journalist is murdered, Ray decides to investigate things himself. Unfortunately, his daughter follows.

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Ray (Momoa) is living a happy life in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} with his wife Amanda (Creator/AdriaArjona) and daughter, daughter Rachel (Merced), when his wife develops cancer and ends up dying because a large pharmaceutical company pulls the miracle drug that could save her life. Later, Ray is contacted by a journalist who has uncovered a conspiracy to profit behind the company's actions. After the journalist is murdered, Ray decides to investigate things himself. Unfortunately, his daughter follows.
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* PlayingGertrude: Adria Arjona is a mere nine years older than her onscreen daughter Isabela Merced.
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* CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife.[[spoiler:..or so you are led to think...]]

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* CrusadingWidower: CrusadingWidow: Ray, after the death of his wife.[[spoiler:..or so you are led to think...]]
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* ActionGirl: One of Rachel's introductory scenes is at a boxing club receiving lessons from [[ActionDad her]] [[PapaWolf father]] and ends up joining forces with him to avenge her mother's death. [[spoiler:This is taken UpToEleven by the plot twist.]]

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* ActionGirl: One of Rachel's introductory scenes is at a boxing club receiving lessons from [[ActionDad her]] [[PapaWolf father]] and ends up joining forces with him to avenge her mother's death. [[spoiler:This is taken UpToEleven up to eleven by the plot twist.]]
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* ImplacableMan: Everyone in the film seems to be held up be distances and travel except Santos the hitman, who can always end up exactly where he needs to be.

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* ImplacableMan: Everyone in the film seems to be held up be by distances and travel except Santos the hitman, who can always end up exactly where he needs to be.
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** Jason Momoa is a big guy, yet Ray consistently struggles with opponents that are half his size. [[spoiler:In reality, the dynamic is reversed, and Rachel is the one fighting at a size disadvantage.]]
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''Sweet Girl'' is a 2021 American action thriller film released on Creator/Netflix, starring Creator/JasonMomoa and Creator/IsabelaMerced.

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''Sweet Girl'' is a 2021 American action thriller film released on Creator/Netflix, Creator/{{Netflix}}, starring Creator/JasonMomoa and Creator/IsabelaMerced.

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* DeadlineNews: The reported who tells Ray about the coverup dies fairly quickly.

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* DeadlineNews: The reported reporter who tells Ray about the coverup dies fairly quickly.


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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Rachel is a short, fairly small young woman who remains capable of holding her own against bigger opponents due to the intensive training in combat she received from her father.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The tagline itself, "Family fights as one." [[spoiler:The PlotTwist is that Ray has been ''Rachel'' this entire time, seeking revenge for the deaths of her mother and her father, whom she has been hallucinating herself as.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
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The tagline itself, "Family fights as one." [[spoiler:The PlotTwist is that Ray has been ''Rachel'' this entire time, seeking revenge for the deaths of her mother and her father, whom she has been hallucinating herself as.]]]]
** Ray meets Santos in a diner and they have a conversation as rivals. [[spoiler: During the conversation, Santos claims he can relate to Ray's pain and then tells a story about how he witnessed powerful people slaughter his whole village, including his parents. He claims he spent his life afterwards hunting them down and getting revenge, only to realize in this world, there will always be big fish eating the little fish. The story seems out of place, since Ray's RoaringRampageOfRevenge is about his wife dying of cancer when she could have been treated. However, Rachel going on such a rampage to avenge the death of both her parents by powerful people, makes the comparison between her and Santos make a lot more sense.]]
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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:Diana Morgan at first seems like an honest politician fighting to Americans affordable drugs. However, it turns she's taken bribes by the same pharmaceutical company she starts out fighting, and even ordered the murder of a journalist looking into this.]]

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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:Diana Morgan at first seems like an honest politician fighting to get Americans affordable drugs.medications. However, it turns she's taken bribes by the same pharmaceutical company she starts out fighting, and even ordered the murder of a journalist looking into this.]]
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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:Diana Morgan at first seems like an honest politician fighting to Americans affordable drugs. However, it turns she's taken bribes by the same pharmaceutical company she starts out fighting, and even ordered the murder of a journalist looking into this.]]


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* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:By the end, it turns out Rachel has lost both her parents, as Ray was actually killed by the hitman after her mother died from cancer and she's been hallucinating that she's him.]]
* PlayingGertrude: Adria Arjona is a mere nine years older than her onscreen daughter Isabela Merced.
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* CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife.[[spoiler:..or so you are lead to think...]]
* [[spoiler: DeadStarWalking: Literally. Creator/JasonMomoa dies early on in the movie. IsabelaMerced takes the lead and what following scenes he has are just hallucinations.]]

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* CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife.[[spoiler:..or so you are lead led to think...]]
* [[spoiler: DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler: Literally. Creator/JasonMomoa dies early on in the movie. IsabelaMerced Creator/IsabelaMerced takes the lead and what following scenes he has are just hallucinations.]]



* WithholdingTheCure: What the pharmaceuticals company is doing.

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* WithholdingTheCure: What the pharmaceuticals company is doing.doing, for profit to drive up prices.
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* WhereItAllBegan: [[Rachel lying on a bench at the Allegheny T station, hallucinating about her father who died at that same spot.]]

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* WhereItAllBegan: [[Rachel [[spoiler: Rachel lying on a bench at the Allegheny T station, hallucinating about her father who died at that same spot.]]
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* WhereItAllBegan: [[Rachel lying on a bench at the Allegheny T station, hallucinating about her father who died at that same spot.]]

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* ArcWords: The song "Sweet Child of Mine" by Creator/GunsNRoses.

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* ArcWords: The song "Sweet Child of Mine" by Creator/GunsNRoses.Music/GunsNRoses. in a reference to the movie title.



* SpoilerTitle: If the story is about Ray versus Big Pharma, why is the title "Sweet Girl"? Hmm....



* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:Ray died. You're seeing the whole movie past his death as his daughter hallucinating her father being there.]]

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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:Ray died. You're seeing the whole movie past his death as his daughter hallucinating her father being there.]]]]
* WithholdingTheCure: What the pharmaceuticals company is doing.

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Ray is living a happy life with his wife and daughter, when his wife develops cancer and ends up dying because a large pharmaceutical company pulls the miracle drug that could save her life. Later, Ray is contacted by a journalist who has uncovered a conspiracy to profit behind the company's actions. After the journalist is murdered, Ray decides to investigate things himself.

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Ray is living a happy life in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} with his wife and daughter, when his wife develops cancer and ends up dying because a large pharmaceutical company pulls the miracle drug that could save her life. Later, Ray is contacted by a journalist who has uncovered a conspiracy to profit behind the company's actions. After the journalist is murdered, Ray decides to investigate things himself.
himself. Unfortunately, his daughter follows.


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* ArcWords: The song "Sweet Child of Mine" by Creator/GunsNRoses.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The tagline itself, "Family fights as one." [[spoiler:The plot twist is that Ray has been Rachel this entire time, seeking revenge for the deaths of her mother and her father, whom she has been hallucinating herself as.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The tagline itself, "Family fights as one." [[spoiler:The plot twist PlotTwist is that Ray has been Rachel ''Rachel'' this entire time, seeking revenge for the deaths of her mother and her father, whom she has been hallucinating herself as.]]


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* PapaWolf: The entire premise of the film, where Ray fights to protect his daughter Rachel from the people responsible for his wife's death. [[spoiler:This is inverted by the PlotTwist, where it's revealed that Ray had actually died in his first and only attempt to do so; it's ''[[LittleMissBadass Rachel]]'' who seeks justice for the deaths of her parents.]]

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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFuJV2GLkY trailer]]

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See the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFuJV2GLkY trailer]]
trailer]] here.



* ActionGirl: One of Rachel's introductory scenes is at a boxing club receiving lessons from [[ActionDad her]] [[PapaWolf father]] and ends up joining forces with him to avenge her mother's death. [[spoiler:This is taken UpToEleven by the plot twist.]]



* CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife. [[spoiler: ...or so you are lead to think...]]

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* CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife. [[spoiler: ...[[spoiler:..or so you are lead to think...]]
* [[spoiler: DeadStarWalking: Literally. Creator/JasonMomoa dies early on in the movie. IsabelaMerced takes the lead and what following scenes he has are just hallucinations.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The tagline itself, "Family fights as one." [[spoiler:The plot twist is that Ray has been Rachel this entire time, seeking revenge for the deaths of her mother and her father, whom she has been hallucinating herself as.]]



* MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: [[spoiler:Rachel has dissociative identity disorder, and is hallucinating that she is her father.]]

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* MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: [[spoiler:Rachel has dissociative identity disorder, and is hallucinating that she is her father.]]
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* TheReveal: [[Ray died from his wounds. The whole movie has actually been Rachel, as shown in the {{Flashback}}.

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* TheReveal: [[Ray [[spoiler: Ray died from his wounds. The whole movie has actually been Rachel, as shown in the {{Flashback}}.]]
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-->''If my wife dies... it's your death sentence.''

''Sweet Girl'' is a 2021 American action thriller film released on Creator/Netflix, starring Creator/JasonMomoa and Creator/IsabelaMerced.

Ray is living a happy life with his wife and daughter, when his wife develops cancer and ends up dying because a large pharmaceutical company pulls the miracle drug that could save her life. Later, Ray is contacted by a journalist who has uncovered a conspiracy to profit behind the company's actions. After the journalist is murdered, Ray decides to investigate things himself.

There is a sizeable spoiler[=/=]plot twist in this movie, so this is your warning before perusing the tropes.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFuJV2GLkY trailer]]

!!''Sweet Girl'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* AffablyEvil: Santos, the hitman, doesn't seem to mind at all finishing his meal and having a chat with the protagonist.
* CrusadingWidower: Ray, after the death of his wife. [[spoiler: ...or so you are lead to think...]]
* DeadlineNews: The reported who tells Ray about the coverup dies fairly quickly.
* ImplacableMan: Everyone in the film seems to be held up be distances and travel except Santos the hitman, who can always end up exactly where he needs to be.
* MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: [[spoiler:Rachel has dissociative identity disorder, and is hallucinating that she is her father.]]
* OrphansOrdeal: You'll see that the apartment after the subway train scene is worn and broken. The person paying the rent isn't doing well.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: There's a wall [[StringTheory with strings]] connecting the pharmaceutical company's deeds.
* TheReveal: [[Ray died from his wounds. The whole movie has actually been Rachel, as shown in the {{Flashback}}.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:Ray died. You're seeing the whole movie past his death as his daughter hallucinating her father being there.]]

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