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* TheCorrupter: Amber is an accidental example to Lisa. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She isn't happy about it.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: Lisa.
* HeelFaceTurn: Amber's one is a big driving point of the movie. Lisa also makes one, once she realizes the error of her FaceHeelTurn.

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* OhNoNotAgain: The celestial bureaucrat at the end.

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* DuelingMovies: Shares some similarities with another ABC Family film released months earlier named Christmas Cupid. Both feature a girl trying to redeem herself in death.

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* DuelingMovies: Shares some similarities with another ABC Family film released months earlier named Christmas Cupid. Both While this one is a take on Pygmalion that one is a take on A Christmas Carol though both feature a shallow dead girl trying to redeem herself by helping someone in death.the living
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'''Teen Spirit''' is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]] (Cassie Scerbo), a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] (Creator/LindseyShaw) become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.

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'''Teen Spirit''' is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]] (Cassie Scerbo), (Creator/CassieScerbo), a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] (Creator/LindseyShaw) become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.
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* EvilerThanThou: The murderers and criminals being sent to Hell mock the comparatively minimal nature of Amber's transgressions.


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* NothingIsScarier: We don't actually see Hell, just the prison bus that takes people there. All that is known is that people have to relinquish their hair and teeth before entering. The fact that we don't know anything else makes it an even more menacing threat for Amber.
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Not to be confused with the 2019 film starring Elle Fanning.

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'''Teen Spirit''' is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.


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'''Teen Spirit''' is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], Pollocks]] (Cassie Scerbo), a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] (Creator/LindseyShaw) become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.

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* TheCorrupter: Amber is an accidental example to Lisa. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She isn't happy about it.]]

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* ExactWords: Helps keep Amber out of Hell. She failed to make Lisa become Prom Queen, but she got off the hook because [[spoiler: Lisa helped Raj become Prom ''King'' and he was the least popular male student, so Amber's task was technically accomplished.]]



* [[JerkassGods Jerkass God]]: Amber was going to be sent to {{Hell}} for failing her assignment, even though she tanked her assignment on purpose in order to correct the damage that she'd done to Lisa. In other words, she was putting Lisa's well-being above her own, something that really ought to have counted in her favor, but didn't. {{God}}, you jackass!

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* [[JerkassGods Jerkass God]]: Amber was going to be sent to {{Hell}} for failing her assignment, even though she tanked her assignment on purpose in order to correct the damage that she'd done to Lisa. In other words, she was putting Lisa's well-being above her own, something that really ought to Heaven must have counted in her favor, but didn't. {{God}}, you jackass!a pretty messed up deity running the place if the reward for making a HeroicSacrifice to save someone else is eternal damnation.


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* LoopholeAbuse: Apparently, [[spoiler: having the least popular student become Prom ''King'']] technically meets the requirements of Amber's mission.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: It's all good and well that Amber doesn't get to go the Hell, and that Lisa finally becomes as content with life as can be by finding the happy middle-ground between unpopular and popular... but the fact that Amber actually stays dead even though she did a HeelFaceTurn and became a sympathetic person is somewhat sad. And the movie even ends with ''another'' death even though that one was more of an AssholeVictim.]]

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Teen Spirit is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.


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Teen Spirit [[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teen_spirit_6276.jpg]]
'''Teen Spirit'''
is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.

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* LemonyNarrator: Either Zigzagged or subverted. The movie starts out with one, but a few minutes into the movie, he decides the movie will be better without him, and decides to shut up. He appears to be acting on a whim like any LemonyNarrator is prone to do, but stiks to his decision and doesn't come back for the rest of the movie.

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* LemonyNarrator: Either Zigzagged or subverted. The movie starts out with one, but a few minutes into the movie, he decides the movie will be better without him, and decides to shut up. He appears to be acting on a whim like any LemonyNarrator is prone to do, but stiks sticks to his decision and doesn't come back for the rest of the movie.
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* LemonyNarrator: Either Zigzagged or subverted. The movie starts out with one, but a few minutes into the movie, he decides the movie will be better without him, and decides to shut up. He appears to be acting on a whim like any LemonyNarrator is prone to do, but stiks to his decision and doesn't come back for the rest of the movie.
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* FootFocus: Lisa removes her heels to walk to a nearby general store to use the phone, momentarily giving us a shot of her bare feet.
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Teen Spirit is a MadeForTV movie that aired on ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.


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Teen Spirit is a MadeForTV movie that aired on ABCFamily Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.

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* DuelingFilms: Shares some similarities with another ABC Family film released months earlier named ChristmasCupid. Both feature a girl trying to redeem herself in death.

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* DuelingFilms: DuelingMovies: Shares some similarities with another ABC Family film released months earlier named ChristmasCupid.Christmas Cupid. Both feature a girl trying to redeem herself in death.
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* ArsonMurderJaywalking: The people Amber meets on the bus to hell are much worse than her and one of them scoffs at her being there simply because she says she was "a mean girl"

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* ArsonMurderJaywalking: ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The people Amber meets on the bus to hell are much worse than her and one of them scoffs at her being there simply because she says she was "a mean girl"
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* ArsonMurderJaywalking: The people Amber meets on the bus to hell are much worse than her and one of them scoffs at her being there simply because she says she was "a mean girl"
* TheAtoner: In death Amber begins to see the error of her ways and after she has "failed" in her task, accepts her fate to Hell graciously.


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* DuelingFilms: Shares some similarities with another ABC Family film released months earlier named ChristmasCupid. Both feature a girl trying to redeem herself in death.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lisa near the end. Triggered by her realization that none of her new popular friends could be bothered to come help her, while the friends she ditched were more than happy to.
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* [[JerkassGods Jerkass God]]: Amber was going to be sent to {{Hell}} for failing her assignment, even though she tanked her assignment on purpose in order to correct the damage that she'd done to Lisa. In other words, she was putting Lisa's well-being above her own, something that really ought to have counted in her favor, but didn't. {{God}}, you jackass!
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: Lisa comes down with a bad case of this, thanks to Amber.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: Lisa comes down with a case of this, thanks to Amber.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: Lisa comes down with a bad case of this, thanks to Amber.
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: Lisa comes down with a case of this, thanks to Amber.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Lisa's friend Colin.
-->'''Popular girl:''' I'm sorry, I thought the virginity club met at lunch to polish their purity rings.\\
'''Colin:''' Oh golly, that was hilarious. I'm going to process that and laugh at it later.
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-->'''Amber: You...you can see me.\\

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-->'''Amber: -->'''Amber:''' You...you can see me.\\
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lisa near the end. Triggered by her realization that none of her new popular friends could be bothered to come help her, while the friends she ditched were more than happy to.


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* ThisCannotBe: Lisa's initial reaction to seeing Amber's ghost:
-->'''Amber: You...you can see me.\\
'''Lisa:''' No...no, no I can't.

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** Carlita takes her place after she dies. Lisa [[FaceHeelTurn also quickly becomes this as she tries to become Prom Queen.]]

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** Carlita takes her place after she dies. Lisa [[FaceHeelTurn also quickly becomes this as she tries to become Prom Queen.]] ]]
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: No one has anything good to say about Amber at her memorial service.
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** Carlita takes her place after she dies. Lisa also quickly becomes this.

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** Carlita takes her place after she dies. Lisa [[FaceHeelTurn also quickly becomes this. this as she tries to become Prom Queen.]]

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* FaceHeelTurn: Lisa
* HeelFaceTurn: Lisa. Amber.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Amber becomes this by the end.

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* FaceHeelTurn: Lisa
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* HeelFaceTurn: Lisa. Amber.
Amber's one is a big driving point of the movie. Lisa also makes one, once she realizes the error of her FaceHeelTurn.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Amber becomes develops into this by throughout the end.film.



* NightmareFuelUnleaded: The driver of the bus to hell asks all the passengers to please remove all of their hair and teeth before exiting, so as to speed the torture. Amber gets rescued at the last moment. Everyone else on the bus... doesn't.
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Teen Spirit is a MadeForTV movie that aired on ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]], a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student [[CoolLoser Lisa Sommers]] become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.


!! This movie provides examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Amber. She gets a bit of a rude awakening after dying when she finds out just how many people hated her.
-->'''Amber:''' You have to help me with this. If you don't, they'll send me to Hell and I don't want to go.\\
'''Lisa:'''Why not? You'll meet so many people like you.
** Carlita takes her place after she dies. Lisa also quickly becomes this.
* BrutalHonesty: The Celestial Bureaucrat on Amber's life.
-->"Well, you were [[{{Jerkass}} a nasty piece]] [[AlphaBitch of business]], weren't you?
* CelestialBureaucracy
* CharacterDevelopment
* CoolLoser: Lisa. This proves to be a bit of obstacle to Amber at first, as Lisa has accepted this role and has no interest in being popular or becoming Prom Queen.
* CuteGhostGirl: Amber
* ExactWords: Helps keep Amber out of Hell. She failed to make Lisa become Prom Queen, but she got off the hook because [[spoiler: Lisa helped Raj become Prom ''King'' and he was the least popular male student, so Amber's task was technically accomplished.]]
* FootFocus: Lisa removes her heels to walk to a nearby general store to use the phone, momentarily giving us a shot of her bare feet.
* FaceHeelTurn: Lisa
* HeelFaceTurn: Lisa. Amber.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Amber becomes this by the end.
* OhNoNotAgain: The celestial bureaucrat at the end.
* ParentalNeglect: Amber's mother is emotionally neglectful to both of her daughters. After Amber dies, her mother has a HeelRealization....but starts to neglect her other daughter because [[TearJerker she's too distraught over Amber's death.]] Eventually she realizes her error however.
* PartySchedulingGambit: Amber gets Lisa to send an e-mail making everyone at school think that Carlita's party is scheduled a day earlier than it actually is, causing people to be disappointed when they show up and there's no party. She then proceeds to invite everyone to her party instead.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lisa near the end. Triggered by her realization that none of her new popular friends could be bothered to come help her, while the friends she ditched were more than happy to.
* NightmareFuelUnleaded: The driver of the bus to hell asks all the passengers to please remove all of their hair and teeth before exiting, so as to speed the torture. Amber gets rescued at the last moment. Everyone else on the bus... doesn't.
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