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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: "Boneville" is the location name given on the SpinningPaper near the beginning. We aren't offered any clues as to where that's supposed to be, however.

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[[ContrivedCoincidence Incredible as it may seem]], all three of the boys in his class are {{Jerk Jock}}s, and all five of the girls are [[BrainlessBeauty stupid sexually attractive cheerleaders]] who spend a lot of time working on their cheers between classes so they can [[FanService flash a lot of undergarments at the viewers]] and [[ShowerScene hit the showers]] (which just so ''happen'' to have an enormous air vent running right between them and the gym through which the guys can peep at them) a ''lot''. Also, the school's young principal Mrs. Cello is an [[ReallyGetsAround insatiable nymphomaniac]] seeking to make every male within reach (teachers and students alike) one of her conquests... with the possible exception of TheUnintelligible school janitor Henry, a poor low-brain-powered [[TheWoobie gomer]] the students regularly harrass and mistreat much the same as they do to Kevin.

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[[ContrivedCoincidence Incredible as it may seem]], all three of the boys in his class are {{Jerk Jock}}s, and all five of the girls are [[BrainlessBeauty stupid sexually attractive cheerleaders]] who spend a lot of time working on their cheers between classes so they can [[FanService flash a lot of undergarments at the viewers]] and [[ShowerScene hit the showers]] (which just so ''happen'' to have an enormous air vent running right between them and the gym through which the guys can peep at them) a ''lot''. Also, the school's young principal Mrs. Cello is an [[ReallyGetsAround insatiable nymphomaniac]] seeking to make every male within reach (teachers and students alike) one of her conquests... with the possible exception of TheUnintelligible school janitor Henry, a poor low-brain-powered [[TheWoobie gomer]] the students regularly harrass harass and mistreat much the same as they do to Kevin.



* DumbBlonde: Vicky, though frankly her lack of intellect doesn't distinguish her very much from any of her peers with other hair colors.

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* DumbBlonde: Vicky, though frankly frankly, her lack of intellect doesn't distinguish her very much from any of her peers with other hair colors.



* HollywoodLaw: For the record, being ruled "mentally incapable of standing trial" is not the same thing as being [[InsanityDefense acquitted on grounds of insanity]] as Tammy Edwards and movie's script writer seem to think: it means you're simply not sane enough to stand trial ''yet''. Whenever you "snap out of it" and are ruled mentally capable again, you then have to stand trial for your crimes. Kevin would have to have been frothing-at-the-mouth raving insane for almost ''six months'' to have remained in the insane asylum for so long as the movie's TimeSkip super indicates.

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* HollywoodLaw: For the record, being ruled "mentally incapable of standing trial" is not the same thing as being [[InsanityDefense acquitted on grounds of insanity]] as Tammy Edwards and the movie's script writer scriptwriter seem to think: it means you're simply not sane enough to stand trial ''yet''. Whenever you "snap out of it" and are ruled mentally capable again, you then have to stand trial for your crimes. Kevin would have to have been frothing-at-the-mouth raving insane for almost ''six months'' to have remained in the insane asylum for so long as the movie's TimeSkip super indicates.



** Also Kevin, who succees in his revenge, kills all of his tormentors and avoids police. By the end of the film, he is still free with his invisibility and to do whatever he wants.

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** Also Kevin, who succees succeeds in his revenge, kills all of his tormentors and avoids the police. By the end of the film, he is still free with his invisibility and to do whatever he wants.



* MaleGaze: On his first day teaching, Kevin gets quite an eyeful of [[DumbBlonde Vicky]]'s [[LegFocus legs]], as do we. The camera also focuses on where he and all the other guys are looking when the girls' skirts fly up every time they do their cheers.

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* MaleGaze: On his first day of teaching, Kevin gets quite an eyeful of [[DumbBlonde Vicky]]'s [[LegFocus legs]], as do we. The camera also focuses on where he and all the other guys are looking when the girls' skirts fly up every time they do their cheers.cheer.



* ShownTheirWork: Unlike the HollywoodScience underlying Kevin's invisibility serum, the high school physics we see Kevin teaching in to the students in his class is ''actual'' physics.

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* ShownTheirWork: Unlike the HollywoodScience underlying Kevin's invisibility serum, the high school physics we see Kevin teaching in to the students in his class is ''actual'' physics.



* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mrs. Cello manages to startle Kevin while he's gazing at the showering girls through the vent, and he [[ICanExplain makes up a lame excuse]] that he was [[BlatantLies just picking up some change he dropped]]. She obviously doesn't believe him, but plays along anyway because she doesn't mind his voyeurism one bit.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mrs. Cello manages to startle Kevin while he's gazing at the showering girls through the vent, and he [[ICanExplain makes up a lame excuse]] that he was [[BlatantLies just picking up some change he dropped]]. She obviously doesn't believe him, him but plays along anyway because she doesn't mind his voyeurism one bit.



* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Boneville?]]: "Boneville" is the location name given on the SpinningPaper near the beginning. We aren't offered any clues as to where that's supposed to be, however.

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* DeathBySex: Everyone who has sex or even ''tries'' to have sex in this movie is doomed; ''everyone''.


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* SexSignalsDeath: Everyone who has sex or even ''tries'' to have sex in this movie is doomed; ''everyone''.
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* CoitusEnsues: Chet and Bunny sneak into Mrs. Cello's office to have sex [[spoiler: while Kevin's off killing Gordon, and while the camera repeatedly cuts [[FanDisservice between the two of them making the beast with two backs and the bleeding corpse of Mrs. Cello on the other side of the desk. Yech.]] They never do notice the corpse.]] About the only purpose this scene serves is to make us like our {{Designated Hero}}es even less. Thank you, Rif Coogan. Thanks a ''whole friggin' heap'' for [[{{Squick}} that]].
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* MaleGaze: On his first day teaching, Kevin gets quite an eyeful of [[DumbBlonde Vicky]]'s [[ShesGotLegs legs]], as do we. The camera also focuses on where he and all the other guys are looking when the girls' skirts fly up every time they do their cheers.

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* MaleGaze: On his first day teaching, Kevin gets quite an eyeful of [[DumbBlonde Vicky]]'s [[ShesGotLegs [[LegFocus legs]], as do we. The camera also focuses on where he and all the other guys are looking when the girls' skirts fly up every time they do their cheers.
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* KillEmAll: Almost. Our main cast does have a SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Kevin]].
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[[ContrivedCoincidence Incredible as it may seem]], all three of the boys in his class are {{Jerk Jock}}s, and all five of the girls are [[BrainlessBeauty stupid sexually attractive]] [[TheCheerleader cheerleaders]] who spend a lot of time working on their cheers between classes so they can [[FanService flash a lot of undergarments at the viewers]] and [[ShowerScene hit the showers]] (which just so ''happen'' to have an enormous air vent running right between them and the gym through which the guys can peep at them) a ''lot''. Also, the school's young principal Mrs. Cello is an [[ReallyGetsAround insatiable nymphomaniac]] seeking to make every male within reach (teachers and students alike) one of her conquests... with the possible exception of TheUnintelligible school janitor Henry, a poor low-brain-powered [[TheWoobie gomer]] the students regularly harrass and mistreat much the same as they do to Kevin.

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[[ContrivedCoincidence Incredible as it may seem]], all three of the boys in his class are {{Jerk Jock}}s, and all five of the girls are [[BrainlessBeauty stupid sexually attractive]] [[TheCheerleader attractive cheerleaders]] who spend a lot of time working on their cheers between classes so they can [[FanService flash a lot of undergarments at the viewers]] and [[ShowerScene hit the showers]] (which just so ''happen'' to have an enormous air vent running right between them and the gym through which the guys can peep at them) a ''lot''. Also, the school's young principal Mrs. Cello is an [[ReallyGetsAround insatiable nymphomaniac]] seeking to make every male within reach (teachers and students alike) one of her conquests... with the possible exception of TheUnintelligible school janitor Henry, a poor low-brain-powered [[TheWoobie gomer]] the students regularly harrass and mistreat much the same as they do to Kevin.
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[[TimeSkip Twenty years later]], Kevin Dornwinkle is a respected, if rather [[NerdsAreVirgins shy, nerdy, and sexually repressed]] physicist. Unfortunately, when he attempts to demonstrate to a symposium of world-famous fellow physicists a new breakthrough he claims to have made in [[{{Invisiblity}} making himself invisible]], his serum fails to produce the intended effect, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer and they mock him mercilessly]]. [[BerserkButton This proves to be a terrible mistake]]: [[FreudianExcuse cruelly reminded of his mother's abuse]], he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, [[WhosLaughingNow slaughtering four of the other eleven scientists present]]. After he is arrested (newscaster Tammy Edwards helpfully informs us), he is ruled [[InsanityDefense incompetent to stand trial]] and sent to the State Institute for the Criminally Insane ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield in some unspecified state]]).

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[[TimeSkip Twenty years later]], Kevin Dornwinkle is a respected, if rather [[NerdsAreVirgins shy, nerdy, and sexually repressed]] physicist. Unfortunately, when he attempts to demonstrate to a symposium of world-famous fellow physicists a new breakthrough he claims to have made in [[{{Invisiblity}} [[{{Invisibility}} making himself invisible]], his serum fails to produce the intended effect, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer and they mock him mercilessly]]. [[BerserkButton This proves to be a terrible mistake]]: [[FreudianExcuse cruelly reminded of his mother's abuse]], he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, [[WhosLaughingNow slaughtering four of the other eleven scientists present]]. After he is arrested (newscaster Tammy Edwards helpfully informs us), he is ruled [[InsanityDefense incompetent to stand trial]] and sent to the State Institute for the Criminally Insane ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield in some unspecified state]]).
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[[TimeSkip Twenty years later]], Kevin Dornwinkle is a respected, if rather [[NerdsAreVirgins shy, nerdy, and sexually repressed]] physicist. Unfortunately, when he attempts to demonstrate to a symposium of world-famous fellow physicists a new breakthrough he claims to have made in [[{{Invisible}} making himself invisible]], his serum fails to produce the intended effect, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer and they mock him mercilessly]]. [[BerserkButton This proves to be a terrible mistake]]: [[FreudianExcuse cruelly reminded of his mother's abuse]], he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, [[WhosLaughingNow slaughtering four of the other eleven scientists present]]. After he is arrested (newscaster Tammy Edwards helpfully informs us), he is ruled [[InsanityDefense incompetent to stand trial]] and sent to the State Institute for the Criminally Insane ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield in some unspecified state]]).

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[[TimeSkip Twenty years later]], Kevin Dornwinkle is a respected, if rather [[NerdsAreVirgins shy, nerdy, and sexually repressed]] physicist. Unfortunately, when he attempts to demonstrate to a symposium of world-famous fellow physicists a new breakthrough he claims to have made in [[{{Invisible}} [[{{Invisiblity}} making himself invisible]], his serum fails to produce the intended effect, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer and they mock him mercilessly]]. [[BerserkButton This proves to be a terrible mistake]]: [[FreudianExcuse cruelly reminded of his mother's abuse]], he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, [[WhosLaughingNow slaughtering four of the other eleven scientists present]]. After he is arrested (newscaster Tammy Edwards helpfully informs us), he is ruled [[InsanityDefense incompetent to stand trial]] and sent to the State Institute for the Criminally Insane ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield in some unspecified state]]).
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: Vicky]]'s fate after she's killed.
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* CoitusEnsues: Bret and Bunny sneak into Mrs. Cello's office to have sex [[spoiler: while Kevin's off killing Gordon, and while the camera repeatedly cuts [[FanDisservice between the two of them making the beast with two backs and the bleeding corpse of Mrs. Cello on the other side of the desk. Yech.]] They never do notice the corpse.]] About the only purpose this scene serves is to make us like our {{Designated Hero}}es even less. Thank you, Rif Coogan. Thanks a ''whole friggin' heap'' for [[{{Squick}} that]].

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* CoitusEnsues: Bret Chet and Bunny sneak into Mrs. Cello's office to have sex [[spoiler: while Kevin's off killing Gordon, and while the camera repeatedly cuts [[FanDisservice between the two of them making the beast with two backs and the bleeding corpse of Mrs. Cello on the other side of the desk. Yech.]] They never do notice the corpse.]] About the only purpose this scene serves is to make us like our {{Designated Hero}}es even less. Thank you, Rif Coogan. Thanks a ''whole friggin' heap'' for [[{{Squick}} that]].
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* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Boneville?]]: "Boneville" is the location name given on the SpinningPaper near the beginning. We aren't offered any clues as to where that's supposed to be, however.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** While we never see nor hear mention of her husband, ''Mrs.'' Cello's honorific means she must have one; so all her philandering at school is technically adultery in addition to her other crimes and immoral behavior.
** Also, Chet sure doesn't seem to mind cheating on his girlfriend Bunny with Mrs. Cello.

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* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Boneville?]]: "Boneville" is the location name given on the SpinningPaper near the beginning. We aren't offered any clues as to where that's supposed to be, however.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** While we never see nor hear mention of her husband, ''Mrs.'' Cello's honorific means she must have one; so all her philandering at school is technically adultery in addition to her other crimes and immoral behavior.
** Also, Chet sure doesn't seem to mind cheating on his girlfriend Bunny with Mrs. Cello.
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* AnnoyingLaugh: Kevin's laugh sounds like a screaming hyena, and he uses it a ''lot'', especially near the end.
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* CoitusEnsues: Bret and Bunny sneak into Mrs. Cello's office to have sex [[spoiler: while Kevin's off killing Gordon, and while the camera repeatedly cuts [[FanDisservice between the two of them making the beast with two backs and the bleeding corpse of Mrs. Cello on the other side of the desk. Yech.]] They never do notice the corpse.]] About the only purpose this scene serves is to make us like our {{Designated Hero}}es even less. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Rif Coogan.]] Thanks a ''whole friggin' heap'' for [[{{Squick}} that]].

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* CoitusEnsues: Bret and Bunny sneak into Mrs. Cello's office to have sex [[spoiler: while Kevin's off killing Gordon, and while the camera repeatedly cuts [[FanDisservice between the two of them making the beast with two backs and the bleeding corpse of Mrs. Cello on the other side of the desk. Yech.]] They never do notice the corpse.]] About the only purpose this scene serves is to make us like our {{Designated Hero}}es even less. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Rif Coogan.]] Coogan. Thanks a ''whole friggin' heap'' for [[{{Squick}} that]].
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: It's not even clear that this movie ''has'' any heroes; just a VillainProtagonist who's distinctly less despicable than [[AssholeVictim all his victims]].
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* {{Designated Hero}}es: Chet and Bunny are the OfficialCouple leading the defense against Kevin's attack; they're also the ringleaders who directed their fellow students to tease and torment him beyond all endurance in the first place. Oh, and [[spoiler: Chet very willingly has sex with Mrs. Cello and puts off Bunny's inquiries about their future together after having sex with her in Mrs. Cello's office.]] These are supposed to be our ''heroes''!?
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When he was a child, the budding young scientist Kevin Dornwinkle's atrocious mother caught him [[NaughtyBirdwatching peeping with his telescope]] at a nubile young woman doing a [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn strip tease]] while dancing to some music in her bedroom. [[ObviouslyEvil Hateful woman that she was]], she proceeded to inflict numerous gaping wounds on his vulnerable little psyche, ranting about what a disgusting little pervert he was; how [[BoomerangBigot all women are evil]]; and how he was never to look at, talk to, or even think about at them ever again; and somehow finishing this rant by [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally in his face]].

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When he was a child, the budding young scientist Kevin Dornwinkle's atrocious mother caught him [[NaughtyBirdwatching peeping with his telescope]] at a nubile young woman doing a [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn strip tease]] while dancing to some music in her bedroom. [[ObviouslyEvil Hateful woman that she was]], she proceeded to inflict numerous gaping wounds on his vulnerable little psyche, ranting about what a disgusting little pervert he was; how [[BoomerangBigot all women are evil]]; and how he was never to look at, talk to, or even think about at them ever again; and somehow finishing this rant by [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally in his face]].
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* KickTheDog: With all the vicious adults and the even more vicious teenagers in this story, the punted puppies really go flying all over the place.



* VeryPunchableMan: Deconstructed with Henry. One of the reasons Chet picks on him is because Bunny claims the way Henry watches the girls creeps them all out, so he goes chewing out Henry and pushing him around in order to impress her; yet Henry is by far the closest thing to an innocent character in this entire movie [[{{Hypocrite}}(and Chet goes spying on Bunny and all the other girls in the showers without their consent just as much as any of the other males in this movie do)]], so Chet's really doing nothing but [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]] here.

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* VeryPunchableMan: Deconstructed with Henry. One of the reasons Chet picks on him is because Bunny claims the way Henry watches the girls creeps them all out, so he goes chewing out Henry and pushing him around in order to impress her; yet Henry is by far the closest thing to an innocent character in this entire movie [[{{Hypocrite}}(and [[{{Hypocrite}} (and Chet goes spying on Bunny and all the other girls in the showers without their consent just as much as any of the other males in this movie do)]], so Chet's really doing nothing but [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]] here.
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This schlocky DirectToVideo 1990 flick is a fairly straightforward SlasherMovie, though the bucketloads of gratuitous nudity, sex, and voyeurism in this movie also make it a teen sex flick verging on sexploitation as well.

When he was a child, the budding young scientist Kevin Dornwinkle's atrocious mother caught him [[NaughtyBirdwatching peeping with his telescope]] at a nubile young woman doing a [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn strip tease]] while dancing to some music in her bedroom. [[ObviouslyEvil Hateful woman that she was]], she proceeded to inflict numerous gaping wounds on his vulnerable little psyche, ranting about what a disgusting little pervert he was; how [[BoomerangBigot all women are evil]]; and how he was never to look at, talk to, or even think about at them ever again; and somehow finishing this rant by [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally in his face]].

[[TimeSkip Twenty years later]], Kevin Dornwinkle is a respected, if rather [[NerdsAreVirgins shy, nerdy, and sexually repressed]] physicist. Unfortunately, when he attempts to demonstrate to a symposium of world-famous fellow physicists a new breakthrough he claims to have made in [[{{Invisible}} making himself invisible]], his serum fails to produce the intended effect, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer and they mock him mercilessly]]. [[BerserkButton This proves to be a terrible mistake]]: [[FreudianExcuse cruelly reminded of his mother's abuse]], he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, [[WhosLaughingNow slaughtering four of the other eleven scientists present]]. After he is arrested (newscaster Tammy Edwards helpfully informs us), he is ruled [[InsanityDefense incompetent to stand trial]] and sent to the State Institute for the Criminally Insane ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield in some unspecified state]]).

[[TimeSkip Six months later]], Kevin Dornwinkle escapes from the [[CardboardPrison Institute]], throwing the ''[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy one]]'' AngryGuardDog that manages to pursue him out of the Institute's perimeter [[GoFetch a stick to distract it]]. [[TimeSkip Two weeks later]], Kevin "[[MrSmith Smith]]" gets a job at a SuckySchool teaching a remedial summer school physics course to a bunch of stupid, horny, teenage wastrel students who were gleefully anticipating being excused from this course after its previous teacher [[DeathByGluttony choked to death on a sandwich]]. [[TeensAreMonsters Naturally, lacking any human decency, they proceed to treat their unwelcome new teacher like dirt.]]

[[ContrivedCoincidence Incredible as it may seem]], all three of the boys in his class are {{Jerk Jock}}s, and all five of the girls are [[BrainlessBeauty stupid sexually attractive]] [[TheCheerleader cheerleaders]] who spend a lot of time working on their cheers between classes so they can [[FanService flash a lot of undergarments at the viewers]] and [[ShowerScene hit the showers]] (which just so ''happen'' to have an enormous air vent running right between them and the gym through which the guys can peep at them) a ''lot''. Also, the school's young principal Mrs. Cello is an [[ReallyGetsAround insatiable nymphomaniac]] seeking to make every male within reach (teachers and students alike) one of her conquests... with the possible exception of TheUnintelligible school janitor Henry, a poor low-brain-powered [[TheWoobie gomer]] the students regularly harrass and mistreat much the same as they do to Kevin.

As the students are eventually to learn the hard way, [[MuggingTheMonster teasing and tormenting]] their [[BewareTheNiceOnes shy and nerdy new physics teacher]] is a bad, ''bad'' idea; for at night, to help ease his pain and rectify his atrocious past, Kevin Dornwinkle has been busy correcting his mistakes, and has finally perfected his invisibility serum into a working formula. At first, he merely [[PowerPerversionPotential uses it to get a much closer look at those girls in the showers and sometimes cop a feel]], but with his invisibility serum having the side effect of boosting all of his darker emotions, and everyone (including Mrs. Cello) mistreating him, it's only a matter of time before they finally [[RageBreakingPoint push him too far]].

!!This movie contains examples of the following tropes:

* AllMenArePerverts: ''All'' the men and boys at school, even including the janitor Henry (though he never does anything more than look).
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yes, Mrs. Cello and all the girls at school are just about as eager for sex as any of the boys are.
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Chet plays this very straight with Mrs. Cello; she doesn't exactly have to twist his arm to get him to agree to some SextraCredit. Dornwinkle, in contrast, doesn't prove to be such a pushover, even when she tries to blackmail him; and even though he could surely use his serum to force himself on any girl he wants, he only actually uses it to cop a feel here and there and humiliate them in retaliation for how they've treated him.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Kevin's laugh sounds like a screaming hyena, and he uses it a ''lot'', especially near the end.
* AntiVillain / JerkassWoobie: Yeah, killing people just for laughing at him or even for pranking or trying to blackmail him is still DisproportionateRetribution; but it's hard not to sympathize with Kevin whenever he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his tormentors.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Kevin has invented an {{Invisibility}} serum. [[BellisariosMaxim Don't ask how it works]]; it just does.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: If you know enough to understand what Kevin is saying in one scene, you know that Kevin is saying that with all those [[TechnicolorScience flasks and beakers of colored liquids set up on a table behind him]], he somehow managed to shave a single hydrogen atom each off a whole bunch of hydrogen trisulfate molecules; which would be no mean feat even for a nuclear physicist with an atom smasher.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: For one thing, while physics and chemistry ''are'' related subjects, making up a serum is a practical application of biochemistry, not physics. Also, Kevin's talk about "de-creating" and "re-creating" and "molecular reorganization" during his presentation to the symposium is a bunch of TechnoBabble that basically means nothing. Finally, even if a serum can turn someone who injects himself with it invisible, one has to ask how such a serum could go turning inanimate substances, such as his hair and nails and ''clothes'', invisible along with the living parts that can actually absorb it.
* AssholeVictim: ''Everybody'', really; some more so than others, but none of Kevin's victims give us any reason to feel sorry for them.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: It's difficult to feel at all bad about this, however. It's not like the gene pool is going to miss [[AssholeVictim the sexually predatory Mrs. Cello or any of Kevin's disgusting former students]] all that much.]]
* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: Deconstructed. Vicky recommends that Bunny should sleep with Chet in order to get him to marry her, but after she takes this advice, he puts her off anyway.
* BetaCouple: Betty and Bubba, [[ShipperOnDeck whose friends are trying to get them together]], and ultimately succeed; also, Gordon and Vicky; too bad they're ''all'' [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]].
* BoomHeadshot / YourHeadASplode: The loser of the last fight dies from an extremely messy shotgun blast to the head that pulps it like a ripe melon.
* BrainlessBeauty: ''All'' the girls, though some are dumber than others.
* CoitusEnsues: Bret and Bunny sneak into Mrs. Cello's office to have sex [[spoiler: while Kevin's off killing Gordon, and while the camera repeatedly cuts [[FanDisservice between the two of them making the beast with two backs and the bleeding corpse of Mrs. Cello on the other side of the desk. Yech.]] They never do notice the corpse.]] About the only purpose this scene serves is to make us like our {{Designated Hero}}es even less. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Rif Coogan.]] Thanks a ''whole friggin' heap'' for [[{{Squick}} that]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kevin's first entry in his audio-taped journal after his first day teaching is about how he's trying to put the past behind him, but the present's not looking much better.
* DeadlineNews: Being a rather peripheral character, Tammy Edwards doesn't end up dead, but she does get humiliated on live TV [[spoiler: in the scene right before the credits roll, in which an invisible Kevin Dornwinkle suddenly strips her topless while she's reporting the final events of the movie]].
* DeathByGluttony: [[spoiler: Bubba]]'s fate at Kevin's hands.
* DeathBySex: Everyone who has sex or even ''tries'' to have sex in this movie is doomed; ''everyone''.
* {{Designated Hero}}es: Chet and Bunny are the OfficialCouple leading the defense against Kevin's attack; they're also the ringleaders who directed their fellow students to tease and torment him beyond all endurance in the first place. Oh, and [[spoiler: Chet very willingly has sex with Mrs. Cello and puts off Bunny's inquiries about their future together after having sex with her in Mrs. Cello's office.]] These are supposed to be our ''heroes''!?
* DestinationDefenestration: Bye bye, [[spoiler: Gordon]].
* DisappearedDad: Kevin Dornwinkle's dad does not appear in this movie, and it doesn't even offer us any hints why he's not with them anymore; not that this is very difficult to [[WildMassGuessing speculate]], considering [[AwfulWeddedLife what we see]] [[BlackWidow of Mrs. Dornwinkle]].
* DumbBlonde: Vicky, though frankly her lack of intellect doesn't distinguish her very much from any of her peers with other hair colors.
* EasilyOverheardConversation: Kevin's students aren't very careful to check whether their teacher might be in a position to overhear what they're saying about him even ''before'' he perfects his invisibility serum; and what they're saying [[KickTheDog isn't very nice]].
* EurekaMoment: Subverted with an AssumedWin the first time Kevin tries out his reformulated serum and it doesn't work; oddly combined with a MadnessMantra the next time when Kevin finally gets his new invisibility serum to work properly: "I've done it! I've done it! I've done it!"
* EvilMatriarch: Mrs. Dornwinkle, even uglier on the inside than on the outside.
* FailedASpotCheck: A verbal example. Miss Cello first tries to seduce, and then [[SexualExtortion blackmail]] Kevin into having sex with her in her office, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Kevin Dornwinkle''': Ever since I was in ''[[ExactWords grade school]]'', I've wanted to do this to a principal.
-->[Moves in to kiss her, sliding her blouse down off her shoulders...]
-->[...and then [[spoiler: stabs her to death with a letter opener]]. That is indeed what a ''lot'' of kids in grade school would like to do to their teachers and principals.]
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Nope. The only way Bunny is "final" is that she's the last girl to be killed. No rare SpearCounterpart of this trope for Chet either, as he ends up being the last boy to be killed.]]
* FinishingStomp: The way [[spoiler: Bunny]] comes to an untimely end under Kevin's shoes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time we see Mrs. Cello (when she's introducing Kevin "Smith" to the students), she already [[SexDressed has several buttons on her blouse open]]. She doesn't really have an EstablishingCharacterMoment in this movie, but does she need one? The attentive viewer should be able to discern everything one needs to know about [[ReallyGetsAround her character]] just from this.
* GRatedDrug: The invisibility serum, while no narcotic, is apparently somewhat addictive, and does increase pulse, respiration, libido, and the more violent emotions. The [[EroticDream dreams]] Kevin has after taking it aren't so G-rated though...
* GrievousBottleyHarm: [[spoiler: The shotgun-wielding Chet]] takes a bottle to the head from Kevin in the last fight.
* HighVoltageDeath: How [[spoiler: Vicky]] dies in the showers, courtesy of a radio with a long cord still plugged into the wall being flung into the water at her feet.
* HollywoodLaw: For the record, being ruled "mentally incapable of standing trial" is not the same thing as being [[InsanityDefense acquitted on grounds of insanity]] as Tammy Edwards and movie's script writer seem to think: it means you're simply not sane enough to stand trial ''yet''. Whenever you "snap out of it" and are ruled mentally capable again, you then have to stand trial for your crimes. Kevin would have to have been frothing-at-the-mouth raving insane for almost ''six months'' to have remained in the insane asylum for so long as the movie's TimeSkip super indicates.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Kevin indulges in this among other bad jokes while on his final RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Bubba]] was laughing along with all the other ne'er-do-well students at hearing their previous teacher had choked to death on a sandwich, and dies, rather fittingly... by choking to death when the invisible Kevin force-feeds him a huge submarine sandwich.
* KarmaHoudini: Mrs. Dornwinkle, of whom we see no more after the first TimeSkip.
* KentBrockmanNews: After grimly announcing Dornwinkle has escaped the death penalty by being ruled incompetent to stand trial, Tammy Edwards immediately switches to reporting fluff:
--> '''Tammy Edwards''': And on a lighter note, Mayberry jackets are back.
* KillEmAll: Almost. Our main cast does have a SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Kevin]].
* LaughingMad: Kevin has an annoyingly high-pitched laugh which gets even more annoying whenever he suffers SanitySlippage and starts killing people.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Mrs. Cello's excuse for her philandering with Chet and Kevin (and [[ReallyGetsAround one can only wonder how many others]] [[OffScreenVillainy before Kevin arrived at her school]]).
* MaleGaze: On his first day teaching, Kevin gets quite an eyeful of [[DumbBlonde Vicky]]'s [[ShesGotLegs legs]], as do we. The camera also focuses on where he and all the other guys are looking when the girls' skirts fly up every time they do their cheers.
* MarshmallowHell: After coming to an agreement with him, Mrs. Cello promptly stuffs Chet's head into her bared breasts... [[AManIsAlwaysEager not that he's complaining]].
* OfficialCouple: Chet and Bunny, though Chet's not as committed to their relationship as Bunny is, and it's not a very romantic relationship since both of them are obnoxious [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] anyway.
* PeekABooCorpse: [[spoiler: Vicky]] serves as this to Gordon. Also, poor Henry freaks out when he discovers [[spoiler: Mrs. Cello lying stabbed to death down behind her desk]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Two police show up near the end, completely misinterpret the crime scene, and evidently neither they nor their superiors ever investigate thoroughly enough to correct their mistakes, since their version of the movie's events is the one Tammy Edwards relates to her viewers after that.
* PowerPerversionPotential: There's more looking than touching, but Kevin does use his formula to sneak into April's home and partially strip her while she sleeps; also to pinch Betty's butt in the showers at one point.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Deconstructed, as Kevin never really buys into this as an excuse for mistreating the girls, despite his horrific upbringing. He confesses in one of his recordings that he was wrong to go messing with the girls in the showers while invisible, even with the serum boosting his libido.
* SextraCredit: Despite his hang-ups, Kevin stoutly defies this when Vicky offers to do ''anything'' for an A; and this is further subverted when she later tells her friends that she was actually just teasing him. Mrs. Cello plays this quite straight with Chet, however, even pointing out to him that [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse he needs better grades]] from her to graduate and get into a good college.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: The final fight between Kevin and [[spoiler: a shotgun-toting Chet]] turns into this for ''both'' combatants when they both manage to find a spare hypo of invisibility serum and end up having to fight an opponent they can't see.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: The girls know ''exactly'' where the boys (and Kevin, for that matter) are looking when they're bouncing around in their skimpy cheerleader outfits... and they don't mind at all.
* ShootTheTelevision: Kevin's TV gets obliterated by a random shotgun blast during the last fight.
* ShownTheirWork: Unlike the HollywoodScience underlying Kevin's invisibility serum, the high school physics we see Kevin teaching in to the students in his class is ''actual'' physics.
* SpinningPaper: One announces Dornwinkle's escape from the insane asylum near the beginning.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: Vicky]]'s fate after she's killed.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Mrs. Cello manages to startle Kevin while he's gazing at the showering girls through the vent, and he [[ICanExplain makes up a lame excuse]] that he was [[BlatantLies just picking up some change he dropped]]. She obviously doesn't believe him, but plays along anyway because she doesn't mind his voyeurism one bit.
* TitleDrop:
-->'''Kevin Dornwinkle''': Life Lesson #2: never threaten The Invisible Maniac.
* TooDumbToLive: ''Everybody'' who doesn't survive to the end; and some who do. (At least the poor janitor Henry has a good excuse.)
* TotallyRadical: Bubba, who's about TwoDecadesBehind everyone else on his slang, has a problem with this InUniverse.
* TrashTheSet: Kevin's apartment near the end, shown seemingly tearing itself apart as the last two combatants, both invisible, swing blindly at each other.
* TheUnintelligible: Henry can't speak in anything but groans and grunts, something that gets him in trouble when the remaining students briefly suspect him of murdering their peers and he can't explain himself to them.
* VeryPunchableMan: Deconstructed with Henry. One of the reasons Chet picks on him is because Bunny claims the way Henry watches the girls creeps them all out, so he goes chewing out Henry and pushing him around in order to impress her; yet Henry is by far the closest thing to an innocent character in this entire movie [[{{Hypocrite}}(and Chet goes spying on Bunny and all the other girls in the showers without their consent just as much as any of the other males in this movie do)]], so Chet's really doing nothing but [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]] here.
* VillainProtagonist: Kevin Dornwinkle is technically the bad guy; he's also the main character, and this movie is all about ''him''.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Boneville?]]: "Boneville" is the location name given on the SpinningPaper near the beginning. We aren't offered any clues as to where that's supposed to be, however.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** While we never see nor hear mention of her husband, ''Mrs.'' Cello's honorific means she must have one; so all her philandering at school is technically adultery in addition to her other crimes and immoral behavior.
** Also, Chet sure doesn't seem to mind cheating on his girlfriend Bunny with Mrs. Cello.

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