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** Diva sins ''Mr. Quilp'' for casting Anthony Newley as its title character, noting that his song-and-dance man persona is far better suited for [[TheDandy Dick Swiveler]] than the vile villain Quilp is supposed to be. She compares his casting to if Tommy Tune played [[Literature/{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]].
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** Diva sins ''Mr. Quilp'' for casting Anthony Newley Creator/AnthonyNewley as its title character, noting that his song-and-dance man persona is far better suited for [[TheDandy Dick Swiveler]] than the vile villain Quilp is supposed to be. She compares his casting to if Tommy Tune played [[Literature/{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]].
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* WereStillRelevantDammit: [[invoked]] Diva cites this as ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'s'' first sin, noting that the film tries too hard to appeal to modern viewers, even to the point of mocking the fact that it's a musical, and the end result is bound to alienate existing fans of the source material and new fans alike.
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** When discussing "Western Animation/The Scarecrow" Diva points out that the idea of an animated adaptation of Feathertop has plenty of potential in both Disneyfied and more faithful forms, but the muddled storytelling, annoying side characters and plot holes mean that the film fails to make the most of the core concept.
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* StylisticSuck: Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' discusses this. When she sins "Bathing Beauty" despite its inanity clearly being deliberate, she explains that without something entertaining, deliberately bad is just... bad.
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** Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' discusses this. When she sins "Bathing Beauty" despite its inanity clearly being deliberate, she explains that without something entertaining, deliberately bad is just...bad.bad.
** Also discussed in ''Film/AtLongLastLove'' in regard to its "Find me a Primitive Man" number, noting that it's not good, but not funny enough that its badness is the point.
** Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' discusses this. When she sins "Bathing Beauty" despite its inanity clearly being deliberate, she explains that without something entertaining, deliberately bad is just...
** Also discussed in ''Film/AtLongLastLove'' in regard to its "Find me a Primitive Man" number, noting that it's not good, but not funny enough that its badness is the point.
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** Diva points out in her review of ''De-Lovely'' that Music/ColePorter's life has the makings of a great biopic, especially with his marriage with Linda Lee Thomas, yet the film squanders it with a ClicheStorm.
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** [[Invoked]] ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
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** [[Invoked]] [[invoked]] ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
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** [[InvokedTrope]] ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
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** [[InvokedTrope]] [[Invoked]] ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure [[InvokedTrope]]:
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** [[InvokedTrope]] ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
** [[InvokedTrope]] ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
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* WhenYouComingHomeDad: She sins ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' for this. She's already annoyed with the trope and notes that while Gus and Rosie's workaholic father doesn't have time to play boat with them in Central Park, him getting fired and evicted for shirking his responsibilities to adhere to his kids' every whim isn't idle parenting either.
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* WhenYouComingHomeDad: She sins ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' for this. She's already annoyed with the trope and notes that while Gus and Rosie's workaholic father doesn't have time to play boat with them in Central Park, him getting fired and evicted for shirking his responsibilities to adhere to his kids' every whim isn't idle ideal parenting either.
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* StuntCasting: [[InvokedTrope Diva discusses it]] in her review of ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', finding it a desperate gimmick that reeks of desperation. While it has produced some great results, other times it has not, including David Hasselhoff in the title roles.
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* StuntCasting: [[InvokedTrope Diva discusses it]] in her review of ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', finding it a desperate gimmick that reeks of desperation. While it has produced some great results, other times it has not, including David Hasselhoff Creator/DavidHasselhoff in the title roles.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: [[InvokedTrope]] Diva sins ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' for its 90's era fashion sense despite being set in 1983, which is enough for her to question why it's set in that year to begin with.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: [[InvokedTrope]] [[InvokedTrope Diva sins sins]] ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' for its 90's era fashion sense despite being set in 1983, which is enough for her to question why it's set in that year to begin with.
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The Legend Goes On has its editing as Special Effects Failure, so that's why it's here.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: [[Invoked]] [[InvokedTrope]] Diva sins ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' for its 90's era fashion sense despite being set in 1983, which is enough for her to question why it's set in that year to begin with.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva cites]] ''Film/{{Cats}}'' for its notorious visual effects, and specifically, how Tom Hooper's BadBoss attitude and Universal giving the effects team [[ChristmasRushed little time]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and money]] led to them being a mess.
** [[InvokedTrope Diva cites]] ''Film/{{Cats}}'' for its notorious visual effects, and specifically, how Tom Hooper's BadBoss attitude and Universal giving the effects team [[ChristmasRushed little time]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and money]] led to them being a mess.
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**[[InvokedTrope ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' - as well as the series itself - sees its first sin for its ''terrible'' editing, consisting of random jump cuts and [[{{Padding}} repeated]] StockFootage.
** Divacites]] sins ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' for its needlessly bizarre editing, with random speed shifts and showy transitions, saying it's what happens when an amateur editor wants to show off their new editing software.
** Diva cites ''Film/{{Cats}}'' for its notorious visual effects, and specifically, how Tom Hooper's BadBoss attitude and Universal giving the effects team [[ChristmasRushed little time]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and money]] led to them being a mess.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: [[Invoked]] Diva sins ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' for its 90's era fashion sense despite being set in 1983, which is enough for her to question why it's set in that year to begin with.
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** While Diva is forgiving of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' as a whole, she takes issues with Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Mrs. Lovett, feeling her subdued performance lacks the character's sinister edge. In particular, this makes the "A Little Priest" number, in which she and Sweeney plot their [[IAmAHumanitarian meat pie]] business, fall flat.
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** Diva calls out Zu in ''Music'' as a self-absorbed, emotionally callous trainwreck rather than the quirky and lovable the writers think she is. What makes it worse is that the filmmakers expect their audience to empathize with ''her'' rather than the autistic Music.
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** Diva calls out Zu in ''Music'' as a self-absorbed, emotionally callous trainwreck rather than the quirky and lovable misfit the writers think she is. What makes it worse is that the filmmakers expect their audience to empathize with ''her'' rather than the autistic Music.
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-->'''Diva''': Come on, woman! You need to go all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Belatrix Lestrange]] on this number!
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* UpToEleven: Sia's ''Music'' is the '''only''' movie to receive over 10 sins from Diva, 11 sins to be exact.
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** Diva takes issue with ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'s'' three-leads, Creator/RichardHarris, Creator/VanessaRedgrave and Creator/FrancoNero. Harris's timber as Arthur is pleasant, but his random tonal shifts during his songs and dramatic scenes is quite jarring. Meanwhile, Redgrave's singing as Guinevere is too sedate and underpitch to sell her as a naïve romantic, especially in her first scene. Finally, Nero, whose singing was dubbed, fails to present Lancelot as a [[SmallNameBigEgo braggart]] with his stiff performance. This is problematic as it sterilizes the building animosity between Lancelot and the other Knights that explodes when Mordred enters the picture later on (plus, it bemuses Diva that Lancelot and Guinevere show none of the chemistry [[RomanceOnTheSet which translated off-set between Nero and Redgrave]]).
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* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "This session of the Infernal Court in Musical Hell is now adjourned." (With added words such as ''"thankfully"'' [[SuckinessIsPainful if it was a particularly terrible musical]].)
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* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "This "So let it be recorded, this session of the Infernal Court in Musical Hell is now adjourned." (With added words such as ''"thankfully"'' [[SuckinessIsPainful if it was a particularly terrible musical]].)
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** Diva takes issue with ''Mr. Quilp'' for ending with [[IllGirl Little Nell's]] tragic death after it spent so much time and energy on the antics of its titular villain.
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Diva calls out Cassie's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] plot in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' as its biggest sin, as it [[DemotedToExtra diminishes the screentime of the other auditionees]], which [[BrokenAesop spits in the face of the show's message]] that everyone has an interesting story to tell.
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** Diva calls out Cassie's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] plot in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' as its biggest sin, as it [[DemotedToExtra diminishes the screentime of the other auditionees]], which [[BrokenAesop spits in the face of the show's message]] that everyone has an interesting story to tell.
** Diva calls out Cassie's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] plot in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' as its biggest sin, as it [[DemotedToExtra diminishes the screentime of the other auditionees]], which [[BrokenAesop spits in the face of the show's message]] that everyone has an interesting story to tell.
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** Diva points out that ''Mr. Quilp'' spends so much time on its titular villain's antics, and not enough on the goodly Little Nell, that it makes her death so hard to care about.
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* TheUnintelligible: Diva's bailiff, who talks like the adults from the ''Peanuts'' cartoons (albeit with vocal chirping rather than a trombone "wah-wah" noise).
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* TheUnintelligible: Diva's bailiff, who talks like the adults from the ''Peanuts'' cartoons (albeit with vocal chirping chirping, which Christi said was inspired by the Murlocs from ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft'', rather than a trombone "wah-wah" noise).noise).
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** Diva takes issue with ''Mr. Quilp'' for ending with [[IllGirl Little Nell's]] tragic death after it spent so much time and energy on the antics of its titular villain.
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** Diva sins ''Mr. Quilp'' for casting Anthony Newley as its title character, noting that his song-and-dance man persona is far better suited for [[TheDandy Dick Swiveler]] than the vile villain Quilp is supposed to be. She compares his casting to if Tommy Tune played [[Literature/{{Lolita}} Humbert Humbert]].
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* UpToEleven: Sia's ''Music'' is the '''only''' movie to receive over 10 sins from Diva, 11 sins to be exact.
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* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]]
** Diva calls out Raoul in ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'' for letting the Phantom go instead of killing him or capturing him. For the show's sequel, ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Diva calls out the Phantom for insensitively singing to a suicidal Meg (currently holding a gun!) "we can't all be like Christine," [[spoiler:which indirectly leads to Meg killing Christine]], an act which she considers "the single stupidest thing in this entire stupid plot." She underscores her point with the mass FacePalm scene from ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3''.
** Diva calls out Evilene in ''Film/TheWiz'' for having a ''sprinkler system in her factory'', as it not only gives anyone an access to her WeaksauceWeakness, but as an evil sweatshop owner, "why would she care if her drones go up in flames?"
** Diva calls out Winslow in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' for easily buying into Swan's offer for his ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' opera, even letting [[TheDragon Philbin]] walk off with the only copies of his music. She finds Winslow especially GenreBlind for not knowing a DealWithTheDevil when he saw it.
--->'''Sin Card''': (character), you IDIOT!
** Diva calls out Raoul in ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'' for letting the Phantom go instead of killing him or capturing him. For the show's sequel, ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Diva calls out the Phantom for insensitively singing to a suicidal Meg (currently holding a gun!) "we can't all be like Christine," [[spoiler:which indirectly leads to Meg killing Christine]], an act which she considers "the single stupidest thing in this entire stupid plot." She underscores her point with the mass FacePalm scene from ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3''.
** Diva calls out Evilene in ''Film/TheWiz'' for having a ''sprinkler system in her factory'', as it not only gives anyone an access to her WeaksauceWeakness, but as an evil sweatshop owner, "why would she care if her drones go up in flames?"
** Diva calls out Winslow in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' for easily buying into Swan's offer for his ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' opera, even letting [[TheDragon Philbin]] walk off with the only copies of his music. She finds Winslow especially GenreBlind for not knowing a DealWithTheDevil when he saw it.
--->'''Sin Card''': (character), you IDIOT!
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* YouMeddlingKids: Appropriately enough, Diva opens the ''Scooby-Doo'' review by saying that she "would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling cherubim."
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** Diva explains that Maddie Ziegler's casting as the title character in ''Music'' is the latest entry into Hollywood's long tradition of casting non-disabled actors as InspirationallyDisadvantaged characters in OscarBait films. As such, the very neurotypical Ziegler's performance as the high-support autistic character comes across as [[CopycatMockery a mocking imitation of autistic people]] rather than true representation. Diva does not blame Ziegler herself, who reportedly hated playing the role and cried with guilt over how harmful it was, but rather director Music/{{Sia}} for her seeming refusal to even consider hiring an autistic actress for the part.
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* TheScrappy: [[InvokedTrope Diva lists]] these characters as sins, and often subjects them to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The Verdict]] [[OnceAnEpisode at the end of each episode]].
* TheScottishTrope: God and Heaven are "the opposition", while Jesus is only referred to as "the opposition's child/kid/son". {{Satan}} is "The Boss."
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ''Film/SpiceWorld'' breaks Diva, who goes on to leave early and skip work the next day... Only for it to manifest anyway by shifting her screening of ''The Music Man'' with the remake.
* ShipTease: With her angelic counterpart Donna.
* SharedUniverse: Kinda. The show is set in Hell, which could be considered another dimension, but Diva does consistently interact with the Reviewaverse. It's more than likely the Hell of the Reviewaverse.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MontyPython clips are brought up in abundance.
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "This session of the Infernal Court in Musical Hell is now adjourned." (With added words such as ''"thankfully"'' [[SuckinessIsPainful if it was a particularly terrible musical]].)
* SoOkayItsAverage:
** Diva was surprised when [[InvokedTrope she found]] ''Rock and Rule'' to be this, and doesn't condemn the characters or production staff to anything, instead opting to order them to study self-help books.
** She has this reaction to ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', concluding that it's neither as bad as its detractors say nor as good as it wants to be. It has one of the lowest sin counts on the show, and was awarded its first-ever Saving Grace.
** Rinse and repeat with ''Film/LaLaLand'', which is the first film to lead off with a Saving Grace rather than a sin for the beautiful production design, earns only six sins (most of which relate to a single character), and is one of the few where Diva orders no punishments at the end. What Diva found to be an unsympathetic male lead and a bland, low-stakes plot, however, earned it a hearing if nothing else. This seems to have been a deliberate BreatherEpisode, as next on the agenda? ''Film/{{Cats}}''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva cites]] ''Film/{{Cats}}'' for its notorious visual effects, and specifically, how Tom Hooper's BadBoss attitude and Universal giving the effects team [[ChristmasRushed little time]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and money]] led to them being a mess.
** Diva finds Ben's CGI Beast form in ''Descendants 3'' to be hilariously bad and feels it's what one gets if Tom Hooper directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019''.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Throughout the ''Rock of Ages'' review, Diva constantly mispronounces Julianne Hough's last name like "how", when it's actually meant to be pronounced like "huff".
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Diva calls out Cassie's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] plot in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' as its biggest sin, as it [[DemotedToExtra diminishes the screentime of the other auditionees]], which [[BrokenAesop spits in the face of the show's message]] that everyone has an interesting story to tell.
-->'''Cassie''': Zach, we're all special.
-->'''Diva''': But some of us are more special than others.
* StrangledByTheRedString: [[invoked]] In her ''The Music Man'' review, she criticizes the lack of chemistry between the two leads.
* StrawmanHasAPoint:
** [[invoked]] One of the things she sins ''Jekyll and Hyde'' for is setting up the hospital's board of governors as a bunch of stodgy, hidebound snobs who hamper Jekyll's research, even though they turn out to be completely right.
** Diva points out in ''Legends of Oz'' that the [[spoiler:fake]] appraiser was right to point out that the Gales' twister-damaged home was completely unlivable at the moment, while Dorothy's insistence she can fix it is naiive and hysterical.
* StuntCasting: [[InvokedTrope Diva discusses it]] in her review of ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', finding it a desperate gimmick that reeks of desperation. While it has produced some great results, other times it has not, including David Hasselhoff in the title roles.
* StylisticSuck: Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' discusses this. When she sins "Bathing Beauty" despite its inanity clearly being deliberate, she explains that without something entertaining, deliberately bad is just... bad.
* SubvertedCatchPhrase: Diva refuses to do the last part in ''Burlesque'', feeling the movie doesn't deserve it, [[CatchPhraseInterruptus and is unable to do so]] in ''Sweeney Todd'' as everyone starts pushing her to do said movie. She also does a BlahBlahBlah version in ''A Troll In Central Park'' to get it over with quickly, and in "Tentacolino", after "Greetings, mortals!", she comments on [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the original episode, and how weird it looked after three years]]. She lets [[Theatre/IntoTheWoods The Baker's Wife]] finish her catchphrase in ''David Copperfield'' with a baffled "what was that?" in reaction to the weirdness in that film.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Expected from musicals who deserve an infernal judgment. A good indicator is whether Diva eschews the opening phrase or adds something to the closing one. The ''Film/{{Sextette}}'' review downright starts with her saying "I'm not gonna lie, this review's gonna hurt".
* SuddenDownerEnding:
** She sins ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' for its abrupt bleak epilogue, which sees the characters of the otherwise upbeat romantic comedy struggle through World War II [[spoiler:(including the [[DeathByAdaptation death of Boyett]])]], and the ForegoneConclusion of the War's end isn't enough to lift anyone's spirits.
** She sins ''Film/CountryStrong'' for having its protagonist commit suicide by overdose immediately after her triumphant comeback concert.
* TemptingFate:
** She decides not to punish ''Film/TheApple'' and its makers because she finds it SoBadItsGood and mockingly asks what her superiors are going to do about that. Cue the reveal of her next assignment: ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Christmas''. "Oh, me and my big maw..."
** Diva makes this mistake a lot. At the end of her review of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', she declares the movie to be the worst possible thing that could happen to [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the musical]]...then she sees [[Theatre/LoveNeverDies her next case]].
---> "''[[OhCrap Oh,]]'' ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]''..."
** ''Film/{{Sweeney Todd|TheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}}'' is alright, better than the Disney knockoffs Diva usually gets assigned with. Then it's shown ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea'' is the next case.
---> [[LampshadeHanging Why do I keep saying this kind of thing?]]
** After reviewing ''Film/TheCountryBears'', Diva shows that she ''still'' hasn't learned better:
---> "This session of the infernal court in Musical Hell is now adjourned, and please let the next case be anything but a bad Disney cash grab... [[OhCrap No. No, I didn't mean]] ''[[OhCrap anything]]'', don't you '''dare''' use that as an excuse to send me something truly heinous like - " (the next case is revealed to be ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'') " - oh, ''for fuck's sake''!"
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** [[InvokedTrope In Diva's opinion]], Creator/GeneKelly's OldMaster character in ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' would've made a much more interesting protagonist than Michael Beck's {{wangst}}y wannabe artist.
** Discussed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax''. She thinks that Audrey would have made a better protagonist, because she is interested in trees and cares about them, unlike Ted who’s really just doing it because his crush on her. Not to mention that the movie never really explains why she knows so much about the trees when barely anyone else does.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva list several examples of this]] for ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', mainly not exploring the town's reaction to a sentient wooden puppet boy in more detail and ''especially'' [[StepfordSuburbia the town]] where the population's children are created by a machine to be absolutely perfect but that serves no other function than to teach Geppetto that having a kid that's perfect isn't what it's cracked up to be, despite being what Diva describes as a "speculative fiction gold mine".
** Diva believes that ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' would have otherwise been worthy of its cult classic status - with Creator/RobertAltman's improvisational SignatureStyle suiting that of the original Fleischer Bros. cartoons - had it not been a musical.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva marked down]] ''The Nutcracker in 3D'' for this, pointing out that the fantasy world was inexplicably ''more'' depressing than the real one... despite the fact that the film is set in central Europe right around the time the Nazis and other tyrannical governments were rising to power in real life.
** She also looked down on ''Pennies from Heaven'' for this reason, calling it a "depressing, nihilistic slog" and even refusing to hand out her usual sentence at the end, reasoning that suffering through it was already punishment enough.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob from ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'' comes after her as she tries to explain ''Film/ShockTreatment'''s complex relationship with ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', ultimately deciding that it's best described as a SpiritualSuccessor. It doesn't placate them ("Oh, you people are impossible"), but she soldiers on with the review anyway.
* TotallyRadical: Diva namechecks this as the first sin of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Coming Out of Their Shells'', feeling that it hasn't aged well and is more prevalent than usual.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Diva sins ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' for putting Sophie's pregnancy and Cher as Ruby, which pop up in the last half-hour of the movie, [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil front and center in the trailers]]. In particular, she considers juxtaposing Sophie's pregnancy with her mother's past a better story than the end result.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Diva sins ''Music'' for Felix's plotline, which sees him barely interact with any of the cast and [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed]]]] with no setup or resolution. She finds his plotline a culmination of the filmmakers' lack of interest in their marginalized characters.
* TroubledProduction: [[InvokedTrope Diva opens her review of]] ''The Thief and the Cobbler'' by discussing its legendarily protracted production, noting that it's what happens when ExecutiveMeddling and [[DoingItForTheArt artisitic ambition]] go out of control.
* TruckDriversGearChange: Diva gets exasperated when this appears in bad musical numbers, such as the intro song of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'' or the LoveTheme of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty And The Beast|Golden1999}}''.
* TwoDecadesBehind: One of Diva's complaints about "The Beauty Underneath" in her ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' review is that it sounds like it was originally from the mid-1980s, even putting it over footage of a David Copperfield show from that era and noting how well it fits there.
* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: [[InvokedTrope Diva calls out]] ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' for its rather young designs for its title characters, which especially make scenes between Juliet and the far-larger Prince uncomfortable to watch.
* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Lost Horizon'' for its very strong MightyWhitey themes, since the High Lama is white and his chosen successor is also a white man. She goes on to say that this might not be so bad if not for the fact that the Asian characters are all one-dimensional and often stereotypical. Putting Creator/JohnGielgud in yellowface and calling him "Chang" certainly doesn't help, and neither does Shangri-La lacking a decent irrigation system until a white engineer comes up with one. [[note]]This wasn't even ValuesDissonance; even at the time, Pauline Kael declared that it was rather suspicious that the film's idea of a utopia was a society where white people rule over Asians and black people don't exist.[[/note]]
** Diva suggests this being the case of the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' reacting inappropriately to being kissed by a toddler, with romantic "visual language" and "dialogue" being used for what was supposed to be an "innocent and platonic relationship". The sin card for the moment is simply NoJustNo.
** Diva notes that Hollywood has a tendency to cast able-bodied actors as disabled characters, as ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' does with its title role, which creates the implication that disabled people cannot represent themselves. Overall, ''Music'' is flooded with mishandled representation of marginalized people, and Diva accuses the filmmakers of parading these characters without giving them relevance in their own story.
* TheUnintelligible: Diva's bailiff, who talks like the adults from the ''Peanuts'' cartoons (albeit with vocal chirping rather than a trombone "wah-wah" noise).
* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Jekyll & Hyde'' for failing to make most of the members of the hospital's board of governors as unlikable as they were clearly meant to be. Not only is their refusal to back Jekyll's research [[StrawmanHasAPoint far more reasonable and understandable than the play presents it]], they don't seem like bad people (the [[PedophilePriest Bishop of Basingstoke]] excepted). While they have the collective flaw of being snooty, it's hard to fault them for it considering they come from upper-crust backgrounds in the Victorian era, and it certainly isn't bad enough for their murders at Hyde's hands to be at all cathartic.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva's criticisms]] of ''La La Land'' focused mainly in the male protagonist, Sebastian, who is supposed to be a tragically under-appreciated genius, but whom she finds to be a pretentious KnowNothingKnowItAll with a [[MightyWhitey white savior complex]].
** Diva calls out Zu in ''Music'' as a self-absorbed, emotionally callous trainwreck rather than the quirky and lovable the writers think she is. What makes it worse is that the filmmakers expect their audience to empathize with ''her'' rather than the autistic Music.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[InvokedTrope Diva has ragged on a number of films]], including ''RENT'', ''Can't Stop the Music'', and ''Xanadu'', for portraying having a "normal" day job to pay the bills as essentially a FateWorseThanDeath, and sending the message that one should strive for immediate artistic success or nothing. She notes that these movies could only have been made prior to the 2008 recession, when having any job at all became a luxury for many... and one of her main critiques of ''La La Land'' is that it takes this position despite being both made and set ''after'' the recession.
* TheUnpronounceable:
** Diva's real name is 267 syllables long... but even she can't pronounce "[[Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera Terrance Zdunich]]."
** She made a joke suggesting that the name of Prince Chulalongkorn of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' was such by having several other YouTubers struggling to read it, but Diva grew to see the joke as needlessly offensive to Thai people, which resulted in her [[MissingEpisode taking down her review of the film.]]
** She remarks in her ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' review that she's terrible with human languages, but she can pronounce the name of the main town, Passamaquoddy, in one go, unlike Dr. Terminus in his VillainSong in that film.
* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]]
** Diva points out in ''Lost Horizon'' that Shangri-La — a society that isolates and indoctrinates outsiders into a very specific belief system, discourages dissention, has next to no contact with TheOutsideWorld, and in fact is waiting for the outside world to destroy itself whereupon the utopian society will be the focal point of a new and better civilization — is effectively a Cult, and thus extremely creepy by modern standards.
** Diva sins ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'' for retaining the original film's HollywoodNatives and doing nothing to update them.
* ValuesResonance: [[invoked]]
** To Diva's astonishment, ''Dick Deadeye'' gets a Saving Grace for this, noting that it not only succeeds in updating Gilbert and Sullivan's legendary Victorian social satires for the '70s, but sending numerous messages that are still relevant in the 21st century, successfully bridging the values of ''three'' very different time periods.
** Diva says that the fact that the Mobsters' song in ''It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman'', in which they praise America as "a swell country without no gun control!", "could easily have been written yesterday is both very impressive and very depressing."
* VillainBall: Diva sins Mok in ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' for his numerous "rookie villain mistakes," even keeping a running countdown of them, despite considering him the best character in the film.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[invoked]] Diva points out the trope's double-edged sword in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight]]''. On one hand, she praises Creator/RichardWilliams's animation as the film's saving grace, saying it's "some of the best cel-animation you're likely to see anywhere." On the other hand, she sins the movie for having several stunning sequences that never come together as a unified whole, pointing out that Williams didn't even create storyboards for the film until Creator/WarnerBros got involved.
--> '''Sin Card''': Cool, and...?
* TheVoice: Artistic representations exist, and she’s been known to manifest as a burst of flame or inside an inanimate object, but Diva herself is never seen onscreen. Christi herself said the two recurring clips listed on IdiotBall are to compensate for how Diva can't use facial expressions.
* WaxingLyrical: The very first instance of her CatchPhrase is "Judge, jury and executioner [[Music/CelineDion here, far, wherever you are]]".
* WereStillRelevantDammit: [[invoked]] Diva cites this as ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'s'' first sin, noting that the film tries too hard to appeal to modern viewers, even to the point of mocking the fact that it's a musical, and the end result is bound to alienate existing fans of the source material and new fans alike.
* WhamEpisode: The review of ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical'' goes more in-depth about Diva's past and feelings towards her position than other episodes. It introduces Donna, head of Musical Heaven. Her interactions with Diva reveal that Diva used to have a lot more faith in musicals (and possibly that she is an FallenAngel), implies that Diva wants to go back to that time but doesn't believe she can, Donna encourages Diva to rethink her chosen path. It is the first episode that actually provides backstory on Diva, and some future episodes still allude to Diva's history and struggle with being a CausticCritic.
* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]]
** Diva calls out Raoul in ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'' for letting the Phantom go instead of killing him or capturing him. For the show's sequel, ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Diva calls out the Phantom for insensitively singing to a suicidal Meg (currently holding a gun!) "we can't all be like Christine," [[spoiler:which indirectly leads to Meg killing Christine]], an act which she considers "the single stupidest thing in this entire stupid plot." She underscores her point with the mass FacePalm scene from ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3''.
** Diva calls out Evilene in ''Film/TheWiz'' for having a ''sprinkler system in her factory'', as it not only gives anyone an access to her WeaksauceWeakness, but as an evil sweatshop owner, "why would she care if her drones go up in flames?"
** Diva calls out Winslow in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' for easily buying into Swan's offer for his ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' opera, even letting [[TheDragon Philbin]] walk off with the only copies of his music. She finds Winslow especially GenreBlind for not knowing a DealWithTheDevil when he saw it.
--->'''Sin Card''': (character), you IDIOT!
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: She sins ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' for this. She's already annoyed with the trope and notes that while Gus and Rosie's workaholic father doesn't have time to play boat with them in Central Park, him getting fired and evicted for shirking his responsibilities to adhere to his kids' every whim isn't idle parenting either.
* WritingByTheSeatOFYourPants: Diva accuses the writers of ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' of operating on a "sure, why not?" mentality.
* WTHCastingAgency: [[InvokedTrope This is a common source of sins]]:
** Diva points out Creator/LucilleBall's performance in the title role of ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'' as one of the most notorious cases of miscasting in history. Among her issues, she cites Ball's unenthusiastic singing voice, "phoned-in" Lucy shtick, and the egregious soft-focus on her closeups to disguise her age. Overall, her Mame comes across as an irritating and annoying eccentric, rather than a lovable one.
** Diva is unimpressed with either lead of ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'', Creator/EmmyRossum and Creator/GerardButler. She points out that Rossum's singing voice, while fine, falls painfully short of being the great singing prodigy Christine is supposed to be. Her DullSurprise acting doesn't help either. Meanwhile, Butler's singing voice as The Phantom ranks among the worst vocal performances Diva's ever heard, while the film emphasizing his sexiness detracts from his intriguing nature.
** Diva sins Lesley-Anne Downe's performance as Anne ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'', pointing out that she comes across as too smart to play an [[TheIngenue ingenue]] like Anne.
** Diva sins the 2003 TV movie version of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' for casting Creator/MatthewBroderick as Harold Hill, pointing out that he doesn't have the energy or singing voice for the role.
** Creator/LeeMarvin and Creator/ClintEastwood are cited as the first two sins, in that order, of ''Film/PaintYourWagon''. For the former, Diva admits that his voice suits the role of an old mountain man, but it's not a voice most might want to hear for long. For the latter, Diva feels that he's not comfortable playing the nice guy of the pair. Overall, their singing falls short of the score and comes off as flat.
** Diva agrees with Creator/DrewCarey that he was miscast as the titular ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', noting that his snarky comic persona is better off as [[Theatre/TheMusicMan Marcellus Washburn]] or [[Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum Pseudolus]] rather than a sentimental character like Geppetto and that he is clearly uncomfortable in the role.
** Diva sins Music/DianaRoss' performance as Dorothy in ''Film/TheWiz'', noting that while Dorothy was [[AgeLift aged]] to an adult schoolteacher to accommodate Ross's casting, her behavior was not, which makes Dorothy much more irritating as a result.
** While Diva is forgiving of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' as a whole, she takes issues with Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Mrs. Lovett, feeling her subdued performance lacks the character's sinister edge. In particular, this makes the "A Little Priest" number, in which she and Sweeney plot their [[IAmAHumanitarian meat pie]] business, fall flat.
-->'''Diva''': Come on, woman! You need to go all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Belatrix Lestrange]] on this number!
** Diva gets a few sins out of this in ''[[Theatre/PeterPan1954 Peter Pan Live!]]'' Her first sin for the film is its eschewing the ActingForTwo tradition for Captain Hook and Mr. Darling, feeling that Creator/ChristianBorle, who played Mr. Darling, would've made a far better Hook than Creator/ChristopherWalken, whose flat performance earns another sin. She also points out that Alison Williams, [[CrosscastRole as Peter himself]], is "too sophisticated and introspective" for someone that's supposed to be "thoughtless, arrogant, and self-centered".
** Diva has mixed feelings over the casting of "the diminutive, cherubic" Music/PaulWilliams as [[SatanicArchetype Swan]] in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise.'' She admits that Williams does make Swan into a manipulative and sinister TragicVillain, but also says one can't forget they're looking at a "human Muppet" and composer of several of their songs.
** She points out that TheAntagonist of ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'' is played by Creator/DomDeluise, who in any other work would be [[PigeonholedVoiceActor pigeonholed]] into a BigFun NiceGuy role.
--->'''Diva:''' Oh, there goes my last lingering shred of confidence in the film.
** Creator/RexHarrison as the title Doctor in ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' leads off Diva's sin count. She points out that his performance is a retread of [[Theatre/MyFairLady Henry Higgins]], which makes the Doctor much more of a {{Jerkass}} than the film intended. That's before Diva notes Harrison's real-life [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] attitude during the production.
** Creator/GlennClose as Nellie in ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' also leads off Diva's sin count. She notes that Close is too old for the role, especially [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole when lyrics describing Nellie's youthful age are intact]], and it's impossible to make her look anything other than poised and sophisticated. As Nellie and Emile are now similar in age, and again, the lyrics are intact, the writers blunt their romantic arc. Speaking of Emile, Diva is also underwhelmed by his actor, Rade Sherbediga's tepid acting and flat singing.[[note]]For those curious, Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi from the 1958 film had a 15 year age difference. Close and Sherbediga have an age difference of ''one year''.[[/note]]
** Diva notes her bewilderment at ''Country Strong'' casting country music legend Music/TimMcGraw as the only one of the four lead characters who does ''not'' sing.
* WorldOfWeirdness: Since the show's setting could count as the Hell of the Reviewaverse, yes. The Reviewaverse is weird. For one thing, it frequently interacts with Hell.
* {{Yellowface}}:
** Diva cites ''Lost Horizon'' its first sin for casting Creator/JohnGielgud as the Tibetan Chang once his name comes up in the opening credits.
** Diva also sins ''Dick Deadeye'' for its racially insensitive designs for the Asian characters.
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* TheScrappy: [[InvokedTrope Diva lists]] these characters as sins, and often subjects them to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The Verdict]] [[OnceAnEpisode at the end of each episode]].
* TheScottishTrope: God and Heaven are "the opposition", while Jesus is only referred to as "the opposition's child/kid/son". {{Satan}} is "The Boss."
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ''Film/SpiceWorld'' breaks Diva, who goes on to leave early and skip work the next day... Only for it to manifest anyway by shifting her screening of ''The Music Man'' with the remake.
* ShipTease: With her angelic counterpart Donna.
* SharedUniverse: Kinda. The show is set in Hell, which could be considered another dimension, but Diva does consistently interact with the Reviewaverse. It's more than likely the Hell of the Reviewaverse.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MontyPython clips are brought up in abundance.
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "This session of the Infernal Court in Musical Hell is now adjourned." (With added words such as ''"thankfully"'' [[SuckinessIsPainful if it was a particularly terrible musical]].)
* SoOkayItsAverage:
** Diva was surprised when [[InvokedTrope she found]] ''Rock and Rule'' to be this, and doesn't condemn the characters or production staff to anything, instead opting to order them to study self-help books.
** She has this reaction to ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', concluding that it's neither as bad as its detractors say nor as good as it wants to be. It has one of the lowest sin counts on the show, and was awarded its first-ever Saving Grace.
** Rinse and repeat with ''Film/LaLaLand'', which is the first film to lead off with a Saving Grace rather than a sin for the beautiful production design, earns only six sins (most of which relate to a single character), and is one of the few where Diva orders no punishments at the end. What Diva found to be an unsympathetic male lead and a bland, low-stakes plot, however, earned it a hearing if nothing else. This seems to have been a deliberate BreatherEpisode, as next on the agenda? ''Film/{{Cats}}''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva cites]] ''Film/{{Cats}}'' for its notorious visual effects, and specifically, how Tom Hooper's BadBoss attitude and Universal giving the effects team [[ChristmasRushed little time]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and money]] led to them being a mess.
** Diva finds Ben's CGI Beast form in ''Descendants 3'' to be hilariously bad and feels it's what one gets if Tom Hooper directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019''.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Throughout the ''Rock of Ages'' review, Diva constantly mispronounces Julianne Hough's last name like "how", when it's actually meant to be pronounced like "huff".
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Diva calls out Cassie's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] plot in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' as its biggest sin, as it [[DemotedToExtra diminishes the screentime of the other auditionees]], which [[BrokenAesop spits in the face of the show's message]] that everyone has an interesting story to tell.
-->'''Cassie''': Zach, we're all special.
-->'''Diva''': But some of us are more special than others.
* StrangledByTheRedString: [[invoked]] In her ''The Music Man'' review, she criticizes the lack of chemistry between the two leads.
* StrawmanHasAPoint:
** [[invoked]] One of the things she sins ''Jekyll and Hyde'' for is setting up the hospital's board of governors as a bunch of stodgy, hidebound snobs who hamper Jekyll's research, even though they turn out to be completely right.
** Diva points out in ''Legends of Oz'' that the [[spoiler:fake]] appraiser was right to point out that the Gales' twister-damaged home was completely unlivable at the moment, while Dorothy's insistence she can fix it is naiive and hysterical.
* StuntCasting: [[InvokedTrope Diva discusses it]] in her review of ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', finding it a desperate gimmick that reeks of desperation. While it has produced some great results, other times it has not, including David Hasselhoff in the title roles.
* StylisticSuck: Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' discusses this. When she sins "Bathing Beauty" despite its inanity clearly being deliberate, she explains that without something entertaining, deliberately bad is just... bad.
* SubvertedCatchPhrase: Diva refuses to do the last part in ''Burlesque'', feeling the movie doesn't deserve it, [[CatchPhraseInterruptus and is unable to do so]] in ''Sweeney Todd'' as everyone starts pushing her to do said movie. She also does a BlahBlahBlah version in ''A Troll In Central Park'' to get it over with quickly, and in "Tentacolino", after "Greetings, mortals!", she comments on [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the original episode, and how weird it looked after three years]]. She lets [[Theatre/IntoTheWoods The Baker's Wife]] finish her catchphrase in ''David Copperfield'' with a baffled "what was that?" in reaction to the weirdness in that film.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Expected from musicals who deserve an infernal judgment. A good indicator is whether Diva eschews the opening phrase or adds something to the closing one. The ''Film/{{Sextette}}'' review downright starts with her saying "I'm not gonna lie, this review's gonna hurt".
* SuddenDownerEnding:
** She sins ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' for its abrupt bleak epilogue, which sees the characters of the otherwise upbeat romantic comedy struggle through World War II [[spoiler:(including the [[DeathByAdaptation death of Boyett]])]], and the ForegoneConclusion of the War's end isn't enough to lift anyone's spirits.
** She sins ''Film/CountryStrong'' for having its protagonist commit suicide by overdose immediately after her triumphant comeback concert.
* TemptingFate:
** She decides not to punish ''Film/TheApple'' and its makers because she finds it SoBadItsGood and mockingly asks what her superiors are going to do about that. Cue the reveal of her next assignment: ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Christmas''. "Oh, me and my big maw..."
** Diva makes this mistake a lot. At the end of her review of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', she declares the movie to be the worst possible thing that could happen to [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the musical]]...then she sees [[Theatre/LoveNeverDies her next case]].
---> "''[[OhCrap Oh,]]'' ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]''..."
** ''Film/{{Sweeney Todd|TheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}}'' is alright, better than the Disney knockoffs Diva usually gets assigned with. Then it's shown ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea'' is the next case.
---> [[LampshadeHanging Why do I keep saying this kind of thing?]]
** After reviewing ''Film/TheCountryBears'', Diva shows that she ''still'' hasn't learned better:
---> "This session of the infernal court in Musical Hell is now adjourned, and please let the next case be anything but a bad Disney cash grab... [[OhCrap No. No, I didn't mean]] ''[[OhCrap anything]]'', don't you '''dare''' use that as an excuse to send me something truly heinous like - " (the next case is revealed to be ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'') " - oh, ''for fuck's sake''!"
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** [[InvokedTrope In Diva's opinion]], Creator/GeneKelly's OldMaster character in ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' would've made a much more interesting protagonist than Michael Beck's {{wangst}}y wannabe artist.
** Discussed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax''. She thinks that Audrey would have made a better protagonist, because she is interested in trees and cares about them, unlike Ted who’s really just doing it because his crush on her. Not to mention that the movie never really explains why she knows so much about the trees when barely anyone else does.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva list several examples of this]] for ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', mainly not exploring the town's reaction to a sentient wooden puppet boy in more detail and ''especially'' [[StepfordSuburbia the town]] where the population's children are created by a machine to be absolutely perfect but that serves no other function than to teach Geppetto that having a kid that's perfect isn't what it's cracked up to be, despite being what Diva describes as a "speculative fiction gold mine".
** Diva believes that ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' would have otherwise been worthy of its cult classic status - with Creator/RobertAltman's improvisational SignatureStyle suiting that of the original Fleischer Bros. cartoons - had it not been a musical.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva marked down]] ''The Nutcracker in 3D'' for this, pointing out that the fantasy world was inexplicably ''more'' depressing than the real one... despite the fact that the film is set in central Europe right around the time the Nazis and other tyrannical governments were rising to power in real life.
** She also looked down on ''Pennies from Heaven'' for this reason, calling it a "depressing, nihilistic slog" and even refusing to hand out her usual sentence at the end, reasoning that suffering through it was already punishment enough.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob from ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'' comes after her as she tries to explain ''Film/ShockTreatment'''s complex relationship with ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', ultimately deciding that it's best described as a SpiritualSuccessor. It doesn't placate them ("Oh, you people are impossible"), but she soldiers on with the review anyway.
* TotallyRadical: Diva namechecks this as the first sin of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Coming Out of Their Shells'', feeling that it hasn't aged well and is more prevalent than usual.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Diva sins ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' for putting Sophie's pregnancy and Cher as Ruby, which pop up in the last half-hour of the movie, [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil front and center in the trailers]]. In particular, she considers juxtaposing Sophie's pregnancy with her mother's past a better story than the end result.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Diva sins ''Music'' for Felix's plotline, which sees him barely interact with any of the cast and [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed]]]] with no setup or resolution. She finds his plotline a culmination of the filmmakers' lack of interest in their marginalized characters.
* TroubledProduction: [[InvokedTrope Diva opens her review of]] ''The Thief and the Cobbler'' by discussing its legendarily protracted production, noting that it's what happens when ExecutiveMeddling and [[DoingItForTheArt artisitic ambition]] go out of control.
* TruckDriversGearChange: Diva gets exasperated when this appears in bad musical numbers, such as the intro song of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'' or the LoveTheme of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty And The Beast|Golden1999}}''.
* TwoDecadesBehind: One of Diva's complaints about "The Beauty Underneath" in her ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' review is that it sounds like it was originally from the mid-1980s, even putting it over footage of a David Copperfield show from that era and noting how well it fits there.
* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: [[InvokedTrope Diva calls out]] ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' for its rather young designs for its title characters, which especially make scenes between Juliet and the far-larger Prince uncomfortable to watch.
* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Lost Horizon'' for its very strong MightyWhitey themes, since the High Lama is white and his chosen successor is also a white man. She goes on to say that this might not be so bad if not for the fact that the Asian characters are all one-dimensional and often stereotypical. Putting Creator/JohnGielgud in yellowface and calling him "Chang" certainly doesn't help, and neither does Shangri-La lacking a decent irrigation system until a white engineer comes up with one. [[note]]This wasn't even ValuesDissonance; even at the time, Pauline Kael declared that it was rather suspicious that the film's idea of a utopia was a society where white people rule over Asians and black people don't exist.[[/note]]
** Diva suggests this being the case of the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' reacting inappropriately to being kissed by a toddler, with romantic "visual language" and "dialogue" being used for what was supposed to be an "innocent and platonic relationship". The sin card for the moment is simply NoJustNo.
** Diva notes that Hollywood has a tendency to cast able-bodied actors as disabled characters, as ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' does with its title role, which creates the implication that disabled people cannot represent themselves. Overall, ''Music'' is flooded with mishandled representation of marginalized people, and Diva accuses the filmmakers of parading these characters without giving them relevance in their own story.
* TheUnintelligible: Diva's bailiff, who talks like the adults from the ''Peanuts'' cartoons (albeit with vocal chirping rather than a trombone "wah-wah" noise).
* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Jekyll & Hyde'' for failing to make most of the members of the hospital's board of governors as unlikable as they were clearly meant to be. Not only is their refusal to back Jekyll's research [[StrawmanHasAPoint far more reasonable and understandable than the play presents it]], they don't seem like bad people (the [[PedophilePriest Bishop of Basingstoke]] excepted). While they have the collective flaw of being snooty, it's hard to fault them for it considering they come from upper-crust backgrounds in the Victorian era, and it certainly isn't bad enough for their murders at Hyde's hands to be at all cathartic.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva's criticisms]] of ''La La Land'' focused mainly in the male protagonist, Sebastian, who is supposed to be a tragically under-appreciated genius, but whom she finds to be a pretentious KnowNothingKnowItAll with a [[MightyWhitey white savior complex]].
** Diva calls out Zu in ''Music'' as a self-absorbed, emotionally callous trainwreck rather than the quirky and lovable the writers think she is. What makes it worse is that the filmmakers expect their audience to empathize with ''her'' rather than the autistic Music.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[InvokedTrope Diva has ragged on a number of films]], including ''RENT'', ''Can't Stop the Music'', and ''Xanadu'', for portraying having a "normal" day job to pay the bills as essentially a FateWorseThanDeath, and sending the message that one should strive for immediate artistic success or nothing. She notes that these movies could only have been made prior to the 2008 recession, when having any job at all became a luxury for many... and one of her main critiques of ''La La Land'' is that it takes this position despite being both made and set ''after'' the recession.
* TheUnpronounceable:
** Diva's real name is 267 syllables long... but even she can't pronounce "[[Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera Terrance Zdunich]]."
** She made a joke suggesting that the name of Prince Chulalongkorn of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' was such by having several other YouTubers struggling to read it, but Diva grew to see the joke as needlessly offensive to Thai people, which resulted in her [[MissingEpisode taking down her review of the film.]]
** She remarks in her ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' review that she's terrible with human languages, but she can pronounce the name of the main town, Passamaquoddy, in one go, unlike Dr. Terminus in his VillainSong in that film.
* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]]
** Diva points out in ''Lost Horizon'' that Shangri-La — a society that isolates and indoctrinates outsiders into a very specific belief system, discourages dissention, has next to no contact with TheOutsideWorld, and in fact is waiting for the outside world to destroy itself whereupon the utopian society will be the focal point of a new and better civilization — is effectively a Cult, and thus extremely creepy by modern standards.
** Diva sins ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'' for retaining the original film's HollywoodNatives and doing nothing to update them.
* ValuesResonance: [[invoked]]
** To Diva's astonishment, ''Dick Deadeye'' gets a Saving Grace for this, noting that it not only succeeds in updating Gilbert and Sullivan's legendary Victorian social satires for the '70s, but sending numerous messages that are still relevant in the 21st century, successfully bridging the values of ''three'' very different time periods.
** Diva says that the fact that the Mobsters' song in ''It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman'', in which they praise America as "a swell country without no gun control!", "could easily have been written yesterday is both very impressive and very depressing."
* VillainBall: Diva sins Mok in ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' for his numerous "rookie villain mistakes," even keeping a running countdown of them, despite considering him the best character in the film.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[invoked]] Diva points out the trope's double-edged sword in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight]]''. On one hand, she praises Creator/RichardWilliams's animation as the film's saving grace, saying it's "some of the best cel-animation you're likely to see anywhere." On the other hand, she sins the movie for having several stunning sequences that never come together as a unified whole, pointing out that Williams didn't even create storyboards for the film until Creator/WarnerBros got involved.
--> '''Sin Card''': Cool, and...?
* TheVoice: Artistic representations exist, and she’s been known to manifest as a burst of flame or inside an inanimate object, but Diva herself is never seen onscreen. Christi herself said the two recurring clips listed on IdiotBall are to compensate for how Diva can't use facial expressions.
* WaxingLyrical: The very first instance of her CatchPhrase is "Judge, jury and executioner [[Music/CelineDion here, far, wherever you are]]".
* WereStillRelevantDammit: [[invoked]] Diva cites this as ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'s'' first sin, noting that the film tries too hard to appeal to modern viewers, even to the point of mocking the fact that it's a musical, and the end result is bound to alienate existing fans of the source material and new fans alike.
* WhamEpisode: The review of ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical'' goes more in-depth about Diva's past and feelings towards her position than other episodes. It introduces Donna, head of Musical Heaven. Her interactions with Diva reveal that Diva used to have a lot more faith in musicals (and possibly that she is an FallenAngel), implies that Diva wants to go back to that time but doesn't believe she can, Donna encourages Diva to rethink her chosen path. It is the first episode that actually provides backstory on Diva, and some future episodes still allude to Diva's history and struggle with being a CausticCritic.
* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]]
** Diva calls out Raoul in ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'' for letting the Phantom go instead of killing him or capturing him. For the show's sequel, ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Diva calls out the Phantom for insensitively singing to a suicidal Meg (currently holding a gun!) "we can't all be like Christine," [[spoiler:which indirectly leads to Meg killing Christine]], an act which she considers "the single stupidest thing in this entire stupid plot." She underscores her point with the mass FacePalm scene from ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3''.
** Diva calls out Evilene in ''Film/TheWiz'' for having a ''sprinkler system in her factory'', as it not only gives anyone an access to her WeaksauceWeakness, but as an evil sweatshop owner, "why would she care if her drones go up in flames?"
** Diva calls out Winslow in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' for easily buying into Swan's offer for his ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' opera, even letting [[TheDragon Philbin]] walk off with the only copies of his music. She finds Winslow especially GenreBlind for not knowing a DealWithTheDevil when he saw it.
--->'''Sin Card''': (character), you IDIOT!
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: She sins ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' for this. She's already annoyed with the trope and notes that while Gus and Rosie's workaholic father doesn't have time to play boat with them in Central Park, him getting fired and evicted for shirking his responsibilities to adhere to his kids' every whim isn't idle parenting either.
* WritingByTheSeatOFYourPants: Diva accuses the writers of ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' of operating on a "sure, why not?" mentality.
* WTHCastingAgency: [[InvokedTrope This is a common source of sins]]:
** Diva points out Creator/LucilleBall's performance in the title role of ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'' as one of the most notorious cases of miscasting in history. Among her issues, she cites Ball's unenthusiastic singing voice, "phoned-in" Lucy shtick, and the egregious soft-focus on her closeups to disguise her age. Overall, her Mame comes across as an irritating and annoying eccentric, rather than a lovable one.
** Diva is unimpressed with either lead of ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'', Creator/EmmyRossum and Creator/GerardButler. She points out that Rossum's singing voice, while fine, falls painfully short of being the great singing prodigy Christine is supposed to be. Her DullSurprise acting doesn't help either. Meanwhile, Butler's singing voice as The Phantom ranks among the worst vocal performances Diva's ever heard, while the film emphasizing his sexiness detracts from his intriguing nature.
** Diva sins Lesley-Anne Downe's performance as Anne ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'', pointing out that she comes across as too smart to play an [[TheIngenue ingenue]] like Anne.
** Diva sins the 2003 TV movie version of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' for casting Creator/MatthewBroderick as Harold Hill, pointing out that he doesn't have the energy or singing voice for the role.
** Creator/LeeMarvin and Creator/ClintEastwood are cited as the first two sins, in that order, of ''Film/PaintYourWagon''. For the former, Diva admits that his voice suits the role of an old mountain man, but it's not a voice most might want to hear for long. For the latter, Diva feels that he's not comfortable playing the nice guy of the pair. Overall, their singing falls short of the score and comes off as flat.
** Diva agrees with Creator/DrewCarey that he was miscast as the titular ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', noting that his snarky comic persona is better off as [[Theatre/TheMusicMan Marcellus Washburn]] or [[Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum Pseudolus]] rather than a sentimental character like Geppetto and that he is clearly uncomfortable in the role.
** Diva sins Music/DianaRoss' performance as Dorothy in ''Film/TheWiz'', noting that while Dorothy was [[AgeLift aged]] to an adult schoolteacher to accommodate Ross's casting, her behavior was not, which makes Dorothy much more irritating as a result.
** While Diva is forgiving of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' as a whole, she takes issues with Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Mrs. Lovett, feeling her subdued performance lacks the character's sinister edge. In particular, this makes the "A Little Priest" number, in which she and Sweeney plot their [[IAmAHumanitarian meat pie]] business, fall flat.
-->'''Diva''': Come on, woman! You need to go all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Belatrix Lestrange]] on this number!
** Diva gets a few sins out of this in ''[[Theatre/PeterPan1954 Peter Pan Live!]]'' Her first sin for the film is its eschewing the ActingForTwo tradition for Captain Hook and Mr. Darling, feeling that Creator/ChristianBorle, who played Mr. Darling, would've made a far better Hook than Creator/ChristopherWalken, whose flat performance earns another sin. She also points out that Alison Williams, [[CrosscastRole as Peter himself]], is "too sophisticated and introspective" for someone that's supposed to be "thoughtless, arrogant, and self-centered".
** Diva has mixed feelings over the casting of "the diminutive, cherubic" Music/PaulWilliams as [[SatanicArchetype Swan]] in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise.'' She admits that Williams does make Swan into a manipulative and sinister TragicVillain, but also says one can't forget they're looking at a "human Muppet" and composer of several of their songs.
** She points out that TheAntagonist of ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'' is played by Creator/DomDeluise, who in any other work would be [[PigeonholedVoiceActor pigeonholed]] into a BigFun NiceGuy role.
--->'''Diva:''' Oh, there goes my last lingering shred of confidence in the film.
** Creator/RexHarrison as the title Doctor in ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' leads off Diva's sin count. She points out that his performance is a retread of [[Theatre/MyFairLady Henry Higgins]], which makes the Doctor much more of a {{Jerkass}} than the film intended. That's before Diva notes Harrison's real-life [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] attitude during the production.
** Creator/GlennClose as Nellie in ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' also leads off Diva's sin count. She notes that Close is too old for the role, especially [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole when lyrics describing Nellie's youthful age are intact]], and it's impossible to make her look anything other than poised and sophisticated. As Nellie and Emile are now similar in age, and again, the lyrics are intact, the writers blunt their romantic arc. Speaking of Emile, Diva is also underwhelmed by his actor, Rade Sherbediga's tepid acting and flat singing.[[note]]For those curious, Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi from the 1958 film had a 15 year age difference. Close and Sherbediga have an age difference of ''one year''.[[/note]]
** Diva notes her bewilderment at ''Country Strong'' casting country music legend Music/TimMcGraw as the only one of the four lead characters who does ''not'' sing.
* WorldOfWeirdness: Since the show's setting could count as the Hell of the Reviewaverse, yes. The Reviewaverse is weird. For one thing, it frequently interacts with Hell.
* {{Yellowface}}:
** Diva cites ''Lost Horizon'' its first sin for casting Creator/JohnGielgud as the Tibetan Chang once his name comes up in the opening credits.
** Diva also sins ''Dick Deadeye'' for its racially insensitive designs for the Asian characters.
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