History YMMV / TheRunaways

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: For younger listeners, especially children of the eighties who seek out the band because they're excited about Music/JoanJett and Music/LitaFord playing together.

* FaceOfTheBand: Cherie and Joan. The former due to Kim pulling strings to give off this "vibe" (to Cherie's anger), and the latter due to her solo career.
** Arguably [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in the film. The rest of the band resent the endless publicity Cherie receives while she herself grows to hate it and it's part of [[spoiler: her decision to leave the band]].

** The [[http://waxvinylrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/27071210.jpg cover]] for their final album, ''And Now...The Runaways''.

* SignatureSong: "Cherry Bomb".

* FetishRetardant: Some of the sexy scenes with Cherie slip into this since she ''is'' a fifteen-year-old girl being exploited for {{Fanservice}} - and Dakota Fanning was the same age during filming.

** Not that Creator/DakotaFanning's acting talents were ever in doubt - but she had been doing mostly children's movies and critics called this a step in the right direction to establishing herself as an adult actress.

* NoodleIncident: Were reportedly kicked out of Disneyland in 1977 for ''some'' reason.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: For younger listeners, especially children of the eighties who seek out the band because they're excited about Joan Jett and Lita Ford playing together.

* {{Squick}}: The very first shot we get in the movie is a drop of blood hitting the sidewalk. As the camera pans up, we see it's Cherie having her period...classy.

* ActorShipping: While they had previously worked together on ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', Creator/KristenStewart and Creator/DakotaFanning's close friendship while promoting this biopic led many fans of it to ship them. The two would often tease each other, with Kristen at one point pranking Dakota on Jimmy Kimmel by recording a message asking how it was to kiss her, and when not doing that, the two would praise each other. Dakota also presented Kristen with an award at the Women In Hollywood Awards, to which Kristen said, "Oh my God, dude I love you so much." The pair's continued friendship has made sure that the pairing still has a following years later.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning kiss in the movie, guess what the main thing they're interviewed about is? If it's not that then it's Dakota performing on stage in Cherie's iconic lingerie.

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]:
** Most critics' reactions to Kristen Stewart, especially considering how she did all of her own singing and learned how to play the guitar. Even the [[Music/JoanJett lady herself]] was fooled when listening to a recording of Stewart, thinking she was just listing to one of her old tapes.
** Not that Dakota Fanning's acting talents were ever in doubt - but she had been doing mostly children's movies and critics called this a step in the right direction to establishing herself as an adult actress.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: When another band behaves like jerks to Joan and Cherie, Joan gets revenge by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment pissing on their guitars]]...then slipping in it and tripping over her own pants when they almost catch her in the act.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MichaelShannon and Ray Porter would later play Superman villains [[Film/ManOfSteel Zod]] and [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Darkseid]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MichaelShannon and Ray Porter would later play Superman villains [[Film/ManOfSteel Zod]] and [[Film/ZackSnydersJusiceLeague Darkseid]].

* {{Woobie}}: Every member, considering they had to deal with Kim's often abusive treatment of them.
** Cherie in particular. The poor girl had to deal with two sexual assaults, her parents divorce, both her solo albums being complete flops, a failed acting career, and drug addiction...all before she turned 25.
** Jackie Fox is another strong contender, she came forwards in 2015 to reveal that [[http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-lost-girls/ Kim Fowley had]] drugged and raped her at a party while Cherie and Joan looked on laughing and did nothing. Both Currie and Jett have received massive backlash from fans, and [[http://pitchfork.com/news/60350-the-runaways-cherie-currie-responds-to-jackie-fox-rape-allegation-against-kim-fowley/ Currie wrote a post on her Facebook]] saying that she would be willing to take a polygraph to prove that this hadn't happened, and alleged Fox was exaggerating the incident. Fox would later go on to attempt suicide, only being saved by Currie's finding her and driving her to the hospital. After Fox quit the band, her replacement (Victory Tischler-Blue) spoke of the band joking about Kim "[having fucked] Jackie like a dog", and how the group's manager Scott Anderson (who was allegedly present during the initial rape) had made a recording of Jackie having a mental breakdown and would play it repeatedly and laugh at it. Currie later wrote a memoir wherein a similar situation was described, but instead of Jackie the victim was a fictionalized groupie who encouraged Fowley. Jackie threatened legal action, and the book was never published.

* EarWorm: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjd01Cup8yw "Hello Daddy, hello mom. I'm a ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch CHERRY BOMB!"]]
** Also: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Q2OHn4rjY "I love playin' with fire (FIRE!), and I don't wanna get burned, I love playin' with fire (FIRE!), don't think I'll ever learn!"]]

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When another band behaves like jerks to Joan and Cherie, Joan gets revenge by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment pissing on their guitars]]...then slipping in it and tripping over her own pants when they almost catch her in the act.

** Most critics' reactions to Kristen Stewart in the {{biopic}}, especially considering how she did all of her own singing and learned how to play the guitar. Even the [[Music/JoanJett lady herself]] was fooled when listening to a recording of Stewart, thinking she was just listing to one of her old tapes.

** Also: "I love playin' with fire (FIRE!), and I don't wanna get burned, I love playin' with fire (FIRE!), don't think I'll ever learn!"

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Most critics' reactions to Kristen Stewart in the {{biopic}}, especially considering how she did all of her own singing and learned how to play the guitar. Even the [[Music/JoanJett lady herself]] was fooled when listening to a recording of Stewart, thinking she was just listing to one of her old tapes.

* FaceOfTheBand: Arguably [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. The rest of the band resent the endless publicity Cherie receives while she herself grows to hate it and it's part of [[spoiler: her decision to leave the band]].

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning kiss in the movie, guess what the main thing they're interviewed about is? If it's not that then it's Dakota performing on stage in Cherie's iconic lingerie.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When another band behaves like jerks to Joan and Cherie, Joan gets revenge by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment pissing on their guitars]]...then slipping in it and tripping over her own pants when they almost catch her in the act.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/MichaelShannon steals the show with his over-the-top performance as Kim Fowley.

** Arguably [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. The rest of the band resent the endless publicity Cherie receives while she herself grows to hate it and it's part of [[spoiler: her decision to leave the band]].

* LesYay: Played between Joan and Cherie in TheMovie. Apparently, it was [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Film]] that they experimented together, but they were never a couple.

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Most critics' reactions to Kristen Stewart in the {{biopic}}, especially considering how she did all of her own singing and learned how to play the guitar. Even the [[Music/JoanJett lady herself]] was fooled when listening to a recording of Stewart, thinking she was just listing to one of her old tapes.

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Most critics' reactions to Kristen Stewart in the {{biopic}}, especially considering how she did all of her own singing and learned how to play the guitar. Even the [[JoanJett lady herself]] was fooled when listening to a recording of Stewart, thinking she was just listing to one of her old tapes.