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15	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/girl_vs_monster.png]]
16	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Face your fears.]]]]
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18	''Girl vs. Monster'' is a Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie that premiered on October 12, 2012. The film stars Creator/OliviaHolt as Skylar, a teenage girl who is incapable of feeling fear. The plot kicks off with Skylar and her friends preparing for the ultimate Halloween Party, where she is supposed to sing with a local rock band headed by LoveInterest Ryan Dean. Unfortunately, that plan gets derailed when her parents tell her she isn't allowed out on Halloween. When Skylar decides to sneakout anyway, she unknowingly unleashes her own personal monster, discovers that she's a fifth generation monster hunter, and experiences fear for the first time.
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20	!! This film provides examples of:
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22	* ActionGirl: Skylar is a monster hunter.
23	* AintTooProudToBeg: When Henry defeats his personal monster, it pleads with him to be scared of it.
24	* AlphaBitch: Myra threatens to ruin Skylar's social life. [[spoiler: By the end of the film, they've become friends due to Skylar saving Myra form Deimata.]]
25	* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Deimata sums up the futility of trying to defeat her like this:
26	-->'''Deimata:''' There will always be monsters because there will always be fear. Fear makes the monsters, not the other way around.
27	* BigBad: Deimata is fear of TheHero and her release causes the movie's conflict.
28	* BlessedWithSuck: Skylar's inability to feel fear seemed really cool until fifteen years worth of it was unleashed all at once.
29	* BreakThemByTalking: The monsters inspire fear in their hosts this way.
30	* DemonicPossession: Deimata can possess people.
31	* DontTryThisAtHome: Skylar's gymnastics stunt to fix a crooked banner is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d as a "don't try this at home" moment by Henry. When Myra later attempts the same stunt, in order to avoid asking Skylar for help (and ignoring Ryan's warning), she breaks her neck.
32	* EasilyForgiven: Justified. Skylar readily forgives Myra for her AlphaBitch behavior, but she was never that bothered by it in the first place.
33	* EldritchAbomination: A minor example. We don't directly see it, but Deimata follows up on her threat of scaring Skylar's parents to death. It involves tentacle things sprouting from her face... and her parents' response is [[SeenItAll 'That's the best you could come up with?']]
34	* EmotionEater: Monsters are born from and embody the fears of people and feed off of them. Immortal monsters such as Deimata outlive their hosts and bond themselves to new ones. If a monster is captured, the fear they embody can be suppressed.
35	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Skylar's method of fixing the banner in her first scene aptly demonstrates her fearlesness. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in that she spends most of the film after that suffering from crippling terror.
36	* FearIsNormal: Skylar delivers AnAesop to this effect in the movie's closing narration. How much weight it carries coming from someone whose fear has been sealed away again ([[SequelHook temporarily anyway]]) is up to the individual viewer.
37	* FearlessFool: Skylar seems to be this beginning, like when she's willing to do a dangerous gymnastics stunt in order to straighten a banner, something most people would be discouraged from. [[note]]There was explicitly a ladder available, but she chose to do it this way instead.[[/note]] It only works because she's had six-and-a-half years of gymnastics training.
38	* HeelFaceTurn: Myra starts out as the AlphaBitch, but eases up on Skylar at the end, accepting her relationship with Ryan and even joining the two of them for a song.
39	* IKnowWhatYouFear: Each monster is the embodiment of somebody's worst fears and as such, knows all of them.
40	* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Monsters can be defeated this way, if it's done by the person they're haunting.
41	* ImprobablyCoolCar: Skylar's parents' 1960s Ford Econoline van.
42	* ItRunsInTheFamily: Monster hunting for Skylar.
43	* LiteralMetaphor: At one point, Henry is literally paralyzed with fear.
44	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Skylar hadn't cut the power in order to sneak out, she wouldn't have released Deimata.
45	* ObliviousToLove: At the beginning of the movie, Skylar is completely blind to the fact that Ryan is in love with her, as well as to the fact that he's scared to ask her out. The second one is at least justified, since she has no understanding of fear at all.
46	* RousingSpeech: "Fearless" is a musical one to Deimata. Skylar was previously too afraid to sing so this act breaks both her fear and Deimata's power.
47	* SarcasticClapping: Deimata does this [[spoiler: while possessing Myra]] when Skylar suffers stage fright.
48	* SealedEvilInACan: Deimata. This is the reason Skylar was fearless for fifteen years, as Deimata was the physical embodiment of her fear.
49	* SequelHook: The end credits show [[spoiler: Deimata cracking her containment unit just a little, hinting that she may escape]].
50	* ShoutOut: When Deimata meets up with her henchmen after being released, she asks whether Creator/StephenKing is still writing books. She then asks if kids still go to see horror movies only to be told that whilst vampires are popular right now, it is the [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga romantic type of vampire]]. Deimata is [[TakeThat disgusted]].
51	* {{Steampunk}}: The monster hunting equipment has this look. It's {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d.
52	* TheUnintelligible: Myra, while wearing her neck cast is unable to talk.
53	* WhatIsThisFeeling: Skyler when she experiences fear for the first time in her life.

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