Line #21 Film/TeenSpirit


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2	'''Teen Spirit''' is a MadeForTV movie that aired on Creator/ABCFamily on August 7th, 2011. The protagonist of the story is [[AlphaBitch Amber Pollocks]] (Creator/CassieScerbo), a cruel, arrogant and self-centered girl who gets shocked by a loose wire during her high school prom, right after being unanimously elected prom queen. Upon her death, a [[CelestialBureaucracy Celestial Bureaucrat]] informs her that if she wants to enter Heaven, she must make up for the way she treated other people by helping unpopular student Lisa Sommers (Creator/LindseyShaw) become popular enough to be elected Prom Queen at the school's make-up prom. At first, her and Lisa clash, but over the course of the series, they start to get along as Amber molds her into a strong candidate for Prom Queen. However, things start to go south when Lisa starts blowing off her old friends in favor of the popular crowd that now worships her. Amber, realizing that she's corrupted Lisa and turned her into a worse version of herself, feels guilty and tries to change Lisa back, even if it means resigning herself to Hell.
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4	Not to be confused with the 2019 film starring Elle Fanning.
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7	!! This movie provides examples of:
8	* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Lisa comes down with a bad case of this, thanks to Amber.
9	* AlphaBitch: Amber. She gets a bit of a rude awakening after dying when she finds out just how many people hated her.
10	-->'''Amber:''' You have to help me with this. If you don't, they'll send me to Hell and I don't want to go.\
11	'''Lisa:'''Why not? You'll meet so many people like you.
12	** Carlita takes her place after she dies. Lisa [[FaceHeelTurn also quickly becomes this as she tries to become Prom Queen.]]
13	* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: No one has anything good to say about Amber at her memorial service.
14	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The people Amber meets on the bus to hell are much worse than her and one of them scoffs at her being there simply because she says she was "a mean girl"
15	* TheAtoner: In death Amber begins to see the error of her ways and after she has "failed" in her task, accepts her fate to Hell graciously.
16	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: It's all good and well that Amber doesn't get to go the Hell, and that Lisa finally becomes as content with life as can be by finding the happy middle-ground between unpopular and popular... but the fact that Amber actually stays dead even though she did a HeelFaceTurn and became a sympathetic person is somewhat sad. And the movie even ends with ''another'' death even though that one was more of an AssholeVictim.]]
17	* BookEnds: The events of the film started with Amber dying after being electrocuted when she is almost crowned prom queen. [[spoiler:Then the ends with Carlita, angered she wasn’t crowned queen at the makeup prom getting electrocuted after she tries to stop the music.]]
18	* BrutalHonesty: The Celestial Bureaucrat on Amber's life.
19	-->"Well, you were [[{{Jerkass}} a nasty piece]] [[AlphaBitch of business]], weren't you?
20	* CelestialBureaucracy: We have one represented by a snarky old man. They require Amber to make Lisa prom queen or go to Hell.
21	* CharacterDevelopment: Amber's experience helping Lisa become prom queen makes her a less shallow and selfish person, as intended by the celestial bureaucracy.
22	* TheCorrupter: Amber is an accidental example to Lisa, turning her into another shallow, selfish, AlphaBitch by making her popular. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She isn't happy about it, to the point where she initially refuses to go to heaven.]]
23	* CuteGhostGirl: Amber is a ghost who only Lisa can see, but she is just as attractive as she was in life.
24	* DeadpanSnarker: Lisa's friend Colin.
25	-->'''Popular girl:''' I'm sorry, I thought the virginity club met at lunch to polish their purity rings.\
26	'''Colin:''' Oh golly, that was hilarious. I'm going to process that and laugh at it later.
27	* DuelingMovies: Shares some similarities with another ABC Family film released months earlier named Christmas Cupid. While this one is a take on Pygmalion that one is a take on A Christmas Carol though both feature a shallow dead girl trying to redeem herself by helping someone in the living
28	* EvilerThanThou: The murderers and criminals being sent to Hell mock the comparatively minimal nature of Amber's transgressions.
29	* FaceHeelTurn: Amber turns Lisa into an AlphaBitch thanks to her machinations at making her popular. She gets better.
30	* HeelFaceTurn: Amber's one is a big driving point of the movie, with the celestial bureaucracy trying to show her the shallowness of her lifestyle by making her help Lisa become prom queen. It doesn't become complete until Amber realizes she's accidentally made Lisa a far worse person and refuses to go to heaven. Lisa also makes one, once she realizes the error of her FaceHeelTurn and abandoning the cruelty that Amber taught her.
31	* [[JerkassGods Jerkass God]]: Heaven must have a pretty messed up deity running the place if the reward for making a HeroicSacrifice to save someone else is eternal damnation.
32	* LemonyNarrator: Either Zigzagged or subverted. The movie starts out with one, but a few minutes into the movie, he decides the movie will be better without him, and decides to shut up. He appears to be acting on a whim like any LemonyNarrator is prone to do, but sticks to his decision and doesn't come back for the rest of the movie.
33	* LoopholeAbuse: Apparently, [[spoiler: having the least popular student become Prom ''King'']] technically meets the requirements of Amber's mission.
34	* LovableAlphaBitch: Amber develops into this throughout the film.
35	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lisa near the end. Triggered by her realization that none of her new popular friends could be bothered to come help her, while the friends she ditched were more than happy to.
36	* NothingIsScarier: We don't actually see Hell, just the prison bus that takes people there. All that is known is that people have to relinquish their hair and teeth before entering. The fact that we don't know anything else makes it an even more menacing threat for Amber.
37	%% * OhNoNotAgain: The celestial bureaucrat at the end.
38	* ParentalNeglect: Amber's mother is emotionally neglectful to both of her daughters. After Amber dies, her mother has a HeelRealization....but starts to neglect her other daughter because [[TearJerker she's too distraught over Amber's death.]] Eventually she realizes her error however.
39	* PartySchedulingGambit: Amber gets Lisa to send an e-mail making everyone at school think that Carlita's party is scheduled a day earlier than it actually is, causing people to be disappointed when they show up and there's no party. She then proceeds to invite everyone to her party instead.
40	* ThisCannotBe: Lisa's initial reaction to seeing Amber's ghost:
41	-->'''Amber:''' You...you can see me.\
42	'''Lisa:''' No...no, no I can't.

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