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4	->''I want you to think real hard and ask yourselves, "Where did all this evil come from? What did I do to make someone hate me so much to go to these lengths?" Think of this as the final, and there's only one question: "What did I do to deserve this?"''
5	-->-- '''Dane'''
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7	''The Final'' is a 2010 TeenHorror film directed by Joey Stewart and written and produced by Jason Kabolati. The film was part of the Creator/AfterDarkHorrorfest film festival.
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9	After being continuously bullied throughout high school, a group of teens -- Dane and his friends Emily, Jack, Ravi and Andy -- concoct a plan for the ultimate {{revenge}}, using knowledge from their classes (namely the torture methods of cultures past) and inspiration from [[MurderSimulators their vast collection of horror films]].
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11	The teens set up a party at a ranch house, inviting all of their bullies to attend, and they pour in like clockwork. After drugging them with spiked punch, the teens hold them prisoner and Dane informs them that, for the years they spent abusing students that they saw as weak and helpless, they will pay for their sins.
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13	They will not die, but by the end of the night, they will wish that they had.
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16	!!This film contains examples of:
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18	* AbortedArc: When the outcasts are setting up their torture chamber, they mention how they are rigging the place with webcams in order to send a message to high school students all across the country. This is never brought up again. The filmmakers planned on following up on this in the sequel, but it's since fallen into DevelopmentHell.
19	* AbusiveParents: It's shown that the five kids all have pretty lousy home lives in addition to being bullied, with their parents ranging from being blissfully ignorant of the kids' issues at school to being almost as bad as the bullies themselves.
20	* AdultsAreUseless: The adults in the film either don't know what's going on with the bullying, know but are limited in what they can do or, in the case of the parents, are otherwise neglectful and abusive to the five.
21	%% ZeroContextExample * AlphaBitch[=/=]GirlPosse: Kelly, Bridget, and Heather.
22	* AndIMustScream: In a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Audition}}'', Bernard is forced to consume a drug so that he cannot move but is still able to feel pain, and Emily then sticks his body with needle after needle.
23	* AssholeVictim: Zigzagged with the bullies. It's made repeatedly clear that they are horrible, but their fate is still treated as disproportionate to their crimes and they are also shown as capable of genuine remorse and mercy when confronted with their crimes.
24	%% ZeroContextExample * BadassAdorable: Emily.
25	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:While their message gets ignored and their victims treated sympathetically, the five still succeed in their plan to torture and permanently maim their bullies before taking their own lives.]]
26	* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Dane]] has shot [[spoiler:Kurtis]] and is standing over him, preparing to finish him off. There is a gunshot and [[spoiler:Dane]] falls over, revealing that [[spoiler:Emily]] has shot him.
27	* BearTrap: Dane lines the boundary of his property with bear traps. Tommy is released and told that if he can make his way through the woods to the highway, he is free to go and fetch help. He steps in one of the traps and breaks his leg.
28	* TheBeautifulElite: Heather, Bridget, and Kelly, at least until [[spoiler:acid permanently destroys Heather and Bridget's beauty and leaves them horribly disfigured for life]].
29	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with [[spoiler:the aforementioned three, and done consciously by Dane to make them as disgusting on the outside as he believes they are on the inside]].
30	* BeautyToBeast: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather get ''messed up'' by Emily's chemicals.]]
31	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe:
32	** The five make sure only to torture people who hurt them, although they force others to watch as punishment for seeing the bullying but doing nothing.
33	** They also try to prevent Kurtis from coming in the first place, since he was their friend.
34	*** Ravi, who was personally helped by Kurtis, goes as far as to help Kurtis escape. [[spoiler:This, tragically, costs him his life when Dane stabs him as punishment.]]
35	** Emily genuinely doesn't want to hurt Bridget after she sincerely apologizes for her bullying, though she hurts Bridget anyway after Bridget refuses to torture Bradley.
36	** Near the end, Dane tells Riggs that he wasn't tortured because, back in sophomore year, Riggs had offered to drive Dane home on a rainy night, stating that that one act of kindness saved his life. However, Dane changes his mind when Riggs insults him to his face, [[spoiler:only stopping because Kurtis comes back to kill him]].
37	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Before years of abuse warped them, the five were (and still are, to some extent) really nice kids. And Emily genuinely just wanted to be friends with the popular girls.
38	-->'''Emily:''' I wanted to be your friend. But now I'm going to be your enemy.
39	* BlackAndGrayMorality: The bullies treat the outcasts horribly for no other reason than sheer cruelty while the outcasts engage in horrifying acts of torture that will leave them permanently emotionally and physically damaged in retribution. There are no good guys, only varying levels of badness (except [[NiceGuy Kurtis]] and (to an extent) [[CrazySurvivalist Parker]]).
40	* BlackDudeDiesFirst:
41	** [[spoiler:Averted. Kurtis not only survives the entire movie, but also saves the day by calling the cops.]]
42	** Played straight, however, with [[spoiler:Ravi, the TokenMinority among the outcasts. He is the first one of them to die, having been killed by Dane for freeing Kurtis]].
43	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Kelly, Heather, and Bridget.
44	* BookEnds: The film begins with a horribly disfigured girl entering a BBQ restaurant and having to endure the patrons' reactions to her appearance. At the very end, once we see some of the effects of the lifelong trauma the outcasts' victims have endured, it's revealed that the girl is [[spoiler:Bridget]].
45	* BreakTheHaughty: The goal of the outcasts. The [[TheBeautifulElite vain]] AlphaBitch and a member of her GirlPosse [[spoiler:have flesh-eating chemicals slathered onto their faces to destroy their good looks and make them as ugly on the outside as they are inside]], while a womanizing JerkJock [[spoiler:is left paralyzed so that he will never play football or have sex again]]. It's worse in Bridget's case in that she already was genuinely sorry for bullying Emily and got acid-creamed because she refused to prove it by torturing Bradley. And that's ''after'' Bradley did the same to her when offered the chance. Being at the mercy of both your tormentors ''and'' a supposed friend would mess up anyone's self-esteem.
46	* BrokenAesop: The obvious moral of the story is that bullying and tormenting others is bad, yet the outcasts spend a good two-thirds of the movie doing this out of the need for revenge, although Dane states that he also wants [[{{Hypocrite}} to send an anti-bullying message to the nation]]. Said message is further rendered moot as when the incident does make the news, it's described as being an unprovoked attack carried out by angry social deviants as opposed to long-time bullying victims. On the flip side, one could argue that the message is that tormenting/torturing someone will not end well for the tormentor(s), regardless of whether or not they were initially tormented themselves. Short version: [[KarmicDeath karma is a bitch.]]
47	%% ZeroContextExample * BullyHunter: The five outcasts. [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil At first.]]
48	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Dane sees Bradley as the face of all that is wrong with the world, while Bradley sees Dane as just another faceless victim in the crowd. When Dane has Bradley at his mercy, he is shocked that Bradley honestly doesn't know his name. The rest of the bullies similarly never gave their victims much thought and are genuinely surprised to learn just how much the outcasts hate them.
49	%% ZeroContextExample * ColdBloodedTorture: The outcasts' stock in trade.
50	%% ZeroContextExample * CrazySurvivalist: Parker, the ex-army guy.
51	* CruelMercy: The outcasts left their victims alive just as they promised… but with many wishing that they weren't with horrifying and permanent physical damage as well as psychological trauma to deal with.
52	%% ZeroContextExample * DarkAndTroubledPast: The five have trouble both at home and at school.
53	* DeathByIrony:
54	** [[spoiler:Parker, the Vietnam veteran]], gets hit by a double-dose of this. First, earlier in the film, [[spoiler:he'd given tips to Dane on how to improve the traps he was laying around the ranch to catch runaways]]. Second, he winds up getting snagged by [[spoiler:a punji stake trap — exactly the kind once used by the Vietcong. (However, he manages to crawl away from it and kill two of the guards, and his ultimate fate is uncertain.)]]
55	** While not "death", most of the tortures inflicted by the outcasts have some relevance to their victims. See BreakTheHaughty for examples.
56	* DeathByRacism: Again, not actually "death", but the bulk of the jocks' interaction with the Indian kid Ravi consists of extremely racist remarks.
57	* DirtyCop: The police officer lets the jocks go in exchange for them handing over all their weed… which he is later seen smoking. A deleted scene reveals that he does the same thing for any good-looking women he pulls over, in exchange for sex. Hard to feel sorry for him when he gets killed by the triplets later on.
58	* DirtyCoward:
59	** Bradley. He acts tough early in the movie, and he goes to the party dressed as a [[UsefulNotes/TheGloryThatWasRome Roman centurion]], but once the "party" gets going, he whines constantly, and rather pathetically. [[spoiler:When given the chance to save himself pain by cutting off Bridget's fingers, he accepts pretty quickly… right after Bridget refused to do the same to him.]]
60	** Parker sees himself as this, feeling that he had dishonored himself in Vietnam by running away and letting his squadmates get killed.
61	* DisproportionateRetribution: ColdBloodedTorture and mutilation as a punishment for bullying. Downplayed in that the film makes it clear that the bullying did serious emotional harm.
62	* TheDogBitesBack: The entire premise of the film is founded on this trope and it's played around with and deconstructed at length as we see both the good and bad sides of both the victims and their torturers.
63	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:All of the outcasts, save one of the triplets, die, but not before mutilating several victims, leaving the whole town in mourning and leaving the victims with lifelong trauma, which drives one of them (Kelly) to suicide.]] And to make it worse, [[spoiler:everyone in the town more or less missed the point of the whole thing, painting the entire affair as being completely unprovoked and portraying the victims as saint-like]].
64	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The ending of the film sees the parents of the victims dramatically miss the point of the attacks. Instead of the victims being seen as getting their comeuppance for years of bullying, they're portrayed as saint-like who were attacked for no reason. Also, rather than become "a moment in history", as one of the attackers said it would be, [[ShaggyDogStory it's largely forgotten about after it's over]]. [[spoiler:Though Kelly, [[HeelRealization realizing just what her behavior has driven people to do]], eventually kills herself out of shame.]]
65	* DramaticUnmask: Dane does this when Bradley calls him a coward for "hiding" behind a mask. Soon after, the rest do this and introduce themselves once Emily realizes that Bridget knows who she is.
66	* DressingAsTheEnemy: The five dress in costumes in order to walk about the party unnoticed, until the time is right.
67	%% ZeroContextExample * DrivenToSuicide[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kelly. See SurvivorGuilt.]] Also, Dane hints at a SuicidePact and [[spoiler:Emily and Jack ultimately follow through on it]].
68	* DysfunctionalFamily: Almost all of the outcasts come from families that are broken one way or the other, either through being distant, neglectful, or blissfully unaware of the torment their children are going through.
69	* EmotionlessGirl: Emily, who remarks in her note to her mother explaining her actions that, for the first time in her life, she's at peace. The first crack in this attitude comes when [[spoiler:Ravi is killed]]; while she seemingly goes back to this afterward, [[spoiler:she eventually turns on Dane for killing Ravi]].
70	** Very early on, a not-nice encounter with the GirlPosse does leave her near tears, though.
71	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The five genuinely care for one another and think of themselves as a family. The bullies meanwhile do have some level of sincere concern for their friends.
72	* EverythingIsBigInTexas: While it's not lingered on too much, numerous background details emphasize the fact that the film is set in Texas, from the country-themed restaurant in the opening to the fact that the TortureCellar was set up on a ranch to the use of a cattle gun as a torture device.
73	* EvilCostumeSwitch: The outcasts all switch into macabre versions of their costumes after they drug the partygoers. Ravi's clown costume becomes a MonsterClown, Andy switches from a SWAT uniform to [[PuttingOnTheReich an SS uniform]], Jack switches from a Raggedy Andy doll to a [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]], Emily drops her butterfly costume in favor of a black leather smock and gloves ([[ShoutOut reminiscent of]] Asami from ''Film/{{Audition}}''), and finally, Dane changes out of his welder's costume and into a gas mask and a BadassLongcoat.
74	* EvilSoundsDeep: Dane's mask contains a voice amplifier that makes his voice sound far more baritone and creepy.
75	* EvilVersusEvil: The five versus the bullies. On the one hand, we have kids who kidnap and horribly torment others in various ways. On the other are school bullies who treated them like dirt for years for fun.
76	* FacelessGoons: There are actually eight outcasts, but only five are of any importance to the plot, are named, and actually shown planning their revenge. The other three only exist [[spoiler:[[CannonFodder to get killed by Parker]]]]. They were initially seen on the school steps, and their presence was meant to prevent the victims from leaving and to confuse police officers when the plan was over, but time constraints forced this subplot to be mostly removed bar a few lines of dialogue. One of them does survive, however.
77	* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather's faces are hideously deformed by acid.]]
78	* FateWorseThanDeath: The five outright state they don't plan to kill their tormentors, but will make them wish they did. They go on to mutilate, torture, and disfigure them, as well as inflicting severe mental scarring.
79	* FauxAffablyEvil: The bullies often act friendly to make their abuse more devastating, especially the girls who bully Emily. This is later used to creepy effect by Dane when he politely tells the bullies what horrors are in store for them.
80	* {{Fingore}}: Emily offers Bridget one chance to avoid pain: cut off all of Bradley's fingers in exchange for her own safety. [[spoiler:When she refuses, Emily offers the same deal in reverse to Bradley, who accepts.]]
81	* FoodSlap: JerkJock Bernard throws a carton of milk at Ravi in the cafeteria.
82	* ForcedToWatch: All but one of the five's victims was brutally tortured in front of their friends. The one untouched victim ends up [[DrivenToSuicide swallowing a handful of pills in the restroom]].
83	* {{Foreshadowing}}: A little example, but in the scene where Bernard throws milk at the outcasts' table, Bridget has quite a different expression on her face than the others, looking unimpressed at the stunt while the others are laughing.
84	* ForTheEvulz: Bradley bullied Dane simply because he knew that Dane could not stop him. The same applies for most of the other bullies, who just enjoyed being sadists.
85	* FreudianExcuse: Crappy home lives combined with years of abuse have left the five protagonists broken and cruel.
86	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[JerkassHasAPoint Riggs]] calls the outcasts out for their actions, telling them that they're going to jail for their actions after Dane tells them that he hopes that he and the other bullies learned their lesson. Not long after, [[NiceGuy Kurtis]] calls Dane out that Riggs may be a jerk, but he doesn't deserve to lose his tongue for saying that he'll report him and the other outcasts to the police.
87	* FromNobodyToNightmare: The five were just simple high school students who never meant harm at first, but years of abuse destroyed them. Bradley even held Dane, whose life he made miserable, in such low regard that he never even learned his name. Summarized by Dane, who says that he would have just been another harmless teenager had it not been for the abuse inflicted on him.
88	* GenreDeconstruction:
89	** Of the "unpopular kids get revenge on the bullies" and "psycho classmate" plots. Instead of [[HumiliationConga the comical revenge]] that so many teen movie protagonists desire, the outcasts wish to [[PayEvilUntoEvil make their bullies suffer the way that they made the outcasts suffer]] for so many years. It's also implied that the outcasts were (and, to a degree, still are) genuinely nice people whose crappy home lives, combined with years of bullying, made them so twisted, as seen with the way they treat [[NiceGuy Kurtis]]. In addition, the popular kids (especially Bridget) are shown to have shades of gray, rather than portraying them as the total {{jerkass}}es so commonly seen in teen movies.
90	** It also shows how devastatingly traumatic surviving an elaborate torture would be, as seen by the victims' fates. [[spoiler:One is even driven to suicide over her guilt in making people do what they did.]]
91	* GirlishPigtails: Worn by Bridget and Emily during the torture session.
92	* GiveMeASign: Before enacting their plan, the five pray to God to give them a sign that they should stop. The fact that nothing happens afterwards is taken as proof that they're on a [[MissionFromGod divinely approved mission]], with Dane telling the hostages that God won't save them because He didn't tell the five to stop.
93	* GoryDiscretionShot: Surprisingly for a film of this nature, there is little to no blood, with most of the violence being off-screen and suggested.
94	* HeelFaceDoorSlam:
95	** Bridget seems genuinely sorry for bullying Emily, but when she refuses to go as far as harming the other bullies in order to prove her remorse, Emily calls her a {{Hypocrite}} and makes her [[FacialHorror pay dearly for it.]]
96	** Kelly is genuinely remorseful for being an AlphaBitch, but instead of leading to a mending of her ways, the guilt and trauma [[spoiler:apparently [[DrivenToSuicide drives her to suicide]]]].
97	** On the flip side of this, Emily herself has a chance to call an end to things when they go too far, namely when [[spoiler:Ravi is murdered by Dane]], but even after calling him out on this, she chooses to carry on as planned. It isn't until almost the very end, when all of the dirty work has been done, that she has finally had enough and [[spoiler:murders Dane just in time to stop him from killing Kurtis]].
98	* HellBentForLeather: Emily's torture outfit includes [[ShoutOut a black]] [[Film/{{Audition}} leather smock]].
99	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The five become worse than their tormentors on their quest for vengeance, though they don't see it that way:
100	-->'''Andy:''' Do you think we'll go to hell?\
101	'''Jack:''' No, we've suffered enough.\
102	'''Dane:''' We're doing God's work as far as I'm concerned.
103	* HighSchool: Where the first act is set.
104	* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with one of the victims [[spoiler:(Bridget)]] in a diner, her face horribly disfigured, with her fellow patrons all staring at her like a freak. The remaining 85 or so minutes detail the events of which her facial scarring was among the results.
105	* IGaveMyWord: Dane promised that he would not kill a single one of the bullies, although they will wish he had. [[spoiler:He keeps his promise, and given how [[ExactWords he does everything short of killing them]], many probably do wish he had.]]
106	* InsultBackfire: Shortly before Bernard’s torture.
107	-->'''Bradley:''' Go to Hell!
108	-->'''Dane:''' I’m already there.
109	* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Dane stabs Bradley in the back, severing his spine and rendering him paralyzed from the waist down, robbing him of the ability to play football or have sex.]]
110	* IronicEcho:
111	** Just as the GirlPosse are getting ready for the party, Bridget remarks, "Red meat is for people who don't care how they look." [[spoiler:In the opening scene, which takes place [[HowWeGotHere after her face was disfigured]], she orders a burger.]] Most likely deliberate, [[spoiler:considering what [[BreakTheHaughty she goes through]]]].
112	** "Do you know ''why'' I'm gonna hurt you? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Because you. Can't. Stop me.]]"
113	%% ZeroContextExample* JerkJock: Bradley and his friends Bernard and Miles.
114	* KarmaHoudini: The surviving triplet exchanges eye contact with Kurtis, but Kurtis either doesn't recognize him or ignores him, thus, the triplet doesn't get punishment for helping the torturers to hurt the popular victims.
115	* KarmicTransformation: Well, karmic mutilation, anyways. Bridget and Heather are the most popular and gorgeous girls in the school who are also incredibly vain and [[AlphaBitch like to pick on less attractive and popular girls]]. By the end of the movie, [[spoiler:they are horribly disfigured outcasts after flesh-eating chemicals [[BeautyToBeast permanently destroy their beauty]]]].
116	* KickTheDog: Every scene with the bullies. Their actions are motivated by nothing but sheer cruelty.
117	* KickTheSonOfABitch: Nearly all of the characters who tormented the outcasts end up suffering immeasurable pain at their hands.
118	* KidsAreCruel: The bullies are mean just because they are. And, of course, there's the outcasts…
119	%% ZeroContextExample* LaserGuidedKarma: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis The. Entire. Film.]]
120	* LectureAsExposition: The film opens with a {{high school}} history teacher describing how [[ImperialChina the Han Dynasty]] would sometimes [[CruelMercy leave their defeated enemies alive, disfiguring them]], in order to serve as an example to those who would oppose them. Another lecture in a science class not long after shows where Emily learns about the flesh-eating chemicals that she uses on [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather]].
121	* MakeWayForThePrincess: When Heather, Bridget, and Kelli walk down the school corridor, all the students get out of their way while [[spoiler:Dane and three nameless outcasts are making their plans about them…]]
122	* MalevolentMaskedMen: The outcasts all wear masks until the end and they ''really'' live up to the malevolent part.
123	* MonsterClown: Ravi's second costume.
124	* MoralMyopia:
125	** Emily and the other outcasts see Bridget's refusal to help torture Bradley as hypocrisy, considering the years of psychological abuse she'd heaped upon Emily.
126	** Emily and the outcasts themselves fall into this, as the entire reason they have their TortureCellar set up was because none of their tormentors showed any mercy to them, but they themselves refuse to show mercy to anyone. Dane goes so far as to [[spoiler:kill Ravi when he does show mercy to Kurtis]].
127	* NastyParty: How the bullies end up in the TortureCellar.
128	* NiceGuy: Kurtis tried his best to be friends to everybody, and defended Ravi from Bradley. As a result, the five try (and fail) to keep him from coming to their "party."
129	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite the film taking place in [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]], Creator/MarcDonato makes little effort to hide his Canadian accent. It's most noticeable when he tries to pronounce "about" , where he alternates between the standard American pronunciation and the stereotypical Canadian one (i.e. "aboot"), and in the scene when he's mocking Bradley's attempts to apologize to him, repeating "sorry" with a distinctly Canadian long O.
130	* PayEvilUntoEvil: The five outcasts punish psychological and emotional torture with physical torture.
131	* PetTheDog: Kurtis is the only popular kid who is nice to the outcasts, even picking a fight with one of the [[JerkJock jocks]] for messing with Ravi and Dane. As a result, the outcasts try to keep him from attending their party, and when he does show up anyway, Ravi secretly provides him with the means to free himself.
132	* PistolWhipping: Parker knocks Kurtis out by butt stroking him with his rifle. When Kurtis wakes up, he is tied to a chair in Parker's house.
133	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ravi is bullied due to being of Indian descent, with the bullies making numerous racial remarks to him.
134	* PunishedWithUgly: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather are punished for bullying when their beauty is taken from them as acid is smeared on their faces, leaving them horrendously disfigured and ugly for the rest of their lives.]]
135	* PuttingOnTheReich: Andy's torture outfit is an SS uniform.
136	%% ZeroContextExample * {{Revenge}}: The outcasts' plan and motives.
137	* SadisticChoice: Bridget is told that she can go free if she is willing to cut off all Bradley's fingers. [[spoiler:She refuses. Bradley does not hesitate when the same deal is offered to him.]]
138	* SanitySlippage: Dane. He starts the night as calm and calculating. As the night progresses, Dane becomes more deranged and more angry. [[spoiler:It starts when he murders Ravi because the latter freed a classmate who had nothing to do with their bullying. Dane then personally paralyzes Bradley in an unstable matter. To top it off, he tries to cut Riggs' tongue off just because Riggs yelled at him for torturing his friends. Dane even said that he considered letting him go because Riggs offered Dane a ride home when it started raining.]]
139	* SayMyName: Near the end, Dane has Bradley [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapped to a chair]] and tells him to say his name. [[spoiler:Dane is shocked to learn that, despite Bradley bullying him for years, Bradley does not even know his name.]]
140	* ScaryScarecrows: Jack wears a scarecrow costume as his torture outfit.
141	%% ZeroContextExample * SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: If there's a bigger subversion out there, good luck finding it.
142	* SexyWhateverOutfit: All of the popular girls wear some kind of sexy costume to the party. There are sexy cops, a sexy hippie, sexy boxer, etc.
143	* ShellShockedVeteran: Parker is a Vietnam vet who is haunted by he experiences in the war. He eventually reveals to Kurtis that he believes he won his medals for cowardice: he hid while the rest of his unit got wiped out, making him the sole survivor.
144	* ShoutOut:
145	** One of the AlphaBitch bullies is named [[Film/{{Heathers}} Heather]].
146	** When Ravi walks over to the popular kids’ lunch table to return a milk carton that Bernard threw, the latter replies in an Indian accent, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons “Thank you, come again.”]] In another scene, he calls him "Film/SlumdogMillionaire".
147	** Emily's outfit, and the scene where she tortures the JerkJock Bernard, are lifted from a famous scene in ''Film/{{Audition}}''. If one listens closely, she even says "deeper" multiple times as she drives the first needle into Bernard's neck — the English equivalent of "kiri", used to similar effect in ''Audition''.
148	* SlasherSmile: Emily. This is barely visible and only for a few seconds when [[spoiler:Bradley cuts off Bridget's fingers]].
149	* SlippingAMickey: The outcasts drug the punch at the party, knocking out all of their tormentors.
150	* SoundtrackDissonance: Jack plays upbeat banjo music while Bernard and Heather are being tortured.
151	* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:Dane claims that the five of them had never intended to live past the night, and while he, Ravi, and Andy end up killed, Emily and Jack fulfill the pact in the end.]]
152	* SurvivorGuilt: At the end, Kelly, having escaped torture and feeling that [[AlphaBitch her behavior]] was at least partly responsible for what happened, [[spoiler:is last seen just before [[DrivenToSuicide taking a bunch of pills in order to kill herself]]]].
153	* ThouShaltNotKill: Dane makes it clear that they have no intention of killing any of the bullies, though they will make them wish that they had. They live up to both parts of the promise.
154	* TitleDrop: "Think of this as... ''the final.'' And there's only one question: '[[AssholeVictim What did I do to deserve this?]]'"
155	* TokenMinority: Ravi among the outcasts, and Kurtis among the popular kids.
156	* TongueTrauma: After Riggs opens his big mouth once too often, Dane orders his tongue to cut out. Jack seizes the tongue with a pair of tongs, and Andy prepares to cut it out with a knife. [[spoiler:Riggs is saved by the return of Kurtis.]]
157	* TortureCellar: The Workley ranch house, which was left to Dane in his uncle's will.
158	* TorturePorn: Turns into this once the outcasts set their plan into motion. Notably, their goal is purely to torture and mutilate their classmates, ''not'' to kill them, as they want their victims to [[CruelMercy survive traumatized and disfigured]] knowing what they did to deserve it.
159	* ToThePain: Dane loves telling his tormentors how much they will hurt.
160	* TrueCompanions: The five are a rather creepy version of this as, with the exception of Dane, they all seem to care about each other, even if they were brought together by revenge. Jack and Emily even share a very sincere hug before [[spoiler:committing suicide]].
161	* ValleyGirl: Again, the GirlPosse. This is despite the film being set in small town Texas.
162	%% ZeroContextExample * VillainProtagonist: The five.
163	* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. The outcasts tried other ways of dealing with the bullies, including trying to make friends with them, but the bullies weren't interested. This was their last resort.
164	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Heather disappears after having her face smeared with Emiliy's chemicals. Apart from her being stashed in the room with the other injured teens, we never see exactly what it did to her face, nor do we learn what happened to her in the aftermath. Odds are [[FridgeHorror neither was very pleasant.]]
165	* WholeCostumeReference: Emily's torturer costume is lifted from Asami's outfit in a select scene from ''Film/{{Audition}}'' that she then proceeds to re-enact.
166	* WithFriendsLikeThese: The bullies to each other. Dane takes advantage of this to reveal their disloyal natures to each other.
167	-->'''Dane:''' (''about Tommy'') Pathetic, isn't it? So sweet, and [[SarcasmMode so much love]]. Not when you consider he was cheating on you, Nadia. With [[EtTuBrute Heather]]. Yep. Yeah, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop everybody knew about it]], but they decided to ''[[FalseFriend laugh at you behind your back]]''. Taking joy in your ignorance… [[DeadpanSnarker Interesting friends.]]
168	%% ZeroContextExample * WithUsOrAgainstUs
169	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Although the five outcasts themselves don't really go on a rampage, they just only want to torture the bullies.
170	* WorthyOpponent: At the end, [[spoiler:when Kurtis returns to stop Dane, Dane tells him that he wishes there were more people like him]].
171	* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Dane murders Ravi after he intentionally drops a key in order to free Kurtis, one of their friends that they hadn't intended to arrive, despite Dane telling him that Kurtis was not to leave.]]

Context Film / TheFinal