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1* ActorAllusion:
2** Maggie tells Bliss (Creator/ElliotPage) that [[Film/{{Juno}} having a kid changes everything.]] Bliss smirks in response. She also claims to be 22 when she is actually 17. Page definitely does have youthful looks, and really was 22 at the time of filming.
3** Maggie also tells Bliss that she can never have enough Lash Blast. That's a Cover Girl product, of which Drew Barrymore is a spokeswoman.
4** Music/{{Eve|Rapper}}, who played Rosa Sparks, used to go by the RedBaron "Eve of Destruction" (the name of Ari Gaynor's character) early in her career.
5* BoxOfficeBomb: The film grossed $16.6 million against a $15 million budget.
6* CastTheExpert: Aside from the billed actresses, most of the skaters in the fictional TXRD are played by actual UsefulNotes/RollerDerby players, mostly from the L.A. Derby Dolls.
7* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The film is titled ''Bliss'' in France, [[CharacterTitle after its protagonist]].
8* DawsonCasting: 22-year-old Elliot Page as 17-year-old Bliss (who pretends to be 22 in order to get on the UsefulNotes/RollerDerby team, hilariously enough). And averted with Juliette Lewis - who was thirty-six years old, just like Iron Maven.
9* DirectedByCastMember: Drew Barrymore directs the film and also has a supporting role as Smashley Simpson.
10* RealLifeRelative: Bliss's younger sister Shania was played by Eulala Scheel, who happens to be Marcia Gay Harden's real-life daughter. This lends some RealitySubtext to Shania being Brooke's preferred daughter early in the film.
11* Administrivia/TropesAreTools: Invoked by Creator/RogerEbert in his review of the film, pointing out that first-time director Barrymore had demonstrated a strong understanding of why things work the way they work in a sports movie.
12* WordOfGay: Ari Gaynor's played Eva Destruction as a lesbian seductress.
13* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book is inspired heavily by Shauna Cross's own experience in roller derby. Maggie Mayhem was her stage name.

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