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1	* {{Adorkable}}: Torrance in the memorable bathroom scene with Cliff, doing various adorably dorky things, such as trying to cover up spitting when she's brushing her teeth.
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3	** The extremely popular theory that Courtney and Whitney are, in fact, speaking the truth when they describe Missy as an Uber-Dyke, and that therefore the ending is a classic case of DidNotGetTheGirl, with a side order of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. Courtney and Whitney's relationship could also be taken as closeted gay best friends.
4	** Whitney's little sister Jamie giving a lacklustre tryout, despite the other girls hyping her up. Is Whitney just blind to her sister's badness? Or is Jamie normally much better and she was just nervous trying out in front of the older girls? Do they just want her because she's a useful prop? Or does Whitney want her because Jamie won't upstage her?
5	** Speaking of Jamie, her audition wasn't just underwhelming, she also sounded [[DullSurprise actively bored]] with the whole thing. Combined with not hearing Jamie's take on this and Whitney's general pushiness, it's enough to beg the question if she even ''wanted'' to be a cheerleader at all, or did Whitney just drag her along to use as a prop and Jamie basically sabotaged herself to bail out on something she really didn't want to do.
6	* BestKnownForTheFanservice:
7	** One of the few things all six movies have in common -- several name actresses dressed up in cheerleader outfits that show plenty of skin. Notably the first film's outfits bare the midriff -- something which is ''not'' allowed on high school teams.
8	** And of course the car wash scene in the first movie, getting Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku into bikinis.
9	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''All Or Nothing'' opens with a fire themed(?) HighSchoolDance type thing that ends with Britney [[ToiletHumor farting.]] The whole sequence turns out to be AllJustADream.
10	%%* BileFascination: Everything after the first movie.
11	* ClicheStorm: Most of the sequels do retreads of the first film's plot, usually with an anti-racism Aesop tacked on.
12	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Missy, from the first movie. It helped that she was played by Creator/ElizaDushku.
13	* FanPreferredCouple: Most of the fans of the first movie pair Torrance with Missy instead of her brother Cliff. This is due to their friendship that is littered with heaps of LesYay, as well as Torrance really wanting Missy on the team and the two instantly hitting it off. Also, many fans feeling that they have better chemistry than her with Cliff. On Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn they have the most fanfiction of any ship from the film series.
14	* FirstInstallmentWins: The term "the original and best" is widely considered to apply with ''Bring It On'', although ''Bring It On: All or Nothing'' is felt to be the best of the sequels ([[Creator/HaydenPanettiere in part because]] [[Music/{{Rihanna}} of who appears]]). To be fair, all the films are stupid and fun to watch, but the original is genuinely good and charming.
15	* HilariousInHindsight:
16	** ''In It To Win It'' features Jennifer Tisdale; a few years later her sister [[Music/AshleyTisdale Ashley]] [[Series/{{Hellcats}} would put on her own cheerleading uniform]].
17	** In the first film, Cliff has a poster of Music/TheRamones, complete with "[[Series/YoGabbaGabba GABBA GABBA HEY]]" on it.
18	** There's a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' reference, clearly as a nod to Eliza Dushku's role as Faith. Clare Kramer would later star as Glory in Season 5.
19	** If you're a ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' fan, seeing Creator/LindsaySloane as Big Red is hysterical. On ''Sabrina'', Lindsay played Valerie - a neurotic wannabe who was desperate to be popular, frequently sucked up to the AlphaBitch and made it onto the second string cheerleading squad.
20	** ''All or Nothing'' wouldn’t be the [[{{Series/Heroes}} last time]] that Creator/HaydenPanettiere would be a cheerleader.
21	*** And Creator/DanielleSavre would again play a cheerleader on the same squad.
22	** The Clovers write to a talk show host Pauletta Patterson asking for money. Creator/GabrielleUnion would play a character with that name on BET series ''Series/BeingMaryJane''.
23	** In regards to the OBC of the musical:
24	*** Taylor Louderman and Kate Rockwell (Campbell and Skylar, respectively) would both go on to star in the musical adaptation of ''Theatre/MeanGirls'', but their roles would be the exact inverse of what they played previously; Taylor goes from the well-meaning Campbell to the infamous AlphaBitch Regina George, while Kate goes from AlphaBitch Skylar to Karen Smith, Regina’s ditzy but kind follower.
25	*** Similarly, Elle [=McLemore=], who played BitchInSheepsClothing Eva, would go on to originate the role of Heather [=McNamara=] in {{Theatre/Heathers}}, a member of the titular clique who is revealed to be a genuinely nice person.
26	* HollywoodPudgy: One of the cheerleaders from the first movie (and the third one as well) is repeatedly criticized for having a rather large backside. She's not that much more heavy than any of the other girls on the squad.
27	* LesYay: Torrance and Missy in the first movie have a PseudoRomanticFriendship, Torrance defends Missy from the other cheerleaders, and their friendship is given slightly more screen time than Torrance's budding romance with Cliff. One of the most blatant cases is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPr9ad0GeY this scene]], where Torrance seems more excited than the guys about Missy in her cheerleader uniform.
28	-->'''Torrance:''' TAKE IT ''OFF''!
29	* MemeticMutation: The first film brought the terms "jazz hands" and "spirit fingers" into the popular lexicon.
30	%%* {{Narm}}: Some of the more serious monologues.
31	* NarmCharm:
32	** The first film is genuinely good, with a dose of fun dumbness to it. The sequels get more and more narmy each time, but are fun to watch anyways.
33	** The "Just What I Need" scene in the first film is just too cute to hate.
34	%%** Some of the one liners.
35	* OneSceneWonder: The ShamelessFanserviceGirl who tries out for the squad in the first movie, doing a memorably sexy dance to "Cherry Pie".
36	* PeripheryDemographic: A popular choice for showing in schools towards the end of term, because [[MaleGaze for some reason]] boys are happy to watch it as well.
37	* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: Torrance and Missy share far more scenes and make more of a connection than Torrance does with Cliff - who in fact is such a SatelliteLoveInterest that his very function seems just to be to prove that Torrance is into guys.
38	* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Hanna Marin]] in ''In It To Win It''. And [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Imogen Moreno]] in ''Worldwide #Cheersmack''. And Creator/RyanDrummond in the first film. And [[Series/Station19 Maya Bishop]] in ''All Or Nothing''.
39	* {{Sequelitis}}: After the success of the first film, five Direct-To-Video movies were made, all not having any form of continuity with the original whatsoever.
40	* SpecialEffectsFailure: The camera angles used in the first film make it very obvious when they switch to a shot of Eliza Dushku's stunt double performing Missy's gymnastics for the team.
41	* TestosteroneBrigade: Although aimed at girls, the films are popular with guys as well for reasons not unconnected with watching Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/ElizaDushku, Creator/BethanyJoyLenz, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Creator/AshleyBenson, Creator/ChristinaMilian et al running around and jumping up and down in abbreviated attire.
42	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The sequels have been accused of just rehashing the first's plot, with sprinklings of a moral about prejudice. However, a PerspectiveFlip from a team like the Clovers would make ripe material for a film in its own right. The third film,''All or Nothing'', comes the closest to having a plot like this as the protagonist transfers to an underfunded school with a squad similar to the Clovers.
43	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: From the fashion to the music, everything about the first film screams late 90s/early 00s. Additionally, the reveal that Big Red had been stealing the routines from the Clovers would be much harder to pull off in the days of the internet, social media and more widespread videos among teens. Big Red probably wouldn't have to steal routines from them; she could likely get inspiration from [=YouTube=]. As could the Toros later in the film.
44	** The fourth movie, 2007's ''In It To Win It,'' likely suffers the worst of this, as the whole movie's climax hinges on the unified teams taking inspiration for their final routine from the ''Ride/DuelingDragons'' roller coasters in Ride/UniversalStudios theme park, which strongly dates the movie to before three major events. First, the ride was renamed "Dragon Challenge'' and given a rebrand into part of Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter attraction at the park in 2010. Then, in 2011, after several reported injuries of people getting hit with loose objects during the near-misses of the two separate-but-intertwined tracks, Universal declared they were eliminating the coaster's "dueling" gimmick and would permanently stagger the launches of the coasters. Finally, the entire ride was retired and replaced in 2017.
45	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Cliff comes off much worse than intended when he cold-shoulders Torrance towards the end of the second act - and the narrative suggests Torrance is in the wrong for leading him on and not saying she had a boyfriend. Except that Torrance doesn't lead him on, and is under no obligation to announce her relationship status to a boy she barely knows. None of her interactions with him have any deliberate signals that they're anything more than JustFriends, and Cliff is the one who jumps the gun and makes a move, only to discover she has a boyfriend. Torrance feels bad that his feelings got hurt and he was a little embarrassed, but she did nothing wrong.
46	* ValuesDissonance:
47	** There is some casual homophobia on the part of some characters. While Whitney and Courtney calling Missy an "uber dyke" is meant to show them as bullies, there is some of this underlying Torrance's relationship with Aaron. He's a fellow cheerleader, quite the CampStraight and shown as a RomanticFalseLead. Aaron's college girlfriend even laughs at him when she finds out he was a cheerleader.
48	** Basically anything that Sparky says and does, even if purposefully written to be a half-crazy asshole, from using the "r-word," fat-shaming Darcy and Courtney (both who aren't even remotely fat)- even telling Darcy to "stop eating", and whipping Missy's butt with a towel.
49	** Jan perving over Whitney's tween sister wasn't deemed funny in-universe, but now is beyond disgusting, to the point where it comes off as cringeworthy and unfunny today. The same goes for Jan talking about how he sometimes "accidentally" slips his fingers inside Courtney's underwear when he's lifting her, which is treated as HandsomeLech shenanigans in the movie but would be considered sexual assault today. It's worth noting however that, at the first football game scene, Courtney makes a show of bending over in front of him and giving him a very flirtatious glance, suggesting that this could be a bit of banter between them.[[note]]Courtney doesn't seem to mind too much when he does it during the game, reacting as though she sees it as a playful annoyance, and they have a few other moments of ShipTease throughout the film, so it could be consensual behaviour. Jan notably doesn't behave this way towards any other girl on the squad.[[/note]] Of course, were the film made today, that aspect would be clarified or not included at all (although the 2019 sequel came under fire for including a similar joke).
50	* ValuesResonance:
51	** CruelCheerleader was a popular trope in the 90s, painting cheerleaders as either {{Alpha Bitch}}es or ditzy whores. The movie shows cheerleading as a genuine athletic pursuit, Missy learns that it's far more challenging than she thought, and the team are shown putting a lot of time and effort into choreographing their routines. Despite the film's goofy tone, it portrays cheerleading in a positive way. It treats male cheerleaders pretty well too, rather than stereotyping them all. Indeed, in spite of the above ValuesDissonance with the casual homophobia, at the end Les, who had been established as gay early on, has a MeetCute moment with a male cheerleader on one of the other teams at Nationals, a specific choice to give this moment to the gay character instead of having it be another straight character (like fellow male cheerleader [[HandsomeLech Jan]]).

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