History Film / MySuperExGirlfriend

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Includes the main guy going from the superheroine G-Girl to his crush, Hannah. [[spoiler: What is odd is that, while G-Girl's hair turned blonde with her new powers, Hannah's hair actually turns from blonde to redhead]]. Justified, because [[spoiler: HeroesWantRedHeads]]. It seems the power turns redheads blonde and blondes into redheads.

'''Matt:''' Not if you get on the greatest ever roller coaster, you don't. You get back in that line.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Part of what hurts the movie's narrative as while Jenny is a terrifying PsychoExGirlfriend, Matt's treatment of her during their relationship comes off as extremely selfish. Also, his concern about [[DePower removing G-Girl's powers]] is purely to protect himself from harm when it's shown she helps many many other people. As such, many see him as a DesignatedHero at best.

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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: PlayedWith
** G-Girl, who is a very troubled person, is a SexGoddess but since she doesn't bother to control her powers when she has sex with Matt, and ends up [[DestructoNookie breaking the bed]] and [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting him accidentally]].
** When Matt has sex with pure and innocent Hannah in the middle of the film, it's romantic...
** [[spoiler: ... But then this is subverted when we see Matt and Hannah have sex, after Hannah gets superpowers, in exactly the same way as Matt and G-Girl used to have sex, but even worse: instead of breaking the bed, they go through the neighbor's wall.]]

* AllIsWellThatEndsWell. [[spoiler:The movie's ending is treated as such. Jenny ruins Matt's career, [[{{Yandere}} attempted to kill him]] AND wrecked his car. She offers to pay for the car she ruined. He's somehow okay with that. Considering she threw a ''Shark'' at him though, he probably considers himself lucky to be still breathing! It's obvious that he'd be BullyingADragon if he continued to press the issue and even Matt's not ''that'' stupid.]]

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: TheMovie. The film basically portrays a manipulative, controlling, [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abusive relationship]] [[UpToEleven enhanced with superpowers]], as a comedy. It's still put in a negative light, of course, but a GenderSwap would be the stuff of ''nightmares''. Though also somewhat subverted; while people think at first that Matt must have done something to have G-Girl after him, once they realize that G-Girl is only ruining his life because ''[[PsychoExGirlfriend he broke up with her]]'', her public opinion goes down the toilet.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Matt and his co-worker Hannah have a lot of this, which makes Jenny incredibly jealous. Considering they do hook up shortly after Matt breaks up with her, she wasn't enterily paranoid.

* CaptainErsatz: G-Girl is an {{Expy}} of Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, albeit with [[GoodIsNotNice a different personality]], complete with a {{Expy} of ComicBook/LexLuthor in Prof. Bedlam.

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''My Super Ex-Girlfriend'' is a 2006 film directed by Creator/IvanReitman, starring Creator/UmaThurman and Creator/LukeWilson. The latter plays Matt Saunders; your basic everyman, who unwittingly ends up dating Superheroine G-Girl's alter ego. He finds out her secret, but soon also discovers that she's a ClingyJealousGirl and breaks up with her for being controlling and dangerous.

[[WomanScorned She doesn't take it very well]]. Meanwhile, [[Creator/EddieIzzard her nemesis Bedlam]] hatches a plan to use this domestic dispute to depower her, and enlists Matt to spring the trap.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Jenny acquires this along with her superpowers and became G-Girl, leaving poor Barry alone and embittered to become Prof. Bedlam. Although considering the off-hand way she states she chose to lose her virginity to Barry, "just to get it out of the way", apparently never bothering to notice that he was ''completely'' in love with her, heavily implies she was somewhat of a self-centered jerkass ''before'' she got her powers.
* AllIsWellThatEndsWell. [[spoiler:The movie's ending is treated as such. She ruins his entire life AND his car. She offers to pay for the car she ruined. He's somehow okay with that. Considering she threw a ''Shark'' at him though, he probably considers himself lucky to be still breathing! It's obvious that he'd be BullyingADragon if he continued to press the issue and even Matt's not ''that'' stupid.]]
* AntiHero: Of the GoodIsNotNice variety. Aside from being a superhero G-Girl is, to put it bluntly, a selfish entitled jerk and a psychotic Yandere at worst.
* AlliterativeName: G-Girl's SecretIdentity is named Jenny Johnson. It gets a LampshadeHanging near the beginning.
* AnimalAssassin: G-Girl throws a live ''shark'' through her ex's bedroom window.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The source of G-Girl's superpowers. (Specifically, GreenRocks.)
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The shark G-Girl throws at Matt shouldn't have survived so long out of water or been able to pursue him, aside from whether or not it would've survived being thrown headfirst into a wall. There's also the question of how [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex Matt's bones were able to withstand sex with women with superhuman strength]] [[DestructoNookie though their strength destroyed beds and walls]].

* BreastExpansion: This happens as part of G-Girl's origin story.
* ButtMonkey: Matt.
* CaptainErsatz: G-Girl is an expy of Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, albeit with [[GoodIsNotNice a different personality]], complete with a copy of ComicBook/LexLuthor.
* CasanovaWannabe: Matt's friend Vaughn. [[spoiler:He finally gets laid after the credits]].
* CatFight: [[spoiler:G-Girl and Hannah after the latter gets superpowers]].

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: G-Girl is an expy of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} (got her powers from an alien meteor instead of being an alien, has a KryptoniteFactor of the same meteor that empowered her, but otherwise the same basic FlyingBrick). The film asks "What if Supergirl was an insecure, neurotic, overly-controlling woman with a fondness for DisproportionateRetribution?"

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: TheMovie. The film basically portrays a manipulative, controlling, [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abusive relationship]] [[UpToEleven enhanced with superpowers]], as a comedy. It's still put in a negative light, of course, but a GenderSwap would be the stuff of ''nightmares''. Though also somewhat subverted; while people think at first that Matt must have done something to have G-Girl after him, once they realize that G-Girl is only ruining his life because ''he broke up with her'', her public opinion goes down the toilet.

%%* EvilFormerFriend: Prof. Bedlam.

* FanServicePack: An effect of the GreenRocks.

%%* FlyingBrick
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex:
** G-Girl, who is a very troubled person, doesn't bother to control her powers when she has sex with Matt, and ends up breaking the bed and hurting him accidentally.

* HarmlessVillain: Professor Bedlam. He's never seen doing anything overtly villainous, making his status as a supposed supervillain almost something of an InformedAttribute. While he ''does'' leave Matt dangling off of the Statue of Liberty, considering he intended for G-Girl to rescue him, it makes it obvious that he knew he was never in any ''real'' danger at all. Likewise, the only person he's implied to have tried to kill is G-Girl, who is completely ''invulnerable''. If anything, it is heavily implied he became a "super villain" just to get her attention.

* InsultBackfire: Matt calls his friend Vaughn soulless and shallow when he'd says he'd have sex with a ton of women after breaking up. Vaughn agrees, saying "It is a blessing".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Part of what hurts the movie's narrative as while Jenny is a terrifying crazy ex-girlfriend, Matt's treatment of her during their relationship comes off as extremely selfish. Also, his concern about removing G-Girl's powers is purely to protect himself from harm when it's shown she helps many many other people. As such, many see him as a DesignatedHero at best.

* MagicMeteor: The source of G-Girl's powers.

* NaughtyByNight: Vaughn thinks Jenny is this on first seeing her, saying that though she looks like a librarian on the outside, inside there's a wild side. He's more right than he knows. As her alter ego G-Girl, she's revealed to be a very enthusiastic lover she accidentally injures Matt with her super strength.

* NighInvulnerable: G-Girl. Even her hair. [[FridgeLogic One wonders how she gets it cut]]. [[FridgeBrilliance Her heat vision?]]

* PsychoExGirlfriend: With SUPERPOWERS!!! [[{{Yandere}} A super-powered one at that]].
* RightThroughHisPants: Matt doesn't removes his clothes when he spends time in bed with Jenny [[spoiler: or Hannah after his love confession]].

* AScarToRemember: Jenny scars Matt's forehead by burning the word "Dick" into it with heat vision as revenge for calling her crazy.

* ShapedLikeItself: One character describes G-Girl as "spinning like a spinny thing."

* SuppressedRage: When Matt first mentions "needing space", Jenny's OK with it...until he mentions dating other people, when she slams the knife she is chopping carrots with into the board. [[spoiler: And then frighteningly, bends it with her bare hands]].

* NotSoDifferent: Despite G-Girl being considered the "hero" and Professor Bedlam being the "villain", both of them are very much alike in the sense they are both [[spoiler: willing to go to the extremes to take "revenge" on the ones that broke their heart.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Uma Thurman's character vows to destroy the protagonist's life after he breaks up with her.

''My Super Ex-Girlfriend'' is a 2006 film directed by Creator/IvanReitman, starring Creator/UmaThurman and Luke Wilson. The latter plays Matt Saunders; your basic everyman, who unwittingly ends up dating Superheroine G-Girl's alter ego. He finds out her secret, but soon also discovers that she's a ClingyJealousGirl and breaks up with her for being controlling and dangerous.

* NotSoDifferent: Despite G-Girl being considered the "hero" and Professor Bedlam being the "villain", both of them are very much alike in the sense they are both [[spoiler: willing to go to the extremes to take "revenge" on the one that broke up with them.]]

* AScarToRemember: Jenny scars Matt's forehead by burning the word "Dick" into it with heat vision out of spite.

* AntiHero: Of the GoodIsNotNice variety. Aside from being a superhero G-Girl is, to put it bluntly, a selfish jerk.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The shark G-Girl throws at Matt shouldn't have survived so long out of water or been able to pursue him, aside from whether or not it would've survived being thrown headfirst into a wall. There's also the question of how [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex Matt's bones were able to withstand sex with women with superpowers]] [[DestructoNookie though their strength destroyed beds and walls]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: Part of what hurts the movie's narrative as while Jenny is a terrifying crazy ex-girlfriend, his treatment of her during their relationship comes off as extremely selfish. Also, his concern about removing G-Girl's powers is purely to protect himself when it's shown she helps many many other people. As such, many see him as a DesignatedHero at best.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After being fired due to Jenny/G-Girl's shenanigans, Matt warns Hannah to stay away from him as he fears Jenny could harm her.

* KickTheDog: G-girl throws a shark at Matt. Essentially G-girl took a fish out of water, threw it head-first into a wall. The fact that said fish was a Great White Shark is offset by its brutal death and the fact that at the time of filming Great White Sharks were an endangered and protected species.

* PunchclockHero: G-Girl appears to have become a superhero simply because that's what you do with superpowers, rather than out of any apparent heroic urge or instinct.

* {{Hypocrite}}: G-Girl’s entire campaign against Matt is fuelled by the fact that he dumped her and broke her heart, it turns out that she did the same thing to Barry!

* NaughtyByNight: Vaughn thinks Jenny is this on first seeing her, saying though she looks like a librarian on the outside, inside there's a wild side. He's more right than he knows.

* MileHighClub: G-Girl has sex with Matt while flying him around the city, and he says the trope by name, calling it another version of the same thing.

* EvilFormerFriend: Prof. Bedlam.

* FlyingBrick

* HeroicComedicSociopath

* ItsAllAboutMe: Part of what hurts the movie's narrative as while Jenny is a terrifying crazy ex-girlfriend, his treatment of her during their relationship comes off as extremely selfish. Also, his concern about removing G-Girl's powers is purely to protect himself when its shown she helps many many other people. As such, many see him as a DesignatedHero at best.

* {{Jerkass}}: Jenny. Seriously.

* LoveTriangle: Jenny/Matt/Hannah.

* MadScientist: Professor Bedlam.

* MundaneUtility

* NighInvulnerable: Even her hair. [[FridgeLogic One wonders how she gets it cut]]. [[FridgeBrilliance Her heat vision?]]

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Professor Bedlam]].
* [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility With Great Power Comes]] [[AvertedTrope Petty Revenge]]

* DontLookAtMe: Jenny (as G-Girl) says this word for word to Matt after she saves his life as a means to keep both her normal identity and superhero alter ego self a secret from Matt. Doubles as JerkAssWithAHeartOfGold
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: TheMovie. The film basically portrays a manipulative, controlling, [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abusive relationship]] [[UpToEleven enhanced with superpowers]], as a comedy. It's still put in a negative light, of course, but a GenderSwap would be the stuff of ''nightmares''. Though also somewhat subverted; while people think that Matt originally deserved something to have G-Girl after him, once they realize that G-Girl is only ruining his life because ''he broke up with her'', her public opinion goes down the toilet.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Jenny who grows increasingly jealous towards Matt's close friendship with his coworker (and one-sided crush) Hannah. This eventually drives Matt away from her.

* BerserkButton: Do not call Jenny, "Crazy!"

* Hypocrite: G-Girl’s entire campaign against Matt is fuelled by the fact that he dumped her and broke her heart, it turns out that she did the same thing to Barry!