John’s attempts to flirt with Lisa. When Vivian points out he bought leeks, not chives, he presents them to Lisa as if he got her flowers. When he comes for dinner, Lisa has a vase of leeks on the table as a cute callback.
Seth is the sweetest guy in the movie, and his attempts to flirt with Vivian are a bit awkward, but also very tender and endearing. It's no wonder Vivian finds him charming.
Anvilicious: The characters spend a lot of time talking to each other about feminist causes and making the point that women's voices need to be heard. Of course, the unsubtle is the point, as the characters want to stop being ignored.
Moral Event Horizon: While Mitchell acts like a dick for the entire movie, the school board doesn't take him seriously as a threat until the news comes out that he raped and humiliated Emma, after which he becomes obviously despicable.
She Really Can Act: Those who were unimpressed with Josephine Langford's acting in the After series are sure to be surprised by how strong her performance as Emma Cunningham is, particularly when she opens up to the student body about having been raped by Mitchell.
Tear Jerker: Not only the fact that Emma was raped in her own bedroom on her own bed, but the fact that she feels like she has no one to turn to until she writes an anonymous note to Moxie in the desperate hope that she can finally be heard.
It's hard to see the abject humiliation on Kaitlynn's face when she "wins" Best Rack and covers up her breasts. She had no trouble displaying her assets and was perhaps even proud of them up to that point, and she's suddenly made to feel ashamed of her own body.
The characters we see in the Moxie meeting have interesting perspectives, especially when it comes to intersectional feminism, that are rarely explored outside the meeting. For example, CJ is a recently-out trans girl who wants to join the school musical, but all we get to see of her story is a brief part of her audition. There's no follow-up on whether she stood up to her bullies or got the part.
Meg is a girl in a wheelchair who only appears in a few scenes to snark at how poorly her classmates treat her. Despite the movie's themes of intersectional feminism, Meg's experience as a disabled woman never gets explored beyond these jokes. She doesn't even speak at most of the Moxie gatherings, despite supporting the cause.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Amaya and Lucy share a kiss during the Moxie party, revealing them to be openly gay. While this provides some subtext to their righteous anger, their experiences as black queer women never get explored when the Moxie girls talk about the discrimination they face.
The Woobie: Emma is extremely sympathetic when she reveals her story near the end of the movie. Not only was she raped by somebody she trusted, but she goes months without being able to find someone she can trust enough to share her trauma with, acts like everything is okay even though she's hurting, and then her rapist humiliates her by publicly listing her as "Most Bangable" for the whole school to see.
