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* HasTwoMommies: He reveals he's got two fathers when Kurt mocks him by calling him gay.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Malin Akerman is only sixteen years older than her "daughter" Taissa Farmiga.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Malin Akerman is only sixteen years older than her "daughter" Taissa Farmiga. {{Justified}} in that she plays both Amanda and Nancy, the latter of whom is meant to be the same age as Farmiga's character (and Amanda is implied to have had Max in her early twenties anyway).

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* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: While he doesn't exactly have a hockey mask and chainsaw, he's still a typical slasher villain out to murder idiotic teens and follows the conventions of the genre.


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* StockSlasher: He's a typical slasher villain out to murder idiotic teens and follows the conventions of the genre.

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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] and [[Film/TheBurning Cropsey]]. His name is a ShoutOut to the killer from ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', considered by many to be the first slasher film.

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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: While he doesn't exactly have a hockey mask and [[Film/TheBurning Cropsey]]. His name is chainsaw, he's still a ShoutOut to the killer from ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', considered by many to be the first typical slasher film.villain out to murder idiotic teens and follows the conventions of the genre.



* TheScourgeOfGod: Anything pertaining to drugs or sex will always summon him, even if it's a teen doing a striptease.

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* TheScourgeOfGod: Anything pertaining to drugs or sex will always summon him, even if it's a teen including an attractive woman doing a striptease.dance.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:After she hits the entryway to the camp (launching Kurt from the car with fatal results), [[EveryCarIsAPinto almost immediately explodes, resulting in her burning to death]]]].
* FinalGirl: Paula is the Final Girl of the movie Camp Bloodbath, [[spoiler: but is killed in a car explosion when the cast of real life people end up in the movie]]. Oddly, she's not as clean-cut as the typical example of this trope, coming across more like a "tough" punk rocker chick of the 1980s than the TokenWholesome we usually get here. She did say she was a virgin though.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:After she hits the entryway to the camp (launching Kurt from the car with fatal results), the car [[EveryCarIsAPinto almost immediately explodes, resulting in her burning to death]]]].
* FinalGirl: Paula is the Final Girl of the movie Camp Bloodbath, ''Camp Bloodbath'', [[spoiler: but is killed in a car explosion when the cast of real life people end up in the movie]]. Oddly, she's not as clean-cut as the typical example of this trope, coming across more like a "tough" punk rocker chick of the 1980s than the TokenWholesome we usually get here. She did say she was a virgin though.


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* TankTopTomboy: Played almost for parody in her case, as she shows up looking and dressing the part of an ActionGirl, and in the original version of ''Camp Bloodbath'', she is one.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sometimes she is prone to ComicallyMissingThePoint, doesn't get what others characters mean, and forgot that blood was just splattered in her face when smiling to the movie's characters, [[CaptainOblivious which scared them]].

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sometimes she is prone to ComicallyMissingThePoint, doesn't get what others other characters mean, and forgot that blood was just splattered in her face when smiling to at the movie's characters, [[CaptainOblivious which scared them]].



* DrugsAreGood : Took Adderall as a way to to keep her mood up.

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* DrugsAreGood : Took Adderall as a way to to keep her mood up.



* SourOutsideSadInside / HiddenDepths: She puts on a rather bitchy façade in front of the other characters, [[spoiler:but she's sad about losing the friendship she used to had with Max]]

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* SourOutsideSadInside / HiddenDepths: She puts on a rather bitchy façade in front of the other characters, [[spoiler:but she's sad about losing the friendship she used to had have with Max]]



* IronButtMonkey: [[spoiler:Machete thrown in his ribs and later hit by a fast moving [[EveryCarIsaPinto car which then explodes]]]]. Nothing can stop a true Bath-matician.

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* IronButtMonkey: [[spoiler:Machete thrown in his ribs and later hit by a fast moving fast-moving [[EveryCarIsaPinto car which then explodes]]]]. Nothing can stop a true Bath-matician.



* FinalGirl: Paula is the Final Girl of the movie Camp Bloodbath, [[spoiler: but is killed in a car explosion when the cast of real life people end up in the movie]]. Oddly, she's not as clean cut as the typical example of this trope, coming across more like a "tough" punk rocker chick of the 1980s than the TokenWholesome we usually get here. She did say she was a virgin though.

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* FinalGirl: Paula is the Final Girl of the movie Camp Bloodbath, [[spoiler: but is killed in a car explosion when the cast of real life people end up in the movie]]. Oddly, she's not as clean cut clean-cut as the typical example of this trope, coming across more like a "tough" punk rocker chick of the 1980s than the TokenWholesome we usually get here. She did say she was a virgin though.
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* BadassBoast : Took a machete, look at Chris who giving her a "go on sweetheart!* head nodding and:

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* BadassBoast : Took a machete, look at Chris who giving her a "go on sweetheart!* sweetheart!" head nodding and:

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* DecoyProtagonist: She seems like the main character of ''Camp Bloodbath'', but dies after she provides the movie's exposition about Billy, and Paula becomes the FinalGirl.

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* DecoyProtagonist: She seems like the main character of ''Camp Bloodbath'', but dies after she provides the movie's exposition about Billy, and Paula becomes the FinalGirl. Subverted after the real world teens arrive and send everything OffTheRails.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Thanks to the influence of Max, she begins to grow completely out of her 'role' in the movie, something that her friends don't do. [[spoiler:She even begins experiencing MediumAwarness like the real world teens do, such as noticing slow motion and ending up in the flashback, hearing her own voice.]]
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* SourOutsideSadInside / HiddenDepths: She puts on a rather bitchy façade in front of the other characters, [[spoiler:but she's sad about losing the friendship she used to had with Max]]

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* SourOutsideSadInside / HiddenDepths: She puts on a rather bitchy façade in front of the other characters, [[spoiler:but she's sad about losing the friendship she used to had with Max]]



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:After she hits the entryway to the camp (launching Kurt from the car with fatal results), [[EveryCarIsAPinto almost immediately explodes, resulting in her burning to death]].

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:After she hits the entryway to the camp (launching Kurt from the car with fatal results), [[EveryCarIsAPinto almost immediately explodes, resulting in her burning to death]].death]]]].

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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Not believing in herself to become [[spoiler:[[FinalGirl the final girl]]]]
* InformedJudaism: Lampshaded by Vicki

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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Not believing in herself to become [[spoiler:[[FinalGirl the final girl]]]]
Final Girl]]]].
* InformedJudaism: Lampshaded by VickiVicki.



* ActionSurvivor: Like most of the characters who became aware of [[spoiler:Billy]], he puts up a decent fight against Billy.

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* ActionSurvivor: Like most of the characters who became aware of [[spoiler:Billy]], Billy, he puts up a decent fight against Billy.him.



* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:As with the rest of the "real" characters, he's brought back to life at the end of the "film"]].



* SourOutsideSadInside / HiddenDepths: Put to other characters a bitch facade, [[spoiler:but she's sad about losing the friendship she used to had with Max]]

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* SourOutsideSadInside / HiddenDepths: Put to She puts on a rather bitchy façade in front of the other characters a bitch facade, characters, [[spoiler:but she's sad about losing the friendship she used to had with Max]]



* ButtMonkey: He's a CosmicPlaything who gets subjected to numerous AmusingInjuries over the film's course (i.e., [[spoiler:getting hit with a car and getting repeatedly stabbed]]). However, see below to understand that he's really an IronButtMonkey.



* DeathByGenreSavviness: [[spoiler:Even if he really know the rules of the movie, it's by thinking that the rules makes real world's people invincible which cause his [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks demise at the hand of Billy]]]].

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* DeathByGenreSavviness: [[spoiler:Even if he really know the rules of the movie, it's by thinking that the rules makes the real world's world people invincible which cause his [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks demise at the hand of Billy]]]].












* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He gets one of the nastiest deaths in the film, [[spoiler:getting launched from Paula's car after she accidentally hits the camp's entryway (she was distracted by accidentally hitting [[ButtMonkey Duncan]] with her car), with him hitting the ground chest-first with enough force ''that his legs bend backwards over his head like they're made of rubber'']].



* FairForItsDay / InnocentBigot: Despite holding some stereotypes of gay people that are now considered very offensive, Kurt holds no malice toward them and actually seems to envy the "party hearty" lifestyle he imagines they live.
* HandsomeLech

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* FairForItsDay / InnocentBigot: [[invoked]] FairForItsDay: He's an InUniverse case overlapping with InnocentBigot; Despite holding some stereotypes of gay people that are now considered very offensive, Kurt holds no malice toward them and actually seems to envy the "party hearty" lifestyle he imagines they live.
* HandsomeLechHandsomeLech: He ''is'' actually quite handsome, but his unrepentant horniness results in most of the other characters (both within the world of the InUniverse film and "outside" of it) seeing him as annoying.



* ReallyGetsAround

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* ReallyGetsAroundReallyGetsAround: Comically exaggerated.










* TheDitz

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* TheDitzTheDitz: There's pretty much ''nothing'' going on upstairs in her head, to put it lightly.









* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Averted

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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: AvertedAverted.









* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:After she hits the entryway to the camp (launching Kurt from the car with fatal results), [[EveryCarIsAPinto almost immediately explodes, resulting in her burning to death]].




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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She and Kurt immediately try to make a run for it in her car after the "real life" people show up. Ironically, [[spoiler:their escape attempt only ends up killing the both of them]].












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* HappyDance: She performs an absolutely ridiculous CrazyAwesome striptease in order to lure the killer into the cabin. She is also seen dancing at other times, implying that she's almost always happy.

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* HappyDance: She performs an absolutely ridiculous CrazyAwesome striptease in order to lure the killer into the cabin. She is also seen dancing at other times, implying that she's almost always happy.
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* TheNotLoveInterest: Max has a romantic sub-plot with Chris, but the central relationship in the film is definitely between Max and Nancy.
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--> '''Max''': You just fucked with the wrong virgin!

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--> '''Max''': '''Max:''' You just fucked with the wrong virgin!



* NiceGuy: Nancy is very sweet and caring towards everyone, and modest as well. She says that she's just the girl with the clipboard and a guitar.

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* NiceGuy: {{Nice G|uy}}irl: Nancy is very sweet and caring towards everyone, and modest as well. She says that she's just the girl with the clipboard and a guitar.
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* ShoutOut: Her surname is a nod to scream queen Veronica Cartwright of ''Film/{{Alien}} and ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'' fame.

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* ShoutOut: Her surname is a nod to scream queen Veronica Cartwright of ''Film/{{Alien}} ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'' fame.

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* {{Adorkable}}: She is really kind towards her best friend, Max in spite of being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.



* {{Adorkable}}: Nancy is quite naive but is a cute girl who can't stand the sound of her own voice and overall has a lot of the same dorky mannerisms that her actress Amanda does.



* {{Adorkable}}: Max evens calls her a dork when she lip syncs to "Bette Davis Eyes" in the car.
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* [[spoiler:BeingEvilSucks / HeelFaceTurn: Before the slumber party, she burst into crying and reveal to Max and Gertie how much she is sorry about being mean with them.]]

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* [[spoiler:BeingEvilSucks / HeelFaceTurn: Before the slumber party, she burst into bursts out crying and reveal reveals to Max and Gertie how much she is sorry about being mean with them.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: allows herself to get murdered by Billy so Max can obey the film's internal logic and become the "Final Girl" in order to defeat the monster]].

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: She allows herself to get murdered by Billy so Max can obey the film's internal logic and become the "Final Girl" in order to defeat the monster]].



* ShoutOut: Her name is to Nancy Thompson, the final girl from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', while her appearance and personality is based on Ginny from ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2''.

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* ShoutOut: Her name is one to Nancy Thompson, the final girl from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', while her appearance and personality is based on Ginny from ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2''.



* AmbiguouslyBi: Kurt hits on literally every woman he sees, but briefly mentions that he thinks gay men have a cool lifestyle despite thinking that it's just discovered and sex with men.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Kurt hits on literally every woman he sees, but briefly mentions that he thinks gay men have a cool lifestyle despite thinking that it's just discovered and sex with men.



** FairForItsDay / InnocentBigot: Despite holding some stereotypes of gay people that are now considered very offensive, Kurt holds no malice toward them and actually seems to envy the "party hearty" lifestyle he imagines they live.

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** * FairForItsDay / InnocentBigot: Despite holding some stereotypes of gay people that are now considered very offensive, Kurt holds no malice toward them and actually seems to envy the "party hearty" lifestyle he imagines they live.



* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Dies in a car crash when her daughter accidentally spills coffee on Amanda's files and distracts her from the road.

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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Dies She dies in a car crash when her daughter accidentally spills coffee on Amanda's files and distracts her from the road.
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* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inversion: Reveals he has two fathers when Kurt mocks him by calling him gay.

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* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inversion: Reveals he has He reveals he's got two fathers when Kurt mocks him by calling him gay.
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* ContractualGenreBlindness: Being a generic slasher villain, the protagonists learn to take advantage of slasher film conventions in order to deal with him.

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