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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gena and Clyde. [[spoiler: TheyDo, obviously.]]

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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]].

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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland Creator/LeslyeHeadland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Gena. ([[TypeCasting Of course]], it's Creator/LizzyCaplan).
* TheDitz: Katie, though maybe she's more of a GeniusDitz.

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* FemaleGaze: Adam Scott, of all people, gets this treatment by Gena.

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-->'''Katie:''' You guys had [[spoiler:an abortion]]? [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Without me??]]

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-->'''Katie:''' You guys had [[spoiler:an abortion]]? [[CompletelyMissingThePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Without me??]]



* PetHomosexual: Manny. Down to a T.

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* SirSwearsALot: Gena and Regan.

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* AbortionFalloutDrama: [[spoiler: Gena and Clyde broke up because she got pregnant and had abortion. Clyde was supposed to drive her to the clinic but didn't show up because he felt guilty and scared.]]

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The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.

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The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] Becky (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.
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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]]. The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.

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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]].

The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.
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* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Becky told everyone that she was bulimic when her and Regan were found in the bathroom stall in high school, taking the blame and having everyone make awful jokes about her, even well into adulthood.]]
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* {{Kuudere}}: Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this trope.


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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this trope.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Reagan, Gena and Katie, respectively.

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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Reagan, Regan, Gena and Katie, respectively.



* DrowningMySorrows: For Gena and Katie, it's a way of life. For Reagan, it's a way to handle with this specific madness, as opposed to coping with life.

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* DrowningMySorrows: For Gena and Katie, it's a way of life. For Reagan, Regan, it's a way to handle with this specific madness, as opposed to coping with life.



* FireForgedFriends: Becky and Reagan [[spoiler:coped together with Reagan's bulimia]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Reagan is Choleric, Gena is Melancholic, Becky is Phlegmatic and Katie is Sanguine.

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* FireForgedFriends: Becky and Reagan Regan [[spoiler:coped together with Reagan's Regan's bulimia]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Reagan Regan is Choleric, Gena is Melancholic, Becky is Phlegmatic and Katie is Sanguine.



* ItsAllAboutMe: Reagan, Gena and Katie.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Reagan, Regan, Gena and Katie.



* {{Jerkass}}: Reagan and Trevor.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Reagan Regan and Trevor.



* SirSwearsALot: Gena and Reagan.

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* SirSwearsALot: Gena and Reagan.Regan.
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* JadedWashout: Reagan, Gena and Katie suffer the "ex-AlphaBitch" version of this trope, being former queens of high school who haven't really had much success and[=/=]or haven't really managed to get their lives together after the GloryDays of high school. One of the reasons they're so obviously jealous of Becky is because, despite being their former punching bag, she's managed to get her life together much better than they have.

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* JadedWashout: Reagan, Regan, Gena and Katie suffer the "ex-AlphaBitch" version of this trope, being former queens of high school who haven't really had much success success, found much happiness and[=/=]or haven't really managed to get their lives together after the GloryDays of high school. One of the reasons they're so obviously jealous of Becky is because, despite being their former punching bag, she's managed to get her life together much better than they have.

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** All of the main characters fall into the "what happens after the GloryDays of high school" part of this trope as well, as it's made pretty clear that none of them are really that happy and[=/=]or haven't made much of their lives since high school. They're all pretty clearly jealous of Becky since, despite being their punching bag at school, she's clearly gotten her life together much better than they have.


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* JadedWashout: Reagan, Gena and Katie suffer the "ex-AlphaBitch" version of this trope, being former queens of high school who haven't really had much success and[=/=]or haven't really managed to get their lives together after the GloryDays of high school. One of the reasons they're so obviously jealous of Becky is because, despite being their former punching bag, she's managed to get her life together much better than they have.
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** All of the main characters fall into the "what happens after the GloryDays of high school" part of this trope as well, as it's made pretty clear that none of them are really that happy and[=/=]or haven't made much of their lives since high school. They're all pretty clearly jealous of Becky since, despite being their punching bag at school, she's clearly gotten her life together much better than they have.

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* AcademicAlphaBitch: Reagan fills in the role of Alpha Bitch but she's a perfectionist who laments that she went to college and yet Becky is the first to get married.

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* AcademicAlphaBitch: Reagan fills in the role of Alpha Bitch but she's a perfectionist who laments that AlphaBitch: Regan, though she went to college has shades of AcademicAlphaBitch as well. She's really intense.
---> '''Dale:''' You know how there are, like, serial killers,
and yet Becky is the first to get married.then there's Hannibal Lecter?
---> '''Trevor:''' Yeah?
---> '''Clyde:''' There are girls, and then there's Regan



* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Katie tries overdosing on Xanax until Regan forces her to vomit it out. Too bad it gets on the latter's dress.]]



* {{Kuudere}}: Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this trope.



* {{Kuudere}}: Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this.

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* {{Kuudere}}: MyNaymeIs: It's Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this.- not Jenna, and Regan, not Reagan.



* PluckyGirl: Katie has nothing going for her but she is still hopelessly optimistic. Mainly when drunk.

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* PluckyGirl: Katie has nothing going for her but she is still hopelessly optimistic. optimistic [[spoiler: until she sorts of attempts suicide.]] Mainly when drunk.



* SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler: Katie tries overdosing on Xanax until Regan forces her to vomit it out. Too bad it gets on the latter's dress.]]



* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gena and Clyde. [[spoiler:TheyDo, obviously.]]

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gena and Clyde. [[spoiler:TheyDo, [[spoiler: TheyDo, obviously.]]
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: Reagan fills in the role of Alpha Bitch but she's a perfectionist who laments that she went to college and yet Becky is the first to get married.

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* FireForgedFriends: Becky and Reagan [[spoiler:coped together with Reagan's bulimia]].

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* FireForgedFriends: Becky and Reagan [[spoiler:coped together with Reagan's bulimia]].bulimia]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Reagan is Choleric, Gena is Melancholic, Becky is Phlegmatic and Katie is Sanguine.
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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]] The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.

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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]] Wilson]]. The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.

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* BrokenAce: Reagan is apparently this. She seems put together, [[spoiler:but is actually dealing with depression and a past of eating disorders]].


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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzieCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and Creator/RebelWilson. Story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.

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''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Leslye Headland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzieCaplan, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and Creator/RebelWilson. Story [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]] The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, [[FatGirl Becky]] (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.



* BlackComedy: The film portrays the three main characters as awful people with even more pathetic lives and plays this both [[PlayedForDrama for drama]] and [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]].



* BloodyHilarious: [[spoiler: Katie stains Becky's dress while having a nosebleed.]]



--> '''Katie:''' We're totally gonna keep it low key. Just what We were talking about, 'cause that's just the kind of girls we are..

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--> '''Katie:''' We're totally gonna keep it low key. Just what We we were talking about, 'cause that's just the kind of girls we are..



* DeadpanSnarker: Gena. ([[TypeCasting Of course]], it's Creator/LizzieCaplan).

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* DeadpanSnarker: Gena. ([[TypeCasting Of course]], it's Creator/LizzieCaplan).Creator/LizzyCaplan).


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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Katie tries overdosing on Xanax until Regan forces her to vomit it out. Too bad it gets on the latter's dress.]]
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Dale. Also, poor little Joe. Clyde is a more deconstructed one, seeing how he does have his JerkAss moments.

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* DoggedNiceGuy: Dale. Also, poor little Joe. Clyde is a more deconstructed one, seeing how he does have his JerkAss moments.

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* BluntYes: Katie does a great one.
--> '''Katie:''' We're totally gonna keep it low key. Just what We were talking about, 'cause that's just the kind of girls we are..
--> '''Gena:''' Let's do some coke.
--> '''Katie:''' YES!



* DoggedNiceGuy: Dale. Also, poor little Joe.

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* DoggedNiceGuy: Dale. Also, poor little Joe. Clyde is a more deconstructed one, seeing how he does have his JerkAss moments.


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* {{Kuudere}}: Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this.


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* SlapSlapKiss: Gena and Clyde. She has her reasons.


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* [[ManChild Woman Child]]: Gena.
--> '''Stephanie:''' Nice to meet you Mrs. Myers!
--> '''Gena:''' Oh, I'm not married. I'm not an adult either...
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* BrainlessBeauty: Played with and painfully [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]. Katie is a gorgeous airhead and for most of the film her lack of intelligence is played for laughs. However in a candid moment she admits to her fears about her stupidity to John and how she doesn't actually like her life or know how to behave around people she has feelings for, other than via sleeping with them.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Played with and painfully [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]. Katie is a gorgeous airhead and for most of the film her lack of intelligence is played for laughs. However in a candid moment she admits to her fears about her stupidity to John Joe and how she doesn't actually like her life or know how to behave around people she has feelings for, other than via sleeping with them.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Played with and painfully [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]. Katie is a gorgeous airhead and for most of the film her lack of intelligence is played for laughs. However in a candid moment she admits to her fears about her stupidity to John and how she doesn't actually like her life or know how to behave around people she has feelings for, other than via sleeping with them.


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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: All three protagonists are (at least at the start of the film) selfish, callous and rude. Regan, who is a grown AlphaBitch verges on being an outright VillainProtagonist.
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