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* SeductionAsOneUpmanship: Megan falls for two boys, Cash and Roger, while at high school. Heather, Megan's rival when she was a TeenSuperspy, shows up at her school. She tries seducing Cash, and according to her makes out with him, in order to irritate Megan. Cash ends up asking Megan to homecoming, but Megan realizes she really likes Roger. When she goes to confess her feelings to him, she sees that Heather took him to the dance.
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%% BareYourMidriff: Heather.
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* TheCheerleader: Missy, who is actually a nice girl and genuinely tries to befriend Megan.

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Oh, and RKO produced this film. That [[Creator/RKOPictures RKO]].

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Oh, and RKO produced this film. That [[Creator/RKOPictures RKO]].
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* AlphaBitch:
** Deconstructed with Cindy and Donna, and the Cheerleaders. Cindy and Donna are mean girls, but they don't seem to be particularly popular, which ends up allowing Megan to fall for their tricks. Megan ''assumes'' the Cheerleaders are this because films have taught her they always are, but in actuality they seemed to be genuinely nice girls who wanted to befriend the new girl.

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* AlphaBitch:
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AlphaBitch: Deconstructed with Cindy and Donna, and the Cheerleaders.cheerleaders. Cindy and Donna are mean girls, but they don't seem to be particularly popular, which ends up allowing Megan to fall for their tricks. Megan ''assumes'' the Cheerleaders cheerleaders are this because films have taught her they always are, but in actuality they seemed to be genuinely nice girls people who wanted to befriend the new girl.kid.



* FatherToHisMen: Despite his hard insistence they are 'not in the business of rescuing people' and that attachment is a weakness, Hardman is still a good man (well, he's not a ''bad'' man) who raised the Prescotts from childhood. He can't help but develop attachment to them and want to make sure they're safe. Also doubles as FridgeBrilliance as saving her means capturing Knox, which is what he wanted.

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* FatherToHisMen: AFatherToHisMen: Despite his hard insistence they are 'not in the business of rescuing people' and that attachment is a weakness, Hardman is still a good man (well, he's not a ''bad'' man) who raised the Prescotts from childhood. He can't help but develop attachment to them and want to make sure they're safe. Also doubles as FridgeBrilliance [[invoked]]FridgeBrilliance as saving her Megan means capturing Knox, which is what he wanted.



* MuggingTheMonster: A bunch of students from a rival school to the one Megan is attending try to kidnap her at a pep rally as part of a high school tradition to hold the Viking mascot hostage. Megan promptly lays them out, thinking they're enemy agents.



** And by the end of the movie [[spoiler: Heather]]

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** And by the end of the movie [[spoiler: Heather]]Heather]].



** Victoria calls Hardman [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dumbledore]].

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** Victoria calls Hardman [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dumbledore]]."Dumbledore"]].



** Liz calls Megan [[Creator/MollyRingwald Ringwald]] when she finally gets tired of her treating everything like it’s a high school movie.
** Gooch acts out scene from Film/TheBreakfastClub to prove to Liz that he can act.
** Liz thinks Cash looks like ''“the ass baby of [[Series/CrissAngelMindfreak Criss Angel]] and Creator/RussellBrand".''
** When adopting the persona of a beautiful AlphaBitch, 84 chooses the cover name of [[Film/{{Heathers}} Heather]].

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** Liz calls Megan [[Creator/MollyRingwald Ringwald]] "Ringwald"]] when she finally gets tired of her treating everything like it’s a high school movie.
** Gooch acts out a scene from Film/TheBreakfastClub ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' to prove to Liz that he can act.
** Liz thinks Cash looks like ''“the "the ass baby of [[Series/CrissAngelMindfreak Criss Angel]] {{Series/Criss Angel|Mindfreak}} and Creator/RussellBrand".''
Creator/RussellBrand".
** When adopting the persona of a beautiful AlphaBitch, 84 chooses the cover name of [[Film/{{Heathers}} Heather]].Film/{{Heather|s}}.



-->'''Entire Assembly:''' Take back [[Music/JustinBieber Bieber]]! Take back [[Music/JustinBieber Bieber]]!

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-->'''Entire Assembly:''' Take back [[Music/JustinBieber Bieber]]! Take back [[Music/JustinBieber Bieber]]!Bieber!

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%% ActionGirl: A given with any Prescott girl.

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%% * ActionGirl: A given with any Prescott girl.girl, capable of taking on most grown men and women with ease even as teenagers, [[spoiler:with only other Prescotts able to challenge them in a straight fight]].



** Deconstructed with Cindy and Donna, and the Cheerleaders. Cindy and Donna are mean girls, but they don't seem to be particularly popular, which ends up allowing Megan to fall for their tricks. Megan ''assumes'' the Cheerleaders are this because films have taught her they always are, but in actuality they seemed to be genuinely nice girls who wanted to befriend the new girl.



** Deconstructed with Cindy and Donna, and the Cheerleaders. Cindy and Donna are mean girls, but they don't seem to be particularly popular, which ends up allowing Megan to fall for their tricks. Megan ''assumes'' the Cheerleaders are this because films have taught her they always are, but in actuality they seemed to be genuinely nice girls who wanted to befriend the new girl.
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''Barely Lethal'' is a 2015 action comedy film directed by Kyle Newman about a teenage assassin named Megan who fakes her own death and enrolls in high school to live a normal life.

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''Barely Lethal'' is a 2015 action comedy film directed by Kyle Newman about a teenage assassin named Megan "Agent 83" who fakes her own death death, adopts the name "Megan" and enrolls in high school to live a normal life.

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* FatherToHisMen: Despite his hard insistence they are 'not in the business of rescuing people' and that attachment is a weakness, Hardman is still a good man (well, he's not a ''bad'' man) who raised the Prescotts from childhood. He can't help but develop attachment to them and want to make sure they're safe. Also doubles as FridgeBrilliance as saving her means capturing Knox, which is what he wanted.



* RealityEnsues:
** Put it this way: Megan finds out that teenage life isn't what you see in the movies.
** Despite his hard insistence they are 'not in the business of rescuing people' and that attachment is a weakness, Hardman is still a good man (well, he's not a ''bad'' man) who raised the Prescotts from childhood. [[FatherToHisMen He can't help but develop attachment to them]] and want to make sure they're safe. Also doubles as FridgeBrilliance as saving her means capturing Knox, which is what he wanted.
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* NotSoDifferent: Victoria tells Megan that they are very similar. Megan violently disagrees.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Victoria tells Megan that they are very similar. Megan violently disagrees.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Megan constantly spots a [[SpiesInAVan suspicious white van]] seemingly trailing her and fears that Hardman has tracked her down, and sure enough a bunch of black-suited goons march out of it to kidnap her in her mascot costume. But then it turns out they're actually freshmen from a rival school, and it's a school tradition to kidnap the Viking mascot.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Megan constantly spots a [[SpiesInAVan suspicious white van]] seemingly trailing her and fears that Hardman has tracked her down, and sure enough a bunch of black-suited goons march out of it to kidnap her in her mascot costume. But then it turns out they're actually freshmen from a rival school, and it's a school tradition to kidnap the Viking mascot. This is only revealed ''after'' she's handed them their asses, however.
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The film stars Creator/HaileeSteinfeld in the lead role, as well as Creator/JessicaAlba, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/SophieTurner, among others.

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The film stars Creator/HaileeSteinfeld in the lead role, as well as Creator/JessicaAlba, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/DoveCameron and Creator/SophieTurner, among others.
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* AndStarring: "With Creator/JessicaAlba And Creator/SamuelLJackson."

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* ActionGirl: A given with any Prescott girl.

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* %% ActionGirl: A given with any Prescott girl.



** Heather adopts this persona when she leaves Prescott.

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** %% Heather adopts this persona when she leaves Prescott.



* BareYourMidriff: Heather.

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* %% BareYourMidriff: Heather.



* RivalTurnedEvil: Heather towards Megan.

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* %% RivalTurnedEvil: Heather towards Megan.



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* {{Adorkable}}: Megan is adorably nerdy with her references that nobody gets.
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* CantStayNormal: Even when Megan's actively trying to blend into high school she sometimes 'defaults' to her military training, such as responding to a question about "The Road Not Taken" poem by discussing the tactical advantages of taking each path, or giving an elaborate breakdown of a video game to describe how such a compound would be protected in 'reality'.

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