History Film / DeadKids

* IAmNotMyFather: [[spoiler: Blanco]] is determined not to be like his vile father, but he does show some alarming red flags, such as [[WouldHurtAChild wishing death on a]] ''[[WouldHurtAChild little boy]]'' who was simply walking on the road, equating the child's obvious poverty with drug addiction. [[InsaneTrollLogic And clearly, all drug addicts should die.]]

The movie juxtaposes its TeenDrama foundation with a devastating look into class inequality in the Philippines. Its Netflix premiere was on 17 November, 2019.

* BookDumb: Compared to Mark, the school's brightest student, the other characters' intellect pales. Amusingly illustrated when he quotes Karl Marx, and Blanco responds by saying that [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure he doesn't watch]] ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* BookDumb: Compared to Mark, the school's brightest student, the other characters' intellect pales. Amusingly illustrated when he quotes Karl Marx, and Blanco responds by saying that [[PopCultureOsmosisFailure he doesn't watch]] ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* WorkingClassHero: Mark Sta. Maria, always the dead kid. [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Literally.]]]]

* WorkingClassHero: Mark Sta. Maria, always the dead kid. [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Literally.]]]]

* UnusualEuphemism: The poor students are dubbed "dead kids." [[spoiler: It tragically becomes literal for Mark Sta. Maria, and undoubtedly many other impoverished people.]]

* TokenMinority: Uy is apparently the only student of Chinese descent. [[TwoferTokenMinority And maybe also]] [[AmbiguouslyGay queer, who knows]].

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Lightly {{Parodied|Trope}} with Uy. He wears thin frames and always tries to be TheSmartGuy, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll but is really quite ineffectual]]. It's also established that Mark is the smartest student of them all.

* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Paolo's girlfriend eventually rats them out.]]

* RagsToRich: A very micro and very short-lived case for [[spoiler: Mark Sta. Maria]]. For a while, [[spoiler: the boys actually manage to get away with having kidnapped Chuck. Mark then shows up to school wearing shiny, brand-new [=AirPods=], which of course catches the attention of his classmates.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Uy. A video of him being force-fed hotdogs have caused his schoolmates to harass him for being gay, [[AmbiguousSituation although it is ''incredibly'' difficult to tell if this is just bullying and toxic masculinity or if he ''is'' actually gay (or perhaps both).]] Others, such as Paolo, repeatedly call him gay, and not in a nice way. He never confirms or denies it; he only ignores these pejoratives completely.

* GrayAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler: Despite the crimes they commit, the main characters are ultimately quite sympathetic. All the characters are endowed with bad and good sides. Even Chuck's drug lord father, while undoubtedly a wicked man, seems to genuinely love his son, though he usually fails to show it.]]

The movie juxtaposes its TeenDrama foundation with a devastating depiction of class inequality in the Philippines. Its Netflix premiere was on 17 November, 2019.

* GrayAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler:

Its Netflix premiere was on 17 November, 2019.

''Dead Kids'' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] thriller film directed by Mikhail Red. The first Creator/{{Netflix}} original film from the Philippines, it follows Mark Sta. Maria (Kelvin Miranda), a socially awkward scholarship student. He attends a school mostly filled with rich kids, terrorized by wealthy bully Chuck Santos (Markus Paterson).