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* AdvertisedExtra: The Movie Poster and DVD cover lists the main cast as Haylock, Dratch, Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho and RuPaul. Cumming and Cho are both OneSceneWonder and RuPaul has a few short scenes as a weatherman on TV.

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* AdvertisedExtra: The Movie Poster and DVD cover lists the main cast as Haylock, Dratch, Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho and RuPaul. Creator/{{RuPaul}}. Cumming and Cho are both OneSceneWonder only appear in one scene and RuPaul [=RuPaul=] has a few short scenes as a weatherman on TV.



* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Bailey. (He is played by Willam Belli!)

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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Bailey. (He is played by Willam Belli!)Creator/WillamBelli!)



* DragQueen: As well as Richard as Bianca, we have his two besties Bailey and Stephen (Willam Belli and DJ 'Shangela' Pierce), club singer Ambrosia Salad (Alyssa Edwards) and Joslyn Fox shows up pulling pints.

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* DragQueen: As well as Richard as Bianca, we have his two besties Bailey and Stephen (Willam Belli and DJ 'Shangela' "Creator/{{Shangela}}" Pierce), club singer Ambrosia Salad (Alyssa Edwards) and Joslyn Fox shows up pulling pints.
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* AdvertisedExtra: The Movie Poster and DVD cover lists the main cast as Haylock, Dratch, Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho and RuPaul. Cumming and Cho are both OneSceneWonders and RuPaul has a few short scenes as a weatherman on TV.

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* AdvertisedExtra: The Movie Poster and DVD cover lists the main cast as Haylock, Dratch, Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho and RuPaul. Cumming and Cho are both OneSceneWonders OneSceneWonder and RuPaul has a few short scenes as a weatherman on TV.
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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like being called [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Debbie]].

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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like hates being called [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Debbie]].
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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like being called Debbie Series/SaturdayNightLive]].

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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like being called Debbie Series/SaturdayNightLive]].[[Series/SaturdayNightLive Debbie]].
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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like being called Series/SaturdayNightLive Debbie]].

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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like being called Series/SaturdayNightLive Debbie]].Debbie Series/SaturdayNightLive]].
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* ActorAllusion: Rachel Dratch as someone who doesn't like being called Series/SaturdayNightLive Debbie]].
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* TheCheerleader: Keeley/Bathmat, though not the only cheerleader character, fits the stereotype to a T, being mean, popular, and airheaded.

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* TheCheerleader: CruelCheerleader: Keeley/Bathmat, though not the only cheerleader character, fits the stereotype to a T, being mean, popular, and airheaded.

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* BeeAfraid: [[spoiler: Bianca gets her revenge on Deborah ultimately by hiding bees in her purse]], causing the bees swarm to escape and attack her en masse.


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* ScaryStingingSwarm: [[spoiler: Bianca gets her revenge on Deborah ultimately by hiding bees in her purse]], causing the bees swarm to escape and attack her en masse.
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Hurricane Bianca is an American independent comedy and LGBT film, directed and written by Matt Kugelman and starring ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' alumnus Roy Haylock (Bianca Del Rio) as the titular Bianca. As well as being marketed as a comedy, the film touches on serious social issues, such as the fact that it is legal for somebody to be fired from their place of work for being gay, in 29 U.S states.

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Hurricane Bianca is an American independent comedy and LGBT film, directed and written by Matt Kugelman and starring ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' alumnus Roy Haylock (Bianca Del Rio) as the titular Bianca. As well as being marketed as a comedy, the film touches on serious social issues, such as the fact that it is was legal for somebody to be fired from their place of work for being gay, in 29 U.S states.
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Haylock/Del Rio is Richard, a science teacher who takes a job at a school in a middle-of-nowhere Texas town, Milford. After being fired for being gay, instigated by villainous vice-principal 'don't call me Debbie' Deborah (Rachel Dratch), Richard returns as Miss Bianca Del Rio. To teach the kids about science, and teach the adults a lesson...


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Haylock/Del Rio is Richard, a science teacher who takes a job at a school in a middle-of-nowhere Texas town, Milford. After being fired for being gay, instigated by villainous vice-principal 'don't call me Debbie' Deborah (Rachel Dratch), (Creator/RachelDratch), Richard returns as Miss Bianca Del Rio. To teach the kids about science, and teach the adults a lesson...

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* TheFundamentalist: Vice Principal Deborah who does not like gays and believes children should be taught creationism. [[spoiler: revealed as a hypocrite as she has had numerous affairs with students]]

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* TheFundamentalist: Vice Principal Deborah who does not like gays and believes children should be taught creationism. [[spoiler: She's later revealed as a hypocrite as she has had numerous affairs with students]]students.]]



* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The movie ends with a storybook narrated by Karma that says what happened to everyone. Spoofed, as it shows several characters, such as Bailey, doing mundane, humorous things five minutes in the future of the ending.

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The movie ends with a storybook narrated by Karma that says what happened to everyone. Spoofed, as it shows several characters, such as Bailey, doing mundane, humorous things five minutes in after the future time of the ending.

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* FromNewYorkToNowhere: Richard moves from New York to the small town of Milford, Texas, and is very much a FishOutOfWater as a gay, Hispanic New Yorker.



** Chuck again.

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** Chuck again.at first comes off as a bigoted horndog, but actually is very accepting of Bianca being a drag queen and of his [[spoiler: transgender sister]].



* MyBrotherIsOffLimits: Karma is horrified by the idea of Bianca dating her brother [[spoiler: Chuck]], even after their reconciliation.

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* MyBrotherIsOffLimits: MySisterIsOffLimits: Gender-inverted; Karma is horrified by the idea of Bianca dating her brother [[spoiler: Chuck]], even after their reconciliation.

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* TheCheerleader: Keeley/Bathmat, though not the only cheerleader character, fits the stereotype to a T, being mean, popular, and airheaded.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chuck again.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
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Chuck again.again.
** Bianca herself is incredibly mean to her students, but she does it in order to make them better people, and after a time has a rapport with even Keeley.



* MyBrotherIsOffLimits: Karma is horrified by the idea of Bianca dating her brother [[spoiler: Chuck]], even after their reconciliation.



* TransparentCloset: Bianca/Richard's student, Bobby.

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* SadistTeacher: Bianca yells at her students, calls them mean names, and even pulls a chemistry prank that causes all the students who didn’t do their homework to end up with stained orange faces.
* TransparentCloset: Bianca/Richard's student, Bobby.Bobby, who’s obviously gay and gets beat up for that fact, despite not being out.

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Agent Peacock is about a being a badass who is good at fighting. Bianca does no fighting, unless you count teaching Bobby the key trick, which seems pretty weak.


* AgentPeacock: Richard as Bianca.



* CelebrityImpersonator: Bailey as LadyGaga. Also, Richard's cousin is apparently a Cher impersonator (clearly Chad Michaels was too busy to appear though!)

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* CelebrityImpersonator: Bailey as LadyGaga.Music/LadyGaga. Also, Richard's cousin is apparently a Cher impersonator (clearly Chad Michaels was too busy to appear though!)
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: While in a bathroom stall, Bianca overhears Deborah and Carly plotting to get her fired and generally badmouthing her.
* BeneathNotice: The school janitor knows everything about the school, including that Bianca is a man, because she is constantly ignored. Literally beneath notice in some cases, as she is a little person; in one scene she startles Bianca by standing underneath the sinks.
* BeeAfraid: [[spoiler: Bianca gets her revenge on Deborah ultimately by hiding bees in her purse]], causing the bees swarm to escape and attack her en masse.


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* MagicalQueer: Part of Richard's motivation for the whole ruse was that he wanted to teach the kids to not be bigoted. It works, and in the end the town becomes livelier and more accepting due to Bianca's presence.


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* TheNicknamer: Bianca gives a mean nickname to everyone in her class.


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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The movie ends with a storybook narrated by Karma that says what happened to everyone. Spoofed, as it shows several characters, such as Bailey, doing mundane, humorous things five minutes in the future of the ending.

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example admits it's not an example of roaring rampage of revenge


* HomophobicHateCrime: After Richard leaves his apartment, moving in with Karma, the house is trashed and painted with slurs. Also, Bobby, a gay student, is beat up every single day for being gay, and the school does nothing about it.



* NoodleIncident: Crazy things happen when Richard gets drunk. "Remember that time with the candlestick?"
* PlotHole: Early on it's established that Milford County doesn't have any alcohol allowed. But later on, Chuck and Bianca get absolutely hammered on a date at the roller rink.



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Without much roaring or rampaging... but Richard/Bianca getting revenge on Deborah for getting him fired is what drives the plot.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Without much roaring or rampaging... but {{Revenge}}: Richard/Bianca getting revenge on Deborah for getting him fired is what drives the plot.
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YMMV trope, moved to YMMV page


* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlanCumming as the teaching board member who sends Richard to Milford, and Creator/MargaretCho as the Wig Shop owner.

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