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* BasementDweller: Shawn Eckardt. He's overweight, stupid, still lives with his parents, and believes he's a world-class spymaster despite having done nothing with his life.

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* BasementDweller: Shawn Eckardt. He's overweight, stupid, still lives with his parents, and believes he's a [[WannabeSecretAgent world-class spymaster spymaster]] despite having done nothing with his life.
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* PerpetualFrowner: Lavona never so much as cracks a smile throughout the film, including when Tonya landed the triple axel.
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* DescriptionCut: Tonya claims that a spate of poor performances was due to faulty equipment. The film then cuts to a montage of her slacking off and overindulging in junk food and booze. This is further contrasted with her Olympics program in Lillehammer, which ''does'' go sideways due to faulty equipment, but she ''doesn't'' attribute her 8th position to that and is content with her performance.

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* DescriptionCut: Tonya claims that a spate of poor performances (at the 1992 Nationals and 1992 Olympics) was due to faulty equipment. The film then cuts to a montage of her slacking off and overindulging in junk food and booze. This is further contrasted with her Olympics program in Lillehammer, which ''does'' go sideways due to faulty equipment, but she ''doesn't'' attribute her 8th position to that and is content with her performance.
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* HotBlooded: Tonya is extremely competitive and isn't afraid to confront judges on their scoring of her, or to shoot at her husband with a rifle.

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* HotBlooded: Tonya is extremely competitive and isn't afraid to confront judges on their scoring of her, or to shoot at her husband with a rifle. rifle (allegedly).
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''I, Tonya'' is a 2017 sports {{dramedy}} film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers. It stars Creator/MargotRobbie, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/AllisonJanney, Creator/JulianneNicholson, Creator/CaitlinCarver, Bojana Novakovic, Creator/BobbyCannavale and Creator/PaulWalterHauser.

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''I, Tonya'' is a 2017 sports {{dramedy}} film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers. It stars Creator/MargotRobbie, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/AllisonJanney, Creator/JulianneNicholson, Creator/CaitlinCarver, Bojana Novakovic, Creator/BojanaNovakovic, Creator/BobbyCannavale and Creator/PaulWalterHauser.

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* DescriptionCut: Tonya claims that a spate of poor performances was due to faulty equipment. The film then cuts to a montage of her slacking off and overindulging in booze and junk food. This is further contrasted with her Olympics program in Lillehammer, which ''does'' go sideways due to faulty equipment, but she ''doesn't'' attribute her 8th position to that and is content with her performance.

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* DescriptionCut: Tonya claims that a spate of poor performances was due to faulty equipment. The film then cuts to a montage of her slacking off and overindulging in booze and junk food.food and booze. This is further contrasted with her Olympics program in Lillehammer, which ''does'' go sideways due to faulty equipment, but she ''doesn't'' attribute her 8th position to that and is content with her performance.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: The first sign that the media circus surrounding Tonya is finally dimming down is when Jeff catches a news story about the Creator/OJSimpson murder trial. Like Tonya, Simpson was widely believed by the public to be both guilty ''and'' the subject of [[IfItBleedsItLeads over-sensationalized news coverage]].

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* BlatantLies: Shawn is a very poor liar and cracks almost immediately under questioning.

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* BlatantLies: Shawn is a very poor liar liar, among other things claiming that he's an expert in counterterrorism and espionage despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary, and cracks almost immediately under questioning.



* DomesticAbuse: Tonya's relationship with Jeff is abusive from the start, with lots of shouting and hitting. For her part, Tonya comes at Jeff with a shotgun, which she denies ever happened.
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* DomesticAbuse: Tonya's relationship with Jeff is abusive from the start, with lots of shouting and hitting. For her part, Jeff claims that Tonya comes came at Jeff him with a shotgun, which she denies ever happened.
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* KneeCapping: Or "The Incident", as it is referred to in the film. And being [[PersonAsVerb "Gilloolied,"]] as the present-day Jeff Gillooly explains at the start of the film.

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* KneeCapping: Or The plan to psych Nancy Kerrigan out with anonymous death threats escalates to physical assault once Shawn is left to his own devices. To carry it out, he hires a pair of goons who sneak into the arena where Nancy is training and whack her on the knee with a telescopic baton. By the time the film's characters are interviewed in the present day, the attack is so notorious that they refer to it solely as "The Incident", as it is referred to Incident." Jeff Gillooly, meanwhile, notes that in the film. And aftermath of the assault, people would refer to kneecapping as being [[PersonAsVerb "Gilloolied,"]] as the present-day Jeff Gillooly explains at the start of the film."Gilloolied."]]



* LackOfEmpathy: Tonya's attitude to Nancy's assault. She's been hit almost every day since childhood. Why is everyone so concerned about Nancy getting hit once?

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* LackOfEmpathy: Tonya's attitude to Nancy's assault.assault is casually dismissive in the present-day interviews. She's been hit almost every day since childhood. Why is everyone so concerned about Nancy getting hit once?



* RashomonStyle: Tonya and Jeff frequently disagree on how events unfolded and we often see each version portrayed. The writer made clear that the interviews with both had such conflicting views, so that was his attempt at a compromise.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tonya gives a harsh one to Shawn at one point, calling him out on his stupidity, obesity, and the fact he still lives with his parents.

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* RashomonStyle: Tonya and Jeff frequently disagree on how events unfolded and we often see each version portrayed. The writer made clear that the interviews with both characters' real-life counterparts had such wildly conflicting views, so that this was his attempt at a compromise.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tonya gives a harsh one to Shawn at one point, calling him out on his stupidity, obesity, and the fact he still lives with his parents.



** Harding herself ends up being 4th, right next to the Olympic podium, in '92 Albertville games. As she puts it out, fourth places doesn't give you endorsement deals - it gives you a morning shift in a diner.

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** Harding herself ends up being 4th, right next to the Olympic podium, in '92 Albertville games. As she puts it out, fourth places place doesn't give you endorsement deals - -- it gives you a morning shift in a diner.



* UnreliableNarrator: From the very beginning of the film, we're warned that it's based on wildly contradictory interviews. During flashbacks, the film frequently [[GilliganCut cuts to interviews of characters giving a different account]]. Sometimes the characters will stop in the ''middle of a scene'' to [[BreakingTheFourthWall look at the camera]] and insist that the event being portrayed didn't happen.

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* UnreliableNarrator: UnreliableNarrator:
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From the very beginning of the film, we're warned that it's based on wildly contradictory interviews. During flashbacks, the film frequently [[GilliganCut cuts to interviews of characters giving a different account]]. Sometimes the characters will stop in the ''middle of a scene'' to [[BreakingTheFourthWall look at the camera]] and insist that the event being portrayed didn't happen. The end result is that the viewer is constantly tasked with determining how much of each person's accounts are true, tying in with the similarly murky narrative about the real-life events that the film is based on.

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* DemotedToExtra: Despite winning the gold medal in the Olympic competition, and the first ever Olympic medal for independent Ukraine, that is the focus of this movie, Oksana Baiul is barely in the film and doesn't even have spoken lines. Despite being on the receiving end of "the incident", Nancy Kerrigan is barely in the film and has only the single spoken word "why?" although she does have one line in a deleted scene.

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* DemotedToExtra: DemotedToExtra:
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Despite winning the gold medal in the Olympic competition, and competition that is the focus of this movie, which was also the first ever Olympic medal for the independent state of Ukraine, that is the focus of this movie, Oksana Baiul is barely in the film and doesn't even have spoken lines. lines.
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Despite being on the receiving end of "the incident", Nancy Kerrigan is barely in the film and has only the single spoken word "why?" although she does have one an additional line in a deleted scene.
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''I, Tonya'' is a 2017 sports {{dramedy}} film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers. It stars Creator/MargotRobbie, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/AllisonJanney, Creator/JulianneNicholson, Creator/CaitlinCarver, Creator/BojanaNovakovic, Creator/BobbyCannavale and Creator/PaulWalterHauser.

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''I, Tonya'' is a 2017 sports {{dramedy}} film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers. It stars Creator/MargotRobbie, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/AllisonJanney, Creator/JulianneNicholson, Creator/CaitlinCarver, Creator/BojanaNovakovic, Bojana Novakovic, Creator/BobbyCannavale and Creator/PaulWalterHauser.

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