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* FakeBoobs: A flashback shows Jen B. making out with a boy who finds out she padded her bra when some tissue paper accidentally falls out of her blouse. He laughs at her and fakes blowing his nose with it. The moment Diana reminds her about tha, tJen is bitter enough about the event to agree to Diana's plan to make the boys compete for the right to have prom dates.
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* LoveLetterLunacy: Joseph writes mecically-themed love poems to Jen B. that he's embarrassed by and never has the guts to send.
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* HollywoodBoardGames: Selby is an academically oriented boarding school, so it stands to reason that its students are going to dominate "nerdy" contests such as a ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' tournament. In fact, they are so good that when the rival school's students hire {{Super Ringer}}s, the Selby kids manage to win sometimes.
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* LoveLetterLunacy: Joseph writes nerdy love poems to Jen B. that he's embarrassed by and never has the guts to send.
* LoveLetterLunacy: Joseph writes mecically-themed love poems to Jen B. that he's embarrassed by and never has the guts to send.
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** During one standoff between the rival prefects, one of the Lancaster students calls Geoffery a "school-switching traitor", but this is never brought up again.* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
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** During one standoff between the rival prefects, one of the Lancaster students calls Geoffery a "school-switching traitor", but this is never brought up again.again.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
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* PyrrhicVictory : [[spoiler:In a surprising aversion of UnderdogsNeverLose, the preppy and athletic Lancaster students beat the nerdy and more sympathetic Selby boys for the right to ask the girls to prom. However, the Lancaster boys are even more smug and insufferable than usual as a result of their victory, and as a result, all of the girls can't stand it after a while and duck out of the party to spend time with the Selby students.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory : PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:In a surprising aversion of UnderdogsNeverLose, the preppy and athletic Lancaster students beat the nerdy and more sympathetic Selby boys for the right to ask the girls to prom. However, the Lancaster boys are even more smug and insufferable than usual as a result of their victory, and as a result, all of the girls can't stand it after a while and duck out of the party to spend time with the Selby students.]]
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: In the final scene, Diana and her friends have uniformly incredulous and disgusted expressions as they listen to Geoffery tell them a ridiculously inaccurate version of the paintball battle ''that the girls officiated over as referees.''
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Percy's preteen sister goes to A&C, complains about being a courier between him and Diana, and has a sticker that says "Girls rule: deal with it" on her bedroom door.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Sabina knows Percy from his old school and gets along better with him than any of his Selby classmates, but neither displays any romantic interest in him nor gets any in return, even when she offers to be his date for a dance just so he won't be alone.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Sabina knows Percy from his old school and gets along better with him than any of his Selby classmates, but neither displays any romantic interest in him nor gets any in return, even when and reveals that she was joking after she offers to be his date for a dance just so he won't be alone.
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* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Francis is the only Asian main character and while he doesn't display martial arts fighting moves, he uses a ninja blowgun and has lots of OffscreenTeleportation moments during the paintball fight.
* ClassPrincess: Diana is the influental head girl of her boarding school, has a GirlPosse, and is rich enough to casually hire a theater critic to judge a competition between high school plays. However, she does care about getting boys to respect women more, is never shown bullying anyone even when they show resistance to her ZanyScheme, and still cares about her nerdy, working-class boyfriend even after their breakup.
* LovableAlphaBitch: While Jen B. is subordinate to Diana in her school's social order, she does have a lot of independent moments and is blonde, relatively shallow, and shows open favoritism to the ProudElite JerkJock Lancaster school over the long-abused {{Lovable Nerd}}s at Selby for most of the competition. Still, she is capable of showing respect for the Selby students or solidarity with her friends and thinks Joe's LoveLetterLunacy is cute.
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** Headmaster Attridge taunts his opposite number at Selby over his "great nerd revolution of '84" while watching the Selby students lose a soccer game against their more athletic rivals. Other than that, little is explained about exactly how and why Selby shifted from valuing sports (like it did when Hamish's dad was a student) to science.
** During one standoff between the rival prefects, one of the Lancaster students calls Geoffery a "school-switching traitor", but this is never brought up again.* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
** Headmaster Attridge taunts his opposite number at Selby over his "great nerd revolution of '84" while watching the Selby students lose a soccer game against their more athletic rivals. Other than that, little is explained about exactly how and why Selby shifted from valuing sports (like it did when Hamish's dad was a student) to science.
** During one standoff between the rival prefects, one of the Lancaster students calls Geoffery a "school-switching traitor", but this is never brought up again.* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
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* SlobsVsSnobs: Both Selby and Lancaster are exclusive prep schools with upper class students, but Selby has more scholarship students and their strategy meetings have many moments of NerdsAreVirgins awkwardness. TheProudElite Lancaster students by contrast run their meetings like military planning sessions while enjoying ConspicuousConsumption.
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* SuperRinger: The Lancaster kids repeatedly hire experts for contests that favor their more academic opponents (like Scrabble and a robotics meet) and claim that their ringers are faculty advisors or transfer students. Sometimes it works, but sometimes the Selby kids win anyway.
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* VowOfCelibacy: Rupert has sworn not to have sex until he graduates and doesn't have to worry about school anymore. Hamish repeatedly suggests that this is just a way for Rupert to hide his homosexuality, but the ending implies that Rupert is bisexual and that the vow was for more academic reasons.
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* MysteriousInformant: Someone calling herself Linda Lovelace from the girls' school repeatedly calls the Selby kids to tip them off about upcoming competition twists or Lancaster cheating. The tipster turns out to be Jen L., the member of the GirlPosse running the completion who most hates the Lancaster students and wants to see them lose.
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** Meg, Tess, and Alex act as the main referees for the competition, are good at finding rule violations, and penalize them regardless of whether they favor the Selby or Lancaster boys.
** Selby Head Boy Geoffrey is a calm voice of reason who reminds the lovable underdogs of his school that there are alternatives to participating in the Prom Wars, but is supportive of their efforts once they get involved.
** Meg, Tess, and Alex act as the main referees for the competition, are good at finding rule violations, and penalize them regardless of whether they favor the Selby or Lancaster boys.
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* MysteriousInformant: Someone calling herself Linda Lovelace from the girls' school repeatedly calls the Selby kids to tip them off about upcoming competition twists or Lancaster cheating. The tipster turns out to be Jen L., the member of the GirlPosse running the completion who most hates the Lancaster students and wants to see them lose.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In one scene where Diana and the other prefects talk about the next step of the competition, two girls standing just beyond the doorway to the next room get into an inaudible argument and start slapping each other.
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* GirlPosse: Diana, Jen B., Jen L., Tess, Meg, and Alex are beautiful and popular student government leaders who hang around each other a lot and can get the entire senior class to follow their lead. There is some dissent between them about which of the rival boys’ schools they favor, but the six girls usually get along and all of them have GiveGeeksAChance moments. Tess, Meg, and Alice seem to have their own smaller posse within the group and are sometimes seen hanging out and enforcing contest rules without their leader Diana or the Jens.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Rupert gets a lot of HoYay dialogue, admires a statue of a naked man, and seems to admit that he's gay during the paintball scene. However, he also seems to be flirting with Tess at the end of the movie.
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** Rupertgets a lot of HoYay dialogue, has some stereotypically effeminate tastes, admires a statue of a naked man, and seems to admit that he's gay during the paintball scene. However, he also seems to be flirting with Tess Jen L. at the end of the movie.movie.
** Hamish grabs another boy and kisses him during a moment of excitement, but he also invites several girls to have a foursome with him in one scene, raising the question of whether he is bisexual or in denial about his sexuality.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Hamish constantly taunts Rupert about his AmbiguouslyBi status but makes the occasional homoerotic comment himself. During one celebratory scene, he excitedly grabs Joe and kisses him, only to shove Joe away and storm out of the room after realizing what he did.
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** Hamish grabs another boy and kisses him during a moment of excitement, but he also invites several girls to have a foursome with him in one scene, raising the question of whether he is bisexual or in denial about his sexuality.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Hamish constantly taunts Rupert about his AmbiguouslyBi status but makes the occasional homoerotic comment himself. During one celebratory scene, he excitedly grabs Joe and kisses him, only to shove Joe away and storm out of the room after realizing what he did.
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* FatAndSkinny: Thompson and Dubinsky, the two main two Selby students besides the prefects, are a pair of nerds who hang out a lot, with one of them being thin and the other being fat.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: The academically-inclined Selby students win the chess competition of the games.
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* HotLibrarian: The bespectacled Tess is fairly pretty, but spends more time reading, studying and talking about college applications than she does pursuing girly things, especially compared to her roommates.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Tess wearily says "shit balls" when her friends overhear her breaking the contest rules by giving the Selby students inside information. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment She gets punished by being forced to spend some time cheerleading, which she is very unenthusiastic about.]]
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Rupert is one of the only jocks at the Selby school (due to being a legacy) and can be a JerkJock at times. But after the Lancaster boys bully some of his classmates and steal their pants, Rupert angrily says that no one can do that to Selby students except him.
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Rupert Hamish is one of the only jocks at the Selby school (due to being a legacy) and can be a JerkJock at times. But after the Lancaster boys bully some of his classmates and steal their pants, Rupert he angrily says that no one can do that to Selby students except him.
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* CanadaDoesNotExist: The film is a Canadian production but the characters act like they're in the average American teen movie and mention potential attending American colleges like Harvard and M.I.T. The only thing to explicitly imply the movie is set in Canada and not the U.S. is that the schools have prefects and head girls, student government positions that exist in the Commonwealth of Nations but not the U.S.
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* WrongNameOutburst: During the SchoolPlay completion, Percy plays one half of a couple in an AwfulWeddedLife and accidentally calls his "wife" by his (real world) ex-girlfriend Diana's name. After an awkward pause [[ThrowItIn the actor playing his wife works that into the play by asking if Diana is another one of his mistresses and getting mad that he can't remember her name]], to the judge's delight.
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'Prom Wars'' (aka ''Prom Wars: Love is a Battlefield'') is a 2008 teen comedy centered around the students of three boarding schools: the academically-inclined Selby, TheProudElite Lancaster school, and Miss Aversham and Miss Cronstall's School for Girls. Selby student Percy (former ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' star Creator/RavivUllman) and Lancaster student Geoffrey make jerks of themselves fighting over A&C student Diana (Creator/AliaShawkat), who hates Geoffrey but gets mad at Percy and at boys in general as a result of the fight. She rallies the other A&C senior girls to remind the boys that they shouldn't take the girls for granted and make them sweat some. They issue a series of challenges for the two boys' schools to compete in, while saying that the girls will only go to the inter-school prom with boys from whichever school wins. Canadian actress Creator/MeaghanRath has a tertiary rule as one of Diana's friends and her brother Creator/JesseRath plays one of the Selby students.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the skeet-shooting contest, Joe (a small thin boy who has never fired a gun before) gets knocked over on his back by the recoil.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Tess wearily says "shit balls" when her friends overhear her breaking the contest rules by giving the Selby students inside information. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment She gets punished by being forced to spend some time cheerleading, which she is very unenthusiastic about.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Tess wearily says "shit balls" when her friends overhear her breaking the contest rules by giving the Selby students inside information. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment She gets punished by being forced to spend some time cheerleading, which she is very unenthusiastic about.]]
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'Prom Wars'' (aka ''Prom Wars: Love is a Battlefield'') is a 2008 teen comedy centered around the students of three boarding schools: the academically-inclined Selby, TheProudElite Lancaster school, and Miss Aversham and Miss Cronstall's School for Girls. Selby student Percy (former ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' star Creator/RavivUllman) and Lancaster student Geoffrey make jerks of themselves fighting over A&C student Diana (Creator/AliaShawkat), who hates Geoffrey but gets mad at Percy and at boys in general as a result of the fight. She rallies the other A&C senior girls to remind the boys that they shouldn't take the girls for granted and make them sweat some. They issue a series of challenges for the two boys' schools to compete in, while saying that the girls will only go to the inter-school prom with boys from whichever school wins. Canadian actress Creator/MeaghanRath has a tertiary rule as one of Diana's friends and her brother Creator/JesseRath plays one of the Selby students.
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: In one scene, the AmbiguouslyBi Rupert earnestly talks about the Selby students' past and present plays.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Rupert gets a lot of HoYay dialogue, admires a statue of a naked man, and seems to admit that he's gay during the paintball scene. However, he also seems to be flirting with Tess at the end of the movie.
* ChangedMyMindKid: A non-action variant. [[spoiler:When the girls bail on the boring Lancaster prom to spend time with the nerdy Selby kids, Jen B., the girl who has been the least sympathetic toward the Selby students throughout the film, initially stays behind, but she does show up outside to get in the bus with her friends a minute later.]]
* FakeBoobs: A flashback shows Jen B. making out with a boy who finds out she padded her bra when some tissue paper accidentally falls out of her blouse. He laughs at her and fakes blowing his nose with it. The moment Diana reminds her about tha, tJen is bitter enough about the event to agree to Diana's plan to make the boys compete for the right to have prom dates.
* GamerChick: It isn't shown or elaborated on, but Diana mentions that some of the most lusted after girls in her class can beat any boy at videogames.
* HotLibrarian: The bespectacled Tess is fairly pretty, but spends more time reading, studying and talking about college applications than she does pursuing girly things, especially compared to her roommates.
* HufflepuffHouse: The Lancaster students get far less focus and attention outside of the challenges than the students of the other two schools, possibly to emphasize their status as villains who don't deserve much investment. BigBad Geoffrey is the only Lancaster student who gets any memorable characterization or is regularly called by name.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Rupert is one of the only jocks at the Selby school (due to being a legacy) and can be a JerkJock at times. But after the Lancaster boys bully some of his classmates and steal their pants, Rupert angrily says that no one can do that to Selby students except him.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Jen B. is going down on Geoffrey [[AutoErotica in his car]] when the other A&C girls happen by. Since none of the girls are supposed to date or make out with the boys from either of the neighboring schools until after the prom competition, Geoffrey has to leave (despite requesting two more minutes), the Lancaster school loses several points, and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Jen B. has to be the peer counselor for the freshmen girls.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Joseph is surrounded by four Lancaster students during the PaintballEpisode, he realizes fighting or running is futile and offers to just blow his whistle and signal that he's out. [[KickTheDog They all pellet him anyway.]]
* LoveLetterLunacy: Joseph writes nerdy love poems to Jen B. that he's embarrassed by and never has the guts to send.
* LingerieScene: Three, one of which is entirely gratuitous:
** The girls wear bikinis and underwear to pose for pictures to make the boys more interested in the prom competition. This gets them in trouble with their headmaster.
** The main girls are seen changing after a soccer game in one scene, with some of the others drawing attention to Jen B.'s lacy bra and asking if it's sensible for a sports game.
** When the Lancaster boys force several Selby students to strip down to their underwear as they're heading to a party Diana is hosting, the girls there take off their own pants so they're in their underwear as a show of sympathy and then take some pictures to raise the Selby students' morale for the competition and de-moralize the Lancaster students.
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Jen B. and Jen L. wear revealing nurse costumes while being on standby to provide first aid to anyone who gets pelleted too badly in the paintball contest (and to motivate the horny teenage competitors into trying harder).
* NerdsAreVirgins: The intelligent but non-athletic Selby students are mostly dateless and even though the prom date offer doesn't come with the promise of sex, several of them are hopeful that things will progress and lead to them losing their virginities, although as a face-saving LastSecondWordSwap they try to claim that it's the girls' virginities they're hoping will cease to exist.
* OhCrap: Tess wearily says "shit balls" when her friends overhear her breaking the contest rules by giving the Selby students inside information. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment She gets punished by being forced to spend some time cheerleading, which she is very unenthusiastic about.]]
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
* PaintballEpisode: The final prom wars competition is a paintball/capture the flag game. This is glimpsed in the opening scene, leading to a HowWeGotHere fade out.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Sabina knows Percy from his old school and gets along better with him than any of his Selby classmates, but neither displays any romantic interest in him nor gets any in return, even when she offers to be his date for a dance just so he won't be alone.
* TheProudElite: The main Lancaster students are arrogant, handsome, well-groomed athletes who come from very rich families, think nothing of offering enormous bribes to get ahead in school competitions, and bully the weaker and relatively poorer Selby students. Geoffrey even hires Creator/JohnWoo to film a ''paintball game'' he's in and make an introduction that makes him and his friends sound like the greatest military heroes their country has had in years.
* PyrrhicVictory : [[spoiler:In a surprising aversion of UnderdogsNeverLose, the preppy and athletic Lancaster students beat the nerdy and more sympathetic Selby boys for the right to ask the girls to prom. However, the Lancaster boys are even more smug and insufferable than usual as a result of their victory, and as a result, all of the girls can't stand it after a while and duck out of the party to spend time with the Selby students.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Geoffrey offers Percy $30,000 to throw the paintball contest but he refuses due to his hatred for Geoffrey and desire not to let his classmates down.
* SequelHook: The film ends with Percy and Diana awkwardly and tenuously reconciling, some of the students trying to figure out what to make of the Prom War's outcome, and the narrators debating about whether the story is over or not.
* StealthHiBye: Francis is very stealthy during the paintball contest and is able to appear behind Lancaster students when they'd just been chasing him in the opposite direction.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the skeet-shooting contest, Joe (a small thin boy who has never fired a gun before) gets knocked over on his back by the recoil.
* TwoTimerDate: The two headmasters are just as invested in the prom war as some of their students are, due to wanting to show up each other. It's later revealed that the source of their rivalry is an incident where the same girl took both of them to prom.
* WrongNameOutburst: During the SchoolPlay completion, Percy plays one half of a couple in an AwfulWeddedLife and accidentally calls his "wife" by his (real world) ex-girlfriend Diana's name. After an awkward pause [[ThrowItIn the actor playing his wife works that into the play by asking if Diana is another one of his mistresses and getting mad that he can't remember her name]], to the judge's delight.
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: In one scene, the AmbiguouslyBi Rupert earnestly talks about the Selby students' past and present plays.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Rupert gets a lot of HoYay dialogue, admires a statue of a naked man, and seems to admit that he's gay during the paintball scene. However, he also seems to be flirting with Tess at the end of the movie.
* ChangedMyMindKid: A non-action variant. [[spoiler:When the girls bail on the boring Lancaster prom to spend time with the nerdy Selby kids, Jen B., the girl who has been the least sympathetic toward the Selby students throughout the film, initially stays behind, but she does show up outside to get in the bus with her friends a minute later.]]
* FakeBoobs: A flashback shows Jen B. making out with a boy who finds out she padded her bra when some tissue paper accidentally falls out of her blouse. He laughs at her and fakes blowing his nose with it. The moment Diana reminds her about tha, tJen is bitter enough about the event to agree to Diana's plan to make the boys compete for the right to have prom dates.
* GamerChick: It isn't shown or elaborated on, but Diana mentions that some of the most lusted after girls in her class can beat any boy at videogames.
* HotLibrarian: The bespectacled Tess is fairly pretty, but spends more time reading, studying and talking about college applications than she does pursuing girly things, especially compared to her roommates.
* HufflepuffHouse: The Lancaster students get far less focus and attention outside of the challenges than the students of the other two schools, possibly to emphasize their status as villains who don't deserve much investment. BigBad Geoffrey is the only Lancaster student who gets any memorable characterization or is regularly called by name.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Rupert is one of the only jocks at the Selby school (due to being a legacy) and can be a JerkJock at times. But after the Lancaster boys bully some of his classmates and steal their pants, Rupert angrily says that no one can do that to Selby students except him.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Jen B. is going down on Geoffrey [[AutoErotica in his car]] when the other A&C girls happen by. Since none of the girls are supposed to date or make out with the boys from either of the neighboring schools until after the prom competition, Geoffrey has to leave (despite requesting two more minutes), the Lancaster school loses several points, and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Jen B. has to be the peer counselor for the freshmen girls.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Joseph is surrounded by four Lancaster students during the PaintballEpisode, he realizes fighting or running is futile and offers to just blow his whistle and signal that he's out. [[KickTheDog They all pellet him anyway.]]
* LoveLetterLunacy: Joseph writes nerdy love poems to Jen B. that he's embarrassed by and never has the guts to send.
* LingerieScene: Three, one of which is entirely gratuitous:
** The girls wear bikinis and underwear to pose for pictures to make the boys more interested in the prom competition. This gets them in trouble with their headmaster.
** The main girls are seen changing after a soccer game in one scene, with some of the others drawing attention to Jen B.'s lacy bra and asking if it's sensible for a sports game.
** When the Lancaster boys force several Selby students to strip down to their underwear as they're heading to a party Diana is hosting, the girls there take off their own pants so they're in their underwear as a show of sympathy and then take some pictures to raise the Selby students' morale for the competition and de-moralize the Lancaster students.
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Jen B. and Jen L. wear revealing nurse costumes while being on standby to provide first aid to anyone who gets pelleted too badly in the paintball contest (and to motivate the horny teenage competitors into trying harder).
* NerdsAreVirgins: The intelligent but non-athletic Selby students are mostly dateless and even though the prom date offer doesn't come with the promise of sex, several of them are hopeful that things will progress and lead to them losing their virginities, although as a face-saving LastSecondWordSwap they try to claim that it's the girls' virginities they're hoping will cease to exist.
* OhCrap: Tess wearily says "shit balls" when her friends overhear her breaking the contest rules by giving the Selby students inside information. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment She gets punished by being forced to spend some time cheerleading, which she is very unenthusiastic about.]]
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: A variant occurs when a flashback shows Tess's roommates throwing her a birthday party that they attend, but they spend three hours vainly waiting for the boys they invited to show up. Tess eventually starts crying.
* PaintballEpisode: The final prom wars competition is a paintball/capture the flag game. This is glimpsed in the opening scene, leading to a HowWeGotHere fade out.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Sabina knows Percy from his old school and gets along better with him than any of his Selby classmates, but neither displays any romantic interest in him nor gets any in return, even when she offers to be his date for a dance just so he won't be alone.
* TheProudElite: The main Lancaster students are arrogant, handsome, well-groomed athletes who come from very rich families, think nothing of offering enormous bribes to get ahead in school competitions, and bully the weaker and relatively poorer Selby students. Geoffrey even hires Creator/JohnWoo to film a ''paintball game'' he's in and make an introduction that makes him and his friends sound like the greatest military heroes their country has had in years.
* PyrrhicVictory : [[spoiler:In a surprising aversion of UnderdogsNeverLose, the preppy and athletic Lancaster students beat the nerdy and more sympathetic Selby boys for the right to ask the girls to prom. However, the Lancaster boys are even more smug and insufferable than usual as a result of their victory, and as a result, all of the girls can't stand it after a while and duck out of the party to spend time with the Selby students.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Geoffrey offers Percy $30,000 to throw the paintball contest but he refuses due to his hatred for Geoffrey and desire not to let his classmates down.
* SequelHook: The film ends with Percy and Diana awkwardly and tenuously reconciling, some of the students trying to figure out what to make of the Prom War's outcome, and the narrators debating about whether the story is over or not.
* StealthHiBye: Francis is very stealthy during the paintball contest and is able to appear behind Lancaster students when they'd just been chasing him in the opposite direction.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the skeet-shooting contest, Joe (a small thin boy who has never fired a gun before) gets knocked over on his back by the recoil.
* TwoTimerDate: The two headmasters are just as invested in the prom war as some of their students are, due to wanting to show up each other. It's later revealed that the source of their rivalry is an incident where the same girl took both of them to prom.
* WrongNameOutburst: During the SchoolPlay completion, Percy plays one half of a couple in an AwfulWeddedLife and accidentally calls his "wife" by his (real world) ex-girlfriend Diana's name. After an awkward pause [[ThrowItIn the actor playing his wife works that into the play by asking if Diana is another one of his mistresses and getting mad that he can't remember her name]], to the judge's delight.
