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*BrokenPedestal: After Levi makes his romantic gesture towards Tammy at the Coney Island, Satin makes his first (in-person) appearance, and Levi seems genuinely excited...then Satin shows his true colors and starts belittling Levi in front of Tammy...things go downhill from there.
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*IResembleThatRemark: We get this exchange early in the film:
-->'''Tammy:''' Cliff Bells? Come on, I won't embarrass myself- didn't MarvinGaye get booed out of there?
-->'''Stix:''' Yeah, but that made him better, and now he's traveling the world and he's making millions!
-->'''Tammy:''' Mr. Gordy is making millions.
-->'''Stix:''' However it may be, it was enough to get him out of his mom's house.
-->'''Tammy:''' ...you don't have to be rude about it.
-->'''Tammy:''' Cliff Bells? Come on, I won't embarrass myself- didn't MarvinGaye get booed out of there?
-->'''Stix:''' Yeah, but that made him better, and now he's traveling the world and he's making millions!
-->'''Tammy:''' Mr. Gordy is making millions.
-->'''Stix:''' However it may be, it was enough to get him out of his mom's house.
-->'''Tammy:''' ...you don't have to be rude about it.
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** FunnyAfro: It's actually a wig worn over her relaxed hair, she wanted something low-maintenance, which apparently was bad timing (according to Stix) considering the overall look of the group.
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* DisappearedDad: Both Sparkle/Tammy's Dad and Delores's Dad is mentioned and photographs are seen early on, but nothing is explained on their current whereabouts.
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnOutLikeHisFather Turn Out Like Her Mother]]: Tammy ends up enduring the same fate that her mother did, sans and a bit more since she ended up going to Prison.
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* TearJerker: Whitney Houston's rendition to "His eye is on the Sparrow", [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorExistenceFailure it even evokes applause knowing it's her very last performance.]]
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* ThrowTheDogABone: After it all; Sparkle gets her second chance with Colombia Records (though a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Montages patience montage]]), Columbia Records, Delores gets accepted into Medical School, Sister learns her lesson and is optimistic about it, Stix and Sparkle get engaged (properly, this time), and Emma comes to terms with Sparkle's ambition and congratulates her success.
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*TimeToMove: Sparkle does this once Delores is en route to Tennessee, and Sister has been locked up. Emma becomes especially strict with Sparkle since the other two are gone, and Sparkle decides to get her own place with her own rules. Emma's doesn't perceive it too well.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: After it all, all; Sparkle gets her second change chance with Colombia Records (though a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Montages patience montage]]), Delores gets accepted into Medical School, Sister learns her lesson and is optimistic about it, Stix and Sparkle get engaged (properly, this time), and Emma comes to terms with Sparkle's ambition and congratulates her success.
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*ThrowTheDogABone: After it all, Sparkle gets her second change with Colombia Records (though a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Montages patience montage]]), Delores gets accepted into Medical School, Sister learns her lesson and is optimistic about it, Stix and Sparkle get engaged (properly, this time), and Emma comes to terms with Sparkle's ambition and congratulates her success.
*[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnOutLikeHisFather Turn Out Like Her Mother]]: Tammy ends up enduring the same fate that her mother did, sans going to Prison.
*[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnOutLikeHisFather Turn Out Like Her Mother]]: Tammy ends up enduring the same fate that her mother did, sans going to Prison.
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*MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Delores initial reaction to realizing that she killed Satin. Sparkle gets a bout of this when lamenting that if she weren't so timid then NONE of this would've happend. Tammy, puts them at ease and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakingTheHeat takes the fall]].
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*WhatHaveIBecome: Tammy looks though old photos of her sexier self before and during the budding romance with Satin after her breakdown over his dead body. We're then taken to the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicEnvironment rainy evening]] where she is escorted to jail, and Satin is carried in a body bag.
*WhatHaveIBecome: Tammy looks though old photos of her sexier self before and during the budding romance with Satin after her breakdown over his dead body. We're then taken to the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicEnvironment rainy evening]] where she is escorted to jail, and Satin is carried in a body bag.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PlayedforLaughs when Satin says "Hail Mary" at the dinner table, Deloris immediately corrects him and mentions that that's a Catholic term (while they are Baptists), he then follows up with "It's still Christian, isn't it?" Followed by annoyed looks from the guests.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PlayedforLaughs when Satin says "Hail Mary" at the dinner table, Deloris Delores immediately corrects him and mentions that that's a Catholic term (while they are Baptists), he then follows up with "It's still Christian, isn't it?" Followed followed by annoyed looks from the guests.guests.
*BeautyIsBad: Well, Sister's not necessarily bad, but she's no saint, and she knows it. However, she's not obnoxious about it.
*BeautyIsBad: Well, Sister's not necessarily bad, but she's no saint, and she knows it. However, she's not obnoxious about it.
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*PleaseWakeUp: Delores's reaction to Satin lying on the ground after she bashes him across the head with a fire iron.
*PrimeTime: The Sisters' performance opening for Aretha Franklin turns out to be live on local television, cue Emma waking from her slumber.
*PrimeTime: The Sisters' performance opening for Aretha Franklin turns out to be live on local television, cue Emma waking from her slumber.
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*ReactionShot: EVERYONE towards Delores's afro. Even the people in the background gave looks.
**Complete with a funky MoodMotif.
**FunnyAfro: It's actually a wig worn over her relaxed hair, she wanted something low-maintenance, which apparently was bad timing (according to Stix) considering the overall look of the group.
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*DomesticAbuser: Stain to Tammy.
**PlayedforDrama: There's one scene where they leave Baker's after a failed show, and Satin chases her through the house (in slow motion, no less) and continues to chastise her with a belt.
**PlayedforDrama: There's one scene where they leave Baker's after a failed show, and Satin chases her through the house (in slow motion, no less) and continues to chastise her with a belt.
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* Tearjerker: TearJerker: Whitney Houston's rendition to "His eye is on the Sparrow", [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorExistenceFailure it even evokes applause knowing it's her very last performance.]]
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* CorruptTheCutie: Sister/Tammi; it all truly starts once Satin introduces her to Cocaine...[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DomesticAbuse and then...]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's hinted at, and then leaned on throughout the film about Emma and the events she's endured trying to make it in the industry and during Sparkle and Deloris's infantry.
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*ChristmasCake: Tammy/Sister; it's mentioned quite a few times in the film that she's nearing 30 and not yet married.
*ClothingDamage: Sister does this using a knife to her dress in the beginning in an attempt to move the crowd. It works.
*CoolBigSis: Tammy.
* CorruptTheCutie:Sister/Tammi; Sister/Tammy; it all truly starts once Satin introduces her to Cocaine...[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DomesticAbuse and then...]]
*CrimeOfSelfDefense: How Sister/Tammy ends up in Prison. Though Delores was defending both Tammy and Sparkle from Satin, it still qualifies for self-defense either way.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's hinted at, and then leaned on throughout the film about Emma and the events she's endured trying to make it in the industry and during Sparkle andDeloris's Delores's infantry.
*ClothingDamage: Sister does this using a knife to her dress in the beginning in an attempt to move the crowd. It works.
*CoolBigSis: Tammy.
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*CrimeOfSelfDefense: How Sister/Tammy ends up in Prison. Though Delores was defending both Tammy and Sparkle from Satin, it still qualifies for self-defense either way.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's hinted at, and then leaned on throughout the film about Emma and the events she's endured trying to make it in the industry and during Sparkle and
*GrassIsGreener: Sister; she even makes an analogy that leans towards this after dumping Levi for Satin.
*HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_(singer) Kem]] makes two appearances as the MC at Cliff Bells, and The Fillmore.
*HumbleGoal: Delores wants to achieve acceptance into Meharry Medical School, she gets it at the end and it's the last time we see her.
*HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_(singer) Kem]] makes two appearances as the MC at Cliff Bells, and The Fillmore.
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*Tearjerker: Whitney Houston's rendition to "His eye is on the Sparrow", [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorExistenceFailure it even evokes applause knowing it's her very last performance.]]
*TheSixtiesTheSixties: 1968 to be exact.
*Tearjerker: Whitney Houston's rendition to "His eye is on the Sparrow", [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorExistenceFailure it even evokes applause knowing it's her very last performance.]]
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*DoggedNiceGuy: Levi. That is all.
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