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* CasanovaWannabe: Stix comes off as this early in the film. Though not necessarily like a Casanova, but more of a boy who has an innocent crush on a girl...complete with oddball behavior, compliments, and rather [[AManIsAlwaysEager eager]].
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*ButNowIMustGo: Sparkle does this when she starts to feel a bit uneasy being alone with Stix, especially after they kiss where she fears someone may see them.
* CasanovaWannabe: Stix comes off as this early in the film. Though not necessarily like a Casanova, but more of a boy who has an innocent crush on a girl...complete with oddball behavior, compliments, andrather [[AManIsAlwaysEager eager]].rather eager for a kiss]].
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*FirstKiss / TestKiss: Sparkle gets hers in the first 5 minutes of the film.
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*CasanovaWannabe: Stix comes off as this early in the film. Though not necessarily like a Casanova, but more of a boy who has an innocent crush on a girl...complete with oddball behavior, compliments, and rather [[AManIsAlwaysEager eager]].
*CoolBigSis: Sparkle notes that she looks up to Sister, and wants to be like her someday earlier in the film.
*CoolBigSis: Sparkle notes that she looks up to Sister, and wants to be like her someday earlier in the film.
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*Hypocrite: Delores reprimands Sister for straightening her hair because "it's not natural"...but Delores does the same.
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*EthnicMenialLabor: The Sisters' mother is a Maid who works tirelessly for a white family in Long Island.
*NewYorkCity: Harlem, to be exact.
*ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Sister is this way.
*NewYorkCity: Harlem, to be exact.
*ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Sister is this way.
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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 [[EmpathicEnvironment rainy evening]] where she is escorted to jail, and Satin is carried in a body bag.bag.
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*SycophanticServant: [[NoNameGiven Satin's male friend]].
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*RomanticRunnerUp: Levi loses Tammy to Satin [[MealTicket due to her strong desire to leave Detroit]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Levi, and Satin's female acquaintances. The last time we see Levi is when he is at Baker's with [[SecondLove his new girlfriend]] heckling Satin's show. As for the latter, they pretty much left one after the other when Satin [[RomanticRunnerUp shows romantic interest in Tammy]].Tammy.
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*WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Levi, and Satin's female acquaintances. The last time we see Levi is when he is at Baker's with [[SecondLove his new girlfriend]] heckling Satin's show. As for the latter, they pretty much left one after the other when Satin [[RomanticRunnerUp shows romantic interest in Tammy]].
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* ShrinkingViolet: Sparkle qualifies; though she's not necessarily shy, she is docile, and soft-spoken. She gets stronger as the film progresses.
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* 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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*[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Her Barkeep]]: Tammy's actual name is said very few times in the entire film, and she's often referred to as "Sister".
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* EiffelTowerEffect: For people who've lived in Detroit during the era (and even now) will recognize Baker's, Cliff Bells, One Woodward Ave, the Turkel House, The Fillmore Theatre, and so on...
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* EiffelTowerEffect: For people who've lived in Detroit during the era (and even now) will recognize Baker's, Cliff Bells, One Woodward Ave, Lafayette's Coney Island, the Dorothy Turkel House, The Fillmore Theatre, and so on...
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** 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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** PlayedforDrama: 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.belt.
*EiffelTowerEffect: For people who've lived in Detroit during the era (and even now) will recognize Baker's, Cliff Bells, One Woodward Ave, the Turkel House, The Fillmore Theatre, and so on...
*EiffelTowerEffect: For people who've lived in Detroit during the era (and even now) will recognize Baker's, Cliff Bells, One Woodward Ave, the Turkel House, The Fillmore Theatre, and so on...
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* CorruptTheCutie: Sister/Tammy; it all truly starts once Satin introduces her to Cocaine...[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DomesticAbuse and then...]]
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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]].
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Motown Motown]]
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Motown Motown]]
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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 [[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 [[EmpathicEnvironment rainy evening]] where she is escorted to jail, and Satin is carried in a body bag.
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* BoomerangBigot / UncleTomfoolery: Satin. He even makes it clear that he does it for the money, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButNotTooBlack although judging by his small circle of friends]] it may be his actual attitude towards his own people.
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* BoomerangBigot / UncleTomfoolery: Satin. He even makes it clear that he does it for the money, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButNotTooBlack [[ButNotTooBlack although judging by his small circle of friends]] it may be his actual attitude towards his own people.
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* GenerationXerox: Tammy ends up enduring the same fate that her mother did, and a bit more since she ended up going to Prison.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Inverted, then Zig-Zagged. Sparkle came first (1976), then Dreamgirls (the musical) came out 5 years after in 1981. In 2006, Dreamgirls (the musical) was remade into a film, and Sparkle's 2012 remake came out 6 years after the Dreamgirls film.
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*MomentKiller: Satin's many random appearances are this. He first does this at the Diner, when Levi is making his romantic gestures towards Tammy. Then a second time in the Dressing Rooms at Cliff Bell's. Then a THIRD time at the dinner table after the Preacher says grace. Not to mention how his appearances start off with offscreen laughter, followed by a snide remark.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Inverted. Inverted, then Zig-Zagged. Sparkle came first, first (1976), then Dreamgirls (the musical) came out 5 years after. after in 1981. In 2006 2006, Dreamgirls (the musical) was remade from the 1981 musical, into a film, and Sparkle's 2012 remake came out 6 years after the Dreamgirls film.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Levi, somewhat. Sister dated him in the first part of the film, and claimed she actually liked him. But then, Stain enters.
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