History Film / TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil2022

* AdaptationalVillainy: Sophie's father and stepfamily ignore her at best and mistreat her at worst. In the books, she's the one who's distant because they aren't fabulous enough for her.

* ForcedTransformation: Part of the CrapsaccharineWorld of The School For Good is that students who fail too many times are transformed into magical creatures for the School's further use. [[spoiler:The Wish Fish used to be a human girl who Agatha frees, and a clumsy prince is transformed into a stymph and later killed by Tedros.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, it’s revealed that [[spoiler:the two were sisters]]. Due to Agatha’s RaceLift, this is likely no longer the case. As a result, she says [[spoiler:they’re “like sisters”]].

** Nobody's perfect. Regardless of how good anyone we try to be, we all have flaws and are capable of great good and great evil. Thus, trying to categorize anyone as purely one or the other is a fool's errand and liable to only bring out the worst of our traits.

* In the books, it’s revealed that [[spoiler:the two were sisters]]. Due to Agatha’s RaceLift, this is likely no longer the case. As a result, she says [[spoiler:they’re “like sisters”]].

* AdaptedOut:
** August Sader, and his History class for that matter.
** The Beast of the Doom Room (the role is filled by Lady Lesso instead).
** Castor and Pollux, the talking two-headed dog and the Schoolmaster's main mouthpiece, is cut as the Schoolmaster is less of a recluse.
** Professor Dovey teaches the animal communication class instead of Princess Uma.

* AdaptationDistillation:
** The girls spent several days trying to figure out the Schoolmaster's riddle in the book. Here, Agatha gives the answer, "True Love," almost instantly.
** Instead of a final exam for the top students, the Trial by Tale is a challenge issued to test Sophie and Tedros' claim of True Love and potentially transfer her to the School for Good.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Agatha was a sullen {{Goth}} in the book, abrasive towards Sophie and her superficiality. Agatha carried around headless birds killed by her cat, and matches because of her {{Pyromaniac}} tendencies. She also was a NightmareFetishist, and a SweetTooth. All of this was droped in the movie, except when Agatha mentions she likes to read ghost stories.

%%* DarkisEvil: The Never students.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Sophie is horrified by Rafal's plan to kill everyone in the schools and wipe the slate clean, both for sentiment (the friends she's made) and pragmatism (she wanted to rule, not destroy).]]

* EvilRedhead: Lady Lesso of the School for Evil is a red head. She even tortures Sophie's hair with an axe.

* LightIsnotGood: The evil Never students wear light-colored, mostly white, costumes after the princes attacked first.

* NominalVillain: The students at the School for Evil are quite affable, such as Hort who offers Sophie something to eat, as while they enjoy giving death threats and pretending to kill each other, they have standards and have even been shocked when Sophie almost kills Hester with bees. They're also implied to see each other as friends. Unlike how the students at the School for Good treat Agatha, some students of the School of Evil welcome Sophie even if they are suspicious of her looks, telling her where she can sleep, and Hester them only attacks her after the latter calls her mother a hag. In fact, like how Agatha is more like a hero than the other students, Sophie is more like a villain than the other villain wannabes, as the villainy even corrupts and changes her body as time goes on.

* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While Honora can be hard on Sophie, like trying to convince her to quit so she can get a job to help bring the family more money, [[spoiler:it is revealed that she does care about her stepdaughter, as when Sophie returns home to Gavaldon, Honora joins Stefan in hugging Sophie.]]

* AwwLookTheyDoLoveEachOther: While Honora can be hard on Sophie, like trying to convince her to quit so she can get a job to help bring the family more money, [[spoiler:it is revealed that she does care about her stepdaughter, as when Sophie returns home to Gavaldon, Honora joins Stefan in hugging Sophie.]]

%%* LightIsGood: The Ever students.
%%* LightIsnotGood: The Never students became this after the princes attacked first.

** So are the Schoolmaster and his brother, Professor Dovey and Anadil, described with European features in the book. The latter was actually [[AlbinosAreFreaks an albino]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The whole of the School of Evil adopts an all-black aesthetic, for [[DarkIsEvil obvious reasons]], but [[BigBad Rafal]] also uses red as a primary color, as fitting for a BloodMagic user.

%%* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Upon Sophie’s makeover, Tedros’s finger glows. Finger glows appear when emotions are high.
* StepfordSmiler: The School for Good's staff secretly hate teaching the superficial curriculum. They only grin and bear it because it seems to be working in the alignment's favor.

* NominalHero: The School for Good is filled with jerks, especially the princesses who only care about getting their princes and disrespect Agatha for looking like a witch. While {{Jerkass}} behavior is understandable for the School for Evil, it's so strange here that even Clarissa Dovey, the Dean of the school, is happy that Agatha has done something truly good: [[spoiler: saving the soul of a failed student and trying to comfort Gregor who has become a big bird]]. The inversion of this trope, on the other hand...
* NominalVillain: The students at the School for Evil are quite affable such as Hort who once offers Agatha something to eat, even if it looks nasty, as while they enjoy giving death threats and pretending to kill each other, they have standards and have even been shocked when Sophie almost kills Hester with bees. They're also implied to see each other as friends and unlike how the students at the School for Good have trated Agatha, some students of the School of Evil have welcomed Sophie even if they are suspicious of her looks, telling her where she can sleep, and Hester them only attacks her after the latter insults her mother: the aforementioned witch. In fact, like how Agatha is more like a hero than the other students, Sophie is more like a villain than the other villain wannabes, as the villainy even corrupts and changes her body as time goes on.

* NominalHero: The School of Good is filled with jerks, especially the princesses who only care about getting their princes and disrespect Agatha for looking like a witch. The school itself also has various scary things like the aggressive fairies. While {{Jerkass}} behavior is understandable for the School of Evil, it's so strange here that even Clarissa Dovey, the Dean of the school, is happy that Agatha has done something truly good: [[spoiler: saving the soul of a failed student and trying to comfort Gregor]]. The inversion of this trope, on the other hand...
* NominalVillain: The students at the School of Evil are quite affable such as Hort who once offers Agatha something to eat, even if it looks nasty, as while they enjoy giving death threats and pretending to kill each other, they have standards and have even been shocked when Sophie almost kills Hester with bees. They're also implied to see each other as friends and unlike how the students at the School of Good have trated Agatha, some students of the School of Evil have welcomed Sophie even if they are suspicious of her looks, telling her where she can sleep, and Hester them only attacks her after the latter insults her mother: the aforementioned witch.

* NominalVillain: The students at the School of Evil are quite affable such as Hort who once offers Agatha something to eat, even if it looks nasty, as while they enjoy giving death threats and pretending to kill each other, they have standards and have even been shocked when Sophie almost kills another student with bees. They're also implied to see each other as friends and unlike how the students at the School of Good have trated Agatha, some students of the School of Evil have welcomed Sophie, telling her where she can sleep, and one of them only attacks her after she insults said student's mother: a hag.

** See BitchAlert for Beatrix's.