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* AmbiguouslyGay: Lydia worships Suzanne to romantic levels, and Suzanne accuses her of being a "perverted lesbian", which also has an implication of RapeAndSwitch since Lydia was molested by her mother's boyfriend. However, Lydia says that she wants to sleep with Music/MotleyCrue, but it's left ambiguous if she's just saying that to avoid coming out to her class.
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* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The three main female characters. Sociopathic FemmeFatale Suzanne is the seductress due to her widely accepted sex appeal (and sleeping with Jimmy). Larry's sister Janice is the wife, as a more grounded, family-orientated, and domestic person. The sole girl in Jimmy's group, Lydia, is the child, both because of her age and because she naively hero-worships Suzanne.
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* ConsistentClothingStyle: In the film, after starting her job at the channel, Suzanne almost always wears [[BrightIsNotGood brightly-colored]] [[LadyInAPowerSuit power suits: a skirt and a cropped jacket.]]
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* ConsistentClothingStyle: In the film, after starting her job at the channel, channel but before starting her affair with Jimmy, Suzanne almost always wears [[BrightIsNotGood brightly-colored]] [[LadyInAPowerSuit power suits: a skirt and a cropped jacket.]]
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* {{Ephebophile}}: Suzanne grooms and has sex with a fifteen-year-old Jimmy, and while her relationships with them are platonic, she also prefers the company of his friends and schoolmates Russell and Lydia over most adults (in addition to possible hero worship).
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* {{Ephebophile}}: Suzanne grooms and has sex with a fifteen-year-old Jimmy, and though it's left ambiguous whether she's genuinely attracted to him or just exploiting him to kill her husband. More clearly, while her relationships with them are platonic, she also prefers the company of his friends and schoolmates Russell and Lydia over most adults (in addition to possible hero worship).
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* HollywoodThin: Suzanne herself obsessively comments on the bodies of others and regards them as fat if they aren't rail-thin.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Suzanne manipulates Jimmy and Russell to kill Larry on their first anniversary. Jimmy's murder plays out over an ostensibly CoincidentalBroadcast of Suzanne [[DramaticIrony wishing him a happy anniversary]] live on air.
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* MoodWhiplash: In keeping with Suzanne's lack of sympathy for consequences, she goes straight from having [[spoiler:a serious conversation with Jimmy convincing him to kill Larry to dancing to [[SoundtrackDissonance "Sweet Home Alabama".]]]]
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* SweaterGirl: One of the only times where Suzanne isn't shown wearing her ConsistentClothingStyle of brightly colored [[LadyInAPowerSuit skirt suits]] is when she dances with Jimmy wearing a tight-fitting green sweater. It's heavily implied that this is intentional on her part as she then tells him she's going upstairs to take it off because she's getting sweaty in order to seduce him.
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* ChekhovsGun: In the beginning, Suzanne's father says that he was not happy that his daughter married an Italian American because maybe his father was in the mob. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that he is because he asks a hitman to kill Suzanne.]]
* ConsistentClothingStyle: In the film, after starting her job at the channel, Suzanne always wears [[BrightIsNotGood brightly-colored]] [[PowerSuit power suits: a skirt and a cropped jacket.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** In the beginning, Suzanne's father says that he was not happy that his daughter married an Italian American because maybe his father was in the mob. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that he is because he asks a hitman to kill Suzanne.]]
** Invoked and discussed with a literal example around Lydia and Suzanne's discussion that [[spoiler:Lydia took her mother's gun to threaten her mother's perverted boyfriend. This is the gun that she uses to kill Larry.]]
* ConsistentClothingStyle: In the film, after starting her job at the channel, Suzanne almost always wears [[BrightIsNotGood brightly-colored]][[PowerSuit [[LadyInAPowerSuit power suits: a skirt and a cropped jacket.]]
** In the beginning, Suzanne's father says that he was not happy that his daughter married an Italian American because maybe his father was in the mob. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that he is because he asks a hitman to kill Suzanne.]]
** Invoked and discussed with a literal example around Lydia and Suzanne's discussion that [[spoiler:Lydia took her mother's gun to threaten her mother's perverted boyfriend. This is the gun that she uses to kill Larry.]]
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* RapeAsBackstory: Lydia was molested by her mother's boyfriend, a fact which she confides in Suzanne. [[spoiler:It's also how Lydia ends up telling Suzanne about her mother's gun.]]
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* HollywoodPudgy: Invoked. Suzanne tells Larry that he he's developing a "tire" around his middle and he's "getting fat" while they're at a pool party. He is not fat, but it's conflicted since Suzanne herself is an UnreliableNarrator.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: All the teenage boys are [[DumbassTeenageSon extremely dumb]] with their aggressive horniness. Several boys in the class literally ''bark'' at her. Lydia is implied to have a crush on Suzanne, too, though she's much more subtle about it.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: All the teenage boys are [[DumbassTeenageSon extremely dumb]] with their aggressive horniness. Several boys in the class literally ''bark'' at her. Lydia is implied to have a crush on Suzanne, too, though she's much more subtle about it.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Subverted. The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Subverted. The KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
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* WomenAreWiser: Very relatively. Suzanne is pretty airheaded (though not exactly stupid), but Lydia is shown to be easily the most intelligent of the group that Suzanne entangles in her plan.
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* ConsistentClothingStyle: In the film, after starting her job at the channel, Suzanne always wears [[BrightIsNotGood brightly-colored]] [[PowerSuit power suits: a skirt and a cropped jacket.]]
* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Parodied. Suzanne is a weather reporter who is extremely ambitious, arrogant, and single-minded, being convinced that she's going to be a huge success.
* LegFocus: When Suzanne talks to the class, several [[HormoneAddledTeenager horny teenage boys]] perv over her.
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* TheMafia PlayedWith: Suzanne's father's fears that her Italian-American husband comes from a Mafia family are intended to come across as ridiculous and borderline racist. [[spoiler: Turns out they ''are'' a Mafia family but they only react when ''Suzanne'' has a man killed, and then the only person they hurt is Suzanne herself in revenge.]])
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* TheMafia TheMafia: PlayedWith: Suzanne's father's fears that her Italian-American husband comes from a Mafia family are intended to come across as ridiculous and borderline racist. [[spoiler: Turns out they ''are'' a Mafia family but they only react when ''Suzanne'' has a man killed, and then the only person they hurt is Suzanne herself in revenge.]])
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* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. The criminals are completely incompetent and the police catch on to them immediately. The police can also see through Suzanne's StepfordSmiler Act. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the most solid proof that Suzanne is the mastermind of the crime is ruled inadmissible in court, so they cannot convict her.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted. The criminals are [[StupidCrooks completely incompetent incompetent]] and the police catch on to them immediately. The police can also see through Suzanne's StepfordSmiler Act. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the most solid proof that Suzanne is the mastermind of the crime is ruled inadmissible in court, so they cannot convict her.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: The movie is almost entirely structured around Suzanne talking herself up and describing how much people admire her, intercut with scenes of people contradicting her.
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* HairContrastDuo: The blonde, [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] Suzanne is contrasted against her [[HollywoodHomely apparently unfortunate-looking]] and [[InformedFlaw awkward]] sister-in-law Janice and her friend Lydia.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: Lydia seems to be just as entranced by Suzanne as Jimmy and Russel. * ItsAllAboutMe: Psychologists agree that Suzanne is eligible for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: Lydia seems to be just as entranced by Suzanne as Jimmy and Russel.Russell.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Psychologists agree that Suzanne is eligible for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Psychologists agree that Suzanne is eligible for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
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** Creator/DavidCronenberg as [[spoiler:a Mafia hitman]].
** Creator/DavidCronenberg as [[spoiler:a Mafia hitman]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Lydia has as much HeroWorship for Suzanne as the boys do. Suzanne, despite her general stupidity, actually does pick up on this and mentions Lydia's "lesbian tendencies" when trying to bully the girl.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Suzanne is viewed as being extremely beautiful and has blonde hair.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Suzanne is viewed as being extremely beautiful and has blonde hair.
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* HomoeroticSubtext / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Lydia seems to be just as entranced by Suzanne as Jimmy and Russel. Suzanne, despite her general stupidity, actually does pick up on this and mentions Lydia's "lesbian tendencies" when trying to bully the girl.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Psychologists agree that Suzanne is eligible for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
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* HomoeroticSubtext / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: HomoeroticSubtext: Lydia seems to be just as entranced by Suzanne as Jimmy and Russel. Suzanne, despite her general stupidity, actually does pick up on this and mentions Lydia's "lesbian tendencies" when trying to bully the girl.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Psychologists agree that Suzanne is eligible for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
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** [[spoiler:Subverted. The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted. The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
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**KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Subverted. The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
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** [[spoiler:Subverted. The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted. The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. ''Then'' the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.]]
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: When Suzanne is convincing Ed Grant to hire her for his local cable station:
--> '''Suzanne:''' Everybody has to start somewhere. Do you know where Edward R. Murrow started?
--> '''Ed:''' No, I don't.
--> '''Suzanne:''' No. Well... neither do I offhand. But I don't think it was at the top, do you?
--> '''Suzanne:''' Everybody has to start somewhere. Do you know where Edward R. Murrow started?
--> '''Ed:''' No, I don't.
--> '''Suzanne:''' No. Well... neither do I offhand. But I don't think it was at the top, do you?
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Suzanne thinks she's something special.
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* TooDumbToLive: Suzanne exhibits a lot of airheaded moments throughout the film, but probably the most egregious case is [[spoiler: agreeing to meet a man alone, in the middle of nowhere, who claims to be a studio executive without any credentials to back that up, and following him underneath a bridge to an icy lake where... sure enough, he kills her.]]
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** At the family dinner party, when Larry's sister begins talking about herself and her recent success, Suzanne looks visibly annoyed to have everyone paying attention to Janice instead of her.
