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* AMFMCharacterization: Razor pulls up playing "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips in his car's stereo. Bliss spends the middle part of the film playing and listening to the music of her crush's band (played by Landon Pigg, the actual musician cast in the role of Oliver).
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* ActorAllusion: Maggie tells Bliss (Creator/EllenPage) that [[{{Juno}} having a kid changes everything.]] Bliss smirks in response. She also claims to be 22 when she is actually 17, alluding to Ellen Page's very youthful looks.
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* NamesTheSame: Bliss shares her field name, Babe Ruthless, with a monster from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. It's also the name of an actual Roller Derby skater.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: For someone who follows RollerDerby, there are numerous things shown in the movie that were a fairly accurate representation of the way roller derby was played in the mid-2000s but have changed drastically since then; most notably, fighting has gone from largely ignored to explicitly forbidden, and the two-whistle start seen in the movie has disappeared in favor of a single whistle releasing both the pack and the jammers.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: For someone who follows RollerDerby, there are numerous things shown in the movie that were a fairly accurate representation of the way roller derby was played in the mid-2000s but have changed drastically since then; most notably, fighting has gone from largely ignored to explicitly forbidden, and the two-whistle start seen in the movie has disappeared in favor of a single whistle releasing both the pack and the jammers.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: For someone who follows RollerDerby, there are numerous things shown in the movie that were a fairly accurate representation of the way roller derby was played in the mid-2000s but have changed drastically since then; most notably, fighting has gone from largely ignored to explicitly forbidden, and the two-whistle start seen in the movie has disappeared in favor of a single whistle releasing both the pack and the jammers.
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The film stars Creator/EllenPage as a 17-year old reluctant beauty pageant contestant named Bliss Cavendar in Bodeen, Texas, who discovers and falls in love with the Austin roller-derby RollerDerby circuit. She goes to roller derby tryouts and gets selected for the Hurl Scouts, the worst team in the league. But with Bliss's amazing speed and coach Razor's playbook, they might just be able to challenge the Holy Rollers, the top team in the league, and maybe even win the championship.
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* TightsUnderShorts: This is a staple of Roller Derby "Boutfits."" (in the film and in real life: All WFTDA Division 1 and most Division 2 leagues now use uniform tops, but permit skaters wide latitude in deciding what they wear from the waist down)
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* FromBadToWorse: Pash gets arrested for underage drinking. Bliss' parents find out the truth about her roller derby double life and take away her skates. Pash stops speaking to Bliss. Maven blackmails Bliss into quitting roller derby due to Bliss being underage. And to top all that off, [[spoiler:Bliss discovers that Oliver has cheated on her and has given away her Music/{{Stryper}} t-shirt to a groupie]].
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** TruthInTelevision: Austin usually ''is'' still fairly warm in late October/early November, and the leaves usually don't start changing color or falling until Thanksgiving or so. That said, just because it's warm doesn't mean people in Austin don't bundle up. At least in Houston, everyone is bundled up once it's below 75.
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The film stars EllenPage Creator/EllenPage as a 17-year old reluctant beauty pageant contestant named Bliss Cavendar in Bodeen, Texas, who discovers and falls in love with the Austin roller-derby circuit. She goes to roller derby tryouts and gets selected for the Hurl Scouts, the worst team in the league. But with Bliss's amazing speed and coach Razor's playbook, they might just be able to challenge the Holy Rollers, the top team in the league, and maybe even win the championship.
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* ActorAllusion: Maggie tells Bliss (EllenPage) (Creator/EllenPage) that [[{{Juno}} having a kid changes everything.]] Bliss smirks in response. She also claims to be 22 when she is actually 17, alluding to Ellen Page's very youthful looks.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: A subtle one: All the members of the Hurl Scouts are wearing the same skate - the [[http://www.roller.riedellskates.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductName=Wicked Riedell 265 Wicked]]. While the Wicked is a popular skate for roller derby, the nature of roller derby as a do-it-yourself amateur sport means that skaters' equipment is entirely left up to personal choice and the skater's budget, and a derby team will typically have a mix of skates from varying manufacturers.
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** This is TruthInTelevision. Most roller derby leagues train as a league and friendships stay constant even as teams shuffle their lineups. Few if any rollergirls are only friends with their teammates, and one's [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Derby%20wife derby wife]] can be on a different team or in a different league entirely.
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* FromBadToWorse: Pash gets arrested for underage drinking. Bliss' parents find out the truth about her roller derby double life and take away her skates. Pash stops speaking to Bliss. Maven blackmails Bliss into quitting roller derby due to Bliss being underage. And to top all that off, [[spoiler:Bliss discovers that Oliver has cheated on her and has given away her {{Stryper}} t-shirt to a groupie]].
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* FromBadToWorse: Pash gets arrested for underage drinking. Bliss' parents find out the truth about her roller derby double life and take away her skates. Pash stops speaking to Bliss. Maven blackmails Bliss into quitting roller derby due to Bliss being underage. And to top all that off, [[spoiler:Bliss discovers that Oliver has cheated on her and has given away her {{Stryper}} Music/{{Stryper}} t-shirt to a groupie]].
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* {{Ham To Ham Combat}}: Johnny Rocket and Razor [[CrowningMomentOfFunny having an pitifully bad dance-off]] at the hot tub party.
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* BeautyPageant: Bliss's mother was a contestant when she was younger and makes both Bliss and her younger sister Shania compete.
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2009 movie written by Shauna Cross and directed by DrewBarrymore.
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2009 movie written by Shauna Cross and directed by DrewBarrymore.
The film stars EllenPage as a 17-year old reluctant beauty pageant contestant named Bliss Cavendar in Bodeen, Texas, who discovers and falls in love with the Austin roller-derby circuit. She goes to roller derby tryouts and gets selected for the Hurl Scouts, the worst team in the league. But with Bliss's amazing speed and coach Razor's playbook, they might just be able to challenge the Holy Rollers, the top team in the league, and maybe even win the championship.
Not to be confused with the [[{{Devo}} song of the same name]].
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!!This film contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Maggie tells Bliss (EllenPage) that [[{{Juno}} having a kid changes everything.]] Bliss smirks in response. She also claims to be 22 when she is actually 17, alluding to Ellen Page's very youthful looks.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The film supposedly takes place in the Austin, Texas area in late-October/early-November, yet the trees are still green and no one is seen dressing warmly (Bliss even takes off her shirt while outside in the morning air, and suffers no visible discomfort).
** And the funny part? It actually ''was'' partially filmed in the Austin area--just not around the time of year that the plot is set.
** TruthInTelevision: Austin usually ''is'' still fairly warm in late October/early November, and the leaves usually don't start changing color or falling until Thanksgiving or so. That said, just because it's warm doesn't mean people in Austin don't bundle up. At least in Houston, everyone is bundled up once it's below 75.
* AutoErotica / DontComeAKnockin: Subverted. Bliss sees her dad's van rocking, and hears him yelling "YES! YES!", but it turns out he's watching a really exciting football game on a small TV in the van.
* BadassBeard: Razor.
* BeautyPageant: Bliss's mother was a contestant when she was younger and makes both Bliss and her younger sister Shania compete.
* BigGame: The championship match at the end.
* BillyElliotPlot: Inverted. Bliss wants to do roller derby, but her mother wants her to participate in beauty pageants.
* BittersweetEnding: Bliss [[spoiler:breaks up with her cheating boyfriend, and then loses the last jam of the game to Iron Maven,]] but she also [[spoiler:finally wins Maven's respect on the track and reconciles with her family.]]
* BlandNameProduct: "Without the Bluebonnet factory, this town wouldn't exist." It's a reference to [[http://www.bluebell.com/ Blue Bell Creameries]], an ice cream manufacturer based in Brenham, Texas.[[hottip:*:Despite Brenham being a small town and being on Highway 290, which leads to Austin, it's not quite a direct match because Brenham does have a substantial community college, and it's closer to Houston to Austin anyway.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Smashley Simpson.
* BumblingDad: Mr. Cavendar
* CaliforniaDoubling: Aside from a few scenes filmed in Austin, the majority of the movie features Michigan doubling for East Central Texas.
* CasanovaWannabe: Johnny Rocket.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Bluebonnet Ball is the very same evening as the championship roller derby match.
* CutHimselfShaving: When her mother sees a roller derby bruise, Bliss says that she [[BlatantLies "fell at work."]]
* DawsonCasting: Twenty-two year old Ellen Page playing seventeen year old Bliss (who pretends to be twenty-two in order to get on the roller derby team, hilariously enough).
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Pash and Razor.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas
* FoodFight: Iron Maven flicks a french fry at Bliss. Bliss retaliates with some banana creme pie. Maven dumps a chocolate milkshake on Bliss' head. It escalates from there.
* FragileSpeedster: Bliss. Fast but little.
* FriendlyEnemy: Rival captains Eva Destruction and Iron Maven are relatively friendly to their opponents, and it seems a lot of the roller derby teams hang out together after the games. Even when they get into a food fight, they're laughing their asses off the entire time.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Both zig-zagged and justified. At the beginning of the movie, Bliss wears contact lenses to beauty pageants and debutante balls (at her mother's behest), then switches to glasses when in street clothes. Later, when Bliss joins the roller derby team, she switches to contacts full time.
* GreasySpoon: The Oink Joint. Home of [[MasochistsMeal the Squealer]].
* {{Ham To Ham Combat}}: Johnny Rocket and Razor [[CrowningMomentOfFunny having an pitifully bad dance-off]] at the hot tub party.
* HilariousOuttakes: Over the first half of the end credits.
* InformedAbility: Pash is apparently smart enough to get into some fairly prestigious colleges, but we never see anything to indicate this.
** She does mention earlier in the film that she has straight A's, which keeps her parents happy enough to not be watching too hard for their Austin excursions.
* FromBadToWorse: Pash gets arrested for underage drinking. Bliss' parents find out the truth about her roller derby double life and take away her skates. Pash stops speaking to Bliss. Maven blackmails Bliss into quitting roller derby due to Bliss being underage. And to top all that off, [[spoiler:Bliss discovers that Oliver has cheated on her and has given away her {{Stryper}} t-shirt to a groupie]].
* IvyLeagueForEveryone
* LargeHam: "Hot Tub" Johnny Rocket, the announcer at the roller derby track.
* MaleGaze: Quite a bit of it at that.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: "Let's go apeshit."
* MyBelovedSmother: Take a guess.
* NamesTheSame: Bliss shares her field name, Babe Ruthless, with a monster from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
* PetTheDog: Bliss [[spoiler: gives her custom-made dress to Amber for the Bluebonnet Ball when she leaves for the championship match.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Bliss all the way, although what's most remarkable about her is her speed, not her strength--she gets knocked down plenty.
* PrimalScene: Bliss makes Pash imagine one of these in order to induce vomiting.
-->'''Bliss:''' Pash, have you ever thought...about your parents making love? [[{{NightmareFuel}} Your dad's naked body...]]
-->'''Pash:''' WHAT?
-->'''Bliss:''' [[{{Squick}} His balls jiggling...sweaty...]]
-->'''Pash:''' [vomits]
* PunnyName: Seems to be a staple for the roller derby girls. You have Babe Ruthless, Rosa Sparks, Smashley Simpson, Iron Maven, and Eva Destruction.
** A case of TruthInTelevision. Punny names are a staple of organized roller derby.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Hurl Scouts. Implied to be the case with the other derby teams, as well.
** Also TruthInTelevision: A roller derby team can have on it a stay-at-home mom, a banking vice-president, a physicist and many, many other kinds of women who are bound together by their common interest in the sport.
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Bliss, at age 17, claims to be 22 years old.
* RefusalOfTheCall: After seeing the Hurl Scouts play the Holy Rollers at the exhibition match, Bliss suggests to Pash that they both try out for roller derby. Pash doesn't want to, and spends the majority of the movie cheering on Bliss from the audience.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Oliver acts like the very definition of this trope, since his scenes mainly consist of him digging Bliss, and Bliss digging him right back. The trope is {{deconstructed|Trope}} a bit, however, as he [[spoiler:only acts this way [[TheCasanova in order to get into Bliss' pants]]. And she falls for it.]]
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Played straight with Razor, but subverted with the rest of the Hurl Scouts (that is, until Razor gives another team one of his plays--''then'' the Hurl Scouts start getting their act together).
** [[spoiler:Subverted again at the end, when the Hurl Scouts--Razor included--celebrate the fact that, holy crap, they actually jumped all the way from ''last place'' to ''the finals''.]]
* ShotgunWedding:
-->'''Bliss' dad:''' I like smart girls, that's why I married your momma. Well, that, and I knocked her up.
* ShoutOut: After Bliss and Oliver's Night Out, Bliss is walking back up to her house, wearing Oliver's [[{{Daria}} Green Jacket, a Black Skirt, and Black Boots (with Long-ish Brown Hair)]]. [[http://justinblythe.webs.com/whip-it-daria.jpg See?]]
* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler:Although they eventually make to the finals, they still lose despite giving it their best, but, "there's always next year!"...]]
* TeamMom: Maggie Mayhem.
* ThatPoorCat: A cat yowls as Pash and Bliss leave the roller derby.
* TightsUnderShorts: This is a staple of Roller Derby "Boutfits."
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGPdXnb2Gg The trailer]] shows that [[spoiler:Bliss' parents eventually discover her roller derby career, and two seconds later it spoils their eventual reconciliation.]]
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Bliss and Oliver.
** Eva Destruction and Rosa Sparks also get cuddly in a hot tub in one scene.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted; actually, the Hurl Scouts lose ''all the time.''
* WorthyOpponent: By the end of the movie, Iron Maven sees Bliss this way.
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2009 movie written by Shauna Cross and directed by DrewBarrymore.
The film stars EllenPage as a 17-year old reluctant beauty pageant contestant named Bliss Cavendar in Bodeen, Texas, who discovers and falls in love with the Austin roller-derby circuit. She goes to roller derby tryouts and gets selected for the Hurl Scouts, the worst team in the league. But with Bliss's amazing speed and coach Razor's playbook, they might just be able to challenge the Holy Rollers, the top team in the league, and maybe even win the championship.
Not to be confused with the [[{{Devo}} song of the same name]].
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!!This film contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Maggie tells Bliss (EllenPage) that [[{{Juno}} having a kid changes everything.]] Bliss smirks in response. She also claims to be 22 when she is actually 17, alluding to Ellen Page's very youthful looks.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The film supposedly takes place in the Austin, Texas area in late-October/early-November, yet the trees are still green and no one is seen dressing warmly (Bliss even takes off her shirt while outside in the morning air, and suffers no visible discomfort).
** And the funny part? It actually ''was'' partially filmed in the Austin area--just not around the time of year that the plot is set.
** TruthInTelevision: Austin usually ''is'' still fairly warm in late October/early November, and the leaves usually don't start changing color or falling until Thanksgiving or so. That said, just because it's warm doesn't mean people in Austin don't bundle up. At least in Houston, everyone is bundled up once it's below 75.
* AutoErotica / DontComeAKnockin: Subverted. Bliss sees her dad's van rocking, and hears him yelling "YES! YES!", but it turns out he's watching a really exciting football game on a small TV in the van.
* BadassBeard: Razor.
* BeautyPageant: Bliss's mother was a contestant when she was younger and makes both Bliss and her younger sister Shania compete.
* BigGame: The championship match at the end.
* BillyElliotPlot: Inverted. Bliss wants to do roller derby, but her mother wants her to participate in beauty pageants.
* BittersweetEnding: Bliss [[spoiler:breaks up with her cheating boyfriend, and then loses the last jam of the game to Iron Maven,]] but she also [[spoiler:finally wins Maven's respect on the track and reconciles with her family.]]
* BlandNameProduct: "Without the Bluebonnet factory, this town wouldn't exist." It's a reference to [[http://www.bluebell.com/ Blue Bell Creameries]], an ice cream manufacturer based in Brenham, Texas.[[hottip:*:Despite Brenham being a small town and being on Highway 290, which leads to Austin, it's not quite a direct match because Brenham does have a substantial community college, and it's closer to Houston to Austin anyway.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Smashley Simpson.
* BumblingDad: Mr. Cavendar
* CaliforniaDoubling: Aside from a few scenes filmed in Austin, the majority of the movie features Michigan doubling for East Central Texas.
* CasanovaWannabe: Johnny Rocket.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Bluebonnet Ball is the very same evening as the championship roller derby match.
* CutHimselfShaving: When her mother sees a roller derby bruise, Bliss says that she [[BlatantLies "fell at work."]]
* DawsonCasting: Twenty-two year old Ellen Page playing seventeen year old Bliss (who pretends to be twenty-two in order to get on the roller derby team, hilariously enough).
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Pash and Razor.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas
* FoodFight: Iron Maven flicks a french fry at Bliss. Bliss retaliates with some banana creme pie. Maven dumps a chocolate milkshake on Bliss' head. It escalates from there.
* FragileSpeedster: Bliss. Fast but little.
* FriendlyEnemy: Rival captains Eva Destruction and Iron Maven are relatively friendly to their opponents, and it seems a lot of the roller derby teams hang out together after the games. Even when they get into a food fight, they're laughing their asses off the entire time.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Both zig-zagged and justified. At the beginning of the movie, Bliss wears contact lenses to beauty pageants and debutante balls (at her mother's behest), then switches to glasses when in street clothes. Later, when Bliss joins the roller derby team, she switches to contacts full time.
* GreasySpoon: The Oink Joint. Home of [[MasochistsMeal the Squealer]].
* {{Ham To Ham Combat}}: Johnny Rocket and Razor [[CrowningMomentOfFunny having an pitifully bad dance-off]] at the hot tub party.
* HilariousOuttakes: Over the first half of the end credits.
* InformedAbility: Pash is apparently smart enough to get into some fairly prestigious colleges, but we never see anything to indicate this.
** She does mention earlier in the film that she has straight A's, which keeps her parents happy enough to not be watching too hard for their Austin excursions.
* FromBadToWorse: Pash gets arrested for underage drinking. Bliss' parents find out the truth about her roller derby double life and take away her skates. Pash stops speaking to Bliss. Maven blackmails Bliss into quitting roller derby due to Bliss being underage. And to top all that off, [[spoiler:Bliss discovers that Oliver has cheated on her and has given away her {{Stryper}} t-shirt to a groupie]].
* IvyLeagueForEveryone
* LargeHam: "Hot Tub" Johnny Rocket, the announcer at the roller derby track.
* MaleGaze: Quite a bit of it at that.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: "Let's go apeshit."
* MyBelovedSmother: Take a guess.
* NamesTheSame: Bliss shares her field name, Babe Ruthless, with a monster from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
* PetTheDog: Bliss [[spoiler: gives her custom-made dress to Amber for the Bluebonnet Ball when she leaves for the championship match.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Bliss all the way, although what's most remarkable about her is her speed, not her strength--she gets knocked down plenty.
* PrimalScene: Bliss makes Pash imagine one of these in order to induce vomiting.
-->'''Bliss:''' Pash, have you ever thought...about your parents making love? [[{{NightmareFuel}} Your dad's naked body...]]
-->'''Pash:''' WHAT?
-->'''Bliss:''' [[{{Squick}} His balls jiggling...sweaty...]]
-->'''Pash:''' [vomits]
* PunnyName: Seems to be a staple for the roller derby girls. You have Babe Ruthless, Rosa Sparks, Smashley Simpson, Iron Maven, and Eva Destruction.
** A case of TruthInTelevision. Punny names are a staple of organized roller derby.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Hurl Scouts. Implied to be the case with the other derby teams, as well.
** Also TruthInTelevision: A roller derby team can have on it a stay-at-home mom, a banking vice-president, a physicist and many, many other kinds of women who are bound together by their common interest in the sport.
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Bliss, at age 17, claims to be 22 years old.
* RefusalOfTheCall: After seeing the Hurl Scouts play the Holy Rollers at the exhibition match, Bliss suggests to Pash that they both try out for roller derby. Pash doesn't want to, and spends the majority of the movie cheering on Bliss from the audience.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Oliver acts like the very definition of this trope, since his scenes mainly consist of him digging Bliss, and Bliss digging him right back. The trope is {{deconstructed|Trope}} a bit, however, as he [[spoiler:only acts this way [[TheCasanova in order to get into Bliss' pants]]. And she falls for it.]]
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Played straight with Razor, but subverted with the rest of the Hurl Scouts (that is, until Razor gives another team one of his plays--''then'' the Hurl Scouts start getting their act together).
** [[spoiler:Subverted again at the end, when the Hurl Scouts--Razor included--celebrate the fact that, holy crap, they actually jumped all the way from ''last place'' to ''the finals''.]]
* ShotgunWedding:
-->'''Bliss' dad:''' I like smart girls, that's why I married your momma. Well, that, and I knocked her up.
* ShoutOut: After Bliss and Oliver's Night Out, Bliss is walking back up to her house, wearing Oliver's [[{{Daria}} Green Jacket, a Black Skirt, and Black Boots (with Long-ish Brown Hair)]]. [[http://justinblythe.webs.com/whip-it-daria.jpg See?]]
* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler:Although they eventually make to the finals, they still lose despite giving it their best, but, "there's always next year!"...]]
* TeamMom: Maggie Mayhem.
* ThatPoorCat: A cat yowls as Pash and Bliss leave the roller derby.
* TightsUnderShorts: This is a staple of Roller Derby "Boutfits."
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGPdXnb2Gg The trailer]] shows that [[spoiler:Bliss' parents eventually discover her roller derby career, and two seconds later it spoils their eventual reconciliation.]]
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Bliss and Oliver.
** Eva Destruction and Rosa Sparks also get cuddly in a hot tub in one scene.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted; actually, the Hurl Scouts lose ''all the time.''
* WorthyOpponent: By the end of the movie, Iron Maven sees Bliss this way.
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