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Cool Loser TRS cleanup, has been renamed to Unconvincingly Unpopular Character and is a YMMV audience reaction.


* CoolLoser: Emily is disliked by the popular girls for no real reason - except apparently sitting in their spot at lunch.
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Vega plays Vanessa, a 14-year-old student who is ostracised by her friends and relentlessly bullied to extreme measures. Her mother is fully aware of the bullying and struggles to fight against it, despite the faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.

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Vega plays Vanessa, a 14-year-old teenage student who is ostracised ostracized by her friends and relentlessly bullied to extreme measures. Her mother is fully aware of the bullying and struggles to fight against it, despite the faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.



* AdultsAreUseless: Apart from Vanessa's mother, all other adults allow the bullying to continue. The teachers ignore it, Stacy's mother insists Vanessa is overreacting and the principal doesn't take action until [[spoiler: Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Unfortunately, a lot of this is TruthInTelevision
* AlphaBitch: Stacy is the leader of the GirlPosse, though her bitchiness seems to falter from scene to scene.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: A third-person example. When confronting Stacy at the end, Vanessa calls her out for what a manipulative liar she is, telling her that Nikki is at least completely up-front about the kind of person she is.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Apart from Vanessa's mother, all other adults allow the bullying to continue. The teachers ignore it, Stacy's Stacey's mother insists Vanessa is overreacting and the principal doesn't take action until [[spoiler: Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Unfortunately, a lot of this is TruthInTelevision
* AlphaBitch: Stacy Stacey is the leader of the GirlPosse, though her bitchiness seems to falter from scene to scene.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: A third-person example. When confronting Stacy Stacey at the end, Vanessa calls her out for what a manipulative liar she is, telling her that Nikki is at least completely up-front about the kind of person she is.



* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Subverted; Nikki, Stacy and a group of girls actually ''followed'' her to a far off stall just to talk about her.
* BetaBitch: Nikki to Stacy, merging this with DragonInChief - as she's the one who leads the bullying on.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Stacy. She's so good at it that she fools Vanessa, her parents, and a good portion of the audience into thinking she's a mostly decent person who just makes bad choices. It takes until the very end for Vanessa to catch on.
* BittersweetEnding: While neither Tiffany nor Nikki are punished, Stacy did got chewed out by Vanessa and survived her suicide attempts while overcoming them.

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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Subverted; Nikki, Stacy Stacey and a group of girls actually ''followed'' her to a far off stall just to talk about her.
* BetaBitch: Nikki to Stacy, Stacey, merging this with DragonInChief - as she's the one who leads the bullying on.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Stacy.Stacey. She's so good at it that she fools Vanessa, her parents, and a good portion of the audience into thinking she's a mostly decent person who just makes bad choices. It takes until the very end for Vanessa to catch on.
* BittersweetEnding: While neither Tiffany nor Nikki are punished, Stacy Stacey did got chewed out by Vanessa and survived [[spoiler:survived her suicide attempts attempt]] while overcoming them.



* CuteIsEvil: Stacy's bedroom is full of stuffed animals, and she wears pink, fluffy slippers when relaxing at home. This fits with her overall BitchInSheepsClothing status.
* DespairEventHorizon: After being stood up for a party by her former friends, [[spoiler:Vanessa overdoses on sleeping pills. Thankfully, her mother shows up before she dies.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stacy is pretty shocked [[spoiler: at Vanessa's suicide attempt]] and appears to be genuinely disgusted when Nikki and Tiffany laugh about it.
* EvilRedhead: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class. His behavior over the film gets worse as he begins to bully Vanessa in-person and online simply because [[ForTheEvulz he felt like it]] in spite of her doing nothing against him, thoughtlessly blurts out after her suicide attempt that she shot herself and even sends a message while she was still hospitalized taunting her over it and goading him to take his own mother's pills to finish the job. [[spoiler:Thankfully, this last act gets him in trouble along with Nikki and Tiffany, who'd rather be banned from graduation and have to go to summer school than to admit to their principal they were sending the threats.]]

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* CuteIsEvil: Stacy's Stacey's bedroom is full of stuffed animals, and she wears pink, fluffy slippers when relaxing at home. This fits with her overall BitchInSheepsClothing status.
* DespairEventHorizon: After being stood up for a party by her former friends, [[spoiler:Vanessa overdoses on sleeping pills. Thankfully, her mother shows up discovers this before she dies.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stacy Stacey is pretty shocked [[spoiler: at [[spoiler:at Vanessa's suicide attempt]] and appears to be genuinely disgusted when Nikki and Tiffany laugh about it.
* EvilRedhead: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class. His behavior over the film gets worse as he begins to bully Vanessa in-person both offline and online simply because [[ForTheEvulz he felt like it]] in spite of her doing nothing against him, thoughtlessly blurts out after her suicide [[spoiler:suicide attempt that she shot herself and even sends a message while she was still hospitalized taunting her over it and goading him to take his own mother's pills to finish the job. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Thankfully, this last act gets him in trouble along with Nikki and Tiffany, who'd rather be banned from graduation and have to go to summer school than to admit to their principal they were sending the threats.]]



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time Vanessa discovers her hate site, she's directed to it by someone with an unknown screen name... at the same time she was scheduled to chat with Stacy online. It's later revealed that the screen name does not belong to Nikki, Tiffany, or Ezra, which further seems to indicate that it was Stacy.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Vanessa and Stacy have been best friends since childhood, though Stacy inexplicably turns on her through Nikki's influence.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time Vanessa discovers her hate site, she's directed to it by someone with an unknown screen name... at the same time she was scheduled to chat with Stacy Stacey online. It's later revealed that the screen name does not belong to Nikki, Tiffany, or Ezra, which further seems to indicate that it was Stacy.
Stacey.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Vanessa and Stacy Stacey have been best friends since childhood, though Stacy Stacey inexplicably turns on her through Nikki's influence.



** Stacy (conflicted)
* GenreSavvy: Stacy's father ends up being this in his only line in the film. After hearing his wife and daughter complain about Vanessa at the dinner table, he tells his somewhat sceptical son how brutal women are and how they tear each other down over the most petty of things while men smack each other in the head and then get a beer. His wife then [[IgnoredExpert dismisses him]] saying that men have no feelings.

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** Stacy Stacey (conflicted)
* GenreSavvy: Stacy's Stacey's father ends up being this in his only line in the film. After hearing his wife and daughter complain about Vanessa at the dinner table, he tells his somewhat sceptical skeptical son how brutal women are and how they tear each other down over the most petty of things while men smack each other in the head and then get a beer. His wife then [[IgnoredExpert dismisses him]] saying that men have no feelings.



* JuniorHigh: The children, as confirmed by the graduation in the end, are eighth graders.

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* JuniorHigh: The children, as confirmed by the graduation in the end, are eighth graders.eighth-graders.



** Nikki gets away scot free. Stacy gets a verbal smackdown laid on her by Vanessa, but Nikki is not punished at all when she's arguably more evil than Stacy. By all rights she could realistically get a jail sentence for all she does in the film.
** The same could also be said about the unnamed [[JerkAss douchebag]] who taped Vanessa [[spoiler: as she was being loaded into the ambulance after her OD and then uploaded it online.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Nikki is a fine example. She feels nothing for any of the pain she and the other children are causing Vanessa [[spoiler: even going as far as ''laughing'' at her while watching the video of her in an ambulance.]] Also, even though she is supposed to be Stacy's best friend and number one supporter, she comes off as not having any real warmth for her or anyone else in the film and speaks in a [[CreepyMonotone monotone voice.]]

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** Nikki gets away scot free. Stacy Stacey gets a verbal smackdown laid on her by Vanessa, but Nikki is not punished at all when she's arguably more evil than Stacy. Stacey. By all rights rights, she could realistically get a jail sentence for all she does in the film.
** The same could also be said about the unnamed [[JerkAss douchebag]] who taped Vanessa [[spoiler: as [[spoiler:as she was being loaded into the ambulance after her OD and then uploaded it online.onto a computer.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Nikki is a fine example. She feels nothing for any of the pain she and the other children are causing Vanessa [[spoiler: even going as far as ''laughing'' at her while watching the video of her in an ambulance.]] Also, even though she is supposed to be Stacy's Stacey's best friend and number one supporter, she comes off as not having any real warmth for her or anyone else in the film and speaks in a [[CreepyMonotone monotone voice.]]



* LovableJock: Tony, the boy Vanessa and Stacy like. Vanessa and Emily also count, being soccer players.
* LoveTriangle: Between Stacy, Tony and Vanessa, which helps to fuel the bullying.
* MagicalNegro: Emily's role in the plot is to warn Vanessa not to trust the bullies, tell her how good, smart and special she is after she tries to kill herself, speak out on her behalf in class and literally lead the assembled teenage crowd in a round of applause for her when Vanessa finally stands up for herself at the end of the movie.

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* LovableJock: Tony, the boy Vanessa and Stacy Stacey like. Vanessa and Emily also count, being soccer players.
* LoveTriangle: Between Stacy, Stacey, Tony and Vanessa, which helps to fuel the bullying.
* MagicalNegro: Emily's role in the plot is to warn Vanessa not to trust the bullies, tell her how good, smart and special she is after she tries to kill herself, [[spoiler:kill herself]], speak out on her behalf in class and literally lead the assembled teenage crowd in a round of applause for her when Vanessa finally stands up for herself at the end of the movie.



* ManipulativeBitch: Stacy. Even though Nikki is the more vocal and vicious of the two, she still allowed the bullying to continue and kept messing with Vanessa's head by pretending to still be friends with her and using anything she was told in confidence against her.
* NiceGuy: Tony, as shown when he's unreceptive to Nikki's advances.

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* ManipulativeBitch: Stacy.Stacey. Even though Nikki is the more vocal and vicious of the two, she still allowed the bullying to continue and kept messing with Vanessa's head by pretending to still be friends with her and using anything she was told in confidence against her.
* NiceGuy: Tony, as shown when he's unreceptive not receptive to Nikki's advances.



* PinocchioNose: Stacy tends to touch her hair awkwardly when she's lying. This serves as an early clue that [[spoiler: her apology when Vanessa comes back to school was not sincere]].
* RichBitch: Stacy has shades of this, as seen in the shopping mall scene.

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* PinocchioNose: Stacy Stacey tends to touch her hair awkwardly when she's lying. This serves as an early clue that [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her apology when Vanessa comes back to school was not sincere]].
* RichBitch: Stacy Stacey has shades of this, as seen in the shopping mall scene.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[ShutUpHannibal Emily does this to Stacy]] after [[spoiler:Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Stacy get one from Vanessa near the end of the film as well.
* TeensAreMonsters: The girls go to extreme lengths to antagonise Vanessa, culminating in [[spoiler: Nikki and Tiffany laughing cruelly at a suicide attempt from her]].

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[ShutUpHannibal Emily does this to Stacy]] Stacey]] after [[spoiler:Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Stacy get one from Vanessa near the end of the film as well.
* TeensAreMonsters: The girls go to extreme lengths to antagonise antagonize Vanessa, culminating in [[spoiler: Nikki [[spoiler:Nikki and Tiffany laughing cruelly at a suicide attempt from her]].



* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Vanessa is more tomboyish compared to the rest of the girly GirlPosse. At the beginning, Vanessa was also very girly but later she had a boyish cut and less girly interests.
* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of it off. When she shows up to school with her new hairstyle, the other girls post various cruel taunts about her hair on the Website. In a weird way, it doubles as an ImportantHaircut because it's Vanessa chopping off her hair that makes her mother take note of what her daughter might be going through.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tony. He is the root of why Stacy and the others turned on Vanessa, but he is inconsequential to the film overall and largely is a means to an end. It's likely Vanessa would have still been bullied without him in the mix (given both Nikki and Stacy's own senses of insecurity and jealousy), but his stroking her face while flirting with her only fueled the fire (although neither he nor Nessa knew anyone was watching).
* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: Stacy repeatedly says it's Vanessa's fault their friendship is strained, because she's just being too ''sensitive'' to the bullying.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Vanessa considers Stacy her best friend until Stacy abruptly turns on her.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Even at the start, it can seem a bit baffling how this group of girls came to be friends. And indeed, it doesn't take long for Stacy and Nikki to turn on Vanessa.
* WomanScorned: Stacy and Nikki start to turn against Vanessa when Tony shows interest in her instead of in Stacy.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Vanessa is more tomboyish compared to the rest of the girly GirlPosse. At the beginning, Vanessa was also very girly girly, but later she had a somewhat boyish cut and less girly interests.
* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of it off. When she shows up to school with her new hairstyle, the other girls post various cruel taunts about her hair on the Website.website. In a weird way, it doubles as an ImportantHaircut because it's Vanessa chopping off her hair that makes her mother take note of what her daughter might be going through.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tony. He is the root of why Stacy Stacey and the others turned on Vanessa, but he is inconsequential to the film overall and largely is a means to an end. It's likely Vanessa would have still been bullied without him in the mix (given both Nikki and Stacy's Stacey's own senses of insecurity and jealousy), but his stroking her face while flirting with her only fueled the fire (although neither he nor Nessa knew anyone was watching).
* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: Stacy Stacey repeatedly says it's Vanessa's fault their friendship is strained, because she's just being too ''sensitive'' to the bullying.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Vanessa considers Stacy Stacey her best friend until Stacy Stacey abruptly turns on her.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Even at the start, it can seem a bit baffling how this group of girls came to be friends. And indeed, it doesn't take long for Stacy Stacey and Nikki to turn on Vanessa.
* WomanScorned: Stacy Stacey and Nikki start to turn against Vanessa when Tony shows interest in her instead of in Stacy.Stacey.
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* {{Not}}: One of the comments on the "Hating Vanessa" website about her TraumaticHaircut is "Gee, I think it's cool.....NOT!!"
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tony. He is the root of why Stacy and the others turned on Vanessa, but he is inconsequential to the film overall and largely is a means to an end. It's likely Vanessa would have still been bullied without him in the mix (given both Nikki and Stacy's own senses of insecurity and jealousy), but his stroking her face while flirting with her only fueled the fire (although neither he nor Nessa knew anyone was watching).
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* EvilRedhead: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class. His behavior over the film gets worse as he begins to bully Vanessa in-person and online simply because [[ForTheEvulz he felt like it]] in spite of her doing nothing against him, thoughtlessly blurts out after her suicide attempt that she shot herself and even sends a message while she was still hospitalized taunting her over it and goading him to take his own mother's pills to finish the job. [[spoiler:Thankfully, this last act gets him in trouble along with Nikki and Tiffany, who'd rather be banned from graduation and have to go to summer school than to admit to their principal they were sending the threats.]]
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None of which makes him "evil"


* EvilRedhead: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Vanessa's insecurities are all solved by a long talk with her mother and confronting the bullies.

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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Vanessa's insecurities are all solved by a long talk with her mother and confronting the bullies. Barbara mentions making an appointment for Vanessa with a psychiatrist, but Vanessa turns it down in favor of returning back to school right away.
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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlexaVega, Creator/LeahPipes and Lisa Vidal. The film is based on the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons, with the names of some of the characters along with situations coming straight from the book itself.

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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlexaVega, Creator/LeahPipes and Lisa Vidal.Creator/LisaVidal. The film is based on the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons, with the names of some of the characters along with situations coming straight from the book itself.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Welcome to the secret lives of girls. It's not pretty.]]]]
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* SoBadItsGood: Some of the acting and lines are rather flat and make it a rather UnintentionalPeriodPiece with some of the technology used.

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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlexaVega, Creator/LeahPipes and Lisa Vidal. Vega plays Vanessa, a 14-year-old student who is ostracised by her friends and relentlessly bullied to extreme measures. Her mother is fully aware of the bullying and struggles to fight against it, despite the faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.

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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlexaVega, Creator/LeahPipes and Lisa Vidal. The film is based on the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons, with the names of some of the characters along with situations coming straight from the book itself.

Vega plays Vanessa, a 14-year-old student who is ostracised by her friends and relentlessly bullied to extreme measures. Her mother is fully aware of the bullying and struggles to fight against it, despite the faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.



* AdultsAreUseless: Apart from Vanessa's mother, all other adults allow the bullying to continue. The teachers ignore it, Stacy's mother insists Vanessa is overreacting and the principal doesn't take action until [[spoiler: Vanessa's suicide attempt]].

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* AdultsAreUseless: Apart from Vanessa's mother, all other adults allow the bullying to continue. The teachers ignore it, Stacy's mother insists Vanessa is overreacting and the principal doesn't take action until [[spoiler: Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Unfortunately, a lot of this is TruthInTelevision



* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Averted and how!
* ShutUpHannibal: Emily does this to Stacy after [[spoiler:Vanessa's suicide attempt]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Stacy got the receiving end from Vanessa.

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* RichBitch: Stacy has shades of this, as seen in the shopping mall scene.
* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Averted and how!
* ShutUpHannibal: Emily
how! The school does this to Stacy not take action until after [[spoiler:Vanessa's suicide attempt]].
attempt, when Vanessa's mother comes forward with all of the emails, IM messages, videos and other messages along with various posts from the Hate Vanessa website that Stacy and her that Stacy and her GirlPosse sent Vanessa]].
* SoBadItsGood: Some of the acting and lines are rather flat and make it a rather UnintentionalPeriodPiece with some of the technology used.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[ShutUpHannibal Emily does this to Stacy]] after [[spoiler:Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Stacy got the receiving end get one from Vanessa.Vanessa near the end of the film as well.
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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlexaVega, Leah Pipes and Lisa Vidal. Vega plays Vanessa, a 14-year-old student who is ostracised by her friends and relentlessly bullied to extreme measures. Her mother is fully aware of the bullying and struggles to fight against it, despite the faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.

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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlexaVega, Leah Pipes Creator/LeahPipes and Lisa Vidal. Vega plays Vanessa, a 14-year-old student who is ostracised by her friends and relentlessly bullied to extreme measures. Her mother is fully aware of the bullying and struggles to fight against it, despite the faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.
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* CoughSnarkCough: Tiffany uses this on Vanessa during the first time she gets shunned in the lunch room.
-->'''Tiffany:''' *cough*Slut!*cough*
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* BlackBestFriend: Emily becomes this for Vanessa.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Vanessa considers Stacy her best friend until Stacy abruptly turns on her.
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* PinnochioNose: Stacy tends to touch her hair awkwardly when she's lying. This serves as an early clue that [[spoiler: her apology when Vanessa comes back to school was not sincere]].

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* PinnochioNose: PinocchioNose: Stacy tends to touch her hair awkwardly when she's lying. This serves as an early clue that [[spoiler: her apology when Vanessa comes back to school was not sincere]].

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* PinnochioNose: Stacy tends to touch her hair awkwardly when she's lying. This serves as an early clue that [[spoiler: her apology when Vanessa comes back to school was not sincere]].



* VerbalTic: Stacy tends to touch her hair awkwardly when she's lying. This serves as an early clue that [[spoiler: her apology when Vanessa comes back to school was not sincere]].
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* CuteIsEvil: Stacy's bedroom is full of stuffed animals, and she wears pink, fluffy slippers when relaxing at home. This fits with her overall BitchInSheepsClothing status.
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* VictimBlaming: Stacy repeatedly says it's Vanessa's fault their friendship is strained, because she's just being too ''sensitive'' to the bullying.

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* VictimBlaming: UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: Stacy repeatedly says it's Vanessa's fault their friendship is strained, because she's just being too ''sensitive'' to the bullying.

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