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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Stacy.

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* 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.


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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 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.


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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.
* 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.
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* 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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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Subverted. For most of the film, Stacy comes off as a nicer person than Nikki, but by the end of the film, Vanessa concludes that she's actually worse, because she pretends to be her friend only to betray her repeatedly, whereas Nikki at least doesn't hide the fact that she's a horrible person.


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* 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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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
** Vanessa (optimist)
** Emily (realist)
** Nikki (cynic)
** Tiffany (apathetic)
** Stacy (conflicted)
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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie starring Alexa Vega, 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 Alexa Vega, 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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* BlondesAreEvil: Tiffany is so desperate to be accepted that she resorts to bullying Vanessa, and laughing over [[spoiler: her suicide attempt]]. She's also shown to be a very cowardly character.
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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 but later she had a boyish cut and less girly interests.

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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 made-for-TV teen drama film starring Alexa Vega, 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 made-for-TV teen drama film MadeForTVMovie starring Alexa Vega, 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.



* AlphaBitch: Nikki, though Stacy is the leader of the group.

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* AlphaBitch: Nikki, though Stacy is the leader of the group.GirlPosse, though her bitchiness seems to falter from scene to scene.



* BetaBitch: Nikki to Stacy, merging this with DragonInChief - as she's the one who leads the bullying on.



* BlondesAreEvil: Tiffany is so desperate to be accepted that she resorts to bullying Vanessa, and laughing over [[spoiler: her suicide attempt]]. She's also shown to be a very cowardly character.



* CoolLoser: Emily.

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* CoolLoser: Emily.Emily is disliked by the popular girls for no real reason - except apparently sitting in their spot at lunch.



* TheDragon: Nikki to Stacy.
** Really DragonInChief



* 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 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.

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* 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 skeptical 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.



* GirlPosse

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* GirlPosseGirlPosse: Played oh so very straight.



* InWithTheInCrowd: Tiffany.

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* InWithTheInCrowd: Tiffany.Tiffany desires to be so, and gets her wish when the bullying starts.



* KarmaHoudini: 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.

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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini:
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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.



* KidsAreCruel: And how.



* NiceGuy: Tony, as shown when he's unreceptive to Nikki's advances.



* TeensAreMonsters

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* TeensAreMonstersTeensAreMonsters: The girls go to extreme lengths to antagonise Vanessa, culminating in [[spoiler: Nikki and Tiffany laughing cruelly at a suicide attempt from her]].



* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of her hair 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.

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* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of her hair 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.
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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.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stacy is pretty shocked [[spoiler: at Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Nikki not so much.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stacy is pretty shocked [[spoiler: at Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. attempt]] and appears to be genuinely disgusted when Nikki not so much.and Tiffany laugh about it.
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* 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 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.
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* EvilRedhead / RedheadedBully: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class.

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* EvilRedhead / RedheadedBully: 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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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 made-for-TV teen drama film starring [[SpyKids Alexa Vega]], 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 made-for-TV teen drama film starring [[SpyKids Alexa Vega]], Vega, 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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* BlondGuysAreEvil: Averted. Blond Tony is a nice guy who never takes part in the any of the harassment.
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* BlondesAreEvil: Played with. Blonde Tiffany is just a desperate wannabe so her participation in the bullying is likely just survival.

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* 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.]]



* ManipulativeBitch: Stacy.

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* 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.

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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Subverted; Nikki, Stacy and a group of girls actually ''followed'' her to a far off stall just to talk about her.



* BlondGuysAreEvil: Played with. Blond Tony is a nice guy, though blond Ezra is a dickhead.
* BlondesAreEvil: Also played with. Blond Tiffany is just a desperate wannabe so her participation in the bullying is likely just survival.

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* BlondGuysAreEvil: Played with. Averted. Blond Tony is a nice guy, though blond Ezra is a dickhead.
guy who never takes part in the any of the harassment.
* BlondesAreEvil: Also played Played with. Blond Blonde Tiffany is just a desperate wannabe so her participation in the bullying is likely just survival.



* FilleFatale: We're told that Nikki loves playing with the emotions of boys who like her

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* EvilRedhead / RedheadedBully: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class.
* FilleFatale: We're told that Nikki loves playing with the emotions of boys who like herher.



* GreenEyedMonster: Vanessa is prettier, smarter, a better athlete and more well-liked than Nikki, which she knows and drives her to betray her.



* InWithTheInCrowd: Tiffany.



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



** 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.]]



* LoveTriangle: Between Stacy, Tony and Vanessa, which helps to fuel the bullying.



* MamaBear: Beverly's whole role is this. She does her best to resolve the issue and keep her daughter safe.

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* MamaBear: Beverly's Barbara's whole role is this. She does her best to resolve the issue and keep her daughter safe.safe.
* ManipulativeBitch: Stacy.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The school's lighting is unbelievably dark, obviously to symbolise the type of environment it is.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The school's lighting is unbelievably dark, obviously to symbolise symbolize the type of environment it is.



* DespairEventHorizon: After being stood up for a party by her former friends, [[spoiler:Vanessa deliberately overdoses on sleeping pills]].

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* DespairEventHorizon: After being stood up for a party by her former friends, [[spoiler:Vanessa deliberately overdoses on sleeping pills]].pills. Thankfully, her mother shows up before she dies.]]



* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of her hair off. When she shows up to school with her new hairstyle, the other girls post various cruel taunts about her hair on the Web site.
** 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.

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* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of her hair off. When she shows up to school with her new hairstyle, the other girls post various cruel taunts about her hair on the Web site.
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** In a weird way 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.
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* MamaBear: Beverly's whole role is this. She does her best to resolve the issue and keep her daughter safe.
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* 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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* MoralEventHorizon: Nikki and Tiffany cross it when [[spoiler: they laugh at Vanessa's suicide attempt]].
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* 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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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Stacy got the receiving end from Vanessa.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Nikki and Tiffany cross it when [[spoiler: they laugh at Vanessa's suicide attempt]].
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* LoveableJock: Tony, the boy Vanessa and Stacy like. Vanessa and Emily also count, being soccer players.

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* LoveableJock: LovableJock: Tony, the boy Vanessa and Stacy like. Vanessa and Emily also count, being soccer players.
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* CompleteMonster: Nikki. While Stacy shows at least some remorse in places, Nikki clearly loves the bullying [[spoiler:even when Vanessa attempts suicide]].



* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The film is very {{Anvilicious}} but if the cases of Phoebe Prince and other bullied students are anything to go by then something '''has''' to be done about bullying. Vanessa was lucky [[spoiler: that her suicide attempt didn't work]] and that she had people that wanted to help her.
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* FilleFatale: We're told that Nikkie loves playing with boys emotions

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* FilleFatale: We're told that Nikkie Nikki loves playing with the emotions of boys emotionswho like her
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* FilleFatale: We're told that Nikkie loves playing with boys emotions
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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: While Vanessa's original status as AlphaBitch is debatable, Tiffany is outside the clique at the start and immediately moves herself in to take part in the bullying once Vanessa has been kicked out.



* TheDragon: Nikki to Stacy.



* KnifingTheAlphaBitchInTheBack: While Vanessa's original status as AlphaBitch is debatable, Tiffany is outside the clique at the start and immediately moves herself in to take part in the bullying once Vanessa has been kicked out.

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* KnifingTheAlphaBitchInTheBack: While Vanessa's original status as AlphaBitch is debatable, Tiffany is outside LoveableJock: Tony, the clique at the start and immediately moves herself in to take part in the bullying once boy Vanessa has been kicked out.and Stacy like. Vanessa and Emily also count, being soccer players.

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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]].



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The school's lighting is unbelievably dark, obviously to symbolise the type of environment it is.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stacy is pretty shocked [[spoiler: at Vanessa's suicide attempt]]. Nikki not so much.



* KarmaHoudini: 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.

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* KarmaHoudini: 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.


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* KnifingTheAlphaBitchInTheBack: While Vanessa's original status as AlphaBitch is debatable, Tiffany is outside the clique at the start and immediately moves herself in to take part in the bullying once Vanessa has been kicked out.


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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The film is very {{Anvilicious}} but if the cases of Phoebe Prince and other bullied students are anything to go by then something '''has''' to be done about bullying. Vanessa was lucky [[spoiler: that her suicide attempt didn't work]] and that she had people that wanted to help her.


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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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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 Made For TV teen drama film starring Alexa Vega, Leah Pipes and Lisa Vidal. Alexa 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 going on and struggles to fight against it, despite the school remaining indifferent to many of the attacks.

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''Odd Girl Out'' is a 2005 Made For TV made-for-TV teen drama film starring [[SpyKids Alexa Vega, Vega]], Leah Pipes and Lisa Vidal. Alexa 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 going on and struggles to fight against it, despite the school remaining indifferent faculty's indifference to many of the attacks.
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* AlphaBitch: Nikki though Stacy is the leader of the group.

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\n* AlphaBitch: Nikki Nikki, though Stacy is the leader of the group.



* BlondGuysAreEvil: Played with. Blond Tony is a nice guy though blond Ezra is a dickhead.
* BlondesAreEvil: Also played with. Blonde Tiffany is just a desperate wannabe so her participation in the bullying is likely just survival.
* CompleteMonster: Nikki. While Stacy shows at least some remorse in places, Nikki clearly loves the bullying [[spoiler: even when Vanessa attempts suicide]].

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* BlondGuysAreEvil: Played with. Blond Tony is a nice guy guy, though blond Ezra is a dickhead.
* BlondesAreEvil: Also played with. Blonde Blond Tiffany is just a desperate wannabe so her participation in the bullying is likely just survival.
* CompleteMonster: Nikki. While Stacy shows at least some remorse in places, Nikki clearly loves the bullying [[spoiler: even [[spoiler:even when Vanessa attempts suicide]].



* DespairEventHorizon: After being stood up for a party by her former friends, [[spoiler: Vanessa deliberately overdoses on sleeping pills]].
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Vanessa and Stacy have been best friends since childhood though Stacy inexplicably turns on her through Nikki's influence.
* TheGhost: Vanessa's father who is only "seen" through phone calls.

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* DespairEventHorizon: After being stood up for a party by her former friends, [[spoiler: Vanessa [[spoiler:Vanessa deliberately overdoses on sleeping pills]].
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Vanessa and Stacy have been best friends since childhood childhood, though Stacy inexplicably turns on her through Nikki's influence.
* TheGhost: Vanessa's father father, who is only "seen" through phone calls.



* KarmaHoudini: Nikki gets away scott 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.

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* KarmaHoudini: Nikki gets away scott scot free. Stacy gets a verbal smackdown laid on her by Vanessa Vanessa, but Nikki is not punished at all when she's arguably more evil than Stacy.



* ShutUpHannibal: Emily does this to Stacy after [[spoiler: Vanessa's suicide attempt]].

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* ShutUpHannibal: Emily does this to Stacy after [[spoiler: Vanessa's [[spoiler:Vanessa's suicide attempt]].



* 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 girls post various cruel taunts about her hair on the website.
* WomanScorned: Stacy and Nikki start to turn on Vanessa when Tony shows interest in her instead of Stacy.

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* TraumaticHaircut: After Vanessa overhears the girls making fun of her hair, she chops a lot of it her hair off. When she shows up to school with her new hairstyle hairstyle, the other girls post various cruel taunts about her hair on the website.
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* WomanScorned: Stacy and Nikki start to turn on against Vanessa when Tony shows interest in her instead of Stacy.in Stacy.
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