History Series / SweetVicious

** Chloe and the Lindsays, the leaders of the Kappa Kappa Phi sorority, are a particularly nasty example, cruelly abusing pledges [[spoiler:and filming it for a fetish site]]. Ophelia describes Chloe as "the love child of a [=CrossFit=] instructor and [[GodwinsLaw Mussolini]]."

* TheBait: In the fifth episode, Ophelia uses herself as bait to bust Landon. [[spoiler:It almost ends in disaster when it turns out that Landon had a buddy, with Ophelia only saved by her stun gun.]]

* BrainsAndBrawn: Ophelia and Jules, respectively. Ophelia mostly serves as Jules' backup when they're out, and is heavily outclassed as a fighter; her main talent is with computers, digging up dirt on targets, and [[CombatPragmatist scoring low blows]].

** At the end of episode five, [[spoiler:Ophelia chases Landon out into the middle of campus and winds up with several people filming the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown she inflicts on him. Her only saving grace is that she's still in disguise.]]
** In the first season finale, [[spoiler:Miles gets Nate to confess to what he did to Jules, as well as a previous incident when they both were in high school, getting everything on camera.]]

** [[spoiler:Landon's sidekick]] in episode five can also fight dirty with the best of them, as seen when he stabs Jules in the leg with one of the caltrops they used to disable Landon's car.

* DatingCatwoman: Jules' boyfriend Tyler is the stepbrother of Carter, the man that she and Ophelia accidentally killed in the pilot.
* DistinguishingMark: The cut on Ophelia's arm she sustained fighting Landon and his friend becomes this in the sixth episode, when [[spoiler:the police are searching for someone whose arm was cut open like the person in the video]].

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Thanks to [[spoiler:Miles' help]], Jules and Ophelia are able to [[spoiler:broadcast a video of Nate all but admitting to raping Jules and another girl in front of the entire school.]]

** Ophelia frames Chase Park, one of her former victims, in order to throw off the attention of the police, [[spoiler:slashing his arm to give him a wound similar to hers that's being used to [[DistinguishingMark identify the "robber"]]]].

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Miles, Nate's best friend.]] Flashbacks to the night Jules was raped at first implied that he was complicit in the event, but later [[spoiler:when Jules comes forward it is made clear that he never knew the details and is disgusted by Nate's actions, to the point that he helps the vigilantes to acquire Nate's confession.]]
* GroinAttack: One of Jules and Ophelia's favorite moves. They're equal-opportunity with it; in the fourth episode, right after kicking Chloe in the crotch, Ophelia states that she doesn't know why so many people think that the move only works on men.

* HiddenDepths: Fiona is TheDitz, but she's also smart enough to correct Harris' law paper and collected enough not to get thrown by the Title IX committee's questioning.
** Most of Tyler's on-screen time has him interacting with Jules, being sweet and loving. His artwork, though, is inspired at least in part by dealing with depression, and in the finale it's revealed that he got into a fistfight with his stepbrother a few months earlier over the latter's unwillingness to deal with the allegations of sexual assault made against him.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Happens to Nate in the sixth episode. After Jules delivers to him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for raping her, he goes to his girlfriend, Jules' sorority leader Kennedy, ostensibly to confess to her what he had done. [[spoiler:He tells her that he slept with Jules... without mentioning that it was rape. This fractures Kennedy's relationship with Jules, not helped by her already suspicious of Jules' lying to her in the past to cover up her secret.]]

** Jules and Ophelia's attempt to [[spoiler:bury Carter's body]] is almost derailed when fraternity pledges start prowling the graveyard as part of their initiation.
** The target in the fourth episode is Kappa Kappa Phi, a sorority whose initiation involves brutally hazing pledges. [[spoiler:They're secretly filming it all and using the footage for a highly profitable fetish site.]]
* IntrepidReporter: As part of his work in Darlington's law review, Harris becomes determined to investigate the activities of the vigilante on campus. [[spoiler:He deduces that Jules is the "robber" by the sixth episode.]]

* KnifeNut: Jules' go-to weapon when her fists aren’t enough is a switchblade.

* MakeoverMontage: In the fourth episode, Ophelia removes the green dye from her hair and puts on preppy clothes in order to infiltrate Kappa House as "Fifi". She's not at all happy about it, and is very quick to return to her old style, much to her mom's dismay.

** On the evil side, we have Chloe and the Lindsays. Not only are they able to hold their own in hand-to-hand combat with Jules and Ophelia far better than most of their male targets, but the scope of their evil deeds is far more widespread. Most of Jules and Ophelia's targets are assaulting individual girls simply to satisfy their own base instincts. The Kappas, however, turn it up to an industrial scale -- not only do they systematically abuse ''dozens'' of girls at a time over the course of Hell Week (and presumably even after that), they are also [[spoiler:profiting from their heinous actions to the tune of twenty thousand dollars a week by filming and selling it as fetish porn]]. And to top it all off, Chloe and the Lindsays are just the latest offenders from the Kappas' ranks, as the Kappa leadership (which, at one point, included Ophelia's mother) has a history of hazing pledges going back ''decades''.
** Of the school officials who try to undermine Jules' case against Nate, the female Title IX counselor is the one who most consistently attacks her.
* MistakenIdentity: Their target in the third episode, Max, [[spoiler:turns out to be the wrong man. The real culprit had catfished his victim with a fake profile using Max's name and pictures.]]

* NotMyDriver: The villain in the fifth episode, Landon Mays, is a driver for an Uber-like rideshare company called [=GetIn=] who picks up women who've been out drinking [[spoiler:after they've been drugged by his friend]], parks in a back alley, locks the car doors, and rapes them while they're barely (if at all) conscious.

** Both campus security and the Westport PD are either incapable or unwilling to do anything about the large number of sexual assaults that take place in the university. At least in the case of campus security, this is by ''design'', as [[spoiler:Officer Barton is fired by the Darlington's higher-ups the second he starts making a connection between the vigilante's victims and the un-investigated sexual assault cases.]]

** The uselessness is show to extend all the way to the Office of the District Attorney, [[spoiler:which willfully looks the other way in sexual assault cases in order to protect the university.]]

* RealityEnsues: Jules can wipe the floor with most regular guys in hand-to-hand combat, but she’s still a petite young woman, so the school athletes are big and strong enough to overpower her by brute force alone.

** Much of Jules' storyline around reporting her rape - her sisters are (once Kennedy believes her) supportive and loving, but the college tries to put her off reporting the rape, the college president overturns Nate's guilty verdict, the DA is indifferent and much of the college slut-shames and bullies her purely on the basis of Nate's sporting prowess.

** [[spoiler:Landon Mays talks to Nate about teaming up to take down Sweet/Vicious.]]

** When Harris asks his Zeta girlfriend Fiona about the gym locker that Ophelia claims Jules' necklace was stolen from, he learns that the gym the Zetas go to doesn't have lockers. Further questions reveal more holes in Ophelia's story.

* TheStoner: Every student in the show seems to smoke marijuana. In Ophelia’s case, she isn’t just a user, but also the college’s main weed dealer.

* TitleDrop: It takes until the eight episode, but the words of the title finally make an appearance in this exchange:

* TheUnfairSex: Jules and Ophelia exploit this in the sixth episode to [[spoiler:lay low after Ophelia is filmed in action, the police operating under the default assumption that it was a man who was behind the mask and voice changer]].

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Darlington University is located in the fictional town of Westport, and while the show never pins down Westport's location in the United States, it's hinted that it's somewhere in New England, specifically in Vermont. The green-and-white license plates resemble Vermont's and show that Westport is in the "Rolling Hills State", not unlike Vermont's official nickname of the Green Mountain State, and Jules and Ophelia cover up [[spoiler:Carter's death]] by making it look as though he'd run off to nearby Quebec to go snowboarding. While Vermont is landlocked, and the name "Westport" would seem to imply that the town is on the coast, Lake Champlain (in the western part of the state, natch) is an important inland waterway.

* BlackBestFriend: Both of the main characters have them. Ophelia's best friend is Harris, a straight-laced law student, while Jules' is Kennedy, the leader of her sorority.

* HateSink: Nate Griffin is the Alpha Dog of Darlington and Kennedy's boyfriend who raped Jules and one other girl before the series. Throughout the series, Nate continues to scare Jules and tries to turn Kennedy against her. Nate refuses to take responsibility and generally seems to believe he did nothing wrong, getting more exasperated the more he's confronted. In a drug-fuelled rant, Nate says that victims deserve to get raped and that he is untouchable.

* DarkActionGirl: Chloe and her fellow Kappa leaders in the fourth episode turn out to have enough self-defense training to fight back better than most of their male targets. It is still not enough to beat Jules and Ophelia, though.

** Brady later tweets about the vigilante with the hashtag #SweetVicious - it takes off, and Ophelia and Jules end up adopting it when they launch a website for their vigilante 'business'.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Somewhere between this and AwesomenessIsAForce - Harris is initially disgusted by Ophelia's vigilante activities to the point of ending their friendship over it. He's won over to their cause by a mixture of finding out that even the DA's office is willing to overlook sexual assaults when it's in the university's interests for them to do so, and by seeing Jules and Ophelia [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome take out eight frat guys in a brawl]].

''Sweet/Vicious'' is an Creator/{{MTV}} series created by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson that premiered on November 15, 2016.

The series follows the adventures of two college girls, Jules (Eliza Bennett) and Ophelia (Taylor Dearden) who act as vigilantes, punishing the sexual predators at Darlington University.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Darlington University is located in the fictional town of Westport, but the show gives no clear indication as to Westport's location in the United States. However, it's hinted that it's in the Northeast/New England region, close to the Canadian border, as seen when Jules and Ophelia cover up [[spoiler:Carter's death]] by making it look as though he'd run off to Quebec to go snowboarding. License plates show that it is in the "Rolling Hills State"; this would seem to evoke Vermont, the "Green Mountain State", especially since the plates' green-and-white pattern is vaguely similar to Vermont license plates, but the name "Westport" implies that it's on the coast, while Vermont is landlocked.

* ContentWarnings: Most episodes start out with the following after the "PreviouslyOn" bit, noting that the episode contains potentially {{trigger}}ing depictions of rape:

* PlayfulHacker: Ophelia is extremely talented with computers, which she uses to hack into the school’s database and change her grades.

* AccidentalMurder: Ophelia bashed Carter's brains in with a tire iron because she thought he was going to kill Jules. She was only trying to knock him out.

* ActionGirl: Jules is an incredibly talented hand-to-hand fighter.

* {{Frameup}}: Ophelia frames Chase Park, one of her former victims, in order to throw off the attention of the police, [[spoiler:slashing his arm to give him a wound similar to hers that's being used to [[DistinguishingMark identify the "robber"]]]].

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Thanks to [[spoiler:Miles' help]], Jules and Ophelia are able to [[spoiler:broadcast a video of Nate all but admitting to raping Jules and another girl in entire school.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Both campus security and the Westport PD are either incapable or unwilling to do anything about the large number of sexual assaults that take place in the university. At least in the case of campus security, this is by ''design'', as [[spoiler:Officer Barton is fired by the Darlington's higher-ups the second he starts making a connection between the vigilante's victims and the un-investigated sexual assault cases.]]

* CaughtOnTape: At the end of episode five, [[spoiler:Ophelia chases Landon out into the middle of campus and winds up with several people filming the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown she inflicts on him. Her only saving grace is that she's still in disguise.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Both campus security and the Westport PD are either incapable or unwilling to do anything about the large number of sexual assaults that take place in the university.