History WesternAnimation / GrooveSquad

* TheCheerleader: Chrissy, Ping, Mac, Star, Stacy and Roxanne are all cheerleaders at Bay City High School, with Chrissy being the school's head cheerleader --
** Chrissy, Ping and Mac avert pretty much every single stereotype that you can think of when it comes to cheerleaders--they're similar to WesternAnimation/KimPossible in that regard. Though Chrissy does have her "diva moments" and even her friends acknowledge that can be kind of full of herself at times, ultimately, she's a good person and a good leader.
** Star, much like Kim's rival, [[SitcomArchnemesis Bonnie]] [[AlphaBitch Rockwaller]], appears to be the only true mean-spirited cheerleader on their squad.
** The trope is played with in the case of Stacy and Roxanne--see MinionWithAnFInEvil below.

'''Groove Squad''' is an animated MadeForTVMovie that debuted as a part of the WesternAnmation/DICMovieToons series on November 24, 2002.

'''Groove Squad''' is an animated MadeForTVMovie that debuted as a part of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Sunday_Movie_Toons Nickelodeon Sunday Movie Toons]] in late 2002--NSMT lasted from October 6th of 2002 to December 29th of 2002, with ''Groove Squad'' being the only movie to have an original story, as the rest were all either based on existing cartoons (made by Creator/DiCEntertainment) or were loose adaptions of classic literature.

* {{Expy}}:
** Chrissy, Ping and Mac are this to WesternAnimation/KimPossible, being popular but friendly high school cheerleaders (with Chrissy even being the head cheerleader like Kim is) who end up saving the world--but while Kim's a BadassNormal who clearly doesn't bother with keeping a SecretIdentity (or even a SecretIdentityIdentity), the Groove Squad are actual superheroines who keep their newfounded statuses a secret.
** Zeke's similar to Ron Stopabble, being the close male friend of the female lead(s) and, while not necessarily as skilled as their female friends, ultimately prove to be valuable allies--also, Zeke and Ping, [[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama just like Kim and Ron,]] [[RelationshipUpgrade end up becoming a couple after having been friends for a (presumably) long time.]]
** Star Nightingale is very similar to Kim's rival, Bonnie Rockwaller, being the spoiled/arrogant/pompous rival to the female lead(s), and even being very vocal about replacing them as their school cheerleading captain (much like how Bonnie was in the early episodes of ''Kim Possible'').

* SignatureMove: The Triple Flip. It not only helps gets the groove squad free snd repowered,but is also the move that lets them win the cheerleading competition.

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: They have multiple in the movie but the most common one being "Bring it o n! Groove Squad!"

** Mac appears to be African-American, but she has green eyes--since she's never shown with dark-colored eyes and it's never said if she wears colored contacts, it's possible that she has MixedAncestry. Mac's voice actress, Bettina Bush, is actually mixed race, with her father being black and her mother having Scottish, Cherokee and Polynesian ancestry.
** Fernando's a ForeignExchangeStudent (from some Spanish-speaking country), but he has blue eyes instead of dark-colored eyes--like with Mac, since he's never shown with dark-colored eyes and it's never said if he wears colored contacts, it's possible that he has MixedAncestry.

* InvisibleParents: The only actual parent seen in person throughout the course of the movie is Dr. Nightingale, who just so happens to be Star's dad. Ping mentions her parents shortly after she and her friends first gain their superpowers, when she gets worried about how they'll react if they learn of her newfound superpowers (but they're not seen in person).

** Fernando's parents aren't seen or mentioned, but it's justified in his case in that, as a ForeignExchangeStudent, he's probably living with a host family while staying in Bay City.
** Adrienne's an adult and clearly doesn't live with his parents--also, assuming that Adrienne's parents are still alive, they probably still live in England.

* RealityEnsues: As Adrienne first points out, it won't be that simple for Chrissy and her friends to become superheroines after they first gain their powers--they have to learn to use their powers properly and learn to work together as a team of superheroines (especially since each of the girls only has one superpower). Chrissy, who was the most eager to become a superhero, soon realizes that being a superhero isn't as fun or glamorous as she imagined it to be. And as Chrissy and her friends realize, if they want to continue being the Groove Squad (which they do), they're going to have learn to be able to balance their normal lives and their newfound lives as superheroines.
** To a smaller extent, the Triple Flip-cheerleading stunt (the one that Chrissy kept insisting on using) seems rather dangerous and nearly impossible to achieve--in fact, according to Star, when a rival squad tried doing that same stunt at a regional cheerleading competition a few years previously, half the cheerleaders ended up in traction at the hospital.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Wakes Up, Goes to School and Saves the World]]: Much like Kim Possible, the titular Groove Squad are still fairly normal teenage girls, being concerned with things like school, cheerleading, boys and their looks, but they also care about things besides that.

'''''Groove Squad''''' is an animated MadeForTVMovie that debuted as a part of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Sunday_Movie_Toons Nickelodeon Sunday Movie Toons]] in late 2002--NSMT lasted from October 6th of 2002 to December 29th of 2002, with ''Groove Squad'' being the only movie to have an original story, as the rest were all either based on existing cartoons (made by Creator/DiCEntertainment) or were loose adaptions of classic literature.

* SignatureMove: The Triple Flip. It not only helps gets the groove squad free snd repowered,but is also the move that lets them win the cheerleading competition.

* OnlyOneName: Star and her dad are the only characters to have both their first and last names known--Adrienne's the one who initially refers to the MadScientist as [[AlliterativeName "Nathaniel Nightingale."]] While Star's full name is never said out loud during the course of the movie, since Dr. Nightingale is revealed to be her dad, it can be assumed that her last name is also "Nightingale" (which is an actual last name, albeit not a very common name).

* PairTheSpares: Unlike Chrissy (who has Fernando) and Ping (who has Zeke), Mac didn't have an established crush or love interest--in the end, Adrienne sets her up with Derek, a young friend of his who also attends Bay City High School and who also has a 4.0 GPA.

* PowerUp [[PowerUpFood Food]]: A non-videogame example--for Chrissy, Ping and Mac to get into their SuperMode as the Groove Squad, they have to drink a fruit smoothie, since they were drinking some fruit smoothies when they were zapped by the jolt of electricity that gave them their powers in the first place. Zeke and girls discovered this when, while practicing cheerleading at the park, Zeke and Ping came back with some fruit smoothies, and the girls gain their powers back after drinking them.

The titular group consists of three high school cheerleaders named Chrissy, Ping and Mackenzie (more commonly called "Mac"), who're best friends and are basically like your average teenaged girls--they're concerned with things like their looks, boys and popularity, and are also very focused on getting ready for an upcoming cheerleading competition. However, one day, while getting their hair done at a local salon, the girls get zapped by a jolt of electricity that gives each of them one special power:

* PowerPerversionPotential: Upon learning that fruit smoothies serve as fuel for her powers, Mac tests them by seeing through Zeke's mascot costume. He's upset for it.

* UselessWithoutPowers: Chrissy, Ping and Mac's only work when they've had their fruit smoothies (or any kind fruit-based drink), and they have to have a supply of fruit-based drinks on them so they'll be able to access their powers anywhere and at any time. One the smoothies wear off, the girls' powers go away and they're back to normal teenaged girls (albeit still very athletically skilled).

** Adrienne's originally from England and appears to be black, but he has blonde hair, blonde eyebrows and blonde facial hair (which he was shown to have even in a flashback to when he used to work as an undercover spy for the Secret Intelligence Service in England), but it's entirely possible that his hair is dyed blonde, especially considering that he does work as a hairstylist (he also mentions that he spent some time working within the industry, with people such as supermodels).

** Fernando's a ForeignExchangeStudent (from some Spanish-speaking country), but he has blue eyes instead of dark-colored--like with Mac, since he's never shown with dark-colored eyes and it's never said if he wears colored contacts, it's possible that he has MixedAncestry.

** Chrissy, Ping and Mac are this to WesternAnimation/KimPossible, being the popular but friendly high school cheerleaders (with Chrissy even being the head cheerleader like Kim is) who end up saving the world--but while Kim's a BadassNormal who clearly doesn't bother with keeping a SecretIdentity (or even a SecretIdentityIdentity), the Groove Squad are actual superheroines who keep their newfounded statuses a secret.

** While Ping's name can be used as a girl's name, it is considerably more common as a boy's name.

** The way that Adrienne's name is spelled is actually the way you would spell it for a woman (the way you would spell it for a man would be either "Adrian" or "Adrien"). However, it's also a MeaningfulName in that Adrienne's name can mean "the dark one," which suits him because of his dark skin tone.

** Fernando's parents aren't seen or mentioned, but it's justified in his case in that, as a ForeignExchangeStudent, he's probably living with a host family in Bay City rather than any biological relatives.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Wakes Up, Goes to School and Saves the World]]: Much like Kim Possible, the titular Groove Squad are still fairly normal teenaged girls, being concerned with things like school, cheerleading, boys and their looks, but they also care about things besides that.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Upon learning fruit smoothies serve as fuel for her powers, Mac tests them by seeing through Zeke's mascot costume. He's upset for it.
* PowerUp [[PowerUpFood Food]]: A non-videogame example--for Chrissy, Ping and Mac to get into their SuperMode as the Groove Squad, they have to drink a fruit smoothie, since they were drinking some fruit smoothies when they zapped by the jolt of electricity that gave them their powers in the first place. Zeke and girls discovered this when, while practicing cheerleading at the park, Zeke and Ping came back with some fruit smoothies, and the girls gain their powers back after drinking them.

** Mac appears to be African-American, but she has GreenEyes--since she's never shown with dark-colored eyes and it's never said if she wears colored contacts, it's possible that she has MixedAncestry. Mac's voice actress, Bettina Bush, is actually mixed race, with her father being black and her mother having Scottish, Cherokee and Polynesian ancestry.

* TheAllegedCar: The car that Zeke owns is shown to be this--it seems to work fine for the most part, but it has a tendency of spouting off a lot of exhaust when Zeke tries starting it. The car seems to improve after Adrien installs some upgrades on it.

* TheCheerleader: Chrissy, Ping, Mac, Star, Stacy and Roxanne are all cheerleaders at Bay City High School, with Chrissy as the captain of their squad --

** Chrissy, Ping and Mac are this to WesternAnimation/KimPossible, being the popular but friendly high school cheerleaders (with Chrissy even being the school cheerleading captain like Kim is) who end up saving the world--but while Kim's a BadassNormal who clearly doesn't bother with keeping a SecretIdentity (or even a SecretIdentityIdentity), the Groove Squad are actual superheroines who keep their newfounded statuses a secret.

** Star Nightingale is very similar to Kim's rival, Bonnie Rockwaller, being the spoiled/arrogant/pompous rival to the female lead(s), and even being very vocal about replacing them as their school cheerleading captain (much like how Bonnie was in the early episodes of Kim Possible).

** Mac's more of a TomboyishName example--her real name is "Mackenzie" (which can be used as boy's name, but is much more common for girl's), but she's only ever referred to as "Mackenzie" once, when Chrissy first introduces her friends to Adrienne.

* IntergenerationalFriendship (combined with TheMentor): Adrienne, the trio's hairtylist who's also a former secret agent for the British government, is this to Chrissy, Ping and Mac--aside from having a good hairstylist/client-relationship, Adrien really takes it upon himself to help the girls learn to use and control their superpowers and, along with Zeke, helps to keep their newfound identities as superheroines a secret.
* InvisibleParents: The only actual parent seen in person throughout the course of the movie is Dr. Nightingale, who just so happens to be Star's dad. Ping mentions her parents shortly after she and her friends first gain their superpowers, when she gets worried about how they'll react if they learn of her newfound superpowers (however, Ping's aren't physically seen in the movie).

** Adrienne's an adult and clearly doesn't live with his parents--also, assuming that Adrienne's are still alive, they probably still live in England.
* LimitedWardrobe: Pretty much all the characters in the movie are only seen in one, two or three different outfits throughout the entire movie. For example:

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Wakes Up, Goes to School and Saves the World]]: Much like Kim Possible, the titular Groove Squad are still fairly normal teenaged girls, being concerned with things like school, cheerleading, boys, school dances and their looks, but they also care about things besides that.

** To a smaller extent, the Triple Flip-cheerleading stunt (the one that Chrissy kept insisting on using) seems rather dangerous and nearly impossible to achieve--in fact, according to a comment that Star, when a rival squad tried doing that same stunt at a regional cheerleading competition a few years previously, half of their cheerleaders ended up in traction at the hospital.

* SecretKeeper: Zeke and Adrienne become this after the girls become superheroines--Zeke and Adrien are the only ones aside from Dr. Nightingale and Larry to known about Chrissy, Ping and Mac's superpowers and their identities as superheroes. Zeke in particular proves himself to be a valuable ally to the girls, despite not gaining superpowers like they do.

** In the case of Fernando, he must be at least 16, since most foreign exchange programs for high school students require participants to be at least 16 (maybe 15 at the absolute youngest).

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Adrien (the trio's hairstylist), Mac and Fernando are this --

** Fernando appears to be Hispanic, but he has blue eyes instead of dark-colored eye--like with Mac, since he's never shown with dark-colored eyes and it's never said if he wears colored contacts, it's possible that he has MixedAncestry.
* BettyAndVeronica: Chrissy (the kind and friendly Betty) and Star (the mean and bitchy Veronica) are this to Fernando (the Archie), with Fernando ultimately choosing Chrissy over Star.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Star Nightingale is this to Dr. Nathaniel Nightingale, who just so happens to be her dad--she also combines it with DaddysLittleVillain, EvilRedhead, MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter and UglyGuysHotDaughter:
** Star's an attractive redhead who's arguably just as evil as her MadScientist-father (if not ''more'' evil), and based on what her dad looks like (as well as assuming that Dr. Nightingale is in fact Star's biological father), Star probably takes more after her mom (who's never seen or mentioned throughout the movie) in looks.
* BreakingTheFourthWall (combined with WholeEpisodeFlashback): A good chunk of the movie consists of Chrissy, the story's narrator, explaining to the audience how she, Ping and Mac got their superpowers and how they and Zeke got into their situation at the beginning of the film: fighting Flower Power (a trio of villainous hippies working for Dr. Nightingale), and how Zeke eventually got BoundAndGagged to a pole and the girls got tied up and suspended over a boiling pot--figuring that the audience is curious about what led to this, Chrissy goes all the way back to the beginning, claiming that it happened one day when she and her friends were at cheerleading practice.

** Fernando's parents aren't seen or mentioned, but it's justified in his case in that, as ForeignExchangeStudent, he's probably live a host family in Bay City rather than any biological relatives.

* InvisibleParents: The only actual parent seen in person throughout the course of the movie is Dr. Nightingale, who just so happens to be Star's dad. Ping mentions her own parents at one point, but it's only when she becomes concerned about how they'll react if they end up discovering her superpowers--the parents of Chrissy, Mac, Zeke and the twins, Stacy and Roxanne, are never seen or mentioned. In the case of Fernando, it could be justified in that he's a foreign exchange student, so he's most likely living with a host family in Bay City rather than his biological family.

* VagueAge: It's never explained how old Zeke, Star, the twins and the Groove Squad are--considering that Zeke has his own car and is able to drive without needing an adult in the car or getting pulled over by a police officer, he must be at least 16. And it can be assumed that Chrissy, Ping and Mac are probably the same age as him (as well as Star and the twins), with Fernando probably being not that much older than them.

* Chrissy (the leader) gains the power of super-strength.
* Ping (the sweet but ditzy one) gains the ability to fly.
* Mac (the smart one) gains the power of x-ray vision.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Star Nightingale is this to Dr. Nefarious Nightingale, who just so happens to be her dad--she also combines it with DaddysLittleVillain, EvilRedhead, MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter and UglyGuysHotDaughter:

* Chrissy (the leader) gains the power of superstrength.