Line #37 Film/BadReputation


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2	[[caption-width-right:182:[-They showed her no shame... she showed them no mercy.-]]]
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4	''Bad Reputation'' is a 2005 American RapeAndRevenge SlasherMovie.
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6	Michelle is a dorky high school student who has just been asked out by the local big man on campus. She excitedly accepts and goes to a party he's holding. However, while there, her date leads his buddies in gang-raping her and branding her the school slut. Now, with nobody believing her and with no other recourse, Michelle dolls herself up and uses her newfound bad reputation to slash her way through everybody who's ruined her life.
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8	Not to be confused with the Music/JoanJett song of the same name or the 2018 documentary about her.
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10	!!This film contains examples of:
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12	* AbusiveParents: Michelle's mother is emotionally abusive and seems to think that a black dress that goes past her knees and barely shows her back makes her look like [[SlutShaming a slut]]. When Michelle does get raped, [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming she doesn't believe her]].
13	* AdultsAreUseless: Michelle's mother and the school's guidance counselor both blame her for what happened, the former overtly and the latter passive-aggressively. The sole police officer who appears also comes off as rather blasé in regards to Steve's death.
14	* AlphaBitch: Aaron's girlfriend, Debbie.
15	* BadassBiker: Heather's Halloween costume.
16	* BeautifulAllAlong: When asking Michelle out, Aaron compares her to the nerdy girls whom this trope applies to, noting that [[HollywoodHomely they looked great even when wearing frumpy clothes]].
17	* BetaBitch: Heather, who is arguably even meaner than AlphaBitch Debbie.
18	* BigBad: Aaron Cussler led the gang rape of Michelle.
19	* TheCanKickedHim: Debbie has her face beaten against a toilet, which she is then drowned in.
20	* ColdBloodedTorture: Jake, the most violent of Michelle's attackers, is tied up and tortured (including via AssShove) with objects like a lighter and [[ThePenIsMightier pens]].
21	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Michelle goes completely insane in her vengeance quest, ultimately trying to kill the relatively innocent Wendy. Wendy has to kill her in self-defense, and the film ends with her crying over Michelle's corpse.]]
22	* FemmeFatale: Michelle decides to use seduction to get to her male targets before killing them. She would be TheVamp, but her victims [[AssholeVictim deserved it]].
23	* GreaterScopeVillain: Aaron's parents are {{corrupt corporate executive}}s who lobby to allow more environmental damage in their business dealings, but they never show up and are irrelevant to the plot.
24	* GroinAttack: Michelle castrates Steve's post-mortem, burns Jake's genitals, and bites Aaron's off.
25	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Halloween.
26	* HotForStudent: When Michelle goes to the guidance counselor about the bullying, he decides to hit on her.
27	* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Steve is stabbed in the neck.
28	* JerkJock: Aaron is a football player who has delusions of culture, is constantly in a tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend, and rapes people.
29	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Aaron loves to name-drop "high-class" authors like [[Literature/TropicOfCancer Henry Miller]] and Creator/FyodorDostoevsky despite only learning their names from PopCulturalOsmosis and art films that he confuses for porn.
30	* MacheteMayhem: Michelle sneaks a real machete into Aaron's Halloween party by pretending that it's a prop for her Jason Voorhees costume.
31	* MsFanservice: Michelle becomes this after deciding to get her revenge, wearing various skimpy outfits, sometimes see-through.
32	* ShoutOut:
33	** Michelle is seen reading ''Literature/TropicOfCancer'' in the opening scene.
34	** Aaron and one of his friends watch ''Henry and June'', confusing it for a porno, and its star Creator/UmaThurman is mentioned as also having starred in ''Film/KillBill''.
35	** Michelle wears [[Franchise/FridayThe13th a hockey mask]] to Aaron's Halloween party in the climax.
36	* OffWithHisHead: Heather is decapitated with a machete.
37	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: A high school girl is gang-raped and butchers the rapists after the authorities don't believe her.
38	* SlashedThroat: How Michelle finally dispatches Aaron.
39	* SlippingAMickey: Aaron slips Michelle a roofie so he and his friends can gang-rape her. [[spoiler: Michelle roofies everybody at Aaron's Halloween party to get him all to herself in the climax.]]
40	* SlutShaming: Aaron's girlfriend responds to Michelle being raped by taping her to a tree and writing "SLUT" on her forehead. This is just the beginning of a gigantic bullying campaign against her.
41	* ThrowTheBookAtThem: A bound Jake is bludgeoned with a thick, heavy book.
42	* TokenGoodTeammate: The only decent person in the victim pool is Wendy, a FormerlyFat now-popular girl who tries and fails to stop Michelle's victimization, only relenting when she's threatened too. [[spoiler: She ends up as the sole survivor.]]
43	* WithFriendsLikeThese: The popular clique is prone to talking shit about its members behind their backs.

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