Line #22 PlayingWith/PopularIsEvil


1	'''Basic Trope''' In HighSchool, or junior high school, the popular kids are also the meanest, bullying the unpopular kids.
2	* '''Straight:''' Bob and Alice, two popular kids, bully the dorky Carol and Charlie.
3	* '''Exaggerated:''' Rich, handsome, [[JerkJock athletic football captain]] and class president BigJerkOnCampus Bob and beautiful, seductive, slutty [[CruelCheerleader head cheerleader]] and homecoming queen AlphaBitch Alice ruthlessly and relentlessly torment Carol the plain jane with dowdy clothes and Charlie the science nerd with glasses and braces, by injuring them, insulting them with cruel names, and embarrassing them in front of their classmates everyday.
4	* '''Downplayed:'''
5	** Bob and Alice don’t bully Carol and Charlie, they just snub them and act like they don’t exist.
6	* '''Justified:'''
7	** [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism Popularity can corrupt.]] Once Bob and Alice become popular, they begin to look down on those who aren't as popular as they are.
8	** [[FreudianExcuse Bob and Alice used to be unpopular kids]], until they become increasingly popular and they use their popularity to [[DrunkWithPower take a revenge against everyone else]].
9	* '''Inverted:'''
10	** Bob, the BigManOnCampus, and Alice, the ClassPrincess, are actually nice.
11	** Carol and Charlie are the most unpopular kids because they're mean to everybody except themselves.
12	** Bob and Alice are evil, but instead of boosting their popularity, their meanness actually hurts their social life, making them unpopular with their schoolmates.
13	* '''Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular at school, but instead of being a JerkJock or an AlphaBitch, they’re just a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who nice to everyone, even dorks like Carol and Charlie.
14	* '''Double Subverted:'''
15	** Bob and Alice are popular and nice...until someone becomes a threat to their power. Then they become evil and bully the person until that threat is extinguished.
16	** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Bob and Alice's kindness is all an act]] to make people believe they're sweethearts, so their social reputation isn't ruined by their {{Jerkass}} actions.
17	** Bob and Alice hang out with Carol and Charlie [[StrawLoser to make them feel better about themselves]].
18	* '''Parodied''': In [[AcademyOfEvil this school]], [[EvilIsCool being evil is considered as a cool and awesome thing]]. Even the teachers are SadistTeacher too.
19	* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
20	* '''Averted''': The school doesn't have any kids who are popular.
21	* '''Enforced:''' "We need a believable bully for our protagonist. How about the popular kids?"
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Don't go anywhere near those people. They're popular and popular people will kill you."
23	* '''Invoked''': Bob and Alice being [[AmbitionIsEvil badly ambitious]] to [[CompetitionFreak prevent themselves from losing their popularity]].
24	* '''Exploited''': [[TallPoppySyndrome Someone prevents Carol and Charlie from being social and popular fads so they can't be evil]].
25	* '''Defied''': The school staff takes action to teach children equality and acceptance to prevent them from letting popularity go to their heads.
26	* '''Discussed''': ???
27	* '''Conversed''': ???
28	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob and Alice learn that their popularity will cost them everything. After crossing the line one times too many, they fail their classes, they are respectively kicked out of the football team and the cheerleading squad, the students eventually abandon them and side with Carol and Charlie, they're are expelled from school, and their parents punish them severely.
29	* '''Reconstructed''':
30	** Then Danny, the NewTransferStudent, and Erica, Alice's former BetaBitch, become the new popular kids, thus, the PopularityCycle continues, and [[StatusQuoIsGod Carol and Charlie get bullied again]].
31	** Alternatively, when Carol and Charlie become more popular, [[DrunkWithPower these reputations also gives their power that goes to their head as well]], and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters they have officially grown as bad as what they were treated before.]]
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33	Only popular people can click on the [[PopularIsEvil main page]]! Not nerds like you!
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35	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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37	%%* '''Implied''': ???
38	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
39	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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