Theft
is the 25th story in Danny Phantom: Stranded. Vlad is back and decides to steal the Infi-Map again.
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- Abhorrent Admirer:
- Vivian points out to Donovan that Star and Sam hate him too much to even be near him without wanting to punch him.
- Danny and everyone else explain in court that the Fenton boy never saw Colette as anything but the annoying, two-faced Spoiled Brat she truly is and hated her guts from day one as well as every second he was forced to put up with her.
- Accidental Misnaming: Theodore still can’t remember Danny’s name, wondering if it's "Denny", "Donny", or "Doug".
- Accomplice by Inaction: Stella admits she contributed to Colette's crimes by not stopping her in time despite her increasingly out of control behavior and everyone's valid arguments about all the trouble she's been causing since moving to Amity Park.
- Adults Are Useless:
- Danny and Star make it clear to the court that Jean-Luc is even more worthless as a father to his biological children than his stepdaughter since he almost never actually parents them and just enables Colette’s worst traits by spoiling her rotten and letting her run wild all the time.
- Deconstructed with Stella, who is left guilt-ridden when she realizes she’s this for enabling Colette’s rotten behavior and ignoring the problems she caused until her stepdaughter went too far.
- Deconstructed as the incompetence of Superintendent Baxter and most of the Casper High staff in handling Colette's crimes causes them to be replaced by new teachers.
- Affectionate Nickname: Pierre calls Frostbite “Teddy”.
- Afraid of Clowns: Possibly. Star mentions to Frostbite that Pierre doesn't like clowns.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Stella can't help but feel bad for Colette after she's declared guilty at the end of her trial. While she fully acknowledges that her stepdaughter completely brought it on herself for her own despicable crimes, Stella hopes that Colette will at least get the help she needs at Bludworth Academy.
- All for Nothing: Both Vivian and Theodore make it very clear to Donovan that all his attempts at “courting” Star and Sam were doomed to failure from the start since they hate him too match to ever associate with him unless it was to hit him for bothering them.
- Always Someone Better:
- Donovan is jealous of Danny for gaining the interest of beautiful rich girls while he can’t get a single one to date him.
- Danny points out that his father Jack is a much better man and a better love interest to his mother compared to Vlad, who only loves the idea of Maddie while Jack sincerely loves her for who she is.
- Amazon Chaser: Star notices that both Danny and Jack love strong women, which Danny doesn't deny.
- Apathy Killed the Cat: Jean-Luc pays for his utter lackluster parenting of Colette by having his family’s name and prestige severely damaged when her crimes and arrest become public knowledge.
- Arranged Friendship: Team Phantom witness how in Sam's childhood, her parents constantly tried to make her hang out with kids from other rich families just to boost their own status, which Sam refused because she didn't like their stuck-up behavior.
- The Atoner: Kwan testifies in court about Colette forcing him to aid her in her crimes in “Blackmailed” and accepts full responsibility for his actions.
- Attention Whore:
- Deconstructed with Colette as Star and Danny make it clear in court that her obsession with stealing him is partly out of a pathetic desire to be the center of attention since she can't stand anyone paying attention to anyone else but her especially if it's Star.
- Donovan is just as bad as Colette because he can't stand anyone getting more attention than him, especially not the middle-class Danny Fenton from rich girls.
- Awful Wedded Life: Vivian points out to Donovan that being married to someone as irredeemably awful as Colette would've been a total nightmare and he's VERY lucky the Beviers rejected his Arranged Marriage proposal.
- Bad Boss: Jean-Luc is very harsh and demanding to his lawyers, making it clear they better get Colette out of the legal trouble she’s in or else.
- Beauty Breeds Laziness: Vivian is fine with Donovan being the leader of the Masters' Blasters because she sees it as less work for her.
- Benevolent Boss: Vlad pays each of the Masters' Blasters $5000 for successfully completing their first job by unknowingly helping him steal the Infi-Map from Frostbite.
- Big Sister Instinct: Alicia's younger self ends up hating the young Vlad after seeing him be mean to Maddie.
- Blame the Paramour: Star makes it clear in court that Jean-Luc is nothing but womanizing trash who destroyed her parents' marriage by seducing her mom.
- Blaming the Victim:
- Jean-Luc’s lawyers try to paint Danny as the cause of Colette’s bad behavior but the judge and Johnathan are having none of that.
- As far as Donovan is concerned, his obsession with and harassment of Star is her fault for rejecting him and choosing Danny.
- Blatant Lies: Colette keeps stubbornly insisting out of delusion that Danny is her soulmate while Jean-Luc claims it’s Danny's fault for Colette’s crimes and tries painting her feud with Star as a sibling rivalry that got out of hand.
- Born in the Wrong Century:
- Even Theodore thinks Donovan is old-fashioned for still believing in arranged marriages.
- Jean-Luc has some old-fashioned views of women as he considers it beneath aristocrats like Stella to learn self-defense when they can just hire bodyguards since he views fighting as something commoners do.
- Breaking Old Trends: Unlike most Stranded fics, this one starts with an entry from Stella's diary instead of one from Star's.
- Brutal Honesty:
- During the trial, Star and Danny loudly voice their disdain for Jean-Luc and Colette for being horrible snobs.
- Vivian makes it clear to Donovan that he never had a chance with Sam or Star even if he was the last boy on Earth.
- Theodore confesses to Donovan that him and Vivian only helped him try to steal Star from Danny in “Visited” for money and the chance to mess with peasants for fun, not because they cared about his stupid plan working or his fixation with marrying Star.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Stella doesn't understand why she's wistfully reminiscing on her past relationship with Johnathan, to the point of dreaming about one of their early dates. When Dr. Shen suggests she may have some unresolved feelings for her ex-husband, Stella vehemently tries to deny it and even claim during a heated moment that her entire marriage to Johnathan was just a "phase".
- Canon Character All Along: Donovan, Theodore and Vivian are revealed to be the Masters' Blasters.
- Canon Immigrant: Stella's therapist, Dr. Eri T. Shen, originated from another one of Flower princess11's fics, GK: Katie's Quest.
- Casanova Wannabe: Both Vivian and Theodore can see Donovan never had a chance with Sam or Star.
- Chick Magnet: Donovan is extremely jealous of Danny for being this since Sam and Star adore him but won’t give Donovan the time of day.
- Children as Pawns: Team Phantom sees the Mansons try to nag a younger Sam into hanging out with fellow wealthy kids at the country club, with Sam bitterly remarking that her parents always treated her like an accessory they could use to get closer to other rich families.
- Child Hater: Donovan despises the kids he’s forced to entertain as "Nasty Nat", who humiliate him by throwing food at him and mocking him over having such an embarrassing job.
- Control Freak:
- Jean-Luc tries to forbid Stella from taking self-defense lessons and makes it clear he expects her to move back to Paris once the year is up to return to their lifestyle, while cutting her out of important decisions regarding their son's future. He also plans on bringing the hammer down more firmly from now on, declaring he's "indulged" his wife long enough.
- After what happened with Colette, Jean-Luc has laid out a detailed plan for Pierre's education, upbringing, and social life as soon as his son is old enough to walk and talk so he will grow up into a "perfect gentleman and proper Bevier" worthy of taking over the family business, despite Stella's protests that it's too much pressure for a baby.
- Cope by Pretending: It's obvious that Stella has been doing this for some time in regards to her home life with the Beviers, trying to convince herself everything is fine, even when it's obviously not. The events of "Blackmailed" have only made it harder.
- The Corrupter: Star and Danny make it clear at the trial that Jean-Luc is the reason why Colette is an even worse person than him.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Vivian and Theodore point out to Donovan they never would’ve gotten disinherited if he had just given up on Star when she made it crystal clear she’d never date him and moved on to another girl, instead of developing an unhealthy fixation towards Star because his ego can’t stand rejection.
- Crossover: Chip Skylark is revealed to exist in this story.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Vlad doesn’t say it out loud, but he does find the Masters' Blasters better at ghost hunting than he expected.
- Cuteness Proximity: Even Sam can't help being taken in by Pierre's sweet, innocent nature.
- Damned by Faint Praise: The closest to a nice thing Star and Danny can say about Jean-Luc is that he was much less of a pain than Colette.
- Didn't Think This Through: Vlad uses the Infi-Map to go back in time to before his accident, where he overshadows his younger self to confess his feelings for Maddie in order to finally be with her. He is genuinely shocked when Maddie turns him down due to her already being in a relationship with Jack at that point in time and because she just doesn't like him that way.
- The Dog Bites Back: Many of the people who Colette has wronged testify against her in court, including Danny, Star, Misty, Valerie, Kwan, Coach Tetslaff, and Suzette.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Completely averted as Colette’s crimes against and terrible treatment of Danny during their “relationship” make the judge and jury hate her guts.
- Do Wrong, Right: Upon learning what Colette did in "Blackmailed", Vlad believes "she should have been smarter and not get caught so easily".
- Dramatic Irony: Stella is barely beginning to comprehend her reemerging feelings for Johnathan while he's preparing to move forward with Solene.
- Driven by Envy: Despite his denials, it’s obvious to Vivian and Theodore that Donovan's hatred of Danny is fueled by jealousy that the middle-class boy is FAR more popular with girls than a Spoiled Brat like him ever was.
- Dumbass Has a Point:
- Theodore agrees Donovan needs to move on from Star, suggesting he can find another girl to date by using a dating service or even indulging a Gold Digger.
- Theodore also points out to Donovan that adhering to arranged marriages is outdated since they're not living in Medieval times anymore.
- Theodore initially tries to stop Donovan and Vivian from fighting because he knows it’ll get them fired from their tenth job at Nasty Burger. Sure enough, the manager comes over and fires them for making a mess.
- Theodore briefly finds it strange that Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton have the same first name.
- Education Papa: Jean-Luc already has Pierre waitlisted for the same private academy in Paris himself and Colette attended, and expects his son to one day attend a prestigious university in preparation for taking over their family vineyard.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Vivian slaps Donovan for still fixating on Star.
- Entitled Bastard:
- As far as Donovan is concerned, girls should be interested in a Blue Blood like him instead of a middle-class guy like Danny.
- Dash is furious that the other jocks won't kick Kwan off the football team per his orders because Kwan is a good player and they're mad at Dash for inviting Colette into the A-Listers, since her tyrannical attitude made her a major pain even before she went off the deep end.
- Entitled Bitch: As far as Colette is concerned, Danny should be grateful to her for the heinous lengths she went through to steal him from Star and force him to convert to her own shallow luxurious lifestyle, so he has no right to reject her and get her arrested for all her crimes.
- Entitled to Have You:
- Danny makes it clear to the court that Colette never saw him as anything but a trophy to steal from Star out of petty spite; in Colette’s warped mind, he was hers and what he said or felt about it didn’t matter in the slightest, end of story.
- As far as Donovan is concerned, no girl should say “no” to a Loadman like him and he’s suited for Star just because they both come from Old Money.
- Even Bullies Have Standards: The other jocks refuse to kick Kwan off the football team, mostly because they still need him as a running back to make it to championship, and they’re mad at Dash for inviting Colette into the A-Listers since she made their lives miserable with all the trouble she caused and by treating them like servants at best.
- Everyone Can See It: Vivian and Theodore make it clear to Donovan he was the only one who couldn't accept that he had no chance with Star or Sam.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Jean-Luc's lawyers eventually realize they can't get Colette off the hook during her trial because of all the prosecutions evidence and her own blatantly obsessive behavior towards Danny so they suggest she take an insanity plea.
- As much as Star hates Jean-Luc for being a slimeball, she still admits in court that he never went out of his way to mistreat her like Colette did.
- While she is overjoyed Colette is finally facing comeuppance, Star still feels sorry for her mother because of how miserable Stella was during Colette’s trial.
- Coach Tetslaff testifies against Colette in court because, charitable donation or not, she still stole the former's car and purposely wrecked it just to frame someone.
- Unlike Donovan, Theodore never tried to steal another guy’s girlfriend and can take rejection.
- Even Vivian can accept rejection and feels nothing but annoyance at Donovan refusing to let go of his obsession with Star just because he can’t take “no” for an answer.
- Theodore admits he considers Donovan’s obsession with arranged marriages extremely outdated.
- Vivian doesn’t like Danny but still wouldn’t want him or anyone else to be stuck with someone as vile as Colette.
- Vivian admits even Sam is too good for an idiot like Donovan.
- Theodore has lost interest in Colette after seeing how unhinged she is in the video incriminating her for her crimes when she was arrested and is glad she’s gone.
- Vivian calls Theodore a pig for two-timing five girls at once.
- Vivian and Theodore are far less Not Good with Rejection than Donovan since they find his growing obsession with Star tiresome and advise him to get over her already.
- Vivian always hated Colette and Beatrice Traville for being horrible people.
- A trip to the past shows Team Phantom that Sam's parents were originally enthusiastic at the idea of her befriending Donovan Loadman and even possibly dating him in the future, but fortunately gave up on it after realizing how much of an abusive Rich Bastard he is.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Completely averted with Colette as Star makes it clear in court there is nobody she won’t manipulate for her own selfish benefit, including her parental figures, and that she has nothing but disdain for her stepmothers and infant half-brother Pierre.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- Donovan is incapable of wrapping his head around the fact that not all rich people are as obsessed with money and status as he is, so he can’t understand why Sam and Star refuse to marry a Rich Bastard like him.
- As far as Colette is concerned, the only reason Danny isn’t under her thumb anymore is because he’s Danny Phantom, otherwise she’d still have enough to leash him.
- Danny is greatly annoyed that Colette is delusional enough to believe he’d still side with her after everything she’s done because she acts surprised that he’d testify against her in court.
- Eviler than Thou: Once again, Donovan demonstrates how much worse he is than his friends by showing a complete Lack of Empathy towards Star and Danny for what Colette did to them in "Blackmailed", while Vivian and Theodore can acknowledge the fake redhead crossed a line.
- Evil Is Petty:
- Danny makes it clear at Colette’s trial that her obsession with him is fueled by her insane grudge against Star and fixation with hurting her.
- Danny reveals in his testimony that Colette planned to forcefully take him away from his family because she hated them out of elitism for their middle-class lifestyle. He also disgustedly reveals that Colette was still going to get his friends arrested merely For the Evulz despite him already agreeing to obey her as long as she left Team Phantom alone.
- Even Vivian and Theodore can see Donovan is only obsessed with Star because he can’t stand her rejecting him.
- Donovan’s grudge with Danny is partly fueled by his jealousy that rich and attractive girls like Sam, Star, and Colette would prefer a middle-class Nice Guy like him over a wealthy Spoiled Brat like himself.
- It completely disgusts the judge and jury that Colette would stoop as low as stealing from her stepmother Stella and conning her maternal figures out of money just to fund her latest scheme to ruin Team Phantom’s lives.
- Excellent Judge of Character:
- Vivian makes it clear to Donovan that Sam and Star would never want anything to do with him. Even Theodore knows Donovan never had a chance with Star and that Sam would rather punch him than date him.
- As a child, Sam refused to associate with any of the rich Spoiled Brats her parents tried to pressure her into befriending because she couldn't stand their nasty attitudes, especially Donovan Loadman, and would rather hang out with Danny and Tucker.
- Extremely Protective Child: Star tells the court that Jean-Luc destroyed her parents marriage by stealing her mom from her dad.
- The Farmer and the Viper: Stella cries over Colette repaying all her years of love with betrayal and spite.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Sam doesn't remember meeting Donovan Loadman as a kid when she sees her parents pressuring her five-year-old self into befriending him and is glad for it.
- Formerly Friendly Family: Star feels both nostalgia and sadness during a trip to the past which sends her and Danny to her childhood in New York, where they see herself as a cheerful and carefree child who looked up to both of her Happily Married parents.
- For the Evulz:
- Vivian and Theodore admit they find it funny to mess with "peasants", which was one of the reasons why they helped Donovan try to steal Star from Danny in “Visited”.
- Ember goes on a rampage just for fun so Danny and Star stop her.
- Star explains to the court that this is the only reason why Colette does all the nasty stuff she does, because she WANTS to.
- For Your Own Good:
- Stella acknowledges that Colette deserves punishment for her crimes but hopes she gets help at reform school.
- Star does feel bad for the emotional toll Colette's trial is having on her mother Stella but acknowledges that it's necessary in order for her to finally accept her stepsister's true evil colors.
- Freudian Slip:
- In her diary entry and inner thoughts, Stella finds herself romantically thinking about Johnathan instead of Jean-Luc.
- During her therapy session, Stella insists that she doesn't have any feelings for Johnathan, but nearly says Jean-Luc's name at one point instead.
- Fury-Fueled Foolishness: Colette’s inability to control her temper leaves her incapable of keeping her mouth shut during her trial since she ends up admitting her guilt during her outbursts at Danny’s testimony.
- Generation Xerox:
- Star and Danny aren’t surprised that the former superintendent is just as boorish, immature, useless, and stupid as his nephew Dash. Especially when Kwan reveals the superintendent was a high school quarterback like Dash and that could likely be the reason for the favoritism.
- In court, Star and Danny openly express their hatred of Jean-Luc and Colette for being irredeemable snobs.
- Give Geeks a Chance: Vivian admits she still finds Danny cute.
- Gold Digger:
- Donovan is obsessed with marrying Sam and Star for their wealth but hypocritically accuses Danny of being one.
- Theodore encourages Donovan to give up on Star and date one of these instead since he at least has a chance with girls who only care about his money.
- Good Is Not Dumb: When Star turns in her recording of her ambush lunch date with Colette and evidence of Colette’s misdeeds from the French brat’s diary, she makes sure to leave out anything alluding to Danny’s secret of being Danny Phantom.
- Greed Makes You Dumb: Vivian rightfully calls Donovan out on being so obsessed with getting a rich wife that he got them all in trouble because he won't stop harassing Star and will even marry a total bitch like Colette.
- Green-Eyed Monster:
- Donovan can’t stand that Danny is far more popular with girls (especially rich ones) than he ever was.
- Stella can't help but feel envy when she sees the close family relationship between the Fentons and the loving marriage between Jack and Maddie.
- Hannibal Lecture: Donovan gives some long rant about how he deserves a rich wife, only for Vivian to slap him in the face.
- Happy Marriage Charade: Stella struggles to keep up the pretense that she's still in love and happy with Jean-Luc, even as she's exposed to more of his faults as a husband and father while secretly missing how things used to be with Johnathan. Their marriage is now much more strained since Jean-Luc finds Stella increasingly not acting like a “proper lady” by wanting to learn how to fight.
- Happily Married: A trip to the past shows Danny and Star that, indeed, Stella and Johnathan were genuinely in love with each other at one point and acted very affectionate together.
- Hate at First Sight: Star and Danny tell the court that they hated Colette from day one and that the feeling only grew over time as she showed just how nasty she truly is by obsessing over ruining their lives out of sadism and some extremely perverse sense of entitlement.
- Hated by All: The football team blames Dash for making that harpy Colette a member of the A-List, who they all grew to despise for being a controlling bitch.
- Hatred Makes You Dumb: This earns Donovan a slap from Vivian who is severely losing her patience with his self-destructive feud with Star and Danny.
- Hopeless Suitor: Vivian makes it clear to Donovan that he is this to Star and Sam because he had no chance with the former even with Beatrice Traville’s help and he couldn’t at least convince the latter’s family to accept his Arranged Marriage proposal.
- Horrible Judge of Character:
- Vivian points out to Donovan how stupid it was of him to try to set up an Arranged Marriage with someone as blatantly unhinged as Colette and he's lucky the Beviers refused.
- The A-Listers resent Dash for welcoming an unstable Control Freak like Colette into their clique.
- Team Phantom is really glad that Sam's parents eventually wised up about Donovan's rotten nature in the present after watching their past selves try to convince kid Sam to give the Loadman brat a chance.
- Hypocrisy Callout: Vivian calls Donovan out on insulting her intelligence when it was his own stupidity that got them in trouble because he couldn’t accept Star’s rejection of him.
- Hypocrite:
- Jean-Luc is furious when Danny besmirches his daughter's name by exposing her crimes, but he tries to get his lawyers to paint Danny as the bad guy by blaming Colette's despicable behavior on him.
- Colette yells in court that Danny's feelings for Star are nothing but illusions, which, coming from a delusional yandere who only regards Danny as a tool to hurt her stepsister despite stubbornly insisting that she "loves" him, holds no water.
- Colette calls Danny "ungrateful" for not appreciating the despicable lengths she went to in order to take him from Star and force him to convert to her lifestyle. Meanwhile, she is completely ungrateful to her parents and stepmothers for spoiling her rotten her entire life since Colette has no problem lying to, stealing from, manipulating and hurting them, or going behind their backs just to get what she wants regardless of how it affects them or makes them feel.
- Donovan finds the kids he's forced to entertain at his Nasty Burger job to be obnoxious brats for humiliating him by throwing food at him and mocking him over having a dead-end job. Considering what a massive Spoiled Brat he is, he doesn't have much room to talk.
- As far as Donovan is concerned, only rich people like him should marry for money and if a middle-class boy like Danny does it, it makes him a Gold Digger.
- Theodore doesn’t try to steal other guys' girlfriends but has no problem helping Donovan try to steal Star from Danny for fun and profit.
- Related to the above, Theodore doesn't support Arranged Marriages because he considers them completely outdated, but doesn't care about Donovan trying to force Star into one even if he knows it's completely futile.
- While Theodore and Vivian are right about Colette being an unhinged yandere for her obsession with Danny, they still associate with Donovan despite him being just as fixated with Star.
- Sam's parents previously accused Danny of being a Gold Digger for dating Star, but here it's shown that for years, they've been trying to use Sam to get closer to other rich families by attempting to convince her to hang out with their children and even suggested she eventually date Donovan Loadman, purely for their own social and financial benefit no matter how much she hated those peers.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: Above mentioned hypocrisy aside, Theodore and Vivian are right that Colette is nothing but an unhinged psychopath who deserves to be locked up for everything she did in "Blackmailed".
- Idle Rich: Sam complains to her friends that her parents prefer to spend all their time enjoying their wealth and sucking up to the other wealthy families rather than parenting or working like people with actual lives do.
- Ignored Epiphany: While Vivian and Theodore regret ever associating with Donovan solely for his family's wealth and status because of all the trouble his foolishness has gotten them into, they continue to associate with him for reasons even they don't know despite him no longer being a rich heir.
- I Hate Past Me:
- In the beginning, Stella admits in her diary that she still greatly regrets acting like a snob to Danny when they first met.
- Vlad hates how rude his teenage self was and how he wasted time with photography.
- I Lied: Danny notes during the trial that Colette had no intention of keeping her word to leave his friends alone and she was still planning on getting them arrested despite him agreeing to her demands.
- In Love with Looks: Danny accuses Vlad of only loving Maddie for her beauty. He is eventually proven right when Vlad's younger self is mean to Maddie's younger self, who was in her awkward phase as a high school freshman.
- Insane Troll Logic: As far as Donovan is concerned, Sam and Star should marry him just because he’s from a rich family like they are. Vivian and Theodore aren’t impressed by his nonsense.
- Insufferable Imbecile: Vivian and Theodore correctly regard Donovan as an idiot because his obsession with Star is what caused them to get disinherited in the first place and is still giving them problems since he won’t drop his fixation. They constantly wonder why they even continue to associate with him.
- Internal Reveal: Team Phantom and their allies reveal all of Colette’s crimes during the trial, including the times when she took advantage of an amnesiac Danny in “Forgotten” and paid some jocks to kidnap him during Halloween in “Costumed”.
- I Regret Nothing: Kwan is still okay with quitting the A-Listers since he’s just happy to no longer be obeying Dash or obsessing over what others think of him.
- I Reject Your Reality:
- Donovan still refuses to grasp why any girl would despise a Rich Bastard like him.
- Even after being rejected by Maddie's younger self for Jack, Vlad refuses to accept this and insists that he still has a chance with her, reiterating that Jack "stole" Maddie from him.
- As far as Colette is concerned, Danny should be hers regardless of his feelings on the matter or how repugnant the methods she used to steal him from Star are.
- Irony:
- Colette’s crimes result in repercussions for Superintendent Baxter and the staff of Casper High over their incompetent handling of the case, which gets them replaced by teachers who don’t tolerate the A-Listers (thanks to the school getting an updated budget). So even when she’s gone, Colette causes the A-Listers grief, and actually did some good by helping out Team Phantom in getting the bullies off everyone’s backs.
- In “Blackmailed”, Colette mocked Donovan and his friends for being disinherited and forced to work menial jobs, but she ends up FAR worse than them by getting arrested, shipped off to boarding school, and cut off indefinitely.
- Vlad despises Alicia and finds her ugly. However, his high school self found her pretty as a teenager, but Alicia's younger self despised him after seeing him being mean to Maddie's younger self.
- Irrational Hatred: Star tells the court that Colette mercilessly bullied her for years for no reason.
- It's All About Me:
- Jean-Luc makes it clear with his furious outbursts and glares in court that he only has a problem with Danny and Star’s testimonies because they make him and his family look bad.
- All Donovan cares about is living the easy life and is mad at Star for denying him that by refusing to marry him for his unbearable personality. He’s also mad at Team Phantom for getting in his way because he wouldn’t stop harassing their friend Star.
- Donovan also doesn’t care how miserable his friends are from being disinherited and forced to work on account of his harassment of Star getting them into trouble, because all that matters to him is getting his rich lifestyle back.
- Vivian and Theodore make it clear to Donovan that his obsession with Star never mattered to them (partly because they could see he was just wasting his time) since all they care about is becoming rich heirs again. They’re mainly upset with Donovan because his unhealthy fixation with Star is what got them disinherited in the first place.
- Kwan makes it clear that Dash is only grumpy over his uncle losing the Superintendent position and most of the Casper High staff being replaced because the A-Listers lost practically all of their privileges and favoritism, so they no longer get a free pass for their bullying.
- It disgusts Team Phantom that the Mansons care more about their social status than their daughter's happiness after watching them incessantly nag kid Sam to hang out with kids like Donovan Loadman, despite her vocal hatred those Spoiled Brats, just to form connections with the other wealthy families of Amity Park.
- It's All My Fault:
- Kwan accepts responsibility for everything he did while under Colette’s thumb in “Blackmailed” when he testifies at her trial.
- Stella acknowledges during the trial that she only enabled Colette’s horrible behavior by spoiling her rotten and brushing aside others' complaints and warnings about her.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Apparently, Alicia was prom queen during high school and was pretty enough for Vlad's teenage self to ask her out.
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- Jerkass: Even Vlad's high school self was a rude, self-centered jerk who looked down on others.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- The other jocks understandably blame Dash for all the trouble Colette caused the A-Listers from day one since he was the one who invited her to join them when she moved to town.
- Even Kwan acknowledges that it’s understandable for people not to want anything to do with him for his history as an A-Lister.
- Vivian and Theodore make it clear to Donovan he should just forget about Sam and Star because it’s better to go after a girl who actually wants to date him instead of punching him for being annoying.
- Donovan calls his friends out for putting all the blame on him for getting them disinherited since they chose to help him and weren’t forced to.
- Vivian correctly calls Beatrice Traville “a bitter old bat” and points out how stupid it was of her and Donovan to hatch a plan to force Star into an Arranged Marriage with the Loadman brat since all it accomplished was getting them into trouble, which is why they ended up working at Nasty Burger.
- Vivian points out to her friends that it was obvious Colette was nothing but trouble WAY before she was exposed as a psychopathic yandere in "Blackmailed", on account of being a complete witch who picked a Cat Fight with her for talking to Danny in "Visited".
- The Nasty Burger manager Mr. McDowell fires Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian for wasting potentially hundreds of dollars in condiments and uncooked food as well as staining and damaging restaurant furniture and equipment in a childish food fight.
- While Vivian was mostly trying to deflect blame, she is right when she tells Mr. McDowell that the food fight is Donovan’s fault since he started it.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: While working as a mascot for Nasty Burger at his 10th job, Donovan is pelted with fast food by kids.
- Karmic Protection: Miss Tetslaff was given a lesser punishment than Lancer and Ishiyama because she did the right thing by calling the police when the car she was going to donate was stolen, had the decency to apologize to Team Phantom and try to make things right once she learned what actually happened, and didn't argue against the kids' rightfully angry parents. While she was reprimanded for her role in the mess, it was still better than the superintendent's punishment, and she is currently forced to act as temporary vice principal until a replacement can be found.
- Karmic Shunning:
- Kwan admits it's his own fault people still won't associate with him because of his bullying as an A-Lister.
- The other jocks have lost a lot of respect for Dash for bringing Colette into their group and refuse his demands to kick Kwan off the football team.
- Kick the Dog:
- Jean-Luc and Colette are fine with having their lawyers drag Danny’s name through the mud during the trial just to save face for the family and get her out of trouble, not that Johnathan will let them get away with it since he has plenty of evidence to prove them wrong and show just how obsessed with Danny Colette is.
- Colette's utter lack of love for her half-brother Pierre and stepmom Stella leaves the latter devastated and heartbroken.
- Kid Has a Point: Child Star notes that her future self and Danny make a good couple.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Jean-Luc’s lawyers recommend the insanity plea since they can see Colette’s trial is a lost cause.
- Lack of Empathy:
- Star and Danny explain in court that Colette inherited this quality from her Rich Bastard father Jean-Luc, since they're both fine with trampling on people and ruining others' relationships for their own warped satisfaction and benefit.
- Donovan doesn’t care how much Danny suffered being with Colette since it wasn’t enough in his opinion for daring to surround himself with beautiful women that should be his.
- Even before the accident, Vlad saw nothing wrong in trying to ask Maddie out when she was already dating Jack, who was supposed to be his best friend.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- The new changes to Casper High make it much harder for the A-Listers to get away with their bullying like they used to.
- Dash has lost a lot of popularity after Colette's arrest because the other jocks blame him for inviting someone as vile her into the A-Listers, who they grew to hate for being an obsessive, deranged Control Freak. They even refuse Dash's request to kick Kwan off the team and still hang out with him.
- After being fired from the Chinese restaurant, Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian get even more humiliating jobs at Nasty Burger where kids throw food at them and call them “Nasty Nat”.
- Vlad's attempts to change history in order to have a chance with Maddie end in failure and are met by rejection from her each time.
- Lazy Husband: While Jean-Luc has a high-profile job, he can't be bothered to even try to deal with personal family matters that don't involve him, such as Stella and Pierre's sleeping troubles or Stella's relationship with Star.
- Leader Wannabe: Donovan sees himself as the leader of the trio because he considers Vivian and Theodore “ungrateful dimwits” who would have been lost without him when he was still an heir and would still be lost without him now that they’ve been disinherited.
- A Lighter Shade of Black:
- During the trial, Danny and Star admit that Jean-Luc was much less of a pain than his even more horrible daughter Colette.
- Vivian and Theodore are glad Colette was arrested and sent away for what she did to Danny (although Vivian never liked her to begin with, especially when Colette picked a Cat Fight with her in “Visited”).
- Even the Spoiled Brats Theodore and Vivian are growing sick of Donovan’s creepy obsession with Star and Danny because of how irritating and counterproductive it is to their situation and advise him to get over her already, especially since they can actually take rejection.
- Even Vivian can’t stand Beatrice for being a “bitter old bat”.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Star is slightly surprised when Stella reveals she was a cheerleader (and even made captain) in high school too.
- Lonely at the Top: Stella's attempts to immerse herself in her high-maintenance Conspicuous Consumption lifestyle like before fail to conceal how lonely and empty her marriage and home life have become. The fic opens with her trying to convince herself that Jean-Luc's so-called sudden business deal is a good thing because it will bring them more money... only to falter when she looks around the deserted Bevier penthouse early in the morning (read: what that money has actually given her), seemingly pondering what to do before Pierre and Fifi require her attention.
- Love Interest vs. Lust Interest:
- Danny makes it crystal clear in court that Star is the only girl for him because they sincerely love each other, while Colette is just some unhinged yandere and Stalker with a Crush obsessed with ruining their relationship out of petty spite and a sense of entitlement due to being Not Good with Rejection.
- Danny knows that his father Jack truly loves Maddie for who she is while Vlad only loves the idea of her.
- Loving a Shadow: It's heavily implied that Jean-Luc only "loved" Stella as the Proper Lady Trophy Wife he thinks she is and is NOT happy with how much she's changed since they relocated to Amity Park, to the point he wants to go back to how things used to be in Paris.
- Mandatory Motherhood: As far as Donovan is concerned, Sam is only good for providing him a rich lifestyle and heir until he can afford to replace her with a new, younger Trophy Wife.
- The Millstone: Theodore and Vivian certainly have this opinion of Donovan since he does nothing to help with their situation and only continues to obsess over Star (which is what got them into this mess to begin with). He also constantly annoys his friends with his endless whining, along with getting them fired for his spoiled attitude instead of just focusing on his work.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Stella experiences this on repeat throughout Colette's trial due to not knowing about or stopping her stepdaughter's crimes and general cruelty until things escalated this far.
- Narcissist: Star lampshades that her mom Stella now has no choice but to accept that Colette only loves her own reflection.
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Nausea Fuel: It grosses Sam out to no end when Team Phantom witnesses her parents trying to convince her child self that Donovan Loadman could make a good boyfriend for her someday. - Never My Fault:
- Colette, as usual, doesn’t accept she did anything wrong and claims she was just doing it all for Danny’s sake by giving him the life he deserves via enslaving him and forcefully taking him away from all his loved ones.
- Jean-Luc, as always, blames Danny for his daughter Colette’s criminal behavior instead of acknowledging his own incompetent parenting.
- Dash blames Kwan and Team Phantom for the A-Listers getting in trouble for all their bullying lately because his uncle isn’t superintendent anymore. Kwan admits that Dash is just pathetically lashing out at anyone.
- Donovan as usual is blaming Team Phantom for his misfortunes while refusing to acknowledge his own awful behavior is what makes them hate him so much.
- As far as Donovan is concerned, Star isn’t with him because her “commoner” father poisoned her against him and Danny got in his way.
- Vivian and Theodore blame Donovan for getting them fired from Nasty Burger for having a food fight over his obsession with Star.
- Vivian and Theodore put all the blame on Donovan for getting them disinherited because of his unhealthy obsession with Star. Downplayed as they're right that he played a major role in their punishment due to his refusing to get over Star's lack of interest in him, but he counters that they chose to help him with his scheme and weren't forced to do anything.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Colette’s crimes and the incompetence of Superintendent Baxter and the staff of Casper High School put their jobs at serious risk, which lead to many of them being replaced by new teachers who aren’t as tolerant of the A-Listers' bullying.
- No Accounting for Taste: Vivian calls Donovan out on being so desperate for a rich wife that he'd even want to marry an irredeemable bitch like Colette.
- Offended by an Inferior's Success: It infuriates Donovan that pretty rich girls flock to a middle-class Nice Guy like Danny instead of a Blue Blood Rich Bastard like himself.
- No Guy Wants an Amazon: Jean-Luc views women who fight as "brutes" and is outright appalled when he finds Stella practicing self-defense, even insulting her trainer Bertha.
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Danny tells the court that Colette was nothing but an extremely clingy pest with a Not Good with Rejection mindset who was so annoying that he had to hide from her just to get some peace and quiet, especially at school so he could be with his actual girlfriend Star.
- No Sympathy:
- Neither Vivian nor Theodore care about nor are the least bit interested in Donovan’s obsessive grudge against Star and Danny since his constant whining about the couple is getting on their nerves and not doing anything to help with their situation.
- Neither Star nor Danny care about Colette getting arrested or Jean-Luc's reputation being ruined after testifying against them in court since they completely brought it on themselves by being total scumbags.
- After seeing the full extent of Colette's sociopathic cruelty, the judge and jury don't hesitate to declare her guilty.
- Noodle Incident: Sam's parents originally wanted to enroll her at Amity Park Academy for Girls, and she doesn't want to talk about how she ended up at Casper High instead because it's too embarrassing.
- Not Blood, Not Family: Star admits in court that the only thing she's ever agreed with Jean-Luc about is that they're not family and never will be. Not that she'd ever want to be family with him since he's completely incompetent at parenting his actual kids.
- Not Good with Rejection:
- As far as Donovan is concerned, his harassment of Star is her fault for never giving him a chance out of disgust over his annoying, entitled, possessive, controlling, and sexist attitude.
- Everyone who testifies against Colette at her trial makes it clear this is her whole reason for her obsession with Danny, which her angry outbursts only confirm.
- To say Vlad was upset to be rejected by Maddie's younger self is an understatement.
- Not Helping Your Case:
- Even Stella tells Jean-Luc his outbursts during Danny’s testimony aren’t helping Colette’s case since all it’s doing is ticking the judge off enough to want to get rid of him.
- Colette openly admits her guilt when she interrupts Danny’s testimony by confirming she committed the crimes he’s accusing her of because she insists she did them for his sake, proving how much of an obsessive, unstable stalker she is to him.
- Donovan tries to justify his obsession with Star to his friends by claiming he was trying to do what's best for her by getting her to choose a Blue Blood like him over a middle-class boy like Danny Fenton. However, his rambling about recruiting Beatrice to force her granddaughter into an Arranged Marriage because Star kept turning him down only further proves Vivian and Theodore's point that he's fixated with her solely out of an Entitled to Have You and Not Good with Rejection mindset.
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Stella is struggling with the aftermath of Colette being arrested and sent to reform school, as well as her failing marriage to Jean-Luc and how she can no longer pretend that everything is fine like she used to.
- Not So Above It All:
- Stella is excited to see Johnathan having lunch at the park, to the point of checking her appearance in anticipation of joining him (only to change her mind once Solene arrives).
- Even Sam finds Pierre adorable and playfully interacts with him.
- "Not So Different" Remark: After hearing Jean-Luc's rigid expectations and uncompromising life plans for Pierre, Stella is briefly reminded of her own childhood under her abusive mother.
- Only in It for the Money: Theodore admits that him and Vivian only helped Donovan try to steal Star from Danny in “Visited” partly because he paid them.
- Only Sane Man: Theodore at first tries to stop Donovan and Vivian from fighting because he knows it’ll get them fired from their tenth job at Nasty Burger... before he joins in when they throw food at him.
- Papa Wolf: Jean-Luc gets his entire legal team to try to win Colette’s case, only to fail and have her plead guilty.
- Parental Obliviousness: Played for Drama. Stella is ashamed of being so clueless about Colette’s cruel nature over the years when she’s forced to listen to every horrible thing her stepdaughter has done during her trial.
- Parental Neglect: Stella is privately dismayed that Jean-Luc always sleeps through Pierre fussing at night, leaving her to attend to him alone, whereas Johnathan would be roused if an infant Star so much as whimpered. Any interest Jean-Luc has in raising Pierre is solely about making his son his perfect heir, disregarding the boy's emotional needs.
- The Peter Principle: Miss Tetslaff has been temporarily promoted to vice principal. While she's a content teacher, she doesn't like her new position, wishing she could still be a coach and not have to deal with all the paperwork back in the office. Miss Tetslaff admits she's not cut out for administration and looks forward to the school board finding a replacement vice principal.
- Pet the Dog:
- Jazz tells Team Phantom to let Danny and Star have their mushy couple moments in peace for a while because they’re just enjoying the fact that now they don’t have to worry anymore about Colette ruining everything.
- Kwan's football teammates still hang out with him.
- All of Team Phantom’s loved ones, Kwan, Misty, Valerie, Chris, and Richard testify on their behalf over Danny’s good character and all the awful stuff Colette did.
- Star and Danny are glad that Kwan is doing okay after leaving the A-Listers in “Blackmailed”. Star even hopes he finds real friends and a special someone like she did.
- Unlike with Donovan, Vivian doesn’t mind Theodore mentioning Star’s name because he’s not the one getting on her nerves by endlessly whining about the Strong girl.
- Vivian wouldn’t want Danny or any “peasant” to have to suffer being enslaved by someone as awful as Colette.
- Vivian has a low opinion of Sam and her fashion tastes, but she still thinks the goth deserves better than Donovan and outright admits Sam is out of his league.
- Even Theodore admits that what Colette did to Danny in “Blackmailed” was completely despicable.
- Team Phantom helps Kwan avoid any legal repercussions for unwillingly helping Colette in “Blackmailed” by speaking in his defense.
- Vlad gives the Masters' Blasters a huge cash bonus for succeeding in their first job by unknowingly helping him steal the Infi-Map.
- Playing the Victim Card: Subverted. Jean-Luc and Colette's lawyers try to paint her as an innocent Smitten Teenage Girl who was the victim of Star's manipulative, gold-digging boyfriend Danny, but it completely falls on deaf ears since Johnathan has more than enough evidence and testimony from Colette's victims that makes everyone see her for the sociopathic Manipulative Bitch that she truly is who felt entitled to Danny.
- Politically Correct Villain: Theodore bluntly tells Donovan that he's acting like it's still the Middle Ages because of his obsession with an extremely outdated custom like arranged marriages.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- Danny and Star lampshade in court that Jean-Luc and Colette are nothing but classist assholes who see themselves as above everyone.
- Donovan is a misogynist as well as an elitist bastard, only seeing rich girls like Sam and Star as status symbols to provide him with wealthy heirs.
- "Villain" is a stretch but Jean-Luc is also implied to be a misogynist as he ardently opposes Stella learning martial arts, claiming she's acting like a "savage" unbefitting of an aristocrat.
- Post-Support Regret: Stella admits she made a huge mistake in enabling Colette's worst qualities by spoiling her rotten, always taking her side, and ignoring her increasingly out of control behavior and people's valid complaints about all the trouble her stepdaughter was causing since she came to Amity Park.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- Vivian and Theodore are disgusted that Donovan got them into so much trouble just because his ego can’t take being rejected by Star and he stubbornly refuses to move on.
- Vlad pays the bill for all the damage Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian did to Nasty Burger while they were working there and gives them a huge cash bonus after their first successful task to reinforce their loyalty to him.
- Properly Paranoid:
- Vlad recruits Donovan and his friends because he suspects Valerie isn’t as loyal as he thought.
- Vivian makes it clear she never liked or trusted someone as blatantly nasty as Colette even before “Blackmailed” (picking a fight with her over Danny in “Visited” definitely didn’t help).
- Of the trio, Vivian is the most suspicious and distrustful of Vlad when he makes them a job offer.
- Psychological Projection:
- Donovan sees Danny as a Gold Digger and is still completely oblivious to his hypocrisy.
- Vlad is under the impression that Jack is just as shallow as he is because he thinks Jack's teenage self will also reject Maddie while she's in her awkward phase in high school, only for them to form an instant connection instead.
- Psychopathic Manchild: All Donovan Loadman can do is immaturely complain about his problems while blaming everyone else for his own failures and obsessing over getting payback on Team Phantom, much to Vivian’s outrage.
- Rage Breaking Point: Vivian gets into a fight with Donovan after reaching the end of her patience with his obsession with Star while they're at their Nasty Burger job.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- During the trial, the judge makes it clear to Jean-Luc he’ll be held in contempt and removed from the premises if he keeps interrupting Danny during his testimony, which is the nicest punishment he can give out.
- Unlike the other staff, Coach Tetslaff admitted her mistakes to Team Phantom after the "Blackmailed" incident and testifies against Colette in court for trashing her car.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Kwan admits there are still a lot of students who don’t want anything to do with him for what he did as an A-Lister.
- Revenge Before Reason: Both Theodore and Vivian are calling Donovan out on still obsessing over his petty grudge on Star and Danny despite all the trouble it's caused them.
- Rich Bitch: Star and Danny make it clear in court that Colette is nothing but a sociopathic Spoiled Brat who harasses them just because she's too entitled to accept rejection.
- Rich Boredom: Stella is growing bored and stifled by her usual routine as an Idle Rich socialite. Part of the reason she wants to learn martial arts is because it will give her something to do other than shopping, planning parties, and going to the beauty salon.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons:
- While she's only saying it out of anger for being disinherited, Vivian is right that they're in their current mess because of Donovan's pathetic obsession with Star and poorly-thought-out deal with Beatrice to try to force her granddaughter into an Arranged Marriage with him.
- Donovan is correct that his friends are idiots… even if he's only saying it because he arrogantly believes they'd be "lost" without his guidance.
- Sadist:
- Danny and Star make it clear in court that Colette is a horrible person because she enjoys hurting people and making others completely miserable for her own warped amusement.
- Donovan, Vivian, and Theodore all enjoy messing with “commoners” for fun but Donovan is the worst because he plans to make Danny and Star suffer for denying him what he wants.
- Sanity Slippage: Donovan’s growing obsession with Star and latest humiliating job at Nasty Burger haven't done his already frail sanity any favors, much to the annoyance of Vivian and Theodore who are reaching their limit with his foolish vendetta.
- Selective Obliviousness: It greatly irritates Vivian and Theodore that Donovan refuses to give up on Star despite being well aware she wants nothing to do with him because he's too much of an Entitled Bastard to take "no" for an answer.
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Danny stresses in court that the any "relationship" he had with Colette only existed in her own diseased mind.
- Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love:
- Donovan can’t grasp that rich girls like Sam and Star despise a handsome Blue Blood like him for being an insufferable, sexist Spoiled Brat and prefer the middle-class Danny Fenton for being a much nicer guy. Donovan also can’t understand why the girls won’t marry a violent jerk like him since they can combine the wealth of each other's families if they did.
- Theodore doesn't understand why the five girls he was seeing all dumped him after they each found out about the others, assuming it was solely because he was cut off.
- Theodore has no idea how to get a date with a rich girl now that he’s been disinherited.
- Vlad insists to Danny that Jack also only loves Maddie for her looks, but is proven wrong when Jack and Maddie's younger selves almost instantly hit it off.
- Shipper on Deck: Star’s child self thinks her and Danny should get married because they make a good couple.
- Shipper with an Agenda: In the past, Jeremy and Pamela tried to get Sam to hang out with and eventually date Donovan Loadman because they wanted to improve their standing with the prestigious Loadman family. They gave up after seeing how much of a Jerkass he is in the present.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Vivian smacks Donovan in the face for mentioning Star’s name one too many times during another one of his rantings about his problems and Team Phantom.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Danny and Star are surprised by how affectionate and loving her parents were when they were still married.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Stella finds herself increasingly turned off by Jean-Luc's self-absorption, emotional neglect, and Control Freak tendencies, to the point of unfavorably comparing him to Johnathan.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Even before the accident, Vlad seemed to have had a high opinion of himself. He also assumes that had the accident never happened, he could have easily stolen Maddie from Jack, even though the couple had already been in a steady relationship. He is instantly proven wrong.
- Smarter Than You Look: Even Theodore and Vivian can tell neither Sam nor Star can stand Donovan.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Theodore points out that Donovan would have an easier time getting a date by joining a dating service or asking out a girl that’s actually willing to date him.
- Stepford Smiler: As Stella struggles to process how her family has irrevocably changed since Colette's arrest, she keeps insisting to herself that everything is fine, trying to remain optimistic about Colette being sent to reform school and her relationship with Jean-Luc ever since he returned from his "business" in Europe.
- Stupid Evil:
- Colette sabotages her own defense when she confirms during her trial that she committed the crimes Danny is accusing her of by yelling that she did them for him.
- "Evil" is a stretch but Stella and the judge call out Jean-Luc for only making things worse during Colette’s trial with his outbursts. The judge finally shuts him up under the threat of being thrown out of the courtroom.
- Colette’s diary only makes it easier for Team Phantom to prove her guilt at trial since it documents every bad thing she ever did and how she really feels about others.
- Donovan still won’t drop his petty vendetta with Star and Danny no matter how much trouble it gets him and his friends into.
- Survival Mantra: "Everything is fine" for Stella, to the point of writing it in her diary multiple times.
- Sympathy for the Hero: Star feels bad for her mother Stella because of the obvious emotional toll Colette's trial is having on her.
- They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Stella is in deep turmoil over what happened with Colette, clashing with Jean-Luc, and repressing her rekindled feelings for her ex-husband, but refuses to talk to anyone about her problems with the exception of her therapist.
- They Just Don't Get It: Donovan is still too thick-headed and narcissistic to comprehend why messing with Star and Danny is a terrible idea, despite even his friends pointing out that his fixation with Star has brought him nothing but trouble.
- Throw the Dog a Bone:
- Miss Tetslaff gets to keep her job at Casper High because she apologized and did her duty by informing the police.
- Kwan doesn’t face any legal consequences for aiding Colette's crimes because he was under duress and Team Phantom spoke in his defense.
- Too Important to Remember You: Donovan makes it clear to his friends he doesn’t care enough to be bothered to remember the names of Star’s “peasant” friends.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Stella has been taking self-defense classes since New York.
- Vlad is training Donovan, Vivian, and Theodore into being his Masters' Blasters ghost hunters.
- Toxic Family Influence: Star and Danny testify in court that Jean-Luc raised Colette to be an even worse elitist snob than he ever was.
- Trophy Child:
- How Jean-Luc ultimately sees Pierre, as he is intent on turning him into an heir who won't disgrace their family name like Colette did and is already planning how to "educate" his son into behaving the way he wants him to.
- To a lesser extent with Sam, who was treated as an "accessory" by her parents due to Jeremy and Pamela focusing more on having her conform to their standards for the sake of their family's image and status than actually raising her.
- Trophy Wife:
- All Donovan cares about is having a pretty and rich “proper” wife of high society who fits his shallow, snobby, and elitist standards. If his Arranged Marriage to Sam happened, he would’ve eventually replaced her with a younger woman when he could afford to after she gave him an heir.
- It's clear Jean-Luc regards Stella as this since he claims she doesn't need "nonsense" pursuits outside of being a socialite and doesn't put much stock into her feelings or opinions on anything he considers important.
- Turned Off by the Jerkass: Jean-Luc’s shallow elitism and Control Freak attitude are severely straining his marriage with Stella, which is not helped by how she deeply misses her ex-husband Johnathan, despite her denials.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Donovan admits to his friends that if he had married Sam, he would’ve still divorced her for a new Trophy Wife as soon as he could afford to when she gave him an heir.
- Ungrateful Bitch: Stella is heartbroken that all the love she showed Colette over the years meant nothing to the sociopathic girl who just took advantage of her.
- Unluckily Lucky: Theodore and Vivian point out to Donovan that he dodged a major bullet when the Beviers refused his idea of an Arranged Marriage between himself and Colette given how much of an unstable sociopath she was revealed to be upon getting arrested, so marrying her would've been a nightmare.
- Unreliable Narrator: Dr. Shen suggests that Stella is making out her first marriage to be worse than it actually was because that's what she needs to believe.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- The jocks are mad at Dash for inviting the Alpha Bitch Control Freak Colette into the A-Listers because she made things more miserable for them with her tyrannical attitude.
- Stella admits that her and Jean-Luc contributed to Colette’s crimes by enabling her worst qualities through spoiling her rotten and ignoring all the trouble she was causing until it was FAR too late.
- Unwitting Pawn: Vlad plans to use Donovan and his friends in his plans to take over the world and defeat Team Phantom, starting by getting them to unknowingly help him steal the Infi-Map from Frostbite.
- Uptight Loves Wild: Completely averted as Jean-Luc makes it clear he prefers Stella acting like a "proper" aristocrat and utterly disapproves of her learning martial arts so she can defend herself like some “peasant” instead of just hiring bodyguards.
- Vicarious Gold Digger: When Sam was younger, the Mansons tried to persuade her to hang out with and maybe date Donovan Loadman so they'd have a connection with the Loadman family, only to thankfully realize by the present that getting involved with an unstable jerk like him is a huge mistake.
- Villain Team-Up: Vlad recruits Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian to be the Masters' Blasters.
- Was It All a Lie?: Stella miserably laments during the trial that Colette never cared about her at all and all the love she showed her stepdaughter over the years was for nothing.
- Wasted Beauty: Even Theodore wants nothing to do with someone as unstable as Colette and is glad she was arrested.
- We Used to Be Friends: Kwan and Dash are now bitter enemies ever since the former quit the A-Listers. Dash even tried to get the other jocks to kick Kwan off the football team, which failed.
- Where Did We Go Wrong?: Stella thinks this during Colette’s trial after being forced to accept her crimes over her unhinged obsession with Danny.
- With Friends Like These...: Vivian openly admits she only hung out with Donovan because of his wealth and status as the Loadman heir but he doesn’t even have either of those things anymore, so she wonders why she puts up with him now. Theodore doesn't say it out loud, but he's thinking the exact same thing.
- Women Are Wiser:
- Stella just wants Colette’s trial to be over with and is embarrassed to no end by the Beviers' stupidity since they’re only making things worse with their outbursts during Danny’s testimony.
- Downplayed with Vivian but she is losing her patience with Donovan’s stubborn single-minded grudge with Star and Danny.
- When the rich brats are approached by Vlad, Vivian is the most cautious and discerning about his job offer.
- Worth It: Kwan doesn’t regret leaving the A-Listers despite it taking a huge toll on his social life since he’s just glad that he doesn’t have to follow Dash’s orders or obsess over popularity anymore.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Subverted. During the trial, Jean-Luc’s lawyers try to paint Colette as an innocent, lovesick girl who was manipulated by Star’s gold-digging boyfriend Danny, which Johnathan is having none of since he has more than enough evidence to disprove their false allegations and confirm Colette’s harassment of Danny.
- Yandere:
- Colette is too angry to bother hiding her obsession with Danny during the trial and only confirms his accusations of being an unhinged stalker by admitting she committed her crimes to make him hers.
- Donovan’s fixation with Star has only gotten worse because of his humiliation over being disinherited and forced to work, much to his friends' growing frustration over his stubbornness and inability to learn from his mistakes.
- You Are Not My Father: During the trial, Star admits that Jean-Luc never saw her as family and the feeling was more than mutual.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A non-fatal example as Donovan admits to his friends he was only planning on staying married to Sam until she could provide him an heir and he could later replace her with a new Trophy Wife.
