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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Resembles a very young [[{{Music/MarkMothersbaugh}} Mark Mothersbaugh]].

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More of a complaint than a flaw


* FatalFlaw: Hypocrisy. The entire clique has got it into their heads that they are the lesser of two evils compared to the jocks and feel entitled to affection because they believe they suffer more than others. Although the clique believes they have the moral high ground, their actions contradict their beliefs; Algie complains that everyone bullies them but the nerds can be seen assaulting non-clique students and knocking them out with superior weapons, Earnest complains that the girls at Bullworth are choosing to ignore them in favor of the jocks but he's the one who called them "bimbos" during his class president speech, and the clique believes the jocks are worse than them for "picking on the little man" but they choose to target Mandy Wiles because she was the subject of Earnest's sexual fantasies and likely because they thought she was the weakest member of the clique compared to Casey Harris, Damon West, Juri Karamazov, and Luis Luna. The utter hypocrisy of the clique is what makes them so dangerous as they are susceptible to Gary's manipulations when he tells them they deserve better and riles them up against Jimmy and the jocks by stroking their desire for revenge.
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* SexualKarma: Invoked but subsequently defied. As part of his plan to get revenge on the Jocks for bullying him and his clique, he instructs Jimmy to get pictures of their head cheerleader, Mandy Wiles, so he can allegedly use them to humiliate the clique. However, it's pretty clear that the pictures were just for his own personal pleasure and the Jocks quickly find out about it.

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* SexualKarma: Invoked but subsequently defied. As part of his plan to get revenge on the Jocks for bullying him and his clique, he instructs Jimmy to get pictures of their head cheerleader, Mandy Wiles, so he can allegedly use them to humiliate the clique. However, it's pretty clear that the pictures were just for his own personal pleasure and the Jocks quickly find out about it.it and outright assault the Observatory for committing revenge porn.
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* SexualKarma: Invoked but subsequently defied. As part of his plan to get revenge on the Jocks for bullying him and his clique, he instructs Jimmy to get pictures of their head cheerleader, Mandy Wiles, so he can allegedly use them to humiliate the clique. However, it's pretty clear that the pictures were just for his own personal pleasure and the Jocks quickly find out about it.
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* AntiHero: He's firmly the [[NominalHero nominal variant]]. He's an arrogant, entitled and unhinged pervert who just so happens to be on Jimmy's side for most of the game and supports his crusade against bullying. Even as early as Chapter 1, he's shown PuttingOnTheReich during his presidential campaign and makes sexist comments during his speech despite being the only candidate brave enough to run against [[JerkJock Ted Thompson]]. While he supports Jimmy in Chapter 4 against the Jocks, he takes his "revenge plot" against the Jocks a ''bit'' too far when he has Jimmy take crude pictures of their only female member, cheerleader Mandy Wiles, and spreads them all around town in an attempt to cement her as a whore. He completely loses his "hero" status once he turns on Jimmy during Chapter 5.

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* AntiHero: He's firmly the [[NominalHero nominal variant]]. He's an arrogant, entitled and unhinged pervert who just so happens to be on Jimmy's side for most of the game and supports his crusade against bullying. Even as early as Chapter 1, he's shown PuttingOnTheReich during his presidential campaign and makes sexist comments during his speech despite being the only candidate brave enough to run against [[JerkJock Ted Thompson]]. While he supports Jimmy in Chapter 4 against the Jocks, Jocks (only because Jimmy beat him and the Nerds into complying), he takes his "revenge plot" against the Jocks a ''bit'' too far when he has Jimmy take crude pictures of their only female member, cheerleader Mandy Wiles, and spreads them all around town in an attempt to cement her as a whore. He completely loses his "hero" status once he turns on Jimmy during Chapter 5.
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He picks on petey and can act like a jerk


* WhiteSheep: Despite his awkwardness, Algie is probably one of the nicer nerds in the clique and only acts badly under the influence of his clique. Algie is the first to approach Jimmy for help and despite having every reason to hate Lola for toying with his emotions, breaking his heart, and leaving him at the mercy of the Greasers, he doesn't seek revenge against her and just cuts all contact with her instead. This is in stark contrast to Earnest, who makes an elaborate revenge plot against the jocks and has Jimmy take pictures of Mandy so they can humiliate her as the first part of his plan for payback.

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* WhiteSheep: Despite his awkwardness, Algie is probably one of the nicer nerds in the clique and only acts badly under the influence of his clique. Algie is the first to approach Jimmy for help and despite having every reason to hate Lola for toying with his emotions, breaking his heart, and leaving him at the mercy of the Greasers, he doesn't seek revenge against her and just cuts all contact with her instead. This is in stark contrast to Earnest, who makes an elaborate revenge plot against the jocks and has Jimmy take pictures of Mandy so they can humiliate her as the first part of his plan for payback.

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* FlatCharacter: She only appears in four missions and does not appear in the rest of the game, she doesn't even appear in the Nerds' revenge against the Jocks.


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* OutOfFocus: She only appears in four missions and does not appear in the rest of the game, she doesn't even appear in the Nerds' revenge against the Jocks.

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* LovableSexManiac: Deconstructed, Earnest is portrayed as the most sympathetic of the clique leaders because he and his clique are bullied relentlessly by the other students, and their interest in women was initially played for laughs as Melvin offers Jimmy his "wenches" and Earnest is caught reading an adult magazine. Earnest's perversions are eventually revealed to be far more disturbing and sinister because he convinces Jimmy to take pictures of Mandy Wiles, the head cheerleader, without her permission or knowledge so he can humiliate the clique as part of the revenge plan. However, after Thad posts them on the Bullworth campus and neighboring town, the Jocks inevitably find out about this and vengefully storm the observatory while calling them "sickos". Although Mandy admits that she deserved some punishment for how she's treated others, she tells Jimmy that she doesn't deserve this level of punishment. When confronted over his actions, Earnest doesn't understand why they are angry at him for acting on his urges and believes his urges are natural.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Nerds, as revenge for the jocks picking on them, have Jimmy urinate in their drinks, sneak fireworks into their footballs, and distribute across the town what is tantamount to revenge porn of Mandy.

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* AllegedlyDateless: The story itself makes it known that she can't get the attention of many boys as one of the Nerds, and Jimmy is off-put by her offer to kiss him. He still won't have many qualms about kissing her for health during gameplay, and she can still be kissed by any boy during freeroam.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Downplayed. She is one of the nicest girls on campus, but she threatens to start a rumor about Jimmy being a [[ThePeepingTom peeping Tom]] if he doesn't retrieve her chemistry notes. [[spoiler:This becomes {{hilarious in hindsight}} because a later mission requires Jimmy to be a peeping tom to capture pictures of Mandy]].
* CovertPervert: Her diary contains a HurricaneOfEuphemisms for sex with Jimmy.



* BewareTheNiceOnes: Downplayed. She is one of the nicest girls on campus, but she threatens to start a rumor about Jimmy being a [[ThePeepingTom peeping Tom]] if he doesn't retrieve her chemistry notes. [[spoiler:This becomes {{hilarious in hindsight}} because a later mission requires Jimmy to be a peeping tom to capture pictures of Mandy]].
* CovertPervert: Her diary contains a HurricaneOfEuphemisms for sex with Jimmy.



* HollywoodDateless: The story itself makes it known that she can't get the attention of many boys as one of the Nerds, and Jimmy is off-put by her offer to kiss him. He still won't have many qualms about kissing her for health during gameplay, and she can still be kissed by any boy during freeroam.
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Trope rename cleanup. Doesn't seem to fit Allegedly Dateless


* HollywoodDateless: They can't even score with the only nerd girl in the clique. It's even a plot point in Chapter 3 where Algie is targeted by the Greasers and [[CrazyJealousGuy Johnny Vincent]] because he was trying to score with [[ReallyGetsAround Lola]].

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* AlliterationAndAdventurers: Many of them play the very popular game of Grottoes & Gremlins.



* MagicAmpersand: Many of them play the very popular game of Grottoes & Gremlins.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He tells Petey in ''Stronghold Assault'' that the Nerds wouldn't accept him into their ranks because he's weird, despite his weak bladder and poor social skills being the subject of much mockery at Bullworth.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: HypocriticalHumor: He tells Petey in ''Stronghold Assault'' that the Nerds wouldn't accept him into their ranks because he's weird, despite his weak bladder and poor social skills being the subject of much mockery at Bullworth.

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