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* DrinksBasedCharacterization: At the Mantrap, she feels self-conscious about ordering something other than Hooch to drink after she and Manda start becoming more hostile to each other, making it all the more apparent that the two of them are growing apart.
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* NoPreggerSex: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She still carries condoms after getting pregnant since she doesn't intend to stop having sex.
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* TotallyEighteen: Before approaching the {{Bouncer}} at the Mantrap, they make sure that they all have it straight in their heads when they were born.
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* TragicDropout: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Chell only stayed on for Fifth Year because the rest of the group were staying as well.



* LittlestCancerPatient: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] hard. Orla is just as eager to drink and screw around as the other girls.

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* LittlestCancerPatient: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] hard. Orla is just as eager to drink and screw around as the other girls. She's also aware of the fact that she's viewed by the school staff as something of a {{Mascot}} because of her illness and for this reason doesn't think that [[spoiler:they'll expel her or her friends for drinking.]]
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* ThisIsUnforgiveable: Her reaction to the stolen uniforms incident.

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* ThisIsUnforgiveable: ThisIsUnforgivable: Her reaction to the stolen uniforms incident.
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* DeathGlare: Gives Ana-Bessie "the full stare" after she comments on the Kay wearing Kylah's skirt from French Connection.
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* CorruptChurch: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His biggest concern seems to be improving the Port's economic prospects, and even goes so far as to attempt to recruit Chell, Kylah and Manda into his scheme to turn it into a major pilgrimage by manufacturing a sighting of the Virgin Mary. He's conscious of the fact that he [[NotSoDifferent isn't all that different]] from [=McPherson=] and his quest to find young women to staff his would-be brothel.

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* CorruptChurch: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His biggest concern seems to be improving the Port's economic prospects, and even goes so far as to attempt to recruit Chell, Kylah and Manda into his scheme to turn it into a major pilgrimage by manufacturing a sighting of the Virgin Mary. He's conscious of the fact that he [[NotSoDifferent isn't all that different]] different from [=McPherson=] and his quest to find young women to staff his would-be brothel.

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* FaintInShock: Does this when Manda has to be the one to explain that she Orla, Chell and Kylah had their uniforms stolen and Manda lowers a bag she'd been holding in front of herself to show just how short her French connection skirt is.




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* ThisIsUnforgiveable: Her reaction to the stolen uniforms incident.
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!!Father Ardlui
The school's parish priest.




!!Father Ardlui
The school's parish priest.
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* CorruptChurch: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His biggest concern seems to be improving the Port's economic prospects, and even goes so far as to attempt to recruit Chell, Kylah and Manda into his scheme to turn it into a major pilgrimage by manufacturing a sighting of the Virgin Mary.

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* CorruptChurch: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His biggest concern seems to be improving the Port's economic prospects, and even goes so far as to attempt to recruit Chell, Kylah and Manda into his scheme to turn it into a major pilgrimage by manufacturing a sighting of the Virgin Mary. He's conscious of the fact that he [[NotSoDifferent isn't all that different]] from [=McPherson=] and his quest to find young women to staff his would-be brothel.



* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Chell suspects that she took out her frustration at being unable to walk on her pupils.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After being [[SadistTeacher openly abusive]] towards her pupils, none of them stop to help her escape when a fire breaks out in the school, so she’s left in a panic thinking she’s going to die until Chell decides to help her.

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* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: She's a wheelchair user who Chell suspects that she took out her frustration at being unable to walk on her pupils.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After being [[SadistTeacher openly abusive]] towards her pupils, none of them stop to help her escape when a fire breaks out in the school, so she’s left in a panic thinking she’s going to die until Chell decides to help her.come to her aid.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Kylah does feel some guilt about spending the money the band gave her once she starts to sober up, but the events of the day prevent her from lingering on the feeling for too long.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Kay feels as though [[spoiler:she can't go through with having an abortion because she believes she needs to be punished for [[SlutShaming having sex with Iain]] and [[{{Gayngst}} Catriona]].]]]] It's revealed in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' that [[spoiler:she did end up terminating her pregnancy after telling her parents about it.]]

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Kay feels as though [[spoiler:she can't go through with having an abortion because she believes she needs to be punished for [[SlutShaming having sex with Iain]] and [[{{Gayngst}} Catriona]].]]]] ]] It's revealed in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' that [[spoiler:she did end up terminating her pregnancy after telling her parents about it.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Fionnula starts out as something of a [[TheFatalist Fatalist]] who doesn't feel as though life has anything to offer her beyond the Port. [[spoiler:As she and Kay grow closer, she actually starts to feel excited about the future.]]


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* RedStringOfFate: [[spoiler:While she holds Kay as she cries, Fionnula realises that it's "just a matter of time" before they have sex. She even feels as though God has brought the two of them together, despite being very ambivalent about the existence of any sort of god at all.]]

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* AMFMCharacterization: Despite being one of the generally worldly members of group, she knows nothing about music. When she heard the news about [[Music/KurtCobain Kurt Cobain's]] death, her reaction was to ask what year he was in.

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* AMFMCharacterization: Despite being one of the generally more worldly members of group, she knows nothing about music. When she heard the news about [[Music/KurtCobain Kurt Cobain's]] death, her reaction was to ask what year he was in.in.
* {{Angst}}: When [[spoiler:Kay]] breaks down in her arms, Fionnula has a moment of despair when she asks herself why the utterly random nature of the universe has somehow resulted in so much personal anguish for her friends.
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-> '''Portrayed by''': Frances Mayli [=McCann=] (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour'')
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Kay feels as though [[spoiler:she can't go through with having an abortion because she believes she needs to be punished for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous having sex with Iain and Catriona.]]]] It's revealed in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' that [[spoiler:she did end up terminating her pregnancy after telling her parents about it.]]

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Kay feels as though [[spoiler:she can't go through with having an abortion because she believes she needs to be punished for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous [[SlutShaming having sex with Iain Iain]] and Catriona.[[{{Gayngst}} Catriona]].]]]] It's revealed in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' that [[spoiler:she did end up terminating her pregnancy after telling her parents about it.]]

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* JealousRomanticWitness: When Kay asks Fionnula why [[spoiler:she gave her phone number to The Man]], Fionnula admits that [[spoiler:she hopes Kay felt jealous]].



!!Ava Hurmalainen
Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''

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!!Ava Hurmalainen
Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Is quite insistent that he can offer Fionnula and Kay something that will take their fancy despite their multiple refusals.
* AdaptedOut: Does not appear in the film.
* CrosscastRole: In the play, he's played by the actor playing Kylah.
* TheOldestProfession: It's implied that he may also being doing some pimping as well as dealing, given how the girls loitering outside The Broadsword react to the mention of him.
* TattooAsCharacterType: He declares to Fionnula and Kay that several brand names tattooed onto his body to save money on having to buy the actual clothes.
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!!Ava Hurmalainen
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* MoodWhiplash: InUniverse, when she's drunk in Casualty she goes very quickly from trying to ask the doctor treating her to marry to cussing him out and threatening to grass him up to his wife.



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* StutterStop: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. He has a mild-to-moderate stutter but it doesn't disappear at dramatic moment.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Done while doing a handstand, no less. In the stage show, this is stylised as the actor doing an open-legged handstand and one of the bandmembers sticking an arm between them. It's [[PlayingWithATrope Played Straight]] in the film.


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* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: Says this almost verbatim when he disappears into his room in order to strip off to show off his supposedly squid-ink-enhanced erection.
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* ThriftyScot: According to Manda, when going on holiday, she buys a copy of ''Magazine/{{Cosmopolitan}}'' with free toiletry samples so she has everything she needs for the time she's away.
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* TheStoner: He's apparently in the habit of getting baked in the wee hours of the morning. It's heavily implied that [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Man]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext whose budgie he is looking after]], is his dealer.

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* TheStoner: He's apparently in the habit of getting baked in the wee hours of the morning. It's heavily implied that [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Man]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext whose budgie he is looking after]], is his dealer.
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* TheStoner: He's apparently in the habit of getting baked in the wee hours of the morning. It's heavily implied that [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Man]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext whose budgie he is looking after]], is his dealer.
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* PubescentBraces: She wears a retainer, but manages to [[AvertedTrope avert]] BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill since it's removable and fits into the palm of her hand.

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* PubescentBraces: She wears a retainer, but manages to [[AvertedTrope avert]] BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill since it's removable and fits into the palm of her hand. She needs to wear it for another six months, and because to stop would mean acknowledging that she might not actually have that long to live.
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* AMFMCharacterization: She has very strong opinions about which bands are worth her time and is apparently able to bend the rest of the choir to her will when it comes to music selections on the coach down to Edinburgh.

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* AMFMCharacterization: She has very strong opinions about which bands are worth her time and is apparently able to bend the rest of the choir to her will when it comes to music selections on the coach down to Edinburgh. She immediately loses whatever interest she might have had in Danny when she finds out that he listens to "all the wrong bands".
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** Chell also says in a separate conversation that in general, the nuns are so old and out of touch they don't really have any respect for them because they're so easy to wind up.


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->'''Portrayed by''': Melissa Allan, Isis Hainsworth (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Chris Fulton (''Our Ladies'')


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* EntitledToHaveYou: Sits himself down with a pint at the girls' table despite being snubbed by them multiple times.



!!Ava Hurmalainen
Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''

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!!Ava Hurmalainen
Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''
!!The Divorcee/Bobby
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[[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Jack Greenlees]]
->'''Portrayed by''': Karen Fishwick (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Jack Greenlees (''Our Ladies'')



* TheBeautifulElite: Is both dizzyingly wealthy and extremely good-looking.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes across at first as affable and down-to-earth despite her parents' wealth, [[spoiler:but later emerges as having a very manipulative personality]].
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic by the rest of the group.
* GoingColdTurkey: [[spoiler: She's managed to stay clean for a few weeks at Fionnula's urging, but Manda's behaviour over the course of the book drives her to a relapse.]]
* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port where they presumably only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
* PowerHigh: She gets a sexual thrill out of convincing others to [[spoiler:try cocaine for the first time.]]
* SecretlyWealthy: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Given the veritable class chasm between her and the rest of the leads, Ava doesn't bother to pretend that her parents aren't wealthy, but she tries to portray them as moderately wealthy NonIdleRich who just happen to own a [[BigFancyHouse listed]] house. [[spoiler: Fionnula later blows this wide open when she tells Kay that Ava's parents are aristocrats with a secret vault in France where they keep the paintings that they own and are too highly insured to be put on display.]]
* TextualCelebrityResemblance: The rest of the group remark on her resemblance to Jenny Agutter in ''Film/TheRailwayChildren''.

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* TheBeautifulElite: Is both dizzyingly wealthy and extremely good-looking.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes across at first as affable and down-to-earth despite her parents' wealth, [[spoiler:but later emerges as having a very manipulative personality]].
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic
CrosscastRole: In the play, he's played by the rest of actor playing Kay.
* InelegantBlubbering: Breaks down in tears and locks himself in
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* GoingColdTurkey: [[spoiler: She's managed to stay clean for a few weeks at Fionnula's urging, but Manda's behaviour over
bathroom after showing the course of the book drives her to a relapse.]]
* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port where they presumably only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
* PowerHigh: She gets a sexual thrill out of convincing others to [[spoiler:try cocaine for the first time.]]
* SecretlyWealthy: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Given the veritable class chasm between her and the rest of the leads, Ava doesn't bother to pretend that her parents aren't wealthy, but she tries to portray them as moderately wealthy NonIdleRich who just happen to own a [[BigFancyHouse listed]] house. [[spoiler: Fionnula later blows this wide open when she tells Kay that Ava's parents are aristocrats with a secret vault in France where they keep the paintings that they own and are too highly insured to be put on display.]]
* TextualCelebrityResemblance: The rest of the group remark on her resemblance to Jenny Agutter in ''Film/TheRailwayChildren''.
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!!Danny

->'''Portrayed by''': Melissa Allan, Isis Hainsworth (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Chris Fulton (''Our Ladies'')
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* TheBeautifulElite: Is both dizzyingly wealthy and extremely good-looking.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes across at first as affable and down-to-earth despite her parents' wealth, [[spoiler:but later emerges as having a very manipulative personality]].
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic by the rest of the group.
* GoingColdTurkey: [[spoiler: She's managed to stay clean for a few weeks at Fionnula's urging, but Manda's behaviour over the course of the book drives her to a relapse.]]
* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port where they presumably only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
* PowerHigh: She gets a sexual thrill out of convincing others to [[spoiler:try cocaine for the first time.]]
* SecretlyWealthy: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Given the veritable class chasm between her and the rest of the leads, Ava doesn't bother to pretend that her parents aren't wealthy, but she tries to portray them as moderately wealthy NonIdleRich who just happen to own a [[BigFancyHouse listed]] house. [[spoiler: Fionnula later blows this wide open when she tells Kay that Ava's parents are aristocrats with a secret vault in France where they keep the paintings that they own and are too highly insured to be put on display.]]
* TextualCelebrityResemblance: The rest of the group remark on her resemblance to Jenny Agutter in ''Film/TheRailwayChildren''.
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* IneffectualLoner: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Because Kay doesn't have much of a social circle, she's actually been able to [[spoiler:experiment sexually with another girl]] and keep it under wraps, whereas Fionnula had wanted to do something similar for a long time but never felt able to because she knew that someone would be sure to gossip about it if they found out.

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