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* CorruptTheCutie: Karine's journey into confidence leads her to places even Albin, who was more than willing to break a few pots, had not foreseen. Exposing Mélanie was very unlike her, but she had it coming; [[spoiler: actively planting drungs in Xander's car, however...]]
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* CorruptTheCutie: Karine's journey into confidence leads her to places even Albin, who was more than willing to break a few pots, had not foreseen. Exposing Mélanie was very unlike her, but she had it coming; [[spoiler: actively planting drungs drugs in Xander's car, however...]]
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* DramaticIrony: No-one but the reader knows that Jenny's younger brother, Willy, is also Vicky's half-brother. [[spoiler:At least until the end of Volume 7. Which is revealed to all when Vicky and her dad come to live with Will's new/old girlfriend, Jenny's Mom.]]
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* DramaticIrony: No-one but the reader knows that Jenny's younger brother, Willy, is also Vicky's half-brother. [[spoiler:At least until the end of Volume 7. Which is revealed to all when Vicky and her hmer dad come to live with Will's new/old girlfriend, Jenny's Mom.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Murphy is one of the most repulsive people in the comic both in looks and personality, but his little speech in Volume 8 about people who aggressively judge others based solely on appearance is totally on point. [[spoiler:It's in fact his honest TheReasonYouSuck speech to Jenny that makes her fully realize how badly she's treated Hugo and what she needs to do to make up for it. This moment marks the turnaround in Jenny's storyline in Volume 8, when she pulls herself out of her depressed funk and really changes for the better.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint:
** Murphy is one of the most repulsive people in the comic both in looks and personality, but his little speech in Volume 8 about people who aggressively judge others based solely on appearance is totally on point. [[spoiler:It's in fact his honest TheReasonYouSuck speech to Jenny that makes her fully realize how badly she's treated Hugo and what she needs to do to make up for it. This moment marks the turnaround in Jenny's storyline in Volume 8, when she pulls herself out of her depressed funk and really changes for the better.]]]]
** The reason Jenny first fell into Vicky's ToxicFriendInfluence and let her take advantage of her stupidity? Vicky was the only person in their entire ''middle school'' not to slutshame or objectify her for having won the early puberty lottery (or at least the only person not to act like an animal about it).
--> '''Random girl, under her breath:''' Slut.
--> '''Vicky:''' And ''that'' means "I would love to wear miniskirts too if I had legs half that beautiful".
** Murphy is one of the most repulsive people in the comic both in looks and personality, but his little speech in Volume 8 about people who aggressively judge others based solely on appearance is totally on point. [[spoiler:It's in fact his honest TheReasonYouSuck speech to Jenny that makes her fully realize how badly she's treated Hugo and what she needs to do to make up for it. This moment marks the turnaround in Jenny's storyline in Volume 8, when she pulls herself out of her depressed funk and really changes for the better.
** The reason Jenny first fell into Vicky's ToxicFriendInfluence and let her take advantage of her stupidity? Vicky was the only person in their entire ''middle school'' not to slutshame or objectify her for having won the early puberty lottery (or at least the only person not to act like an animal about it).
--> '''Random girl, under her breath:''' Slut.
--> '''Vicky:''' And ''that'' means "I would love to wear miniskirts too if I had legs half that beautiful".
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* DivergentCharacterEvolution: For much of the first book, Vicky and Jenny are interchangeable, being equally mean and manipulative. Towards the end of the book we start seeing a difference between them, with Jenny's BrainlessBeauty traits played up a lot more and her maliciousness heavily toned down. In subsequent albums she is pretty consistently portrayed as an InnocentlyInsensitive {{Ditz}} who generally just [[ToxicFriendInfluence follows Vicky's lead]].
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* DivergentCharacterEvolution: For much of the first book, Vicky and Jenny are interchangeable, being equally mean and manipulative. Towards the end of the book we start seeing a difference between them, with Jenny's BrainlessBeauty traits played up a lot more and her maliciousness heavily toned down. In subsequent albums she is pretty consistently portrayed as an InnocentlyInsensitive {{Ditz}} [[TheDitz Ditz]] who generally just [[ToxicFriendInfluence follows Vicky's lead]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Jenny may have some kind of learning disability or she could just be stupid. She does occasionally make some clever observations.
** Vicky has a complex relationship with food, due to her [[FormerlyFat past as a chubby kid]] and the constant bullying of her family on the matter. Her mother at one point refers to her as an emotional eater.
** Jenny may have some kind of learning disability or she could just be stupid. She does occasionally make some clever observations.
** Vicky has a complex relationship with food, due to her [[FormerlyFat past as a chubby kid]] and the constant bullying of her family on the matter. Her mother at one point refers to her as an emotional eater.
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* AssholeVictim: Xander. At the end of Volume 8, Karine chooses to leave the weed from Gary's coat in his car, and calls the cops on him. Yes, Xander was kind of a douche and was milking his brother's death for publicity with a very moving, completely fake song (he hated his [[InsistentTerminology half]]-brother and had originally written the song long ago about his dog), but was it really enough to justify ruining his career and giving him a police record? That said, weed or not, he ''was'' drunk when he drove off, and that was his own choice. However, Karine's motive was not so much protecting other drivers, as it was to get his band out of the competition to win an award.
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* BreatherEpisode: ''[[GagSeries Les Vacheries des Nombrils]]'' in general, which started right after volume 7.
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* KnightOfCerebus: The BitchInSheepsClothing sure was a nasty piece of work, but come on. What could be worse in a teenage drama? Answer: well, how about a KnightTemplar SerialKiller? Yes. He's as horrifying as he sounds.
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* StepfordSmiler: Jenny's HiddenDepths. As a skit from the prequel explores, she'll sing and smile her way through her HorribleHousing, EmptyFridgeEmptyLife, AlcoholicParent and being PromotedToParent, but break down when her favorite star's new album is delayed. Consciously or not, she hangs on so hard to the superficial thing because they're all she has.
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* StepfordSmiler: Jenny's HiddenDepths. As a skit from the prequel explores, she'll sing and smile her way through her HorribleHousing, EmptyFridgeEmptyLife, AlcoholicParent and being PromotedToParent, but break down when her favorite star's new album is delayed. Consciously or not, she hangs on so hard to the superficial thing things because they're all she has.
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* VagueAge: Albin. He's out of highschool, and started pulling the makeover trick at the earliest in his late teens - and Karine, who has been dating him for several months at the time of the reveal of his backstory, is the ''12th'' girl he strings along this way. It's one of the reasons Karine's parents dislike him - notably they don't like that he would serve alcohol to "an underage girl", implying that he's not. It's also unclear whether they're having sex, as the conversation they have about it at one point turns out to be a gag about doing chores together. It's one of the elements that make reader wonder how positive a character he really is.
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* VagueAge: Albin. He's out of highschool, high school, and started pulling the makeover trick at the earliest in his late teens - and Karine, who has been dating him for several months at the time of the reveal of his backstory, is the ''12th'' girl he strings along this way. It's one of the reasons Karine's parents dislike him - notably they don't like that he would serve alcohol to "an underage girl", implying that he's not.not a minor himself. It's also unclear whether they're having sex, as the conversation they have about it at one point turns out to be a gag about doing chores together. It's one of the elements that make reader wonder how positive a character he really is.
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* PrivateTutor: Karine and Mégane, who are still in high school, get one when the Albinos move to the big city during the recording and release of their first album. They're too overworked to follow, however.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Jenny's little sister Jenna wears tops with things like "sex bomb" and "Porn Star" written on them and is more interested in high school guys than boys her own age. She is at most thirteen.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Jenny's little sister Jenna wears tops with things like "sex bomb" and "Porn Star" written on them and is more interested in high school guys than boys her own age. She is at most thirteen.only eleven or twelve.
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* VagueAge: Albin. He's out of highschool, and started pulling the makeover trick at the earliest in his late teens - and Karine, who has been dating him for several months at the time of the reveal of his backstory, is the ''12th'' girl he strings along this way. It's one of the reasons Karine's parents dislike him - notably they don't like that he would serve alcohol to "an underage girl", implying that he's not. It's also unclear whether they're having sex, as the conversation they have about it at one point turns out to be a gag about doing chores together. It's one of the elements that make reader wonder how positive a character he really is.
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* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: Murphy's grandma was the Jenny of her day, but now she's an obese old woman with burnt out hair and varicose everywhere. Inverted with his grandpa, who looked just like him as a teenager and aged into one hell of a SilverFox.
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* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: IWasQuiteALooker: Murphy's grandma was the Jenny of her day, but now she's an obese old woman with burnt out hair and varicose everywhere. Inverted with his grandpa, who looked just like him as a teenager and aged into one hell of a SilverFox.
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--> Albin: I went from A to B. From Al'''a'''in to Al'''b'''in.
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--> Albin: '''Albin:''' I went from A to B. From Al'''a'''in to Al'''b'''in.
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* WorldOfJerkass: Finding a genuine nice person in this series is a herculean task, considering that the majority of the characters are [[AlphaBitch alpha bitches]], BitchInSheepsClothing, AbusiveParents, morally-divisive murderers, greedy producers or musicians, or seem like nice people but their HiddenDepths reveal a much darker side...
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* StepfordSmiler: Jenny's HiddenDepths. As a skit from the prequel explores, she'll sing and smile her way through her HorribleHousing, EmptyFridgeEmptyLife, AlcoholicParent and being PromotedToParent, but break down when her favorite star's new album is delayed. Consciously or not, she hangs on so hard to the superficial thing because they're all she has.
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*IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: Murphy's grandma was the Jenny of her day, but now she's an obese old woman with burnt out hair and varicose everywhere. Inverted with his grandpa, who looked just like him as a teenager and aged into one hell of a SilverFox.
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* AscendedExtra : Characters like Mélanie and Hugo can actually be seen in [[EarlyBirdCameo Early Bird Cameos]] in the first volumes, before gaining importance.
** Gabrielle, one of the lesser mean girls of the school, gets ADayInTheLimelight in the spin-off, revealing that she used to be Vicky's OnlyFriend before she dumped her for the much more popular Jenny. She goes as far as accidentally poisoning Karine in order to get back at Vicky by slipping crushed sleeping pills into her soup thinking they were laxatives.
** Gabrielle, one of the lesser mean girls of the school, gets ADayInTheLimelight in the spin-off, revealing that she used to be Vicky's OnlyFriend before she dumped her for the much more popular Jenny. She goes as far as accidentally poisoning Karine in order to get back at Vicky by slipping crushed sleeping pills into her soup thinking they were laxatives.
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** Vicky might be a pretty awful human being but realizing that her dad is a greedy jerk who raised her to believe that compassion is a hindrance, her mother being mentally abusive and pounding in her head that status is everything, and her older sister Rebecca being ten times the AlphaBitch she is, it's not hard to see why she acts the way she does.
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** Vicky might be a pretty awful human being but realizing that her dad is a greedy jerk who raised her to believe that compassion is a hindrance, her mother being mentally abusive and pounding in her head that status is everything, and her older sister Rebecca being ten times the AlphaBitch she is, it's not hard to see why she acts the way she does. Her trick to buy her friends' forgiveness after being awful to them is pulled directly from her mother's book, and when she actually does something thoughtful and genuine, she quickly realizes that no one would do the same for her, making her lash out in sorrow and bitterness.
* GloryHound: As Albin points out, and Karine can't deny with complete honesty, one of the reasons she wants the band to take off is because she enjoys being more popular than Jenny and Vicky.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Vicky. Her full name is Victoria, as her grandmother calls her during her Sweet Sixteen.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: A throwaway skit of volume 1 has Karine accidentally get naked in front of John John, who was hanging out with her brother in their house. The prequel spin off reveals that it was actually [[ItMakesSenseInContext Murphy dressed up as John John]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Vicky. Her full name isVictoria, as her grandmother calls her during her Sweet Sixteen.Victoria.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Vicky. Her full name is
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The climax of Volume 7 takes place at Vicky's Sweet Sixteen. In Volume 5, Karine mentions that it took her five years to realize how toxic Vicky was after they met in middle school - which, even assuming that Vicky is by far the youngest of the trio, would make them very precocious eleven-year-olds. Meanwhile, the prequel spin off establishes that Jenny and Vicky met when they were twelve, at least a couple of years before Vicky and Karine met, which does fit the art better.
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* ElegantClassicalMusician: Mégane's parents wanted her to be this, but she hated piano and eventually sabotaged her career in order to become a rock bassist, after threatening her parents of taking up the bagpipes.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler: While generally hidden behind hair or clothes, Vinko's facial burns]] are in full display during the climax of volume 6, after the truth about [[spoiler: him]] is revealed.
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* TheBore: James is not that bad a guy, really, but he has ''zero'' personality. His only interests are blockbusters, Top 50 music and fiscalization (like his daddy). It doesn't help that [[ArmouredClosetGay Vicky]] isn't even as attracted to his good looks as she'd like to be.
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* TheBore: James is not that bad a guy, really, but he has ''zero'' personality. His only interests are blockbusters, Top 50 music and fiscalization taxation law (like his daddy). It doesn't help that [[ArmouredClosetGay Vicky]] isn't even as attracted to his good looks as she'd like to be.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: At the end of volume 7, [[spoiler: Vicky, drunk out of her mind, gets in a public fight with Jenny about Jean-Franky's behavior, accusing the two of them of being leeches and loudly claiming that Jenny is in love with Hugo; Jenny replies by loudly claiming that Vicky is in love with Mégane after she saw the two kiss earlier. Mégane takes the blame for the kiss, and Vicky allows her parents to believe that she was assaulted by "that dirty dyke"]].
* InterclassFriendship: Vicky's parents are very wealthy, Karine's are lower middle class, and Jenny lives in a slum with her unemployed, semi-catatonic single mom and two younger siblings. It eventually becomes a problem when Vicky starts feeling like Jenny is only pretending to be her friend to get cash out of her.
* TheTease:
** While Jenny doesn't mind putting her money where her mouth is when it comes to boys (as long as they're at least decent-looking), Vicky is fond of promising stuff like dates and kisses and not following up.
** Mégane is very aware of the effect she has on Vicky and loves nothing like toying with her.
** While Jenny doesn't mind putting her money where her mouth is when it comes to boys (as long as they're at least decent-looking), Vicky is fond of promising stuff like dates and kisses and not following up.
** Mégane is very aware of the effect she has on Vicky and loves nothing like toying with her.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Not ''everything'' that happens to Karine is horribly depressing.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Not ''everything'' that happens to Karine is horribly depressing.depressing; her early relationships with Dan and then Albin make her happy, and Jenny and Vicky are capable of giving her a true FriendshipMoment every once in a while.
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* DisappearedDad: Jenny never knew her father, and according to her mother, she doesn't want to know him.
