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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Becca frequently gets into arguments with her mom over the smallest stuff. Justified, as Becca and her mother cannot talk to each other normally, so they repress their emotions until it bottles over. In addition, Becca's mother isn't really around much, so Becca has to deal with most of her issues by herself.
** Also, it's not like she can tell her mother what's ''really'' bothering her, because most of that involves revealing that she is a murderer.

* BittersweetEnding: Arianna is [[spoiler: killed so her heart can be eaten to DePower Becca and Marley]], but Becca and Marley [[spoiler: are happy together and devle further into their relationship]].

** They are extraordinarily strong while in human form.

* BittesweetEnding: Arianna is [[spoiler: killed so her heart can be eaten to DePower Becca and Marley]], but Becca and Marley [[spoiler: are happy together and devle further into their relationship]].

** Implied with the reason why the pack are specifically murdering predators in the first place. The justice system wil give them a slap on the wrist at best, as many of them are [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney too rich to punish]].

* WorkingClassWerewolves: Inverted. All of the werewolves we see are filthy rich. The poorest one, Becca, is ''at least'' upper-middle class.

* AttackOnTheHeart: The leader of the college pack does this to [[spoiler: Arianna]] after learning that [[spoiler: she left evidence at the murder scene ''again'']]. She then makes [[spoiler: [[{{Squick}} Marley and Becca eat Arianna's heart to return them to normal humans]]]].

Becca is worried about making friends after she and her mom move from LA to a ritzy suburb of Oakland. To her surprise, Piedmont High's posse of popular girls adopt her on her very first day. She soon discovers that they have ulterior motives; they are werewolves and want her to join their vigilante pack. Saddled with [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer she can't refuse]], Becca must find a way to keep her humanity in the face of ritualized animalistic violence.

* BackToCameraPose: On the book's cover, all of the other werewolves are facing forward, with their backs to the audience. Becca is the only one looking back with a nervous expression on her face.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: All of the werewolves we see are scrawny women. Their werewolf forms look sickly and rail-thin and their fur color depends on their hair color - Marley (blonde) has light grey fur, and Becca (black hair) has stark black fur for example.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: All of the werewolves we see are scrawny women. Their werewolf forms look sickly and rail-thin. Their wolf form's fur color depends on their hair color - Marley (blonde) has light grey fur, and Becca (black hair) has stark black fur for example.

-->'''Arianna''': Total bait
-->'''Becca''': Bait?

Becca is worried about making friends after she and her mom move from LA to a ritzy suburb of Oakland. To her surprise, Piedmont High's posse of popular girls adopt her on her very first day. She soon discovers that they have ulterior motives; they are werewolves and want her to join. Saddled with [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer she can't refuse]], Becca must find a way to keep her humanity in the face of ritualized animalistic violence.

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* AttackOnTheHeart: The leader of the college pack does this to [[spoiler: Arianna]] after learning that [[spoiler: she left evidence at the murder scene ''again'']]. She then makes [[spoiler: [[{{Squick}} Marley and Becca eat it]]]].

* DramaticIrony: Thatcher's father assumes that his son's murderer is male and murdered him ForTheEvulz. Only the pack and the audience know that [[spoiler: Becca (who is female) murdered him in self-defense]]. They basically just stand there at his funeral, pretending to be grieving, when inside they are actually celebrating his death.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After Thatcher is killed by [[spoiler: Becca]], Arianna puts in body in the local stream. Said stream has a reputation for drunk kids hanging out near it, and she thought it was plausible that Thatcher could have stumbled into the stream while drunk, and drowned.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Arianna insults Thatcher's body, and middle fingers his corpse. Justified, as [[spoiler: he tried to rape Becca]].

* HorrorHunger: The werewolves feel an irresistible urge for human meat if they don't feed for at least a month; they tried deer , but it didn't work. They kill assholes to justify it to themselves.

* DramaticIrony: Thatcher's father assumes that his son's murderer is male and murdered him ForTheEvulz. Only the pack and the audience know that [[spoiler: Becca (who is female) murdered him in self-defense]]. They basically just stand there, pretending to be grieving, when inside they are actually celebrating his death.

* DisproportionateRetribution: One boy gets eaten for nearly finding Becca and Marley ''attractive''.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: The offer the pack gives Becca at the beginning of the book is essentially, "Join us or die."

* EqualOppurtunityEvil: The pack is pretty diverse for a majority-white small town. Becca is Asian and lesbian, Marley is queer, and Amanda is Black. The college pack is even more diverse, with one being a hijabi, and more body-shape diversity.

* HideTheEvidence: The pack disposes of most of the evidence by well, ''eating it'', though it remains unseen how they dispose of clothes.
* HighClassCannibal: The squad is mostly all filthy rich, with Arianna's father being the head of the famous ''Vandergum'' family. Doesn't stop them from eating mostly other rich people, with some poorer people tossed in.

* GrowingMusclesSequence: There's a panel of this before Arianna makes her first kill in front of Becca.

* HighClassCannibal: The squad is mostly all filthy rich, with Arianna's father being the head of the famous ''Vandergum'' family. Doesn't stop them from eating mostly other rich people, with some poorer people tossed in.
* HowWeGotHere: Becca narrates the story from her memory in the future.

Squad is a {{Horror}} YA Graphic novel created by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle, and published by Greenwillow Books in 2021.

Squad is a YA Graphic novel created by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle, and published by Greenwillow Books in 2021.