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, has been renamed to Unconvincingly Unpopular Character and is a YMMV audience reaction.
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* CoolLoser: Ben looks like the guy who, in a real school setting, would be the most popular. Especially considering the competition.
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* AnAesopAnAesop: Don't do drugs.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification : Booze, Miss Pot, Cocaine and Heroin.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification AnthropomorphicVice : Booze, Miss Pot, Cocaine and Heroin.
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Made in 1988, ''Straight Up'' is an educational movie divided up into six parts, each designed to inform students about the dangers of using marijuana, alcohol and other drugs.
In other words, it's a 90-minute-long anti-drug PSA.
The local cool gang made up of Kevin, Robbie, Tony and Sue ride by skateboard to a local parking garage, where they divide up various illicit substances among themselves. They're caught by Ben, an ordinary kid, whom they promptly write off as a wimp due to his lack of desire to try their drugs.
This is about when things start taking a turn for the weird. He is met by [[MagicalNegro Cosmo]], a mysterious man with a magic elevator.
Over the course of Ben's adventure, he receives magical trinkets, which give him the knowledge, vision and willpower to say no to drugs once and for all.
[[http://www.seanbaby.com/absoludicrous/straightup.htm You can find the review on Seanbaby's site.]]
!This PSA has examples of:
* AnAesop
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer : Kevin and his gang, who seem to want to get Ben hooked on drugs come hell or high water.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification : Booze, Miss Pot, Cocaine and Heroin.
* TheAlcoholic : Booze, of course.
* BadGuyBar: Booze lures Kevin into one... which for all the world looks like a '''''GayBar'''''.
* CoolLoser: Ben looks like the guy who, in a real school setting, would be the most popular. Especially considering the competition.
* CrapsackWorld: Pretty much everywhere the Fate Elevator stops.
* DrugsAreBad : The entire point of the movie.
* FiveTokenBand: Kevin's "gang" is composed of an Asian girl, a Black boy, an overweight boy in Bermuda shorts who appears to be Jewish, and are of course led by the MightyWhitey Kevin.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Tony at first, then the entire group.]]
* JerkAss: Kevin.
* JokerJury: The personified drugs do this and try Ben for not possessing drugs.
* MagicalNegro: Cosmo.
* MacGuffin: The magical items given to Ben by Cosmo.
* SmokingIsCool: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the World of Illusion sequence and [[SubvertedTrope subverted throughout the movie.]]
* VillainSong: Three of them. "Gimme That Headband", "Reservation for One" and "No Way Out".
* WallBanger
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In other words, it's a 90-minute-long anti-drug PSA.
The local cool gang made up of Kevin, Robbie, Tony and Sue ride by skateboard to a local parking garage, where they divide up various illicit substances among themselves. They're caught by Ben, an ordinary kid, whom they promptly write off as a wimp due to his lack of desire to try their drugs.
This is about when things start taking a turn for the weird. He is met by [[MagicalNegro Cosmo]], a mysterious man with a magic elevator.
Over the course of Ben's adventure, he receives magical trinkets, which give him the knowledge, vision and willpower to say no to drugs once and for all.
[[http://www.seanbaby.com/absoludicrous/straightup.htm You can find the review on Seanbaby's site.]]
!This PSA has examples of:
* AnAesop
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer : Kevin and his gang, who seem to want to get Ben hooked on drugs come hell or high water.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification : Booze, Miss Pot, Cocaine and Heroin.
* TheAlcoholic : Booze, of course.
* BadGuyBar: Booze lures Kevin into one... which for all the world looks like a '''''GayBar'''''.
* CoolLoser: Ben looks like the guy who, in a real school setting, would be the most popular. Especially considering the competition.
* CrapsackWorld: Pretty much everywhere the Fate Elevator stops.
* DrugsAreBad : The entire point of the movie.
* FiveTokenBand: Kevin's "gang" is composed of an Asian girl, a Black boy, an overweight boy in Bermuda shorts who appears to be Jewish, and are of course led by the MightyWhitey Kevin.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Tony at first, then the entire group.]]
* JerkAss: Kevin.
* JokerJury: The personified drugs do this and try Ben for not possessing drugs.
* MagicalNegro: Cosmo.
* MacGuffin: The magical items given to Ben by Cosmo.
* SmokingIsCool: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the World of Illusion sequence and [[SubvertedTrope subverted throughout the movie.]]
* VillainSong: Three of them. "Gimme That Headband", "Reservation for One" and "No Way Out".
* WallBanger
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