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* YouAreFat: Andy is constantly insulted for her weight (specially by Nigel), which is notorious because she's already slim for non-fashion standards. This includes Nigel chiding her for what she eats at the cafeteria and telling her that there probably isn't anything that will fit her at the magazine's office when she needs a makeover. Miranda and Emily also aren't above fat-shaming Andy.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Miranda's two daughters are twins and played by two identical twins.


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* BaitAndSwitch: When Andy is able to fulfill Miranda's ImpossibleTask and obtain a copy of the unpublished ''Harry Potter'' book for her twin daughters, Miranda asks her what is she going to do with only one copy, disdainfully asking if they are supposed to share the book, leading the audience to believe that, despite her best efforts, Andy failed her task and is going to be fired. Turns out, Andy was able to think ahead and by the time she delivered the book's copy to Miranda, she had already photocopied and rebinded the book three times and given two copies to the twins before they got on the train, with the third copy being for Miranda herself.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Andy considers it a great breakthrough when Miranda starts calling her by her own name.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Miranda frequently treats Andy by "Emily", and it gets into the field of MaliciousMisnaming when Andy corrects her, only for Miranda to call her "Emily" again less than a minute later. This trope gets parodied a couple of times when people that ''don't even work at Runway'' ask Andy if she's Miranda's "new Emily". Andy considers it a great breakthrough when Miranda starts calling her by her own name.



%%* LonelyAtTheTop: Miranda Priestly.

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%%* * LonelyAtTheTop: Miranda Priestly.Priestly is one of the most powerful people in the fashion world, is rich, but shown to not have many meaningful relationships. Most of the people working under her fear her, many of the people that get close to her do so in hopes of gaining something from that, and her devotion to her job undermines her personal relationships, culminating in [[spoiler:her husband leaving her towards the end of the film]].



%%* MaybeEverAfter: The fate of Nate and Andy is up to the viewer.

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%%* * MaybeEverAfter: The fate of Andy and Nate break up shortly before she goes to Paris, but after she quits her job, she's able to patch things up with him. While they don't get together at the end, they are shown to be on good terms again, and Andy is up to it's implied that they may rekindle their relationship in the viewer.future.



%%* SpoiledBrat: What little we see of Miranda's children suggests they might be this.

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%%* * SpoiledBrat: What little we see of Miranda's children suggests twins are this, as they might be this.seem to get from their mother everything they want. Most notably, Miranda's ImpossibleTask for Andy is to get the unpublished (at the time) ''Harry Potter'' book for her daughters so they can read it during their holidays, and in another scene Andy is shown working on a science project for the twins.
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Broken Aesop is a YMMV trope. Moving example to YMMV.The Devil Wears Prada.


* BrokenAesop: Andy is presented as being "too good" for the fashion designer assistant job she applies for, and she derisively says she will only tough it out for a year to gain the experience and connections needed to get the job she wants. When she finally learns to take her job seriously and do it well she's presented as "selling her soul," while her abruptly quitting is presented as "holding true to her morals." However, when she applies for the serious journalism job that she only took the fashion designer assistant job to get, they almost don't hire her due to her abrupt departure ("holding true to her morals"), and only hire her due to Miranda giving her a glowing recommendation... which Miranda only gave her due to Andy learning to do her job well ("selling her soul") in the first place.
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: When Miranda arrives, her feet --wearing red pumps-- are first shown when she steps out of her car before entering her Runway office.

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* MorningRoutine: Shows Andy's morning routine, contrasted with other women's, to show how different she is.


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* SynchronisedMorningRoutine: Shows Andy's morning routine, contrasted with other women's, to show how different she is.
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* MicroDieting: At one point Emily talks about the newest diet she's on, which apparently involves basically fasting until you can't stand it anymore and then eating a tiny piece of cheese to take the edge off.

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