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Before it was a [[Film/LegallyBlonde movie]] with Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, it was a novel.
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Before it was a [[Film/LegallyBlonde movie]] with Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, [[AdaptationDisplacement it was a novel.
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* HalloweenEpisode: The chapter in which Elle goes to a Halloween party
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* HalloweenEpisode: The chapter in which Elle goes to a Halloween partyparty.
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** Music/{{}} also gets a mention for dying her hair for the "Die Another Day" video.
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** Music/{{}} Music/{{Madonna}} also gets a mention for dying her hair for the "Die Another Day" video.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe, a wealthy woman is adamant that the sun rises in the west.
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* PunnyTitle: The title is a pun on "legally blind" which alludes to the DumbBlonde stereotype, and is about a natural blonde who goes to law school. Given some extra dimension with Elle's dreams of starting a law firm where they only represent True Blondes (tm).
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** Lots of real celebrities are mentioned by name, being partially set in L.A. For instance, [[Creator/WillSmith Will]] and [[Creator/JadaPinkett Jada]] were in the restaurant when Warner dumped Elle.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Elle looks stupid to the other law students because she refuses to conform to their aesthetic standards, but logic puzzles are nothing to her, and her deductive skills let her figure out anything from who's definitely blonde (any woman who marries a billionaire her great grandfather's age) to who's the real murderer ([[spoiler:his entitled late-in-life offspring]]).
* SmarterThanYouLook: Elle looks stupid to the other law students because she refuses to conform to their aesthetic standards, but logic puzzles are nothing to her, and her deductive skills let her figure out anything from who's definitely blonde (any woman who marries a billionaire her great grandfather's age) to who's the real murderer ([[spoiler:his entitled late-in-life offspring]]).
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** Lots of real celebrities are mentioned by name, the story being partially set in L.A. For instance, [[Creator/WillSmith Will]] and [[Creator/JadaPinkett Jada]] were in the restaurant when Warner dumped Elle.
** Music/{{}} also gets a mention for dying her hair for the "Die Another Day" video.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Elle looks stupid to the other law students because she refuses to conform to their aesthetic standards, but logic puzzles are nothing to her, and her deductive skills let her figure out anything from who's definitely blonde (any woman who marries a billionaire her great grandfather's age) towho's who the real murderer is ([[spoiler:his entitled late-in-life offspring]]).
** Music/{{}} also gets a mention for dying her hair for the "Die Another Day" video.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Elle looks stupid to the other law students because she refuses to conform to their aesthetic standards, but logic puzzles are nothing to her, and her deductive skills let her figure out anything from who's definitely blonde (any woman who marries a billionaire her great grandfather's age) to
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* TakeThat: Elle considers Madonna to no longer be a True Blonde after she dyed her hair an "icky black" for the ''Die Another Day'' music video.
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* TakeThat: Elle considers Madonna to no longer be a True Blonde after she dyed her hair an "icky black" for the ''Die "Die Another Day'' Day" music video.
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Dewicking per TRS.
* MirrorCharacter: Elle and Sarah end up rejecting Warner for the same reasons. Sarah breaks off the engagement, while Elle refuses to take him back because he sees both of them as a means to an end.
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* NotSoDifferent: Elle and Sarah end up rejecting Warner for the same reasons. Sarah breaks off the engagement, while Elle refuses to take him back because he sees both of them as a means to an end.
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No, sorry, that was only in the movie.
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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Elle once convinced Creator/CameronDiaz not to buy an angora sweater, because it was a really tacky shade of orange.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Played with. Elle suffers some ostracism for looking the way she does. She defies the blonde stereotype by being smart and hard-working, and exploits it in
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Played with. Elle suffers some ostracism for looking the way she does. She defies the blonde stereotype by being smart and hard-working, and exploits it in the Wyndham trial, where her knowledge of fashion wins her the case.
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* MRSDegree:
** Elle's initial motivation for wanting a law degree is to get Warner back in the process. She ends up subverting the trope by rejecting him and embracing her new career path instead.
** Elle's initial motivation for wanting a law degree is to get Warner back in the process. She ends up subverting the trope by rejecting him and embracing her new career path instead.
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* MRSDegree:
**MRSDegree: Elle's initial motivation for wanting a law degree is to get Warner back in the process. She ends up subverting the trope by rejecting him and embracing her new career path instead.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Elle's BlindDate Austin asks if she is seeing someone, she thinks he is asking if she's dating someone else, but he means a therapist.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Elle's BlindDate Austin asks if she is seeing someone, she thinks he is asking if she's dating someone else, else and says "yes", but he means a therapist.therapist and replies "good".
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Margot tells Elle about Chutney finding her father murdered, she mentions that Chutney's stepmother was a year younger than her, and that she shot the old geezer point blank.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Her social life, which includes such tasks as arranging seating for a friend's wedding, has developed Elle's logic skills to the point that she thinks the extra credits puzzles at the end of the LSAT are fun. When she represent the defendant at a murder trial a year later, she makes use of her knowledge of hair styling to destroy a witness who had perjured herself on the stand.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Also dramatically. When Margot tells Elle about Chutney finding her father murdered, she mentions that Chutney's stepmother was a year younger than her, and thatshe "she shot the old geezer point blank.blank".
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Also dramatically. When Margot tells Elle about Chutney finding her father murdered, she mentions that Chutney's stepmother was a year younger than her, and that
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Unlike in the movie, we learn about the Windham murder quite early in the book.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Unlike in the movie, we learn about the Windham murder quite early in thebook.book.
** Elle guesses that [[spoiler:Brooke is innocent and Chutney the killer]] early on.
** Unlike in the movie, we learn about the Windham murder quite early in the
** Elle guesses that [[spoiler:Brooke is innocent and Chutney the killer]] early on.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: To punish Brooke for being her age when marrying her father, [[spoiler:Chutney decides to shoot her point-blank and kill her.]]
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* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: The Thetas one beat the Delta Gammas in a swimsuit contest, so Brooke, a former Theta, doesn't even deserve legal representation in her murder trial. Just ask Serena.
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* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: The Thetas one once beat the Delta Gammas in a swimsuit contest, so Brooke, a former Theta, doesn't even deserve legal representation in her murder trial. Just ask Serena.
* MRSDegree:
** Elle's initial motivation for wanting a law degree is to get Warner back in the process. She ends up subverting the trope by rejecting him and embracing her new career path instead.
** Elle's initial motivation for wanting a law degree is to get Warner back in the process. She ends up subverting the trope by rejecting him and embracing her new career path instead.
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** Lots of real celebrities are mentioned by name, being partially set in L.A. For instance, Will and Jada were in the restaurant when Warner dumped Elle.
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** Lots of real celebrities are mentioned by name, being partially set in L.A. For instance, Will [[Creator/WillSmith Will]] and Jada [[Creator/JadaPinkett Jada]] were in the restaurant when Warner dumped Elle.
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* TakeThat: Elle considers Madonna to not be a True Blonde after she dyed her hair an "icky black" for the ''Die Another Day'' music video.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Played with. Elle suffers some ostracism for looking the way she does. She defies the blonde stereotype by being smart and hard-working, and exploits it in
* TakeThat: Elle considers Madonna tonot no longer be a True Blonde after she dyed her hair an "icky black" for the ''Die Another Day'' music video.
* TakeThat: Elle considers Madonna to
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After studying jewelry design at UCLA, rich girl Elle Woods is devastated when her boyfriend Warner breaks up with her to go to law school, voicing his desire to find somebody who is more serious to marry into his wealthy and influential family. Not one to give up, Elle resolves to also study law at Stanford to show Warner she's as serious as any other woman.
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After studying jewelry design at UCLA, UCLA through college, rich girl Elle Woods is devastated when her boyfriend since high school Warner breaks up with her to go to law school, voicing his desire to find somebody who is more serious to marry into his wealthy and influential family. Not one to give up, Elle resolves to also study law at Stanford to show Warner she's as serious as any other woman.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In-universe, Fran feels it's this that law professors say "sub-''poena''" all the time.
** The in-class discussion on speedy trials turns into this for Elle and Eugenie, who keep making sexual puns on the legal terminology.
** In-universe, Fran feels it's this that law professors say "sub-''poena''" all the time.
** The in-class discussion on speedy trials turns into this for Elle and Eugenie, who keep making sexual puns on the legal terminology.
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**GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In-universe, Fran feels it's this that law professors say "sub-''poena''" all the time.
** The in-class discussion on speedy trials turns into this for Elle and Eugenie, who keep making sexual puns on the legal terminology.time.
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** The in-class discussion on speedy trials turns into this for Elle and Eugenie, who keep making sexual puns on the legal terminology.
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After studying jewelry design at UCLA, rich girl Elle Woods is devastated when her boyfriend Warner breaks up with her to go to law school, voicing his desire to find somebody who is more serious to marry into his wealthy and influential family. Not one to give up, Elle resolves to also study law at Stanford to show Warner she's as serious as any other woman.
She runs into obstacles when she finds out Warner has moved on to a law student named Sarah who drives a white Volvo, that she has to tone down her social life and fashion sense to be taken seriously by the professors and the other students, and that law isn't a terribly interesting subject. However, she finds a way to get interested when the firm she interns at decides to defend a famous aerobics instructor who is charged with the murder of her husband.
She runs into obstacles when she finds out Warner has moved on to a law student named Sarah who drives a white Volvo, that she has to tone down her social life and fashion sense to be taken seriously by the professors and the other students, and that law isn't a terribly interesting subject. However, she finds a way to get interested when the firm she interns at decides to defend a famous aerobics instructor who is charged with the murder of her husband.
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Before it was a [[Film/LegallyBlonde movie]] with Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, it was a novel.
!!The book provides examples of:
* AmbitionIsEvil: Elle's friends, Margot and Serena, think law school is an unacceptable alternative lifestyle to shopping all day, and going to job interviews instead of vacationing in Aspen is downright ''mean''.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Elle brings her chihuahua to the Halloween party, in a leash fastened around her waist. He almost gets stepped on a few times. Not to mention the champagne in his dish.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Elle is really a jewelry designer, so during a deposition where she's supposed to take notes she notices Brooke's Gemini-themed ear rings and starts drawing zodiac-themed and later law-themed jewelry.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Margot tells Elle about Chutney finding her father murdered, she mentions that Chutney's stepmother was a year younger than her, and that she shot the old geezer point blank.
-->'''Elle:''' That's so awful.
-->'''Margot:''' I know. I'd just die if my father married somebody younger than I am.
* ContinuitySnarl: A few details can't seem to keep themselves straight. Did Elle and Warner break up in the fall before or the spring after her January LSAT? Does Chutney's mother sit at the end of the line or in the middle? Stuff like that.
* CoolCar: Elle switches her BMW for a range rover, as she thinks it's more in line with what Warner would consider a "serious car". His new girlfriend drives a white Volvo, though.
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe, a wealthy woman is adamant that the sun rises in the west.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Unlike in the movie, we learn about the Windham murder quite early in the book.
* FormerlyFat: Brooke used to look like [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Violet Beauregarde after she ate that gum]] according to herself, but developed a very effective work-out regime which made her rich when she started teaching it to others.
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%%** The in-class discussion on speedy trials turns into this for Elle and Eugenie.
* GoldDigger: Permanently subverted according to Elle. In her view, it takes a lot of work to stay married to someone who would marry someone who would marry them for their money, so they always end up earning it.
* GreenEyedMonster: Elle is jealous of Warner's fiance Sarah, and Sarah feels threatened by Warner's ex Elle.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Elle's "blonde philosophy", which holds that a True Blonde has an optimistic view of life. She holds that any True Blonde has a heart of gold but not necessarily hair of gold. At her hypothetical law firm she only wants to represent True Blondes. In the movie this became "I only want innocent clients".
* HalloweenEpisode: The chapter in which Elle goes to a Halloween party
* HiddenDepths: Warner loves Scorcese films and wants to direct movies.
* InSeriesNickname: Other law students star using the nickname for Elle that Sarah's friend Claire came up with: Barbie.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Elle once convinced Creator/CameronDiaz not to buy an angora sweater, because it was a really tacky shade of orange.
* ItsAllAboutMe: After they become friends, Elle and Sarah discuss how Warner needs all his relationships to be about him.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Subverted as unlike in the movie, Elle goes to Stanford.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: The Thetas one beat the Delta Gammas in a swimsuit contest, so Brooke, a former Theta, doesn't even deserve legal representation in her murder trial. Just ask Serena.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Elle was this in college, seeing nothing wrong with it, and notes that the tables are turned in law school, where ''everyone'' is trying to be an AlphaBitch and status is determined less by how pretty you can make yourself and more by how serious you look.
* NoTrueScotsman: Elle claims that no ''true'' blonde, even if she's a natural non-blonde, would ever dye her hair anything but blonde.
* NotSoDifferent: Elle and Sarah end up rejecting Warner for the same reasons. Sarah breaks off the engagement, while Elle refuses to take him back because he sees both of them as a means to an end.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Elle's BlindDate Austin asks if she is seeing someone, she thinks he is asking if she's dating someone else, but he means a therapist.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Elle initially decides that Brooke must be innocent because she is blonde, while her stepdaughter is a brunette. She comes up with justifications later, but that's what she starts with.
* ShoutOut:
** Sydney and his friends are all trekkies.
** Brooke used to look like the "blueberry girl" in Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory.
** Lots of real celebrities are mentioned by name, being partially set in L.A. For instance, Will and Jada were in the restaurant when Warner dumped Elle.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Elle looks stupid to the other law students because she refuses to conform to their aesthetic standards, but logic puzzles are nothing to her, and her deductive skills let her figure out anything from who's definitely blonde (any woman who marries a billionaire her great grandfather's age) to who's the real murderer ([[spoiler:his entitled late-in-life offspring]]).
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!!The book provides examples of:
* AmbitionIsEvil: Elle's friends, Margot and Serena, think law school is an unacceptable alternative lifestyle to shopping all day, and going to job interviews instead of vacationing in Aspen is downright ''mean''.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Elle brings her chihuahua to the Halloween party, in a leash fastened around her waist. He almost gets stepped on a few times. Not to mention the champagne in his dish.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Elle is really a jewelry designer, so during a deposition where she's supposed to take notes she notices Brooke's Gemini-themed ear rings and starts drawing zodiac-themed and later law-themed jewelry.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Margot tells Elle about Chutney finding her father murdered, she mentions that Chutney's stepmother was a year younger than her, and that she shot the old geezer point blank.
-->'''Elle:''' That's so awful.
-->'''Margot:''' I know. I'd just die if my father married somebody younger than I am.
* ContinuitySnarl: A few details can't seem to keep themselves straight. Did Elle and Warner break up in the fall before or the spring after her January LSAT? Does Chutney's mother sit at the end of the line or in the middle? Stuff like that.
* CoolCar: Elle switches her BMW for a range rover, as she thinks it's more in line with what Warner would consider a "serious car". His new girlfriend drives a white Volvo, though.
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe, a wealthy woman is adamant that the sun rises in the west.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Unlike in the movie, we learn about the Windham murder quite early in the book.
* FormerlyFat: Brooke used to look like [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Violet Beauregarde after she ate that gum]] according to herself, but developed a very effective work-out regime which made her rich when she started teaching it to others.
%%* GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
%%** The in-class discussion on speedy trials turns into this for Elle and Eugenie.
* GoldDigger: Permanently subverted according to Elle. In her view, it takes a lot of work to stay married to someone who would marry someone who would marry them for their money, so they always end up earning it.
* GreenEyedMonster: Elle is jealous of Warner's fiance Sarah, and Sarah feels threatened by Warner's ex Elle.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Elle's "blonde philosophy", which holds that a True Blonde has an optimistic view of life. She holds that any True Blonde has a heart of gold but not necessarily hair of gold. At her hypothetical law firm she only wants to represent True Blondes. In the movie this became "I only want innocent clients".
* HalloweenEpisode: The chapter in which Elle goes to a Halloween party
* HiddenDepths: Warner loves Scorcese films and wants to direct movies.
* InSeriesNickname: Other law students star using the nickname for Elle that Sarah's friend Claire came up with: Barbie.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Elle once convinced Creator/CameronDiaz not to buy an angora sweater, because it was a really tacky shade of orange.
* ItsAllAboutMe: After they become friends, Elle and Sarah discuss how Warner needs all his relationships to be about him.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Subverted as unlike in the movie, Elle goes to Stanford.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: The Thetas one beat the Delta Gammas in a swimsuit contest, so Brooke, a former Theta, doesn't even deserve legal representation in her murder trial. Just ask Serena.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Elle was this in college, seeing nothing wrong with it, and notes that the tables are turned in law school, where ''everyone'' is trying to be an AlphaBitch and status is determined less by how pretty you can make yourself and more by how serious you look.
* NoTrueScotsman: Elle claims that no ''true'' blonde, even if she's a natural non-blonde, would ever dye her hair anything but blonde.
* NotSoDifferent: Elle and Sarah end up rejecting Warner for the same reasons. Sarah breaks off the engagement, while Elle refuses to take him back because he sees both of them as a means to an end.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Elle's BlindDate Austin asks if she is seeing someone, she thinks he is asking if she's dating someone else, but he means a therapist.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Elle initially decides that Brooke must be innocent because she is blonde, while her stepdaughter is a brunette. She comes up with justifications later, but that's what she starts with.
* ShoutOut:
** Sydney and his friends are all trekkies.
** Brooke used to look like the "blueberry girl" in Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory.
** Lots of real celebrities are mentioned by name, being partially set in L.A. For instance, Will and Jada were in the restaurant when Warner dumped Elle.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Elle looks stupid to the other law students because she refuses to conform to their aesthetic standards, but logic puzzles are nothing to her, and her deductive skills let her figure out anything from who's definitely blonde (any woman who marries a billionaire her great grandfather's age) to who's the real murderer ([[spoiler:his entitled late-in-life offspring]]).
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