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* FalseSoulmate: Max is this. He definitely has his good qualities, such as ignoring his mother's attempt at a ParentalMarriageVeto and being a doting father to Clementine. However, as the book goes on, he shows an unfortunate disconnect with Andy's actual feelings, repeatedly [[InnocentlyInsensitive saying things that put her in an awkward position]] and assuming that the "right" choices for Andy are the ones that just so happen to match ''his'' priorities. [[spoiler: This culminates in Max going behind his wife's back to sell her magazine to the woman who gave her ''AnxietyDreams,'' because supposedly Andy was being too "shortsighted" to be trusted with her own career. There was no way to salvage the marriage after that sort of betrayal.]]

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* FalseSoulmate: Max Harrison is this. He definitely has his good qualities, such as ignoring his mother's attempt at a ParentalMarriageVeto and being a doting father to Clementine. However, as the book goes on, he shows an unfortunate disconnect with Andy's actual feelings, repeatedly [[InnocentlyInsensitive saying things that put her in an awkward position]] and assuming that the "right" choices for Andy are the ones that just so happen to match ''his'' ''[[ItsAllAboutMe his]]'' priorities. [[spoiler: This culminates in Max going behind his wife's back to sell her magazine to the woman who gave her ''AnxietyDreams,'' she ''still has AnxietyDreams about,'' because supposedly Andy was being too "shortsighted" to be trusted with her own career. There was no Andy couldn't see any way to salvage the marriage after that sort of betrayal.]]
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* FalseSoulmate: Max is this. He definitely has his good qualities, such as ignoring his mother's attempt at a ParentalMarriageVeto and being a doting father to Clementine. However, as the book goes on, he shows an unfortunate disconnect with Andy's actual feelings, repeatedly [[InnocentlyInsensitive saying things that put her in an awkward position]] and assuming that the "right" choices for Andy are the ones that just so happen to match ''his'' priorities. [[spoiler: This culminates in Max going behind his wife's back to sell her magazine to the woman who gave her ''AnxietyDreams,'' because supposedly Andy was being too "shortsighted" to be trusted with her own career. There was no way to salvage the marriage after that sort of betrayal.]]


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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: The warning flags for Andy and Emily's different opinions on Miranda start waving ''very'' early on. After Miranda makes her reappearance with an offer to buy ''The Plunge,'' the friends were both eager to begin a conversation on "Can you believe it!?" as soon as she left. But while [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt Andy]] saw the encounter as akin to barely avoiding a natural disaster, and wanted to laugh about Miranda being so self-involved she [[ButForMeItWasTuesday didn't even remember]] firing them, [[HeroWorshipper Emily]] was overcome by what an ''honor'' it was to have Miranda interested in buying their magazine.
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* GooglingTheNewAcquaintance: We get a lot of backstory on Miranda from what Andrea says about her Google search just after she gets the job.
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* WritersCannotDoMath:
** In the original novel, Miranda's twins were established to be eleven years old. This novel is stated to begin ten years later, and the twins are stated to be eighteen.
** On her wedding day, Andy is stated in the narration to be thirty-four. Two years later, Jill claims that Andy is still thirty-four. Andy's thoughts support this by saying everything up to that point has taken place before her thirty-fifth birthday.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Though their birthdays are established to happen in the course of the novel, Miranda's twins and Andy herself do not become a year older in the just over a year that takes place in the novel.

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* CreatorsCultureCarryover: The English Miranda is described as leaving high school in London at seventeen, three months short of graduation. In the UK students leave high school (which could also be called secondary school or even comprehensive by the older generation.) at sixteen without 'graduating' (though nearly all get some qualifications- usually UsefulNotes/GCSEs- at this point; those that stay to 18 take additional qualifications for the last 2 years). Her siblings also slipped her 'bills' when they could afford it. Depending on Miranda's exact age the official school leaving age at the time might even have been 15. Given that she was from an apparently poor East End family it is unlikely that she would have been expected (or even allowed) to stay at school beyond that. The qualifications at the time would have been [=CSEs=] or O-Levels depending on ability (at 16) and A-Levels (at 18).



* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The English Miranda is described as leaving high school in London at seventeen, three months short of graduation. In the UK students leave high school (which could also be called secondary school or even comprehensive by the older generation.) at sixteen without 'graduating' (though nearly all get some qualifications- usually UsefulNotes/GCSEs- at this point; those that stay to 18 take additional qualifications for the last 2 years). Her siblings also slipped her 'bills' when they could afford it. Depending on Miranda's exact age the official school leaving age at the time might even have been 15. Given that she was from an apparently poor East End family it is unlikely that she would have been expected (or even allowed) to stay at school beyond that. The qualifications at the time would have been [=CSEs=] or O-Levels depending on ability (at 16) and A-Levels (at 18).
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* SignificantBirthdate: Eduardo thinks it's cool that he and Andy are both born June 16.
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* ImpossibleTask: Combined with her FriendOrIdolDecision, what [[spoiler:makes Andy tell Miranda to "Go fuck yourself"; Miranda wants the twins' passports renewed at night when the offices are closed in time to make a flight in three hours. Even Andy knows that doing something like that is impossible.]]

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* ImpossibleTask: Combined with her FriendOrIdolDecision, what [[spoiler:makes Andy tell Miranda to "Go fuck yourself"; yourself": Miranda wants the twins' passports renewed at night when the offices are closed in time to make a flight in three hours. Even Andy knows that doing something like that is impossible.impossible, not least because she is not the twins' legal guardian, no matter how much she can forge Miranda's signature.]]
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* InformedJudaism: In the last quarter of the book, Andy reveals that her mother is Jewish and drops a little knowledge of Judaism. It is never confirmed by the mother nor brought up again.


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** Andy to Emily. Both think they're better than the other, and both hate Miranda but do their best to accomodate her in every way. The only difference is that Emily actually likes fashion.
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* MeanBrit: Miranda Priestley.
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* YouGetMeCoffee: Taken UpToEleven; Andy wishes that coffee were the only thing she had to get.

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''The Devil Wears Prada'' is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger, which was adapted into a 2006 FilmOfTheBook directed by David Frankel and starring Creator/AnneHathaway and Creator/MerylStreep.

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''The Devil Wears Prada'' is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger, which Weisberger. It was adapted into [[Film/TheDevilWearsPrada a 2006 FilmOfTheBook film]] directed by David Frankel and starring Creator/AnneHathaway and Creator/MerylStreep.

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* MirrorCharacter:
** Andy has a YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame moment when Miranda tells her "I see so much of myself in you" after Andy has to explain that [[spoiler:one of her friends got into a coma, but she doesn't want to leave Paris because she made a commitment to her job.]]
** Later on at the end [[spoiler:Andy sells her stories about Runway to an editor who also worked for Miranda as a BeleagueredAssistant and who praises Andy for cursing her out]].



* NotSoDifferent:
** Andy has a YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame moment when Miranda tells her "I see so much of myself in you" after Andy has to explain that [[spoiler:one of her friends got into a coma, but she doesn't want to leave Paris because she made a commitment to her job.]]
** Later on at the end [[spoiler:Andy sells her stories about Runway to an editor who also worked for Miranda as a BeleagueredAssistant and who praises Andy for cursing her out]].
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: In the book, Miranda is constantly changing her plans and wishes without communicating anything to her assistants, so that even when Andy follows her directions perfectly, Miranda sneers at her that she needed it a different way as if that was what she had said in the first place.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: In the book, Miranda is constantly changing her plans and wishes without communicating anything to her assistants, so that even assistants. Even when Andy follows her directions perfectly, Miranda sneers at her that she needed it a different way as if that was what she had said in the first place.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: In the book, Miranda is constantly changing her plans and wishes without communicating anything to her assistants, so that even when Andy follows her directions perfectly, Miranda sneers at her that she needed it a different way as if that was what she had said in the first place.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Downplayed since it never goes beyond dancing. Andy, flattered by Christian's attention towards her, flirts with him after Alex says they should both take a break. Also, he kissed her on the neck and she never tells Alex.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Andy, flattered by Christian's attention towards her, flirts with him after Alex says they should both take a break. Also he kissed her on the neck and she never tells Alex.

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->'''Miranda:''' You have no sense of fashion.\\
'''Andy:''' I think that depends on...\\
'''Miranda:''' No, no. That wasn't a question.
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In 2019, Weisberger released a sequel about Emily titled "When Life Gives You Lululemons". It focuses on Emily helping a senator's wife who is framed for drunk driving, and resisting all of Miranda's efforts to rehire her.

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In 2019, 2018, Weisberger released a sequel about Emily titled "When ''When Life Gives You Lululemons".Lululemons''. It focuses on Emily helping a senator's wife who is framed for drunk driving, and resisting all of Miranda's efforts to rehire her.

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It tells the story of a young woman named Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Hathaway). Her first job out of college is as personal assistant to a merciless New York fashion magazine editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep). With help from Miranda's assistant Emily (Creator/EmilyBlunt) and art director Nigel (Creator/StanleyTucci), Andy starts to work her way up the ladder... but at what cost?

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It tells the story of a young woman named Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Hathaway). Sachs. Her first job out of college is as personal assistant to a merciless New York fashion magazine editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep). Priestly. With help from Miranda's assistant Emily (Creator/EmilyBlunt) and art director Nigel (Creator/StanleyTucci), Nigel, Andy starts to work her way up the ladder... but at what cost?



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!!This film provides examples of:

* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Mid-to-late 50's Miranda (Streep was 57 at the time the movie came out) has twins that appear to be elementary school age (though the actresses were actually 14 at the time). Not impossible, but still noticeable.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Andy considers it a great breakthrough when Miranda starts calling her by her own name.
* AdaptationalDumbass: While Miranda in the books is described as entitled and oblivious, she's not one to battle with the forces of nature. When her flight from Miami to New York was canceled, it was because of other circumstances and she got a morning flight within a few hours, and Emily managed to get her the one she wanted. In the movie, Miranda seriously thinks that Andy can get her a flight in the middle of a hurricane. When Andy fails, Miranda chews her out for being a failure, even though this time it wasn't Andy's fault.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Movie-Andy has fewer passive-aggressive moments about spending corporate dollars on petty things like coffee for the homeless and Town Cars. Also, she keeps saying no to Christian and receives a peck on the cheek rather than engage in YourCheatingHeart. Finally, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she's not a chain smoker]].
** Movie-Miranda is a lot less evil than book-Miranda, and more aware of things like [[spoiler:illness affecting her assistants]] and trying to be a good parent. Among other things, the scene in the limo where Miranda reveals that she gave Andy a glowing recommendation is not in the book at all.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Andrea, blonde (like author Lauren Weisberger) in the book, is played by the dark-haired Anne Hathaway in the film.
* AdaptationalNationality: The British Miranda becomes American, while ironically American Emily becomes British as played by Creator/EmilyBlunt. Both were the result of the actresses playing them refusing to do accents for their roles (even though Streep is otherwise well-known for putting on accents).
* AdaptedOut: James, one of the gay designers who is extremely nice to Andy.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange:
** Book Lily was TheAlcoholic and ReallyGetsAround, encouraging Andy to cheat on Alex with Christian since the latter is good-looking. Movie Lily is essentially Joanne from Theatre/{{Rent}}, responsible, young and chews out Andy for letting Christian kiss her.
** Book Nigel is a NiceGuy with NoIndoorVoice, who offers assistance to Andy but doesn't serve as a mentor. Movie Nigel is a DeadpanSnarker {{Jerkass}} who makes a lot of BrutalHonesty points to Andy about how she doesn't care about her job, though he still helps her out when she asks for a makeover as a beginning point in taking her job more seriously.
** Andy's parents in the book are a ReasonableAuthorityFigure pair who support Andy's decision to write and build a career while expecting her to be there for family and worrying about the job changing her. In the movie her dad, who is helping with Andy's rent, takes Andy to task for not going to Stanford Law in favor of pursuing journalism and then becoming an underpaid assistant.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Alex, Andy's boyfriend in the book, was a teacher who only [[spoiler:broke up with Andy on seeing that she was prioritizing her job over everything else]] while putting up with it for a reasonable amount of time; he only loses his temper [[spoiler:having to cancel a trip they planned for months]], which is a human reaction, and he still wants to [[spoiler:take a break before ending their relationship for good]]. Andy's boyfriend in the movie, Nate, is a {{Hypocrite}} chef who eventually wanted Andy to quit because she “changed too much” as she became better at her job (as in, appropriate clothing style, longer work hours, and viewing fashion in a more serious light), despite them needing the rent money, and [[spoiler:breaks up with her outright]] because [[spoiler:he heard from Lily that she was cheating on him, which was ''not'' the case at all, and didn't give her a chance to defend herself.]]
** Nigel and Emily are ''much'' meaner to Andy than they are in the book, where Emily and Andy start to become allies against Miranda's insanity and support each other.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Doug. He was gay in {{Fanon}} until WordOfGod stated otherwise.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: In the ending, Miranda faxes a one-page recommendation to [[spoiler:Andy's potential new employer, telling him that Andy was the "biggest disappointment she ever had, and that if I didn't hire you I would be a complete idiot."]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Nigel.
* TheBeautifulElite
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Emily gets hit by a car, but she doesn't bear that much damage, physical or otherwise.
* BecomingTheMask: Andy takes the job as a means to higher goals but is seduced by the fashion industry. And/or by her boss, depending on what you see in the subtext.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Andy and Emily.
* BerserkButton: Calling the clothes "stuff" provokes Miranda into a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rather than a simple dismissive comment. Andy going too far into her house provokes the most vicious DeathGlare in the film.
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* BittersweetEnding: Still LighterAndSofter than the book, but [[spoiler:after quitting on Miranda in Paris, though in a quieter way, Andy doesn't get back together with Nate and thinks her writing career is shot. Still, she's able to make amends to Emily by giving her the designer clothes Emily coveted, and gets a job in journalism thanks to Miranda making a surprise recommendation.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Miranda is by no means weird or quirky, but she has ''such'' an abrasive personality that if she weren't so brilliant at her job she would likely have been replaced by someone who doesn't waste time going out of her way to be cruel.
* CatchPhrase: "That's all."
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* ControlFreak: Miranda, who oversees ''every'' aspect of the magazine at every stage of the production, and thinks nothing of turning everyone else's schedule upside down while micro-managing her own.
* CostumePorn: Being about the fashion industry, many fancy clothes show up.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Miranda and Emily, especially Miranda.
--> By all means, move at a glacial pace; you know how that thrills me.
* DeathGlare: Miranda. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/107debff6f67e0e442d081c3d358a629/tumblr_mqyitf0ouy1rp1voro1_500.gif Case in point]]. Andy describes an earlier one as if "the flesh was going to melt off her face".
* DisapprovingLook: Miranda's default expression, frequently overlapping with her DeathGlare depending on how irritated she is.
* DotingParent: Miranda may be an IceQueen, but she does love her twin daughters.
* DoubleStandard:
** After she warms up to Miranda, Andy points out that if Miranda were a man, people wouldn't care about her sadistic ways, only what a great job she does.
** Andy is also subjected to this as she gets better at her job by her friends and boyfriend. While it's understandable to get upset over someone working overtime on a special occasion, it's another to not be able to acknowledge that she's just trying to do a one-year ''job'' so she can pay her dues and hopefully get the job she ''actually'' wants.
* TheDreaded: Reactions to Miranda seem to range from "extreme caution" (Nigel) to "abject terror" (pretty much everyone else).
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: First, the message of Miranda's early arrival causes a MassOhCrap. Next, we see a figure marching directly towards her office with everyone in the crowd scurrying to make sure they don't attract her attention. Finally, she emerges from the lift, shoves her book into her assistant's arms, and rattles off a rapid-fire stream of criticisms and demanding instructions relating both to fashion and her personal life, which simultaneously shows her own superb memory and organisational skills. Ladies and gentlemen, Miranda Priestly.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Andy had done a lot for the sake of her job that she didn't want to including miss her boyfriend's birthday and go to Paris instead of Emily, but [[spoiler: Miranda's sacrifice of Nigel's dream job with James Holt near the end of the film to keep Jacqueline Follet from replacing her as editor-in-chief]] was the point she finally [[spoiler: had enough of Miranda and left ''Runway'' despite not having worked there a full year]].
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: The ''Runway'' offices. Justified in that a real fashion magazine's offices would use Apples exclusively, too.
* FriendsRentControl: Mostly averted. Andy and Nate are two recent college graduates and their apartment is only slightly nicer than what someone of their income level could realistically afford -- but Andy's father is also helping her out with rent.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The first time Andy corrects Miranda for calling her "Emily", the two designers in the background look as if they're expecting a bomb to go off.
* HaHaHaNo: A variation; after Andy corrects Miranda on her name (much to the horror of the others in the room,) Miranda pauses, flashes [[TechnicallyASmile a toothy smile with cold eyes]] with a brief chuckle, and then goes right on as if Andy hadn't spoken.
* HairFlip: Andy, after her makeover.
* HighTurnoverRate: Andy's last two predecessors were fired after a couple of weeks.
* HollywoodPudgy: In-universe, as a pot-shot to the fashion industry in general. Size-six Andy is considered fat at work and has to lose weight. It's also implied at one point that Miranda has postponed a photo shoot with Gwyneth Paltrow until she's lost some weight. The Gwyneth mention was due to the fact that at the time, she'd just had one of her children.
* HumblePie: After being chewed out by her boss, Andy storms out of the office and goes down to Nigel to complain. Nigel answers with a thorough TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, forcing Andrea to admit that she doesn't appreciate her position enough.
* HypercompetentSidekick: What Andy eventually becomes. Emily seems like this at first but it later becomes clear that even with her greater experience she still forgets things or doesn't explain them properly.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Andy and her friends deride fashion industry professionals at the start of the film as, "It's not like they're curing cancer," yet none of them have jobs that important either. One friend is a data analyst, and Nate is a ''fry cook''. Where do they get off acting like their jobs are superior to fashion industry jobs?
** Andy's friends are all too happy to accept the perks of her job, getting name brand clothes, handbags, and accessories as gifts, but then they mock her for actually taking her job seriously, later chide her for "giving up her morals" by wearing nice clothes and accessories like the ones she gave them, and play keep-away with her phone when her boss is calling her.
* IceQueen: Miranda, who (despite a few cracks appearing when her children are involved) never lets people get in the way of her career, and she has the failed marriages to prove it.
* ImpossibleTask: Andy is asked to secure the unpublished ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book as punishment for accidentally overhearing a personal conversation between Miranda and her husband. Just as Andy's prepared to quit because she can't do it, Christian does a BigDamnHeroes moment and secures her one, which she is able to photocopy and rebind three times (one copy for each twin and a third "just in case").
* InformedJudaism: Andy as well as [[spoiler: Miranda, who changed her name to not sound Jewish]] in the book. These aspects are not mentioned in the film though.
* InWithTheInCrowd: Andy after she "drinks the kool-aid" and neglects her old friends.
* IronLady: Miranda. Not surprisingly, the actress would go on to play [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher the original]] in the [[Film/TheIronLady eponymous film]].
* IronicName: The boss from Hell has the last name "Priestly."
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Miranda and Emily both have extremely stressful jobs that fully necessitate brusqueness and extremely high competence requirements, but they repeatedly go out of their way to be just plain ''mean'' to other people even when doing so actually wastes more time.
** Miranda's children deliberately get Andy to go upstairs, clearly knowing that Miranda would be furious.
* JustFollowingOrders: Andy's wording is usually "I didn't have a choice", but the spirit of this excuse is there whenever Miranda makes Andy do/not do something. Everyone calls Andy out on this, including Miranda herself, who says that she still made the choice to sacrifice other people's happiness to get a career advantage.
* LipstickAndLoadMontage: The opening credits.
* LittleNo: Miranda's usual way of rejecting an idea is simply to use this trope, sometimes while the person is right in the middle of an excited monologue. Sometimes she briefly gives her reason for rejecting it, other times she simply moves on to the next point, leaving the speaker to peter out.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Miranda Priestly.
* LostAesop: The film starts off saying "Don't follow the crowd", championing Andy's uniqueness, only to reveal that her colleagues do actually know what they're talking about and she needs to catch up now she's working in the fashion industry. It then heads towards "Broaden your horizons and get to know the people you thought you had nothing in common with", changes direction and staggers towards "Don't put your job ahead of your friends" before eventually ending up somewhere in the region of "Don't compromise your ideals by working for a heartless bitch", even though doing so results in Andy getting her dream job...
* MadnessMantra: Uttered by Emily while she's sick: "I love my job, I love my job . . ."
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Referenced; after the news of her [[spoiler: latest divorce]], Miranda predicts that the headlines will refer to "another Mr Priestly".
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* MarriedToTheJob: Miranda, to the point that [[spoiler:her actual husband divorces her, like the rest of them.]]
* MassOhCrap: A text saying Miranda's going to be in early sends the entire office into a panic.
* MeanBoss: Miranda, so ''so'' much.
* MeanBrit: Emily is the only member of the main cast with an obviously British accent and is also something of a bitch.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Meryl Streep. See under EnforcedMethodActing
* MeaningfulName: "Miranda" comes from the word latin word "admire", appropriate given how difficult it is ''not'' to despite her cruelty.
* MomentOfWeakness:
** After her husband tells her he's divorcing her, Andy talks to Miranda in her hotel room without her makeup and fashionable attire, while Miranda lets her down her guard and openly worries about how her reputation is going to affect her children.
** Andy deciding she's going to quit before she gets fired has her calling her boyfriend to announce her decision before she changes her mind. Later, she tries to pass off her decision to quit as one of these, though it might be more truthful to apply this to her decision ''not'' to quit.
* MoralityPet: Miranda's twin daughters for her, though they are a SpoiledBrat pair.
* MorningRoutine: Shows Andy's morning routine, contrasted with other women's, to show how different she is.
* NoSympathy: Miranda "Details of your incompetence do not interest me" Priestly.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Miranda Priestly.
* NotSoDifferent: Miranda gives Andy this speech at the end of the film. Andy calls Miranda out on ruining Nigel's promotion to save her own ass and that she'll never do such a thing. Miranda tells her that she already did when she went to Paris in Emily's place. She says "I see a great deal of myself in you." The beautiful irony is that she means it as a WellDoneSonGuy moment, whereas Andy [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame interprets this]] as a sign that she has crossed the MoralEventHorizon.
** Also when Andy starts getting better at her job and in turn gets along better with Nigel and Emily, the latter two gradually reveal they too are unhappy and strained working under Miranda.
* NotWhatISignedUpFor:
** Subverted with Andy. Although she didn't sign up for ''any'' bit of the job.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Miranda's many husbands. They didn't realize that she would be MarriedToTheJob.]]
* OhCrap: Miranda's demands often produce this reaction in whoever is expected to carry them out.
* ParentsAsPeople: Something that Miranda laments [[spoiler:in a private moment to Andy after her husband wants a divorce. Because she's MarriedToTheJob she can't attend to her marriage as well as she can to her work, and as a result her girls suffer from the number of stepfathers they gain and lose.]]
* PetTheDog:
** Christian gets Andy the Harry Potter manuscript that Miranda demanded for the twins, no strings attached.
** Andy calls Emily to offer her some of the clothing she was given by various designers while in Paris.
** A more classic example (in that it comes from someone who one might fully expect to do something nasty,) is [[spoiler: Miranda giving Andy a glowing recommendation for her next job (the one she actually wanted to begin with,) even though she quit unexpectedly, leaving Miranda in a potentially awkward position, right after Miranda had given her some genuinely sincere praise and said she thought Andy could have a bright future in the fashion industry.]]
* PetHomosexual: Averted with Nigel. He does give Andy a makeover, thereby [[HollywoodHomely saving her from herself]], and he is TallDarkAndSnarky, but he's also ''much'' higher up the ladder than she is, as well as legitimately older and wiser, offers guidance in her career only, and doesn't hover around her like he has nothing better to do than make sure her life is running like clockwork. He's also shown to have ambitions of his own, [[spoiler:and is crushed when Miranda gives his dream job to someone else to save her own skin]].
* PluckyOfficeGirl: Andy herself is this.
* PoorCommunicationKills: It really feels like a lot of problems between Andy and Nate (and her friends) could have been solved with one conversation early on about what the job was going to entail, so there were no surprises.
* PowerHair: Miranda, again.
* PragmaticAdaptation: A lot of critics praised the film and claimed it improved on the book - most notably making Miranda more sympathetic.
* PrettyInMink: Miranda wears quite a few fur coats and wraps as part of showing her wealth.
* ProductPlacement: Roughly 60% of the movie -- 90% if you watch it with the DVD commentary.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Andy seems to get nothing but these -- first from her coworkers for not taking her job seriously, then from her friends for taking her job ''too'' seriously.
* {{Sadist}}: The psychological version; Miranda's viciousness frequently goes far beyond the necessity of keeping things running smoothly, and she seemed to be positively relishing Andy's reaction to the impossible task she set her in addition to her normal stressful duties.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Nate has this initial reaction when he sees Andy's makeover.
* ShootTheMessenger: Emily gives Andy a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for telling her that Miranda wants Andy to go to Paris instead of Andy, which leads to Emily getting into an accident.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Miranda's voice gets positively gentle right when she's at her most horrible.
* SoProudOfYou: After Andy repeatedly incurs Miranda's displeasure to [[spoiler: warn her about the attempt to replace her]], Miranda says she was "very, very impressed" by Andy's efforts, coming as close as she ever does to thanking her or acknowledging how tempting it might have been to let Miranda suffer.
* SpoiledBrat: What little we see of Miranda's children suggests they might be this.
* {{Squee}}: The prospect of going to Paris immediately turns the stuffy and bitchy Emily into a star-struck teenager.
* SurvivalMantra: "I love my job. I love my job. I love my job" seems to be Emily's way of staving off a complete breakdown.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: A variant: Nate breaks up with Andy because Lily tells him that Christian kissed Andy (on the cheek) and says that she has changed too much, essentially accusing her of cheating. Only, now that Nate's broken up with her, Andy is now available to date Christian and goes out with him in Paris.
* TomboyishName: Andrea goes by the nickname "Andy". Miranda and Emily always use the full name, presumably because their line of work prefers the more sophisticated feminine name.
* TranquilFury: Icy, controlled annoyance seems to be Miranda's default state, but she never raises her voice even when truly furious. According to Streep, she made the decision before being case that Miranda would speak more and more softly the angrier she got.
* {{Troll}}: Caroline and Cassidy by telling Andy she could go up the stairs in Miranda's house. It could very well have cost her her job.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Miranda clearly thinks she's irreplaceable. By the end of the film we realise that [[spoiler: she's absolutely right, and could produce a ''long'' list of people who promised to quit Runway and follow her if she ever left the magazine]].
* WetBlanketWife: While Nate is not a spouse, he's one of the [[RareMaleExample rare male versions of this trope]], as screenwriter Aline Brosh [=McKenna=] [[https://ew.com/movies/2017/09/28/the-devil-wears-prada-nate-aline-brosh-mckenna/ admitted in 2017]]:
-->That was a 'girlfriend' part, really ... That's a part that a lot of women end up playing, the 'why aren't you home more,' the naggy wife.
* WideEyedIdealist: Andy starts out as one, fresh out of Northwestern.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Andy's friends and boyfriend. They gladly accept the gifts she gives them (courtesy of her job at ''Runway''), but in the same breath "playfully" steal her phone while it is ringing and toss it between them, with her ''boss'' on the line -- an act which could easily get Andy ''fired''.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Miranda regrets how her high-stress lifestyle is negatively affecting the lives of her children, but acknowledges that it's a result of the choices she's made and won't complain about her own problems.
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Poor Nigel]]. After working for Miranda loyally for over 16 years, just as he is about to land his dream job [[spoiler:she hands it to someone else to save her own skin.]]
* YouCanPanicNow: Emily gets a message that Miranda's going to arrive early. Nigel calls to everyone to "gird your loins" as the entire building starts turning itself upside down.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: See NotSoDifferent above.
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\n!!This film provides examples of:\n\n* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Mid-to-late 50's Miranda (Streep was 57 at the time the movie came out) has twins that appear to be elementary school age (though the actresses were actually 14 at the time). Not impossible, but still noticeable.\n* AccidentalMisnaming: Andy considers it a great breakthrough when Miranda starts calling her by her own name.\n* AdaptationalDumbass: While Miranda in the books is described as entitled and oblivious, she's not one to battle with the forces of nature. When her flight from Miami to New York was canceled, it was because of other circumstances and she got a morning flight within a few hours, and Emily managed to get her the one she wanted. In the movie, Miranda seriously thinks that Andy can get her a flight in the middle of a hurricane. When Andy fails, Miranda chews her out for being a failure, even though this time it wasn't Andy's fault. \n* AdaptationalHeroism: \n** Movie-Andy has fewer passive-aggressive moments about spending corporate dollars on petty things like coffee for the homeless and Town Cars. Also, she keeps saying no to Christian and receives a peck on the cheek rather than engage in YourCheatingHeart. Finally, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she's not a chain smoker]].\n** Movie-Miranda is a lot less evil than book-Miranda, and more aware of things like [[spoiler:illness affecting her assistants]] and trying to be a good parent. Among other things, the scene in the limo where Miranda reveals that she gave Andy a glowing recommendation is not in the book at all. \n* AdaptationDyeJob: Andrea, blonde (like author Lauren Weisberger) in the book, is played by the dark-haired Anne Hathaway in the film.\n* AdaptationalNationality: The British Miranda becomes American, while ironically American Emily becomes British as played by Creator/EmilyBlunt. Both were the result of the actresses playing them refusing to do accents for their roles (even though Streep is otherwise well-known for putting on accents).\n* AdaptedOut: James, one of the gay designers who is extremely nice to Andy.\n* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: \n** Book Lily was TheAlcoholic and ReallyGetsAround, encouraging Andy to cheat on Alex with Christian since the latter is good-looking. Movie Lily is essentially Joanne from Theatre/{{Rent}}, responsible, young and chews out Andy for letting Christian kiss her.\n** Book Nigel is a NiceGuy with NoIndoorVoice, who offers assistance to Andy but doesn't serve as a mentor. Movie Nigel is a DeadpanSnarker {{Jerkass}} who makes a lot of BrutalHonesty points to Andy about how she doesn't care about her job, though he still helps her out when she asks for a makeover as a beginning point in taking her job more seriously.\n** Andy's parents in the book are a ReasonableAuthorityFigure pair who support Andy's decision to write and build a career while expecting her to be there for family and worrying about the job changing her. In the movie her dad, who is helping with Andy's rent, takes Andy to task for not going to Stanford Law in favor of pursuing journalism and then becoming an underpaid assistant.\n* AdaptationalVillainy: \n** Alex, Andy's boyfriend in the book, was a teacher who only [[spoiler:broke up with Andy on seeing that she was prioritizing her job over everything else]] while putting up with it for a reasonable amount of time; he only loses his temper [[spoiler:having to cancel a trip they planned for months]], which is a human reaction, and he still wants to [[spoiler:take a break before ending their relationship for good]]. Andy's boyfriend in the movie, Nate, is a {{Hypocrite}} chef who eventually wanted Andy to quit because she “changed too much” as she became better at her job (as in, appropriate clothing style, longer work hours, and viewing fashion in a more serious light), despite them needing the rent money, and [[spoiler:breaks up with her outright]] because [[spoiler:he heard from Lily that she was cheating on him, which was ''not'' the case at all, and didn't give her a chance to defend herself.]] \n** Nigel and Emily are ''much'' meaner to Andy than they are in the book, where Emily and Andy start to become allies against Miranda's insanity and support each other.\n* AmbiguouslyGay: Doug. He was gay in {{Fanon}} until WordOfGod stated otherwise.\n* BaitAndSwitchComment: In the ending, Miranda faxes a one-page recommendation to [[spoiler:Andy's potential new employer, telling him that Andy was the "biggest disappointment she ever had, and that if I didn't hire you I would be a complete idiot."]]\n* BaldOfAwesome: Nigel.\n* TheBeautifulElite\n* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Emily gets hit by a car, but she doesn't bear that much damage, physical or otherwise.\n* BecomingTheMask: Andy takes the job as a means to higher goals but is seduced by the fashion industry. And/or by her boss, depending on what you see in the subtext.\n* BeleagueredAssistant: Andy and Emily.\n* BerserkButton: Calling the clothes "stuff" provokes Miranda into a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rather than a simple dismissive comment. Andy going too far into her house provokes the most vicious DeathGlare in the film.\n%%* BeYourself\n* BittersweetEnding: Still LighterAndSofter than the book, but [[spoiler:after quitting on Miranda in Paris, though in a quieter way, Andy doesn't get back together with Nate and thinks her writing career is shot. Still, she's able to make amends to Emily by giving her the designer clothes Emily coveted, and gets a job in journalism thanks to Miranda making a surprise recommendation.]] \n* BunnyEarsLawyer: Miranda is by no means weird or quirky, but she has ''such'' an abrasive personality that if she weren't so brilliant at her job she would likely have been replaced by someone who doesn't waste time going out of her way to be cruel.\n* CatchPhrase: "That's all."\n%%* ChickFlick\n* ControlFreak: Miranda, who oversees ''every'' aspect of the magazine at every stage of the production, and thinks nothing of turning everyone else's schedule upside down while micro-managing her own.\n* CostumePorn: Being about the fashion industry, many fancy clothes show up.\n%%* CuttingTheElectronicLeash\n* DeadpanSnarker: Miranda and Emily, especially Miranda.\n--> By all means, move at a glacial pace; you know how that thrills me.\n* DeathGlare: Miranda. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/107debff6f67e0e442d081c3d358a629/tumblr_mqyitf0ouy1rp1voro1_500.gif Case in point]]. Andy describes an earlier one as if "the flesh was going to melt off her face".\n* DisapprovingLook: Miranda's default expression, frequently overlapping with her DeathGlare depending on how irritated she is.\n* DotingParent: Miranda may be an IceQueen, but she does love her twin daughters.\n* DoubleStandard: \n** After she warms up to Miranda, Andy points out that if Miranda were a man, people wouldn't care about her sadistic ways, only what a great job she does.\n** Andy is also subjected to this as she gets better at her job by her friends and boyfriend. While it's understandable to get upset over someone working overtime on a special occasion, it's another to not be able to acknowledge that she's just trying to do a one-year ''job'' so she can pay her dues and hopefully get the job she ''actually'' wants.\n* TheDreaded: Reactions to Miranda seem to range from "extreme caution" (Nigel) to "abject terror" (pretty much everyone else).\n* EstablishingCharacterMoment: First, the message of Miranda's early arrival causes a MassOhCrap. Next, we see a figure marching directly towards her office with everyone in the crowd scurrying to make sure they don't attract her attention. Finally, she emerges from the lift, shoves her book into her assistant's arms, and rattles off a rapid-fire stream of criticisms and demanding instructions relating both to fashion and her personal life, which simultaneously shows her own superb memory and organisational skills. Ladies and gentlemen, Miranda Priestly.\n* EveryoneHasStandards: Andy had done a lot for the sake of her job that she didn't want to including miss her boyfriend's birthday and go to Paris instead of Emily, but [[spoiler: Miranda's sacrifice of Nigel's dream job with James Holt near the end of the film to keep Jacqueline Follet from replacing her as editor-in-chief]] was the point she finally [[spoiler: had enough of Miranda and left ''Runway'' despite not having worked there a full year]].\n* EveryoneOwnsAMac: The ''Runway'' offices. Justified in that a real fashion magazine's offices would use Apples exclusively, too.\n* FriendsRentControl: Mostly averted. Andy and Nate are two recent college graduates and their apartment is only slightly nicer than what someone of their income level could realistically afford -- but Andy's father is also helping her out with rent.\n* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The first time Andy corrects Miranda for calling her "Emily", the two designers in the background look as if they're expecting a bomb to go off.\n* HaHaHaNo: A variation; after Andy corrects Miranda on her name (much to the horror of the others in the room,) Miranda pauses, flashes [[TechnicallyASmile a toothy smile with cold eyes]] with a brief chuckle, and then goes right on as if Andy hadn't spoken.\n* HairFlip: Andy, after her makeover.\n* HighTurnoverRate: Andy's last two predecessors were fired after a couple of weeks.\n* HollywoodPudgy: In-universe, as a pot-shot to the fashion industry in general. Size-six Andy is considered fat at work and has to lose weight. It's also implied at one point that Miranda has postponed a photo shoot with Gwyneth Paltrow until she's lost some weight. The Gwyneth mention was due to the fact that at the time, she'd just had one of her children.\n* HumblePie: After being chewed out by her boss, Andy storms out of the office and goes down to Nigel to complain. Nigel answers with a thorough TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, forcing Andrea to admit that she doesn't appreciate her position enough.\n* HypercompetentSidekick: What Andy eventually becomes. Emily seems like this at first but it later becomes clear that even with her greater experience she still forgets things or doesn't explain them properly.\n* {{Hypocrite}}: Andy and her friends deride fashion industry professionals at the start of the film as, "It's not like they're curing cancer," yet none of them have jobs that important either. One friend is a data analyst, and Nate is a ''fry cook''. Where do they get off acting like their jobs are superior to fashion industry jobs?\n** Andy's friends are all too happy to accept the perks of her job, getting name brand clothes, handbags, and accessories as gifts, but then they mock her for actually taking her job seriously, later chide her for "giving up her morals" by wearing nice clothes and accessories like the ones she gave them, and play keep-away with her phone when her boss is calling her.\n* IceQueen: Miranda, who (despite a few cracks appearing when her children are involved) never lets people get in the way of her career, and she has the failed marriages to prove it.\n* ImpossibleTask: Andy is asked to secure the unpublished ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book as punishment for accidentally overhearing a personal conversation between Miranda and her husband. Just as Andy's prepared to quit because she can't do it, Christian does a BigDamnHeroes moment and secures her one, which she is able to photocopy and rebind three times (one copy for each twin and a third "just in case").\n* InformedJudaism: Andy as well as [[spoiler: Miranda, who changed her name to not sound Jewish]] in the book. These aspects are not mentioned in the film though.\n* InWithTheInCrowd: Andy after she "drinks the kool-aid" and neglects her old friends.\n* IronLady: Miranda. Not surprisingly, the actress would go on to play [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher the original]] in the [[Film/TheIronLady eponymous film]].\n* IronicName: The boss from Hell has the last name "Priestly." \n* {{Jerkass}}: \n** Miranda and Emily both have extremely stressful jobs that fully necessitate brusqueness and extremely high competence requirements, but they repeatedly go out of their way to be just plain ''mean'' to other people even when doing so actually wastes more time.\n** Miranda's children deliberately get Andy to go upstairs, clearly knowing that Miranda would be furious.\n* JustFollowingOrders: Andy's wording is usually "I didn't have a choice", but the spirit of this excuse is there whenever Miranda makes Andy do/not do something. Everyone calls Andy out on this, including Miranda herself, who says that she still made the choice to sacrifice other people's happiness to get a career advantage.\n* LipstickAndLoadMontage: The opening credits.\n* LittleNo: Miranda's usual way of rejecting an idea is simply to use this trope, sometimes while the person is right in the middle of an excited monologue. Sometimes she briefly gives her reason for rejecting it, other times she simply moves on to the next point, leaving the speaker to peter out.\n* LonelyAtTheTop: Miranda Priestly.\n* LostAesop: The film starts off saying "Don't follow the crowd", championing Andy's uniqueness, only to reveal that her colleagues do actually know what they're talking about and she needs to catch up now she's working in the fashion industry. It then heads towards "Broaden your horizons and get to know the people you thought you had nothing in common with", changes direction and staggers towards "Don't put your job ahead of your friends" before eventually ending up somewhere in the region of "Don't compromise your ideals by working for a heartless bitch", even though doing so results in Andy getting her dream job...\n* MadnessMantra: Uttered by Emily while she's sick: "I love my job, I love my job . . ."\n* TheMaidenNameDebate: Referenced; after the news of her [[spoiler: latest divorce]], Miranda predicts that the headlines will refer to "another Mr Priestly". \n%%* MakeoverMontage\n* MarriedToTheJob: Miranda, to the point that [[spoiler:her actual husband divorces her, like the rest of them.]]\n* MassOhCrap: A text saying Miranda's going to be in early sends the entire office into a panic.\n* MeanBoss: Miranda, so ''so'' much.\n* MeanBrit: Emily is the only member of the main cast with an obviously British accent and is also something of a bitch.\n* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Meryl Streep. See under EnforcedMethodActing\n* MeaningfulName: "Miranda" comes from the word latin word "admire", appropriate given how difficult it is ''not'' to despite her cruelty.\n* MomentOfWeakness: \n** After her husband tells her he's divorcing her, Andy talks to Miranda in her hotel room without her makeup and fashionable attire, while Miranda lets her down her guard and openly worries about how her reputation is going to affect her children.\n** Andy deciding she's going to quit before she gets fired has her calling her boyfriend to announce her decision before she changes her mind. Later, she tries to pass off her decision to quit as one of these, though it might be more truthful to apply this to her decision ''not'' to quit.\n* MoralityPet: Miranda's twin daughters for her, though they are a SpoiledBrat pair.\n* MorningRoutine: Shows Andy's morning routine, contrasted with other women's, to show how different she is.\n* NoSympathy: Miranda "Details of your incompetence do not interest me" Priestly.\n* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Miranda Priestly.\n* NotSoDifferent: Miranda gives Andy this speech at the end of the film. Andy calls Miranda out on ruining Nigel's promotion to save her own ass and that she'll never do such a thing. Miranda tells her that she already did when she went to Paris in Emily's place. She says "I see a great deal of myself in you." The beautiful irony is that she means it as a WellDoneSonGuy moment, whereas Andy [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame interprets this]] as a sign that she has crossed the MoralEventHorizon.\n** Also when Andy starts getting better at her job and in turn gets along better with Nigel and Emily, the latter two gradually reveal they too are unhappy and strained working under Miranda.\n* NotWhatISignedUpFor:\n** Subverted with Andy. Although she didn't sign up for ''any'' bit of the job. \n** Played straight with [[spoiler:Miranda's many husbands. They didn't realize that she would be MarriedToTheJob.]] \n* OhCrap: Miranda's demands often produce this reaction in whoever is expected to carry them out.\n* ParentsAsPeople: Something that Miranda laments [[spoiler:in a private moment to Andy after her husband wants a divorce. Because she's MarriedToTheJob she can't attend to her marriage as well as she can to her work, and as a result her girls suffer from the number of stepfathers they gain and lose.]] \n* PetTheDog: \n** Christian gets Andy the Harry Potter manuscript that Miranda demanded for the twins, no strings attached. \n** Andy calls Emily to offer her some of the clothing she was given by various designers while in Paris.\n** A more classic example (in that it comes from someone who one might fully expect to do something nasty,) is [[spoiler: Miranda giving Andy a glowing recommendation for her next job (the one she actually wanted to begin with,) even though she quit unexpectedly, leaving Miranda in a potentially awkward position, right after Miranda had given her some genuinely sincere praise and said she thought Andy could have a bright future in the fashion industry.]]\n* PetHomosexual: Averted with Nigel. He does give Andy a makeover, thereby [[HollywoodHomely saving her from herself]], and he is TallDarkAndSnarky, but he's also ''much'' higher up the ladder than she is, as well as legitimately older and wiser, offers guidance in her career only, and doesn't hover around her like he has nothing better to do than make sure her life is running like clockwork. He's also shown to have ambitions of his own, [[spoiler:and is crushed when Miranda gives his dream job to someone else to save her own skin]].\n* PluckyOfficeGirl: Andy herself is this.\n* PoorCommunicationKills: It really feels like a lot of problems between Andy and Nate (and her friends) could have been solved with one conversation early on about what the job was going to entail, so there were no surprises.\n* PowerHair: Miranda, again.\n* PragmaticAdaptation: A lot of critics praised the film and claimed it improved on the book - most notably making Miranda more sympathetic.\n* PrettyInMink: Miranda wears quite a few fur coats and wraps as part of showing her wealth.\n* ProductPlacement: Roughly 60% of the movie -- 90% if you watch it with the DVD commentary.\n* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Andy seems to get nothing but these -- first from her coworkers for not taking her job seriously, then from her friends for taking her job ''too'' seriously.\n* {{Sadist}}: The psychological version; Miranda's viciousness frequently goes far beyond the necessity of keeping things running smoothly, and she seemed to be positively relishing Andy's reaction to the impossible task she set her in addition to her normal stressful duties.\n* SheCleansUpNicely: Nate has this initial reaction when he sees Andy's makeover.\n* ShootTheMessenger: Emily gives Andy a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for telling her that Miranda wants Andy to go to Paris instead of Andy, which leads to Emily getting into an accident. \n* SoftSpokenSadist: Miranda's voice gets positively gentle right when she's at her most horrible. \n* SoProudOfYou: After Andy repeatedly incurs Miranda's displeasure to [[spoiler: warn her about the attempt to replace her]], Miranda says she was "very, very impressed" by Andy's efforts, coming as close as she ever does to thanking her or acknowledging how tempting it might have been to let Miranda suffer.\n* SpoiledBrat: What little we see of Miranda's children suggests they might be this.\n* {{Squee}}: The prospect of going to Paris immediately turns the stuffy and bitchy Emily into a star-struck teenager.\n* SurvivalMantra: "I love my job. I love my job. I love my job" seems to be Emily's way of staving off a complete breakdown.\n* ThenLetMeBeEvil: A variant: Nate breaks up with Andy because Lily tells him that Christian kissed Andy (on the cheek) and says that she has changed too much, essentially accusing her of cheating. Only, now that Nate's broken up with her, Andy is now available to date Christian and goes out with him in Paris. \n* TomboyishName: Andrea goes by the nickname "Andy". Miranda and Emily always use the full name, presumably because their line of work prefers the more sophisticated feminine name.\n* TranquilFury: Icy, controlled annoyance seems to be Miranda's default state, but she never raises her voice even when truly furious. According to Streep, she made the decision before being case that Miranda would speak more and more softly the angrier she got.\n* {{Troll}}: Caroline and Cassidy by telling Andy she could go up the stairs in Miranda's house. It could very well have cost her her job.\n* VetinariJobSecurity: Miranda clearly thinks she's irreplaceable. By the end of the film we realise that [[spoiler: she's absolutely right, and could produce a ''long'' list of people who promised to quit Runway and follow her if she ever left the magazine]].\n* WetBlanketWife: While Nate is not a spouse, he's one of the [[RareMaleExample rare male versions of this trope]], as screenwriter Aline Brosh [=McKenna=] [[https://ew.com/movies/2017/09/28/the-devil-wears-prada-nate-aline-brosh-mckenna/ admitted in 2017]]:\n-->That was a 'girlfriend' part, really ... That's a part that a lot of women end up playing, the 'why aren't you home more,' the naggy wife.\n* WideEyedIdealist: Andy starts out as one, fresh out of Northwestern.\n* WithFriendsLikeThese: Andy's friends and boyfriend. They gladly accept the gifts she gives them (courtesy of her job at ''Runway''), but in the same breath "playfully" steal her phone while it is ringing and toss it between them, with her ''boss'' on the line -- an act which could easily get Andy ''fired''.\n* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Miranda regrets how her high-stress lifestyle is negatively affecting the lives of her children, but acknowledges that it's a result of the choices she's made and won't complain about her own problems.\n* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Poor Nigel]]. After working for Miranda loyally for over 16 years, just as he is about to land his dream job [[spoiler:she hands it to someone else to save her own skin.]]\n* YouCanPanicNow: Emily gets a message that Miranda's going to arrive early. Nigel calls to everyone to "gird your loins" as the entire building starts turning itself upside down.\n* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: See NotSoDifferent above.\n** [[spoiler:Nevertheless Miranda does give Andy the recommendation.]]----
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* DerailingLoveInterests: The sequel confirms that sadly Christian was only interested in Andy when she was unattainable. [[spoiler:She mentions going over for casual sex and leaving in shame]].


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* AdaptationalDumbass: While Miranda in the books is described as entitled and oblivious, she's not one to battle with the forces of nature. When her flight from Miami to New York was canceled, it was because of other circumstances and she got a morning flight within a few hours, and Emily managed to get her the one she wanted. In the movie, Miranda seriously thinks that Andy can get her a flight in the middle of a hurricane. When Andy fails, Miranda chews her out for being a failure, even though this time it wasn't Andy's fault.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: Andy and her friends deride fashion industry professionals at the start of the film as, "It's not like they're curing cancer," yet none of them have jobs that important either. One friend is a data analyst, and Nate is a ''fry cook''. Where do they get off acting like their jobs are superior to fashion industry jobs?
** Andy's friends are all too happy to accept the perks of her job, getting name brand clothes, handbags, and accessories as gifts, but then they mock her for actually taking her job seriously, later chide her for "giving up her morals" by wearing nice clothes and accessories like the ones she gave them, and play keep-away with her phone when her boss is calling her.



* PetHomosexual: Averted with Nigel. He does give Andy a makeover, thereby [[HollywoodHomely saving her from herself]], and he is TallDarkAndSnarky, but he's also ''much'' higher up the ladder than she is, as well as legitimately older and wiser, offers guidance in her career only, and doesn't hover around her like he has nothing better to do than make sure her life is running like clockwork.

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* PetHomosexual: Averted with Nigel. He does give Andy a makeover, thereby [[HollywoodHomely saving her from herself]], and he is TallDarkAndSnarky, but he's also ''much'' higher up the ladder than she is, as well as legitimately older and wiser, offers guidance in her career only, and doesn't hover around her like he has nothing better to do than make sure her life is running like clockwork. He's also shown to have ambitions of his own, [[spoiler:and is crushed when Miranda gives his dream job to someone else to save her own skin]].



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* DeniedParody: Miranda bears a striking similarity to ''Vogue'' editor Anna Wintour, for whom Weisberger ''was'' an assistant, but the author maintains that she is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of fiction and various stories of her friends' first jobs.
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* ImpossibleTask: Andy is asked to secure two copies of the unpublished ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book as punishment for accidentally overhearing a personal conversation between Miranda and her husband. Just as Andy's prepared to quit when she can't do it, but Christian does a BigDamnHeroes moment and secures her ''three copies''.

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* ImpossibleTask: Andy is asked to secure two copies of the unpublished ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book as punishment for accidentally overhearing a personal conversation between Miranda and her husband. Just as Andy's prepared to quit when because she can't do it, but Christian does a BigDamnHeroes moment and secures her ''three copies''.one, which she is able to photocopy and rebind three times (one copy for each twin and a third "just in case").

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