History PlayingWith / AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil

** Tropeville High Student Council is an AncientConspiracy, manipulating events worldwide from the shadows.

* The council responds to this by arranging a school-wide strike, and then delivers an ultimatum; either reverse the unpopular decision, or see what happens when the entire school refuses to take their standardized tests.

* '''Implied:''': A student seems to be more afraid of angering the Student Council than the the teachers.

'''Basic Trope''': A high school's Student Council has significant authority over the management of the school that it would not have in RealLife

** {{God}} tries to divinely intervene in the life of a student. [[RageAgainstTheHeavens The Student Council vetos his providence]].

* '''Double Subverted''': ...and promptly receives a terrified phone call from the Board of Governors instructing him to make do ''whatever the Council says'' if he values his job.

* '''Played For Drama''': The Student Council clash with more mature "rivals", like the School Board and the PTA, over the running of the school.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...and promptly receives a terrified phone call from the Board of Governors instructing him to do ''whatever the Council says.''

** The teachers and staff are bumbling incompetents, so someone has to step in and take control of the situation.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...and after a receiving cold stare from the council, he backs down... and goes home to cry.
* '''Parodied''': The Tropeville High School Student Council is regularly followed around by security guards and the press. The staff cower before them. (Be aware that any exaggerations of this trope are probably parodies anyways.)

* '''Averted''':
** The Tropeville High School Student Council is just an ordinary student council - they present students' grievances to appropriate authorities but have no real power themselves.
** There is no student Council or there is no school
* '''Enforced''': The authors are writing a primarily for a teenage audience and know that the idea of giving students authority would appeal to them

* '''Straight''': The Tropeville High Student Council has authority over such things as student discipline, extracurricular activities, what the cafeteria serves for lunch, etc.

%%* '''Implied:''': ???

** The school faculty, the fascist student faction, the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot anarcho-communist hippie]] student faction, and [[AlmyightyJanitor the janitors]] are in active warfare for control of the school. Each individual clique forms a platoon.

** The school faculty, the fascist student faction, the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot anarcho-communist hippie]] student faction, and [[AllmyightyJanitor the janitors]] are in active warfare for control of the school. Each individual clique forms a platoon.

** The school faculty, the fascist student faction, the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot anarcho-communist hippie]] student faction, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the janitors]] are in active warfare for control of the school. Each individual clique forms a platoon.

* '''Invoked''':
** Students' elected figureheads are heavily supported by their electors, to the point that ignoring them would fuel a big back-draft.
** "I know how to get rid of that mean teacher! I'll run for student council and demand his resignation!"

* '''Reconstructed''': ...But the main characters back the one member that can be redeemed, who breaks their power forevermore to prevent a recurrence of the struggle.

* '''Averted''': The Tropeville High School Student Council is just an ordinary student council - they present students' grievances to appropriate authorities but have no real power themselves.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Parodied''': The Troperville High School Student Council is regularly followed around by security guards and the press. The staff cower before them. (Be aware that any exaggerations of this trope are probably parodies anyways.)

** Troperille's LaResistance won. Workers control the factories, Students control the colleges.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': "Aren't you guys a little young to have this much power?" ([[PhineasAndFerb Yes. Yes they are.]])

** Pfft! Amateurs! You want exaggeration? Try this: The Student Council is omnipotent.