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* '''Inverted:''' The Washingtons treat each other as close friends despite being family.

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The Washingtons treat each other as close friends despite being family.family.
** NotBloodNotFamily
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** The five of them all had AbusiveParents, and have decided to support each other to help themselves work through the trauma.
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* '''Conversed:''' "Ah, I love it when a film like this makes unrelated but mutually compassionate characters feel like an equal to a biological family."

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* '''Conversed:''' "Ah, I love it when a film like this makes unrelated but mutually compassionate characters feel like an equal to a biological family.""
* '''Deconstructed:''' Alice, Nastasia, Nicky, Ginger and Reuben face hurdles because the government doesn't legally recognize them as a family. When Alice ends up in the emergency room for a serious injury, the hospital won't allow the other four to visit her because they don't have paperwork proving that they are related to her.
* '''Reconstructed:''' [[TeamMom Alice]] legally adopted the other four to avoid legal issues and because of this they're allowed to visit her in the hospital.
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* '''Implied:''' When Alice is talking about her closest, she doesn't say "siblings" or "parents", just "family".
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'''Basic Trope:''' Characters consider each other to be family in abscene of real blood ties.

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'''Basic Trope:''' Characters consider each other to be family in abscene absence of real blood ties.



** It's more out of convience. They all looked simiral and decided to roll with it in crises.

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** It's more out of convience. convenience. They all looked simiral similar and decided to roll with it in crises.



* '''Exploited:''' The sinister [[MadScientist Brainjoltz]] is after Alice, and decides to use theothers as bait and hostages, realizing they could work just as well as a parent.

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* '''Exploited:''' The sinister [[MadScientist Brainjoltz]] is after Alice, and decides to use theothers the others as bait and hostages, realizing they could work just as well as a parent.
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** When Nastasia and Reuben get into a heated argument Nicky tries to stop it, saying "I don't like it when my siblings fight!" AwkwardSilence ensues.

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** When Nastasia and Reuben get into a heated argument Nicky tries to stop it, saying "I don't like it when my siblings fight!" AwkwardSilence Awkward silence ensues.
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* '''Double Subverted"

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* '''Double Subverted"Subverted:'''
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* '''Exaggerated:''' The quintet have a whole family tree consisting of people they consider family.

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* '''Exaggerated:''' The quintet have a whole family tree consisting of biologically unrelated people they consider family.
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* '''Exploited:''' The sinister [[MadScientist]] Brainjoltz is after Alice, and decides to use theothers as bait and hostages, realizing they could work just as well as a parent.

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* '''Exploited:''' The sinister [[MadScientist]] Brainjoltz [[MadScientist Brainjoltz]] is after Alice, and decides to use theothers as bait and hostages, realizing they could work just as well as a parent.
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--> Blake: "So babe, we've been dating for a year now. Will I be [[MeetingTheParents meeting the family]] soon?"

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--> Blake: "So babe, we've been dating for a year now. Will I be [[MeetingTheParents meeting the family]] family soon?"

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* '''Parodied:''' As they get older the five start to realize how much they actually looked like siblings, even pointing out how their faces were back then.

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* '''Parodied:''' '''Parodied:'''
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As they get older the five start to realize how much they actually looked like siblings, even pointing out how their faces were back then.then compared to now.
** When Nastasia and Reuben get into a heated argument Nicky tries to stop it, saying "I don't like it when my siblings fight!" AwkwardSilence ensues.
* '''Averted:''' Alice, Nastasia, Nicky, Ginger and Reuben never see each other as more than friends.
* '''Enforced:''' The writers wanted to make the tone of the movie LighterAndSofter from the source book, so they have the main characters act like family.
* '''Lampshaded:''' "I guess we're kind of like a generation of siblings sometimes... It's not that hard to infer."
* '''Invoked:''' The orphanage manager tries to pull this off with her wards so when they leave they won't feel alone in the world.
* '''Exploited:''' The sinister [[MadScientist]] Brainjoltz is after Alice, and decides to use theothers as bait and hostages, realizing they could work just as well as a parent.
* '''Defied:''' The quintet are barely seen together despite any connection.
* '''Discussed:'''
--> Blake: "So babe, we've been dating for a year now. Will I be [[MeetingTheParents meeting the family]] soon?"
--> Alice: "Yes... I mean no, you've seen them already- well... It's a little complicated..."
* '''Conversed:''' "Ah, I love it when a film like this makes unrelated but mutually compassionate characters feel like an equal to a biological family."

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'''Basic Trope:''' Characters consist each other to be family in abscene of real blood ties.

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'''Basic Trope:''' Characters consist consider each other to be family in abscene of real blood ties.



** It's more out of convience. They looked simiral and decided to roll with it in crises.

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** It's more out of convience. They all looked simiral and decided to roll with it in crises.



** None of them can stand their own families.

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** None of them can stand Their parents were in a criminal gang, thus they were naturally associated with each other by their own families.caretakers.



** The other kids outcasted them at the orphanage, so they were the only other kids they interacted with.

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** The other kids outcasted them at the orphanage, so they were the only other kids they interacted with.with.
* '''Inverted:''' The Washingtons treat each other as close friends despite being family.
* '''Subverted:'''
** After the others discover Reuben was actually a SelfMadeOrphan they keep away from and cut their ties with him.
** Ginger's real family are discovered and want to see her again. Naturally she goes back to them.
** The quintet decided to do a DNA test on a whim and discover that they are actually the siblings of each other.
* '''Double Subverted"
** It was actually Rudy impersonating Reuben. Once they realize this they quickly bond back together.
** Her real family turn out to be horrible, so she goes back to being with Alice, Nastasia, Nicky and Reuben.
** Or so it was meant to. Rudy rigged it to give that result, meaning it's not true they're related.
* '''Parodied:''' As they get older the five start to realize how much they actually looked like siblings, even pointing out how their faces were back then.
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'''Basic Trope:''' Characters consist each other to be family in abscene of real blood ties.

* '''Straight:''' Alice, Nastasia, Nicky, Ginger and Reuben have lived without their families for years and think off each other as the closest people to them.
* '''Exaggerated:''' The quintet have a whole family tree consisting of people they consider family.
* '''Downplayed:'''
** Nastasia and Nicky are actually cousins, but the others have no family.
** It's more out of convience. They looked simiral and decided to roll with it in crises.
* '''Justified:'''
** None of them have any family they can go back to.
** The five of them were the only supernaturally gifted kids they knew growing up.
** None of them can stand their own families.
** They were all a DoorstepBaby when their current provider found them, giving them a common connection.
** The other kids outcasted them at the orphanage, so they were the only other kids they interacted with.

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