History Theatre / BeMoreChill

* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael spends a portion of the musical pining after Jeremy (whether this is romantic or platonic is up to interpretation), and treats their strained relationship like a bad breakup, burning mementos from their friendship. According to WordOfGod, in early drafts of the script, Michael talks a lot about girls, but doesn't talk about them at all in [[http://maggieisnotacat.tumblr.com/post/160788427435 the final version]]. This interpretation of Michael's character is also supported by [[WordOfDante Joe Iconis and George Salazar]].

* {{Adaptational Heroism}}: Michael. Where in the book, he's still an outsider and Jeremy's best friend, he never runs up on stage during the play to save the school from being turned into mind-controlled zombies. The character is also less sympathetic in general in the book considering he's a white boy with YellowFever
* {{Adaptational Villainy}}: While Jeremy's SQUIP could certainly be cruel in the book, the musical version is outright abusive towards Jeremy, degrading his self-esteem with mantras like "Everything about you is just terrible/Everything about you makes me wanna die" so that Jeremy will be compelled to do what it says.

* {{The Alcoholic}}: Jeremy lies about his dad being one to connect with Rich, whose own father is this.

* {{All Musicals Are Adaptations}}
* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael spends a portion of the musical pining after Jeremy (whether this is romantic or platonic is up to interpretation), and treats their strained relationship like a bad breakup, burning mementos from their friendship. According to WordOfGod, in early drafts of the script, Michael talks a lot about girls, but doesn't talk about them at all in the final version [[http://maggieisnotacat.tumblr.com/post/160788427435/i-would-trust-joe-with-my-life]]. This interpretation of Michael's character is also supported by [[WordOfDante Joe Iconis and George Salazar]].
* {{Arc Words}}: Be More Chill, obviously.
* {{Bi The Way}}: Rich.
* {{Friendship Song}}: Two-Player Game.

* {{Fun With Acronyms}}: SQUIP stands for Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor.
* {{Headphones Equal Isolation}}: Both played straight and inverted with Michael. The headphones he wears all the time grant him access to sitting pretty much anywhere in the cafeteria.
* {{Heterosexual Life Partners}}: If Jeremy and Michael's relationship isn't romantic, then it's definitely this trope. With the affectionately-delivered lines like "Dude, you are cooler than a vintage cassette/It's just that no one else but me thinks that yet" and "You know that you are my favorite person", not to mention the entire ''song'' about how they navigate life together and rely on one another, it's evident that they're very close.
* {{I Want Song}}: More Than Survive.
* {{Manic Pixie Dream Girl}}: Christine Canigula.
* {{Manipulative Bastard}}: The Squip. Right from the start it begins chipping away at Jeremy's already bruised self-esteem with constant, often unnecessarily harsh critiques of his looks, personality, and mannerisms. Then it asserts that all these things can be fixed and Jeremy can become cool if he only listens to its advice. And when Jeremy starts to have doubts about ditching Michael for the popular kids, the Squip contends that he's a link to "Jeremy 1.0" and that if Jeremy ever wants to become popular he'll have to ditch losers like Michael. The manipulative part is somewhat expected since the Squip supposedly has a comprehensive, adaptable knowledge of human social conventions and the ability to predict the most likely outcome of anything that anyone could say or do, but it certainly plays up the bastard aspect of this throughout the musical.
* NightmareFuel: The SQUIP can literally puppet its user's body. During the Halloween party, it nearly forces Jeremy to have sex with a popular girl named Chloe, and is only stopped by Jake's intrusion. It is very likely that, had Jake not interrupted, Jeremy would have been raped by Chloe without her knowing it was rape in the first place.

* {{School Play}}: A Midsummer Nightmare About Zombies

* {{Wild Teen Party}}: Halloween

* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael spends a portion of the musical pining after Jeremy (whether this is romantic or platonic is up to interpretation), and treats their strained relationship like a bad breakup, burning mementos from their friendship. According to WordOfGod, in early drafts of the script, Michael talks a lot about girls, but doesn't talk about them at all in the final version [[http://maggieisnotacat.tumblr.com/post/160788427435/i-would-trust-joe-with-my-life]]. This interpretation of Michael's character is also supporter by [[WordOfDante Joe Iconis and George Salazar]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: Can be seen as one to Theatre/LittleShopofHorrors. Many of the changes made from book to musical, particularly the vilification of the SQUIP, seem inspired by Little Shop.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Can be seen as one to Theatre/LittleShop ofHorrors. Many of the changes made from book to musical, particularly the vilification of the SQUIP, seem inspired by Little Shop.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Can be seen as one to Theatre/LittleShopofHorrors. Many of the changes made from book to musical, particularly the vilification of the SQUIP, seem inspired by Little Shop.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael spends a portion of the musical pining after Jeremy (whether this is romantic or platonic up to interpretation), and treats their strained relationship like a bad breakup, burning mementos from their friendship. According to WordOfGod, in early drafts of the script, Michael talks a lot about girls, but doesn't talk about them at all in the final version [[http://maggieisnotacat.tumblr.com/post/160788427435/i-would-trust-joe-with-my-life]]. This interpretation of Michael's character is also supporter by [[WordOfDante Joe Iconis and George Salazar]].

** Not to mention that Jeremy's SQUIP isn't even an antagonist in the book. Sure, its mistakes humiliate Jeremy in front of a crowd full of onlookers, but it never set out to brainwash all of humanity.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael spends a portion of the musical pining after Jeremy (whether this is romantic or platonic can be left up to interpretation), and treats their strained relationship like a bad breakup, burning mementos from their friendship. According to WordOfGod, in early drafts of the script, Michael talks a lot about girls, but doesn't talk about them at all in the final version [[http://maggieisnotacat.tumblr.com/post/160788427435/i-would-trust-joe-with-my-life]]. This interpretation of Michael's character is also supporter by [[WordOfDante Joe Iconis and George Salazar]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: Brooke and Chloe.

* {{Adaptational Villainy}}: While Jeremy's Squip could certainly be cruel in the book, the musical version is outright abusive towards Jeremy, degrading his self-esteem with mantras like "Everything about you is just terrible/Everything about you makes me wanna die" so that Jeremy will be compelled to do what it says.

* TotallyRadical: Just a few amongst the slang used by the teens in the show are phrases such as "super pimp", "mack daddy", "hella gnarly", and "homeslice", etc.

* TotallyRadical: Just a few amongst the slang used by the teens in the show are phrases such as "super pimp", "mack daddy", "hella gnarly", and "homeslice".

* {{The Alcoholic}}: Jeremy lies about his dad being one to connect with Rich.

* {{Manipulative Bastard}}: The Squip. Right from the start it begins chipping away at Jeremy's already bruised self-esteem with constant, often unnecessarily harsh critiques of his looks, personality, and mannerisms. Then it asserts that all these things can be fixed and Jeremy can become cool if he only listens to its advice. And when Jeremy starts to have doubts about ditching Michael for the popular kids, the Squip contends that he's a link to "Jeremy 1.0" and that if Jeremy ever wants to become popular he'll have to ditch losers like Michael. The manipulative part is somewhat expected since the Squip supposedly has a comprehensive, adaptable knowledge of human social conventions and the ability to predict the most likely outcome of anything that anyone could say or do, but it certainly plays up the bastard aspect of this throughout the musical.

* {{Heterosexual Life-Partners}}: If Jeremy and Michael's relationship isn't romantic, then it's definitely this trope. With the affectionately-delivered lines like "Dude, you are cooler than a vintage cassette/It's just that no one else but me thinks that yet" and "You know that you are my favorite person", not to mention the entire *song* about how they navigate life together and rely on one another, it's evident that they're very close.
* {{Manipulative Bastard}}: The Squip.

''Be More Chill'' is a musical theatre adaptation of [[Literature/BeMoreChill the book with the same name]]. It was made in 2013, nine years after the book. Set around 2015, it follows the life of Jeremy Heere, an average high school dork whose life gets turned upside down after he gets a SQUIP - a quantum supercomputer in the form of a pill that enters one's brain and instructs them on how to become cool.

''Be More Chill'' is a musical theatre adaptation of [[Literature/BeMoreChill the book with the same name]]. It was made in 2013, nine years after the book.

* {{Adaptational Villainy}}: Jeremy's Squip definitely seems much crueler to Jeremy in the musical than in the book.
* {{Adorkable}}: Michael has his moments.