History WebVideo / MusicalHell

* ''BeautyAndTheBeast (Golden Films) (The 1999 One)

* ''Film/CreatingRemLazer'' (1989)

* ''Sci-Fi High''

* ''Film/CreatingRemLazer1989''

* ''WesternAnimation/RapsittieStreetKidsBelieveinSanta''

* [[BennettTheSage/TropesGToL G-L]]
* [[BennettTheSage/TropesMToR M-R]]
* [[BennettTheSage/TropesSToZ S-Z]]

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* AccentuateTheNegative: The series premise is identifying and punishing the “sins” of its subjects. Inverted with the “Saving Grace,” which highlights positive elements that shine out in spite of the rest of the film.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The 2003 version of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' gets sinned for failing to bring up a crucial bit of Marian's backstory that explains why she was willing to give Harold the benefit of the doubt.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' gets a sin for its depiction of Timon and Pumbaa - among Diva's other complaints about their portrayals, she notes that their cheerful hedonism is gutted in favor of a more nihilistic portrayal.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: In ''The Ten Commandments: The Musical'', Diva implies she was cast out of Heaven due to participating in a rebellion while she was drunk.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Probably to be expected in this case. Her review of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' is embarrassing because she [[spoiler: used to date the demon Mok summons.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: In a response to a comment on her review of ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'', Diva established that Musical Hell is located "on a small expansion shelf somewhere between the Third and Fourth Circles." Due to changing times, the Inferno has had to develop new space to accommodate modern sins like texting while driving, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking playing Face Hunter decks in Hearthstone]], and of course, terrible musicals.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Before her review of ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'', Diva justifies her "[[BiasSteamroller personal bias]]" with this trope:
-->'''Diva:''' I'm a ''demon''. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I don't. Do. Fair.]]
* AnachronismStew: Diva notes this in her commentary of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'':
-->'''Diva:''' Ahh, nothing says medieval Paris like [[Music/TheCancanSong mid-19th century can-can music]]... we're only one minute in, and already the costumes have gone through fifteen different time periods.
* {{Anvilicious}}: [[InvokedTrope Diva marked down]] ''Pennies from Heaven'' for this trope, noting that it hammered the contrast between the cheery 1930s popular songs and the backdrop of the Great Depression ''constantly'', while noting that it said ''nothing'' of any substance about the era other than "everything sucks".
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Diva doesn't take ripoff films very well.
* ArtisticLicense: In ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', when Swan is getting an inebriated Phoenix to [[DealWithTheDevil sign a contract]], Donna argues that the fact that Phoenix's aforementioned inebriation counts as being under duress, making said contract null and void. Diva counters that it's not like the movie would know that.
* AscendedDemon: Donna implies at the end of the ''Portal 2'' review that Diva might be able to go back to Heaven one day.
* AtomicFBomb: The final sin card for ''Glitter'' is simply a long, drawn-out "[=FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!=]"
* BadassDecay: [[invoked]] Diva cites ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' for this for [[AdaptedOut adapting out]] Johanna shooting Mr. Fogg.
* BerserkButton: ''{{Film/Descendants}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' annoy Diva with their misuse of "[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Be Our Guest]]", with the former's TotallyRadical TwoDecadesBehind rap cover getting a sin to itself.
---> '''Sin Card: DID YOU JUST'''
* BiggerOnTheInside: From her ''Spice World'' review:
-->"Even if these gals were [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]], Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/{{Beyonce}} and [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} the opposition's kid]] all rolled into one, I still would not believe that's the inside of their bus, unless there's a JustForFun/TimeLord spice somewhere in the mix.
* BigRedDevil: Diva is drawn as a female version of one. The ''Legends of Oz'' intro [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/divamusicalhell.png even notes all the characteristics that build the trope.]]
* BizarreHumanBiology: In the review for ''{{Film/Glitter}}'', Diva makes the off-hand comment during the closing that the film "makes me sick to my three-and-a-half stomachs".
* BrokenAesop:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva takes issue]] with The Blue Fairy in ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'' for trying to teach Geppetto that "magic can't solve everything," and yet acting as the DeusExMachina to magically solve his problems.
** Diva cites one of the songs featured in ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Coming Out of Their Shells'':
-->'''Diva''': Also, the whole "violence is not the answer, music is the path to enlightenment" message is a bit incongruious for a franchise based on beating things up. I feel like this whole song was just a stop to the "ThinkOfTheChildren" crowd.
* BrokeTheRatingScale:
** Diva admits that the pyramid scheme used to finance ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' was so heinous that "it was out of [her] jurisdiction" to sentence the producers the typical CoolAndUnusualPunishment, instead sending them off to the [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Eighth Circle of Hell]] for a more "old-school" punishment.
** Diva doesn't even dignify certain [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] films with a proper review, instead giving them a {{MST}}-style commentary. Why bother giving a thoughtful critique on something that isn't even trying to be good?
** ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' was the very first film to get a sin before it even began, due to its epic failure being a major cause of the decline of hand-drawn animation.
** Arthur from ''Pennies From Heaven'' is the first single character to get ''two'' sins solely for sheer [[DesignatedHero unintentional loathsomeness]], and Diva straight-up calls him the most detestable lead character she's ever seen in a musical, including ''intentional'' {{Villain Protagonist}}s such as the Phantom of the Opera and Sweeney Todd.
** Diva ends up giving ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' eleven sins, noting that it broke the scale, surpassing ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' as the worst movie she's ever reviewed.
* CallBack:
** Diva brings up Creator/PierceBrosnan's lack of singing talent, first touched upon in the ''Theatre/MammaMia'' review, a few times, notably in the ''{{Film/Grease 2}}'' review ("Ugh, it's like an entire chorus of Pierce Brosnans!"), as well as when she touches upon Music/TheBeeGees' lack of acting prowess in the ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' review.
** During the ''Rock of Ages'' review, exactly ten episodes after her review of ''Film/ThePirateMovie'', Diva feels like she owes an apology towards the Pirate King and his attention-grabbing crotchpiece when she gets to Stacee Jaxx's introductory scene, in which he's seen with an even more outlandish crotchpiece.
** Sometimes Diva will say something is the "worst I've ever seen, and remember, I've seen this" Cue clip of a similar clip from a previous review.
* CarnivoreConfusion: In ''The Fearless Four'', when Gwen is the one to show concerns over promoting sausages, Diva counters that as the only obligate carnivore of the group, she should be the last one to care.
* CastOfExpies: Diva's second sin for ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' is for its cast of blatantly unoriginal characters.
* CatchPhrase: "Greetings Mortals, welcome to another session of the infernal court in Musical Hell~ I'm Diva, your judge, jury, executioner and-- [title that relates to whatever musical she's reviewing]"
* CausticCritic: While she will give a musical credit in the form of Saving Graces if she likes something in it, and she's not as brutal as most, her angel counterpart Donna calls her out on being harsh towards [[Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical certain musicals]] even if they're energetic and harmless.
* CelestialBureaucracy: Well, infernal, not celestial - it is ''Hell,'' after all.
* ChristmasEpisode:
** Seven so far: ''Mame'' (though only one sequence/song in it involves the holiday, it's "Close enough for government work"), ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- The Movie'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Christmas'', ''TheNutcracker: The Untold Story'', ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasIsHereAgain'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'', ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'', and ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' (the 1986 version).
** Discussed in ''Rudolph and Frosty'', where Donna reveals that Diva is contractually obligated to do an annual Christmas episode. In fact, she is ordered to do that one as punishment for skipping the previous year's Christmas episode in favor of ''Film/LaLaLand'' (a much-need BreatherEpisode before ''Film/{{Cats}}''), and her attempt to point out that ''La La Land'' has a Christmas scene at one point is rejected (she'd [[ItOnlyWorksOnce already used that argument]] for ''Mame'').
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: One of the main sins of ''Film/SpiceWorld'' was its criminal misuse of a supporting cast far more talented than the leads, including Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/RichardEGrant, Creator/BobHoskins, Music/MeatLoaf, and ''[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky Horror]]'' creator Creator/RichardOBrien.
* ClicheStorm:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva name checks this as]] the first sin of ''Film/RockOfAges'', calling it a checklist of archetypes and points out that one could piece together the whole story just by looking at the character titles on the DVD cover.
** ''Film/{{Burlesque}}'' jams in so many overused clichés that she lets the audience fill in the blanks.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Diva points out that Prince in ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' "is a composite of Prince Escalus, Count Paris, Tybalt ... And Barney the Dinosaur's drunk uncle."
** Diva points out in ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' that Swee'Pea inherits the future-seeing abilities of [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} the strip's]] Eugene The Jeep, who was supposed to be in the movie. She's fine with the arrangement, considering that the trope is a given for any adaptation. The problem is that the film poorly establishes Swee'Pea's abilities [[ShowDontTell with dialogue, rather than letting the audience see them for themselves]].
* ContentWarnings: Her review of ''Film/Music2021'' includes a warning at the video's beginning that some scenes in the movie (specifically the musical fantasy sequences) may trigger photosensitivity. She also twice warns that the movie includes scenes of disability abuse, specifically restraint: once at the beginning of the video, and again immediately before discussing the issue so she can give a timestamp for viewers to skip to if the subject triggers them.[[note]]It's worth noting that Christi had been reluctant to show the restraint scene in the review, and asked her autistic fans if it would be better to omit it or include it; the majority of the community supported adding it with a content warning attached, as the scene is such an infamous part of the movie (Diva describes it as "its own condemnation").[[/note]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Even outside the Infernal Court for Musicals - Diva says that ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' was only used in Hell to punish suicide bombers and [[FelonyMisdemeanor texting while driving]].
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cites this as one of ''Sleeping Beauty's'' biggest sins. She notes that while the Evil Fairy in [[Literature/SleepingBeauty the original story]] was not invited to celebrate the title character's birth because she hadn't been seen in fifty years, the film has her not invited because the King lacked golden dinner plates for all nine fairies in the land. The idea of him making another for her never crosses his mind.
* CreatorCameo:
** ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' has Diva struggling to find a word to describe Creator/LeeMarvin singing. Cue Christi Esterle on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' saying "What is monotonous?"
--->'''Diva''': Thank you, [[ButHeSoundsHandsome unbelievably intelligent and attractive mortal]]!
** Not a direct one, but as pointed out and shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZM47iCC5Q this video]], Diva was given a brief break from her job in March 2016 due to Christi winning a trip to New Zealand in said episode.
** Right as Diva starts TheRant to let out all her anger at ''Film/Descendants3'', and that [[TemptingFate no one will stop her]], Christi cuts the feed for an annoncement.
* CriticalResearchFailure:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' for conflating "wherefore" with "where."
** Diva sins ''De-Lovely'' for depicting ''[[Theatre/KissMeKate Kiss Me, Kate's]]'' SignatureSong, ''So In Love,'' as a duet, rather than a pair of solos.
** Diva points out that ''Pennies from Heaven'' tries to call the upbeat pop songs of the 1930s hypocritical due to being written amidst the hardships of TheGreatDepression, ignoring the quite obvious fact that many of them were written ''because'' people wanted some light relief to counterbalance those hardships.
* CrossOver:
** Along with the ones listed in the episode list, Diva helped [=JessWorld=] review ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'' (where her sin routine was cut by the other), Ursa in the ''Webvideo/StuffYouLike'' episode on ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''[='s=] Greek mythology, and tormented DJ Soundbite's alter ego David Green into a ''Series/{{Glee}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1jP42envt8 review]].
** She also did one with Creator/ThatLongHairedCreepyGuy, during the latter's retrospective of ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms''.
* CurseCutShort:
** The final line of ''Annie'' leads Diva to react with "Oh, for f" before "The Verdict" interrupts the profane tirade.
** In the "crowd sourced recap of the original" in ''Tentacolino'', DJ Soundbite ends it, and starts a "WHAT THE" before he is cut back to Diva.
** At the beginning of the ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical'' review, Diva wakes up with a massive hangover to discover Donna, her Musical Heaven counterpart, getting the review under way, and exclaims "WHAT THE F-" before Donna cuts her off with "Ah-ah-ah! Language, Diva darling!"
* DancePartyEnding: At the end of the ''King and I'' episode, complete with CreatorCameo.
* DancingBear: [[InvokedTrope Diva accuses]] the 2013 stage adaptation of ''Franchise/KingKong'' of being this, which she states "has one very large and impressive puppet to recommend it, and absolutely nothing else."
* DawsonCasting: [[invoked]] Diva notes that ''Film/{{Sextette}}'' tries and utterly fails to pretend that Creator/MaeWest, who wrote the script and was ''eighty-five'' when it was released, is no older than her male co-stars. She calls the end results so disconnected from reality that it's painful to watch.
* DeadpanSnarker: ''And how''. Her MHTV videos shows Diva honoring this trope in full force.
* DesignatedHero:
** [[InvokedTrope She considers]] Hubie to be this in her review of ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin''. First, he's attracted to Marina for some rather shallow reasons, which makes him come off as no better than Drake, who [[AtLeastIAdmitIt doesn't make any pretenses about why he wants her for his mate]]. Then he pesters Rocko, openly mocks his dream, and lies to him.
** Arthur (from ''Pennies from Heaven'') is marked as the film's very first sin for this reason - as a possessive, perverted creep and incorrigible cheater, he's pretty much impossible to root for.
* DesignatedVillain:
** [[InvokedTrope Mentioned by trope name]] in respect to Benny the landlord from ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', who is portrayed as a puppet of the corrupt establishment for wanting the heroes to pay him the rent they legitimately owe him.
** ''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' features an example of this so blatant that it results in one of the few moments where Christi Esterle actually breaks character as Diva to call it out. After spending most of the film with [[FantasticRacism zombie-hating humans]] as villains, the final antagonist ends up being [[spoiler:a zombie-rights activist who plans to conduct a disruptive but by all appearances completely nonviolent demonstration in support of her cause; even the other zombies chide her for rocking the boat too much]].
** The Board of Governors in ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'' are treated as villains for being rich and snooty and cutting Jekyll's funding, believing his work to be dangerous. Diva is unamused; pointing out that their snobbishness is hardly their fault given that they've lived their entire lives in the elitist Victorian upper-crust, they're absolutely right that Jekyll's research is dangerous (we wouldn't have a plot if it wasn't!), and only one of them, a PedophilePriest, actually does anything straight-up ''bad''.
** Keith in ''La La Land'' is treated as a sellout by his rival, the protagonist Sebastian (and seemingly the movie itself), simply because [[NoTrueScotsman he prefers modern forms of jazz music, whereas Seb is a die-hard traditionalist]].
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Diva namechecks the former trope name, ''Twenty Minutes with Jerks'' in her review of ''Film/StageFright'', as an example of the trope done poorly.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMusicOfTheVampire'', Diva points out sveral holes in the villain's plan [[spoiler:to stage a vampire ritual as a publicity stunt]], namely that [[spoiler:a) he had no real long-term goal for what to do with his kidnaped victim, Daphne, and b) the vampire groupies he conned into working for him with the promise of immortality would catch onto his ruse once they started aging]].
* DoubleEntendre: The ample use of it in ''Film/{{Sextette}}'' annoys Diva so much she gives the film a sin.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale:
** ''At Long Last Love'' got a sin for this.
** She also notes this in ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'',[[note]]Which is [[ZigZaggedTrope a complicated take on this trope]], as noted in the work page.[[/note]] but doesn't count it as a sin because "that's how it goes in [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the source material]]".
* DownerEnding: Referenced in the ''De-Lovely'' review when Gabe asks Linda if she's ever seen a musical without a happy ending, implying the answer should be "No". An unamused Diva promptly cues a montage of ''six'' unhappy endings to well-known musicals:
-->'''Diva:''' Uhhh...\\
''[cut to the final scene of ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'']''\\
[[spoiler:'''MC:''' ''[dressed in a concentration camp uniform, singing]'' Auf wiedersehen...]]\\
''[cut to the final scene of ''Film/LesMiserables2012'']''\\
[[spoiler:''[Valjean dies as the ghost of Fantine stands by him; Cosette breaks down crying as Marius tries to comfort her]''\\
'''Fantine:''' ''[singing]'' Take my hand... I'll lead you to salvation...]]\\
''[cut to the final scene of ''Film/WestSideStory1961'']''\\
[[spoiler:'''Maria:''' ''[brandishing Chino's gun at the assembled Jets and Sharks as Tony lies dead on the ground behind her]'' How many can I kill, Chino? ''How many!?'' And still have one bullet left for me?...]]\\
''[cut to the final scene of ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'']''\\
[[spoiler:'''Jesus:''' ''[writhing in agony on the Cross]'' My God, why have you forgotten me?...]]\\
''[cut to the final scene of ''Film/MoulinRouge'']''\\
[[spoiler:''[Christian holds Satine's dead body and begins sobbing loudly in grief]'']]\\
''[cut to the final scene of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'']''\\
[[spoiler:''[Toby slits Sweeney/Benjamin's throat with his own razor, the latter too consumed by the horror of having murdered his long lost wife to resist]'']]\\
'''Diva:''' Ye-eah, I'm not exactly on board with your logic there, Gabey.
* DullSurprise:
** Creator/ValKilmer gets criticized for this in ''The Ten Commandments: The Musical'', with Diva saying his performance is lacking the charisma and inner fire you'd expect from somebody like Moses.
** Creator/DavidHasselhoff receives criticism for this in ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', since he fails to give the emotional intensity that's pretty much required for the title characters.
** In her review of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', Diva criticizes Emmy Rossum for failing to give Christine "more than two facial expressions".
** Diva sins ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' for its CGI animals' lifeless expressions and minimal body language.
** Diva sins ''Film/LostHorizon'' for its bored cast, pointing out that it's hard to get invested in the story when the actors are that disinterested.
--->''[Regarding the rioters in the opening]'' "'''What do we want?!'''" "I don't know." "'''When do we want it?!'''" "Well, whenever."\\
''[Regarding Peter Finch's big solo]'' "[[ActorAllusion I'm as bored as Hell]] [[Film/{{Network}} and I'm not going to take it anymore!]]"
* EarWorm: The ones found in ''Theatre/MammaMia'' are especially vexing to Diva, as is “Wonderful Christmastime”, which turns up in ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- The Movie''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Diva wasn't represented by her iconic BigRedDevil avatar in the earliest installments; instead, she spoke over a static image of John Martin's "Fallen Angels in Hell". She decides to make the switch in her review of ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', and later [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in her review of ''Tentacolino''.
** Diva is more haughty and superior-sounding in the first few installments, before her harried PunchClockVillain persona was established. Christi herself finds Diva being {{Ear Worm}}ed with Music/{{ABBA}} songs in ''Mamma Mia!'' a EstablishingCharacterMoment for the way she wanted to go.
** She notes in her commentary for ''Mamma Mia'' that this was before she introduced the "Saving Grace", otherwise she would have put "Slipping Through My Fingers" in that category.
* EightDeadlyWords: [[InvokedTrope One of Diva's stock clips conveys the sentiment in two words]]:
-->''[[Film/IntoTheWoods WHO CARES?!]]''
* ElvisImpersonator: Refers to herself as a copyright friendly Elvis Impersonator at the start of her ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' review.
* EndingFatigue: Expect Diva [[InvokedTrope to sin a movie]] if its ending goes on too long. She considers this the last and greatest sin of ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' as its entire last third consisted mainly of, to quote her, a "self-congratulatory victory lap" for the main characters.
* EnragedByIdiocy: Frequent, noted by terse and at times [[PrecisionFStrike profane]] sin cards ("SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK?") and possibly Diva falling into {{Angrish}}.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Diva can get rather repulsed by some of her subjects, especially movies that are lazy, cynical cash grabs.
** While acknowledging that his film adaptation of ''A Little Night Music'' was terrible, Diva couldn't bear to condemn Hal Prince.
** The ending of ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' features, for the first time, Diva getting genuinely angry at a film, arguably to the point of Christi Esterle herself breaking character. Specifically, she was incensed by the fact that the film blames the heroine's breakup with her psychologically abusive boyfriend (and his subsequent murder at the villain's hands) on ''her'', with Diva stating it's in the running for the worst film she's ever reviewed due to this.
** In her ''Film/Annie2014'' review, Diva took a moment to call out those whose gripe with the film was the title character's RaceLift... before hammering it with a great deal of criticisms of her own.
** Diva was shown to be disgusted with the producers of ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' financing the film using a pyramid scam. She delegated their punishment to [[Literature/TheDivineComedy the Eighth Circle]].
** Before said review of ''Legends Of Oz'', she acknowledges that the people behind the films featured on the show (sans this particular one) were "just trying to make a good movie, or at least a movie popular enough to make money, and no true malice was involved in their actions." In later reviews, she's even spared creators from punishment when she deems them having suffered enough (Creator/RichardWilliams for ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight]]'') or not having had enough control of the project to bear responsibility for its problems (Creator/DonBluth for ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'').
** When confronted with Music/MichaelJackson saying "is today the day you're gonna help me get down from here?" in ''Film/TheWiz'', Diva asks her bailiff if there's any joke she could make that wouldn't be overdone and/or "tasteless even by our standards".
** At the beginning of the ''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' review, a poster is shown of ''Descendants 3'', Diva points out that she's not reviewing that one yet, asking to let Creator/CameronBoyce rest in peace for a while first. She later lays into the film itself for how it ''severely'' botched its attempt at making a racism allegory.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every review ends with the court of Musical Hell summarizing the musical's sins and condemning the characters and/or staff involved in the musical to some sort of appropriate IronicHell.
* EveryoneHasStandards: ''Westernanimation/YellowSubmarine'' has Diva forgiving of the psychedelia, but not how the Beatles FailedASpotCheck (downright named as such in the sin card) - they walk by a hill of sleeping Blue Meanies to a hideout, but only when they look outside it they notice the place is surrounded by sleeping Blue Meanies!
* EvilIsPetty: "I'm a demon. I don't do fair." Best example when Diva forced the guy who plays DJ Soundbite to review ''Series/{{Glee}}'' as retaliation for the ''High School Musical'' crossover.
* EvilLaugh: Mostly done by Diva in the crossovers, aside from when she sees ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' is the next assignment.
* FashionVictimVillain: [[invoked]] If there's a bad guy in a weird and/or stupid outfit, you can bet she'll comment on it.
** She's not impressed with some of Erik's outfits in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004''. For example, she says he's dressed like "[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]] [[Film/ZorroTheGayBlade The Gay Blade]]" during "Masquerade".
* FallenAngel: It's heavily implied at the end of ''Portal 2'' that Diva may be one [[spoiler: and that she may have a way back]].
* FillingTheSilence: Diva cites ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight's]]'' first and greatest sin for giving Tack and the Thief, who were originally conceived as TheVoiceless, ceaseless voiceovers, pointing out that they are annoying and unnecessary, not to mention [[ViewersAreMorons insulting to the audience]] and the animators.
* LeFilmArtistique: Diva considers ''Nine'' to be an example of a bad one that aims for being deep and meaningful but just comes off as sleazy and pretentious.
* FightSceneFailure: [[InvokedTrope Diva cites]] ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' for its unimpressive fight between Popeye and Oxblood Oxheart.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: If she's feeling lazy, she'll just condemn those involved with the current offender to this.
* {{Foil}}: Donna, the angel host of "Musical Heaven". Even the name, as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva Diva]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_donna Donna]] are both terms for opera singers.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the session for ''Film/ThePirateMovie'', Diva points out that Mabel "dresses like a reject from ''{{Film/Xanadu|1980}}''", the same ''Xanadu'' she ended up taking on sometime later.
** The second episode, ''Lost Horizon'', shows posters for films in the 1970s "dark age of musicals", all of whom wound up reviewed (''Mame'', ''At Long Last Love'', ''The Wiz'' and ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'').
** In the review of the 2003 version of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', Diva castigates the producers for remaking a ''good'' stage-to-screen adaptation instead of taking on one of the many bad adaptations of good musicals, accompanied by a montage of the posters for the big screen versions of ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'', ''Film/TheWiz'', and ''Theatre/AChorusLine''... all three of which later get their own days in the court of Musical Hell.
* FranchiseOriginalSin:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva notes]] that some of the problems of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' - particularly [[{{Padding}} songs that draw out for too long]] and a number that uses [[OutOfGenreExperience out-of-place]] yet [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece out-of-date]] rock instruments - had been seen in Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's previous, more successful works, but have become particularly egrigous by the time the musical had been produced.
** She also admits in her review of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' that the original Creator/AndrewLloydWebber show "has always been more style than substance" but argues that "good directors can find emotional and dramatic truth even in superficial material". Creator/JoelSchumacher, on the other hand, "has no idea how to stage a song effectively", which in turn reduces the musical to "a series of lavish music videos" that "never rises above the empty spectacle its critics have always dismissed it as".
* FreezeFrameBonus: Twice, in the very first episode with a LongList of reasons the relationship won't last, and in ''Sunday School Musical'' with "the other side's" disavowed list (along with said movie, there is [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]], al-Qaeda, "those Osmond fools" and "that weird bit in Ezekiel with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanim the flaming wheel]]").
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[InvokedTrope Diva finds one]] in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'':
-->'''Diva:''' Seeing Music/JohnLennon age into an old man is a bit awkward in retrospect...
* FunWithSubtitles: Diva occasionally likes playing with how she names the sins.
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* GainaxEnding: ''Film/TheSingingDetective'' gets a sin for this, when Dark starts having a fever dream that ends with the fictional Dark shooting the real Dark. Diva calls this trope a "fuck-it-all ending", when the writers can't think of a good ending and just "throw up their hands, say 'fuck it all', and throw together several minutes of over-the-top crazy".
* GatewaySeries: [[InvokedTrope Diva acknowledges this]] being the case for ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' with younger audiences and theatre, being a popular "crowd pleaser for a family audience".
* {{Glurge}}: [[InvokedTrope]] ''Country Strong'' gets a sin for this at the ending, what with it involving [[spoiler:one of the main protagonists not only overdosing with no buildup, but leaving behind a suicide note containing some bizarrely specific life advice that turns out to be ''exactly'' what one of the other characters needs to hear]].
* GoodCounterpart: Donna, the angel who heads Musical Heaven introduced in the review of ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical.''
* GoshDarnItToHeck: "Hell", for obvious reasons, is "here". Any blasphemous complaints use demonic replacements such as "Beelze H. Buub"... with the exception of "Opposition Damn It!"
* GuiltyPleasures: ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', and ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' are ultimately acknowledged as such, with the last of these being the first movie to receive two Saving Graces.
* GulliverTieDown: The title card for her review of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' shows Diva tied up with the mice protagonists on top of her.
* HardToAdaptWork: [[invoked]] In her introduction to ''Cats'', Diva points out that the original musical's simplistic dance-based story, while accessible to international audiences, made it difficult to adapt to film.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' gets sinned for portraying William [=McMaster=] Murdoch, one of the greatest heroes of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic sinking, as a snide {{jerkass}}.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: "What the Here?" among many others. Sometimes, inverting the side ([[SpeakOfTheDevil "Speak of the angel..."]]). It backfires when Diva calls Donna "goody two hooves", as she replies, "I don't have hooves!"
* HotAsHell: Diva is drawn as a sexy BigRedDevil.
* HypocrisyNod: Diva does one whenever she complains about credits or post-production.
* IdiotBall: Such moments are highlighted, usually with [[Westernanimation/{{Animaniacs}} Dot Warner]] saying "Whoa, dumber than advertised!". If it's unbelievably stupid, the FacePalm scene from ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3'' will play afterwards.
* IdiotPlot: [[InvokedTrope She calls out]] ''Theatre/MammaMia'' for having one of these.
* ImGoingToHellForThis: Subverted, of course.
-->'''Diva:''' I'm in Hell already, I can use that joke.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: ''Peter Pan Live'' leads to Diva DrowningMySorrows in tequila. She starts the next episode hungover and with Donna having opened the case. Later, ''Beauty and the Beast: the Enchantment Christmas'' reveals the court's emergency protocols (a cocktail drink) and 'dire emergency protocols' (a bottle of scotch).
* InformedAbility: ''Nine'' gets sinned for failing to adequately demonstrate Guido's genius and appeal to women.
* InformedDeformity: Diva sins ''Film/{{The Phantom Of The Opera|2004}}'' for downplaying The Phantom's disfigurement, and yet still treating it as a hideous deformity, which, among other issues, makes his freakshow backstory very implausible.
* InNameOnly:
** Upon seeing that ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'' was "adapted" from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the Victor Hugo novel]]:
-->'''Diva:''' Well, adapted in the sense that we took the title and a couple of ideas, then filled the rest out with cartoon cliches and bad songs.
** Diva notes that ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' carries only the character of Ben Rumson, his Mormon wife (albeit [[CompositeCharacter fused with Rumson's daughter]]), the Gold Rush Boomtown setting and a few of the Creator/LernerAndLoewe songs from [[Theatre/PaintYourWagon the original musical]] and nothing else.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When passing judgement on ''Film/Zombies2018'', Diva says the producers are sentenced to "the same time-hopping expedition as that guy from ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie.''" Naturally, a few viewers thought she was talking about [[OvershadowedByControversy the infamous helicopter crash.]] She has since clarified (in the comments) that she meant the character, and not Vic Morrow.
* IronicHell: Her punishments tend towards this, with a side of CoolAndUnusualPunishment.
* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' - many shots were ripped straight from [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 1994 original]] but stripped of their charm by Creator/JonFavreau's insistence on photorealism.
* JadedWashout: Diva predicts this will be Timmy's fate in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue'':
-->'''Diva:''' Timmy's a hero, parades and kisses and a statue right next to his father all around, and you just know several years from now he's going to have a beer gut and a dead-end job and will be boring everyone around him with the stories about that one time he saved Thorn Valley.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In her review of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight]]'', it seems as though Diva gave Harvey Weinstein - who by this point had been convicted of rape - a slap on the wrist... until one remembers in her review of ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' that serious RealLife crimes are out of her jurisdiction, and she instead leaves these offenders to [[Literature/TheDivineComedy the lower Circles of Hell]]. While Diva can still condemn him [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment to eat all his desserts with mustard]] for butchering ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', Weinstein can expect that to be the ''least'' of his worries.
* LamePunReaction:
** Eventually counts the myriad puns in ''Rock and Rule'' as a sin after one too many of them.
** Diva receives boos in her review of ''The Music Man'' after she says Hill decides to "face the music". She's unapologetic in the face of this disdain.
** The litany of cat puns in ''Cats'' earns it a sin.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Instead of punishing anyone for ''Film/{{Sextette}}'', Diva recommends [[Film/MenInBlack neuralyzing]] those involved so they can forget about the mess.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Diva admonished ''Film/TheWiz'' for assuming viewers would already know about TheManBehindTheCurtain, and revealing him too early in the film as though passing him off as a ForegoneConclusion.
* LivingMacGuffin: Among her many, many issues with ''Music'' is that it treats its titular nonverbal autistic character as a living prop to enrich the lives of the people around her.
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* MadLibsCatchphrase:
** "Greetings, mortals, welcome to another session of the infernal court in Musical Hell. I'm Diva, your judge, jury, executioner and [something pertinent to that episode's topic]."
** "This is the most [superlatively illogical description of whatever is happening in the musical Diva's watching] I've ever seen, and remember, I've seen ''this''. [cut to something such occurrences can be compared to, sometimes with a CallBack to a previous episode.]"
** When paraphrasing characters to quickly summarize a scene, she usually phrases it as, "And then [character] is all..."
* MajorGeneralSong: Given ''Film/ThePirateMovie'' is based on the source material, of course the episode ends with Diva singing a version based on herself!
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Diva questions Christine's certainty of Gustave's true father--she says that if Christine slept with the Phantom ''right'' before her wedding night, and then presumably slept with Raoul soon afterwards (as Raoul seems to be under the impression that Gustave is his, clearly they did the deed in the correct timeframe), it makes no sense for Christine to be that sure.
* MedalOfDishonor: In her review of ''Film/KissMeetsThePhantomOfThePark'', Diva described ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' as "literally the worst movie [she has] ever seen".
* MemeticMolester: [[InvokedTrope She notes]] that Stanley's reaction to being kissed on the cheek by a toddler unintentionally makes him seem like a pedophile.
* MinimalistCast: Diva's usually the only character featured on the show (unless you count her angel counterpart Donna, and even then, she's rarely in the show).
** There ''is'' an imp bailiff who never appears, but whose voice ([[TheUnintelligible if you can call it that]]) is occasionally heard.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: She tries, but she’s not very good at it. She even identifies with a character in ''Happily Ever After'' precisely for this.
* TheMockbuster: Her very first episode discusses on this, given ''The Legend of Titanic'' is one for [[Film/Titanic1997 the James Cameron movie]]. On "Musical Hell TV," she's done full-length commentary/snark tracks for four mockbusters, ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfAnastasia'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfMulan'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfTheHunchback'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty And The Beast|Golden1999}}''.
* MonsterClown: Diva offhandedly comments in her ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' review that "all clowns are demons in disguise", and that she attended clown college, receiving high marks in [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]].
* MonsterDelay: Diva sins ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'' for unnecessarily dragging out the title character's entrance compared to the original film. [[note]] The original film has Kong appear at around 47 minutes with about 57 to go. The animated film has him appear at 42 minutes with 29 to go. [[/note]]
* MoodDissonance:
** Diva cites ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' its first sin for the clash between its dreary production design and its live-action cartoony character design and slapstick. The dreary music (which earns the next sin) doesn't help.
** Diva namechecks this as one of ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'s'' sins, accusing director Joshua Logan of taking the material so seriously that the lighter moments come across as awkward. This extends to the Oscar-winning Production and Costume Designs, which consist of drab Earth colors and over-the-top 60's designs, a style that alternates between boring and ridiculous.
* MoodWhiplash:
** "The Verdict" at the end of each review is accompanied by DramaticThunder, and so its not uncommon to see an upbeat ending number being interrupted by this ominous thunder clapping.
** ''The Music Man'' get sinned for its uneven tone, in particular the abrupt transition to "Shipoopi" from a more somber scene of Hill being reflective.
* {{MST}}: Musical Hell TV, which ranges from [[https://vimeo.com/67228040 music]] [[https://vimeo.com/83389294 videos]] to [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] animations.
* {{Narm}}: [[invoked]]
** Diva refers to the opening number of ''The Ten Commandments: The Musical'' as a "treasure trove of unintentional humor".
** She criticizes the 2003 version of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' for trying to portray Mayor Shin as a more serious and menacing character... while not changing his silly dialogue or the fact that he's fundamentally a pompous blowhard.
* NecessaryWeasel: In her review of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', Diva notes how the very concept of musicals - characters bursting into song whenever they become emotional - is inherently "peculiar".
* NobleDemon: Diva never fails to call out a movie for MoralDissonance, especially regarding racism and sexism, or at ''Hi Tops'' for [[BrokenAesop not living up]] to its Christian message.
* NonActorVehicle: Diva has had to review several films starring recording artists, including ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'', ''Film/{{Glitter}}'', and ''Film/KISSMeetsThePhantomOfThePark''. She even opens the review for the latter by discussing some of these films that she had previously reviewed.
* NonSingingVoice: [[invoked]] Expect Diva to sin a movie if a character's singing double fails to match their speaking counterpart. ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight]]'' are two films sinned for this reason.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In her review of the "Staller version" of ''Phantom of the Opera'', Diva feels the need to clarify that none of [[EccentricMillionaire Abe Hirschfeld]]'s myriad antics were jokes on her part.
* NoTrueScotsman: ''La La Land'' earns a sin for treating Sebastian holding this viewpoint with regards to jazz musicians as a ''positive'' thing.
* ObligatoryJoke:
** [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast "Gaston"]] in ''The Legend of Titanic''.
** Defied in the ''Camelot'' review, as Diva finds too easy to use ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' clips... before being basically forced to use "GET ON WITH IT!".
** Also on the topic of Creator/MontyPython, Diva lampshades her reference to the Spanish Inquisition sketch in her ''Man of La Mancha'' review in a similar manner.
* OhMyGods: “Sweet Lucifer!” and "Lilith's Teats!"
* OneSceneWonder: [[invoked]] Diva gives ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' a Saving Grace for Harve Presnell's performance of the number, ''They Call the Wind Mariah'', which is the only significant thing that his character, Rotten Luck Willie, does in the film. She still considers him the best singer and actor in the entire film thanks to that one number.
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: If she sees something exceptionally good about a musical she's reviewing, she'll list it as a "Saving Grace."
** In her ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' review, she praises Creator/GeneKelly's performance and wishes his character had been the protagonist.
** She praises the animation in ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', saying it's some of the best-looking cel animation ever. [[ZigzaggingTrope That said]], she also criticizes some of the sequences, saying that their excellent animation doesn't make up for the fact that they don't go anywhere.
** In her review of ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand,'' Diva praises Music/{{Aerosmith}}, who appears as the villainous FVB, for their appropriately menacing performance of [[VillainSong "Come Together."]][[note]]"Come Together" being one of her favorite [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs also helps.[[/note]]
* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding:
** Diva points out in her review of ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'' that the film treats the two leads getting married as a happy ending, despite the fact that [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold the Chicken Ranch Girls]] are now out of their jobs and the powerful men who utilized their "services" and then turned against them got off scot-free.
** Similarly, she notes in ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' that the ''only'' character to get a happy ending is the Phantom, who arguably deserves it the least of anyone.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** We can tell something is wrong with Diva from the very opening seconds of the review of ''Sci-Fi High: The Musical'' when her usual "Greetings, mortals!" opening speech sounds much more harried than haughty. Sure enough, she breaks off halfway through with "I'm Diva, your judge, jury, and ''run, run while you still can!''"
** Diva gets so annoyed by the drawn-out LoveTheme of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty And The Beast|Golden1999}}'' (which by this point went into its TruckDriversGearChange) that she breaks TheScottishTrope and imitates God, mentioning Him by name. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because this was an unscripted commentary where she wasn't keeping in-character to begin with.
* OverlyLongName: “Diva” is a pseudonym; her true name is apparently two hundred and sixty-seven syllables long.
* {{Padding}}: [[invoked]] Expect Diva to sin a movie if it stretches out its runtime beyond a tolerable level. ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' and ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' are two films sinned for this reason.
* PainfulRhyme: In her review of ''Jekyll & Hyde'', she complains about a song trying to rhyme "hard" and "facade".
* PeripheryHatedom: Diva will sometimes review a musical [[InvokedTrope she admits to]] not being the TargetAudience for, such as ''Film/TheWiz'', ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', and ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Coming Out of Their Shells''. She justifies the latter by stating that the TargetAudience is a FleetingDemographic that will hate it as they grow out of it anyway.
* PetPeeveTrope:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva's biggest ones are]] IdiotPlot and ThirdActMisunderstanding, which more often than not, leads to a sin.
** As seen in her commentaries, the TruckDriversGearChange grates on her, as it draws out songs that are already too long and not good enough on their own merits to warrant it.
* PinballProtagonist:
** Diva points out in ''Thumbelina'' that Creator/HansChristianAndersen's habit of writing these is why [[HardToAdaptWork his stories are difficult to translate into film]] [[invoked]]. As with Andersen's literary protagonists, the film's Thumbelina spends the story having things happen to her and whining about her predicaments.
** Diva sins ''Dick Deadeye'' for keeping its title character on the sidelines, rather than having him do anything plot progressive.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: In her ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' 1986 MadeForTVMovie review, Diva reacts to the characters' fanatical pride in their hometown of Cincinnati (expressed in song form) by referring to "the general awfulness that is Ohio" as she begins recapping the plot. As for Cincinnati, when the song is reprised and Lisa's hometown pride ''counters Barnaby's magic'', Diva asks, "Have you ever actually ''been'' there?" and cues an unflattering picture of an inner-city street as she adds the scene to the film's sin count. As one of the film's punishments, "for singing the praises of a very un-praiseworthy city", she condemns the late Leslie Bricusse (who composed the new songs for the adaptation) to an extended stay there.
* PlotTwist: Each plot twist, no matter how sudden or forced it is, is highlighted with a clip of the Shyamalan Expy exclaiming "What a twist!" from ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'', Diva notes that she sees very little difference in moral character between the RabidCop hero and the [[{{Paparazzi}} sleazy reporter]] villain.
* PunchClockVillain:
** Diva is ultimately just a demonic bureaucrat doing her job. As Christi explains, she based the entire personality of Diva on that of the literal Punch Clock Villain of Ralph Wolf from the "WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog" fame.
** Complains in her ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' review that no realistic villain would consider themselves evil, apart from demons but it's their job.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Once Diva finds out ''A Troll In Central Park'' is a Patreon request:
-->'''Diva:''' Stupid high and mighty mortal, don't know where she gets off with her cheap editing software and her ''Jeopardy!'' money...
* RandomEventsPlot: She sins ''Film/{{Sextette}}'' for having a plot with, in her words, "a series of scenes barging through one after the other with no sense of coherency."
* RelationshipWritingFumble: [[invoked]] ''A Troll in Central Park'' is sinned for this. While Stanley's relationship with Rosie is meant to be innocent and platonic, his response to being kissed by her uses a lot of traditionally romantically-coded imagery and dialogue... which makes things incredibly disturbing, since Stanley is a grown man (well, grown troll) and Rosie is a toddler.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to the intro to ''Rock of Ages'', Diva is a "child of the '80s...well, 2080s...BC...it's close enough."
* ReassignedToAntarctica: According to the Musical Hell site, Diva isn't sure if reviewing bad musicals is their punishment or hers.
* RecordNeedleScratch: Heard as Diva's attempt at watching the original ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' changes to the 2002 ABC remake ("OK, who is messing with my video files again?").
* ReviewIronicEcho:
** Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' gives us this gem:
-->'''Erik''': I want to know what you think.\\
'''Diva''': Heh, you asked for it.
** When the Village People sing ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' at the end of that film:
-->'''Village People''': You can't stop the music!\\
'''Caption''': Challenge Accepted.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Appears as chibi cartoon in a crossover with ''WebVideo/MissNightmare'' to review ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical''.
* RonTheDeathEater: [[InvokedTrope Diva discusses the trope and its origins]] in ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' as she rips the plot for doing this to Raoul just to get Christine and the Phantom together. She points out that if you have to demonize the canon love interest to make your preferred couple happen, you're more or less admitting they wouldn't work on their own terms--if Raoul has to be warped into a cartoonishly awful abusive alcoholic to make the Phantom seem like a good choice by comparison, then the Phantom actually isn't a good choice!
* RuleOfSeven: As Christi notes in one of her commentaries, Diva usually tries to note seven sins per film, [[SevenDeadlySins appropriately enough]]. However, films may rack up more sins, with [[Theatre/LoveNeverDies particularly]] [[Film/FromJustinToKelly abominable]] [[Film/{{Glitter}} works]] earning as many as ten. ''Film/Music2021'' is the first (and so far only) offender to rack up ''eleven'' sins.
* RunningGag:
** The review of ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' has Diva wrongly assuming the movie's over, only to be corrected by her bailiff.
** In multiple episodes, Diva introduces a musical number from the case under examination by saying the characters explain a point of the story or their own personas...
--->'''[[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Tamatoa]]:''' In ''song'' form!
** Diva's summaries of particularly bizarre or needlessly convoluted plot points are often followed by a clip of ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''[='=] Dark Helmet turning to the camera and exclaiming, "Everybody got that!?... Good!"
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* TheScrappy: [[InvokedTrope Diva lists]] these characters as sins, and often subjects them to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The Verdict]] [[OnceAnEpisode at the end of each episode]].
* TheScottishTrope: God and Heaven are "the opposition", while Jesus is only referred to as "the opposition's child/kid/son". {{Satan}} is "The Boss."
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ''Film/SpiceWorld'' breaks Diva, who goes on to leave early and skip work the next day... Only for it to manifest anyway by shifting her screening of ''The Music Man'' with the remake.
* ShipTease: With her angelic counterpart Donna.
* SharedUniverse: Kinda. The show is set in Hell, which could be considered another dimension, but Diva does consistently interact with the Reviewaverse. It's more than likely the Hell of the Reviewaverse.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MontyPython clips are brought up in abundance.
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "This session of the Infernal Court in Musical Hell is now adjourned." (With added words such as ''"thankfully"'' [[SuckinessIsPainful if it was a particularly terrible musical]].)
* SoOkayItsAverage:
** Diva was surprised when [[InvokedTrope she found]] ''Rock and Rule'' to be this, and doesn't condemn the characters or production staff to anything, instead opting to order them to study self-help books.
** She has this reaction to ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', concluding that it's neither as bad as its detractors say nor as good as it wants to be. It has one of the lowest sin counts on the show, and was awarded its first-ever Saving Grace.
** Rinse and repeat with ''Film/LaLaLand'', which is the first film to lead off with a Saving Grace rather than a sin for the beautiful production design, earns only six sins (most of which relate to a single character), and is one of the few where Diva orders no punishments at the end. What Diva found to be an unsympathetic male lead and a bland, low-stakes plot, however, earned it a hearing if nothing else. This seems to have been a deliberate BreatherEpisode, as next on the agenda? ''Film/{{Cats}}''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva cites]] ''Film/{{Cats}}'' for its notorious visual effects, and specifically, how Tom Hooper's BadBoss attitude and Universal giving the effects team [[ChristmasRushed little time]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and money]] led to them being a mess.
** Diva finds Ben's CGI Beast form in ''Descendants 3'' to be hilariously bad and feels it's what one gets if Tom Hooper directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019''.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Throughout the ''Rock of Ages'' review, Diva constantly mispronounces Julianne Hough's last name like "how", when it's actually meant to be pronounced like "huff".
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Diva calls out Cassie's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] plot in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' as its biggest sin, as it [[DemotedToExtra diminishes the screentime of the other auditionees]], which [[BrokenAesop spits in the face of the show's message]] that everyone has an interesting story to tell.
-->'''Cassie''': Zach, we're all special.
-->'''Diva''': But some of us are more special than others.
* StrangledByTheRedString: [[invoked]] In her ''The Music Man'' review, she criticizes the lack of chemistry between the two leads.
* StrawmanHasAPoint:
** [[invoked]] One of the things she sins ''Jekyll and Hyde'' for is setting up the hospital's board of governors as a bunch of stodgy, hidebound snobs who hamper Jekyll's research, even though they turn out to be completely right.
** Diva points out in ''Legends of Oz'' that the [[spoiler:fake]] appraiser was right to point out that the Gales' twister-damaged home was completely unlivable at the moment, while Dorothy's insistence she can fix it is naiive and hysterical.
* StuntCasting: [[InvokedTrope Diva discusses it]] in her review of ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'', finding it a desperate gimmick that reeks of desperation. While it has produced some great results, other times it has not, including David Hasselhoff in the title roles.
* StylisticSuck: Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' discusses this. When she sins "Bathing Beauty" despite its inanity clearly being deliberate, she explains that without something entertaining, deliberately bad is just... bad.
* SubvertedCatchPhrase: Diva refuses to do the last part in ''Burlesque'', feeling the movie doesn't deserve it, [[CatchPhraseInterruptus and is unable to do so]] in ''Sweeney Todd'' as everyone starts pushing her to do said movie. She also does a BlahBlahBlah version in ''A Troll In Central Park'' to get it over with quickly, and in "Tentacolino", after "Greetings, mortals!", she comments on [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the original episode, and how weird it looked after three years]]. She lets [[Theatre/IntoTheWoods The Baker's Wife]] finish her catchphrase in ''David Copperfield'' with a baffled "what was that?" in reaction to the weirdness in that film.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Expected from musicals who deserve an infernal judgment. A good indicator is whether Diva eschews the opening phrase or adds something to the closing one. The ''Film/{{Sextette}}'' review downright starts with her saying "I'm not gonna lie, this review's gonna hurt".
* SuddenDownerEnding:
** She sins ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' for its abrupt bleak epilogue, which sees the characters of the otherwise upbeat romantic comedy struggle through World War II [[spoiler:(including the [[DeathByAdaptation death of Boyett]])]], and the ForegoneConclusion of the War's end isn't enough to lift anyone's spirits.
** She sins ''Film/CountryStrong'' for having its protagonist commit suicide by overdose immediately after her triumphant comeback concert.
* TemptingFate:
** She decides not to punish ''Film/TheApple'' and its makers because she finds it SoBadItsGood and mockingly asks what her superiors are going to do about that. Cue the reveal of her next assignment: ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Christmas''. "Oh, me and my big maw..."
** Diva makes this mistake a lot. At the end of her review of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', she declares the movie to be the worst possible thing that could happen to [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the musical]]...then she sees [[Theatre/LoveNeverDies her next case]].
---> "''[[OhCrap Oh,]]'' ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]''..."
** ''Film/{{Sweeney Todd|TheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}}'' is alright, better than the Disney knockoffs Diva usually gets assigned with. Then it's shown ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea'' is the next case.
---> [[LampshadeHanging Why do I keep saying this kind of thing?]]
** After reviewing ''Film/TheCountryBears'', Diva shows that she ''still'' hasn't learned better:
---> "This session of the infernal court in Musical Hell is now adjourned, and please let the next case be anything but a bad Disney cash grab... [[OhCrap No. No, I didn't mean]] ''[[OhCrap anything]]'', don't you '''dare''' use that as an excuse to send me something truly heinous like - " (the next case is revealed to be ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'') " - oh, ''for fuck's sake''!"
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** [[InvokedTrope In Diva's opinion]], Creator/GeneKelly's OldMaster character in ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' would've made a much more interesting protagonist than Michael Beck's {{wangst}}y wannabe artist.
** Discussed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax''. She thinks that Audrey would have made a better protagonist, because she is interested in trees and cares about them, unlike Ted who’s really just doing it because his crush on her. Not to mention that the movie never really explains why she knows so much about the trees when barely anyone else does.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva list several examples of this]] for ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', mainly not exploring the town's reaction to a sentient wooden puppet boy in more detail and ''especially'' [[StepfordSuburbia the town]] where the population's children are created by a machine to be absolutely perfect but that serves no other function than to teach Geppetto that having a kid that's perfect isn't what it's cracked up to be, despite being what Diva describes as a "speculative fiction gold mine".
** Diva believes that ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' would have otherwise been worthy of its cult classic status - with Creator/RobertAltman's improvisational SignatureStyle suiting that of the original Fleischer Bros. cartoons - had it not been a musical.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva marked down]] ''The Nutcracker in 3D'' for this, pointing out that the fantasy world was inexplicably ''more'' depressing than the real one... despite the fact that the film is set in central Europe right around the time the Nazis and other tyrannical governments were rising to power in real life.
** She also looked down on ''Pennies from Heaven'' for this reason, calling it a "depressing, nihilistic slog" and even refusing to hand out her usual sentence at the end, reasoning that suffering through it was already punishment enough.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob from ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'' comes after her as she tries to explain ''Film/ShockTreatment'''s complex relationship with ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', ultimately deciding that it's best described as a SpiritualSuccessor. It doesn't placate them ("Oh, you people are impossible"), but she soldiers on with the review anyway.
* TotallyRadical: Diva namechecks this as the first sin of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Coming Out of Their Shells'', feeling that it hasn't aged well and is more prevalent than usual.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Diva sins ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' for putting Sophie's pregnancy and Cher as Ruby, which pop up in the last half-hour of the movie, [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil front and center in the trailers]]. In particular, she considers juxtaposing Sophie's pregnancy with her mother's past a better story than the end result.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Diva sins ''Music'' for Felix's plotline, which sees him barely interact with any of the cast and [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed]]]] with no setup or resolution. She finds his plotline a culmination of the filmmakers' lack of interest in their marginalized characters.
* TroubledProduction: [[InvokedTrope Diva opens her review of]] ''The Thief and the Cobbler'' by discussing its legendarily protracted production, noting that it's what happens when ExecutiveMeddling and [[DoingItForTheArt artisitic ambition]] go out of control.
* TruckDriversGearChange: Diva gets exasperated when this appears in bad musical numbers, such as the intro song of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'' or the LoveTheme of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty And The Beast|Golden1999}}''.
* TwoDecadesBehind: One of Diva's complaints about "The Beauty Underneath" in her ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' review is that it sounds like it was originally from the mid-1980s, even putting it over footage of a David Copperfield show from that era and noting how well it fits there.
* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: [[InvokedTrope Diva calls out]] ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' for its rather young designs for its title characters, which especially make scenes between Juliet and the far-larger Prince uncomfortable to watch.
* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Lost Horizon'' for its very strong MightyWhitey themes, since the High Lama is white and his chosen successor is also a white man. She goes on to say that this might not be so bad if not for the fact that the Asian characters are all one-dimensional and often stereotypical. Putting Creator/JohnGielgud in yellowface and calling him "Chang" certainly doesn't help, and neither does Shangri-La lacking a decent irrigation system until a white engineer comes up with one. [[note]]This wasn't even ValuesDissonance; even at the time, Pauline Kael declared that it was rather suspicious that the film's idea of a utopia was a society where white people rule over Asians and black people don't exist.[[/note]]
** Diva suggests this being the case of the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' reacting inappropriately to being kissed by a toddler, with romantic "visual language" and "dialogue" being used for what was supposed to be an "innocent and platonic relationship". The sin card for the moment is simply NoJustNo.
** Diva notes that Hollywood has a tendency to cast able-bodied actors as disabled characters, as ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' does with its title role, which creates the implication that disabled people cannot represent themselves. Overall, ''Music'' is flooded with mishandled representation of marginalized people, and Diva accuses the filmmakers of parading these characters without giving them relevance in their own story.
* TheUnintelligible: Diva's bailiff, who talks like the adults from the ''Peanuts'' cartoons (albeit with vocal chirping rather than a trombone "wah-wah" noise).
* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Jekyll & Hyde'' for failing to make most of the members of the hospital's board of governors as unlikable as they were clearly meant to be. Not only is their refusal to back Jekyll's research [[StrawmanHasAPoint far more reasonable and understandable than the play presents it]], they don't seem like bad people (the [[PedophilePriest Bishop of Basingstoke]] excepted). While they have the collective flaw of being snooty, it's hard to fault them for it considering they come from upper-crust backgrounds in the Victorian era, and it certainly isn't bad enough for their murders at Hyde's hands to be at all cathartic.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** [[InvokedTrope Diva's criticisms]] of ''La La Land'' focused mainly in the male protagonist, Sebastian, who is supposed to be a tragically under-appreciated genius, but whom she finds to be a pretentious KnowNothingKnowItAll with a [[MightyWhitey white savior complex]].
** Diva calls out Zu in ''Music'' as a self-absorbed, emotionally callous trainwreck rather than the quirky and lovable the writers think she is. What makes it worse is that the filmmakers expect their audience to empathize with ''her'' rather than the autistic Music.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[InvokedTrope Diva has ragged on a number of films]], including ''RENT'', ''Can't Stop the Music'', and ''Xanadu'', for portraying having a "normal" day job to pay the bills as essentially a FateWorseThanDeath, and sending the message that one should strive for immediate artistic success or nothing. She notes that these movies could only have been made prior to the 2008 recession, when having any job at all became a luxury for many... and one of her main critiques of ''La La Land'' is that it takes this position despite being both made and set ''after'' the recession.
* TheUnpronounceable:
** Diva's real name is 267 syllables long... but even she can't pronounce "[[Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera Terrance Zdunich]]."
** She made a joke suggesting that the name of Prince Chulalongkorn of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' was such by having several other YouTubers struggling to read it, but Diva grew to see the joke as needlessly offensive to Thai people, which resulted in her [[MissingEpisode taking down her review of the film.]]
** She remarks in her ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' review that she's terrible with human languages, but she can pronounce the name of the main town, Passamaquoddy, in one go, unlike Dr. Terminus in his VillainSong in that film.
* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]]
** Diva points out in ''Lost Horizon'' that Shangri-La — a society that isolates and indoctrinates outsiders into a very specific belief system, discourages dissention, has next to no contact with TheOutsideWorld, and in fact is waiting for the outside world to destroy itself whereupon the utopian society will be the focal point of a new and better civilization — is effectively a Cult, and thus extremely creepy by modern standards.
** Diva sins ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'' for retaining the original film's HollywoodNatives and doing nothing to update them.
* ValuesResonance: [[invoked]]
** To Diva's astonishment, ''Dick Deadeye'' gets a Saving Grace for this, noting that it not only succeeds in updating Gilbert and Sullivan's legendary Victorian social satires for the '70s, but sending numerous messages that are still relevant in the 21st century, successfully bridging the values of ''three'' very different time periods.
** Diva says that the fact that the Mobsters' song in ''It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman'', in which they praise America as "a swell country without no gun control!", "could easily have been written yesterday is both very impressive and very depressing."
* VillainBall: Diva sins Mok in ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' for his numerous "rookie villain mistakes," even keeping a running countdown of them, despite considering him the best character in the film.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[invoked]] Diva points out the trope's double-edged sword in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler Arabian Knight]]''. On one hand, she praises Creator/RichardWilliams's animation as the film's saving grace, saying it's "some of the best cel-animation you're likely to see anywhere." On the other hand, she sins the movie for having several stunning sequences that never come together as a unified whole, pointing out that Williams didn't even create storyboards for the film until Creator/WarnerBros got involved.
--> '''Sin Card''': Cool, and...?
* TheVoice: Artistic representations exist, and she’s been known to manifest as a burst of flame or inside an inanimate object, but Diva herself is never seen onscreen. Christi herself said the two recurring clips listed on IdiotBall are to compensate for how Diva can't use facial expressions.
* WaxingLyrical: The very first instance of her CatchPhrase is "Judge, jury and executioner [[Music/CelineDion here, far, wherever you are]]".
* WereStillRelevantDammit: [[invoked]] Diva cites this as ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'s'' first sin, noting that the film tries too hard to appeal to modern viewers, even to the point of mocking the fact that it's a musical, and the end result is bound to alienate existing fans of the source material and new fans alike.
* WhamEpisode: The review of ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical'' goes more in-depth about Diva's past and feelings towards her position than other episodes. It introduces Donna, head of Musical Heaven. Her interactions with Diva reveal that Diva used to have a lot more faith in musicals (and possibly that she is an FallenAngel), implies that Diva wants to go back to that time but doesn't believe she can, Donna encourages Diva to rethink her chosen path. It is the first episode that actually provides backstory on Diva, and some future episodes still allude to Diva's history and struggle with being a CausticCritic.
* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]]
** Diva calls out Raoul in ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'' for letting the Phantom go instead of killing him or capturing him. For the show's sequel, ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Diva calls out the Phantom for insensitively singing to a suicidal Meg (currently holding a gun!) "we can't all be like Christine," [[spoiler:which indirectly leads to Meg killing Christine]], an act which she considers "the single stupidest thing in this entire stupid plot." She underscores her point with the mass FacePalm scene from ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3''.
** Diva calls out Evilene in ''Film/TheWiz'' for having a ''sprinkler system in her factory'', as it not only gives anyone an access to her WeaksauceWeakness, but as an evil sweatshop owner, "why would she care if her drones go up in flames?"
** Diva calls out Winslow in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' for easily buying into Swan's offer for his ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' opera, even letting [[TheDragon Philbin]] walk off with the only copies of his music. She finds Winslow especially GenreBlind for not knowing a DealWithTheDevil when he saw it.
--->'''Sin Card''': (character), you IDIOT!
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: She sins ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' for this. She's already annoyed with the trope and notes that while Gus and Rosie's workaholic father doesn't have time to play boat with them in Central Park, him getting fired and evicted for shirking his responsibilities to adhere to his kids' every whim isn't idle parenting either.
* WritingByTheSeatOFYourPants: Diva accuses the writers of ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' of operating on a "sure, why not?" mentality.
* WTHCastingAgency: [[InvokedTrope This is a common source of sins]]:
** Diva points out Creator/LucilleBall's performance in the title role of ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'' as one of the most notorious cases of miscasting in history. Among her issues, she cites Ball's unenthusiastic singing voice, "phoned-in" Lucy shtick, and the egregious soft-focus on her closeups to disguise her age. Overall, her Mame comes across as an irritating and annoying eccentric, rather than a lovable one.
** Diva is unimpressed with either lead of ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'', Creator/EmmyRossum and Creator/GerardButler. She points out that Rossum's singing voice, while fine, falls painfully short of being the great singing prodigy Christine is supposed to be. Her DullSurprise acting doesn't help either. Meanwhile, Butler's singing voice as The Phantom ranks among the worst vocal performances Diva's ever heard, while the film emphasizing his sexiness detracts from his intriguing nature.
** Diva sins Lesley-Anne Downe's performance as Anne ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'', pointing out that she comes across as too smart to play an [[TheIngenue ingenue]] like Anne.
** Diva sins the 2003 TV movie version of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' for casting Creator/MatthewBroderick as Harold Hill, pointing out that he doesn't have the energy or singing voice for the role.
** Creator/LeeMarvin and Creator/ClintEastwood are cited as the first two sins, in that order, of ''Film/PaintYourWagon''. For the former, Diva admits that his voice suits the role of an old mountain man, but it's not a voice most might want to hear for long. For the latter, Diva feels that he's not comfortable playing the nice guy of the pair. Overall, their singing falls short of the score and comes off as flat.
** Diva agrees with Creator/DrewCarey that he was miscast as the titular ''Film/{{Geppetto}}'', noting that his snarky comic persona is better off as [[Theatre/TheMusicMan Marcellus Washburn]] or [[Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum Pseudolus]] rather than a sentimental character like Geppetto and that he is clearly uncomfortable in the role.
** Diva sins Music/DianaRoss' performance as Dorothy in ''Film/TheWiz'', noting that while Dorothy was [[AgeLift aged]] to an adult schoolteacher to accommodate Ross's casting, her behavior was not, which makes Dorothy much more irritating as a result.
** While Diva is forgiving of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' as a whole, she takes issues with Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Mrs. Lovett, feeling her subdued performance lacks the character's sinister edge. In particular, this makes the "A Little Priest" number, in which she and Sweeney plot their [[IAmAHumanitarian meat pie]] business, fall flat.
-->'''Diva''': Come on, woman! You need to go all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Belatrix Lestrange]] on this number!
** Diva gets a few sins out of this in ''[[Theatre/PeterPan1954 Peter Pan Live!]]'' Her first sin for the film is its eschewing the ActingForTwo tradition for Captain Hook and Mr. Darling, feeling that Creator/ChristianBorle, who played Mr. Darling, would've made a far better Hook than Creator/ChristopherWalken, whose flat performance earns another sin. She also points out that Alison Williams, [[CrosscastRole as Peter himself]], is "too sophisticated and introspective" for someone that's supposed to be "thoughtless, arrogant, and self-centered".
** Diva has mixed feelings over the casting of "the diminutive, cherubic" Music/PaulWilliams as [[SatanicArchetype Swan]] in ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise.'' She admits that Williams does make Swan into a manipulative and sinister TragicVillain, but also says one can't forget they're looking at a "human Muppet" and composer of several of their songs.
** She points out that TheAntagonist of ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'' is played by Creator/DomDeluise, who in any other work would be [[PigeonholedVoiceActor pigeonholed]] into a BigFun NiceGuy role.
--->'''Diva:''' Oh, there goes my last lingering shred of confidence in the film.
** Creator/RexHarrison as the title Doctor in ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' leads off Diva's sin count. She points out that his performance is a retread of [[Theatre/MyFairLady Henry Higgins]], which makes the Doctor much more of a {{Jerkass}} than the film intended. That's before Diva notes Harrison's real-life [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] attitude during the production.
** Creator/GlennClose as Nellie in ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' also leads off Diva's sin count. She notes that Close is too old for the role, especially [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole when lyrics describing Nellie's youthful age are intact]], and it's impossible to make her look anything other than poised and sophisticated. As Nellie and Emile are now similar in age, and again, the lyrics are intact, the writers blunt their romantic arc. Speaking of Emile, Diva is also underwhelmed by his actor, Rade Sherbediga's tepid acting and flat singing.[[note]]For those curious, Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi from the 1958 film had a 15 year age difference. Close and Sherbediga have an age difference of ''one year''.[[/note]]
** Diva notes her bewilderment at ''Country Strong'' casting country music legend Music/TimMcGraw as the only one of the four lead characters who does ''not'' sing.
* WorldOfWeirdness: Since the show's setting could count as the Hell of the Reviewaverse, yes. The Reviewaverse is weird. For one thing, it frequently interacts with Hell.
* {{Yellowface}}:
** Diva cites ''Lost Horizon'' its first sin for casting Creator/JohnGielgud as the Tibetan Chang once his name comes up in the opening credits.
** Diva also sins ''Dick Deadeye'' for its racially insensitive designs for the Asian characters.
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* ReviewIronicEcho: Her review of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' gives us this gem:

** Diva accuses ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' of parading marginalized characters (especially the autistic title character) before the audience without giving them relevance in the story.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[InvokedTrope Diva's criticisms]] of ''La La Land'' focused mainly in the male protagonist, Sebastian, who is supposed to be a tragically under-appreciated genius, but whom she finds to be a pretentious KnowNothingKnowItAll with a [[MightyWhitey white savior complex]].

* RuleOfSeven: As Christi notes in one of her commentaries, Diva usually tries to note seven sins per film, [[SevenDeadlySins appropriately enough]]. However, films may rack up more sins, with [[Theatre/LoveNeverDies particularly]] [[Film/FromJustinToKelly abominable]] [[Film/{{Glitter}} works]] earning as many as ''ten''.

** Diva ends up giving ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' eleven sins, noting that it broke the scale, surpassing ''Film/{{Glitter}} as the worst movie she's ever reviewed.

** Diva ends up giving ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' eleven sins, noting that it broke the scale.

* WhamEpisode: The review of ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical'' goes more in-depth about Diva's past and feelings towards her position than other episodes. It introduces Donna, head of Musical Heaven. Her interactions with Diva reveal that Diva used to have a lot more faith in musicals (and possibly that she is an FallenAngel), implies that Diva wants to go back to that time but doesn't believe she can, Donna encourages Diva to rethink her chosen path.

* BerserkButton:
** ''{{Film/Descendants}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' annoy Diva with their misuse of "[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Be Our Guest]]", with the former's TotallyRadical TwoDecadesBehind rap cover getting a sin to itself.

** As shown in the ''Hi-Tops'' review, Donna has issues with how the stage show's version of Heaven is presented, especially in regards to Heaven's robotic-looking guards.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[ThrowTheDogABone Diva will admit it from time to time]]. On a higher note, there are the "Saving Graces".

* InnocentlyInsensitive: When passing judgement on ''Film/Zombies2018'', Diva says the producers are sentenced to "the same time-hopping expedition as that guy from ''Film/TheTwilightZone'' movie." Naturally, a few viewers thought she was talking about [[OvershadowedByControversy the infamous helicopter crash.]] She has since clarified (in the comments) that she meant the character, and not Vic Morrow.

** Diva says that the fact that the Mobsters' song in 'It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman'', in which they praise America as "a swell country without no gun control!'', "could easily have been written yesterday is both very impressive and very depressing."

* ValuesResonance: [[invoked]] Diva says that the fact that the Mobsters' song in 'It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman'', in which they praise America as "a swell country without no gun control!'', "could easily have been written yesterday is both very impressive and very depressing."

** [[InvokedTrope Diva sins]] ''Lost Horizon'' for its very strong MightyWhitey themes, since the High Lama is white and wants a white man to succeed him. She goes on to say that this might not be so bad if not for the fact that the Asian characters are all one-dimensional and often stereotypical. Putting Creator/JohnGielgud in yellowface and calling him "Chang" certainly doesn't help, and neither does Shangri-La lacking a decent irrigation system until the white engineer comes up with one. [[note]]This wasn't even ValuesDissonance; even at the time, Pauline Kael declared that it was rather suspicious that the film's idea of a utopia was a society where white people rule over Asians and black people don't exist.[[/note]]

* OhMyGods: “Sweet Lucifer!”

-->''Regarding the rioters in the opening'': '''What do we want?!''' ''I don't know.'' '''When do we want it?!''' ''Well, whenever.''
-->''Regarding Peter Finch's big solo'': ''[[ActorAllusion I'm as bored as Hell]] [[Film/{{Network}} and I'm not going to take it anymore!]]''

** Diva sins ''Film/LostHorizon'' for its bored cast, pointing out that it's hard to get invested when the actors aren't invested.

* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]] Diva sins ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'' for retaining the original film's HollywoodNatives and doing nothing to update them.

* FightSceneFailure: Diva cites ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' for its unimpressive fight between Popeye and Oxblood Oxheart.