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2 | '''Basic Trope''': The characters are part of an exclusive circle of rich, beautiful, and sophisticated people. |
3 | * '''Straight''': Trevelyan Academy is a private boarding school full of rich and glamorous students. Head Girl Rosamond is an eighteen-year-old diplomat's daughter and amateur model who likes holding lavish parties for her friends on the weekends. |
4 | * '''Exaggerated''': ??? |
5 | * '''Downplayed''': Trevelyan Academy is a public school that lets in anyone, but it's in a pretty middle-class area and has a lot of well-off students consequently. Most of the characters are conventionally pretty, but are insecure about their braces, pimples, or glasses. |
6 | * '''Justified''': |
7 | ** Rich people have more money to spend on things like makeup, skin care, hairdressing, clothes, and plastic surgery. Therefore, the students at Trevelyan Academy have no problem keeping stylish. |
8 | ** As the students already have rich parents, they don't need to worry about planning for their future, studying, or getting a part-time job. Being able to keep stress down and take life easy imbues them with an inner glow. |
9 | ** The rich and powerful get to set the standards for what is considered beautiful; however they look is automatically glamourized by society. |
10 | ** Trevelyan Academy is specifically a school for aspiring models. |
11 | * '''Inverted''': [[SuckySchool Trevelyan Academy's rival school Cromwell High is an underfunded school in a rough area. Most of the students have poor parents who can't afford to buy them any of the latest fashions.]] The Head Boy [[BarbaricBully Flash]] [[BrooklynRage Young]] is a thirteen-year-old businesswoman's younger brother (both their parents are dead) and often uses a SecretIdentity as [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Eugene]] [[SharpDressedMan Thompson]] to participate in professional boxing matches that he would otherwise not be able to participate in because of the fact that Flash is a minor. Normally, Flash would try and make an attempt at hiding his identity as Eugene Thompson from others, but not in Cromwell, because the people have a mass case of SecretIdentityApathy. As a result, Flash openly makes it a statement that he'll be journeying through his boxing career as Eugene Thompson in an attempt to SaveOurStudents. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': |
13 | ** Rosamond is revealed to be at Trevelyan Academy on a full scholarship; she goes home at the end of the day to a trailer where her and her mother live in debt. |
14 | ** Rosamond takes off her makeup at the end of the day to reveal she has been severely burned by a freak accident. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
16 | ** She might live in a trailer with her mother, but her dad is still loaded. |
17 | ** The burns fade over time, restoring her glamorous looks. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': ??? |
19 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': ??? |
20 | * '''Averted''': ??? |
21 | * '''Enforced''': The producers want to portray an idealized version of teen life, so they [[DawsonCasting hire glamorous actors in their 20s and 30s to play awkward sixteen year olds.]] |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': Flash snarls, "Those snooty, haughty fucks should be knocked down a thousand pegs. Better if I do it myself." |
23 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
24 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
25 | * '''Defied''': Fearing the students may become conceited, Principal Greyson implements a very unfashionable school uniform, bans makeup and jewelry, and encourages all the students to volunteer for soup kitchens. |
26 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
27 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
28 | * '''Implied''': A job fair aimed at students of Trevelyan Academy has no blue-collar job representatives, no vocational training representatives and no military recruiters. Indeed, the only job representatives seen there are those for modeling agencies. |
29 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
30 | ** Trevelyan Academy becomes infamous for its elitism, and is stereotyped as a nursery for spoilt, vacuous socialites. When alumni put the school on their resume, it's more likely to disenchant an employer than impress them. |
31 | ** The pressure of being glamorous all the time causes Rosamond to [[WeightWoe develop an eating disorder]]. |
32 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
33 | ** The [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]] the alumni make at Trevelyan Academy help them get cushy jobs either way. |
34 | ** Rosamond eventually manages to cool the eating disorder naturally, because she's an elite student. |
35 | * '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
36 | * '''Played for Drama''': |
37 | ** When her friends find out Rosamond is here on a scholarship, they shun her. She becomes depressed and drops out. |
38 | ** When Rosamond gets alopecia and finds her hair falling out in clumps, she loses her popularity and realizes people only valued her for her looks. |
39 | * '''Played for Horror''': Trevelyan Academy is revealed to be run by eugenicists dedicated to preparing a generation of elites to take over the world. |
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