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Shucks, I thought there were like a hundred films from the 50s that featured this game after it was popularized in Rebel Without A Cause. This films list can\'t be complete! Shocked that someone on the internet hasn\'t devoted their life to compiling the most comprehensive list of films that feature this game. Looking for some of the more obscure films to feature this, and hoping they are in the public domain so we could use the footage for a doc we are editing. (Most preferably the head-on collision variety.)
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Shucks, I thought there were like a hundred films from the 50s that featured this game after it was popularized in Rebel Without A Cause. This films list can\\\'t be complete! Shocked that someone on the internet hasn\\\'t devoted their life to compiling the most comprehensive list of films that feature this game. Looking for some of the more obscure films to feature this, and hoping they are in the public domain so we could use the footage for a doc we are editing. (Most preferably the head-on collision variety.)

EDIT: I guess IMDB does this with their film keywords...the only one I found that fits the bill so far is the utterly forgettable \\\"Hot Rod Girl\\\" from 1956.
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Shucks, I thought there were like a hundred films from the 50s that featured this game after it was popularized in Rebel Without A Cause. This can\'t be complete! Shocked that someone on the internet hasn\'t devoted their life to compiling the most comprehensive list of films that feature this game. Looking for some of the more obscure films to feature this, and hoping they are in the public domain so we could use the footage for a doc we are editing. (Most preferably the head-on collision variety.)
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Shucks, I thought there were like a hundred films from the 50s that featured this game after it was popularized in Rebel Without A Cause. This films list can\\\'t be complete! Shocked that someone on the internet hasn\\\'t devoted their life to compiling the most comprehensive list of films that feature this game. Looking for some of the more obscure films to feature this, and hoping they are in the public domain so we could use the footage for a doc we are editing. (Most preferably the head-on collision variety.)
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DieForOurShip has a standoff between Lydia/Stiles and Derek/Stiles shippers (Stiles is the FanFavourite character of the show, Derek/Stiles the main ship):
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DieForOurShip has a standoff between Lydia/Stiles(\\\"Stydia\\\") and Derek/Stiles(\\\"Sterek\\\") shippers (Stiles is the FanFavourite character of the show, Derek/Stiles the main ship):
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\\\"Most of the Malia hatred tends to come from her coming between the ever-popular Stydia shippers. There are a lot element of Creator\\\'s Pet, Mary Sue, The Scrappy and several pages of Unfortunate Implications involved though.\\\"

\\\"However, the ever popular Sterek gets all the blame of being the hate-mongers and bullies, when in fact a lot of them jumped ship out of the show at the start of S4.\\\"

Romantic Plot Tumour is just a complete catastrophe (I\\\'ll post it above in a second), with examples that belong into alternate character interpretation or are factually wrong, as well as UnfortunateImplications (the POC warrior woman who was a better character when she wasn\\\'t love interest to a main character and seemingly died).

Seasonal Rot has some factual errors and is a bit long, but most of all it has this gem:

\\\"From Stalia to yet another Token Gay to more Derek torture to Malia being the writers\\\' Mary Sue created to destroy Sterek[...]\\\" (Explanation: \\\"Stalia\\\" is Malia/Stiles. Malia has been Stiles\\\' love interest for part of Season 3 and all of Season 4.)

The first two entries for Squick are something I\\\'d consider problematic because it requires a very skewered view of what happened to even look at it this way. Eichen House, the asylum mentioned, isn\\\'t in any way presented realistically on the show (it\\\'s more of a Horror House and that\\\'s on purpose - the creator called it their Arkham Asylum), so arguing with RealLife examples on how to treat patients doesn\\\'t seem appropriate.
Malia is not presented as mentally 9 years old - this is a character who lived 9 years as a human, then 8 years as a coyote, and apparently had a normal mental development during that time. Her difficulties are getting used to being a human, not being a feral child stuck on an earlier developmental stage. I don\\\'t know if this still counts as alternate character interpretation; at best someone who believes she should be a feral child could call it character derailment, but that means ignoring canon. My interpretation of these two entries is someone doesn\\\'t like the pairing and wants a \\\"logical\\\" explanation to legitimize that feeling, but if it is okay to use Squick this way (or it\\\'ll be fine if we tweak it somewhat) I\\\'ll leave it alone.

SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute has some stuff that\\\'s frankly nonsense, but I think that can be easily edited.

TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter also has some bizarre stuff, including blatant lies (the Calaveras, somewhat noble antagonists, haven\\\'t forgotten about Scott, they promised one of the anti-heroic mentor/sidekick types to let off the main characters if he does something for them, which is mentioned very prominently in dialogue) and Cora Hale, who has a justified \\\"flat character\\\" trope in her character entry, and is mentioned as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute and a background full of plotholes on the YMMV page several times, being called an EnsembleDarkhorse with a fascinating background (which can of course happen, but in this case seems very exaggerated). The entry in general blames the show for cutting out characters whose actors have left the show and writing new ones, which just seems plain odd. I don\\\'t know what the troper expected them to do instead?

CompleteMonster: I\\\'ve been told in Ask The Tropers that it\\\'s problematic there\\\'s three of them, and I don\\\'t know if they have been vetted, so this probably needs to be pruned as well.


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\\\"Most of the Malia hatred tends to come from her coming between the ever-popular Stydia shippers. There are a lot element of Creator\\\'s Pet, Mary Sue, The Scrappy and several pages of Unfortunate Implications involved though.

\\\"However, the ever popular Sterek gets all the blame of being the hate-mongers and bullies, when in fact a lot of them jumped ship out of the show at the start of S4.\\\"

Romantic Plot Tumour is just a complete catastrophe (I\\\'ll post it above in a second), with examples that belong into alternate character interpretation or are factually wrong, as well as UnfortunateImplications (the POC warrior woman who was a better character when she wasn\\\'t love interest to a main character and seemingly died).

Seasonal Rot has some factual errors and is a bit long, but most of all it has this gem:

\\\"From Stalia to yet another Token Gay to more Derek torture to Malia being the writers\\\' Mary Sue created to destroy Sterek[...]\\\" (Explanation: Sterek refers to the Derek/Stiles pairing mentioned above, Stalia is Malia/Stiles. Malia has been Stiles\\\' love interest for part of Season 3 and all of Season 4.)

The first two entries for Squick are something I\\\'d consider problematic because it requires a very skewered view of what happened to even look at it this way. Eichen House, the asylum mentioned, isn\\\'t in any way presented realistically on the show (it\\\'s more of a Horror House and that\\\'s on purpose - the creator called it their Arkham Asylum), so arguing with RealLife examples on how to treat patients doesn\\\'t seem appropriate.
Malia is not presented as mentally 9 years old - this is a character who lived 9 years as a human, then 8 years as a coyote, and apparently had a normal mental development during that time. Her difficulties are getting used to being a human, not being a feral child stuck on an earlier developmental stage. I don\\\'t know if this still counts as alternate character interpretation; at best someone who believes she should be a feral child could call it character derailment, but that means ignoring canon. My interpretation of these two entries is someone doesn\\\'t like the pairing and wants a \\\"logical\\\" explanation to legitimize that feeling, but if it is okay to use Squick this way (or it\\\'ll be fine if we tweak it somewhat) I\\\'ll leave it alone.

SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute has some stuff that\\\'s frankly nonsense, but I think that can be easily edited.

TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter also has some bizarre stuff, including blatant lies (the Calaveras, somewhat noble antagonists, haven\\\'t forgotten about Scott, they promised one of the anti-heroic mentor/sidekick types to let off the main characters if he does something for them, which is mentioned very prominently in dialogue) and Cora Hale, who has a justified \\\"flat character\\\" trope in her character entry, and is mentioned as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute and a background full of plotholes on the YMMV page several times, being called an EnsembleDarkhorse with a fascinating background (which can of course happen, but in this case seems very exaggerated). The entry in general blames the show for cutting out characters whose actors have left the show and writing new ones, which just seems plain odd. I don\\\'t know what the troper expected them to do instead?

CompleteMonster: I\\\'ve been told in Ask The Tropers that it\\\'s problematic there\\\'s three of them, and I don\\\'t know if they have been vetted, so this probably needs to be pruned as well.


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