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Heathers

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Heathers	comment	Heathers is a 1988 satirical High School movie written by Daniel Waters, directed by Michael Lehmann, and starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.The film is an extremely dark deconstruction of the then-massively-popular wave of '80s teen movies. Veronica Sawyer (Ryder) is an unhappy member of the most popular and powerful clique at Westerberg High, the "Heathers", so-called because the other three members all share the same first name. Then, mysterious new guy named Jason "J.D." Dean (Slater) enters Veronica's life. After Alpha Bitch Heather Chandler kicks Veronica out of the group, she and J.D. accidentally poison her with drain cleaner and have to make it look like suicide. Pretty soon, the bodies start piling up as Veronica realizes that J.D. is a psychopath with ambitions tied into his nihilistic views of human behavior.At once one of the most cynical and hilarious films of the era, Heathers was a box-office flop when first released but subsequently became a Cult Classic, albeit largely for reasons completely different from what the writer intended. While Waters conceived of the film largely as a biting satire of the sensationalization of teen suicide, many fans opted instead to focus on how J.D. and Veronica "heroically" killed off their school's bullies.The history of the film's release added to its cult status: the studio that produced Heathers went out of business within weeks of its release, ensuring that it only had a brief run in theaters. However, critics loved the film and it would become popular with its home video release (and countless airings on cable, granted in Bowdlerised form). That said, the film's influence can be seen in later Black Comedy high school movies, like 1999's Jawbreaker and 2004's Mean Girls, the latter being considered to be its PG-13 Spiritual Successor.The film was later adapted into a 2010 stage musical with a limited run. The musical has been revived as an Off-Broadway production for the spring of 2014, and later as a very successful 2018 run in London's West End. An anthology series based on the film was set to premiere in 2018 on Paramount Network, but was dropped in light of two school shootings that occurred in March and May of that year, and released in an edited version in October. The reboot was panned by critics and fans alike and is generally considered a good reason to not make a modern reboot of every cult classic out there.
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Heathers / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
Heathers / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Done to Veronica a lot by J.D., even though most of those could cross over into the unwanted "Shut Up" Kiss.
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Heathers / int_10cb9a31	type	Axes at School
Heathers / int_10cb9a31	comment	Axes at School: J.D. brings a revolver (loaded with blanks) to school and "shoots" two kids in the cafeteria. It gets Played for Laughs.
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Heathers / int_10f90f66	type	Strip Poker
Heathers / int_10f90f66	comment	Strip Poker: J.D. and Veronica play strip croquet off-screen.
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Heathers / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Heathers / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: No one knows why Christian Slater decided to play J.D. as a teenage Jack Nicholson (probably because Nicholson is famous for playing psychos...), but he did do Nicholson quite well (well enough that one viewer was convinced the two actors were related). Christian Slater has said that it was because he is a big fan of Jack Nicholson and also that that was just the way he talked at the time.
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Heathers / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
Heathers / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: J.D. and Veronica forge these in faking the suicides of various popular high-school students.
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Heathers / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Heathers / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: When J.D. shoots Ram in the neck, there should be a LOT more blood.
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Heathers / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Heathers / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: In a variation of this, after performing oral sex on a Jerk Jock, Heather Chandler takes a drink of water and spits it at her reflection in the mirror. The self-loathing in that scene certainly explains why Heather Chandler is so rotten to everyone else.
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Heathers / int_13d6db18	type	One Last Smoke
Heathers / int_13d6db18	comment	One Last Smoke: J.D. lights up right before he goes boom.
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Heathers / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Heathers / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: Subverted in the film's climax: It's done by the villain, J.D., as he's about to blow himself up. And then he has to break the pose to slap the stuck timer on his bomb vest to get it to continue before resuming the pose.
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Heathers / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Heathers / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: At the university party, Heather is shown to lower her head as the camera rises up to show the photo of a guy getting blown away by the sound, in an obvious allusion to what Heather is actually doing with her date. Not a sexual reference, but when Heather Duke is in the bathroom, Heather Chandler says, "Let's see today's lunch!" Smash cut to a tray of food being scraped into a garbage bin.
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Heathers / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
Heathers / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: Part of the really dark alternate ending that was changed after Executive Meddling. After Veronica prevents J.D. from blowing up everyone in the school, she ignites the bombs herself. All the kids, no matter their clique, appearance, or background, are then shown interacting peacefully in heaven. The trope is lampshaded in the film.
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Heathers / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Heathers / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: J.D is a tragic example. He's initially seen as charming, but he's also reckless and has poor impulse control, manipulates and lies to people around him, doesn't consider other people's feelings beyond what they mean to him personally, and has a constant need for stimulation and gets off on the murders he commits. It's emphasized that his horrible life partly made him what he is, though, and ultimately in his own twisted sense of morality, he believes that he's doing people a favor.
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Heathers / int_1b38f6b7	type	Shout-Out Theme Naming
Heathers / int_1b38f6b7	comment	Shout-Out Theme Naming: Westerberg High is named for Paul Westerberg, singer-songwriter and then-frontman of The Replacements. Veronica Sawyer and Betty Finn are a play on Betty and Veronica as well as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, symbolizing how close they used to be. J.D. has a lot of this. He's obviously named after J.D. Salinger for obvious reasons. His surname is Dean, as a reference to James Dean. His given name recalls another Jason notorious for killing stupid teenagers. And of course, J.D. really is a J.D.note Juvenile delinquent Heather McNamara refers to him as "Billy the Kid" and "Jesse James". The movie is basically a dark inversion of the typical '80s John Hughes teen movie, so Sherwood, Ohio is probably named in honor of Hughes' Shermer, Illinois (though Sherwood is a real place).
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Heathers / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Heathers / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: When Heather Chandler dies, she falls onto a glass table- and it shatters so completely that it makes you wonder if the filmmakers had ever used an actual glass table.
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Heathers / int_1b55d429	type	Shoot the Television
Heathers / int_1b55d429	comment	Shoot the Television: Radio, rather. J.D. shoots the radio in his living room when he and Veronica are "celebrating" the fake suicides they orchestrated. This is the moment when Veronica realizes that J.D. is simply Ax-Crazy and rejects him.
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Heathers / int_1c2c6e08	type	Ignoring by Singing
Heathers / int_1c2c6e08	comment	Ignoring by Singing: Veronica screaming "Mary Had A Little Lamb" with her fingers in her ears as J.D. tries to convince her that she was much more cognizant of her assisting in the murder of Kurt and Ram than she'd like to admit the morning after in the school parking lot.
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Heathers / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Heathers / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Kurt and Ram.
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Heathers / int_1cb68381	type	Pom-Pom Girl
Heathers / int_1cb68381	comment	Pom-Pom Girl: The nicest of the Heathers is one, which makes sense when your job involves trying to help people have fun.
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Heathers / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Heathers / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Veronica shoots off J.D.'s middle finger during their confrontation in the boiler room.
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Heathers / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Heathers / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Everyone thinks they're in a tender, emotionally-charged teen drama about the pressures of high school life and the horrors of teen suicide... except Veronica and J.D., who know firsthand that the school's just caught up in a serial killing spree. Veronica, weirdly enough, winds up Becoming the Mask, counseling the suicidal and breaking down the social barriers. J.D. seems to think he's exacting justice on bullies and a corrupt social order Just Like Robin Hood, with Veronica as Bonnie to his Clyde. He's actually just a twisted little psycho and Veronica comes to be terrified of him (fittingly enough, he's pleased to be nicknamed "Jesse James", who also gets romanticized but was also basically a brute).
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Heathers / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
Heathers / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The song "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)" is performed by the pop band Big Fun, which is made up of members of the production crew.
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Heathers / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Heathers / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Westerberg is not a nice school. The Heathers make life miserable for unpopular kids, and suffer themselves from insecurities and self-loathing that nobody's helping them with. People's reactions to the "suicides" range from "trying to peddle it into fifteen minutes of fame" to "wondering if maybe they should try suicide themselves." Veronica seems to decide she's had enough by the film's end and makes a bold move by reaching out to Martha.
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Heathers / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Heathers / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: In the opening scene Veronica recounts a speech Heather Chandler once gave in which she argued her bullying is basically doing a favor for the unpopular kids since it'll toughen them up for the rigors of real life. Veronica's response was a very sardonic "You're beautiful"; Heather apparently missed the sarcasm.
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Heathers / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Heathers / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Black as midnight on a moonless night.
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Heathers / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Heathers / int_22a27b19	comment	Played straight with Kurt and Ram later, when JD convinces Veronica they should humiliate them for spreading rumors about her by shooting them with the "tranquilizer bullets" JD supposedly got from his war vet grandfather, and making it look like they had a gay suicide pact that failed. It all goes according to plan... except Veronica is horrified to realize the bullets were real. JD insists on some level she wanted them dead just as much as he did, and that the chaos and fear in the wake of these deaths scares others into not being assholes. Veronica instead sees Heather, Ram, and Kurt's faked suicides have only made them look like martyrs to emulate, and that Heather Duke easily assumed Heather Chandler's place as Alpha Bitch, so nothing has really changed. She breaks up with JD for his psychopathic tendencies and spends the rest of the film trying to stop him from killing again.
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Heathers / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
Heathers / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Veronica will partake in this in moments of strife, be it out of guilt, seething rage, or possibly to check if she's dreaming. Starting with her burning her hand with a match in the Remington party in a "God why am I even here" fit. After the deaths of Ram and Kurt, Veronica burns herself with a car lighter, prompting J.D. to light his cigarette with the resulting burn.
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Heathers / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Heathers / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: See Deadly Prank.
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Heathers / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Heathers / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Subtly. After killing Kurt and Ram, Veronica burns herself, and J.D. uses the burn to light his cigarette. At the end, Veronica uses the explosion that kills J.D. to light her cigarette. Also uses the Rule of Three; The first time Veronica tries to burn herself is at the Remington party.
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Heathers / int_23cd5152	type	Confound Them with Kindness
Heathers / int_23cd5152	comment	Confound Them with Kindness: After thwarting her boyfriend JD's Evil Plan, an ash-covered but relieved Veronica tiredly saunters back to Westerburg High. She encounters Heather Duke there and proceeds to pick Heather Chandler's red scrunchie (a symbol of power), kiss her on the cheek, and cheerfully announce that "Heather, my love, there's a new Sheriff in the town". Duke can only stare confusedly after Veronica, not even realizing the soot blot on her face.
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Heathers / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Heathers / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The film is a rather bitter deconstruction of the popular John Hughes style teen movies at the time. The bad boy the heroine lusts after is actually a disturbed psycho who lures the heroine into his scheme to murder the popular kids and he even tries to blow up the school and pass it off as a group suicide. She isn't happy to be part of the popular kids and it's actually that which makes her want to murder them. Also, the Girl Posse aren't the cookie-cutter bad guys with one of them being bulimic and sick of being a Butt-Monkey while another genuinely contemplates suicide. Even Heather Chandler, the Alpha Bitch, is shown being objectified and used by the jerk at the frat party and her self-loathing afterwards.
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Heathers / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Heathers / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: While everyone at the school seems to glorify the teenage suicides and J.D. becomes increasingly murderous, Veronica seems to be the only person who doesn't like where this is going.
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Heathers / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Heathers / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Christian Slater is soooo not trying to sound like Jack Nicholson throughout the whole film.
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Heathers / int_2676e225	type	Girl Posse
Heathers / int_2676e225	comment	Girl Posse: The film is named after the girl posse in the film, of which three out of four girls all have the given name "Heather". H. Chandler is the Alpha Bitch, H. Duke is jealous of Chandler's power, H. McNamara is a meek follower, and Veronica is the newcomer who actually hates being part of the group and did it solely to become In with the In Crowd.
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Heathers / int_26cb584e	type	Ash Face
Heathers / int_26cb584e	comment	Ashface: Veronica is pretty banged up all over, but when J.D. blows himself up her whole outfit is charred.
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Heathers / int_279dbf1a	type	Date Rape Averted
Heathers / int_279dbf1a	comment	Date Rape Averted: No less than three times! The first time, Veronica tells off her "suitor" at the college party while Heather Chandler is coerced into oral with another creepy guy. The second time, Kurt is so drunk Veronica fights him off; again, Heather is not so lucky. And the third time, J.D. grabs Veronica and kisses her hard. She fights him off. Once Veronica dumps J.D., he continually forcefully kisses her, causing her to continually fight him off.
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Heathers / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Heathers / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: J.D. tells Veronica that the bullets they intend to shoot Kurt and Ram with are German "ich lÃ¼ge" bullets, which are supposedly non-fatal, so that she will go along with the shooting. "Ich lÃ¼ge" means "I am lying" in German.
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Heathers / int_29a4bb9f	type	Former Friend of Alpha Bitch
Heathers / int_29a4bb9f	comment	Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: Played straight, only with the old friend being a minor character. It turns out that Heather D., who is becoming the new head of the school's food chain, was once best friends with the unpopular, unattractive, and obese Martha "Dumptruck" Dunnstock. Heather D. is so ashamed of this that when she finds out J.D. has photographs of the two of them playing together, she pays him to get rid of them. Averted with Veronica and her best friend Betty. They are still friends but don't get to hang out as often due to Veronica being seized by the popular crowd. They reunite by the end when Veronica severs ties with the Heathers (whom she didn't really like to begin with).
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Heathers / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Heathers / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Discussed and invoked - falsely. Everyone thinks Kurt and Ram killed themselves because they were in love and convinced that they would never be accepted. Everyone, that is, except Veronica and J.D., who forged the suicide note that led everyone to believe that the two heterosexual (as far as we know) football players were secretly gay lovers.
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Heathers / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Heathers / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Both Heather Chandler and Martha wear "Camp Tawonga" sweaters at some point. Tawonga is a summer camp in northern California catering to Jewish-American families. And yet Chandler has a very Christian, evangelical funeral.
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Heathers / int_2da5273e	type	Just Like Robin Hood
Heathers / int_2da5273e	comment	J.D. seems to think he's exacting justice on bullies and a corrupt social order Just Like Robin Hood, with Veronica as Bonnie to his Clyde. He's actually just a twisted little psycho and Veronica comes to be terrified of him (fittingly enough, he's pleased to be nicknamed "Jesse James", who also gets romanticized but was also basically a brute).
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Heathers / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Heathers / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Played straight and subverted. Played straight in that, after being coerced into performing fellatio on a college student at a party, Heather Chandler rinses her mouth and spits on her reflection in a mirror. It's the only scene in which the audience sees her completely alone and says a great deal about her perception of herself and her self-loathing, which is unseen in any other scene where she is flanked by her subordinates and/or doling out abuse to those she considers her social inferiors. Subverted with the same character, as well as Kurt and Ram after their respective (fake) suicides: other students in the school, including those who were verbally bullied by Heather and physically bullied by Kurt and Ram, come to believe that the dead students weren't as shallow as their abuses would imply.
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Heathers / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Heathers / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: The day after Veronica kills Heather #1 and makes it look like a suicide, she hears other girls in the locker room buzzing about how her death has raised her status even higher. Veronica staggers, still clothed, into the shower. It may look to the others that she's stunned by the news, but it's more because her plan backfired. Or because she's testing the waterproof-ness of her Swatch.
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Heathers / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Heathers / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: J.D. creates a package to leave at the scene of the football players' "suicide," which includes a bottle of mineral water. Later, that bottle (along with the note) convinces the policemen that the two were, in fact, gay. Veronica writes the word "myriad" in Heather Chandler's fake suicide note, pointing out that she had gotten the word wrong on a previous English test. When the teachers are discussing the 'suicide', one of them says how impressed she was that Heather used the word in her suicide note.
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Heathers / int_3287773c	type	Lovable Alpha Bitch
Heathers / int_3287773c	comment	Lovable Alpha Bitch: About halfway through, Heather McNamara.
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Heathers / int_33fd5904	type	Demolitions Expert
Heathers / int_33fd5904	comment	Demolitions Expert: Played with with Bud Dean. He expresses a bit too much glee at inventing new ways to blow up major buildings and outright delights at destroying places that had special memories to people, implying a Mad Bomber mindset, but he channels his urges into a lucrative demolition business. He accidentally killed his wife when she walked into one of the buildings to kill herself, but he doesn't indicate any remorse. J.D. steals some of his father's bombs to blow up his school.
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Heathers / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
Heathers / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Veronica to Heather Duke.
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Heathers / int_3429bf3e	type	Clique Tour
Heathers / int_3429bf3e	comment	Clique Tour: New Transfer Student J.D. gets a tour of all the cliques in the cafeteria. He deliberately chooses to sit at the table for the unpopular losers, despite getting offers from the nerds and from the jocks. Slightly more so during the Lunchtime Poll. There's jocks, nerds, preppies, a pair of Extracurricular Enthusiasts shilling for a food drive, stoners, and some borderline skinheads who spend lunch in the parking lot, plus some loners like Martha Dunnstock.
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Heathers / int_348eda5f	type	Public Medium Ignorance
Heathers / int_348eda5f	comment	Public Medium Ignorance: The priest at the first funeral blaming teenage suicides on "MTV video games", as if they're the same thing.
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Heathers / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Heathers / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Heather Chandler. "Veronica. Jesse James. Quelle surprise."
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Heathers / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Heathers / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: J.D.'s response when Veronica demands he disarm the bomb when she has his gun pointed at him. Doesn't end too well for him, see directly above.
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Heathers / int_37085956	type	Gayngst-Induced Suicide
Heathers / int_37085956	comment	Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Invoked. Veronica and J.D. Ram and Kurt's murders by writing suicide notes implying the two are closeted gay lovers, which makes the whole thing more credible and buys the two guys some post-mortem compassion from the rest of the community.
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Heathers / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Heathers / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: With the exception of Martha.
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Heathers / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Heathers / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: This line from the principal: "I've seen a lot of bullshit - Angel Dust, Switchblades, sexually perverse photography exhibits involving tennis rackets." Another teacher even seems to do a Double Take on the last point.
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Heathers / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
Heathers / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: Subverted. Veronica wears a monocle whenever she writes in her diary, but it's not to show off her wealth or class, but rather that she's kind of an oddball. Word of God on the commentary says that her monocle pegs her as part of the "Reich" that controls the school, however, so there is status in it.
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Heathers / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Heathers / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: J.D.
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Heathers / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Heathers / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Teenage Suicide... don't do it!
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Heathers / int_433cee4c	type	Tricked to Death
Heathers / int_433cee4c	comment	Tricked to Death: J.D. tricks Heather 1 into drinking drain cleaner by telling her it's a hangover cure.
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Heathers / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Heathers / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: After Veronica breaks up with J.D. after he starts murdering other teenagers for fun, he is still very much in love with her.
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Heathers / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Heathers / int_44606d14	comment	Everyone thinks they're in a tender, emotionally-charged teen drama about the pressures of high school life and the horrors of teen suicide... except Veronica and J.D., who know firsthand that the school's just caught up in a serial killing spree. Veronica, weirdly enough, winds up Becoming the Mask, counseling the suicidal and breaking down the social barriers.
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Heathers / int_448934a1	type	Lame Last Words
Heathers / int_448934a1	comment	Lame Last Words: Heather Chandler's final statement is a halfhearted "Corn nuts!"
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Heathers / int_44ba9580	type	The Snark Knight
Heathers / int_44ba9580	comment	The Snark Knight: Veronica.
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Heathers / int_44db43ce	type	Staged Shooting
Heathers / int_44db43ce	comment	Staged Shooting: Subverted when J.D. tells Veronica that the bullets in the guns he's provided for a "prank" are fake-but-realistic-looking tranquilizer darts; but which turn out to be very real and very deadly. This is played strictly for laughs.
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Heathers / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Heathers / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: What J.D. comes to see Veronica as:
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Heathers / int_46cd696	type	Eye Open
Heathers / int_46cd696	comment	Eye Open: The close-up on Veronica's wide eye as she wakes from her nightmare.
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Heathers / int_474d096e	type	Better to Kill Than Frighten
Heathers / int_474d096e	comment	Better to Kill Than Frighten: More like better to kill than humiliate in these cases: Downplayed with Heather Chandler's death. While Veronica decides to humiliate her by using a fake hangover cure that will make her vomit, JD suggests they use drain cleaner instead, which Veronica dismisses. When Veronica takes the wrong mug to Heather by mistake, JD doesn't correct her, and in fact eggs Heather on to drink it, watching her asphyxiate to death. Downplayed, since JD didn't actively kill Heather and since Veronica thinks JD didn't know about the switch right away. Played straight with Kurt and Ram later, when JD convinces Veronica they should humiliate them for spreading rumors about her by shooting them with the "tranquilizer bullets" JD supposedly got from his war vet grandfather, and making it look like they had a gay suicide pact that failed. It all goes according to plan... except Veronica is horrified to realize the bullets were real. JD insists on some level she wanted them dead just as much as he did, and that the chaos and fear in the wake of these deaths scares others into not being assholes. Veronica instead sees Heather, Ram, and Kurt's faked suicides have only made them look like martyrs to emulate, and that Heather Duke easily assumed Heather Chandler's place as Alpha Bitch, so nothing has really changed. She breaks up with JD for his psychopathic tendencies and spends the rest of the film trying to stop him from killing again.
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Heathers / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Heathers / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Veronica's not as openly cruel as Chandler or Duke, but she is very passive-aggressive and has a bit of a superior attitude. And after the shock of the murders wears off, she comes off as extremely callous and snide. Still, her interactions with Betty show a kinder side that basically nobody else at Westerburg has.
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Heathers / int_4b0ef67b	type	Poisoned Drink Drop
Heathers / int_4b0ef67b	comment	Poisoned Drink Drop: When Heather Chandler drinks the drain cleaner-laced milk that JD mixes for her, she drops the mug, and immediately clutches her throat before plummeting into and shattering a glass table.
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Heathers / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Heathers / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: After Veronica and Heather McNamara's disastrous double date with Kurt and Ram, there's a shot of Heather pinned down by Kurt and struggling to fight him off, while Veronica just stalks off looking pissy.
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Heathers / int_4c8d0294	type	Oh, the Humanity!
Heathers / int_4c8d0294	comment	Oh, the Humanity!: A Running Gag line in the film (mostly by one of the cops).
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Heathers / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Heathers / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Subverted and played with. Heather Chandler says to Veronica "No one at Westerberg's gonna play your reindeer games." Most of the goings-on, including Veronica's heroic save, happen without the rest of the school knowing who's behind it.
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Heathers / int_4c961994	type	Acquired Situational Narcissism
Heathers / int_4c961994	comment	Acquired Situational Narcissism: Somewhat averted, where Veronica has, pre-movie, ditched her old friend Betty Finn to get in with the Heathers and participates in their mean girl hijinks, but a) is extremely self-aware and self-loathing about it all and b) still speaks to Betty in the cafeteria and once invites her over for a game of croquet—the film deals with the social aftermath of such a shift rather than making the moralization of it the Aesoppy point.
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Heathers / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
Heathers / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Some of these suicides are a little too on the nose. One might wonder who brings gay porn with them on a suicide pact, but it's made pretty clear that the cops didn't give a shit.
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Heathers / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Heathers / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: "Que sera, sera / Whatever will be, will be..." At the start of the film, Heather and Veronica do a poll around the cafeteria that basically boils down to "If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do?" At the end of the film, JD asks Veronica a similar question.
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Heathers / int_532a8261	type	Bookworm
Heathers / int_532a8261	comment	Bookworm: Duke. She's shown reading in several scenes and her bookishness is even adapted as the 'theme' of her (J.D. induced) 'suicide' in Veronica's dream.
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Heathers / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Heathers / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Veronica.
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Heathers / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Heathers / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: J.D.'s bomb can be switched off by pressing one of three buttons, all of which are red. He refuses to tell Veronica, but somehow turns it off himself by sticking his knife into it.
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Heathers / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Heathers / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Much to Daniel Waters' annoyance, the line was changed. During the frat party scene, after Veronica throws up on the floor, Heather follows her into the alley. The final version has Heather calling her "You stupid fuck," but the line was originally supposed to be "You stupid cunt."
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Heathers / int_56d95b5b	type	High School
Heathers / int_56d95b5b	comment	High School: It's named after Paul Westerberg, lead singer of Alternative Rock band The Replacements, who was Winona Ryder's favorite band at the time.
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Heathers / int_56fcb1b0	type	Goths Have It Hard
Heathers / int_56fcb1b0	comment	Goths Have It Hard: Very subtle. The local punks appear to be pretty chill, but at the end, one of them is sitting right next to the bomb that JD rigged in the auditorium. She ignores it while awaiting her seeming death.
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Heathers / int_57541097	type	Near Misses
Heathers / int_57541097	comment	Near Misses: In the final confrontation between Veronica and J.D., the latter swings toward the trigger bomb after subduing the former. Veronica then picks up J.D.'s gun and aims it at him. She shoots at blank point and whether through an innate desire of not killing him or her inexperience with weaponry, all she does is blow his finger off.
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Heathers / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Heathers / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Veronica was marked as a gifted student and once declined an offer to skip several grades. She's a lot more insightful than her peers about how the "suicides" are being glorified by the media and resourceful enough to whip up a convincing fake hanging on the fly. She can also be a bit of an airhead sometimes, like when she accidentally starts a trash fire at the Remington party. Also, here's her attempt at a Hydra Problem allusion:
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Heathers / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Heathers / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Played for laughs with the two rather incompetent policemen.
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Heathers / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Heathers / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: Three of them.
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Heathers / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Heathers / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: There's a Veronica and a Betty, which you might think is a coincidence until you notice their equally significant last names - Sawyer and Finn respectively.
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Heathers / int_5fc3eff4	type	Time Bomb
Heathers / int_5fc3eff4	comment	Time Bomb: In the boiler room, the Incredibly Obvious Bomb with its huge display and three big red buttons can be stopped Just in Time at 0:04.
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Heathers / int_60985aa7	type	In with the In Crowd
Heathers / int_60985aa7	comment	In with the In Crowd: The film has a dark, dark take on this trope. It opens with a dream sequence in which the titular Heathers use Veronica's head as a croquet peg.
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Heathers / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Heathers / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Heather McNamara. Veronica too, by the end.
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Heathers / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Heathers / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: H. Chandler (choleric), H. Duke (sanguine), H. McNamara (phlegmatic) and Veronica (melancholic).
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Heathers / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Heathers / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Veronica really hopes her date doesn't take her Cow Tipping. This was acknowledged on the DVD commentary track with a remark along the lines of "And this is our 'Gilligan's Island' cut here.."
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Heathers / int_6b18b774	type	"What Now?" Ending
Heathers / int_6b18b774	comment	"What Now?" Ending: J.D.'s last few lines invoke this:
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Heathers / int_6b353f78	type	Only Known by Initials
Heathers / int_6b353f78	comment	Only Known by Initials: Everyone calls Jason Dean "J.D.", even Veronica's parents.
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Heathers / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Heathers / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Darkly subverted, in that all the deaths by "suicide" are actually murders, and all the attempted suicides either fail or are revealed to be faked. Bungled Suicide: Martha Dunnstock. Interrupted Suicide: Heather McNamara. Faking the Dead: Near the end of the movie, Veronica pretends to hang herself to find out from J.D. what his ultimate plan is. She then tries to stop it, with his assumption that she's dead providing a cover at first. The only real and successful suicide is ironically committed by the person who faked the other suicides. In the end, J.D. willingly blows himself up, alone, after his plan to take the school with him is thwarted.
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Heathers / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Heathers / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: In the absolute darkest sense of the word "parody", putting some brutal twists on perceptions of teenage society and violence. Teen movies after this had a hard time following the John Hughes format that was popular during The '80s.
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Heathers / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Heathers / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: The Heathers are set up as the main antagonists of the film, embodying everything wrong with high school and having their group name as the movie title. Then J.D. shows up and starts murdering people.
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Heathers / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
Heathers / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: J.D. employs this a lot. The creepy variety.
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Heathers / int_702c2de3	type	Line-of-Sight Alias
Heathers / int_702c2de3	comment	Line-of-Sight Alias: When the radio host asks Heather McNamara for her name, she struggles to give one. Then she spots her canary and comes up with "Tweetie".
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Heathers / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Heathers / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: Heather McNamara attempts suicide in the school bathroom by overdosing on pills. Fortunately, Veronica arrives in time to force her to spit them out and then comforts her.
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Heathers / int_71fa50b5	type	New Transfer Student
Heathers / int_71fa50b5	comment	New Transfer Student J.D. gets a tour of all the cliques in the cafeteria. He deliberately chooses to sit at the table for the unpopular losers, despite getting offers from the nerds and from the jocks.
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Heathers / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Heathers / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: At Kurt and Ram's funeral, after the impassioned and teary "I love my dead gay son!" speech, J.D. snarks "how do you think he'd react to a son that had a limp wrist with a pulse?" That's rich coming from the guy responsible for the funeral in the first place, but given what we've seen of the town, he's almost certainly right that an alive gay son would receive significantly less love and acceptance.
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Heathers / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Heathers / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: In J.D.'s first scene, the resident school jocks Kurt and Ram decide that it would be a good idea to try to bully J.D., not knowing that they're dealing with a murderous psycho. He grabs his revolver and fires at them in front of the whole cafeteria, only for it to be revealed later that he was using blanks, but Kurt and Ram were still scared shitless.
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Heathers / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Heathers / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Martha Dunnstock.
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Heathers / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Heathers / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: J.D. kills off other high school students that he doesn't like. Later, he aspires to become a mass-murderer when he tries to blow up the whole school.
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Heathers / int_79505052	type	Popular Is Evil
Heathers / int_79505052	comment	Popular Is Evil: Played straight with one half of the Heathers and subverted with the other half. Heather Chandler and Heather Duke are straight examples. Heather C rules the school with an iron fist, not caring if the other students think of her as a beast, just as long as they keep kissing her feet. After she does, her Beta Bitch and successor, Heather D carries on the tradition of terrorizing the school, just as ruthlessly as her predecessor, if not more so. Heather McNamara and Veronica Sawyer are the subversions. They are not evil deep down, but they are pressured to be mean girls to their classmates by Heather C and D, lest they lose their popularity and become outcasts.
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Heathers / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Heathers / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: As a cover after they shoot Ram and Kurt in the woods, J.D. and Veronica take off their tops and make out in the back of the car. The next scene after they drive away opens with J.D.'s shirt open and Veronica lying down with her head in his lap, implying something else may have happened, though nothing's stated outright.
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Heathers / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Heathers / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Adults are quick to blame MTV and video games for the cause of the suicides.
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Heathers / int_7b63065f	type	"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal
Heathers / int_7b63065f	comment	"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal: The film answers the question, "If the coolest kids in school committed suicide, would others follow?" with a resounding, "Yes!" A dark way to address Truth in Television. This is made explicit in one of the film's most poignant moments, after Veronica prevents Heather M. from killing herself:
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Heathers / int_7eb03aee	type	Peer-Pressured Bully
Heathers / int_7eb03aee	comment	Heather McNamara and Veronica Sawyer are the subversions. They are not evil deep down, but they are pressured to be mean girls to their classmates by Heather C and D, lest they lose their popularity and become outcasts.
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Heathers / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Heathers / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: J.D. For starters, his father is a sociopathic bastard who doesn't care for him (when asked if he even likes his father he responds with "I haven't given the matter much thought"), and his mother killed herself in front of her son's eyes to get away from her husband. His entire life has been spent moving around from town to town and school to school wherever his father's demolition job took him, where it is implied he saw the same scenario of clique groups bullying other students at every high school he's attended. He starts out by murdering Heather Chandler, then Kurt and Ram, and makes their deaths appear as suicides (also implied to be something he's done before). He ultimately resorts to trying to blow up the entire school. He explains his intentions are such because he believes nobody loves him, and that "the only place different social types can genuinely get along with each other is in heaven", somehow seeing the school as a representation of society itself.
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Heathers / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Heathers / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
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Heathers / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Heathers / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Veronica (Blackadder-type).
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Heathers / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Heathers / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: J.D is not punished at all for firing a gun at people since he just shot blanks. In reality, pointing a gun at someone at all without just cause (even if you don't shoot anything at them) is considered assault with a deadly weapon, and considering it's very possible for even blanks to kill someone if they're unlucky, could even be considered attempted murder. The police would never share someone's suicide note with the school faculty. Even if they did, the teacher sharing said note with class would be a crime as well as a whooping violation of ethics that would get said teacher fired.
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Heathers / int_839be725	type	Lady in a Power Suit
Heathers / int_839be725	comment	Lady in a Power Suit: This is the idea Heather Chandler is trying to invoke by having her clique wear blazers at school : to mark their(her) superiority over the other students. Notably, she, as the leader, is wearing the most attention grabbing blazers, and, as soon as she dies, the others abandon the style entirely. Unusually for the Trope, the Heathers abide to the padded shoulders style, but not strictly to the suit part, as they prefer a more youthful approach to the look.
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Heathers / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
Heathers / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: Deconstructed. Veronica becomes attracted to J.D. after he pulls a gun (loaded with blanks) on some bullies, and likes his general "screw society" attitude. Even after she learns that he's into all too real violence, she can't stop thinking about him even as she knows what he's doing is wrong and desperately wants out.
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Heathers / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Heathers / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Ram and Kurt. Despite that, it's later revealed that their families loved them a lot. Bonus points for their shirtless-and-underwear scene right before J.D. murders them.
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Heathers / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Heathers / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: Veronica lights her cigarette off of the explosion that just killed her ex-boyfriend J.D. Also, when Veronica burns the palm of her hand with a car's cigarette lighter (intentionally), and J.D. lights a cigarette from the burn scar's residual heat. This scene is also one of a few incidents of Veronica's Self-Harm (noted on the DVD commentary).
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Heathers / int_8d0c61b6	type	Team Title
Heathers / int_8d0c61b6	comment	Team Title: The titular Heathers are the school's most powerful clique.
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Heathers / int_8d604827	type	Cow Tipping
Heathers / int_8d604827	comment	Cow Tipping: There's a scene where Ram and Kurt try to impress Veronica and Heather McNamara by cow-tipping, despite the girls' obvious displeasure at being there. When the boys succeed in pushing the beast over, it lands in a puddle and splatters the girls with mud.
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Heathers / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Heathers / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Deconstructed. Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram are all horrible people but the film makes a point that no matter how awful they were, killing them wasn't the answer. In fact, they all become more popular in death due to the lies Veronica and J.D. plant on them that paint them as jerks on the outside but with tragic private lives. Similarly, after their deaths, they are shown to have families who deeply cared for them.
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Heathers / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Heathers / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: What J.D. thinks he's doing.
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Heathers / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Heathers / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The Heathers are symbolically presented as the school's "aristocracy"- they play croquet and Veronica wears a monocle when writing in her diary. The town being named Sherwood is said to be a reference to Robin Hood, a hero who lashes out against corrupt aristocrats - which is what J.D. thinks he's doing.
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Heathers / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Heathers / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Veronica Sawyer and Betty Finn are a play on Betty and Veronica as well as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, symbolizing how close they used to be.
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Heathers / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Heathers / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: J.D. and Veronica try to prank Heather Chandler by breaking into her house and concocting a drink made up of orange juice and milk and convincing her to drink it. J.D. pours a glass of drain cleaner as well, and Veronica accidentally switches it. J.D. notices but decides not to tell her, and Heather Chandler promptly dies when she ingests it. Veronica and J.D. are shocked and make it look like a suicide. Subverted both in the sense that J.D. later reveals that he completely intended this outcome, and tries to kill more teenagers by claiming to Veronica that they're "pranks," and insofar as it is suggested that Veronica also really intended to kill Heather Chandler but refused to admit it.
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Heathers / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Heathers / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Jason "J.D." Dean, the bad boy killing everybody.
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Heathers / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
Heathers / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: Poor, poor Martha Dumptruck. "Big Fun" is coincidentally also the name of the band behind the song "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)," which is used at several points in the film. Martha is wearing a "Big Fun" tee-shirt when she attempts suicide, and J.D. blackmails Heather Duke into helping him circulate a petition around the high school to have Big Fun perform at the Prom, which is actually a disguised "suicide" note from the student body he plans to have found after he blows up the school.
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Heathers / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Heathers / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Heather Chandler does this to explain that a) Veronica left behind her best friend to join the group and b) to anyone who didn't figure it out, Heather C is the leader of the group. "You wanted to be a part of the most powerful clique in school. Hell, if I weren't already the head of it, I'd want the same thing."
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Heathers / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Heathers / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: J.D. is responsible for killing several other teenagers throughout the film, and sets the murders up to look like suicides. After failing to blow up the school, he commits suicide by blowing himself up with his own bomb.
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Heathers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Heathers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the Remington party, Heather Chandler and Veronica are each pressured by a Jerk Jock college guy to have sex. Heather capitulates and gives the guy a blowjob, revealing that she's nowhere near as secure as she lets on; thus JD is able to easily goad her into drinking poison the next day. Veronica stands up for herself and leaves, foreshadowing that she is secure enough to do the same to JD later.
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Heathers / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Heathers / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: J.D. has one. Although most of the score is technopop-inspired synths, there's a harmonica playing in any scene that scene features or is about him.
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Heathers / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Heathers / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Much of the humor comes from the utterly preposterous reactions to the suicides, ranging from sudden adulation of the deceased to rejoicing to shameless cash-ins to ultimately glorify suicide itself—but reserving it for the popular kids.
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Heathers / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Heathers / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Veronica is the only member of the title clique not named Heather because she's a recent addition.
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Heathers / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
Heathers / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The three "Heathers" (Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, and Heather McNamara) who lend the film its title are actually supporting characters, as Veronica is the protagonist and J.D. is the antagonist.
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Heathers / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Heathers / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: An in-universe example. Veronica and J.D. are giggling at Kurt and Ram's funeral ("How would he react to a limp wrist with a pulse?"). A young member of the family turns around and she's crying. Veronica shows her first sign of deep remorse.
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Heathers / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Heathers / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Happens a few times. We see croquet three times: first in the opening credits, second after the cafeteria scene where J.D. shoots at Kurt and Ram, and third when Veronica invites Betty over to hang out. We see a funeral three times: Heather Chandler's, Kurt and Ram's, and then Veronica's dream about Heather Duke's funeral. During her call to "Hot Probs," Heather gives three names: Heather, Madonna, and Tweetie. And Veronica interacts with both of her parents three times: the first two times when she eats pate, has a near-identical exchange, and then runs off; and the third time when her mother confronts her about her whining.
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Heathers / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Heathers / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Veronica murders three people with J.D.'s help. She gets away with it completely at the end, except insofar as she suffers minor injuries in the course of killing J.D. Heather Duke gleefully mocks Martha for trying to kill herself and later drives McNamara to try kill herself as well by exposing her suicidal thoughts to everyone. In the end, the worst she gets is dethroned by Veronica.
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Heathers / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Heathers / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: The parents are shown to be self-absorbed and oblivious to their children's problems until they are dead, and the teachers are cynical towards their handling of the dead kids (for instance, the Hippie Teacher who wants to exploit the deaths for group bonding rituals). Not to mention, there is any number of forensic tests that should have proven these victims were murdered rather than committing suicide. The only police we see, though, are more interested in the two teenagers making out in their car than in the dead teens in the woods.
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Heathers / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Heathers / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Zig Zagged. While some of the dialogue has a definite 80's feel, the screenwriter made up his own slang terms (see Memetic Mutation), which still don't feel dated over a quarter-century after the film's release.
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Heathers / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Heathers / int_abad35b4	comment	"Que sera, sera / Whatever will be, will be..."
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Heathers / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Heathers / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: JD nearly succeeds in his ultimate scheme to blow up the whole school and frame it as a mass suicide. The bombs are already planted, the clock's ticking down with less than a minute to go, and only Veronica's determination, not wanting herself and all her friends to die before they've even turned 20, manages to convince him to end it.
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Heathers / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Heathers / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Veronica's talent for handwriting forgery is introduced early on with the prank on Big Martha. As is J.D.'s knowledge of explosives, which he learned from his father.
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Heathers / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Heathers / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Heather Chandler's reaction when she realizes she just accidentally drank pipe cleanser as a "hangover cure". Veronica and J.D's reaction when their plan of humiliating revenge causes Heather Chandler to keel over and die.
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Heathers / int_ad43ba7f	type	Non-Nude Bathing
Heathers / int_ad43ba7f	comment	Non-Nude Bathing: Veronica does this in the girls' shower upon hearing that Heather Chandler's death is being venerated. Word of God on the commentary says this was intended as a parody of the common Shower Scene in films like Porky's, wherein the boys drill a hole in the shower room wall to watch the girls. As originally conceived, the other girls in the locker room would have joined Veronica, clothed, in the shower, thus confusing the boys.
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Heathers / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Heathers / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Veronica, Heather Duke, Heather Chandler, and J.D., mainly.
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Heathers / int_ae7c8bec	type	George Washington Slept Here
Heathers / int_ae7c8bec	comment	George Washington Slept Here: Big Bud Dean, J.D.'s father, laments that his construction company is having conflicts with a local organization:
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Heathers / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Heathers / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: J.D.'s father Bud Dean is strongly implied to be a sociopath who doesn't care about his son. He also drove his wife to commit suicide in front of her son.
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Heathers / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Heathers / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: J.D. when Veronica fakes her suicide.
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Heathers / int_b5b6f439	type	Hollywood Blanks
Heathers / int_b5b6f439	comment	Hollywood Blanks: J.D.â€™s Establishing Character Moment has him scaring a couple of Jerk Jocks by shooting them with blanks. In Real Life, the range at which this happens could seriously burn or even kill the kids just from the force of the gunpowder and/or fragments of brass shell or wadding
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Heathers / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Heathers / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Red is a symbol of power. Most obviously, the red scrunchie - whoever currently has it is at the top of the school's food chain. At the start of the movie, Heather Chandler is clad entirely in red. When Heather Duke takes her place, her color scheme shifts from green to red. By the last scene, she wears more red than Heather Chandler did... and then Veronica forcefully takes the scrunchie from her. More subtly, in the scene just after Ms. Fleming's "love-in," J.D. is wearing a red shirt, and it's when he's at his highest point: he's successfully killed Heather Chandler, Kurt Kelly, and Ram Sweeney, he's dating Veronica and thinks she's right there with him, he believes he's "scared people into not being assholes," and, in that same scene, while watching footage of an explosion, you can just see the wheels turning in his head and pinpoint the exact moment he decides to blow up the school.
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Heathers / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Heathers / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: Most of the primary characters wear their own color of clothing which represents their dominant emotions, though this isn't noticeable at first. Heather Chandler is red for lust and power in school; Heather McNamara is yellow for her cowardliness; Heather Duke is green for her jealousy towards Heather Chandler's power and later wears red when she gains power; Veronica and J.D. both wear black to signify that they are murderers, although Veronica's ensemble is usually black set off by some other color to symbolize that she is not as far-gone as J.D., and as she breaks away from him toward the end of the movie, she shifts to dark blue, symbolizing her partial turn away from evil. Chandler's red scrunchie becomes a symbol of power, as after her death Duke claims it for herself, symbolizing her replacement of the original Heather. Veronica forcefully taking it from Duke at the end of the film shows the end of the Heathers' power.
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Heathers / int_bb9b52f3	type	Extracurricular Enthusiast
Heathers / int_bb9b52f3	comment	Slightly more so during the Lunchtime Poll. There's jocks, nerds, preppies, a pair of Extracurricular Enthusiasts shilling for a food drive, stoners, and some borderline skinheads who spend lunch in the parking lot, plus some loners like Martha Dunnstock.
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Heathers / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Heathers / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Weirdly subverted, due to Executive Meddling, according to the DVD commentary. In the alley scene, when Heather calls out Veronica ("You stupid fuck!" "You goddamn bitch!"), they were supposed to use the word "cunt," (See Country Matters) as "fuck" had already been used several times. But censors thought this was too much (!).
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Heathers / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
Heathers / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: By the start of the movie, Veronica realizes she doesn't really like the Heathers... but she's been with them so long that she mostly goes along with their Jerkass passive-aggressive cattiness and bullying without question. When she sees Duke basically become the new Chandler, she's horrified to realize that she might do the same thing if she gets the opportunity.
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Heathers / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Heathers / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: J.D. has a resting Slasher Smile face. Even when he's talking about his mother's death, he never loses the glib tone.
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Heathers / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Heathers / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The titular trio roughly fit this. Heather McNamara has Blonde hair, Heather Chandler has Strawberry Blonde hair, Heather Duke has Auburn hair (partially redheaded) and Veronica has Brunette hair.
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Heathers / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
Heathers / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: Invoked. What looks like a suicide pact between two gay lovers who were also the stars of the high school's football team is actually a case of murder. Later, J.D. tries to blow up the whole school and frame it as a mass suicide pact.
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Heathers / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Heathers / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Heather McNamara.
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Heathers / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Heathers / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: And they've got the shoulder pads to prove it.
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Heathers / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Heathers / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: J.D. tells Veronica that using "ich luge" bullets will only pierce the skin of the jocks, not kill them. "Ich lÃ¼ge" is German for "I'm lying."
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Heathers / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
Heathers / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Veronica mistakenly picks the poisonous cup to give to Heather.
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Heathers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Heathers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: According to the DVD commentary, the first lunchroom scene is an homage to Full Metal Jacket in its lighting and framing. The writer originally wanted Kubrick to direct "the ultimate high school movie." The Barbie doll hanging from the ceiling late in the film is a Shout Out to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, according to Word of God. The victim in that story hangs herself after the killer suggests it.
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Heathers / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Heathers / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: J.D. had a really bad childhood, being the son of a sociopath who drove J.D.'s mother to suicide by walking into an exploding building in front of him. This goes a long way towards explaining his own budding sociopathy.
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Heathers / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Heathers / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: A fixture of Veronica and JD's relationship. They have a flirtatious, postcoital conversation about wanting to hurt or kill the first Heather. After killing Kurt and Ram, they start making out, partly as a ruse but seem pretty into it. And after beating each other up in the boiler room, JD forcibly starts kissing Veronica even after she repeatedly tried to kill him.
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Heathers / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Heathers / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God on the commentary says this was intended as a parody of the common Shower Scene in films like Porky's, wherein the boys drill a hole in the shower room wall to watch the girls. As originally conceived, the other girls in the locker room would have joined Veronica, clothed, in the shower, thus confusing the boys.
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Heathers / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Heathers / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: An in-universe example when Veronica's boyfriend J.D. cracks a joke at the funeral of two of their victims that they made look like a double-suicide and the little sister of one of the boys killed turns to look at them while crying. It's at that point, Veronica begins to realize how messed up she's becoming under J.D.'s influence.
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Heathers / int_cddc61ac	type	Fake-Out Make-Out
Heathers / int_cddc61ac	comment	Fake-Out Make-Out: At one point, Veronica and Jason elude a police officer by not just kissing, but also by disrobing and getting into a car. Notably, they do attract attention — just not for the shooting. Over the radio, another officer asks whether or not the two are naked.
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Heathers / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Heathers / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Heather is the first name of the trio of girls (Chandler, Duke, and McNamara) which Veronica is trying to get back at.
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Heathers / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Heathers / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Used before it even became that popular... and also before the shooters in Columbine dressed the same way.
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Heathers / int_d22a7df2	type	Troubled, but Cute
Heathers / int_d22a7df2	comment	Troubled, but Cute: J.D. Emphasis on the "troubled".
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Heathers / int_d38a4a3	type	Identically Named Group
Heathers / int_d38a4a3	comment	Identically Named Group: The three title characters are a clique.
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Heathers / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Heathers / int_d442f9d1	comment	Not a sexual reference, but when Heather Duke is in the bathroom, Heather Chandler says, "Let's see today's lunch!" Smash cut to a tray of food being scraped into a garbage bin.
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Heathers / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Heathers / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Kurt to Veronica.
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Heathers / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Heathers / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Veronica to J.D.
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Heathers / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Heathers / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Veronica and her dad, mildly. Any of the Heathers with each other and Veronica, even more so.
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Heathers / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Heathers / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed. In this case, the bad boy is a complete psycho, murdering three of the popular kids, and trying to force a clearly resisting Veronica to kiss him, and intending to blow up the entire school and pass it off as a group suicide. The girl who wants the bad boy soon realizes the mess she's got herself into and realizes how much better her life would have been without him.
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Heathers / int_dda40b97	type	Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch
Heathers / int_dda40b97	comment	Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Heather Duke: After Heather Chandler's death, Heather Duke quickly becomes the new queen bee. Of course, Heather Duke morphs into this role herself rather quickly. Toward the end of the film, Veronica begins to realize that if they kill Heather Duke, someone else will come to take her place; possibly Veronica herself.
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Heathers / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
Heathers / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: These are the school colors. This makes the antagonistic cheerleaders wear red and black.
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Heathers / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Heathers / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Betty Finn for Veronica. While the other Heathers are nearly always catty and rude in public, Veronica will unabashedly reveal a kinder side whenever she encounters Betty. The ending implies she's appointing Martha Dunnstock to this role as well.
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Heathers / int_e540d1e6	type	Camp
Heathers / int_e540d1e6	comment	Camp: The film has several elements of camp, with quirky and bold costume choices like Veronica's monocle and the bright colors of the Heathers' outfits, stilted or stereotypical satirical acting delivery, and unusual lighting and cinematography lending the film an overall surreal tone that is both comedic and disturbing, while still allowing emotional rawness and serious commentary to take place.
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Heathers / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Heathers / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Darkly invoked; see "Bury Your Gays", above.
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Heathers / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Heathers / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: J.D. to Veronica... which doubles as a reveal for her, since she was only Faking the Dead.
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Heathers / int_e7466f83	type	Hell of a Heaven
Heathers / int_e7466f83	comment	Hell of a Heaven: The first Heather to die complains to Veronica that Heaven is so boring.
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Heathers / int_e7d5124d	type	"Everyone Comes Back" Fantasy Party Ending
Heathers / int_e7d5124d	comment	"Everyone Comes Back" Fantasy Party Ending: The original ending for the film, which was changed for being a bit too macabre.
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Heathers / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Heathers / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: J.D. arguably isn't evil per se, he just operates on a completely different set of morals from normal people - primarily because he's terrifyingly insane.
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Heathers / int_e9a97564	type	Evil Wears Black
Heathers / int_e9a97564	comment	Evil Wears Black: The trenchcoat-wearing J.D. is given the signature color black to show him as the villain. Played with in that it's used more for the badass associations at first as he seems like a cool outsider from the female protagonist's perspective. It only gradually becomes clear that he's actually a homicidal lunatic. Of course, Veronica also wears black a lot and is also a murderer.
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Heathers / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Heathers / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Kurt and Ram attempt to humiliate a geeky boy who stepped on their shoes by putting him in a full nelson and not releasing him until he admits he's gay. The problem comes with the phrasing they use...
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Heathers / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Heathers / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Veronica to J.D. in the boiler room.
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Heathers / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Heathers / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, and Kurt and Ram.
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Heathers / int_ec0609d1	type	The Illegible
Heathers / int_ec0609d1	comment	The Illegible: Despite her talent for forgery, Veronica's own handwriting is rather poor.
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Heathers / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Heathers / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Veronica, the "drop under screen" variety.
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Heathers / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Heathers / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are three characters named "Heather" in all.
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Heathers / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
Heathers / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: The movie revolves around the sole non-Heather member of a clique of girls named Heather, who, with the help of an attractive but weird loner, decides to get back at them for their bullying ways with pranks which quickly turn into a killing spree.
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Heathers / int_f032f3c0	type	Hippie Teacher
Heathers / int_f032f3c0	comment	Hippie Teacher: Played straight with Pauline Fleming.
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Heathers / int_f3b36473	type	Important Hair Accessory
Heathers / int_f3b36473	comment	Important Hair Accessory: A red hair accessory passes from owner to owner, symbolizing the transfer of power among the girls.
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Heathers / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Heathers / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: J.D. knees Veronica in the head while in the boiler room.
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Heathers / int_f4bdd330	type	Trick Bullet
Heathers / int_f4bdd330	comment	Trick Bullet: The Ich Luge bullets, which pierce the skin and tranquilize, without killing. Subverted in that they're actually completely ordinary bullets, and Veronica is being lied to.
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Heathers / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Heathers / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Swatch watches abound, and the company provides a ton of freebies to the crew.
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Heathers / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Heathers / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire:
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Heathers / int_f7db29dd	type	Beta Bitch
Heathers / int_f7db29dd	comment	Heather Chandler and Heather Duke are straight examples. Heather C rules the school with an iron fist, not caring if the other students think of her as a beast, just as long as they keep kissing her feet. After she does, her Beta Bitch and successor, Heather D carries on the tradition of terrorizing the school, just as ruthlessly as her predecessor, if not more so.
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Heathers / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Heathers / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Near the end of the movie, Veronica pretends to hang herself to find out from J.D. what his ultimate plan is. She then tries to stop it, with his assumption that she's dead providing a cover at first.
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