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High-School Rejects

105 statements
19 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

High-School Rejects	type	FeatureClass
High-School Rejects	label	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects	page	HighSchoolRejects
High-School Rejects	comment	The kids you knew in High School who are working at gas stations now. If there's more than one of them, and they hang out together, they may also be the Catch-Phrase Spouting Duo. If they were the Jerk Jock, they're selling fat women shoes as a Jaded Washout now. If they were the Alpha Bitch, then they're now married to the Jaded Washout, and probably several dress sizes overweight. Rejects are also frequently the Red Herring in crime dramas that have a teenaged victim. See also Future Loser.
High-School Rejects	fetched	2023-08-21T01:16:10Z
High-School Rejects	parsed	2023-08-21T01:16:10Z
High-School Rejects	processingComment	Dropped link to BruceSpringsteen: Not an Item - IGNORE
High-School Rejects	processingComment	Dropped link to TropeNamer: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
High-School Rejects	processingUnknown	TropeNamer
High-School Rejects	isPartOf	DBTropes
High-School Rejects / int_216cb8a2	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_216cb8a2	comment	Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Zack and Miri have been friends since high school and room together. They work dead end jobs at a coffee shop and a mall respectively, which is barely enough to pay the bills. At a Class Reunion which they attend after their water is shut off, they fully realize what losers they have become and decide they have nothing to lose by starring in porn to make some money.
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_216cb8a2
High-School Rejects / int_2d1084bc	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_2d1084bc	comment	The Beavis And Butthead rip-offs on Step by Step.
High-School Rejects / int_2d1084bc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Beavis and Butt-Head	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_2d1084bc
High-School Rejects / int_2dec4b1c	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_2dec4b1c	comment	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: The title characters learn that the former Alpha Bitch Christy is an unhappy stay-at-home mom with two kids (and a third on the way) while her husband Billy—the former Jerk Jock captain of the football team—is an overweight loser working installing drywall for Christy's father. It is implied that the rest of Christy's Girl Posse (apart from Lisa) are in similar situations.
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High-School Rejects / int_2e2efbf9	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Back to the Future: After Marty's trip to 1955 alters the timeline, The Bully Biff ends up becoming dominated by former weakling George (Marty's future father) and when Marty goes back to 1985, he discovers Biff became employed as a car-washer who serves his family and is intimidated by George, whereas in the original timeline, Biff was George's boss and their dynamic was reversed.
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Back to the Future	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_2e2efbf9
High-School Rejects / int_313c5eb9	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_313c5eb9	comment	Uncle Rico, in Napoleon Dynamite who mentally relives his glory days of being on the high school football team, while cooking up various schemes to make money, all of which are degrading and ineffective.
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Napoleon Dynamite	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_313c5eb9
High-School Rejects / int_5ce51054	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_5ce51054	comment	Not high school, but this trope was invoked in Frazz, after Caulfield has a run-in with the school bully:
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Frazz (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_5ce51054
High-School Rejects / int_6f734712	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_6f734712	comment	One of these is one the first victims (possibly the very first) to be killed by a meteor freak in Smallville.
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Smallville	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_6f734712
High-School Rejects / int_6fe3367b	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_6fe3367b	comment	Slaughter High: Skip, who was the High-School Hustler and leader of the cool kids, is now an unemployed loser who is living out of The Alleged Car.
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Slaughter High	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_6fe3367b
High-School Rejects / int_8dfbdff2	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Law & Order and its spinoffs also love this trope, especially when children or teens are killed in SVU; it's rare that the sketchy loser actually committed the crime.
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Law & Order	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_8dfbdff2
High-School Rejects / int_8e0265d8	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_8e0265d8	comment	Clerks II: Lance Dowds implies that this is what Dante and Randal are currently, due to how the two work in a fast food joint while Lance himself, by contrast, is a successful self-made millionaire.
High-School Rejects / int_8e0265d8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Clerks II	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_8e0265d8
High-School Rejects / int_98fb7440	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_98fb7440	comment	Beautiful Girls: Tommy and Darian. Tommy was a hockey star destined to be a snowplower. Darian was an Alpha Bitch destined for an unhappy marriage. Though popular in high school, they are miserable adults, and the affair between the two of them ruins their lives further.
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Beautiful Girls	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_98fb7440
High-School Rejects / int_99055407	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_99055407	comment	Eddie Winslow's friends Willie and Weasel on Family Matters. Waldo Faldo was this too when he was introduced in the series but evolved into Eddie's best friend and was given a job and a girlfriend.
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Family Matters	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_99055407
High-School Rejects / int_a506a38b	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_a506a38b	comment	Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World are High School Rejects, albeit unusually sympathetic ones.
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Wayne's World	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_a506a38b
High-School Rejects / int_bf1cda2f	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_bf1cda2f	comment	Invoked by the AV club faculty adviser in Freaks and Geeks.
High-School Rejects / int_bf1cda2f	featureApplicability	1.0
High-School Rejects / int_bf1cda2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Freaks and Geeks	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_bf1cda2f
High-School Rejects / int_ccc80720	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_ccc80720	comment	Played Straight in My Life as a Teenage Robot: Towards the end of the episode "The Price of Love", popular kids Brit, Tiff, Pteresa, and Sebastian are seen walking past Sheldon's house. Pteresa exclaims that popular people always win in the end. Cut to twenty years later, where Pteresa, her future son with Sebastian, Brit, and Tiff are going to bail Sebastian out of jail (again). Pteresa, Brit, and Tiff are now ugly, with Pteresa wearing oversized glasses and curlers, Brit being obese, and Tiff missing half her hair. The Crust Cousins tell Pteresa that she should have married Sheldon, who is apparently now a billionaire.
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High-School Rejects / int_d3bc03fe	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_d3bc03fe	comment	Tim from One Tree Hill was an annoying basketball player. Four years after graduating, it is revealed in season 5 that he is now a pizza delivery man.
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One Tree Hill	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_d3bc03fe
High-School Rejects / int_da861da1	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_da861da1	comment	Weevil from Veronica Mars is a High School Reject who quickly became a major supporting character. When the show moved on from high school, he did indeed fail to get his diploma (due to being arrested at graduation) and instead has had several casual jobs, the first of which was in a gas station.
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High-School Rejects / int_ea4f62db	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_ea4f62db	comment	Parodied in Family Guy in which Brian, as a teacher, calls out his disobedient students and tells them that they will become this trope if they continue. Cue them being interested in the idea of living low-end jobsnote No one had ever told them they'd even amount to that much, stand on their desks and say "Oh captain, my captain!"
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Family Guy	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_ea4f62db
High-School Rejects / int_ff2165b	type	High-School Rejects
High-School Rejects / int_ff2165b	comment	Cold Case adores this trope.
High-School Rejects / int_ff2165b	featureApplicability	1.0
High-School Rejects / int_ff2165b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_ff2165b

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

High-School Rejects	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
High-School Rejects	processingCategory2	Loser Archetype
High-School Rejects	processingCategory2	School Tropes
Archie Comics (Comic Book) / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Mort the Dead Teenager (Comic Book) / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Clerks II / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Fame / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Slaughter High / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
The View Askewniverse / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Zack and Miri Make a Porno / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Freak Out! (Music) / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Freak Out! (Music) / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
CSI / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects
Step by Step / int_8f22d0d9	type	High-School Rejects

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