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Heathers (Theatre)

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Heathers (Theatre)	comment	Heathers: the Musical is a rock musical adaptation of the '80s cult classic Heathers.Veronica Sawyer is a wry, clever outsider at her school Westerberg High, which is ruled by the Girl Posse the Heathers. Veronica, in an attempt to win favor with the Heathers, forges a hall pass for them, and, almost entirely by accident, becomes In with the In Crowd. However, being part of the Heathers turns out to be the exact opposite of what Veronica wanted. The Heathers belittle and shun any outsider, including Veronica's best friend Martha "Dumptruck" Dunnstock, and the new guy in town, Jason "J.D." Dean, whom Veronica falls for almost instantly. Veronica attempts to resign from the Heathers, but the Alpha Bitch, Heather Chandler, refuses to make things that easy, and promises to ruin what little is left of Veronica's social life. Veronica tries to apologize, and goes over to H. Chandler's house with J.D., where H. Chandler insists Veronica makes her a hangover cure. J.D. "jokingly" suggests putting drain cleaner in it, and pours it into a cup. Veronica accidentally grabs the toxic cup, and as soon as Heather Chandler ingests the "hangover cure”, she dies. Veronica is shocked, and J.D. suggests they forge a suicide note to cover their tracks. However, as the bodies start piling up, Veronica realizes Heather Chandler's death may not have been as much of an "accident" as he claimed.The musical premiered in 2010, and was revived in 2014, both Off-Broadway. There is an official cast recording, with Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica and Ryan McCartan as J.D. The creators are trying to get the show a Broadway run and a national run, and there are talks of a film adaptation as well. It had a run on the West End in London in 2018, with a few song updates, and later got its own cast album. A live recorded version of the West End production began streaming on the Roku Channel on September 16, 2022.The musical is also getting a fanmade Web Video adaptation called The Veronica Exclusive, framed as Veronica's video diary. The plot is the same, except set in The New '10s, and making J.D. a girl.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Heathers (Theatre) / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: A minor case. The movie takes place at the end of Veronica's junior year. The musical takes place at the start of her senior year.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
Heathers (Theatre) / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: "The Me Inside Of Me" is Veronica and J.D.'s faked suicide note for Heather Chandler.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Heathers (Theatre) / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Heathers (Theatre) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: J.D. falls into the unnerving habit of expressing his love for Veronica through slightly fanatic phrases. "I worship you. I'd trade my life for yours." "We can start and finish wars. We're what killed the dinosaurs. We're the asteroid that's overdue." "Our love is God. Our love is God. Our love is God..."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Heathers (Theatre) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: After downing a Slurpee, Veronica claims she doesn't feel anything. The brain freeze immediately hits.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_18565557	type	Descent into Darkness Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_18565557	comment	Descent into Darkness Song: "Our Love is God" begins as a sweet, hopeful duet between J.D. and Veronica. Then J.D. sets his scheme to kill Kurt and Ram into action, and the implications of the song get a lot scarier.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Heathers (Theatre) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Kurt and Ram are never seen apart, though Ram does get a tiny bit more focus because of Martha's childhood crush on him.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: J.D.: "Meant to be Yours," and a bit in "Our Love is God." both highlight his insanity. "I Am Damaged" is a subversion, because he's finally giving up, and sacrificing himself for Veronica. The Heathers have lots of villainous vocal displays to highlight their status as school jerks. Their part of "Beautiful" for all three of them, "Candy Store" for all three of them (though especially for Heather Chandler), "Shine a Light (Reprise)" for Heather Duke, "Very" for Heather Chandler, "Blue (Reprise)" for Heather Duke (shared with Kurt and Ram)
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Heathers (Theatre) / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Heather McNamara only does what the other Heathers tell her to do. She's much nicer when she's not around them. It's implied the only reason she participates in their bullying is that she's afraid she might be bullied herself if she left the group. Her fears are unfortunately well-founded. However, Veronica gives her someone to bond to when Heather Duke turns on Heather McNamara when the former strikes back for all the abuse about bulimia that the latter and Heather Chandler piled on her, knowing the dead Heather Chandler can't save the latter now.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Heathers (Theatre) / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Surprisingly, despite coming off as borderline-abusive beforehand, during "My Dead Gay Son", both Kurt and Ram's fathers admit they really did love their sons, regardless of their sexualities.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Heather Duke is a bit more vicious than she was in the movie. Heather MacNamara is also a bit crueler. When she asked Veronica to double-date with her, Kurt and Ram in the movie, it was just to even out the numbers; in this version, it was to keep him off her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Heathers (Theatre) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: J.D. is convinced that they live in one. Veronica has much more hope.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Heathers (Theatre) / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Veronica's cynical and quite the snarker, but she's the only one fixing Westerberg's problems with bullying and suicide.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Heathers (Theatre) / int_220c23cb	comment	The intro song is called "Beautiful". In the movie, Veronica used the sarcastic catchphrase "You're beautiful" to respond to anyone she felt was showing Condescending Compassion.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Considering the movie it was based on... the entire show. Though to a lesser extent than the original, with many scenes which were played for dark laughs in the movie being played dead serious in the musical—namely the death scenes.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Heathers (Theatre) / int_22a27b19	comment	The Rock River Repertory Theater Company had redhead Emily Eidman portraying Heather Duke, who becomes the new Alpha Bitch after Heather Chandler dies.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Heathers (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The musical shows how Veronica ended up joining the Heathers in the first place, fleshes out J.D.'s character a bit more so his craziness has an understandable basis, and upgrades Martha from a character with one line to Veronica's best friend (even giving her a solo song). Even the one line, "I love my dead gay son" from the movie is expanded into a song, giving more details about Kurt and Ram's dads. Martha and Ram having a past history is also new. In the movie, only Heather Duke was said to have been friends with Martha, and the most she interacted with Ram was getting the note at the beginning of the movie, then finding out it was a fake minutes later.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Heathers (Theatre) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In "Shine a Light (reprise)", Heather Duke twists some of the lyrics of "Candy Store" against Heather McNamara while trying to convince her to kill herself. In "Dead Girl Walking," Veronica breaks into J.D.'s room by climbing in through his window. In "Yo Girl," J.D. breaks into Veronica's room by climbing in through her window - only this time, the circumstances are very different.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Heathers (Theatre) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Weirdly, J.D., of all people, gets a song of being this; specifically, "Dead Girl Walking," where he's decently confused as to what's going on and stops making out with Veronica briefly to ask how she found his address. (Veronica's drunk as hell at the time.) Veronica, throughout most of the show. She disapproves of and can't understand the clique-based morality and the everpresent hierarchy going on at Westerburg, is horrified by J.D.'s murders and how apathetic the adults seem to be towards them and the suffering of their children in general and even confesses to having helped kill Chandler, Kurt and Ram after seeing Macnamara get attacked by Duke after "Lifeboat" because she just can't take the pretentiousness of everyone around her anymore.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Heathers (Theatre) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Mr. Kelly and Mr. Sweeney are Kurt and Ram, just thirty years older.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Heathers (Theatre) / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Some of Big Bud Dean's comments toward Veronica sounds like he's hitting on her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Heathers (Theatre) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Many of the lines from the movie get repeated verbatim in the play, some turned into songs like "Our Love is God" and "I Love My Dead Gay Son". The song "Big Fun" references the band Big Fun from the movie, that sang the song "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)" that is constantly mentioned, and bringing them to the school is what Heather Duke thinks the petition at the end is really for. The intro song is called "Beautiful". In the movie, Veronica used the sarcastic catchphrase "You're beautiful" to respond to anyone she felt was showing Condescending Compassion.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_279dbf1a	type	Date Rape Averted
Heathers (Theatre) / int_279dbf1a	comment	Date Rape Averted: When drunk, Kurt and Ram try to hump any girl they can get their hands on, but never succeed.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Heathers (Theatre) / int_28c1d543	comment	Heather Duke gets a bit at the end, with Veronica taking the red scrunchie and her power back from her. It's implied in a small Defrosting Ice Queen moment that she may go on to become friends with one of the more unpopular girls.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Heathers (Theatre) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: German-speakers will realize that "ich lüge"—the name J.D. gives his supposedly non-fatal bullets—means "I'm lying", as they were in the original.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Heathers (Theatre) / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Averted with Heather Chandler. Nothing deflates Heather Chandler's ego. Up to and including being murdered. (If anything, her ego gets bigger.) "Me Inside of Me" had her sit up while Veronica forged her suicide note to complain "Jesus, you're making me sound like Air Supply!" but seeing the impact on how it affects the student body, she goes "I'm bigger than John Lennon!" She does get upset at Heather Duke and McNamara seemingly shrugging off her death to raid her locker, but only for a moment. Heather Duke gets a bit at the end, with Veronica taking the red scrunchie and her power back from her. It's implied in a small Defrosting Ice Queen moment that she may go on to become friends with one of the more unpopular girls.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
Heathers (Theatre) / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: Kurt and Ram's fathers very dramatically come out as gay during their sons' funeral.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Heathers (Theatre) / int_2c1f1138	comment	"Yo Girl" for Veronica, though it's sung by the ghosts of Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram rather than Veronica herself. All three of them mock her for her role in Martha's suicide attempt, sarcastically complimenting her on how she's now "truly a Heather" with how ruthless she's become. It culminates in all three of them gleefully telling Veronica that J.D. is climbing into her room, which Veronica tries to prevent, only to realize he's already inside.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Heathers (Theatre) / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Veronica has one after sleeping with J.D., featuring Heather Chandler. It's this which spurs Veronica onto attempting to apologise to her, with disastrous results.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_2d4fa515	comment	J.D. uses a large book as a weapon when he fights with Kurt and Ram. Not to mention, craziness and murderous nature aside, J.D.'s pretty tough, and undeniably badass. J.D. also frequently quotes literature, and uses the book Moby Dick in his failed plan to stage a suicide for Veronica.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_2dc373ff	type	Ghost Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_2dc373ff	comment	Ghost Song: "Yo Girl", sung by the murdered students while Veronica life is spinning out of control.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3059a3a2	type	Dual-Meaning Chorus
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3059a3a2	comment	Dual-Meaning Chorus: "Dead Girl Walking" and its reprise. The first time Veronica sings it, she's referring to her imminent social death: how she's going to be "stuffed and mounted on the wall" by the Heathers. The second time, she's talking about actual death, since she's just faked her own suicide, and is intent on stopping J.D., even at the expense of her own life. She even sings, "No one here deserves to die / except for me and the monster I created!"
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_30d43197	type	Remonstrating with a Gun
Heathers (Theatre) / int_30d43197	comment	Remonstrating with a Gun: After J.D. shoots a TV in frustration after a particularly nasty fight with his father, Veronica tells him she wants to break up with him, which leads to J.D. yelling, "BUT I LOVE YOU!" ...while pointing a gun at her. Veronica immediately lampshades the situation.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Heathers (Theatre) / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Heather Duke, considering she was on every news station after Heather Chandler's death.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
Heathers (Theatre) / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: J.D. does this during the reprise of "Dead Girl Walking."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Heathers (Theatre) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In all new versions of the musicals, You're Welcome is always played instead of Blue.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3429bf3e	type	Clique Tour
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3429bf3e	comment	Clique Tour: The ensemble for the scenes at Westerburg consists of students helpfully named Stoner Chick, New Wave Girl, Young Republicanette, Beleaguered Geek, Preppy Stud, Hipster Dork, and Drama Club. The real irony is that despite Veronica condemning the cliquishness of high school, these kids are always seen in each other's company.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Heathers (Theatre) / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: At least one production has featured a female J.D.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Heathers (Theatre) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: A lot of the things Heather Chandler does, but forcing Veronica to beg for forgiveness on her knees just to humiliate her in front of J.D. is a standout. Heather Duke mocking Heather McNamara for having suicidal tendencies. Heather McNamara joining in with everyone else Slut-Shaming Veronica in "Blue (Reprise)".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Heathers (Theatre) / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: J.D. interrupts "I Say No" with one of these. Veronica, unimpressed that he doesn't appear to have understood all the reasons she just listed why that isn't good enough weighed against his other behavior, rebuffs him with "dude", and finishes the song, and with it the breakup. (Depending on production, J.D. can be waving a gun around during the song, culminating in him pointing it at her during the declaration, a neat little demonstration of what Veronica's talking about.)
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
Heathers (Theatre) / int_363f94c9	comment	Heather McNamara has a moment of this. Veronica is worried about Martha after telling her the Awful Truth, and McNamara suggests she might be in the library because "that's where unpopular people go." She hurriedly corrects herself when she realises how that sounds.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_37085956	type	Gayngst-Induced Suicide
Heathers (Theatre) / int_37085956	comment	Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Invoked. J.D. kills Kurt and Ram, two heterosexual football players, but frames their deaths to look like a suicide pact. He also forges a suicide note claiming that the two were gay lovers and death was the only way for them to be together. (Everyone buys this, and J.D. is never caught.)
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
Heathers (Theatre) / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Even if he never outright condemns it, Ram notably never instigates the bullying Martha faces, offers her some mean (if valid) advice at the party during "Big Fun" and when Veronica gives Martha a Breaking Speech about forging Ram's love letter to her, Ram chastises Veronica when Martha runs off in tears and calls it "way harsh"—Kurt even agrees with him!
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Heathers (Theatre) / int_38d12399	comment	In the opening number, Veronica laments that the classmates she grew up with used to be happy and friendly as little kids before they grew into teenage monsters.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_38da8916	type	Uncommon Time
Heathers (Theatre) / int_38da8916	comment	Uncommon Time: Don't get us started. Notably: Veronica's parts of "Beautiful," the dissonant ending sections of "Our Love Is God," "Lifeboat," and "Meant To Be Yours".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: J.D. uses slushie brain freezes to cover up all the deep psychological trauma he has. In his own words, who needs cocaine?
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: When J.D. begins circulating his "petition," Veronica urges Heather Duke to just throw it away, saying she's sure J.D.'s up to no good, even if she doesn't know what. She's right, of course. The so-called petition was just a way to get everyone in the school to sign something—specifically, a suicide note, allowing J.D. to plant a bomb and make it look like a mass suicide.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Heather McNamara after the events of "Lifeboat" and "Shine A Light (Reprise)", choosing to align herself with Veronica and making a sincere but clumsy effort to be nicer about the unpopular kids.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Martha is incredibly optimistic, despite the bullying she faces. Unfortunately, it doesn't last...
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: While Veronica's role in the events remain largely unchanged, one significant change is that in the movie, Veronica does end up killing Kurt after J.D. chases him through the woods. In the play, J.D. ends up killing both of them. Also, in the movie, Veronica briefly contemplates whether J.D.'s methods are a good solution to Heather Duke's behavior; in the play she never thinks about it even once. At the end, J.D. gets up after being shot and carries the bomb away from the school so Veronica doesn't have to do it.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_3fb5ab75	type	The Eleven O'Clock Number
Heathers (Theatre) / int_3fb5ab75	comment	The Eleven O'Clock Number: "Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)", where Veronica steels herself for a final confrontation.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Heathers (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: On the bitter side, J.D. kills himself to save Veronica (which breaks her heart along with traumatizing her), and his victims (Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram) are permanently dead since This Is Reality. On the sweet side, Veronica and the rest of her classmates are still alive, and it's implied that Veronica, Martha, and Heather McNamara will all eventually be able to move on from their traumatic experiences.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Veronica after "Big Fun" when the Heathers attempt to humiliate Martha with the Razorback pig mascot.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4236acb3	type	Kid with the Leash
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4236acb3	comment	Kid with the Leash: In an unusual example of this trope, it's noted explicitly by Veronica once Heather Chandler dies that she was the only person at school capable of controlling Kurt and Ram—without her around they promptly run wild.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_42ef4b67	type	Post-Mortem Conversion
Heathers (Theatre) / int_42ef4b67	comment	Post-Mortem Conversion: In "Me Inside of Me", J.D. and Veronica cover up their (not so) accidental killing of Heather Chandler by writing a fake suicide note claiming she was a broken soul. Heather's ghost/hallucination is ecstatic to have gotten more popular in death than life.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4469577f	type	Hypocritical Singing
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4469577f	comment	Hypocritical Singing: "The Me Inside Of Me" is an interesting variant: Heather Chandler sings the suicide note Veronica and J.D. wrote, which portrays her as an insightful, depressed girl who felt trapped by her popularity and beauty, and donates her possessions to "crippled kids, or to those ghetto moms on crack". However, Heather is a cruel and selfish person who hates the way Veronica's making her sound. But she changes her mind when the whole school reacts in a way where they realize there is some of Heather Chandler inside them, too, then Heather not only thinks "Holy Crap! This is AWESOME!" but realizes "I'm bigger than John Lennon!"
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_46784617	type	Date Rape
Heathers (Theatre) / int_46784617	comment	When something bad, in general, is about to happen, the opening two notes from "Our Love is God" play. These two notes play when J.D. and Veronica first enter Heather Chandler's house and are about to kill her. They also play in the transition to the "Blue" scene, which has a situation that had Veronica not handled, could have lead to Date Rape. This situation also eventually leads to J.D. resolving to kill Kurt and Ram.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Heathers (Theatre) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Heather Duke is Heather Chandler's personal Chew Toy for the first third of the musical. When she dies, Heather Duke ascends to being the new Alpha Bitch partly because she was sick and tired of being the whipping girl, and puts Heather McNamara down in response. Martha is a tragic example—the only character who is kind to her is Veronica.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: "Seventeen" is Veronica's plea to J.D. for this, and doing ordinary teenage things.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4930959c	type	Bigger Than Jesus
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4930959c	comment	But she changes her mind when the whole school reacts in a way where they realize there is some of Heather Chandler inside them, too, then Heather not only thinks "Holy Crap! This is AWESOME!" but realizes "I'm bigger than John Lennon!"
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Heather Duke is a major Flat Character, to the point where Veronica outright claims "She has no discernible personality." As a reflection of this, most productions of the musical have Heather Duke only sing reprises and bit parts of group numbers.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Heather McNamara. Martha after Veronica tells her Ram's note was fake. It's one of the things that drives her to attempting suicide.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: J.D. to a frightening degree during "Meant to Be Yours." He goes back and forth from singing how he plans to kill everyone in the school and that Veronica deserves to be dead in 4/4 time, then softly sings that she needs to stay with him with a completely different—almost waltz-like—melody.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4c851777	comment	In the movie, the double-date with Kurt and Ram ends with a strongly implied Black Comedy Rape of Heather McNamara. The stage version ("Blue"/"You're Welcome") usually just has the two jocks too drunk or distracted by singing to be any serious threat, and features no such implication. The high school and West End productions replace "Blue" with the much darker "You're Welcome", but in treating attempted rape with due seriousness, it's still arguably a more sensitive take than the original film's "comedic" molestation of McNamara.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Referenced by Heather Chandler. After Veronica publicly ruins her prank and attempts to resign from the clique, Heather Chandler tells her that she'll be ostracized for doing so. She even states that "no one at school is going to let [Veronica] play their reindeer games!" after the scene Veronica just made.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: One of Veronica's many Badass Boasts in "Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)" has her declare that she's done being afraid of J.D. and that he'll be standing "cheek to cheek in hell" with her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: When Veronica saves Heather McNamara from the suicidal anxieties that Heather Duke amplified from "Shine a Light (reprise)", Heather McNamara bonds to Veronica as she realizes Veronica wouldn't let her kill herself when others would have. She tightly hugs Veronica as she knows now Veronica won't let her be alone and lost like before. When Veronica offers her hand to her, Heather McNamara takes it during "Seventeen (Reprise)."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: During "Dead Girl Walking", Veronica loses her virginity to J.D.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Heather Chandler's death just before "The Me Inside of Me" kicks off. That's what changes the play's central theme from "overcoming peer pressure and being yourself" to "murder".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Heather Duke got pretty badly picked on as Heather Chandler's Beta Bitch. Once Duke takes over Chandler's role, she immediately starts tearing into Heather McNamara as cruelly as possible. Seemingly averted at the end when Veronica declares herself new sheriff in town but intends to make changes.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Heathers (Theatre) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: By the end, Veronica is willing to die in a bomb blast to make up for what she did. But J.D. tells her You Are Better Than You Think You Are and he atones for them both.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Heathers (Theatre) / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Ram and Heather Duke used to be friends with Martha back in Kindergarten, something both of them go out of their way to deny now that they're popular and Martha is at the bottom of the social pecking order.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_520c77b4	type	Ignored Confession
Heathers (Theatre) / int_520c77b4	comment	Ignored Confession: In a moment of frustration, Veronica screams that she killed Heather Chandler in front of the whole school; they laugh in her face, with Heather Duke dismissing it as a cry for attention.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_532a8261	type	Bookworm
Heathers (Theatre) / int_532a8261	comment	Bookworm: J.D. is introduced reading a large book and keeping mostly to himself, except for when he flirts with Veronica, during which he quotes Baudelaire at her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Heathers (Theatre) / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Heather Chandler is legitimately impressed when Martha correctly deduces that Ram and Kurt were murdered and J.D. was involved. The only thing she doesn't factor in is that Veronica was also involved, but that might be because Martha would never suspect her best friend of murder.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Heathers (Theatre) / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: At the beginning of Act 2, Kurt and Ram thanks to Veronica's forged note and J.D.'s killing the two to keep them from denying it, die with their whole community thinking they were gay lovers.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Heathers (Theatre) / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: When Veronica decides to stop J.D. from blowing up the school, she openly declares just how done she is with fucking around during "Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)"
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Martha concludes Ram's suicide was faked because he couldn't have been in love with Kurt (as the faked suicide note claims) if they kissed as kindergartners—completely ignoring the possibility that he was bisexual. She was right, but still... Of course, the show takes place in 1989, so it's entirely likely the possibility wouldn't have occurred to her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
Heathers (Theatre) / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: Veronica laments this in "Beautiful," remembering how happy and nice everyone was when they were kids. Then again it's given she is also greatly looking forward to college, so it's more "being in high school sucks."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5acef2e9	type	Love Is Like Religion
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5acef2e9	comment	Love Is Like Religion: J.D. states that his love for Veronica has the power of God in "Our Love is God."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: When Veronica asks for the details on how J.D.'s mother died, he tells her that she walked into a building she knew his father was about to blow up, and waved at him from the window before it exploded. All while J.D. watched helplessly.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: Though the original song is still relatively happy, "Seventeen (Reprise)" definitely counts as this, an anthem of hope for the future that ends with the line 'we'll make it beautiful'.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5dcb6101	type	Parental Love Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5dcb6101	comment	Parental Love Song: "My Dead Gay Son", albeit very loosely. Kurt and Ram's fathers declare the title at their sons' funerals. It would be a heartwarming moment, if the whole thing about Kurt and Ram being gay lovers, who would rather die together than live without each other, wasn't a complete lie. It adds a rather bittersweet note to the whole thing, especially since the fathers admit to being gay themselves and having an affair in the song, much like they think their sons had.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Played for horror during "Our Love is God," as J.D. continues to lovingly sing his worship to Veronica after just killing two people in cold blood. Veronica is clearly terrified.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_5f49ac76	type	Single-Target Sexuality
Heathers (Theatre) / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: J.D. only has eyes for Veronica, and a lot of his comments imply he's never been in love before her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Heathers (Theatre) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: In the original film, the scene that leads up to "Fight For Me" has J.D. actually pull a gun on some bullies and fire blanks at them. Nowadays, it would be very hard to write a sympathetic, stable Veronica who was still attracted to him after pulling that, so here it gets toned down to a simple fistfight in self-defense. In the movie, the double-date with Kurt and Ram ends with a strongly implied Black Comedy Rape of Heather McNamara. The stage version ("Blue"/"You're Welcome") usually just has the two jocks too drunk or distracted by singing to be any serious threat, and features no such implication. The high school and West End productions replace "Blue" with the much darker "You're Welcome", but in treating attempted rape with due seriousness, it's still arguably a more sensitive take than the original film's "comedic" molestation of McNamara.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_6112fb53	type	Obsession Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_6112fb53	comment	Obsession Song: J.D. has three: "Our Love is God," "Meant to be Yours," and "I Am Damaged." All centering around Veronica.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Heathers (Theatre) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Chillingly implied when J.D. refuses to go with his dad on a demolition job, who tells J.D., "Lots of pretty ladies out there. I can always make me another son."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Heathers (Theatre) / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: J.D., obviously, but also Veronica. At least if you think the ghosts are just inside her head. invoked
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_63689d13	type	Football Fight Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_63689d13	comment	Football Fight Song: "Hey-yo, Westerberg! Tell me what's that sound? Here comes Westerberg, comin' to put you in the ground!"
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
Heathers (Theatre) / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Kurt and Ram, unlike the Heathers, are genuinely friends. They often tag-team bully the other students.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Heathers (Theatre) / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Seems to be a recurring theme, as the "evil" characters are really just disturbed or maladjusted. Heather Chandler might be the only antagonist never shown to care for someone else. Kurt and Ram are pretty unpleasant people, but they clearly enjoy each other's company, and when Ram is killed, Kurt cries over the death of his best friend. J.D., as bad as he is, really does love Veronica and wants her to be alongside him. He, unfortunately, won't or can't change, but when he learns he'll never win her over, he settles for sabotaging his own plan and killing himself, to save her. With a forlorn "Hope you'll miss me. Wish you'd kiss me."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Heathers (Theatre) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Veronica is fully prepared to take the bomb away from the school, knowing she'll blow up, too, in order to save everyone else. She doesn't have to because J.D. insists on sacrificing himself for Veronica, saying she's a better person than he and can make things better. It's surprisingly touching.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: J.D. suffers from this, obviously. But Heather Duke reveals herself to be this once she takes over. She mocks Heather McNamara for expressing her loneliness, and treats Martha's actual suicide attempt like a joke.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Heathers (Theatre) / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: The ghosts of Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram appear multiple times throughout the show, though it's unclear if they're ghosts or simply the manifestation of Veronica's guilt. (In "Yo Girl," they warn her that J.D. is coming, so they could be real ghosts, but that could also be Veronica's gut telling her. Or it could just be a narrative device.)
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Heathers (Theatre) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: J.D.'s mother killed herself when he was younger. She's only brought up two or three times in the show, but it's clear he misses her terribly. Kurt and Ram's mothers are never seen and their fathers even come out of the closet during "My Dead Gay Son" without even mentioning their wives.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Heathers (Theatre) / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: J.D., who in his Establishing Character Moment, beats up Kurt and Ram.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Heathers (Theatre) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: He wasn't nice about it, but Ram does admittedly have a point when he tells Martha "People wouldn't hate you so much if you acted normal." Plus, he says this when she acts like he personally invited her to the party - Ram has no idea Veronica forged a note from him, so from his perspective someone he doesn't really know or like is coming on really strong out of the blue, which would weird anyone out.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Heathers (Theatre) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: A fairly subtle but dark example shows up in "Shine a Light (Reprise)", echoing "Candy Store".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Heathers (Theatre) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: J.D. makes the deaths of his victims look like these, by making Veronica forge suicide notes for each of them. Martha jumps off a bridge at the end of "Kindergarten Boyfriend" because she's unable to get over the death of her childhood crush Ram, but she survives the attempt. Heather McNamara tries to kill herself by overdosing on pills after Heather Duke humiliates her in front of the whole school but is stopped, first by the childproof cap on the pillbox, then by Veronica. It's implied J.D.'s mother was driven into killing herself by his father in the backstory.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Heathers (Theatre) / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: The ending of "Dead Girl Walking."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Heathers (Theatre) / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: Just like her film counterpart, Heather McNamara from attempts suicide in this manner, and is rescued by Veronica. The scene has quite a bit of bathos, with Heather's genuine anguish and Veronica's attempts to console her being undercut by Heather still having a mouthful of pills, which fall out while she talks.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_71a34999	type	Painful Rhyme
Heathers (Theatre) / int_71a34999	comment	Painful Rhyme: Invoked. "My problems were myriad-" "I was having my period." (An intentional example, Veronica's awkward laughter and J.D.'s "uhhhh" expression afterwards make this one in-universe.)
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: J.D., who is responsible for three deaths and more or less strong-armed Veronica into forging each victim's suicide note to cover it up. He redeems himself by the end by sacrificing himself to save Veronica from his own bomb.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7317b97d	comment	Awakening the Sleeping Giant: J.D. was a highly intelligent and jaded person with access to a gun, bullets, and enough explosives and expertise to pose a threat to the entire town. Once Veronica gave him something to actually care about, he used them.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Heathers (Theatre) / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Veronica thought she accidentally killed Heather Chandler, and she's used to lure Ram and Kurt for payback. Neither time did she think J.D. would kill them.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Dream" and "happy ending." "Beautiful" also comes up multiple times. Veronica's dream is to be free from the bullying atmosphere of the high school, one way or another. Along comes J.D., who promises to make that dream come true...one way or another.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Heathers (Theatre) / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Ram and Kurt's ghosts are excited about the idea of Veronica getting sent to "Lady Prison."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_79a80b74	type	Fair for Its Day
Heathers (Theatre) / int_79a80b74	comment	"Dead Gay Son" combines this with an in-universe case of Fair for Its Day, as despite Kurt and Ram's dads vowing to stand up for gay rights in their (not actually gay) sons' honors, they do so whilst posthumously flanderizing the two of them into Camp Gay stereotypes.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Veronica tries to justify hurting Martha when she comes a bit too close to finding out the truth about Ram and Kurt's deaths, Heather Chandler shoots back with:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: J.D. carrying a loaded gun around (and at one point accidentally having it pointed at Veronica) is part of the reason Veronica breaks up with him.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7dafc482	type	ChewToy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7dafc482	comment	Heather Duke is Heather Chandler's personal Chew Toy for the first third of the musical. When she dies, Heather Duke ascends to being the new Alpha Bitch partly because she was sick and tired of being the whipping girl, and puts Heather McNamara down in response.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The musical really enhances this quality for J.D., with a Freudian Excuse leading him to become a villain crying inside. It's hard not to shed a little tear for him in "I Am Damaged."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: "Big Bud" Dean. J.D. mentions his father "taught him well" at fixing hangover cures. When Veronica meets Big Bud for the first time he offers her a beer. He also appears to be intoxicated when Veronica meets him. The licensed version of the show changes a few lines in "Big Fun" to imply that Heather McNamara's mother also drinks to excess.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7fe5166b	type	Nerds Are Pervs
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7fe5166b	comment	Nerds Are Pervs: In "Beautiful", while all the other kids are fawning over the Heathers and what it would be like to be noticed by them, the Beleaguered Geek says, "I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Heathers (Theatre) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: These lines make Martha's sweet, friendly character evident right from the start: Also... There's an interesting inversion in that Heather Duke's bookishness and bulimia make her seem like the most vulnerable Heather, while McNamara seems like just another wannabe Alpha Bitch. This is the opposite of how the characters develop.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Heathers (Theatre) / int_816a4e80	comment	In "Blue", there's a reference to being rescued like Princess Leia.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_82a60dce	type	Signature Laugh
Heathers (Theatre) / int_82a60dce	comment	Signature Laugh: Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica Sawyer has one that is both adorable and hilarious.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Veronica was the Anti-Hero in the movie, and J.D.'s still the villain here, but both of them come off as a lot more sympathetic than they did in the movie. Veronica is less of a jaded snarker and J.D. is downgraded from bloodthirsty sociopath to troubled Anti-Villain.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Heathers (Theatre) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Heather McNamara describes being this in "Lifeboat", where all her fears about possibly losing her popularity are laid bare.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8513bc0f	type	Accidental Public Confession
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8513bc0f	comment	Accidental Public Confession: In a moment of anger, Veronica lets slip that she killed Heather C, Kurt, and Ram and made them look like suicides.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
Heathers (Theatre) / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: Veronica has a song about it: "Fight For Me." (She draws the line at murder, though. Sorry, J.D.)
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
Heathers (Theatre) / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Martha still has a crush on Ram, which he doesn't seem to return. Ram and Kurt also get rejected by... every girl they try to get their hands on.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Heathers (Theatre) / int_863fac26	comment	Ram is a Jerk Jock in the highest order nowadays, but Martha remembers when he was a sweet little boy who didn't care about how she looked. She seems to believe that boy is still in there somewhere, and Veronica notes that he and Kurt might have been able to grow out of their horrible behavior if they'd lived longer.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Heathers (Theatre) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Much of "Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Heathers (Theatre) / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: As one Tumblr user points out, Kurt and Ram appear to be the only ones who notice or react to musical numbers and monologuing. Ram overhears Veronica insulting him during "Beautiful" and Kurt is very confused when J.D. sings "Our Love is God" while holding him at gunpoint.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Heathers (Theatre) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Veronica is the main focus, but it's just as much J.D.'s story as it is hers.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8af45dbd	type	Wild Teen Party
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8af45dbd	comment	Wild Teen Party: Ram's party, played up through the lyrics of "Big Fun". Veronica gets drunk, lots of the extras are making out, and the Heathers try to embarrass Martha. Veronica even throws up on Heather Chandler's shoes.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Veronica due to the influence of Heather Chandler and J.D. It's most noticeable when she tells Martha that Ram's love letter was a prank. Martha had wanted to break into J.D.'s locker for proof he'd murdered Ram and Kurt, though, and Veronica saying that was to keep Martha from getting close to finding out Veronica also had a hand in their deaths—and to keep J.D. from murdering Martha next. She undergoes a Jerkass Realization after Martha's suicide attempt and spends the ending trying to make things right. At the start, Heather Duke isn't worse than McNamara and is a bit of a Woobie because of Chandler's abuse. After Chandler dies, she takes over and treats McNamara just like how Chandler treated her though McNamara joined on the bulimia taunting due to Chandler's influence since the dead Chandler can't protect McNamara now. She becomes worse than Chandler after she spreads rumors about Veronica having a threesome with Kurt and Ram and mocks McNamara and Martha for trying to commit suicide. invoked
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Veronica and J.D.'s relationship is passionate and loving, but wildly unhealthy and obsessive, especially on J.D.'s end. Veronica realizes this, but J.D. considers it to be true love.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8e575f83	type	Villain Recruitment Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8e575f83	comment	Villain Recruitment Song: "Candy Store", where the Heathers are trying to get Veronica to join in their cruel joke. "Our Love is God" and "Meant to be Yours" both involve J.D. convincing Veronica to kill her classmates.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Deconstructed with Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram. Sure, they were utter dicks, since all three of them bullied Veronica and/or Martha at some point, but that still doesn't justify them getting killed, as is demonstrated throughout the story. With Kurt and Ram especially, the idea that they could have matured and stopped being assholes if given the chance is discussed.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Heathers (Theatre) / int_8f612013	comment	Heather Duke wanted to show she could outdo Heather Chandler once she becomes Lead Heather, but trying to get Heather McNamara to kill herself got Veronica to foil that plan, and drive the Token Good Teammate of the original Heathers to bond to Veronica, not to mention it briefly puts her on J.D.'s "list". She later gets the red scrunchie taken from her by Veronica, who declares "Brand new sheriff's come to town."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_92d6af50	type	Truck Driver's Gear Change
Heathers (Theatre) / int_92d6af50	comment	Truck Driver's Gear Change: Nearly every song in the show features this trope—it's easier to name the songs that don't (such as "Lifeboat" and "Seventeen").
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: When J.D. and Veronica first sleep together, on both ends. On Veronica’s side, she’s very drunk (implicitly the first time she’s had alcohol before) whilst J.D. is sober. On J.D.’s side, Veronica is very demanding when she propositions him, and he can be heard saying “wait, wait,” at some point and is ignored. Neither of them seems troubled by this the morning after, though.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_95e5155e	type	I'm Going to Hell for This
Heathers (Theatre) / int_95e5155e	comment	I'm Going to Hell for This: The opening of "Prom or Hell?" in Act 2 has Veronica sing this after Ram and Kurt's deaths:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_95f2d65e	type	DefrostingIceKing
Heathers (Theatre) / int_95f2d65e	comment	Defrosting Ice King: Somewhat subverted. J.D. explains in "Our Love is God" that Veronica defrosted him the moment they met. Of course, given all he does to win and keep her love, maybe he should've stayed frozen...
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_95f92a7b	type	Interclass Friendship
Heathers (Theatre) / int_95f92a7b	comment	Interclass Friendship: This version seems to suggest that Veronica is not as well off as the other Heathers, particularly in the croquet scene where Chandler makes catty remarks about the size of her house and the "pâté" (liverwurst) her parents serve.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
Heathers (Theatre) / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: Martha is overweight, and probably the only character that remains completely sympathetic the whole show.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Narrowly averted with Martha, who just breaks a few bones, though she's injured enough to be in a motorised scooter during the finale. Also averted with Heather McNamara who is barely stopped from swallowing pills by Veronica.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	The Heathers are represented by the riff in Beautiful where the students sing Ahh / Heather / Heather / And Heather, and later Heather / Heather / Heather / and someone. A slightly scary instrumental version of this appears as Heather McNamara makes a comment about taking a meat cleaver down the center of Veronica's skull (and having matching halves as a result!). It is then reprised in Big Fun as the three plot to embarrass Martha.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Veronica notes in "Beautiful" that the Heathers "float above it all. They're solid Teflon, never bothered, never harassed", only for us to see not a few lines after this, Heather Duke puking in the school bathroom and Chandler mocking her over it, showing these girls are not as untouchable as Veronica believes them to be. Just before "Lifeboat", Ms. Fleming urges the students to open up about their feelings. Despite her claiming to be trying to prevent suicides, she completely ignores Martha (who was already upset from Veronica revealing the Awful Truth earlier) and focuses on Heather McNamara instead. Martha tries to kill herself two songs later.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: If one listens closely, there's quite a few of them. Veronica is associated with a riff from "Beautiful," specifically the part in which she sings Hold your breath and count the days / We're graduating soon, or in the second verse Dream of ivy-covered walls / and smoky French cafés. This tune also appears instrumentally when she speaks to the Heathers in a later part of "Beautiful," then when she gets hilariously drunk in "Big Fun" and when she speaks to Kurt and Ram in "Our Love is God." The Heathers are represented by the riff in Beautiful where the students sing Ahh / Heather / Heather / And Heather, and later Heather / Heather / Heather / and someone. A slightly scary instrumental version of this appears as Heather McNamara makes a comment about taking a meat cleaver down the center of Veronica's skull (and having matching halves as a result!). It is then reprised in Big Fun as the three plot to embarrass Martha. There are also two leitmotifs associated with death. The most obvious of these is J.D.'s apparent leitmotif, or the one that occurs when he's about to wreak havoc. This tune first appears when he chases down Kurt prior to shooting him. It then reappears in "Yo Girl" in the lines Veronica's running on- running on fumes now / Veronica's totally fried / Veronica's gotta be tripping on shrooms now / thinking that she can hide / Veronica's done for- there's not doubt now / Notify next of kin / Veronica's trying to keep him out now / Too late! He got in!. It then reappears in Meant to Be Yours when J.D. Is about to bust down the door to the closet in which Veronica is hiding in the lines VERONICA!!! / Open the- open the door, please / Veronica, open the door / Veronica, can we not fight anymore, please? / Can we not fight anymore? / Veronica, sure, you're scared—I've been there / I can set you free / Veronica, don't make me come in there / I'M GONNA COUNT TO THREE! When something bad, in general, is about to happen, the opening two notes from "Our Love is God" play. These two notes play when J.D. and Veronica first enter Heather Chandler's house and are about to kill her. They also play in the transition to the "Blue" scene, which has a situation that had Veronica not handled, could have lead to Date Rape. This situation also eventually leads to J.D. resolving to kill Kurt and Ram.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Heathers (Theatre) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: J.D.'s mother has long since died by the time the show starts, but it's obvious that he loved her a lot and still misses her. It's hinted that he blames his father for her death.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Veronica begins to question the morality of her actions when J.D. murders Kurt and Ram. She wanted revenge, but she didn't want them dead. And again after Martha's suicide attempt. Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: The spirits of Heather Chandler, Ram, and Kurt taunt Veronica in "Yo Girl" that she's "truly a Heather" and "earned that red scrunchie." After J.D. makes his Heroic Sacrifice she DOES take the scrunchie from Heather Duke and says "Brand new sheriff's come to town."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Veronica's parents come off as this, if a bit clueless. Their reaction to J.D. coming over and telling them Veronica is suicidal is to try and comfort her, and get her to open up. When Veronica refuses to address their concerns and runs off to her room, her mother, rather than getting angry, gives her a little time by herself before fixing her a snack and bringing it up to her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Quite a bit of it, possibly deliberate to keep the tone from getting too depressingly dark. Take "Shine a Light (Reprise)", a number about a sobbing girl trying to commit suicide while imagining her friends urging her on. It's followed by a brief scene of her having a touching conversation with Veronica while mumbling through a mouthful of sleeping pills.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a55ab01e	comment	Veronica due to the influence of Heather Chandler and J.D. It's most noticeable when she tells Martha that Ram's love letter was a prank. Martha had wanted to break into J.D.'s locker for proof he'd murdered Ram and Kurt, though, and Veronica saying that was to keep Martha from getting close to finding out Veronica also had a hand in their deaths—and to keep J.D. from murdering Martha next. She undergoes a Jerkass Realization after Martha's suicide attempt and spends the ending trying to make things right.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Ms. Fleming goes from a three-scene joke character to the most significant adult character with her own song. Martha goes from a minor character to Veronica's best friend, her character being combined with Betty from the movie.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: J.D.'s father isn't seen again after Veronica dumps J.D., and while J.D. redeems himself in the end with his Heroic Sacrifice, his father is seemingly never punished for his abuse of his son and implied involvement of his wife's death.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: Martha tries to commit suicide because she thinks no one likes her. Even Veronica had stopped hanging out with her regularly. J.D., in his own way. Specifically, he wants Veronica to love him, whether she wants to or not. After all, his mother committed suicide and his dad is barely in his life.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: The spirits of Heather Chandler, Ram, and Kurt taunt Veronica in "Yo Girl" that she's "truly a Heather" and "earned that red scrunchie." After J.D. makes his Heroic Sacrifice she DOES take the scrunchie from Heather Duke and says "Brand new sheriff's come to town."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Veronica and J.D. Veronica is immediately fascinated by J.D.'s willingness to stand up to bullies and how little he cares about the high school's pecking order.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Heathers (Theatre) / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Neither the teachers nor any of the parents are really aware of what's really going on. It becomes most obvious during the school assembly in Act 2.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Heathers (Theatre) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Loads due to taking place in late 1989 and early 1990. "Dead Gay Son" combines this with an in-universe case of Fair for Its Day, as despite Kurt and Ram's dads vowing to stand up for gay rights in their (not actually gay) sons' honors, they do so whilst posthumously flanderizing the two of them into Camp Gay stereotypes. Intense bullying, anti-intellectualism, blatant sexism and misogyny (including the Female Misogynist variant as seen with the Heathers), casual homophobia—all things that are greatly looked down upon today, are generally treated as a non-issue by the staff and (most of) study body of Westerberg High School.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: J.D. taking the bomb from Veronica, while still in love with her. Veronica begs him not to go, but reluctantly accepts his choice.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Heathers (Theatre) / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: For Veronica, forgery. Forging a hall pass for the Heathers gets her into their good graces. Later she forges Heather Chandler's suicide note to keep from being accused of her murder, and the note that gets Ram and Kurt Mistaken for Gay and J.D. later kills both of them to keep them from denying it.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Heathers (Theatre) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Kurt and Ram Slut-Shaming Veronica makes them seem as "villains" in a vulgar way to J.D. So it seems they're validating his killing them both. Heather Duke wanted to show she could outdo Heather Chandler once she becomes Lead Heather, but trying to get Heather McNamara to kill herself got Veronica to foil that plan, and drive the Token Good Teammate of the original Heathers to bond to Veronica, not to mention it briefly puts her on J.D.'s "list". She later gets the red scrunchie taken from her by Veronica, who declares "Brand new sheriff's come to town." J.D. asking "What's one more dead Heather?" drives a wedge between him and Veronica, and causes her to break from him. And later, explaining his plan to Veronica gave her the resolve needed to defeat him and save the school.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: A major point of the song "I Say No" is Veronica spelling this out to the audience regarding J.D.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Martha admits she thinks Ram and Kurt were murdered and suspects J.D., Veronica panics for a short moment since outing J.D. as the murderer would reveal her involvement as well. Doesn't help that Heather Chandler's ghost is there to pour salt in the wound.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Heathers (Theatre) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: With a father like Big Bud Dean, it's very little surprise that J.D.'s so messed up. Constantly drunk, always moving around, apparently drove J.D.'s mother to suicide, and speaks to his son with such thinly-veiled contempt that we can almost certainly assume there was some physical abuse as well, Big Bud comes off as very emotionally abusive. And considering all that J.D. gets up to without him noticing, you can make a case for neglect, too.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Heathers (Theatre) / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: The official poster features Heather Chandler's outstretched hand lying on the ground, identifiable by the red scrunchie on her wrist.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Heathers (Theatre) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Heather Chandler was mean, Heather Duke more so once Chandler died, but Heather McNamara was the Token Good Teammate who was under Toxic Friend Influence from Chandler when she was alive. Once Chandler, Ram, and Kurt die, McNamara shows her suicidal anxieties from losing three people she knew: her "best friend," her boyfriend, and the "friend he was gay for." Heather Duke magnified those anxieties in public to make Heather McNamara want to kill herself, but only Veronica's intervention kept that from happening and lets her bond with Veronica; leading Mama Bear Veronica to be seen as a rival by Duke. When J.D. asks "What's one more Dead Heather?" Veronica defends McNamara "Because She's My Friend!" Even if he never outright condemns it, Ram notably never instigates the bullying Martha faces, offers her some mean (if valid) advice at the party during "Big Fun" and when Veronica gives Martha a Breaking Speech about forging Ram's love letter to her, Ram chastises Veronica when Martha runs off in tears and calls it "way harsh"—Kurt even agrees with him!
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Heathers (Theatre) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Heather Chandler starts heckling Veronica as the latter forges Heather's suicide note during "Me Inside of Me":
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Heathers (Theatre) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The possibility of the Heathers slut-shaming Veronica for her night with J.D. (her first time having sex). The Heathers already sang about how much they like screwing guys in "Candy Store", and Heather Chandler apparently once traded sex with the football team for pizza.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Heathers (Theatre) / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Heather Chandler wears red, as a symbol of her power and her aggressiveness. Heather Duke wears green, as a symbol of her jealousy towards Chandler although, once the latter dies, she starts wearing Chandler's red scrunchie, and an April 17th Twitter post from the feed for The Musical has Duke sing "Never Shut Up Again" when Chandler dies, "All Hail the Queen. I wear the Red." So like some productions she MIGHT wear Red once Act Two begins (ironically, even if her outfit does change, she notably retains her green kneesocks and green shoelaces). Heather McNamara wears yellow, which indicates that she's the weak one. Once she joins the Heathers, Veronica starts wearing blue. J.D. always wears black, as he turns out to be the villain of the story, with intentions to kill other classmates. Pink is often associated with Martha, the sweetest character of the show. Unlike the other examples, this isn't an official association.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Heathers (Theatre) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Veronica delivers one after J.D. kills Kurt and Ram.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Heathers (Theatre) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not threaten or harm Veronica. J.D. makes Heather Chandler, Kurt and Ram see that. Do not bully or belittle Heather McNamara if Veronica is around when Heather Chandler is dead. The first puts Heather Duke on Veronica's watch list, the second (when J.D. asks "What's one more dead Heather?") sours her relationship with J.D. Hurting Martha is an even bigger one—Veronica was willing to defy all three Heathers and risk her newfound popularity for her. It's Martha's suicide attempt that leads Veronica to realise someone has to stop J.D., even if she has to go down with him.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
Heathers (Theatre) / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In the opening number, Veronica laments that the classmates she grew up with used to be happy and friendly as little kids before they grew into teenage monsters. Ram is a Jerk Jock in the highest order nowadays, but Martha remembers when he was a sweet little boy who didn't care about how she looked. She seems to believe that boy is still in there somewhere, and Veronica notes that he and Kurt might have been able to grow out of their horrible behavior if they'd lived longer. Similarly, Heather Duke used to be close friends with Martha, but is now an utter jerkass who doesn't even have the redeeming quality of caring about her friends. It's implied that J.D. was a much happier, much more well-adjusted guy when his mom was alive.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Heathers (Theatre) / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The official poster for the musical depicts Heather Chandler as a blonde, Heather Duke as a brunette, and Heather McNamara as strawberry-blonde(redhead). Not to mention in the actual off-Broadway show, Heather Chandler is a redhead and Heather McNamara is a blonde. The Rock River Repertory Theatre Company's performance had Heather Chandler (Kendyl Van Kirk) as blonde, Heather McNamara (Olivia Foght) as brunette and Heather Duke (Emily Eidman) as redhead who becomes an Evil Redhead when Chandler dies.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c04d8234	type	Rapid-Fire
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c04d8234	comment	Rapid-Fire "But!": From "Meant to Be Yours":
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Veronica, Martha, and Heather McNamara are implied to be this in the final moments, holding hands and smiling. Some productions have Heather Duke joining them.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: J.D. uses a large book as a weapon when he fights with Kurt and Ram. Not to mention, craziness and murderous nature aside, J.D.'s pretty tough, and undeniably badass. J.D. also frequently quotes literature, and uses the book Moby Dick in his failed plan to stage a suicide for Veronica. Veronica was a nerd before she joined with the Heathers, and considering what she went through, she qualifies.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3963bc4	type	No Place for Me There
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3963bc4	comment	No Place for Me There: At the show's end, J.D., who claims to want to "make the world a decent place for people who are decent," kills himself, because he's "far too damaged, but [Veronica's] not beyond repair.", implying that he knows how messed up he is and that no one but maybe Veronica will ever truly understand him.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: In the original off-Broadway run, Heather Chandler, who was played by Jessica Keenan Wynn (natural redhead) and Charissa Hogeland (her understudy who was also a redhead at the time). The Rock River Repertory Theater Company had redhead Emily Eidman portraying Heather Duke, who becomes the new Alpha Bitch after Heather Chandler dies.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: During "Seventeen," Veronica convinces J.D. to stop the killings. It doesn't last.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: Martha starts connecting the dots on the fact that Kurt and Ram were murdered due to the fact that she knows Ram couldn't have been gay or seeing Kurt--he wrote her a love note! To shut her down from investigating J.D. and potentially getting herself killed in the process, Veronica proceeds to harshly tell her that she forged that note. It works... but how alone Martha feels after finding out that what she thought was a token of affection from her childhood sweetheart was a lie and that her best friend had a hand in playing such a cruel trick on her triggers her suicide attempt.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Girl: Martha, for all the good it does her. She's the only character in the entire musical who never goes out of her way to harm another, steadfastly believes in the good in people, and seems to be the only one who to cares enough about the murder victims (or at least one of them) to realize their "suicides" probably weren't ones at all.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c6f45871	type	Fake Orgasm
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c6f45871	comment	Fake Orgasm: At the end of her rant/midlife crisis in "Shine a Light," Ms. Fleming shouts, "Steve, I'm ending our affair!" She adds that she "faked it... every single time" then celebrates how good it feels to get that truth off her chest.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The play makes a lot more references to things than the movie did, which really borrowed on the 7-11. In the opening number "Beautiful", Veronica and Martha reference Jiffy Pop and The Princess Bride, respectively. Veronica also compares Westerberg to "the Thunderdome". During "Big Fun", Veronica says she feels like Bono at Live Aid. In "Blue", there's a reference to being rescued like Princess Leia.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Kurt and Ram's behaviour makes a lot more sense when you see how their fathers treat them—they're simply copying what they know. They even lament their behaviour in their internal-monologue lines in "Beautiful", with "Why did I hit him?" (Kurt) and "Why do I act like such a creep?" (Ram). Veronica even notes they could have grown out of it eventually. J.D.'s father is basically a walking one, insulting and demeaning his son with every other sentence. However, J.D.'s most significant Freudian Excuse is severe damage from watching his mother commit suicide, possibly her own attempt to finally escape his awful dad.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Heathers (Theatre) / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Veronica has a nightmare about being branded a slut for sleeping with J.D. It comes true when the whole school mocks her when Kurt and Ram spread rumors that she had a three-way with them. Crosses with Freudian Excuse and Nice Job Fixing It, Villain as it gives J.D. the perfect excuse to kill them: they'd just defamed his girlfriend in a heinous, vulgar way, so in his mind, they, not he, are the villains. It didn't help the two of them also beat J.D. up as well.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Heathers (Theatre) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Veronica is completely willing to die if it's going to prevent all of the students of Westerberg from being blown to smithereens by J.D., but she's taking him down along with her.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Ghosts, or guilt-induced hallucinations? You decide.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cb7fda55	type	Minor Character, Major Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cb7fda55	comment	Minor Character, Major Song: The musical has two big numbers (Dead Gay Son and Shine a Light) that are sung by pretty minor characters (Kurt and Ram's dads, and Mrs. Fleming, respectively). Ironically, Heather Duke is the only major character who doesn't get her own song—Heather Chandler has "Candy Store" and McNamara has "Lifeboat", but Duke only ever sings reprises, notably "Lifeboat (Reprise)" and "Blue (Reprise"), probably to reflect that she has "no discernible personality" and merely piggybacks off what her popular peers are doing. As of the London production, this is no longer the case, since Heather Duke does have her own song in the form of "Never Shut Up Again". There's also a few songs for supporting characters, but they don't fit the trope as much as the top two (they are "Blue" for Kurt and Ram, "Lifeboat" for Heather McNamara, and "Kindergarten Boyfriend" for Martha).
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: J.D. views himself as one, claiming he's "making the world a decent place for people who are decent." The audience (and eventually, Veronica) realizes he's just hopelessly deluded.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Invoked by Veronica, writing in her diary.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Heather Chandler to Heather McNamara in bullying Heather Duke over her bulimia. Once she knows Heather McNamara doesn't have Chandler to back her, Heather Duke strikes back. However, Veronica saves McNamara from herself, and bonds with the near-suicidal girl. J.D. and Veronica to each other. She got him going with "Dead Girl Walking" when she bemoans the Heathers will ruin her, then that starts J.D.'s murder spree. It's only when he was ready to let Heather McNamara die as well that Veronica's had enough.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: Serves as one towards its own source material. While both are Black Comedies focused around analyzing teenage angst during high school and taking a look at what creates school shooters, the film is more focused on being a cynical deconstruction of classic teen comedies from the 1980s and is more overt with its dark humor. Meanwhile, the musical is (comparatively) more nuanced in how it examines what exactly drives someone into becoming a spree killer and also emphasizes the importance of human empathy & keeping to one's idealism in a hellish world. It's also likely not a coincidence that both the film and musical are on the exact opposite respective sides of the Nature vs. Nurture argument.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Than the original film, in a sense. It's campier, Veronica and J.D. get the Adaptational Nice Guy treatment, and things like Veronica's self harming are cut. Though this is partially justified, given the different ethos animating the story—the movie was a cynical deconstructive satire of '80s teen comedies, while the musical is a more humanistic rebuke of the source material's misanthropy; emphasizing that people are made bad through social factors, rather than just being born bad. Ironically, the more psychological perspective the musical takes can also be seen as making it Darker and Edgier than the film after a fashion.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: At one point, Veronica admits to killing Heather Chandler, Ram, and Kurt. Everyone thinks she's just trying to get attention, but it's true.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Heathers (Theatre) / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Heather Chandler, who likes spending her dad's credit card, has three TVs (which would be very uncommon in 1989), the hottest clothes, and generally treats everyone around her like her own personal playthings. Just watch the scene where she's needlessly rude to Veronica's parents.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Just like in the movie, this is the most iconic part of J.D.'s costume: a long, black trenchcoat.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d1a2a4c7	type	Musical Exposition
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d1a2a4c7	comment	Musical Exposition: "Beautiful". It describes the goings-on at Westerberg, which characters to look out for, and even what year it is right at the start. It also shows Veronica's motivations for joining the Heathers and introduces her talent for forgery.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": "SHUT UP, HEATHER!" "Sorry, Heather."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: "Prom or Hell?" leads to Veronica sadly lamenting about her slain classmates.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: "If nobody loves me now / Someday somebody will..." Surprisingly, a lot of J.D. and Veronica's relationship runs on this, too.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: J.D. is a very dark version. He clearly operates on different standards and logic than most people, and even if it weren't for the whole Serial Killer thing, he'd still be a little strange. It's humorous (and a little sad) in "Freeze Your Brain," but terrifying in "Meant to Be Yours." Heather McNamara comes across as this too.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d67239d2	comment	Even Evil Can Be Loved: J.D.'s victims are usually awful people, but that doesn't mean nobody was affected by the loss. Heather McNamara, in particular, is directionless and afraid without her friends and contemplates joining them.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Heather Duke in the original Off-Broadway is played by Alice Lee, an Asian actress and in the closing Off-Broadway and Hudson Theatre is played by Kristolyn Lloyd, a black actress. The London production has T'shan Williams, another black actress, playing Duke.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d9391535	type	Villain Love Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d9391535	comment	Villain Love Song: Most of J.D.'s songs in the musical, and they grow progressively creepier and more unbalanced as the show goes on. "Dead Girl Walking" is a fun Intercourse with You song he shares with Veronica, "Our Love is God" starts out seeming like a normal love song, and even sort of sweet, before it takes a turn for the dark and scary, and "Meant to Be Yours" is terrifying, even as J.D. professes his love to Veronica.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_d97f6f0c	type	Musicalis Interruptus
Heathers (Theatre) / int_d97f6f0c	comment	Musicalis Interruptus: Heather Chandler can't help but cut Heather Duke off in "Candy Store". Also...
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Heathers (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "Freeze Your Brain" has a bouncy, classic rock soundtrack, while J.D. sings about how when life sucks, you need to just...
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
Heathers (Theatre) / int_dbfe8427	comment	Intercourse with You: "Dead Girl Walking," sung by a very drunk Veronica and a very confused but willing J.D., as the former breaks into the latter's bedroom to have some comfort sex.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Heathers (Theatre) / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: J.D. hints that he believes he is a god in the song "Our Love is God," particularly later in the song, when he changes "God" to "we."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
Heathers (Theatre) / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: During Kurt and Ram's funeral, Kurt's dad laments on learning they were gay, Ram's dad sings how "I used to see a homo and go reaching for my gun", and it's revealed that the two have been having a secret affair for years.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_dd91f8d8	type	Audience Participation
Heathers (Theatre) / int_dd91f8d8	comment	Audience Participation: During "Shine a Light," Ms. Fleming declares, "Steve, I'm ending our affair! And... I faked it. Every single time." "Steve" is always some poor sap in the front row.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: After embarrassing herself at a party by throwing up on Heather Chandler, a possibly still-drunk Veronica sneaks her way to J.D.'s bedroom and asks him to "make this whole town disappear". He does.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Veronica has multiple ones with Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram after they're killed. If anyone else is on stage, it's usually one-sided.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e25ae563	type	Final Love Duet
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e25ae563	comment	Final Love Duet: J.D. and Veronica sing reprises of their previous duets throughout the climax, culminating in J.D.'s suicide.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e2de05e8	type	Throw the Book at Them
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e2de05e8	comment	Throw the Book at Them: The scene in which J.D. fires blanks at Kurt and Ram is replaced in the musical by him whacking them over the head with a large book.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: While the whole joke is that Kurt and Ram actually aren't gay, that hasn't stop many actors from playing into it.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e35a1ad4	type	Sweets of Temptation
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e35a1ad4	comment	Sweets of Temptation: In Heather Chandler's Villain Song "Candy Store", she tries to goad Veronica into joining the Heathers' ultra-popular clique and playing a humiliating prank on her unpopular friend Martha. Just like candy can rot your teeth, being In with the In Crowd seemed appealing to Veronica at first because everyone thinks she's cool and nobody bullies her anymore, but now she's being separated from Martha and forced to bully her or become a target herself.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Martha is Veronica's, as the Heathers trying to utterly humiliate her at Ram's party is very much the last straw for Veronica and she hands in her resignation then and there, but Heather Chandler isn't having any of it. She does her best to protect Martha from the popular kids, but with very mixed results.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Betty Finn is cut out, and her character is combined with Martha.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Veronica in the reprise of "Dead Girl Walking" will do all she can to stop J.D. from blowing up Westerberg High and killing everyone at the pep rally with his bomb. This animated cinematic shows the emotion of the D-to-F transition she uses to let her intentions be known:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e5b75009	type	"Psycho" Strings
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e5b75009	comment	"Psycho" Strings: Present in the background of a lot of J.D.'s songs and dialogue.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: "Big Bud" Dean, J.D.'s abusive father is pretty much the only character in the entire musical to be portrayed as utterly loathsome and irredeemably awful.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: Martha Dunnstock is very chubby, to the point that it earned her the pretty cruel nickname "Dumptruck".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: "I'm hot and pissed—" (turns to wink at the audience) "—and on the Pill!"
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: J.D. operates on this. He has morals and standards, but they don't make any sense to anybody who's sane. For example, he's disgusted by the way Heather Chandler bullies people and by Kurt and Ram's attempts at date rape and spreading of hurtful rumors. So what's his solution? Murder them, of course.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e963adf1	type	Bad Girl Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e963adf1	comment	Bad Girl Song: "Candy Store", where Heather brags about all her misbehavior at school. "Dead Girl Walking", where Veronica decides she's going to sleep with J.D.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Heathers (Theatre) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In "Big Fun", Ram uses this in a rare moment of wit:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Heathers (Theatre) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Similarly, Heather Duke used to be close friends with Martha, but is now an utter jerkass who doesn't even have the redeeming quality of caring about her friends.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ebb900a7	type	Resignations Not Accepted
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: When Veronica tries to leave the Heathers after seeing how cruel they are, Heather Chandler promises to ruin her social life.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ee9bf817	type	Sanity Slippage Song
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ee9bf817	comment	Sanity Slippage Song: "Meant to Be Yours" for J.D. It starts out with him telling Veronica how mad he was about her breaking up with him, then to how he was thinking about killing her, then to him realizing that high school is the problem and that blowing it up would make them the perfect couple again. During the whole song he flip-flops between pure, unbridled rage and disconnected, romantic whimsy and it really says something that the latter is a lot more disturbing than the former. "Yo Girl" for Veronica, though it's sung by the ghosts of Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram rather than Veronica herself. All three of them mock her for her role in Martha's suicide attempt, sarcastically complimenting her on how she's now "truly a Heather" with how ruthless she's become. It culminates in all three of them gleefully telling Veronica that J.D. is climbing into her room, which Veronica tries to prevent, only to realize he's already inside.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Heathers (Theatre) / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Heather Duke, after Heather Chandler's death, takes the latter's scrunchie and becomes the new Alpha Bitch at school.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Heathers (Theatre) / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: During "Beautiful," students propose different things they'd like to do with the Heathers. They're all reasonable wishes... except for the last one.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ef4d8558	comment	A World Half Full: J.D.'s not entirely wrong when he says that the world is full of awful, selfish people who don't care about others. But Veronica's not entirely wrong when she says things can get better. J.D. finally comes around to this point just before he dies, and sacrifices himself so Veronica can live to make it happen.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f1ac9897	type	Female Misogynist
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f1ac9897	comment	Intense bullying, anti-intellectualism, blatant sexism and misogyny (including the Female Misogynist variant as seen with the Heathers), casual homophobia—all things that are greatly looked down upon today, are generally treated as a non-issue by the staff and (most of) study body of Westerberg High School.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f2be6700	type	Stepford Snarker
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f2be6700	comment	Stepford Snarker: J.D. comes off as a clever, wry, sarcastic outsider. And he genuinely is. But once you scratch the surface, you'll see that deep down, he's not a happy person by any stretch. And also, completely nuts.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: When Heather McNamara is nearly Driven to Suicide by Heather Duke in "Shine A Light (Reprise)", Veronica doesn't hold her previous action against her. Indeed, she keeps McNamara from overdosing, and that leads to her getting a tearful embrace from the suicidal girl.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Also in "Beautiful," Veronica sings college will be paradise if I'm not dead by June. By "Dead Girl Walking," the Heathers have resolved to kill her social life. It's even darker in Dead Girl Walking (Reprise) where she's willing to literally die to make up for what she did.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Invoked when J.D. kills Kurt and Ram but arranges it to look like a suicide pact. He leaves behind a forged suicide note claiming that the two killed themselves to hide their "gay forbidden love from an unforgiving world".
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Heather McNamara is terrified of dying lonely and forgotten. But Veronica keeps her from making it a reality when Heather Duke tries to make those terrors happen.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: Martha is a sweet, naïve girl, but she proves later on that she's actually quite an insightful person, accurately concluding that Kurt and Ram were murdered and that J.D. was involved. But when it comes to Ram, she wants to believe that he still cares about her so much that she goes to his party, which has disastrous consequences for Veronica when she protects Martha from the prank the Heathers were planning.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: J.D. doesn't show his true self until he meets Veronica, who he thinks is a kindred spirit. However, after he kills the girls who bullied her and the two Jerk Jocks who sexually harassed her, Veronica pulls away. In the end, though, Love Redeems him as he saves Veronica from having to sacrifice herself.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: J.D. blames Veronica breaking up with him on the student body, not the fact that he was a murderous animal, and resolves to blow up the student body. The LA preview had a short solo for Heather Duke during "Big Fun." After Veronica saves Duke from Kurt's advances and says that she did it because friends should "have each other's back," Duke fails to understand this and wonders if Veronica is being sarcastic. She then concludes that Veronica is pretending to be nice so that she will let her guard down, and becomes worried that Veronica is trying to steal her spot as the third most popular girl in school. In the West End version of "I Am Damaged", even as he's sacrificing himself for Veronica, J.D. admits that he still has no idea why she would want to save her asshole classmates.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Right before his death, J.D. realizes that all he could do was destroy things, whereas Veronica has the potential to actually make things better.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Heathers (Theatre) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Heather Chandler harshly telling Heather Duke to "Shut up, Heather!", to which Heather Duke responds with a small "Sorry, Heather."
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Heathers (Theatre) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: And later:
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Heathers (Theatre) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: J.D. just wants to make the world a decent place for people who are decent. Specifically, by murdering everyone that doesn't meet his standard of decency. Yeah.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_fe5c7660	type	Eating Lunch Alone
Heathers (Theatre) / int_fe5c7660	comment	Eating Lunch Alone: Heather Chandler threatens Veronica with being ostracized after she ruins her prank on Martha.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Heathers (Theatre) / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: J.D.'s father is an abusive drunk, he moves around a lot (about every six weeks, which means he's been to ten high schools), he's always been picked on for being, well, a tad strange, and his mother killed herself while he was watching.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Veronica during "Freeze Your Brain". Heather McNamara has a moment of this. Veronica is worried about Martha after telling her the Awful Truth, and McNamara suggests she might be in the library because "that's where unpopular people go." She hurriedly corrects herself when she realises how that sounds.
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Heathers (Theatre) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Ram allows Martha to stay at his house party even when he has no reason not to kick her out. And it's unlikely he knew about the prank the Heathers were planning since he had no idea Martha was even going to show up. Also, instead of mocking her, he tries to give her some advice, even if he is a bit rude about it.
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