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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: In the book, she is portrayed as being rather pudgy and covered in acne. In the film, she is played by Sissy Spacek. [[Subverted Trope|However]], the book's description is given as she is looking in a mirror at her own face, so the written portrayal could be interpreted as how she sees ''herself'' at that moment, in which case her flaws are being exaggerated (as teenagers in [[Real Life]] are fairly prone to doing), whereas most might actually see her as rather pretty. Tommy actually thinks she's beautiful when he picks her up for the prom.

** Averted with [[Angela Bettis]] in the '02 version; see below.

** Played completely straight in 2013 remake, [[Chloë Grace Moretz|Chloe]] is a clearly pretty girl who plays Carrie as more socially awkward than strange. It's even implied to be the reason [[Green-Eyed Monster|Chris bullies her so bad]] in that film.

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Near the end, famously.

* [[Ballroom Blitz]]

* [[Beautiful All Along]] / [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: At the prom.

* [[Beauty Inversion]]: In the ~~remake~~, her drab clothes, messy hair and something about not washing her face or anything definitely hid any beauty that Angela Bettis had, making it that much more special when she went to the prom.

* [[Beauty Inversion]]: In the 2002 0remake, her drab clothes, messy hair and something about not washing her face or anything definitely hid any beauty that Angela Bettis had, making it that much more special when she went to the prom.

* [[Berserk Button]]: She can't stand blood... or getting laughed at... or people [[My Name Is Not Durwood|thinking her name is Cassie]].

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

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* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]}}: In the short time between {{spoiler|Margaret's death and her own}}.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]}}: In the remake.

* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]}}: In the 2002 remake.

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Gabriella Wilde (2013 version)}}

Susan "Sue" Snell is a popular high school student who [[The Atoner|feels guilty]] about taking part in the humiliation of Carrie in the showers. ~~sTo~~ make up for it, she asks her athlete boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead of her, choosing to stay home on prom night.

Susan "Sue" Snell is a popular high school student who [[The Atoner|feels guilty]] about taking part in the humiliation of Carrie in the showers. To make up for it, she asks her athlete boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead of her, choosing to stay home on prom night.

* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: In the 2002 film, compared to the 1976 and 2013 film, she resuscitates Carrie and helps her escape to Florida.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Forced to Watch|Forced To Watch]]: In the 2013 remake, she sees the bucket kill Tommy. This is averted in the 1976 film, where she's doesn't seem to notice anything wrong until she sees the doors holding back promgoers and screams for help. Also averted in the 2002 film, where she wasn't there to begin with and only was made aware by hearing the commotion Carrie and her chaos was causing outside.

* [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]: A case can be made for her and Carrie in the remake, where she helps Carrie look good for the prom and {{spoiler|gives her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation}}. She even jokes with Carrie about being a lesbian.

* [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]: A case can be made for her and Carrie in the 2002 remake, where she helps Carrie look good for the prom and {{spoiler|gives her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation}}. She even jokes with Carrie about being a lesbian.

* [[Mind Rape]]: At the end of the book, {{spoiler|a dying}} Carrie does this to her, angry about the prank that she thought Sue had pulled on her... only to find that she had meant her no harm, and that she hadn't planned to humiliate her at the prom. She even lets her into her mind intentionally to prove this to her.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]].

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Thomas "Tommy" Everett Ross is one of the stars of the school's baseball team and the boyfriend of Sue, and their relationship has recently become more intimate. After taking part in Carrie's humiliation in the shower, Sue, feeling sorry for what she did, asks Tommy to take Carrie to the prom in order to make up for it, to which Tommy reluctantly agrees.

* [[Ambiguous Situation]]: Whether or not he felt something for Carrie. In the 1976 film and in a deleted scene in the 2013 remake, he and

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: In the novel, he's [[The Smart Guy|a straight-A student]] and a talented amateur writer who has had his poems published in several journals, and wants to get a university degree before pursuing a career in professional baseball. Both film adaptations retain his niceness, but turn him into a [[Brainless Beauty]] for no readily apparent reason.

* [[Lovable Jock]]: In addition to being a star athlete, he's also a very good-hearted, likable person, and one of the few people who stands up for Carrie, though he is reluctant to take her to the prom.

** [[Jerk Jock]]: However, as shown by the book's [[Scrapbook Story]], he's treated like this afterwards (along with Sue) so that the people investigating the incident can have an easy scapegoat.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: He seems to be this at the prom. Too bad he ~~gets~~ ~~knocked~~ ~~out~~ before the disaster occurs.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: He seems to be this at the prom. Too bad he's killed by the bucket before the disaster occurs.

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* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: In the book, she, at best, pities Carrie and finds her social awkwardness annoying. In all the movies, she genuinely does care for Carrie.

** In 2002, she saves some students by using a vent and even yells to get off floor when she senses the wet floor could be electrified.

** In the 2002 remake, she saves some students by using a vent and even yells to get off floor when she senses the wet floor could be electrified.

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: [[Death by Adaptation|She dies]] in the '76 version and is spared by Carrie in the 2013 version. In the '02 remake, she helps some students escape, she holds on for dear life and we see her later in the present, so she must have pulled herself into the vents.

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: She and some students use this in the '02 version to escape the burning gym.

* [[The Atoner]]: In the book, this is why she retires from teaching after the prom.

* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: In the 2013 remake. [[Cruel Mercy]] aside, Carrie does spare her from the massacre and she is later seen outside, her arm in a sling.

* [[Cruel Mercy]]: Is spared by Carrie in the 2013 remake, while she electrocutes everyone else.

* [[Composite Character]]: The musical combined her with the principal.

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Adaptation]]}}: In the '76 version.

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* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: She has a very high IQ, but only a C average.

* [[Delinquents]]: Her characterization in the book. It's stated that she's been sent to detention 73 times in four years, twenty of them for bullying, and that she skipped most of them. In addition, during [[Junior High]], she had once put a firecracker into a girl's shoe and nearly blew off two of her toes. The film adaptations largely downplay this to focus on her [[Alpha Bitch]] tendencies.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Implied in the 2013 remake.

* [[It's All About Me]]

* [[The Sociopath]]: Or something close to it because her father does not bother to get her any help and spoils her instead.