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* [[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]]
* [[Blessed
* [[Blood Is the New Black]]
* [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress|Blood-Splattered Prom Dress]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]}}: In the short time between {{spoiler|Margaret's death and her own}}.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
* {{spoiler|[[Spared
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* [[Hollywood Heart Attack]]: In the book and in the '02 version, {{spoiler|Carrie kills her by psychically squeezing her heart until it stops beating}}.
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Knocking
* [[Large Ham]]: Piper Laurie's performance in the '76 version. Laurie felt that her performance was so over-the-top that the film ''had'' to be a comedy... before she saw the finished product, of course.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]
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* [[Woman in Black]]: In the novel, she usually wears black clothing. She's evil, of course.
** In the '76 film she not only wears black, ''she wears a cape.''
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Everything she does in the story, from [[Knocking
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{{quote| '''Played by:'''<br />
Amy Irving (1976 version, and [[The Rage: Carrie 2
Kandyse McClure (2002 version)<br />
Gabriella Wilde (2013 version) }}
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Rita L. Desjardin is the gym teacher at the high school, who feels a mix of pity and annoyance at Carrie for her social awkwardness. After Carrie is humiliated in the showers, Rita is quick to punish those responsible with a week's detention, with her, after school, with failure to show up leading to one being barred from the prom.
In the 1976 film, her name was changed to Miss Collins, while in [[Screen to Stage Adaptation|the Broadway adaptation]], she became Miss Gardiner. The 2002 remake kept the name she had in the books, but [[Spell My Name
* [[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.
* [[Composite Character]]: The musical combined her with the principal.
* {{spoiler|[[Death
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: In the book and the '02 version, she says that the reason why the administration made her tone down her punishment was because all of them were men, and that none of them would understand what Carrie had gone through.
* [[Hot Teacher]]: Particularly in the '02 version.
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