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The film spawned two follow-up movies, which were filmed back-to-back; ''Ginger Snaps: Unleashed'', a direct sequel which puts Brigitte in a rehab clinic struggling with a werewolf curse of her own, and ''Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning'', a prequel of sorts set in the early 19th Century.
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Trina Sinclair in the first movie. She relentlessly teases Ginger and Brigette and assaults Brigette in gym class after she overhears the sisters making sarcastic comments about her. Despite her horrid behavior, she's very popular with the boys and has a Girl Posse that follows her around.
* [[Artifact Title]]: {{spoiler|Ginger dies in the first film, which makes the title meaningless on subsequent films except for establishing the franchise.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: If Ginger even suspects anyone of doing anything to Brigitte, they're dead, whether they're guilty or not.
* [[Body Horror]]: As a result of being attacked by a werewolf, Ginger grows fur on her wounds, grows a tail, and develops a dewclaw on her right ankle.
** Also Jason urinates blood after having unprotected sex with Ginger.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Brigitte.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Why high school boys lust over Ginger.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: All three movies take place in Canada.
* [[Chunky Salsa Rule]]: The werewolf that infects Ginger is taken out, not by a silver bullet, but by a speeding van. Sam uses this knowledge to think of [[Our Werewolves Are Different|possible alternatives to dealing with lycanthropy]], while Ginger tries [[This Is Reality|debunking the possibility of werewolves altogether.]]
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Ginger. Of course, [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Coming of Age Story]]: The original film is a very dark example.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Ghost in ''Unleashed'' confuses reality with comic books frequently and has a strange obsession with werewolves.
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** What's really weird is that the characters actually look their age, right down to Brigitte appearing younger than Ginger.
** Ghost counts as this as well. At time of filming Tatiana Maslany was about 18, but she's clearly supposed to be much younger.
* [[Dwindling Party]]: ''The Beginning''. One by one characters are killed off until only the sisters remain.
* [[Downer Ending]]: The first Ginger Snaps ends with {{spoiler|Sam being killed by Ginger, Ginger transforming into a full werewolf, and Brigette contracting the werewolf virus.}}
** The second movie ends with {{spoiler|Brigette being betrayed by Ghost who locks her in the basement and plans to use her to get rid of her enemies.}}
* [[Evil
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Ginger.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: One of the criticisms given of the later American horror film ''[[Jennifer's Body]]'' was that its plot (two [[Ho Yay|close]] female friends, one of whom turns into a monster and must be stopped by the other, [[Hollywood Homely|less pretty]] one) was very similar to that of this film.
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* [[Les Yay]]: [[No Yay|So... much...]] [[Foe Yay|Brigitte and Ginger]].
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Ginger's hair starts turning grey as a part of the curse.
* [[Magical Native American]]: In the third film.
* [[Metamorphosis]]: The werewolf curse in these films isn't the usual "transform every time the moon is full, and revert at daybreak" deal. Once bitten, you transform slowly for two weeks, until the night of the next full moon where the transformation massively accelerates, virtually destroying your mind and permanently locking you into a wolf form.
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: May be the case when Trina “disappears” if the missing posters are anything to go by.
** It's family-oriented suburbia. Things like the sudden disappearance of a popular, well-known teenager tend to get noticed.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Brigette and Ginger have a fascination with death and stage scenes of each other committing suicide or dying in accidents.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Ginger getting her period is a major plot point as that's what attracts the werewolf to her in the first place.
** It is also the first change of many that will serve as a wedge between Ginger and her sister. Up until that point, their personalities and aims were almost identical. Ginger's abrupt but inevitable entrance into puberty foreshadows the sisters' emerging conflict and Bridgette's need to assert her own identity.
* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: Ginger refuses to acknowledge her transformation (and all vocabulary regarding such) at first.
* [[Ontological Inertia]]: A werewolf does not revert to human form after death. In fact, they don't revert to human form ''ever''.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Ginger's transformation into werewolf happens gradually, unlike in most werewolf lore. Parallels are originally drawn between the curse and puberty, while the second film compares it to struggling with drug addiction.
* [[The Promise]]: Brigette and Ginger made a promise when they were eight, "Out by sixteen or dead at the scene, but together forever." Their promise goes unfulfilled by the end of the first movie.
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: The conclusion to the first film. {{spoiler|Brigitte manages to walk away with her life and escape the curse ([[Sequelitis|for now]]), but both Sam and Ginger are dead.}}
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Shoot The Shaggy Werewolf]] {{spoiler|Both sisters and all the "good" characters are effectively dead by the end of the second film. The only ones still remaining are a sociopathic girl and a werewolf who was formerly Brigitte, but has likely had all vestiges of her former personality obliterated}}.
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Mrs Fitzgerald, to a terrifyingly perky degree.
* [[Strange Girl]]: Both Ginger and Brigitte.
* [[Too Soon]]: News that Telefilm Canada was funding a "[[
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Subverted; Brigitte never reveals her plan for dealing with Ginger, and it goes well at first, but it's foiled by someone else who, on being yelled at for screwing it up, has the quite reasonable reaction of "How was I supposed to know that?!"
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: In ''The Begininng'', the sisters will never ever '''ever''' give up on each other.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Ginger trying to seduce Brigitte into joining her as a werewolf.
** Used far more oddly in Unleashed, though explaining how would mean spoilers.
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