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** This trope often occurs in scenes involving Santana and Brittany, as the first season introduced them as sidekicks to [[Alpha Bitch|Quinn]] that assisted her in being unrepentantly and unremittingly villainous. Quinn ended up [[Character Development|becoming a better person]] when fans started feeling sympathetic to what she was going through, whereas Santana and Brittany [[Ensemble Darkhorse|gained a throng of fans]] that instead embraced their [[Deadpan Snarker|incredibly snarky]] one-liners. This lead to their bullying being dialed [[Up To Eleven]], with varying results:
*** One of the reasons some critics found the bullying storyline which begun in "Never Been Kissed" inherently flawed is the fact that the show had previously treated bullying in a light-hearted manner. Dave Karofsky is revealed to be a closeted homosexual and these feelings cause him a lot of difficulties and confusion, something that Kurt and Blaine try to get him to come to terms with. However, Karofsky denies that anything happened and soon returns to bullying Kurt, which includes threatening to kill him if Kurt reveals his closeted homosexuality. It's clear that the show treats Karofsky's bullying seriously and his [[Villainous Crush]] does not frame him in a positive light just because he is putting himself through confusion and torture being closeted. The issue arises when the show does just that with Santana's bullying. In "Sexy", she tearfully confesses to Brittany that she is love with her and wants to be with her, but is also afraid of being bullied and ostracized for coming out as a lesbian. She too continues to act like a bitch even after the truth [[Incredibly Lame Pun|comes out]] despite Brittany encouraging her to be true to herself, but she nonetheless still insists that Santana is not a bad person and defends her - it gets especially egregious in "Pot o' Gold" where Brittany's response to Finn merely telling her that leprechauns are not real and that she is being stupid is to tell him that such talk "is bullying and [she] won't accept it" as [[Alpha Bitch|Santana]] is standing ''right next to her''.
*** In "Rumors", a blind item in the McKinley paper talks about a prom queen candidate "spending a lot of time in the closet" after Brittany casually confirms a rumor about Santana playing for the other team on her new internet talk show... meaning it's not much of a blind item at all. [[The Ditz|Brittany]] claims [[Bait and Switch|she was referring to the fact that Santana used to be on the Cheerios and now is in New Directions]], but the fact that her guests already ''knew'' this and had nothing to gain from spreading that gossip around the school makes this out to be [[Blatant Lies]]. This is treated as not being that big a deal, and [[Easily Forgiven|Santana holds it against her for all of ten seconds before dropping the subject altogether]]. In "Mash Off", Finn tells Santana to come out of the closet in the school hallway and [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|calls her a coward for constantly tearing others down while not accepting herself and her relationship with Brittany]]. Finn claims everyone knows and doesn't care, but the fact that one of Sue's opponents releases an attack ad criticizing her for choosing a lesbian as head cheerleader ''just'' after his niece tells him about the conversation between Santana and Finn, and that some douchey sophomore named Josh tries to seduce Santana to "make her normal" after seeing it, makes this claim seem like [[Blatant Lies]]. However, [[Metaphorically True|Finn's claim does still ring true to a certain degree]]; gossip is not of much use for a serious political campaign since information is more credible if it's from a specific source, and Josh would just dismiss simple gossip that seriously acknowledges a relationship between two women since [[Cure Your Gays|being gay is just some silly fantasy to be corrected and doesn't actually exist]] in the minds of men like him, but a commercial on TV is presumably strong enough to get over the same threshold that hearing it from the source does. Considering that Finn is made to look like the bad guy in this glee club competition storyline - be it through treating Blaine like shit, failing to stand up for Rory, or [[Beware the Nice Ones|losing his temper blasting Brittany's simple, goofy belief system]] - this is framed as him [[Kick the Dog|succumbing to his less nice and less responsible side]] once more, and Santana holds it against him to the point that she [[Armor-Piercing Slap|slaps him in the face]].
*** Most of the glee kids are less than enthused after Finn and Rachel reveal their marriage plans, and their parents go as far as to arrange for the couple to spend the night together in Rachel's room expecting that the reality of having to live together will encourage the teens to postpone their wedding. The fact that Finn drives her to a train station and tells her that he loves her too much to marry her if it means she has to give up her dreams, after Rachel decides to defer her college admission for a year to help Finn and Kurt reapply for their colleges, proves those factions all correct in being dead set against teen marriage. Although Burt ''does'' tell Kurt a story while heading to Blaine's surprise proposal about how he met his mom young and proposed to her quite early on, and even though it was hard he just wished he had more time with her before she died and asked her even sooner<ref>This talk about only having a few days when you come down to it implies that a certain real-life tragedy caused this [[Hypocrite|sudden in-universe 360]], since the news of [[Cory Monteith|Cory Monteith's]] passing came out just before the fifth season started production and caused it to be delayed a week later than originally planned.</ref> - Kurt calls off the engagement after his fantasies about what life with Blaine was going to be like fell apart and he didn't know how to deal with that.<ref>[[History Repeats|Their expectations about love as a magical remedy to their problems could remind one of Finn]] after he found out his dad suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and that plus a dishonorable discharge started a chain of events that led to him ending up in Cincinnati where he died from a drug overdose in "Yes/No", to the point where Kurt even tells him that [[What the Hell, Hero?|he believes he is considering matrimony because he has given up too early on his own dreams]].</ref> [[Earn Your Happy Ending|In the process of putting themselves back together and finding their way to each other]] before Kurt is manipulated into matrimonial commitment ''again'', he and Blaine talk in their vows about how they'd make the same choice to marry each other even if someone told them their struggle would end up in heartache. In "Jagged Little Tapestry", Kurt objects after Santana proposes marriage to Brittany and says the two are too young, but the fact that Santana later finds him and unleashes the most ''scathing'' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] in ''Glee'' history where she also manages to insult Kurt's own brand of gayness while she's at it really shows that she's still [[Alpha Bitch|the same high school bitch]] [[Static Character|she's always been]]. [[Positive Discrimination|Kurt is framed as the wrong party who is really just against people marrying young because of his relationship with Blaine going south and the fact that Blaine has moved on a serious amount, and ''he's'' the one who has to apologize]]. Go figure.
** In "Hold onto Sixteen", Quinn is repeatedly told by Rachel that she would be doing the wrong thing by informing people of Shelby's sexual relationship with Puck, which would cause her to lose her job, prove her an unfit mother and allow Quinn to retake her child. Despite Quinn having selfish motives for wanting to reveal the affair, the fact remains that Shelby ''shouldn't'' have gotten involved with Puck, a student at the school she works at and if she had lost the job and the child as a result of this, it would have ultimately been her ''own'' fault.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Multiple characters. Special note goes to pretty much all of the new New Directioners, with Kitty being the only one retained for the final season, although Unique does make a cameo. It makes sense, mind you, since their plot was intended to be tied to Finn's, with his death making them more or less redundant, but it doesn't make it any less jarring when they essentially disappeared, with only Marley even getting a line in the episode "New Directions."
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