God Save the Esteem: Difference between revisions

Now what happens if you subtract the whole selling out thing?

 

 

This isn't the only thing that's changed, of course. Quinn is still just as cliquey and attention-whoring as ever, only now that she's been molded in "Jake The Snake" & "Hellion Wheels"' graven image she leads Lawndale High's resident gang of [[Delinquents]] and makes it her mission in life to stick it to The Man wherever he's found (as long as she can look cool doing it). Tom Sloane and his sister Elsie are attending Lawndale High as well, the family fortune not quite up to the task of paying for a fancy prep school amid the ongoing collapse of Western Civilization. [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Aunt Amy]] is a tabloid TV reporter and object of a much more visibly bi-curious Jane Lane's nervous affections. Principal Li is even more insane and fascistic than before thanks to post-9/11 paranoia.

Between dating Tom Sloane, putting up with her family, and navigating the unholy new social order at Lawndale High, Daria's life is... interesting, in the "may you live" sense.

 

 

* [[Artifact Title]]: The title is a pun on the first episode of the TV series, ''Esteemsters'', but in this version Daria is never sent to the self-esteem class.

* [[The Atoner]]: Granny Barksdale. Maybe.

** Don't forget the sex. Unlike in the canon series, Daria and Tom actually do the deed... and on a regular basis too.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Oh, Amy...

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Daria in Episode 40.}}

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Daria decides to end it all by walking right into the [[Local Hangout]] full of students who hated her for getting the school closed and for all the other shit-stirring she'd done and letting events unfold as they may. Fortunately(?), [[Interrupted Suicide|Steve the security guard happened to walk by before they could finish her off]].}}

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Bob, the thinking man's punk/rival to Killer Quinn.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Jane in ''Dance Noon''.

* [[Girl Posse]]: The Fashion Club, of course, this time with Tom's sister Elsie taking Quinn's place as Vice President and [[The Starscream]] to Sandi's Megatron.

* [[Hope Spot]]: Pryzbylewski's intervention against Superintendent Pascal would have been enough to {{spoiler|save LHS had it not been for Brittany taking a minor throwaway gag from Daria and running with it...}}

* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Aunt Amy often finds herself in perilous, though mostly just disgusting, situations in her work for ''Sick, Sad World''.

* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: The Sloane family, though their fortunes begin to recover as time goes on.

* [[Kavorka Man]]: Cindy could be seen as a rare female example. Short, plump, slightly nerdy-looking (though intensely cute if you're into that sorta thing) and somehow nearly every boy in school is crazy about her. Cindy, for her part, is rather bemused by the whole thing.

* [[Lolicon]]: Creepy one-shot substitute English teacher Ken Edwards is upgraded to a major character after he takes over Mr. O'Neill's class when the latter is promoted to principal.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The tone of the series can go from broad comedy to heart-wrenching angst so fast it'll make your head spin.

* [[Moral Guardians]]: To reflect the changes in the evil forces preying on modern teens, Val is updated from a vapid plastic surgery addict pretending to be a child to a cloying, hypocritical, pseudo-religious abstinence freak.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: A particularly creepy one appears in ''Daria's High Score'' where we learn that Daria's terrifying [[Slasher Smile]] in the black and white pilot episode ''Sealed With A Kick'' is also her O-face.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: While Canon!Daria had this to some degree, the severity of the meltdowns she starts having during the Grandma Barksdale arc is a pretty shocking indicator of shit getting real.

* [[The Quincy Punk]]: Killer Quinn and the rest of The Maleficent Eleven actually seem to ''strive'' to be this.

* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: The aforementioned ''Moving Pictures'' is a semi-example, as while it is written by a different author, it's accepted as part of the canon. There are several more straight examples, though.

* [[Setting Update]]

* [[She's Back]]: The triumphant conclusion to ''Bearing Gifts''.

* [[Ship Tease]]: One of the aforementioned recursive fanfics was a [[Slash Fic]] that began with Jane subbing for Amy's cameraman. Guess what happens in the B-plot of ''Highland Lassie''?

** "Is It Fun Yet?" features a cameo by [[The Wire|Superintendent Rawls of the Maryland State Police.]]

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Instead of that wimp O'Neill, Janet Barch teams up with Mr. D for some good ol' fashioned angrysex.

* [[Slash Fic]]: The Holiday Island episode has Bonfire Night/St. Patrick's Day.

* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: Plays it like that notorious loop de loop waterslide at Action Park.

* [[Split Personality]]: Stacy of the Fashion Club has about five or six of them in this series, to cope with all social situations. ''And counting''.

* [[The Stoner]]: Shaggy and Burnout from the Maleficent Eleven.

* [[Streisand Effect]]: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption at Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: Charles is not averse to including fan suggestions in his work.

** And then there's Andrew Landon's affair with Erin.

* [[Yandere]]: Killer Quinn, in regards to Trent.

 

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