John Tucker Must Die: Difference between revisions

[[File:jtmd.jpg|frame|From L to R: Kate, Beth, John, Carrie and Heather]]

 

A [[Alpha Bitch|cheerleader]], Heather, a [[Granola Girl|vegan human rights activist]], Beth, and [[School Newspaper Newshound|the student body president]] type, Carrie, team up to [[Revenge Against Men|bring down the guy that dated them all at once and then broke their hearts]]. Kate, a [[New Transfer Student|new]] [[Naive Newcomer|girl]] at the school, has never dated a John Tucker but gives the trio advice based on her mother's love life. Together they hatch a plan to break John's heart the same way he broke theirs, using inexperienced Kate as the fake dater.

 

As the girls are molding Kate into everything she needs to be to win John, she's caught the eye of the "other Tucker," John's little brother. The first couple of schemes, from giving John estrogen pills to make him more emotionally sensitive and implying he has herpes through sex ed ads, do not work to ruin his reputation as a ladies man. As he gets closer to Kate he starts to fall hard and that's when she decides she bit off more than she can chew. When John's birthday rolls around everything comes out into the open and Kate has to stop pretending to be something she's not.

 

* [[The Ace]]: John

* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Heather. Kate later joins the cheer leading squad in order to get John's attention.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Predictably, Kate ends up falling for John while pretending to date him in order to set him up to be humiliated.

** Sort of. She grows to like him, particularly after she gets a glimpse of understanding as to why he did it, but it seemed mostly platonic, particularly seeing as she wanted his brother more.

* [[Billing Displacement]]: The four girls are given pretty equal credit when Kate has a ''much'' larger role. Plus Scott, the other Tucker, isn't given any billing and he has a pretty large part.

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Tommy, John's best friend.

* [[Break the Haughty]]: What the girls try to do to John.

* [[The Everyman]]: Scott, the other Tucker.

* <s>[[Five-Man Band]]</s> [[Five-Man Band|Four Girl Band]].

** [[The Lancer]]: Heather. She's the who contrasts most with Kate. While Kate is sweet and good-hearted, Heather is Sexy and Bitchy.

** [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Girl]]: Carrie. She knows a lot about technology, spends her time on extracurricular clubs and working on her college application.

* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: Kate, the naive one; Carrie, the [[The Smart Guy|smart]] one; Heather, the sexy one; and Beth, the motherly-ish one.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Beth teaches Kate how to kiss. Although it [[Practice Kiss|wasn't pointless]] it was clearly for [[Fan Service|titillation]]. An then we have the appropriate reaction of a dorkish guy:

* [[Granola Girl]]: Beth.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Carrie

* [[Jerk Jock]]: John Tucker is quite nice to everybody but deep down he's a bit of a jerk (specially to women).

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Everyone. Seriously. All the girls get away with torturing John all year, and John gets away with being the school slut all year all with one little apology. Then they all forgive each other and have a wacky food fight.

* [[Practice Kiss]]: Two of the titular character's girlfriends practice kissing together after Kate admits the she has never kissed anyone.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: Beth is rumored to do so.

* [[With Friends Like These...]]: It does stretch belief a little that Kate would stay close pals with Beth, Carrie and Heather after everything.

* [[Woman Scorned]]: Three actually.

 

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