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A line of [[Animesque|anime-styled]] fashion dolls created by ex-[[Barbie|Mattel]] employee Carter Bryant and produced by MGA Entertainment. Released in 2001, the line did the unthinkable and dethroned [[Barbie]] from her spot as the #1 doll line among girls. The ''Bratz'' line features an ethnic rainbow of different characters to choose from and their chosen jobs tend to focus on more "glamorous" occupations such as singing, acting, and, of course, modeling and fashion design.
The line eventually became popular enough to warrant a bunch of spin-off lines, several animated [[Direct to Video|Direct-To-DVD]] movies, a short-lived cartoon series, and [[Bratz (
To elaborate, the Bratz Direct-To-DVD line consists of:
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* And of course, the infamous ''Bratz : The Movie''. <ref> And yes, this means that the Bratz line somehow released more DVDs than Barbie even though her Direct-To-DVD ventures started earlier. </ref>
The line also had a licenced video game line that was surprisingly intriguing (Using travel and magazine gameplay as it's main focus) and some crappier [[The Problem
Due to the somewhat sexual nature of the dolls' designs and clothing, the materialistic nature of the franchise, and the overall poor quality of the cartoon and movies, it is almost universally hated by everyone outside of its target demographic. According to MGA CEO Isaac Larian, only perverts would see anything sexual about the dolls.
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=== This franchise contains examples of: ===
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: The only boy in the new official canon (And on the website) at this point is Eitan, and while Cameron, Dylan and various others have been released as dolls under the Bratz Boyz moniker, Eitan is part of the main ensemble-image on the website with the girls.
* [[As Long
** Katia and her father, introduced in ''Bratz: Genie Magic'', is ''obviously'' Russian, according to Cloe's latest blog post, she's now Moroccan (This might be a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]] since the fashions in Genie Magic had a slight Moroccan influence).
* [[Blithe Spirit]]: No one other than the Bratz in [[The Movie]] had even ''thought'' about ''talking'' to people outside of their cliques, let alone sitting at a different cliques' lunch table, until they came along.
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* [[Dueling Shows]]: With ''[[Trollz]]''.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: The Tweevils
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Sparkly
* [[Expy]]: Struts, which is ''Bratz'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[My Little Pony]]''.
** Someone also did [[Cunning Like a Fox|Foxz]], who were even creepier than the Strutz and Bratz put together. Even the [[Furry Fandom]] thought they looked like cheap hos.
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* [[Five-Token Band]]- There's Cloe the white girl, Sasha the [[Sassy Black Woman]], [[Asian and Nerdy]] Jade, and Latina [[Granola Girl]] Yasmin. The fifth person is whatever one-shot character is in that episode/movie/set of dolls.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Started out as a [[Follow the Leader]] to [[Barbie]], but soon became more popular.
* [[Fun
* [[Girl Posse]]: Quinn and Avery, Meredith's yes men.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Cloe
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** Burdine Maxwell's voice sound familiar? Thats because you probably know her as [[Just Shoot Me|Nina Van Horn]] or [[The Emperor's New Groove
** Cloe is [[Avatar: The Last Airbender
** Yasmin is [[The Fairly Odd Parents|Trixie Tang]]
** Jade is [[Punky Brewster]]
** Sasha is [[Sister Sister|Tia Landry]] and [[The Game (TV series)|Melanie Davis]]
** Kirstee and Kaycee are [[The Big Bang Theory|Penny]] and [[Mean Girls|Gretchen Weiners]], respectively.
** After Lionsgate took over production, Chloe became [[Sabrina the Animated Series|Sabrina]] (in ''Sabrina's Secret Life'') and [[Baby Looney Tunes|Baby Lola Bunny]], Jade became [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[High School]]
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Dexter and the rest of the "Nerd" clique in [[The Movie]].
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] Forty plus. The comeback outdoes this, adding new characters in almost every line.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Cloe in Rock Angelz with the ninth duke of lessex.
* [[Make Way for
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Jon Voight, why?
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Cloe has one of these in Rock Angelz, after which we [[Put
* [[Negative Continuity]]: In ''Rock Angelz'' Cloe tells us that she met Cameron in second grade, but we see Cloe and Cameron have a skate contest as Babyz in the Babyz movie.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[American Idol|Byron]] [[The X Factor|Powell]], [[Paris Hilton|London Milton]], [[Beyonce|Allonce]]... don't forget [[Jennifer Lopez|Lo-J]].
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* [[Recycled in Space]] - Barbie dolls THAT LOOK LIKE TEN DOLLAR PUERTO RICAN PROSTITUTES!
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Meredith Dimly from [[The Movie]]
* [[Screwed
** According to [[Fan Dumb|some fans]], this is evidence that Barbie is [[You're Just Jealous|jealous]] of the Bratz.
*** Speaking to the [[Fan Dumb]] accusation--Judge Alex Kozinski, who granted MGA the appeal, seemed to agree that there was some "jealousy" involved in the case, saying, "America thrives on competition; Barbie, the all‐American girl, will too."[http://www.entertainmentlitigationblog.com/2010/07/entertainment_litigation_the_b_1.html\][http://www.entertainmentlitigationblog.com/2010-07-22%20Mattel%20v%20MGA%20Entertainment%20(9th%20Cir%20-%20Kozinski%20op).pdf\]
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** Subverted with Cloe, she have blonde hair and blue eyes, but she ''doesn't'' wear pink.
** Both Pretty in Punk ads have the line [[Barbie|"Not Pink]], [[Darker and Edgier|Punk!"]]
* [[The Movie]]: Cleverly named ''Bratz: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[The Noseless]]: Whether or not the characters have a nose changes from scene to scene in their cartoons
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Kirstee/Kaycee, Orianna/Valentina/Siernna, Nita/Nora
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