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{{tropelist|The ''St. Trinian's'' films include the following tropes:}}
* [[Accidental Athlete]]: Annabelle Fritton is recruited for the hockey team after she smashes a bust with a mobile phone she belted with a hockey stick.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The field hockey team. In the older movies, it would be the fourth formers.
* [[Badass Creed]]: ''"At other schools, they send young girls unprepared into a cold merciless world. But here at St Trinians, it is the merciless world which must be prepared."
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* [[Beautiful All Along]]: In the 2007 film, Annabelle's rapid-fire montage of makeovers twists and subverts this trope before ending in a standard expression that puts her in Posh Totty territory.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: In an oddly comic way.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: In the 2007 movie, Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, and wakes up naked in her bed the next morning. ▼
** Note that the sex did not necessarily happen; Miss Fritton (played by Rupert Everett) euphemistically implies it, but the alcohol (its intensity boosted by an unspecified prescription medicine from her purse) knocked him out ''cold''. (And is not exactly known to necessarily be helpful in sexual situations.) ▼
* [[Blackface]]: In the ''Great St Trinians Train Robbery'' Frankie Howerd's character gets a face full of soot and he then uses it to impersonate a Pakistani worker (with a dreadful accent) to evade capture.
* [[Boarding School of Horrors]]: As illustrated by Ronald Searle's wonderful comics.
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: In the 2007 film, Flash Harry briefly disguises himself as a German art collector...with a hilariously awful accent.
* [[Call Back]]: In the ''Legend of Fritton's Gold'', the first scene with the policeman saying "They're back" is similar to the first scene of ''Belles ''. Also the travelling montage is very similar to that used in ''Blue Murder''.
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: St. Trinian's isn't Catholic but the trope still applies ("[[St. Trinian's Girl]]" is the British name for this trope).
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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: When looking at ''The Girl With A Pearl Earring'', one girl comments that Colin Firth was justified in wanting to shag her.
* [[Continuity Reboot]]: Given that it's a near-remake of ''Belles of St. Trinian's'', and 27 years separate it and the last ''St. Trinian's'' release, the 2007 film is a fresh start for the series.
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: Annabelle in ''St. Trinian's: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold'' gets possessed by her ancestor Captain Fritton. There is no real point to this scene, other then having the other girls scream, making the Emo do an exorcism, damaging Annabelle's self-esteem, and getting the second half of the clue.
* [[Enfante Terrible]]: And how.
* [[Fake Band]]: [[Girls Aloud]]
** Another group, The Banned of St. Trinian's, are featured in the 2009 film. As the DVD reveals, the actresses playing the band actually recorded the vocals for the two songs they're show performing. (A member of Girls Aloud, Sarah Harding, is a lead cast member in the second film, but does not perform with this group.)
* [[Famous-Named Foreigner]]: In the 2007 film, there is a French teacher called Miss [[wikipedia:Maupassant|Maupassant]]
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* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Pretty much the entire student body.
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Flash Harry
* [[Jump Scare]]: Played for laughs, but a jump nevertheless, one of these happens in St. Trinian's 2 when Colin Firth's character encounters a possessed Annabelle returning to the school.
* [[Laser Hallway]]: The 2007 film gives us just about every heist movie trope in the space of thirty minutes.
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* [[Mad Bomber]]: The explosive-mad twins in the 2007 film.
* [[Makeover Montage]]: A nested montage-of-montages in the 2007 film as Annabelle gets makeovers from each faction in the school doing her up in their particular style.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Averted -- the policeman sent to St Trinian's in ''Belles'' never returned. The policeman sent to retrieve ''him'' never returned, either. However, they continued to draw their pay, implying they were simply too traumatised to return.
** Weren't they shown living on the school grounds with the sixth formers?
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* [[Pirate Girl]]: Pirate Fritton from ''St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold''.
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'', played by Terry-Thomas.
▲* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: In the 2007 movie, Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, and wakes up naked in her bed the next morning.
▲** Note that the sex did not necessarily happen; Miss Fritton (played by Rupert Everett) euphemistically implies it, but the alcohol (its intensity boosted by an unspecified prescription medicine from her purse) knocked him out ''cold''. (And is not exactly known to necessarily be helpful in sexual situations.)
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: "That Sea Dog, was a she dog." Pirate Fritton ({{spoiler|who is William Shakespeare}}) is a woman. Unlike other examples of this trope, this is blatantly obvious from the get-go.<ref>Unless you're familiar with [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack Sparrow]] and his campy manners...</ref>
▲** Particularly in the reboot film (emphasized by the fact the vast majority of the cast were actually in their 20s).
* [[Stocking Filler]]: The senior girls have a penchant for stockings and garter belts.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Half the main case of ''St. Trinian's 2'' dress as guys to infiltrate a boy's school. Disturbingly, several of the girls look more convincing as guys than some of the male actors cast to play the male students, including one who comes off as a dead ringer for Leonardo DiCaprio, and another who is so handsome as a boy one of the St. Trinian's girls accidentally takes a shine to "him" before realising who she is.
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** Also Sir Piers Pomfrey and Lord Pomfrey (played by David Tennent).
* [[Walking in Rhythm]]: In the original films, Flash Harry had a "theme" which played while he sneaked in.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Several senior girls.
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