Step Up

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The Step Up films are a series of loosely-related films that follow a hip hop dancer on the path to winning a dance competition of some sort.

The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Step Up franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.

• Adorkable: Moose from the second film has shades of this.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Nora Clark falls in love with Tyler. Well, Tyler isn't bad persay, but he is very Troubled but Cute.
• Alternative Foreign Theme Song: Koda Kumi's "But" is used as the theme song in the Japanese version.
• Call Back: Tyler in Step Up 2 is only there for a couple of scenes to remind us that he was in the first movie. Tyler's sister Camille is brought back as a main character for the third movie
• Dance of Romance
• Fan Service
• Heel Face Turn: Mack after Skinny's death. He wasn't exactly bad but he decides to completely give up a life of crime.
• Noodle Incident: How Camille and Moose actually met is never explained. Perhaps if Camille had been the star of the second movie...
• Remember the New Guy?: Camille in 3D in treated as having been with MSA crew all along despite not being in the second movie.
• Serious Business: Hip-hop street dancing in the 2nd and 3rd movies is regarded as such.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tyler gives one to Nora after she replaces him with her old partner Andrew
• Third Is 3D
• Those Two Guys: The Santiago Twins
• Tomboy: Andie West
• Troubled but Cute: Tyler Gage
• Uptown Girl: Nora. With Tyler as her love interest from the wrong side of town.