Sweet Valley High: Difference between revisions

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Lila Fowler's nervous breakdown after nearly being raped.

* [[But Liquor Is Quicker]]: {{spoiler|Bruce}} attempts this with {{spoiler|Elizabeth}} in ''Dear Sister.''

** Regina Morrow isn't much better. {{spoiler|The first and only time she tries cocaine, she dies.}}

* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Jessica, whose boyfriends often died.

** The twins' brother Steve repeatedly dumped girlfriend Cara to pursue girls who resembled his dead girlfriend Tricia. Adding insult to injury, he refused to see any of the girls as their own person and instead tried to mold them to his memories of Tricia, including the way they wore their hair ("Don't put your hair up, Tricia always wore it down."), the things they did ("Let's go to the aquarium! Tricia loved the aquarium!"), things they were interested in ("You like science? Just like Tricia! She wanted to be a doctor!"), and even the food they ate ("Vanilla? But Tricia always had ''chocolate'' ice cream!"), making them feel bad when they wouldn't comply, all the while insisting "She's just like Tricia!" Only when one of the girls finally blasts him for this and declares that she deserves better than being used as a substitute does he realize how unhealthy his behavior is.

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Bruce Patman.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Jessica Wakefield. She spikes Elizabeth's punch at the prom and lets her drive off with Sam. {{spoiler|Sam was killed as a result of the crash}} and Elizabeth was arrested and put on trial for manslaughter. During this whole ordeal, Jessica does not speak up and completely abandons her twin. In fact, she even blamed Elizabeth for killing Sam, and to get revenge, she hooks up with Todd. Meanwhile, Elizabeth has to deal with the guilt of "killing" Sam, being an outcast at school and possibly being sent to prison.

** In book 100, ''The Evil Twin'', Elizabeth realizes that Jessica spiked the punch. She never really confronts her about it, but after {{spoiler|Margo "dies"}} she forgives Jessica.

* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Margo

* [[Runaway Bride]]: In the first "Saga" book, Alice (the twins' mother) ditches her fiance Hank Patman (who would later become Bruce's father) at the altar, partly because she's suddenly realized he isn't the man for her, but mostly because she's fallen in [[Love At First Sight]] with Ned Wakefield--and as you recall from the book, their ancestors have missed numerous chances to get together in the past.

* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Steven comes out as gay in ''Sweet Valley Confidential'', despite having supposedly been heterosexual for the whole of the original series, being married to Cara at the start of the book, getting engaged to Billie in ''Sweet Valley University'', and having a nervous breakdown over the death of ''another'' girlfriend (Tricia Martin - see [[Identical Stranger]] above). His eventual boyfriend is Aaron Dallas, another case of [[Suddenly Sexuality]].

* [[Textual Celebrity Resemblance]]: In the original versions, Mr. Collins is described as looking like Robert Redford. In the new, updated editions he's just described as looking like "a movie star".