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=== Contains the following tropes: ===
* [[Agent Peacock]]: Vida and Noxie do some asswhoopin'
* [[The Alleged Car]]: The yellow Cadillac, which doubles with [[Cool Car]]. It was chosen for its glamour rather than functionality, a decision that later comes back to haunt them when it breaks in the middle of "Gay Hell".
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* [[Avengers Assemble]]: The various drag queens getting ready for the pageant in the movie's opening credits.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Chi-Chi winning the pageant at the end}}.
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Sheriff Dollard. ▼
* [[Badass Boast]]: Chi Chi delivers two at once:
{{quote|'''Chi Chi:''' I'm the Latina [[Marilyn Monroe]]. I got more legs than a bucket of chicken!}}
▲* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Sheriff Dollard.
* [[Blithe Spirit]]: The girls serve as this to the people of Snydersville.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Blonde Vida, Redheaded (most of the times!) Noxie and Brunette Chi-Chi
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* [[Directionless Driver]]: For a drag queen, Vida has a decidedly macho distaste for interstate maps.
* [[Down on the Farm]]: Much of the movie takes place in a Midwestern rural hick town where the girls are stranded.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: John "Chi-Chi" Leguizamo stands out for really looking like an attractive girl. He spent much of his stand up career impersonating his Latina relatives, so the script played to his strengths.▼
* [[Drag Queen]]: Well duh!
▲* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: John "Chi-Chi" Leguizamo stands out for really looking like an attractive girl. He spent much of his stand up career impersonating his Latina relatives, so the script played to his strengths.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: In an attempt to keep Chi-Chi from running away after being deemed a "boy in a dress", Vida says that she's not quite a Drag Queen...she's a Drag Princess.
* [[Fan Service]]: The very first scene shows [[Mr. Fanservice|Patrick Swayze]] coming out of the [[Shower Scene|shower]]. Oh yeah!
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* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: John Leguizamo in drag.
* [[Tap on the Head]]: It's worse than that. Vida simply ''shoves'' Sheriff Dollard, and he's out like a light.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: Vida ([[Team Mom|The Mother]]), Noxie (The <s>Seductress</s> [[Alpha Bitch|Bitchy]]) and Chi-Chi (The <s>Child</s> Drag Princess).▼
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: Chi Chi and Noxeema don't exactly hit it off. Before long, Chi Chi has stirred up bad blood with Vida, also.
▲* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: Vida ([[Team Mom|The Mother]]), Noxie (The <s>Seductress</s> [[Alpha Bitch|Bitchy]]) and Chi-Chi (The <s>Child</s> Drag Princess).
* [[Title Drop]]: The movie's title comes from an autograph Vida swipes from a ritzy Chinese bistro. We never find out who Wong Foo is, but he and Ms. Newmar are given a totemic reverence throughout the movie.
* [[Token Trio]]: White Vida, black Noxeema, and Hispanic Chi-Chi. The movie tries to counter Vida being the leader (though she's the only one who ever drives the car) by giving the other girls' plots ample screentime and Wesley Snipes top billing, but the implication is still there.
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