Vampire Cheerleaders: Difference between revisions

As the name implies, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|its about vampires who happen to be cheerleaders]] at their local school and mostly follows their exploits as they go about their existence while trying to avoid suspicion and trouble from human and supernatural alike.

 

 

Note that some events in spoilers refer to things that are revealed in the print edition, but that the online version has yet to get to.

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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Heather's mother was implied to be one

** Charlotte has her moments. Mostly when she's fumbling spells or referencing some old show.

* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Jullian, the star kicker on the football team, takes full notice of Heather when she gets to be a varsity cheerleader.

** At the same time, somewhat played with. {{spoiler|Direct sunlight isn't fatal to vampires in most cases, though rolonged intense heat exposure is, and the VC cast have to take pains to shield themselves against it with sunblock. Garlic isn't immediately lethal, but it is toxic to some degree. The various other cryptids have some of their usual mythological origins played with to some lesser or greater degree as well}}.

* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: The Vampire Cheerleaders

** Lita also show signs of this

* [[Alpha Bitch|Alpha Bitches]]: The snooty cheerleading team the girls go up against. Not a few minutes into checking into the competition, they quickly start dissing the protagonists. The rivalry only worsens as the story arc goes on.

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Steph sees her teen sister as this to a degree.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Leonard. The girls [[Lampshaded Trope|lampshade]] how utterly ridiculous this actually looks in real life in an ordinary setting.

** Played straight in the online and e-book editions of Volume 2, but averted in the hard copy edition, at least above the waist.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Part of the standard cheerleader's uniform for the current year.

'''Lori:''' Dammit, will you two lovebirds just freaking scissor and get it over with? '''Gawd!''' }}

** In Volume 4 {{spoiler|this escalates to them being a basically confirmed [[Official Couple]] in Zoe x Suki}}

* [[Breaking the Bonds]]: {{spoiler|By pissed off wolfed up Katie.}}

* [[Chained to a Bed]]: Lori ends up like this after being paralyzed by the [[Gorgeous Gorgon]].

* [[Compulsory School Age]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Lori has been returning to school every 20 years or so since [http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/memory_lane at least 1892]of her own volition, apparently in a quest for the perfect senior year.}}

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Charlotte is rescued virtually unharmed from a fully engulfed wicker man.

* [[Dhampyr]]: J.C. Summerfield

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Katie gets kidnapped by Theo and has her chained to a bed so that [[Near-Rape Experience|he can have his way with her]]. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Subverted:]] She manages to defend herself and knock him out by the time the rescue arrives.}}

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]

* [[Fan Convention]]: The Squad has to do community service in the form of an appearance at ''ParaCon'', which are full of people who consider the crew as evil hunters.

*** [[Token Good Teammate]]: Leonard.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Anyone who reads [[Paranormal Mystery Squad]] knows {{spoiler|that [http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/the_girl_who_would_be_lita_1 The Girl Who Would be Lita] mini-story isn't going to end well for Bianca's servant girl.}}

* [[Gag Penis]]: Used to test if {{spoiler|[http://www.paranormalmysterysquad.com/strips-pms/where_is_the_beef certain] feelings [http://www.paranormalmysterysquad.com/strips-pms/where_is_the_beef still cause Katie to change into her werewolf form.]}}

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Leonard knows enough about vampire mythology to be effective. {{spoiler|Before he finally confronted the cheerleaders, he gorged himself on garlic and washes it down with listerine to make his blood downright abhorrent to vampires. When Lori tries biting him after stating his intentions to expose them his false surprise transitions into chuckling as his blood immediately makes her vomit.}}

** {{spoiler|Cressida Harrow killing Bianca's servant in the cruelest way possible is a much worst kick the dog moment.}}

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Mackynzie moving Bakertown's presentation to 8 A.M to purposely mess up the Baker Town girls could be seen as this if one sees it as the Vampire Cheerleaders finally getting a comeuppance of sorts, but still counts as a [[Kick the Dog]] moment towards the B squad.

* [[Mercy Kill]]: How Steph views slaying monsters that were born human. {{spoiler|She initially plans to do this with her sister, but is talked down by JC and Charlotte.}}

* [[Animal Wrongs Group|Monster Wrongs Group]]: Steph finds herself butting heads with PETM (People for the Ethical Treatment of Monsters), who demand that ‘cryptids’ be captured alive and unharmed.

** A notable subversion (especially when compared to PETA) is that PETM are well aware cryptids are dangerous and even have standard issue tasers. As Summerfield put it, they're naive, not stupid.

** Specifically, rank-and-file stooges are naive, but not stupid. O'Keefe [[Obfuscating Stupidity|isn't as naive as she pretends to be]].

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Plan BC! ''And'' mind control.

** It later becomes a plot point {{spoiler|as the now [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]] Katie ends up being in heat as a result.}}

* [[Neck Snap]]: {{spoiler|How Lori kills Bianca this way. Anti-climatic perhaps, but satisfying.}}

** It happens earlier to an ancient Roman vampire with {{spoiler|the same woman as seen [http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/no_use_resisting here].}}

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: They can get by with just two pints of blood a day meaning they don't have to fully drain their victim. They can also move around in the daylight though they admit its not good for their undead skin. And have to tan normally to keep up appearances. Hypnotizing someone is also called "Glamoring".

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Stephanie and Katie’s parents were killed about a year before the story starts (and after Steph’s appearance in Aoi House).

* [[Paranormal Investigation]]

* {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama]]: How Bianca raped Lori}}

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: A given in vampire fiction. {{spoiler|Lori has been posing as her own daughter to return to high school every twenty years since [http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/memory_lane at least 1892.]}}

* [[Required Spinoff Crossover|Required Spinoff Cameo]]: While they are not quite spinoffs of each other, the girls of ''[[Paranormal Mystery Squad]]'' make a few cameos at different points, and the cast of VC shows up in the other book from time to time. We're getting a full crossover next chapter when Steph and crew jump over to the pages of VC.

** Elle from ''[[Aoi House]]'' appears in Volume 2 as a celebrity judge at the cheerleading competition.

* [[Stages of Monster Grief]]: {{spoiler|Heather does this, but ''in the reverse order''.}}

* [[Theme Naming]]: Adam loves [http://www.pixietrixcomix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2531 using DC (especially Batman) and other pop culture based names].

** PMS winds up {{spoiler|using their own version to undo Plan BC}}

* [[Theme Naming]]: Many [[Batman]] (and the wider [[DCU]]) references are made in the [http://www.pixietrixcomix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2531 names for the various characters].

* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Steph as per most of her jerkass tendencies, for example she blames the whole {{spoiler|Katie turning into a werewolf}} on J.C. when really Katie had wandered off on her own. J.C, despite being a nice guy, thankfully isn't a doormat and more then willing to call her out on this.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Leonard was pretty clearly your factory standard geek, starting out. However ''the minute'' he realizes his best friend/prospective love interest has been turned into a vampire (which he actually realized was happening ''before she was Turned''), he ''immediately'' levels up to [[Crazy Prepared]] [[Badass Longcoat]] [[Vampire Hunter]].

** [[Badass Decay]]: Unfortunately {{spoiler|when the girls turn their feminine wiles on him, he turns to putty in an instant. Come next arc, he following along like a puppy and doing their chores for them. Granted the girls are treating him nicely and all albeit in a [[Butt Monkey]] sort of way. Least Heather isn't too hard on him.}}

** In the long run, it turned into the whole sequence of {{spoiler|[[Stages of Monster Grief]] played ''backwards''}}.

* [[Unfit for Greatness]]: It's right in the name: "Vampire Cheerleaders". They are teens, and not picked for brains or perfectly calibrated moral compass. Lori managed to keep them from making more mess than can be still at least somewhat under control most of the time, because she made sure her coven at least have team spirit. And it's their only saving grace. Suki is airheaded, and Candice was so stupid even Suki have seen her as brainless (and she did turn out to be [[Too Stupid to Live]]). Heather was completely unprepared for any serious responsibility, much less in life-and-death matters, due to being raised by control freaks. {{spoiler|Heather}} eventually grew up enough to handle it, however.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: You were "double-clicking your mouse," weren't you?

* [[Vampires Are Sex Gods|Vampires are Sex Goddesses:]] {{spoiler|[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/half-time_6 Leonard probably thinks so at this point.]}}

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