There are many stereotypes involved in 'not another teen movie'. One stereotype is the jock who is the coolest and popular guy in school who everybody loves. The 'pretty ugly girl is a girl who is very pretty but doesn't appear attractive because of the way she dresses or acts. The 'token black guy' is basically a black guy who appears out of nowhere when an event happens in school and comments saying stuff like "damn". Another stereotypical teen is the 'nerd' who hangs around other nerds, some of which can be classified as the 'desperate virgin' as most dream about having sex or going out with the 'perfect girl'.
Not another teen movie has adopted other stereotypes from other teen movies and combined them all into one film. This is called intertextuality. For example they used 'Danny Zuko' from Grease to create their own jock and use ideas from him onto their jock.
Not another teen movie stereotypes their characters in many ways. One of them is props; for example the 'pretty ugly girl girl' character will be a pretty girl however she will wear glasses and be covered in clothes to make her look less appealing to the male gaze. Jocks will wear a baseball jacket which will make them stand out as only the 'jocks' can wear it… its not part of everyones dress code it's only made for them. Another way is non-diagetic sound. Nerds will speak very formative and use geeky language such as 'super' etc; jocks will be very cheeky and confident in front of girls complementing them on how they look.
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