Bratz/YMMV

The dolls themselves:

• Unfortunate Implications: Let us begin...
  • In one episode of the cartoon, Jade's pet cat, Mica (named after a common ingredient in makeup), is "petnapped" along with Burdine's dog. While going on about how upset she is by this, she refers to the cat as "[her] best accessory". She is also seen using the cat as a boa during a photo shoot earlier in the show. Remember kids: Animals are fashion accessories, not living things.
  • Bratz Babyz, just look at them.
    • Somewhere, a pedophile is very happy to finally have their very own overly sexualized baby doll.
  • The commercial for the Secret Date dolls is creepily reminiscent of prostitution, right down to the outfit the young actress changes into.
  • The Secret Date dolls came with a Bratz girl and a randomised boy, that would mean both the girls and guys really got around.
  • Genie Magic has a scene where Yasmin is upset about all of the stray animals that are outside during a thunderstorm. A few minutes later, in the same scene, Cloe freaks out at the thought of Katia being out on her own because she will be living on the streets and will eventually end up looking and smelling like a homeless person.
  • Rock Angelz has Sasha admitting to a horoscope that tells her that she can't stay committed to "just one guy". "When you're this gorgeous, why should you?"
  • Anything involving relationships really...
  • The original ads featured the slogan "Don't theorise, accessorise!" This toy brand almost literally tried to sell itself as "don't think, buy!"
  • What about the slogan for the sports line? "It doesn't matter how you play, it's how good you look when you win."
    • Well it could be a variation of the common motto that the most important thing in a game isn't winning, but having fun. And we all know what the Bratz's idea of fun is...
  • The book Model Friendship has Jade enter a modelling competition and finding out that Cameron has entered Cloe as well. Jade asks Cloe to drop out. Cloe before this point, showing no interest in the competition, decides to enter and they spend the rest of the book being catty witches towards each other. Eventually, they make up. But not because of Yasmin and Sasha, because of the boys. The lesson? Girls will fight each other until the death while the others watch unless big strong men are there to calm them down.
  • This quote from Jade: "Fave Books? I prefer fashion mags."
  • Eitan (the only boy) is the only one whose Bio includes Wants To Be, yes, he's the only one with any ambition aside from a fashion passion.

The movie contains examples of:

• Canon Sue: The Bratz.
• Ear Worm: BRA-TI-TUUUUDDEEEE!
  • From the soundtrack: Prima J's "Rock Star".
• Ham and Cheese: Chelsea Staub just knew this was a bad movie. So she had a lot of fun with being a Alpha Bitch.
• Narm: The song My Life by the Slumber Party Girls from the soundtrack is a rock song about it being the singers life and doing whatever she wants... like going to school and learning stuff she really cares about.
• National Stereotypes: Mexicans have mariachi bands living with them. Bratz: The Movie said so.
• Retroactive Recognition: Nathalia Ramos (Nina) plays Yasmin.
  • Likewise with Stephen Lundsford, AKA Kit Taylor.
  • Jade is Mona.
• Squick: The fact that the Alpha Bitch's eleven year old sister is being hit on by a high school aged boy.
• Unfortunate Implications: The movie has a lot of them:
  • All mexicans live with mariachi bands.
  • All Asian moms have annoyingly high pitched voices, sound like they just got off the boat, and force their kids to be overachievers and join dozens of clubs.
  • Your mom and dad don't really need gifts. Just give those to your best friend.
    • Maybe I need to watch the movie again, but in that scene I thought she was saying "One from my mom, one from my dad" implying that her parents had given her the same thing because they were out of contact with each other, so she was giving one to her friend.
  • Half the songs on the soundtrack.
    • "Rock Star" was probably meant to be empowering and represent the downtrodden Bratz overcoming Meredith's schemes. But you could just as easily make it the theme song of any Alpha Bitch or Rich Bitch (or embed it into the You're Just Jealous page for that matter) and no one would notice or complain about it not fitting.
  • It's completely okay and not creepy at all for a high schooler to hit on a 11 year old and follow her to her ballet class.
  • If you want a girlfriend, The Glasses Gotta Go.
• Unnecessary Makeover: It's a Bratz movie, for goodness sake!.

Bratz in general contains examples of:

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Most parodies of these dolls portray the girls as tramps/man-eaters/outright prostitutes.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Most of the things associated with the Rock Angelz movie and doll-line, the CD included some pretty great songs (Nobody's Girl and So Good) and the video game (also mentioned below).
• Creator's Pet: There is a reason the word Closmin exists. MGA's ability to create lines with only Cloe and Yasmin and if not create clones, nicknamed Closmin clones, who are Cloe and Yasmin in all but name.
  • Supposedly the preference for Yasmin is because the name and appearance of the doll is based on the creator's daughter.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: And yes, Bratz Are Back
• Fanon Discontinuity: For some fans, Bratz are not back.
• Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The book Will Work For Fashion has Cloe getting a job to buy a dress she wants to wear to her first art gala. This is treated like the worst thing any teenager has ever done because she isn't spending every moment with her 'friends'.
  • The same book has Cloe (Working in a cosmetics shop) mix and match make up of different sorts without her boss' permission. When her boss finds out and fires her, he's treated as the villain.
• Memetic Mutation: LEGGINS.
• So Bad It's Good: This new 2010 song is like listening to a train crash in slow motion with teenybopper lyrics.
• We're Still Relevant, Dammit!: Jade's favorite music is listed as Gwen Stefani, in 2012.
  • Well, it's been listed as that as far back as 2005.

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