Struck By Lightning (film)

Life comes at you fast. It runs through your body and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. It's a lot like lightning.

Struck by Lighting is a 2012 film written by Chris Colfer. It is a Coming of Age Story centered on small-town resident Carson Phillips, a teenager using blackmail on various students to make a newspaper to submit to a college.

Tropes used in Struck By Lightning (film) include:

• Blackmail: Carson blackmails the entire school to make them write for his literary magazine.
• Deadpan Snarker: Carson
• Everything Sounds Sexier in Spanish/Latin Lover: One of the students pretends to be a spanish exchange student in order to seduce girls.
• Hated Hometown
• Insistent Terminology: Carson seems to exclusively refer to sex as "fornication".
• Most Writers Are Writers
• Posthumous Narration: Carson.
• Scandalgate: Clovergate.
• Timeshifted Actor: Chris uses Adam Kolkin to play himself as a child; the same was done on one episode of Glee.
• Trailers Always Lie: They leave out the fact that Carson is struck by lightning and dies in the opening scene of the movie.
• Written by Cast Member