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Bring It On is a Troperiffic motion-picture show franchise, currently containing six installments. Simply the beginning was released as a theatrical film, the other five were released Directly to Video.

This franchise is mainly nigh ane cheerleading team squaring off against another, both taking it way too seriously.

Though it is a series, each sequel is more In Name Only, rather than a real sequel. There are few recurring elements as well cheerleading competitions where hilarity usually ensues throughout the attitude-filled drama. No two movies contain the same characters or locations.

A major theme in the series is ethnicity and race. The writers/producers view race every bit very important, whereas the characters are nonchalant well-nigh it (except perhaps the villain used as an outlet for the writers to express latent racism).

More than mildly the casting of cheerleaders as the heroes is itself oddly subversive (and refreshing) given the nearly universal negative depiction of cheerleading in other High School Movies. The films are non beyond a little ribbing at the sport but are conspicuously sympathetic.

Not to be confused with the trope named "Bring It".

Brief synopses for each motion picture in the series:

Bring It On (2000)

The upper-form Toros cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass, a token Asian, and a killer routine that'due south sure to state them the national championship bays for the 6th year in a row. Merely for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that the Toros' quondam cheer captain had STOLEN the perfectly-choreographed routines from the ghetto-fabled Clovers, a hip-hop squad from East Compton, who are blackness. While the Toros scramble to come up with a new routine, the Clovers, led by squad captain Isis, accept their own bug — coming up with enough coin to embrace their travel expenses to the championships. With time running out and the pressure mounting, both captains drive their squads to the signal of exhaustion: Torrance, hell-bent on saving the Toros' reputation, and Isis, more than determined than ever to encounter that the Clovers finally become the recognition that they deserve! Who will survive and what will be left of them? This installment is ordinarily thought to be the best for its refusal to proper noun one squad as evil, and for an ending that deliberately does not fit the fourth dimension-worn mold for the genre. As a theatrical production, it also had a higher budget than the others. It'due south currently considered a fleck of a teen girls' classic chick picture show and is standard sleepover/girls' night fare. Starred Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union and an immediately pre-Buffy the Vampire Slayer Clare Kramer.

Jan: Hey, ladies, wanna encounter my spirit stick?

Bring It On Again (2004)

Torrance is played by some other extra, so she changes her name to another town in SoCal called Whittier. Whittier tries out for and joins her new college cheerleading team to relive her high school glory days equally head cheerleader. Merely when she and her best friend Isis — I mean Monica — are unable to stand up being effectually the tyrannical and snobbish team captain who's known equally The Bomb Diggity. Whittier and Monica quit and vow to form their own cheerleading squad made up of higher campus misfits and social outcasts for a competition to see which squad volition represent the higher for the national cheerleader championship and be lead by the new Bomb Diggity! All-time known for being a breathy rip-off of the book Sweet Valley High #113: The Pom Pom Wars. This is besides notable as the just film of the series to star nobody anyone's actually heard of (with all due respect to Bethany Joy Lenz... and, y'know... Felicia Solar day...).

Whittier: Don't be all up in my Kool-Aid!

Bring It On: All or Aught (2006)

Britney Allen (Hayden Panettiere, playing a cheerleader for the first but non the last time) is living the white cheerleader'south dream. At the elite (meaning that in that location is only one non-white educatee, and that student knows martial arts because she'south Asian) seaside campus of Pacific Vista High School, Britney is captain of the cheerleading squad and the envy of everyone at schoolhouse — peculiarly 1 overly-ambitious teammate. When Britney hears most a forthcoming audition for a superlative cheer squad to announced in Rihanna'south upcoming television special, she is adamant that her Pirates cheer squad will capture the coveted spot. Simply Britney's life turns catastrophic when her father'due south chore takes her family to Crenshaw Heights, a darkly ethnic working-class neighborhood east of Los Angeles. At her new school, Britney is viewed with suspicion by well-nigh of the dark-skinned students, especially by Camille (Solange Knowles), the overly confident and acerbic blackness leader of the ethnic Crenshaw Heights Warriors cheerleading squad. No one is more surprised than Camille, however, when "white girl" Britney proves herself and secures a spot on the ethnic Warriors' ethnic cheer squad. The two other non-blackness students being a heterosexual cheerleader Latino beefcake love involvement, besides as a Latina who speaks one-half of her dialogue in Spanish. Britney and her new teammates work feverishly to gear up the audience for Rihanna, incorporating some edgy new moves into their functioning. Now the pressure is on, equally the Warriors notice themselves locked in a high-stakes cheer-off with Pacific Vista, Britney'south old school! During the no-holds-barred fight to the finish, friendships, loyalties and talents are tested — just just one squad can come out on pinnacle! This installment is renowned for being the nigh similar to Mean Girls. This entry is too notable for having two old Lizzie Spauldings in the cast (Hayden Panettiere and Marcy Rylan).

Jesse: Dude, I could kick the dude outta you!

Bring Information technology On: In It to Win Information technology (2007)

Southern California high schoolhouse senior Mighty Whitey Carson (Ashley Benson) arrives at the all-important "Cheer Camp Nationals" determined to lead her multi-ethnic squad, the W High Sharks, to victory. But chic New Yorker Mighty Whitey Brooke and her multi-ethnic team, the Eastward High Jets, are as steadfast in their pursuit of the contest'due south coveted "Spirit Stick". Every bit tension mounts betwixt the two rival squads, Carson falls for young man vaguely-non-white, heterosexual cheerleader Penn, not realizing he'south a Jet. When Brooke discovers the budding romance, she raises the stakes by challenging Carson to a ane-on-one cheer-off. A spectacular, West Side Story-type "cheer fighting" sequence turns uglier than expected and cheerleaders on both sides are wounded and unable to compete! Basically, Romeo and Juliet with cheercrips and cheerbloods! This installment is known for incorporating more portmanteau cheerwords than any of the previous Bring It On movies (and that includes Non Another Teen Pic).

Sarah: This is a cheer-saster!
Ruben: A cheer-tastrophe!
Chelsea: A total cheer-clipse of the lord's day!
Sarah: Nifty.
Ruben: Adept one.

Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)

Same-one-time, same-sometime, except for once the primary graphic symbol isn't white. Vocaliser/actress Christina Milian stars as sassy Cuban-American cheer captain Lina Cruz, whose world is turned upside-downwardly when her family moves from the urban streets of East Los Angeles to the sunny suburban beach boondocks of Malibu. At her new school, Latina Lina clashes with bitchy Avery, the ultra-competitive all-star cheer captain. And though Avery may appear Latina due to her deep tan and dark brunette hair, she is in fact racist confronting Lina, only non equally much as Avery'due south black all-time friend, Kayla, who can't open her rima oris without pooping out racial slurs. Avery takes a special dislikin' to Lina for existence a potentially dethroning cheerleader as well equally race-mixing with Avery's super-cute brother Evan, who has an affinity for quirky hats. Lina'south always been able to rise to the claiming, but can she create an all-star squad, beat Avery at the Spirit Championships and withal continue her romance with Evan? This is notable as the only film in the series other than the original to have a soundtrack album released (and the only one to have any instrumental score cues included)... well, that'due south something.

Avery: They're illegal cheer-migrants.

Bring Information technology On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (2017)

A Bring It On for the social media generation. Cheer captain Destiny and her champion squad the Rebels are called out by a mysterious team called The Truth (a nod to Anonymous) which leads to the team being challenged past other teams all over the world. Vain, egotistical Destiny, who values her online presence and the number of internet followers she has over annihilation else, can't stand the humiliation brought on past The Truth so she sets out to prove she's yet the best. She starts out past recruiting a group of male person street dancers that she conveniently meets after her first run across with The Truth. Destiny's ego and her refusal to infuse anything new to her routines eventually lead to a disharmonism with her all-time friend Willow. Tin can Destiny overcome her selfishness to win dorsum her best friend, claw-up with cute male dancer/photographer Blake, and win the respect of cheerleaders all over the world? Vivica A. Play a trick on co-stars equally an internet glory called Cheer Goddess.

Destiny: Why can't I go back to my perfect cheer-lebrity being when everything was about me?!

Bring the Tropes!:

Academic Athlete: Darcy, a pocket-size character in the first moving-picture show, boasts of having a high Sat score (a deleted scene shows her education herself to retrieve the bigger words through a cheer).
Adults Are Useless: Subverted. All of the high school cheerleading squads are shown to be autonomous, but they're composed of members who are all either almost adults or legally adults by the stop of the films in which they appear.
All Just a Dream: Every movie begins with the main character suffering a humiliating cheer-incident and then waking upwards to realize that information technology was a dream. Worldwide #Cheersmack breaks the tradition by having the humiliation at the showtime turn out to be real but lampshades it past having Destiny wish that it was all a dream. Eventually, Destiny does have a cheer-related nightmare later in the film.
Creative License – Sports:
- The outfits are too revealing for high school cheer and the movie features cheer routines that are banned at high school level due to safety. This is somewhen addressed in All or Nothing where a helm defends her use of an illegal move since the contest is a not-sanctioned music video contest.
- Missy's audition features the line, "Your schoolhouse has no gymnastics team; this is a last resort." Except, as even the well-nigh coincidental Usa gym fan can tell yous, competitive gymnastics is coordinated virtually exclusively through USAG, the sport's governing torso, non schools. Those who do compete for a school's gymnastics team will, nearly without exception, compete primarily for their gym, with the school squad a nice side bonus. All of which ways that, had Missy been even remotely competitive, Rancho Carne's lack of a gymnastics team would have been no hindrance at all to her gymnastics career. ^note This changes in higher, where Division I NCAA gymnastics programs are a Very Big Deal, but high school gymnastics is essentially an afterthought for nearly competitive gymnasts.
Aerith and Bob: The Shipman siblings from the beginning movie are named Justin and Torrance.
An Aesop:
- The first movie, in particular, "It doesn't affair if you win or lose, but how y'all play the game."
- As well, from the first movie: Invent your own routines instead of stealing others'.
All-Cheering All the Time: A deleted scene from the original film showed one character revising for the SATs by converting the answers into thanks to brand them easier for her to memorise.
All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Well-nigh notably Cliff from the starting time moving picture, but a lot of men across the franchise. This is the reasoning backside the bikini car wash equally a fundraising endeavour in the get-go picture show.

Amusing Injuries: Carver'south multiple fractures are played for laughs equally much as they are for drama.
Angry Dance: Angry cheering, but same principle: the showdown at the football in the commencement movie.
Angst: Torrance, about the stolen cheer routines, in the first movie and Whittier, near the politics of the cheer team, in the second.

Bilingual Bonus: The school in the first movie, Rancho Carne, literally translates to "Meat Farm."
Bowwow in Sheep'southward Clothing: Hannah and Roxanne who are members of the Rebels and Destiny's best friends, only in reality are the driving forces backside The Truth and are scoring to publicly embarrass her. Less so with Roxanne, who only joined The Truth believing they'd be on a team where their vocalisation would exist heard, but to find out that Hannah is only as bad if non worse than Destiny, who has changed, and thus reconciles with their friends and rejoins the Rebels.

Buffy Speak: Literally in the example of the first movie (which featured two Buffy actress — Eliza Dushku and Clare Kramer, who was cast in the serial immediately subsequently the film was released).

Call-Back: In the third movie, Britney's cheerleading squad briefly sings "Hey, Britney" to the tune of the "Mickey" vocal everyone danced to at the end of the first movie.
Calling Your Nausea: 1 nervous competitor in the National Cheerleading Finals mentions that she has "butterflies". Her coach ascribes this to anxiety, and tries to perform a calming exercise. The sick girl attempts this, then whoops a goodly mess onto the coach. Supplemental material on the disc release mentions this scene was done with canned mollusk chowder every bit the "vomit."
The Cameo: Rihanna in the tertiary motion-picture show, and Ashley Tisdale singing "He Said, She Said" on screen in the end credits for the fourth movie (which has her sister Jennifer in the cast). Toni Basil (the original singer of "Mickey") is one of the judges at the finals in the get-go movie.
Camp: Some of the situations.
Camp Gay:
- Les from the starting time movie.
- Ruben from the quaternary. Or not. Turns out, his female teammates causeless he was and thus has had no qualms about irresolute in front of him, which the actually direct Ruben enjoyed too much to correct. When the girls notice out, they kick his ass.
Helm Ethnic: Some of the cheer captains.
Catfight: Happens in every moving-picture show.

The Chew Toy: Especially in the second movie.
Choreography Porn: And then much as far as cheerleading is concerned, information technology fifty-fifty averts the Hollywood stereotype.
Colour-Coded Characters: Cheers to cheer-leading uniforms in school colors.

Dating What Daddy Hates: Torrence's parents can't stand up Aaron, due to his douchy ways, and are quite happy he's on his style to college and out of their lives.
Deadpan Snarker: Missy and Cliff are the chiefs of this.
Disqualification-Induced Victory: The Toros don't score very well in the semi-finals (using a routine that'due south the verbal duplicate of another squad's routine, which is normally grounds for disqualification) but considering their coach is a fraud who'd been hacking the same cheer routine to different schools, they become to go to the finals anyway.
The Ditz: Several characters. A Torrance instance is when she looks at Cliff'due south The Clash t-shirt and asks him "so, is that your ring, or something?"
Dream Intro: The flick begins with Torrance and her cheerleading squad doing an crawly, boastful cheer in the school gym... and so she's suddenly naked and humiliated in front of the crowd. She wakes upward realizing it was just a bad dream.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: Any time they train, especially in the first movie.
Dumb Blonde: Played with in Worldwide #Cheersmack, Hannah is introduced as the typical dumb best friend, similar to Chelsea and Sierra in the previous films, but she'due south eventually revealed to be the villain and mastermind behind Truth
Fifty-fifty Evil Has Standards: The resident two Blastoff Bitch character from the first moving picture: Courtney and Whitney, expressly forbid any violence when the team is angry at Torrance.
Expy: Missy is substantially another one of Eliza Dushku's characters had they non had a psychotic interruption.

Fanservice: Plenty of information technology, maybe none moreso than the car wash fundraiser in the starting time movie.
Fanservice Motorcar Launder: The Rancho Carne Loftier School cheerleading team did a bikini car launder to raise funds for an upcoming contest trip.
Fish out of Water:
- Missy starts out as one when she gets on the squad, and is more than a piddling weirded out by the atmosphere of the cheer tournaments when she first attends one.
- Britney in All or Naught and Lina in Fight to the Finish.

Fun T-Shirt: Missy wears one of a Buddhist monkey that says over the breast area Rub here for good luck.

Get-Karting with Bowser: The Toros and Clovers are rivals during the actual moving-picture show, but they perform together during the credits.
Graceful Loser: Torrance and her teammate come second at the cheerleading championships at the cease of the first picture, just they're pleased because the winning streak they had before that was built on several years of stealing routines from another squad.

Hey, You!: In the first movie, Torrance and Justin only requite each other a hard time when they're on screen together, never addressing each other by proper noun.

Informed Power: Sparky'due south routine in the first movie which consisted of little more than than air-humping and spirit fingers (alongside a few lifts that the cheerleaders should have been able to exercise already.) Because he's a con-artist, that might accept been the point, but it doesn't explain how he got his reputation as a slap-up choreographer or how he was popular plenty to pawn the same crappy routine all upwards and downwards the California coast.
In with the In Oversupply: The tertiary pic.
Incoming Ham: Sparky Polastri'southward introduction.
Jerkass Has a Point: It's true that the Toros did not come up with the routines, but Courtney is correct when she says the team still put in the hours and endeavour to acquire the routines, and they still had to exist technically proficient to win five years in a row.
Jiggle Bear witness: Every motion-picture show features lots of this.
Jerk with a Heart of Gilded: Destiny is a selfish and demanding Diva, but she also cares about her squad and friends, and is actively working on being a better captain and friend.
Jive Turkey: The blackness cheerleaders in function 3.
Lean and Mean: the teams after training.
Lovable Blastoff Bitch: Courtney and Whitney are unapologetically mean, elitist and fifty-fifty try to usurp control of the team from Torrence, just are still a part of the Toros, and are friends with the residual of the squad.
Lucky Translation: In the first motion picture, Torrance says "You know, mothers accept killed to get their daughters on squads," to which Mrs. Shipman replies with "That mother didn't impale anybody. She hired a striking human being." The Japanese language immune for a pun that expressed Mrs Shipman's attitude much more clearly and succinctly:
Torrance: Aren't you jiman (proud) [to accept a cheerleader for a daughter]?

Mrs Shipman: I'g not jiman, I'm gahuman being (enduring it).
Makeover Montage: The new team in the second.
Market-Based Title: In France they're the American Girls movies, and in Germany it'due south the Girls United series.

Ms. Fanservice: All the females are incredibly fit, cute immature girls in mini-skirts.
Mr. Fanservice: As well a majority of the Male cheerleaders are but equally expert looking, and aren't shy about showing off their muscular physiques when they tin can.
Mouthy Kid: Torrance is a well-intentioned example in the first moving picture, being somewhat bossy and almost getting into a fight with Missy because of this.
The Musical: Bring It On: The Musical debuted on Broadway in 2012.
Must Accept Caffeine:
Kirresha: What's the matter with her?

Leti: I think information technology's caffeine withdrawal. Java's like scissure to white people.
My Grandma Tin Do Ameliorate Than You: In the first picture show, the Toros cheer squad is beloved and successful. The Toros football game team, on the other manus, is a dumpster fire. In i game, the Toros players' opponents taunt them by saying that the cheer squad would exist more of a challenge. It's heavily implied that the opponents are actually right.
Naked People Are Funny: In the start film Torrance has a nightmare where during a cheerleading performance in front of the whole school she suddenly becomes completely naked and must resort to using her pom-poms to cover herself upwardly while the entire school laughs at her — and admires her at the same time while she endures a Naked Freak-Out. Skilful matter for her information technology was but a nightmare.

Nightmare Sequence: At the beginning of each movie. Worldwide #Cheersmack breaks the convention and moves the nightmare sequence to the middle of the movie.
Not Bad: Torrance'due south brother Justin begins the day of the finals with a "Cheerleading = Death" T-shirt on, only at the stop is auspicious the Toros' routine as difficult as everybody else, appearing to have a newfound respect.
Pac-Man Fever: The starting time movie had Torrance's blood brother playing Twisted Metal iii, and it looks to avert this trope, as it shows him playing on a PS1, with appropriate audio effects, until he makes another gay joke most her cheerleader beau, where she responds past ripping out his controller so hard it pops the motorcar open, revealing nothing inside.
Panty Shot: Bloomer shots, actually just guaranteed. In Again, Whittier strips down to sports bra and panties.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Every single movie.
Pom-Pom Girl: The whole serial is based effectually pom team competitions.
Power Walk: When the teams strut along toward the cheer contests.
Pre-Asskicking I-Liner: "Bring It On!"
Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Any time a black person compliments a white person, specially Britney.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the offset movie, Big Carmine gives one to Torrance for her disability to lead the squad while referring to the cheers they've done equally "burrowing."
Big Red: Don't be so naive, Torrance. Await, the truth is I was a real leader, okay? I Did What I Had to Practise to win at nationals and ever since I handed the region over to you, you run my squad straight into the ground! If I made any mistake as a squad leader, it wasn't burrowing cheers, it was announcing you as my successor.
Riches to Rags: The third movie's Britney, who attends an elite school and lives in a fancy seaside dwelling, has her life suddenly changed when her male parent loses his job, thus her family unit is forced to move to Crenshaw Heights, with Britney herself attention a poor public schoolhouse.

Sassy Blackness Woman: All of them, only subverted in role 4.
2nd Place Is for Losers: Subverted in at least the first movie.
Second Year Protagonist: Subverted in the get-go moving-picture show. Torrance is a senior in high schoolhouse, and it's implied that everybody else on both the Toros and the Clovers is, too, simply Torrance's mom lampshades the fact that her course load and the amount of focus they put into cheerleading say otherwise.
Cocky-Deprecation: Sort of — when Camille complains "(Britney) thinks she's all that," i of her fellow cheerleaders points out "Proper name one cheerleader who doesn't."

Serious Business organization: All the films care for cheerleading like this. But to be fair they also show only how much piece of work, grooming and athleticism cheerleading requires, and how unsafe the sport tin can be.
Show Some Leg: Cheerleader outfits are very leggy by default, but most of the girls in the movies are also constitute of short shorts and miniskirts anyways.
Shout-Out:
- Missy is sporting Faith's tattoo, which she promptly rubs off when told ink is strictly forbidden.
- When the Clovers confront Missy and Torrance, one of them asks, "Can we only trounce these Buffys downwardly?" When they decide non to fight them, another Clover says, "You just got touched by an Angel." Or Touched past an Affections.
- In the showtime movie, Missy gives a Shout-Out to West Side Story when she says they might have to have a rumble. Hilarious in Hindsight given the plot of In It to Win Information technology.
- In the credits of the start movie, Carver does the 'kick the cane over the shoulder' bit just like Charlie Chaplin.
- Speaking of In It to Win It, Star-Crossed Lovers Carson and Penn take a balcony scene.
- In It to Win It is the only moving picture to be set at a cheer camp. Then naturally the writers peppered the film with Friday the 13th references (which also takes place at a army camp). The opening nightmare scene features a mascot wearing a hockey mask and the rival military camp'southward owner's last name is Voorhees.
Slapstick: Many of the falls.
The Spartan Way: Many of the training sequences.
Spell My Name with an "Due south": Co-ordinate to the finish credits of Bring Information technology On: All Or Zippo, Hayden Panetierre plays Britney. ^note She too has a song heard in the movie — and curiously, her proper noun is spelled correctly in the music credits.

Spoiled Sweet: Sky from the fifth movie. She'due south rich, sweet, and nice, so nice that she asks her father to use his connections to let Lina's friends from L.A. attend Malibu Vista High, in club to help Bounding main Lions squad to be meliorate.
Spoiler Cover: For Worldwide #Cheersmack, the revelation that Dumb Blonde Hannah is actually the villain is spoiled when yous run across that she's prominently displayed on the cover art as Destiny'due south rival consummate with a different uniform.
Sudden Musical Ending: The start picture show ends with "Mickey", the second, with "Hit Me With Your All-time Shot".
Surfer Dude: The love interest in role 4.
Theme Tune Roll Phone call: Only Theme Cheer Curl Call in office 2.
Those Two Girls: Courtney and Whitney from the first picture.
Token Minority: Subverted both racially and sexually.
Too Much Information: In the first flick, the following commutation occurs when Missy intercepts her brother Cliff as he's visiting the cheer squad's car launder fundraiser and sticks her breasts in his face:
Missy: Hey, perv.
Cliff: Gahhh!
Missy: Mitt over your fifteen bucks or get out of hither.
Cliff: What are you doing?
Missy: Making coin from guys oogling my goodies.
Cliff: Aww, I didn't need to hear that. That was an overshare.
Took a Level in Badass: Part 2's alternating cheer team.

Preparation from Hell: In the leadup to Nationals in the first picture, Torrance requires that her team practices constantly. Justified in the sense that they had to create and perfect a routine in three weeks, but all the same quite harsh.

Valley Girl: Exemplified by the cheer that Torrance encourages Missy to perform: "Awesome, oh wow, similar totally freak me out, I mean, right on! The Toros sure are number one!" And immediately snarked correct dorsum by Missy in the same sing-songy voice that Torrance gave her: "I transferred from Los Angeles! Your school has no gymnastics team! This is a last resort!"
Villain with Good Publicity: The Bomb Diggity from office two.
Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In the get-go movie, at the Cheerleading Competition, a nervous cheerleader vomits all over her own coach. The Director'south Commentary explains that at Cheerleading Competitions, yous will encounter cheerleaders vomiting considering they are so nervous.
Whole Plot Reference: The fourth movie is West Side Story with cheerleading squads instead of gangs.
Who Wears Short Shorts?: Nearly all of the female cheerleaders at i point or some other. Specially in the third installment.
You Are a Credit to Your Race: Some of the more racist compliments delivered throughout the serial.

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