Pretty Cure Club Activities

Pretty Cure Club Activities is a Fanfic by ryanasaurus 0077 created to compete with a similar series, Pretty Cure Bukatsudo Energetic. It's still in development, as he's trying to work out quite a few kinks.

A character sheet can be found here.

This fanfic has thus far been confirmed or speculated to contain examples of:
"Ryan: Excuse me, Mister, but have you seen Susana Cortez?
 * Acting for Two: Surprisingly averted with the Cortez twins.
 * Actually, I Am Him: Spoken almost verbatim by Susana in episode 27 when the Cures are looking for her and come across who they believe to be a male student:

[Susana turns around and sees her friends]

Susana: Actually, I am her."

"¡Madre de Dios! ¿Porqué tenéis vosotros miedo? ¡Sólo es esa Voz! (Mother of God! Why are you afraid? It's only that voice!)
 * Actor Allusion: Ryan is known for two things (aside from wearing her sister's old ballet uniform to her own gymnastics meets and being rather Spoiled Sweet): driving a Ford Anglia around the back of Montana Manor and reciting poetry while drunk on the wrong kind of vodka. She also once yelled at Susana during a tense moment at the Battle of the Bands, "Are you a drummer or not!?" As for Susana herself, she once responded to Padme asking how she knew Lars Ulrich was once a tennis player before joining Metallica by remarking, "I read all about it in Metállica: Una Historia."
 * Cure Kyukaiten has this line in the opening scene of episode 1: "Didn't one of my other friends take him down with his own signature attack?" It's worth noting that the shadowy figure refers to himself as the "flight of death" (bonus points for the figure being played by Ralph Fiennes, who also supplies the voice that bothers Yoruna all the time).
 * A student mentions courier owls (though not exactly in those words) in episode 2 as Candy and Samara are flying around the classroom. Daniel Radcliffe is listed among the "additional talent" in that episode's closing credits. Think about it...
 * Bilingual Bonus: "Mirai, Mostrate!" is actually Italo-Japanese hybrid for "Show thyself, O future!"
 * Susana herself gets a lot of this with her dialogue:

¿Te calentas tus cuerdas vocales, hermana? (Are you warming up your vocal cords, sister?)

¡Ay, que bonito de un nombre! (Oh, what a pretty name!)

¡AY! ¡POR DIOS! ¡Que loco! ¡Hay un murciélago aquí! ¡Muy, muy, muy, muy, MUY LOCO! (Oh! My God! This is insane! There's a bat here! Very, very, very, very, very crazy!)"

"Cure Sumi: Start by paying more attention to the front! I can't believe you, you're such a berk!"
 * That said, episode 4 is full of it.
 * Blooper Reel: Parodied; there's one on the first DVD/Blu Ray volume.
 * Buffy-Speak: Padme is mentioned in episode 1 as "having expanded herself cartoonically".
 * Crosscast Role: Rupert Grint as Ryan/Cure Kyukaiten. Also Alex Watson (Emma Watson's brother) as Cure Choushizen.
 * Crossover: The author is planning a crossover with its Dueling Shows that reflects Real Life Writes the Plot among himself and the other show's author; while said author has apparently accepted this crossover, she refuses to acknowledge the crossover itself in her own series.
 * Custom Uniform: Artax's gymnastics squad has different styles of dress that they apply to themselves for gymnastics practice; for example, being descended from a former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and having an older sister who currently dances with the Royal Ballet, Ryan's gymnastics uniform looks more like a ballet uniform than anything (no surprise, since her gymnastics uniforms over the years all used to be ballet uniforms worn by her older sister), which is why some people have mistaken her for a ballet student herself in the past.
 * Dance Battler/I Know Madden Kombat: Ryan/Cure Kyukaiten really loves to incorporate gymnastics into her fighting style.
 * Disney Owns This Trope: Susana makes a scathing mockery of it in her powerup episode when Ryan asks why she cut her hair and started wearing the male uniform after her insecurities came to light.
 * Don't Explain the Joke: The world history teacher (played by Dominic Cooper), does this in episode 2: "Do not panic! The situation is normal and is all fecked up! In other words, there appears to have been a snafu with the science club."
 * Dueling Shows: With Pretty Cure Bukatsudo Energetic.
 * Emma Watson: As Mexican-American-British drummer Susana Cortez.
 * English Rose: Ryan Montana.
 * Everyone Owns a Mac
 * Fake American: Emma Watson as Mexican character Susana Cortez. Her twin sister Aña is played by Georgina Grint (Rupert Grint's sister) with a slightly less affected California accent. A Fake Native American (specifically, a Kumiai) is introduced in episode 15 (but she isn't a Cure); the author intends to get her portrayal right from the start.
 * Fake Brit: There's a few, including Dakota Fanning, Kay Panabaker, Danielle Panabaker, Jake Lloyd, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dakota Goyo, and Labon Hester.
 * Flipping the Bird or "V" Sign: Depending on where the series is (theoretically) broadcast, Hyde does one or the other in episode one; wherever the "V" Sign is considered offensive (as well as in Japan, where the bird is less offensive), Hyde flips Padme off during their first encounter.
 * Foreign Cuss Word: There are a few Russian profanities scattered here and there, and Ryan's the chief (if not exclusive) source of the Russian swearing, particularly when she's pissed. Hyde also swears in German in episode 1, and Susana swears in Spanish when pissed off.
 * Frothy Mugs of Water: Double subverted; Ryan does drink vodka a lot, but it's a non-alcoholic variation with fermented grapes and milk chocolate flavouring.
 * Geek Reference Pool: Predominantly Star Wars, but also Star Trek, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Night of the Living Dead, Inuyasha, Final Destination (particularly the prequel, Final Destination 5), Metallica, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?, Homestar Runner, Batman, Mission Impossible, Father Ted (where you do think the use of the word "feck" as an Unusual Euphemism came from?), and RoboCop among others.
 * The Glasses Come Off: Inverted with Ryan, who wears contacts most of the time and switches to glasses when she does gymnastics.
 * Gratuitous Foreign Language: Aside from Spanish (see below), Susana is also somewhat fluent in Kumiai, demonstrating such fluency in episode 15.
 * Gratuitous Russian: Ryan engages in this from time to time.
 * Gratuitous Spanish: Both Susana and Anya employ this, and they even perform English-language hits in Spanish-translated versions!
 * The Guards Must Be Crazy: How does the staff respond to Susana's antics? Automatically assume that Americans don't wear school uniforms and that they're all fans of Metallica and other acts. Even when they see evidence to the contrary on the former count (including Susana's twin sister Aña).
 * Hollywood Hacking: Susana really loves rerouting the school's P.A. system to play Metallica songs, as established in the first episode when "Hit the Lights" plays over the loudspeakers. This becomes a running gag throughout the series. She also Rickrolls the entire school in her introductory episode, where it's revealed that she's friends with the P.A. operator, who really enjoys this sort of prank, he being a music lover himself; her method of rerouting the P.A. system to play her favorite tunes is walking into the P.A. office and hooking up her MP 3 player to the P.A. system before leaving it to be played by the P.A. operator; the other P.A. operators take no notice and simply make their announcements over whatever songs are playing at the time.
 * I Am Not Spock: What causes Yoruna to banish the Voice? He calls her a pansy. Think about it.
 * Insult Backfire: A mild example: when Padme tells Ryan that she has weird tastes in beverages due to her affinity for non-alcoholic chocolate vodka, Ryan replies, "Don't we ever?" Then she offers Padme a drink.
 * It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Susana's father is named German, but someone with the most basic understanding of Spanish would know to pronounce it "Herman".
 * Lampshade Hanging: There's quite a bit, actually, and even the first two episodes alone pile on the lampshades.
 * Leotard of Power: Ryan/Cure Kyukaiten, as well as Cure Choushizen.
 * Long-Lost Relative: Ryan's older sister Catherine. She's not lost per se, but she left her ballet slippers to Ryan before moving to London to join the Royal Ballet before the start of the series. Ryan mentions her in episode 1 when Padme mistakes her for a ballet student because of her outfit.
 * Meaningful Name: A variation: while Padme Amidala was simply married to a Jedi knight (and her son was the first to officially allow Jedi to openly marry), Padme Amidala Morton is a Jedi. And no surprise, either: she lives in Brighton, which in 2001 had the highest number of Jedi as citizens out of the rest of the UK.
 * Meganekko: Ryan, mainly during gymnastics practice. Layla is a straighter example.
 * Name's the Same/Gender Blender Name: Ryan shares her name with the author himself; Word of God confirms it's either just a coincidence, or else the name was simply chosen for no reason whatsoever.
 * Nonuniform Uniform: Ryan wears her gymnastics uniform's ballet slippers with her regular school uniform.
 * Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Both of Natalya and Marius Montana's daughters speak BBC English; averted by Natalya herself, as well as the Cortez sisters (both played by British actresses with California accents). Justified by Aurora, who speaks English with an Irish accent.
 * The One Guy: Zebulon.
 * Pardon My Klingon: Being a Jedi, Padme tends to use colorful language originating from the Galaxy Far, Far Away (such as "kriff", "kark", "spast", "stang", "Sithspit", "barvy", "Emperor's black bones", and "Emperor's black heart"). She's also said "By the Great Lens" and "By all of Alderaan's ghosts" on occasion; when she says the latter, you'll know she's far more worked up than usual.
 * Parody Religion: Padme is a member of the Jediism religion, and she also makes mention of a few Real Life incidents surrounding the religion, including, most famously, the Jedi Census Phenomenon of 2001. Conversely, there are also a few students who claim to be Sith, including some of Zebulon's buddies in the supernatural club; they operate like Real Life Sith (who are not as extremist as their Star Wars counterparts).
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Both Ryan and Layla have been shown to wear one to formal events, and the former's formal gown incorporates a ballerina skirt.
 * Production Posse: Quite a few posses are involved in this one:
 * Ryan, Susana, Tina, Sheila, Hyde, Yoruna, Mary, Nurse Richards, Arthur, and China
 * Ryan and China
 * Susana and Mary
 * Catherine and China
 * Let's just say the posses are almost, if not completely, exclusively British (as is the majority of the cast).
 * Proper Tights with a Skirt: Features in many of Ryan's outfits.
 * Real Life Relative: Rupert Grint's sister Georgina and Emma Watson's brother Alex both appear in this series.
 * Real Song Theme Tune: "I Disappear" by Metallica. It may sound like Soundtrack Dissonance for the most part given the theme of this series, but when you consider Susana is a fan of the group...
 * Rickroll: At least twice, the first time using an original recording of Rick Astley's hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" over the loudspeakers, and again when Aña performs the song in concert as a Translated Cover Version.
 * Rupert Grint: As Russo-British gymnast Ryan Montana.
 * Science Fantasy: This explains why Ryan's able to wear ballet slippers during gymnastics practice; apparently, despite this being chiefly a fantasy series, there are quite a few elements of science fiction thrown in, including special fabrics that can emulate a foot's grip.
 * Serial Escalation: Natalya just kept topping herself from the moment she choreographed her first ballet, until in 2007, when she was about to relocate to Brighton, she finished The Dark Knight Begins, the first in a series of ballet adaptations of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy. One of the new choreographers for the Bolshoi at the time of her departure finished the series with two more entries: The Dark Knight Falls in 2010 and The Dark Knight Rises in 2013.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: The few times Susana's clothes aren't as dirty, messy, or ripped as they usually are (if at all), you'll know it's a formal occasion; even then, though, she simply wears unusually neat casual clothes. Her hair also isn't as messy as usual, if at all (though, to be fair, she does at least put in an effort to make her hair neat all the time). As seen in episode 4, even when this trope isn't in effect, she does make an effort to look pretty clean (clothes aside, of course).
 * Shout-Out: Numerous. For example:
 * Cure Choushizen lives by RoboCop's Prime Directives, to the point where they always flash on his laptop screen during a fight scene.
 * The loudspeaker notices are structured like those heard in Mash.
 * Candy and Samara type with boxing gloves on. Padme even asks a variation of the question "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" upon finding out exactly who sent her that email.
 * Ryan's reason for wearing glasses during gymnastics practice is the same reason why Saya Takagi switches to glasses early on in Highschool of the Dead.
 * Zombi 3D is quoted verbatim in an early episode ("Now you're talking Science Fiction.") during conversation about one of the fic's sci-fi elements.
 * Shown Their Work:
 * Jedi and Sith operate like their Real Life counterparts, not their counterparts from the Star Wars universe. Although, Padme abides by anti-hood protocol for wherever she goes, as she at least realizes that in the movies, the only Jedi or Sith to wear his/her hood full time was Darth Sidious.
 * Several implausible details are explained in-series:
 * A Classic Mac that connects to the Internet:
 * Ryan's glasses staying on during her gymnastics sessions:
 * Cure Kyukaiten's pointe shoes hurt her feet a bit, especially early on when Ryan isn't used to wearing pointe shoes even in civilian form.
 * Stock British Phrases: Expect phrases such as "bloody", "bugger", "temper, temper", "dialogue box", "dear me", and "bloody hell", this being set in Britain.
 * Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Used as a way to invoke Country Matters in a family-friendly manner.

"Samara: "You've got to be joking..." (upon learning that the viable content of the episode, after the opening sequence, was not enough time to fill 21.5 minutes of content, even with a couple of musical performances by the Cortez sisters and an elaborate sequence featuring a floating PowerBook 540c as filler)
 * Super Gender Bender: Zebulon/Cure Choushizen.
 * Symbol Swearing: Any time a Gratuitous Foreign Language equivalent of "shit" is spoken, the American broadcasts will subtitle it with this; however, DVD and British broadcast subtitles will use the word uncensored (note that in Britain, only its silent E equivalent, "shite", is restricted to the watershed).
 * Take That: Cure Tai's powerup episode is a merciless parody of episode 12 of: Revolutionary Girl Utena, in that when Susana's insecurities surface, she does the exact opposite of what Utena does: she cuts her hair and starts wearing the male uniform. Susana's reasoning? "Even if I wanted to at this point, to wear the female uniform in response to my uniqueness being made a mockery of would be infringing TV Tokyo's copyright."
 * Take That Me: Twice in episode 1, the author notes through Samara that he could use some improvement:

Samara: "The author had better grow a more creative bone in his body before I slug him for sloth..." (a call for help in motivating the author to get off his arse and actively find ways to make episode 2 more original than this)"


 * Hell, the author tends to do this sometimes (usually, if not always, through Samara) when he feels he's slacking off with his story. In episode 3 he even has Samara call him on trying to write when on less than 5 mg of caffeine.
 * Word of God says he'll become more original around episode 5.
 * Those Two Guys: Kenneth and Tyler, the Sith dudes in the supernatural club that consort with Zebulon.
 * Three Dimensional Episode: Every episode, in fact.
 * Tights Under Shorts: Susana sometimes does this.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Susana and Aña.
 * Troubled Production: Three episodes were published before complications involving Cure Tai's portrayal, as well as the author's other Curefic projects, caused the fourth episode to stall before it even passed the opening sequence. He's now preparing to rewrite the first three episodes into something more, um, original. It's already getting underway, though inside and outside stress is threatening to send even that to Development Hell.
 * Uncle Sam Wants You: Parodied with Britannia (the national personification of the UK) in Uncle Sam's pose and the text inside the picture being "I WANT YOU TO JOIN PRETTY CURE! Details in attachment below." Given this clue, Padme automatically assumes that Britannia sent the email in episode 1.
 * A Wizard Did It: Ryan's ballet slippers defy logic because Word of God says that "this is an alternate universe where special fabrics are already available that in Real Life are more of a thing of the future"; thus, a sci-fi wizard did it. Cure Kyukaiten's pointe shoes, on the other hand, defy logic to the point where even the smartest wizard is confused as to how the hell she could do complicated gymnastics stunts in those shoes, though she being a Cure, this is generally to be expected.