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The Step Up films are a series of loosely-related films that follow a hip hop dancer on the path to winning a dance competition of some sort.
The films provide examples of:[]
- Adorkable: Moose from the second film has shades of this.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Nora Clark falls in love with Tyler. Well, Tyler isn't bad persay, but he is very Troubled but Cute.
- Alternative Foreign Theme Song: Koda Kumi's "But" is used as the theme song in the Japanese version.
- Call Back: Tyler in Step Up 2 is only there for a couple of scenes to remind us that he was in the first movie. Tyler's sister Camille is brought back as a main character for the third movie
- Dance of Romance
- Fan Service
- Heel Face Turn: Mack after Skinny's death. He wasn't exactly bad but he decides to completely give up a life of crime.
- Noodle Incident: How Camille and Moose actually met is never explained. Perhaps if Camille had been the star of the second movie...
- Remember the New Guy?: Camille in 3D in treated as having been with MSA crew all along despite not being in the second movie.
- Serious Business: Hip-hop street dancing in the 2nd and 3rd movies is regarded as such.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tyler gives one to Nora after she replaces him with her old partner Andrew
- Third Is 3D
- Those Two Guys: The Santiago Twins
- Tomboy: Andie West
- Troubled but Cute: Tyler Gage
- Uptown Girl: Nora. With Tyler as her love interest from the wrong side of town.