Cliffhanger: Part 1 ends with you and Dave digging up the field to find the corpse of Annabelle, one of the students who went missing.Caught with Your Pants Down: Happens to Roger, who was spying on, and masturbating to, the girls sleeping through a peephole in the "secret room".Butt-Monkey: Patrick, apparently the most hated student in the school.The Bully: Nate, the chief antagonist in Part 1.Also, you know, because of all the murders. Boarding School of Horrors: In Patrick's perspective as he's picked on by nearly the entire student body.Big "NO!": Adrian really doesn't like long division.
(Though likely a Big Bad Wannabe in the grand scheme of things.) On the other hand, even given the Deleted Scene unlocked by 100% Completion, Xerxes is a little too obvious.Big Bad: It appears that Xerxes is being set up as this for Part 2, with it strongly implied that he's behind the students' disappearances and Annabelle's death.Asshole Victim: Annabelle, who was the Alpha Bitch before she disappeared, is found dead and buried in the football field at the end of Part 1.The " Final Boss" is fought on the dance floor at a rave. Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Kind of.When the protagonist talk about Dave to Nate, he simply answers "Who ?". But the fact that he never interacts with the others students, always shows up alongside you in a way that none of the others characters do, and for the fact that he has no entry in the stusents database or no lockers makes you doubt his existence. He appears to be simply a deuteragonist whose role is guiding the player through the school and serving as a friend. Ambiguous Situation: Dave is never directly portrayed as suspicious.Annabelle is the more conventional Rich Bitch variety. Alpha Bitch: Tina, a decidedly chavvy version of this trope.But Girl deserve more than a residency in heavy rock's back pages: nonconverts may want to start backward with the My Number anthology or Live at the Marquee albums until they get to Sheer Greed, which remains Girl's finest hour. Still, plenty of rugged talent existed to overcome those problems, even after Collen departed for Def Leppard the committed fans just never got the chance to find out.
In truth, the band also needed sufficient time to grow up in public, which this album wouldn't deliver them. Other songs are plagued by inconsistent writing, which isn't a surprise the comparative benchmark set by Sheer Greed is so imposing, and Girl couldn't provide the perfect anthem that would have ensured them a decent pension. The romping title cut and "Ice in the Blood" are also worth further investigation, and remain firm fan favorites. Like its predecessor, Wasted Youth boasts two drop-dead classics in "Overnight Angels" and "Old Dogs," which gives the Phil Collen- Gerry Laffy guitar team ample opportunity to shine. The simpler view is that Girl's newfound tightness required a different sort of delivery - which is a grimier, grittier sound befitting the "back to basics" mood here. There's an unmistakable make-or-break aura that retreats from the glorious trash-brat territory so confidently exploited on Sheer Greed. In addition, writers who'd embraced the band's music-or-makeup foppery had now begun dismissing it. After all, these are the guys who whipped out the lipstick just as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene started to take off. Pointing out that Girl swam against the grubby denim grain is almost an act of cruelty.
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