Ryan Evans: You know, I'll take that as a compliment.
I'll Take That as a Compliment: When Sharpay confronts Ryan about hanging out with the Wildcats.
Identity Breakdown: Downplayed in Troy's solo song "Bet On It," since despite lines like "It's no good at all to see yourself and not recognize your face," Troy is ultimately defiant about not letting anyone define him but himself, rediscovering his identity in the process.
Hidden Depths: "I Don't Dance", wherein theater kid Ryan also proves to be pretty good at baseball, and jock Chad at dancing.
Happily Married: Sharpay and Ryan's parents are shown to be a loving and wealthy couple.
Hands-On Approach: Sharpay maneuvers Troy into giving her a golf demonstration with their bodies uncomfortably close to each other.
Grew a Spine: After dealing with a long line of mistreatment by Sharpay without complaint, Ryan finally gets fed up when she reveals she instead to blow off performing with him in favor of Troy and stops being her toady.
Forced to Watch: Troy being forced to stay and watch Sharpay's performance of "Humahumanukanukaapua'a".
Fulton reminds her that she wanted Troy Boston "Whatever it takes".
Exact Words: Sharpay chastises her assistant Fulton for allowing Troy and the rest of his friends and girlfriend Gabriella to stay at the club with her as she only wanted Troy.
Establishing Character Moment: During What Time Is It?, despite being part of Twinkle Town, Ryan is noticeably ignored compared to Troy, Gabriella and especially Sharpay when it comes to fan reception in school.
Dark Reprise: Sharpay forcing Troy to sing alongside her during "You Are The Music In Me".
Counterpoint Duet: The final part of "Gotta Go My Own Way", with Gabriella singing and Troy responding in counterpoint.
Sharpay pulls out all the stops in an attempt to lure Troy away from his buddies, via "Look what I could do for you with all my nifty social connections."
Corrupt the Cutie: How the film portrays Sharpay (the corruptor) and Troy (the cutie)'s relationship.
All Taylor and Gabriella do is laugh and compliment their outfits.
Clothing Switch: Memorably, Ryan and Chad did this in a scene after the "I Don't Dance" number, which led to a lot of invoked Ho Yay jokes within the audience, mostly because it's never explained why they did that.
He even randomly decides to play golf in the middle of the number. Troy huffs and puffs around the golf course with exaggerated facial expressions and choreography.
Camp: "Bet On It" is a pinnacle of camp.
else?, "Prada" became "leather", and "Tiffany" became "sparkly". In the video game "Sing It", Jimmy Choo became.
Brand X: "Fabulous" originally contained the lines, "Fetch me my Jimmy Choo flip flops/Where is my pink Prada tote?/I need my Tiffany hair band/Then I can go for a float".
Betty and Veronica: Gabriella (the Betty) finds herself being competed against by Sharpay (the Veronica) for Troy (their Archie).
This film has the characters go on summer vacation, spending less than ten minutes in their school.
Artifact Title: For a film titled High School Musical.