What happens in the end of AlRawabi School for Girls?

"School was my favorite place. I had a lot of friends. Life was nice. But not after today. Now, school is my nightmare."

AlRawabi School for Girls is a Jordanian show created in 2021 by Shirin Kamal and Tima Shomali. It follows the story of Mariam, a student at an elite all-girls school, and her plan to get revenge on her bullies.

AlRawabi School for Girls contains examples of:

• Adults Are Useless: More often than not the series shows that the reason bullying continues to happen is because the adults fail to really do anything to properly address the issue until it's already too late. The principal takes the cake with regards to the trope.
• An Aesop:
  • The series does not shy away from showing why bullying is horrible — not just because of the effects it has on the victims, but also because what said victims can do once they've had enough and when they have nothing left to lose.
  • Although it does not excuse the bullies' actions, the series also shows the damaging effects a repressive and patriarchal society can have on women, especially when said society places Honor Before Reason no matter what.
• Alpha Bitch: Layan.
• Cassandra Truth: Rania tries to convince Layan not to skip school to meet Laith, as so many bad things have happened to them lately that it could be too dangerous. Unfortunately, Layan brushes Rania's concerns aside and goes to meet Laith anyway, with tragic consequences.
• The Chessmaster: Even after Noaf and Dina back out of helping Mariam with her revenge, Mariam still proves to be more than cunning enough to enact the last steps of her plan.
• Chekhov's Gun: A literal case; while Hazem drives Layan to school, the latter notices a gun in the glove compartment, which makes her uneasy. Hazem ends up using said gun in the finale when he shoots Layan in an act of honor killing.
• Create Your Own Hero: Layan's vicious bullying of Mariam is what incites Mariam to get revenge on her and the other bullies. Had they not been bullying her so much, the series wouldn't have happened.
• Dark Reprise: A somber version of the AlRawabi School's anthem plays in the finale and throughout the credits.
• The Dog Bites Back: The entire plot of the series is Mariam finally having had enough of Layan, Rania, and Ruqayya bullying her, and follows her revenge. She bites back hard, hard enough to permanently annihilate Ruqayya's life, and indirectly ending Layan's life.
• Downer Ending: With the exception of Mariam herself, everyone else is left with either severe emotional damages, or even worse, as a consequence of tormenting Mariam past the point of no return.
• Everyone Has Standards: Layan falsely accuses Mariam of sexually harassing her, but upon seeing Noaf being harassed and nearly assaulted by a much older man, Layan immediately jumps to defend her.
• Face Death with Dignity: When she realizes that pleading for her life isn't going to save her, Layan simply stands there, closes her eyes and waits.
• Fiery Redhead: Rania has red hair and is the most outspoken of Layan's clique.
• Foreshadowing: In Episode 6, looking for information about Layan's boyfriend, Laith, Mariam remarks that Layan's time is up. Then she notices something on her screen that, while it's not shown to the audience, has her realize that she got some damning information about Ms. Faten as well. The last scene reveals that Laith is actually Ms. Faten's son.
• Fighting Back Is Wrong: Subverted. While some characters feel bad about what Mariam is doing to the bullies, only Rania tries to play this card to Mariam. It doesn't work, and Mariam viciously tears into her for trying to downplay how much they really impacted Mariam's life for the worst.
• Freudian Excuse: It's strongly implied that the reason why Layan, Rania, and Ruqayya became bullies is because of the repression and/or abuse they face at home at the hands of their families. That being said, it doesn't excuse any of their abhorrent behavior towards Mariam or anyone else.
• Girl Posse: Layan, Rania, and Ruqayya.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: It's hard not to feel at least some sympathy for both sides of the main conflict.
  • On one side, Layan and her clique are vicious and spiteful in the beginning, victimizing anyone around them, and especially the innocent Mariam. However, they are also shown to have horrible lives that explain though doesn't excuse their abhorrent behavior.
  • On the other side is Mariam, who is horribly bullied and victimized, to the point of being nearly beaten to death by Layan and her clique, and then make it worse by accusing Mariam of homosexual assault, and then leaking some of Mariam's journal entries about her mental health to the entire school. Mariam eventually decides to get some revenge on them. Her revenge causes Layan to die, Ruqayya to be completely ostracized from society and her own family, and Rania to be wholly traumatized for the rest of her life.
• Hate Sink: Oh boy... Layan is a barbaric bully whose actions can make anyone's blood boil. Subverted later though, as she does have redeeming qualities.
• Hope Spot: Rania promises that she and Layan will never hurt anyone else again if Mariam doesn't go through with her revenge. When it looks like Mariam is taking her words into consideration, in reality, it just makes her more determined to go through with her plan to ensure that Rania will keep her word once she and her friends suffers the consequences of their actions.
• Hypocrite:
  • Mariam accuses Noaf and Dina for being such since they were initially complicit with encouraging Mariam in getting brutal and bloody revenge on her bullies before changing their minds halfway. Not to mention, even though they were supposed to be Mariam's friends, they failed to be there for her when she needed their help the most. Even Noaf acknowledges that Mariam's not wrong in her accusations.
  • Ruqayya, Layan, and Rania all implied to be suffering some major abuse at the hands of their families, especially for being women, and they're all clearly fed up with it at this point in their lives. They take out this anger on Mariam and others at their school, and then Rania then has the audacity to try and paint Mariam, who at one point they nearly killed, as the more evil one when she finally decides that she's had enough and is getting back at them.
• I Regret Nothing: The very last scene of the series shows that Mariam feels no remorse for pursuing her revenge to the bitter end.
• Irony: When Mariam is beaten to near-death, Layan warns her that "there will be blood" if she crosses her again. There was blood that was spilled alright— Layan's blood, that is, after she crossed Mariam one time too many.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In their attempt to talk Mariam down of getting revenge on Layan, when they mention about "doing the right thing", Mariam shuts both Dina and Noaf up with an argument that they cannot argue with, given that they neglected to speak up in Mariam's defense in the past.

  Mariam: "The right thing"? The right thing would've been to not turn your back on your friend when she needed you. The right thing would've been to stop them when they were beating me up. The right thing would've been to tell everyone what you saw. I'm sick of hearing about the right thing when you obviously don't know what that is.

• Karma Houdini: Rania's boyfriend Ahmed, who not only gets the girls into the club in spite of them being underage, dates her regardless of this and both flirts with Noaf then blames her when Raina catches them, immediately runs away after being confronted by their teacher and is never seen again.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Hazem is protective of Layan. Overly so, that she never gets a sense of privacy at home. This trope is taken to the extreme when he shoots her in the finale in a horribly misguided attempt to preserve their family's honor.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Even when taking into account how far Mariam is willing to go to get revenge, Layan and her friends did make Mariam's life a living hell, what with beating her badly and leaving her to nearly die, accusing her of homosexual assault, and exposing her issues with her mental health to almost the entire school. Once Mariam decides to get even, her entire scheme results in the following:
  • A photo of Ruqayya without her hijab is leaked to the internet, resulting in her family treating her like an outcast and banning her from going to any school.
  • Rania is caught by the school authorities for sneaking out at night to party during a school trip, causing her to suffer worse abuse from her already abusive father. The only upside for her is that the school lets her off with only a reprimand, and between the three, she gets off lightly.
  • Layan, who is mainly responsible for Mariam's ordeal, loses her life in an honor killing when Mariam has Layan's older brother catch her with her boyfriend and assume the worst.
  • Last but not least, Mariam's manipulations also end up risking the school getting shut down. Though it was not entirely part of her plan, it ended up being to her benefit, since she also wants payback from the school — particularly the principal — for failing to do anything to help her when she really needed it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By encouraging Mariam to not leave school and continue with her revenge, more lives end up getting ruined and lost. Even Noaf acknowledges that she feels responsible for Mariam being so hell-bent on ensuring that Layan and Rania also get their karma.
• Nice Guy: Laith is a genuinely caring and gentle boyfriend to Layan. When they hang out at his bachelor pad, Layan says that she will go inside as long as nothing happens, to which Laith assures her that he won't do anything and he just wants her to feel comfortable.
• Not Helping Your Case: When Rania attempts to convince Mariam to not take revenge on Layan, she just ends up pissing off Mariam even more since she's not able to comprehend just how much her and her friend's actions ruined Mariam's life.

  Rania: Okay, yeah, we might have hurt you a bit, but—

  [...]

  Rania: But what you're about to do is a lot worse, Mariam.

  Mariam: "A lot worse"? You still don't get it, do you? You have destroyed me. You have ruined my life. Yet you're lecturing me, saying that what I'm doing is worse?

• One-Gender School: The titular school is an all-girls school.
• Pet the Dog: Layan gets one when she leaps in to defend Noaf from the lecherous man in the pool, and when she helps Noaf out of the pool, she's much gentler than the viewer has ever seen her.
• Power Trio: Mariam, Dina, and Noaf.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Mariam starts out as a very sympathetic protagonist, but by the end she is willing to go to drastic lengths for revenge and her friends turn against her. By the end, she ends up being no different from her bullies, with the only difference being that Mariam, while undoubtedly vengeful and ruthless, also wants to make sure that no one else would ever go through what she had suffered.
• Put on a Bus: Given that Ruqayya is forbidden from attending school by her mother, she longer shows up after Episode 4.
• Revenge Is Sweet: Mariam is more than happy that her revenge scheme went off without a hitch, destroying one bully's life, ending another, and traumatizing the sole member of Layan's clique who made it out relatively intact.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mariam goes to some dark places to get payback on the bullies, and boy do they have some severe consequences. Ruqayya's life is destroyed because of her hijab-free picture spreading everywhere, Layan ends up murdered by her brother in a twisted honor killing, and then there's the threat of the entire school being taken down by Layan's father.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The reason Layan is able to get away with her bullying for so long is because of her father's influence. In the finale, Mariam ends up using said influence against the school when Layan's father is informed of his daughter's absence.
• Sole Survivor: Rania is the only girl remaining at the school after Mariam takes her revenge, as Ruqayya is forbidden from going back to school, and Layan ends up dead at her brother's hands.
• Uncertain Doom: While Hazem ends up shooting Layan due to placing Honor Before Reason, it's never shown what happens to Laith afterwards.
• Villainous Friendship: Layan and her clique may be aggressive and vicious and won't hesitate to oppress their fellow students, they genuinely look out for each other and get worried if any one of them encounters any trouble.
• Wham Shot: One of the final shots of the series is at the principal's desk that has a picture of her and Laith in it.
• Who's Laughing Now?: A non-verbal version happens in the final scene of the series where Mariam — satisfied with her revenge — coldly looks at Rania, who is weeping in misery.

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