Teenagerdom is a trying time for anyone: you're growing inches seemingly overnight, hair is appearing in weird places, your mood is swinging more than a backyard swingset. It's tough.
But it could be worse! You could be in a movie. From "Harry Potter" to "Mean Girls," we rounded up 13 movies featuring terrifying and/or painful initiations and tests. Count yourself as lucky that you don't have to go through these rites of passage -- just puberty.
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"Divergent"
Lionsgate
Jump on and off moving trains and over big scary gaps and fall down drops and also punch things a lot? Yeah, we'll take the joys of adolescence, thanks.
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"Harry Potter"
Warner Bros.
Besides fighting the Dark Lord, which was Harry's own personal annual growing pain, every Hogwarts student had to walk through a seemingly solid wall at Platform 9 3/4. Painless? Yes. Intimidating as hell? ALSO YES.
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"Bring It On"
Universal
Growing hair in new places really seems like nothing compared to dropping the Spirit Stick. Because the one who drops the Spirit Stick goes to Hades.
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"Sorority Boys"
Touchstone
If you thought joining a sorority was a feat, try joining a sorority while being a dude pretending to be a lady, and learn what it really feels like for a girl.
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"Maze Runner"
20th Century Fox
You have to try every job, you get called a "greenie" a bunch, and, oh yeah, you have to run from monsters in a giant steel maze.
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"Fight Club"
Fox
If it's your first time, you have to fight. (But don't forget the first rule.)
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"Seventh Son"
Legendary
Get yelled at by Jeff Bridges, branded with a hot iron, and eaten by a dragon/Julianne Moore? Uhhhh. Rough deal.
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"The Hunger Games"
Lionsgate
What's puberty compared to the chance that you'll fight to the death against your peers? Bring on the growing pains!
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"Pitch Perfect"
Universal
It may just be Boone's Farm, but blindfolding and group sings? Non-horizontal cardio? Not a cakewalk!
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"Mean Girls"
Paramount
You let it out, now put it in the book. To be a true Plastic, you've gotta write in the Burn Book.
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"The Faculty"
Miramax
As if high school wasn't hard enough, now you have to get dunked to prove you're not an alien? FINE.
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"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
Warner Bros.
You're going through the whole process of being a teenage girl anyway. Now put on these pants, after seeing all your fabulous friends wear them too. Oh, the anxiety!
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"Friday Night Lights"
Universal
Daily doubles. Enough said. Ow.