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* InconsistentSpelling: Earlier credits and ''The Book of Three'' guidebook spelled her name "Kira", but the current comics use "Kyra".



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Kyra/Kira. It's still debatable which spelling is actually official. Earlier credits and ''The Book of Three'' guidebook had Kira, but the current comics, another wiki, and fanmade Book of Shadows pages (each of which probably influenced the previous) are going with Kyra.

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* ArcWelding: Elise was introduced in Season 4, and the comics reveal that [[spoiler:she was the friend whose murder by Cal Greene kicked off the BadFuture seen back in Season 2.]]



* ChekhovsGunman: The Season 9 comics revisit the plot from the BadFuture of "Morality Bites" and it's discovered that Elise was who Cal Greene would have murdered.

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* ChekhovsGunman: The Season 9 comics revisit the plot from the BadFuture of "Morality Bites" and it's discovered that Elise [[spoiler:Elise was the person who Cal Greene would have murdered.]]
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* InfantSiblingJealousy: Goes through this after his younger brother is born. He uses his powers to steal the baby's toys and at one point orbs the baby out of the house (luckily Victor is outside and finds him). He eventually gets over it and becomes more protective of his brother.
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* ForWantOfANail: We learn just how under-appreciated Kit really was when [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight a time-traveling Warlock bumps her off in the past]].
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She is consistently shown to be a loving mother and all four sisters practically worship her memory.

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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Subverted. She is consistently shown to be a loving mother and all four sisters practically worship her memory.memory, but the show does mention several times that she was still a flawed individual, most notably her SecretRelationship with her whitelighter, Sam complete with AffairLetters. This is best [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFNgyIZsMEU summarized]].



* ItRunsInTheFamily: As with almost all witches on the show, Patty's power to seemingly [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] is derivative of her ancestor Melinda Warren. Her daughter Piper gains the power too, as do Paige's daughters Kat and Tamora.

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* ItRunsInTheFamily: SuperpowerfulGenetics: As with almost all witches on the show, Patty's power to seemingly [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] is derivative show at least in terms of her ancestor Melinda Warren. Her daughter Piper gains magic, not the power too, as do Paige's daughters Kat itself. Patty had the power of molecular immobilisation and Tamora.Piper is the sister to have inherited this power.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: Clipped his wings after Patty's death due to guilt over what happened, making him mortal and able to die again. When the Elders just make him a Whitelighter again he [[AvertedTrope averts]] this. Instead of clipping his wings, like he did the first time, he just stops using his powers so the Elders can't track his magic.

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* BroughtDownToNormal: Clipped his wings after Patty's death due to guilt over what happened, making him mortal and able to die again. When the Elders just make him a Whitelighter again he [[AvertedTrope averts]] this. Instead of clipping his wings, like he did the first time, he just stops using his powers so the Elders can't track his magic. Paige is the only person capable of finding him because of their blood relationship.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: Clipped his wings after Patty's death due to guilt over what happened, making him mortal and able to die again.

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* BroughtDownToNormal: Clipped his wings after Patty's death due to guilt over what happened, making him mortal and able to die again. When the Elders just make him a Whitelighter again he [[AvertedTrope averts]] this. Instead of clipping his wings, like he did the first time, he just stops using his powers so the Elders can't track his magic.

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Boyfriend Blocking Dad was simply being misused after a find/replace.


* AffairBlameTheBastard: Averted in regards to Paige. ''Cheaper by the Coven'' even goes out of its way to show they're in touch, treat other well and that Victor is just as protective of her when he feels [[ItMakesSenseInContext Penny doesn't have the sisters best interest at heart when they're under a spell that she refuses to lift]].

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* AffairBlameTheBastard: Averted in regards to Paige. ''Cheaper by the Coven'' even goes out of its way to show they're in touch, treat other well and that Victor is just as protective of her when he feels [[ItMakesSenseInContext Penny doesn't have the sisters sisters' best interest at heart when they're under a spell that she refuses to lift]].lift]]. This extends to the comics where he treats Paige's children just as well as he does his biological grandchildren.



* BoyfriendBlockingDad: If he can do anything about it, you DO NOT TOUCH his daughters. Sadly turned against itself in the backstory, as conflicts about whether he COULD do anything about it or not is exactly how Grams chased him out of the family.
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* AffairBlameTheBastard: Averted in regards to Paige. ''Cheaper by the Coven'' even goes out of its way to show they're in touch, treat other well and that Victor is just as protective of her when he feels [[ItMakesSenseInContext Penny doesn't have the sisters best interest at heart when they're under a spell that she refuses to lift]].


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** While it's never elaborated on in any real detail, he fulfills a pseudo-honorary stepfather role to Paige as well, treating her like part of the family and being in touch with her as shown by ''Cheaper by the Coven''. In said episode, he makes no distinction between her and his actual daughters when he argues with Penny about doing what's best for them. Despite having reason to dislike her, he never treats her any different from Piper and Phoebe and in general it appears Paige has a better relationship with him than with her own father for most of the series.

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Having rewatched the episode in question, a lot of this isn't actually true, but there is a very clearly different take on Viktor going on. One thing is that is definitely not true is that he does in fact truly care about his daughters, seeing as he's even willing to die to protect them.


* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Victor that shows up in the first season is fairly heartless, uncaring about his daughters, and morally ambiguous at best. By the time he comes back in season 3, he is portrayed as being significantly more caring, protective, and sincere. It's such a near-180 from his previous appearance that the actor switch between appearances is more likely to be what accounts for it than any sort of CharacterDevelopment.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Victor that shows up in the first season is fairly heartless, uncaring about his daughters, different from what he'd be known for, coming across as somewhat heartless and morally ambiguous at best. And while his desire to protect his daughters is genuine, how he goes about it makes him come across as insincere and suspicious, such as by trying to steal the Book of Shadows. By the time he comes back in season 3, he is portrayed as being significantly more caring, protective, sincere in his attempts to be there for them and sincere.the moral ambiguity is completely dropped. It's such a near-180 from his previous appearance that the actor switch between appearances is more likely to be what accounts for it than any sort of CharacterDevelopment.


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** It's deconstructed in his first appearance and in the backstory. Despite having good intentions in "Thank You For Not Morphing", he actually makes himself come off as untrustworthy and has to jump through some hoops to show he's sincere. In the backstory, his saving Prue from the Nothing in "We All Scream for Ice Cream" actually ends up leading to him leaving because Penny insisted that this somehow proved he would not be able to handle helping protect them against demons.
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* TheLostLenore: Her first husband Allen, Penny's father and the sisters' grandfather, clearly meant a lot to her and cast a pall over her future relationships. The worst thing she can say about him is that he was very into being a hippie.
* MamaBear: She's fiercely protective of her granddaughters. When she sees what she believes to be strange women in the house talking to young Prue and Piper (not realising it's the adult versions of the sisters having travelled back in time) she flings them out of the house with her telepathy to get them away from the girls.

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* TheLostLenore: Her first husband Allen, Penny's Patty's father and the sisters' grandfather, clearly meant a lot to her and cast a pall over her future relationships. The worst thing she can say about him is that he was very into being a hippie.
* MamaBear: She's fiercely protective of her granddaughters. When she sees what she believes to be strange women in the house talking to young Prue and Piper (not realising it's the adult versions of the sisters having travelled back in time) she flings them out of the house with her telepathy telekinesis to get them away from the girls.
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* TheLostLenore: Her first husband Allen, Penny's father and the sisters' grandfather, clearly meant a lot to her and cast a pall over her future relationships. The worst thing she can say about him is that he was very into being a hippie.
* MamaBear: She's fiercely protective of her granddaughters. When she sees what she believes to be strange women in the house talking to young Prue and Piper (not realising it's the adult versions of the sisters having travelled back in time) she flings them out of the house with her telepathy to get them away from the girls.


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* RaisedByGrandparents: In the BadFuture he took over raising Wyatt and Chris after Piper was killed during their teenage years.
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* HealingHands: In "The Seven Year Witch" he uses this power to heal Piper. Presumably his love for his mother is what allowed him to activate the ability.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After all the trouble they caused during the series, the comics revealed that they were [[{{Reincarnation}} recycled]] and replaced with an entirely new council because they were interfering too much.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The only time she is ever referred to by her full first name, Penelope, is in a spell that calls on the combined powers of the Halliwell ancestors, and even that is only inferred from the fact that she is listed in between Patty and Prue.



* CommonalityConnection: He and Henry bond in the comics as the only two purely mortal husbands in a family of witches.



* HonoraryUncle: The comics show that he is effectively a "bonus" grandparent to Paige's children, who he treats no differently from Piper and Phoebe's.



* BigBrotherInstinct: Even as a toddler, he had this (when he wasn't being competitive for his parents' attention).

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Even as a toddler, he had this (when he wasn't being competitive for his parents' attention). It's also worth noting that the existence of his sister and cousins is about the only thing he is capable of keeping quiet about to prevent them from being RetGone.



* CannotKeepASecret: Whenever the adult version of him travels back in time he keeps accidentally blurting out details about what happens to his family in their futures.

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* CannotKeepASecret: Whenever the adult version of him travels back in time he keeps accidentally blurting out details about what happens to his family in their futures. The one exception is the fact that he'll eventually have a younger sister and six cousins; [[BigBrotherInstinct he can keep quiet about them]] if it means preventing a repeat of Chris's near-RetGone situation.



* TookALevelInBadass: She gains magical powers over plants in Season 9, and fights alongside the Halliwells against Rennek in "The Power of 300."

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* SecretKeeper: She becomes one to the Halliwells in the comics, as [[spoiler: Paige needs to heal her after Cal Greene nearly beats Elise to death, but they still need to make her look injured so Greene can be convicted.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: She temporarily gains magical powers over plants in Season 9, and fights alongside the Halliwells against Rennek in "The Power of 300."

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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: If he can do anything about it, you DO NOT TOUCH his daughters. Sadly turned against itself in the backstory, as conflicts about whether he COULD do anything about it or not is exactly how Grams chased him out of the family.



* OverprotectiveDad: If he can do anything about it, you DO NOT TOUCH his daughters. Sadly turned against itself in the backstory, as conflicts about whether he COULD do anything about it or not is exactly how Grams chased him out of the family.
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The Elders are the Whitelighters with the most authority. When the Charmed Ones need advise, Leo will often orb to the Elders to ask them. While they are inially opposed to the romance between Leo and Piper, they eventually agree to their marriage. At the end of season 5, the council of Elders are killed by the Titans, but are replaced by new Elders, including Leo.

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The Elders are the Whitelighters with the most authority. When the Charmed Ones need advise, advice, Leo will often orb to the Elders to ask them. While they are inially opposed to the romance between Leo and Piper, they eventually agree to their marriage. At the end of season 5, the council of Elders are killed by the Titans, but are replaced by new Elders, including Leo.
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* TheNeedsOfTheMany: They refuse to resurrect [[spoiler:Kyle Brody]] for this reason, as doing so would drain their power at the moment they're remaking the world into a Utopia. Alpha claims that they believe individual needs and fates should be sacrificed for the greater good.

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* TheMaidenNameDebate: An issue of Season 10 shows that he took the name Halliwell after marrying Phoebe.


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* TookTheWifesName: An issue of Season 10 shows that he took the name Halliwell after marrying Phoebe.
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* TheMaidenNameDebate: An issue of Season 10 shows that he took the name Halliwell after marrying Phoebe.
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* CannotKeepASecret: Whenever the adult version of him travels back in time he keeps accidentally blurting out details about what happens to his family in their futures.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As an adult, his hair is long whenever he's evil and short when he's good. [[spoiler:In "Imaginary Fiends" his hair changes instantly when Vicus corrupts his younger self.]]

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* AboveGoodAndEvil: As he puts it, he isn’t good or evil, he just is.

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* AboveGoodAndEvil: As he puts it, he isn’t isn't good or evil, he just is.



* DontFearTheReaper: He isn’t such a bad guy, and he tries to help the Halliwells the best he can. Of course, the restrictions to his job mean that that said help is usually limited to trying to help them deal with their grief.

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* DontFearTheReaper: He isn’t isn't such a bad guy, and he tries to help the Halliwells the best he can. Of course, the restrictions to his job mean that that said help is usually limited to trying to help them deal with their grief.grief.
** Clarence is particularly kind and sensitive about his job. He poses as a mortal and befriends Chris to make his unique situation (almost being erased from existence before he can actually be born) easier on him. When Chris is saved, Clarence doesn't pursue him any further and advises him to make the most of his second chance.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Part of his job is to collect souls and help them to cross on to the afterlife.

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