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* {{May December Romance}}: Victor developed feelings for her, despite him being over 95 in series 2 when they met, while Vera is somewhere in her 40’s. However, due to the doses of the elixir Victor took in the past they look the same age.
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* MessianicArchetype: Nina being concerned about Victor's health when Senkhara threatens him pushes her into this territory. She takes it UpToEleven in the finale, when she pleads with Rufus not to put on the Mask of Anubis and fights to prevent him from doing so. The whole time, she gives off the impression that she's worried about what will happen to him if he puts on the Mask. You can't get much more Messiah-like than being concerned about the well-being of a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who would just as soon kill you as look at you.

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* MessianicArchetype: Nina being concerned about Victor's health when Senkhara threatens him pushes her into this territory. She takes it UpToEleven in In the finale, when she pleads with Rufus not to put on the Mask of Anubis and fights to prevent him from doing so. The whole time, she gives off the impression that she's worried about what will happen to him if he puts on the Mask. You can't get much more Messiah-like than being concerned about the well-being of a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who would just as soon kill you as look at you.
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* Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled. Likewise, she justifies her liking Mick when he's dating Amber by saying Mick and Amber have nothing in common, despite that they're both popular blondes who are less than academically inclined, meanwhile Mara has even less in common with Mick, something she acknowledges and tries to play up in season 2 to get Mick to break up with her.

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* Hypocrite: {{Hypocrite}}: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled. Likewise, she justifies her liking Mick when he's dating Amber by saying Mick and Amber have nothing in common, despite that they're both popular blondes who are less than academically inclined, meanwhile Mara has even less in common with Mick, something she acknowledges and tries to play up in season 2 to get Mick to break up with her.
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* Main/Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled. Likewise, she justifies her liking Mick when he's dating Amber by saying Mick and Amber have nothing in common, despite that they're both popular blondes who are less than academically inclined, meanwhile Mara has even less in common with Mick, something she acknowledges and tries to play up in season 2 to get Mick to break up with her.

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* Main/Hypocrite: Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled. Likewise, she justifies her liking Mick when he's dating Amber by saying Mick and Amber have nothing in common, despite that they're both popular blondes who are less than academically inclined, meanwhile Mara has even less in common with Mick, something she acknowledges and tries to play up in season 2 to get Mick to break up with her.
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* Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled.

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* Hypocrite: Main/Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled.expelled. Likewise, she justifies her liking Mick when he's dating Amber by saying Mick and Amber have nothing in common, despite that they're both popular blondes who are less than academically inclined, meanwhile Mara has even less in common with Mick, something she acknowledges and tries to play up in season 2 to get Mick to break up with her.
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* Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together.

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* Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the student rep election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together.together, the latter of which being academic cheating could have gotten Mick expelled.
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* Hypocrite: She gets angry and breaks up with Mick for trying to cheat for her to win the election, despite the fact she did the exact same thing and tried to cheat for him on a French test earlier in the season before they were together.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Claims that Nina "stole" Fabian from her, even though she and Fabian were never dating. As much as Patricia points this out, Joy continues to insist that Nina stole everything from her, simply because things had changed in the time she was gone.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: Claims that Nina "stole" Fabian from her, even though she and Fabian were never dating. As much as Patricia points this out, Joy continues to insist that Nina stole everything from her, simply because things had changed in the time she was gone. In fairness, this was likely a trauma response directed at the wrong person, as Joy underwent an extremely traumatic experience being kidnapped and when she came back everybody basically ignored what happened to her and her place at Anubis House had been usurped though it was no fault of Nina's.
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* CassandraTruth: Though she doesn't know all the details, she knows something bad has happened to Joy and is the only one who continues to pursue it while the rest of Anubis house treat her like a conspiracy theorist and the teachers gaslight her.

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* CassandraTruth: Though she doesn't know all the details, she knows something bad has happened to Joy Joy-- she even hears Mr. Sweet and Mrs. Andrews discussing how they have to keep her from ever finding out what it was-- and is the only one who continues to pursue it while the rest of Anubis house treat her like a conspiracy theorist and the teachers gaslight her.
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* CassandraTruth: Though she doesn't know all the details, she knows something bad has happened to Joy and is the only one who continues to pursue it while the rest of Anubis house treat her like a conspiracy theorist and the teachers gaslight her.


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* ProperlyParanoid: Insists in season 1 that the teachers have done something bad to Joy and that the police are in on it as well, and though nobody believes her at first, she is proven to be right.
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* DemotedToExtra: She doesn't play as prominent of a role in Season 2 or the end of Season 1, being mostly around for the romance subplot with Jerome and Mick.

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* DemotedToExtra: She doesn't play as prominent of a role in the start of Season 2 or the end of Season 1, being mostly around for the romance subplot with Jerome and Mick.Mick. Subverted as Season 2 goes on having her own storylines like ghost hunting with Eddie and starting a school newspaper with Joy.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's one of kindest character of the show [[GoodIsNotSoft but make her upset and she becomes a more threatening than even Patricia or Victor.]]

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's one of kindest character of the show [[GoodIsNotSoft but make her upset and she becomes a more threatening than even Patricia or Victor.]]
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* IllBoy: He has a rare degenerative disease, which is his reason for siding with Victor.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: After Joy is kidnapped and has her entire life abruptly uprooted (Victor even burns her possessions instead of returning them to her father) because Victor and the other adults believe she is the chosen one, she's returned to school in season 2 with her kidnappers literally still there in positions of authority. Joy goes on to lash out in an obvious response to the untreated trauma she has combined with the fact everyone else in her life went on without her. She shows signs of PTSD that are not explored extensively in the show and even says in season 3, "I really don't like robes, miss. I've had a lot of bad experiences with them." Despite her obvious trauma, she never sees a therapist or has any adult figure even suggest it (likely because most of them except for Trudy were the perpetrators of her trauma or otherwise villainous).

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* ThereAreNoTherapists: After Joy is kidnapped and held hostage for months and has her entire life abruptly uprooted (Victor even burns her possessions instead of returning them to her father) because Victor and the other adults believe she is the chosen one, father), she's returned to school in season 2 with those responsible for her kidnappers kidnapping literally still there in positions of authority. Joy goes on to lash out in an obvious response to the untreated trauma she has combined with the fact everyone else in her life went on without her. She shows signs of PTSD that are not explored extensively in the show and even says in season 3, "I really don't like robes, miss. I've had a lot of bad experiences with them." Despite her obvious trauma, she never sees a therapist or has any adult figure even suggest it (likely because most of them except for Trudy were the perpetrators of her trauma or otherwise villainous).
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: After Joy is kidnapped and has her entire life abruptly uprooted (Victor even burns her possessions instead of returning them to her father) because Victor and the other adults believe she is the chosen one, she's returned to school in season 2 with her kidnappers literally still there in positions of authority. Joy goes on to lash out in an obvious response to the untreated trauma she has combined with the fact everyone else in her life went on without her. She shows signs of PTSD that are not explored extensively in the show and even says in season 3, "I really don't like robes, miss. I've had a lot of bad experiences with them." Despite her obvious trauma, she never sees a therapist or has any adult figure even suggest it (likely because most of them except for Trudy were the perpetrators of her trauma or otherwise villainous).
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* EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Piper's status as the more musically-talented and cultured of the Williamson twins is exemplified by her going to a special academy for musical prodigies, which Patricia bitterly refers to being for "musical geniuses" and compares her school negatively to. It's shown that while Piper's under a lot of stress at that school, she's also still a brilliant, knowledgeable, and skilled student who was also clever enough to trick everyone into not looking for her when she ran away to see her sister.
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* AmbiguousAllegiance: He was a good guy at first, and then he started to unravel the mystery of Joy Mercer's disappearance. Ultimately, this led him to Victor and the next thing the viewers knew, he had joined Victor's society. This spawned some debate among fans of the series as to whether Jason was being forced to cooperate with the society or whether he had joined of his own free will. (A third theory is that he is TheMole, pretending to be loyal to the society in order to gather information on them.) Turned out, he was slowly dying and needed [[MacGuffin The Cup of Ankh to save himself.]]
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* NonconformistDyedHair: Downplayed with Patricia in season 1. While her hair isn't technically dyed so much as she uses brightly-colored clip-on hair-streaks, it's another way of marking her as the tough, alternative "goth pixie" who stands in contrast to the rest of The House, such as being Nina's {{Foil}} and Sibuna's independent, anti-heroic Lancer.
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-->'''Fabian''': I...I saved you...
-->'''Nina''': Oh yeah? Well why don't you save the other girl (Joy Mercer) in this dress?!

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-->'''Fabian''': I...-->'''Fabian:''' I... I saved you...
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you...\\
'''Nina:'''
Oh yeah? Well why don't you save the other girl (Joy Mercer) in this dress?!



* JerkAssBall: There's one part in season three where Fabian rejects Joy. Being the [[NiceGuy nicest guy in the house]] next to Alfie, one would expect him to let her down gently like he'd done all throughout season two. Instead he rejected her in an incredibly harsh way, leaving her utterly heartbroken and to quit Sibuna.

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* JerkAssBall: JerkassBall: There's one part in season three where Fabian rejects Joy. Being the [[NiceGuy nicest guy in the house]] next to Alfie, one would expect him to let her down gently like he'd done all throughout season two. Instead he rejected her in an incredibly harsh way, leaving her utterly heartbroken and to quit Sibuna.
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* BirdsofaFeather: With Joy. Becomes more evident as he and Joy spend more time together-- they're both characters who have made a lot of mistakes and are often defined by their peers for these mistakes, but have also done very selfless things for the sake of their peers in big moments that the rest of their classmates always seem to forget. As Joy tells Jerome: "I know you want to get back at her, embarrass her like she did you... but when you get the chance to get your own back, don't do it-- take it from a girl who makes everything worse."


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* BirdsofaFeather: With Jerome. Becomes more evident as he and Joy spend more time together-- they're both characters who have made a lot of mistakes and are often defined by their peers for these mistakes but have also done very selfless things for the sake of their peers in big moments that the rest of their classmates always seem to forget. As Joy tells Jerome: "I know you want to get back at her, embarrass her like she did you... but when you get the chance to get your own back, don't do it-- take it from a girl who makes everything worse."
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* TownGirls: The Neither to Amber's Femme and Patricia's Butch, being level-headed and neutral, compared to Amber's naive girly-girl and Patricia's hot-tempered tom-boy.

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* TownGirls: The Neither to Amber's Femme and Patricia's Butch, being level-headed and neutral, compared to Amber's naive ditzy girly-girl and Patricia's hot-tempered tom-boy.



* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the {{Tomboy}} to all the other girls' GirlyGirl. It's most obvious when she's compared with Amber and Joy, but one can still see it even when she's with [[{{Geek}} Mara]] and Nina, who have their own tomboy qualities but remain much girlier than Patricia. One bit where the tomboyishness of Patricia as compared to the girliness of the other girls in the House of Anubis is really highlighted is after Amber leaves in Season 3 and KT suggests that they use Amber's clothes to give themselves makeovers. Joy and Mara are thrilled by this idea, but Patricia is annoyed by it.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the {{Tomboy}} to all the other girls' GirlyGirl. It's most obvious when she's compared with Amber [[TheDitz Amber]] and Joy, but one can still see it even when she's with [[{{Geek}} Mara]] and Nina, who have their own tomboy qualities but remain much girlier than Patricia. One bit where the tomboyishness of Patricia as compared to the girliness of the other girls in the House of Anubis is really highlighted is after Amber leaves in Season 3 and KT suggests that they use Amber's clothes to give themselves makeovers. Joy and Mara are thrilled by this idea, but Patricia is annoyed by it.
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* TownGirls: The Neither to Amber's Femme and Patricia's Butch, being level-headed and neutral, compared to Amber's ditzy girly-girl and Patricia's hot-tempered tom-boy.

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* TownGirls: The Neither to Amber's Femme and Patricia's Butch, being level-headed and neutral, compared to Amber's ditzy naive girly-girl and Patricia's hot-tempered tom-boy.



* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the {{Tomboy}} to all the other girls' GirlyGirl. It's most obvious when she's compared with [[TheDitz Amber]] and Joy, but one can still see it even when she's with [[{{Geek}} Mara]] and Nina, who have their own tomboy qualities but remain much girlier than Patricia. One bit where the tomboyishness of Patricia as compared to the girliness of the other girls in the House of Anubis is really highlighted is after Amber leaves in Season 3 and KT suggests that they use Amber's clothes to give themselves makeovers. Joy and Mara are thrilled by this idea, but Patricia is annoyed by it.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the {{Tomboy}} to all the other girls' GirlyGirl. It's most obvious when she's compared with [[TheDitz Amber]] Amber and Joy, but one can still see it even when she's with [[{{Geek}} Mara]] and Nina, who have their own tomboy qualities but remain much girlier than Patricia. One bit where the tomboyishness of Patricia as compared to the girliness of the other girls in the House of Anubis is really highlighted is after Amber leaves in Season 3 and KT suggests that they use Amber's clothes to give themselves makeovers. Joy and Mara are thrilled by this idea, but Patricia is annoyed by it.



* TownGirls: The hot-headed, tomboyish Butch to Nina's level-headed Neither and Amber's ditzy Femme.

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* TownGirls: The hot-headed, tomboyish Butch to Nina's level-headed Neither and Amber's ditzy naive Femme.



* TownGirls: The girly, ditzy Femme to Nina's calm, neutral Neither and Patricia's fiery, tomboy Butch.

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* TownGirls: The girly, ditzy naive Femme to Nina's calm, neutral Neither and Patricia's fiery, tomboy Butch.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her actress is half Guyanese, but it's never explained what Mara's in-universe ethnicity is. The most we get is a vague picture of her father, who appears to be black.



* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her actress is half Filipina, but Joy's own ethnicity is never addressed.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Joy is plenty snarky, especially with Jerome
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* AffectionateNickname: Jerome calls her "Joyless," an appropriate nickname that starts as him poking fun at her, but eventually grows to be something he calls her quite affectionately
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* EvilPrincipal: Downplayed. He's the headmaster of the school and TheDragon to Victor Rodenmarr Jr., and thus a member of TheConspiracy to attain immortal life at the expense of the students, but he's actually a good man despite his exterior and mostly just gets bossed around by Victor. He ultimately does a HeelFaceTurn in Season 2, fully subverting this. However, come Season 3, this is double subverted when he comes back to help Victor and Miss Denby complete their ceremony and is turned into a "Sinner".
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* KickTheDog: Her cursing Nina's sick grandmother for not really any good reason.


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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Vera was never a heroic character and most of her actions were bad in one way or another, but the act that established how bad she is when she kidnapped Trudy, the house's sweet, loving housemother.
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* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Is she ever! By season three, she knows it too, telling Jerome, "Take it from a girl who always makes things worse"
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* BeligerentSexualTension: With Joy, who he finds extremely irritating before eventually falling for her

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* BeligerentSexualTension: BelligerentSexualTension: With Joy, who he finds extremely irritating before eventually falling for her



* BeligerentSexualTension: With Jerome -- starts as only invoked in an attempt to seduce him for Mara's revenge plot, but proves to be accurate

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* BeligerentSexualTension: BelligerentSexualTension: With Jerome -- starts as only invoked in an attempt to seduce him for Mara's revenge plot, but proves to be accurate
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* BeligerentSexualTension: With Joy, who he finds extremely irritating before eventually falling for her


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* BeligerentSexualTension: With Jerome -- starts as only invoked in an attempt to seduce him for Mara's revenge plot, but proves to be accurate

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