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* HotScientist: She's a blonde attractive scientist/professor.
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* AthleticallyChallenged: As Sabrina herself says in "Sweet and Sour Victory", she's terrible at sports, even in the easy ones like badminton, that's why she used her magic to win a Kung Fu contest. In "The Pom Pom Incident, when Valerie convices her to try out for the cheerleading squad, [[StrawLoser Valerie]] does surprisingly well, while Sabrina does all the moves wrong, despite trying her best.

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* AthleticallyChallenged: As Sabrina herself says in "Sweet and Sour Victory", she's terrible at sports, even in the easy ones like badminton, that's why she used her magic to win a Kung Fu contest. In "The Pom Pom Incident, Incident", when Valerie convices her to try out for the cheerleading squad, [[StrawLoser Valerie]] does surprisingly well, while Sabrina does all the moves wrong, despite trying her best.
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* AthleticallyChallenged: As Sabrina herself says in "Sweet and Sour Victory", she's terrible at sports, even in the easy ones like badminton, that's why she used her magic to win a Kung Fu contest. In "The Pom Pom Incident, when Valerie convices her to try out for the cheerleading squad, [[StrawLoser Valerie]] does surprisingly well, while Sabrina does all the moves wrong, despite trying her best.
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* GrumpyBear: Sabrina first describes her as "cranky". She gets better after a few episodes, but is still rude and cynical enough to qualify, especially compared to Sabrina.

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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once dated a man who didn't really listen to her so she cast a spell which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph Big Ben clocktower.]] And during the Renaissance she met a man who didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind about her.

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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once dated a man who didn't really listen to her so she cast a spell which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation Big Ben clocktower.]] And during the Renaissance she met a man who didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind about her.



* BalefulPolymorph: For his crimes, he was sentenced by the council to live in the body of a cat for a century. [[spoiler: This is actually a rather light sentence, given that Warlocks can live for many millennia.]]



* ForcedTransformation: For his crimes, he was sentenced by the council to live in the body of a cat for a century. [[spoiler: This is actually a rather light sentence, given that Warlocks can live for many millennia.]]



* BalefulPolymorph: Well, being involved with a witch it's kind of a drawback. He's been turned into a frog, a beast, a dog, a bowling pin, etc. etc. all due to supernatural shenanigans. Thankfully being a mortal, he never remembers the magic he's fallen under, [[spoiler: that is until Sabrina uses up her limit of spells on him.]]


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* ForcedTransformation: Well, being involved with a witch it's kind of a drawback. He's been turned into a frog, a beast, a dog, a bowling pin, etc. etc. all due to supernatural shenanigans. Thankfully being a mortal, he never remembers the magic he's fallen under, [[spoiler: that is until Sabrina uses up her limit of spells on him.]]
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* NotGoodWithRejection: She once fancied a man who didn't love her back. Her solution was to [[CrystalPrison imprison]] him in a ring.
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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph Big Ben clocktower.]] And during the Renaissance she met a man who didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind about her.

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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered dated a boyfriend man who didn't really listen to be a poor listener her so on their final date she secretly fed him cast a potion spell which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph Big Ben clocktower.]] And during the Renaissance she met a man who didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind about her.
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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph Big Ben clocktower.]] And during the Renaissance a man didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind about her.

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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph Big Ben clocktower.]] And during the Renaissance she met a man who didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind about her.
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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph clocktower Big Ben.]] And most infamously, a man she loved didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind.

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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph clocktower Big Ben.Ben clocktower.]] And most infamously, during the Renaissance a man she loved didn't love her back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind.mind about her.
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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph clocktower Big Ben.]] And most infamously a man she loved didn't love her back so she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind.

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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph clocktower Big Ben.]] And most infamously infamously, a man she loved didn't love her back so back. So she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind.
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* WomanScorned: Men who displease her tend to suffer gruesome fates. She once considered a boyfriend to be a poor listener so on their final date she secretly fed him a potion which caused him to [[BodyHorror grow extra ears all over his head.]] Zelda also relates a story about a man named Ben who once disappointed her, the end result being she transformed him into the [[BalefulPolymorph clocktower Big Ben.]] And most infamously a man she loved didn't love her back so she [[CrystalPrison imprisoned him in a ring]] for the next 500 years with no sign of ever releasing him, even though he now claims he's changed his mind.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged into doing any practicing at all by her sister in the third.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged into doing any practicing at all by her sister in the third. It's implied at one point that she only became a violinist because of her mother and Hilda's increasing lack of interest was her being sick of doing something she didn't want.

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* OneTrueLove: Sabrina's, it's outright confirmed that he is the second half of her soul stone, therefore her soul mate.



* OneTrueLove: Sabrina's, it's outright confirmed that he is the second half of her soul stone, therefore her soul mate.
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* OppositesAttract: With Sabrina. Sabrina is BookSmart but unathletic and not very good at sports, while Harvey is a BookDumb jock.

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* HiddenDepths: While not a top student like Sabrina and often comes off as a pathetic ditz, she's shown to have more book smarts than [[DumbJock Harvey]] and even Libby. When Sabrina rejects her role as editor of the school paper, Mrs. Quick gives the role to Valerie, whose editorial was pretty good and better than Libby's. She also gets the third place in the Invention Fair in another episode.



* ThrowTheDogABone: After her departure, Sabrina mentions that she's doing great in Alaska and has many new friends.
** She also becomes a second-string cheerleader after genuinely impressing the judges at her audition, making her adjacent to the popular kids. Libby herself compliments Valerie on her skills.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: After her departure, StrawLoser: Sometimes she seems to be there to make Sabrina mentions that look cool and confident. Compared to Sabrina, she's doing great in Alaska more socially awkward, less intelligent (though Valerie is not BookDumb, she's not a brilliant student like Sabrina), without a boyfriend, and has many new friends.
overall more pathetic and insecure. Even Valerie's parents like Sabrina more than her.
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** She also occasionally gets recognition for her achievements, as seen in HiddenDepths.
** In one episode, despite her nervousness around Justin, a boy she likes, he asks her out. Even after Valerie embarrasses herself in front of the entire school, he's still interested in her.
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becomes a second-string cheerleader after genuinely impressing the judges at her audition, making her adjacent to the popular kids. Libby herself compliments Valerie on her skills. skills.
** After her departure, Sabrina mentions that Valerie is doing great in Alaska and has many new friends.
* TheUnfavourite: Subverted in "Whose So-Called Life Is It Anyway?". Valerie's parents want her to be more like Sabrina, but when Valerie turns into an exact copy of Sabrina, her parents miss the old Valerie.
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* DeadpanSnarker: She's just as snarky as she's mean, especially when talking to Sabrina and Valerie:
-->'''Libby:''' I'd like to thank the two of you for always travelling together, it helps me insult you that much more efficiently.
* TheDreaded: It's mentioned that the only reason she's popular is because everyone fears her.
-->'''Sabrina:''' How can she do that and still be so popular?
-->'''Jenny:''' Libby is not popular, she is powerful.
-->'''Sabrina:''' Well how did she get the power?
-->'''Jenny:''' She seized it and as long as there are people backing her up she'll keep it, it's all very Stalin.


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* LaughablyEvil: She takes delight in being cruel, to CardCarryingJerkass levels, and it's often quite funny to watch. Not to mention that she often gets some slapstick comeuppance.
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* ClassPrincess: In "Now You See Her, Now You Don't", she's elected queen of the Snowflake ball, and she later learns that the other students voted for her because she's nice and down to earth. In another episode, Gordie tells her that she's always "so perfect, almost like you weren't even human". Ironically, her "perfection" is also the reason why the alternative Roxie dislikes her during her first day at college ("You were the top of your class at high school, had a cute boyfriend and actually enjoyed extra-curricular activities"), though she later starts to accept Sabrina after learning that she also has her own quirks, and she's not as "perfect" as she appears.

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* ClassPrincess: In "Now You See Her, Now You Don't", she's elected queen of the Snowflake ball, and she later learns that the other students voted for her because she's nice and down to earth. In another episode, Gordie tells her that she's always "so perfect, [[RightForTheWrongReasons almost like you weren't even human".human]]". Ironically, her "perfection" is also the reason why the alternative Roxie dislikes her during her first day at college ("You were the top of your class at high school, had a cute boyfriend and actually enjoyed extra-curricular activities"), though she later starts to accept Sabrina after learning that she also has her own quirks, and she's not as "perfect" as she appears.
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* ClassPrincess: In "Now You See Her, Now You Don't", she's elected queen of the Snowflake ball, and she later learns that the other students voted for her because she's nice and down to earth. In another episode, Gordie tells her that she's always "so perfect, almost like you weren't even human". Ironically, her "perfection" is also the reason why the alternative Roxie dislikes her during her first day at college ("You were the top of your class at high school, had a cute boyfriend and actually enjoyed extra-curricular activities"), though she later starts to accept Sabrina after learning that she also has her own quirks, and she's not as "perfect" as she appears.


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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Sabrina's magic often backfires on her even when she uses it to help other people. One example is the episode where Valerie is humiliated at school, and Sabrina casts a spell to save her from embarrassment. She succeeds, but this also causes Sabrina being humiliated instead, with her face literally turnig bright red, because Valerie's embarrassment was simply transferred to Sabrina herself.
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Okay, but this trope is about fun characters WHO ARE BIG, which Hilda definitely is not.


* BigFun: Compared to Zelda she is more carefree and fun-loving.
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'''Voiced by:''' Yuya Uchida (Japanese dub)

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* GenerationXerox: She is BookSmart and interested in science like Aunt Zelda, while also having the impulsive GenkiGirl personality of Aunt Hilda (and most of the time, she acts more like Hilda). In the episode where her aunts want to live in separate homes, she has a hard time choosing between them, because she likes both studying with Aunt Zelda and having fun with Aunt Hilda.
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* TheCheerleader: Along with her minions. In this show cheerleaders are treated as AlwaysChaoticEvil.

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* TheCheerleader: CruelCheerleader: Along with her minions. In this show cheerleaders are treated as AlwaysChaoticEvil.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the Friday the 13th episode, Sabrina is able to tell mortals about being a witch, as they'll immediately forget when the clocks strike midnight. The first person she tells is Valerie, who immediately declares that Sabrina having magic is the coolest thing ever. That alone demonstrates her true nature, but the true What You Are in the Dark moment comes at the episode's end. Libby overhears Sabrina telling Harvey the secret and tries to expose her to the world in front of a huge newscrew. When Harvey doesn't reveal the truth, Libby promises Valerie that if she backs her up, she'll become one of the popular kids, which has been Valerie's goal for the entire series. After a moment's hesitation, Valerie lies and says that she doesn't know what Libby is talking about, choosing her best friend over the popularity she's always craved.

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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the Friday the 13th episode, Sabrina is able to tell mortals about being a witch, as they'll immediately forget when the clocks strike midnight. The first person she tells is Valerie, who immediately declares that Sabrina having magic is the coolest thing ever. That alone demonstrates her true unprejudiced nature, but the true What You Are in the Dark moment comes at the episode's end. Libby overhears Sabrina telling Harvey the secret and tries to expose her to the world in front of a huge newscrew. When Harvey doesn't reveal the truth, Libby promises Valerie that if she backs her up, she'll become one of the popular kids, which has been Valerie's goal for the entire series. After a moment's hesitation, Valerie lies and says that she doesn't know what Libby is talking about, choosing her best friend over the popularity she's always craved.

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* ToxicFriendInfluence: In "Geek Like Me," Sabrina casts a spell on Libby to turn her into a nerd and experience what it's like to be teased for once. Instead of learning a lesson, though, Libby rallies the other nerds in the school and makes ''them'' into a group of nasty bullies who insult everyone they see. Sabrina realizes that Libby's naturally-nasty personality inherently makes her a Toxic Friend, bringing out the worst qualities of everyone around her.



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* TheCaligula: One of the most powerful warlocks in the entire Other Realm, and quite unstable to boot. He has a horrific temper, delights in tormenting mortals and witches alike, and likes to [[SuddenlyShouting abruptly start screaming]] in the middle of sentences.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like many side characters, he disappears after Season Four and is never mentioned again. The Witches Council does occasionally show up, but Drell is notably absent.



* {{Jerkass}}: Acts like this to Hilda, who he left at the altar and towards Sabrina.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Acts like this to Hilda, who he left at the altar altar, and towards Sabrina.
%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat* JerkassHasAPoint: In "Terrible Things," Sabrina ignores her aunts' warnings about using charitable magic and helps Jenny become class president, Harvey join the starting line on the football team, and Mr. Poole determine a way to turn lead to gold. She's brought before Drell, who tells her that while she's free to meddle in the lives of her friends all she wants, ''breaking the laws of physics'' is a crime with serious repercussions. He's not nice about it, but his critique does have merit: the ability to turn lead to gold would destabilize the entire global economy, especially in the hands of a science teacher with no financial training.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He's a stickler for the Other Realm's many rules and forces people to go through the "proper channels"--even when it's an emergency--just because he likes to seem them grovel.


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* FriendOrIdolDecision: At the end of the Friday the 13th episode, she's forced to choose between her best friend Sabrina and becoming popular for the first time in her entire life. She chooses Sabrina.


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* GranolaGirl: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]--her mother is a nutritionist, so she's only allowed to eat health-based foods.


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** She also becomes a second-string cheerleader after genuinely impressing the judges at her audition, making her adjacent to the popular kids. Libby herself compliments Valerie on her skills.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the Friday the 13th episode, Sabrina is able to tell mortals about being a witch, as they'll immediately forget when the clocks strike midnight. The first person she tells is Valerie, who immediately declares that Sabrina having magic is the coolest thing ever. That alone demonstrates her true nature, but the true What You Are in the Dark moment comes at the episode's end. Libby overhears Sabrina telling Harvey the secret and tries to expose her to the world in front of a huge newscrew. When Harvey doesn't reveal the truth, Libby promises Valerie that if she backs her up, she'll become one of the popular kids, which has been Valerie's goal for the entire series. After a moment's hesitation, Valerie lies and says that she doesn't know what Libby is talking about, choosing her best friend over the popularity she's always craved.
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* RapunzelHair: Her hair was always pretty long but had gotten well past her waist by season 7. She lampshades this in one episode where she says she has a lot of hair to wash.
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* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: It should be noted Sabrina has been around since the 60s.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Her disappearance is never mentioned or explained.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Her disappearance is never mentioned or explained. One novelization hand waves it when Sabrina is reunited with a fantasy version of her and says "you just sort of went away", implying they drifted apart or she moved.
* CoolLoser: A confident non-conformist who's only disliked by Libby and her posse.


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* {{Irony}}: She admits to occasionally believing that supernatural things exist, not knowing her best friend is a witch.
* RomanticFalseLead: She initially has a crush on Harvey, but soon realises they have very little in common, and she was more enamored with the idea of him.
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* BalloonBelly: TwiceTwice:
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--''"My name is Mr. Saberhagen. But you can call me Mr. Saberhagen."''

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--''"My "My name is Mr. Saberhagen. But you can call me Mr. Saberhagen."''"
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She traditionally has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] in the comics, though adaptations almost never have it green.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: She traditionally has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] hair in the comics, though adaptations almost never have it green.

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