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*ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In Shay’s Story Tally wears a headband throughout the graphic novel until she betrays the Smoke and the Specials arrive at which point the headband comes off. Also, Tally is shown with shoulder length hair in Shay’s Story as an Ugly. In Cutters, once she turns Pretty, she lets her hair grow out slowly until it reaches her waist.


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*ExpositoryHairStyleChange: In Shay’s Story, Shay has hair down to her waist as an Ugly. In Cutters, once she turns Pretty, she cuts it down to her chin and lets it grow down to her shoulders.


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*ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Has blond hair as an Ugly but black as a Pretty.
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* BadassDamsel: In her dream, Princess Tally decides to quit waiting for a prince to rescue her and breaks herself out of her tower prison.
* BadassPrincess: In Pretties, Tally sees herself as one in her dreams, when she has to break herself out of the tower holding her prisoner.
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*BowAndArrows: Wields these in her dream in Cutters.


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* TheHuntress: Is this in her and Tally’s dream.


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* PrinceCharming: He is this in Tally and Shay’s dream.


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* PrinceCharming: He is this in Tally and Shay’s dream.
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* BadassPrincess: Once again in her recurring dreams in Pretties.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Along with I Just Want to Beautiful, in this world it's pretty much the same thing.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Along with I Just Want to Beautiful, IJustWantToBeBeautiful, in this world it's pretty much the same thing.



* TheLeader:OfTheCrims.

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* TheLeader:OfTheCrims.TheLeader: Of The Crims.



* TagalongKids

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* TagalongKids[[TagalongKid Tagalong Kids]]



[[spoiler: SataliteLoveInterest: To Zane in Cutters, when Shay visits and sees that Helen and Zane are in a pleasure garden. In Pretties, it's mentioned that they broke up.]]

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[[spoiler: SataliteLoveInterest: * [[spoiler:SatelliteLoveInterest: To Zane in Cutters, when Shay visits and sees that Helen and Zane are in a pleasure garden. In Pretties, it's mentioned that they broke up.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheChosenOne:Slowly becomes this. While she starts out as TheMole, David starts to like Tally and she is the only Smokey he trusts enough to tell the truth about what the operation does to your brain. Later in Pretties, it is revealed that she can rewire her brain and is able to reverse the MindControl she's been put through by sheer willpower. Tally is the only one shown to do this and it leads to the cure for the Pretty lesions. Finally she the only Special in the entire world not to be cured and so she still has her superpowers and vows to use them to save the world if it ever needs it.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheChosenOne:Slowly [[spoiler:TheChosenOne: Slowly becomes this. While she starts out as TheMole, David starts to like Tally and she is the only Smokey he trusts enough to tell the truth about what the operation does to your brain. Later in Pretties, it is revealed that she can rewire her brain and is able to reverse the MindControl she's been put through by sheer willpower. Tally is the only one shown to do this and it leads to the cure for the Pretty lesions. Finally she the only Special in the entire world not to be cured and so she still has her superpowers and vows to use them to save the world if it ever needs it.]]



* ChildhoodFriends:With Peris.

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* ChildhoodFriends:With ChildhoodFriends: With Peris.



* IJustWantToHaveFriends:When Uglies begins Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty

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* IJustWantToHaveFriends:When IJustWantToHaveFriends: When Uglies begins Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty



* RejectTheCall: When Shay asks her Tally refuses to go to the Smoke.

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* RejectTheCall: RefusalOfTheCall: When Shay asks her Tally refuses to go to the Smoke.



* TookALevelInBadass:[[spoiler: Every book has Tally gain a few levels.]]

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* TookALevelInBadass:[[spoiler: Every TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Every book has Tally gain a few levels.]]



* [[BroughtDownToNormal: In Part 3 of Specials. While she loved being Special, Shay is actually thankful to be back to normal.]]

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* [[BroughtDownToNormal: BroughtDownToNormal: In Part 3 of Specials. While she loved being Special, Shay is actually thankful to be back to normal.]]



* [[The Leader: Of the Cutters in Pretties and in Specials.]]

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* [[The Leader: TheLeader: Of the Cutters in Pretties and in Specials.]]



* RejectTheCall: Albeit reluctantly, David talks her out of going the first time.

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* RejectTheCall: RefusalOfTheCall: Albeit reluctantly, David talks her out of going the first time.



* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingIt,Hero:Once she is no longer Special, Shay apologizes to Tally, admitting that forcing Tally to become Special was a bad idea.]]

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* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingIt,Hero:Once [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Once she is no longer Special, Shay apologizes to Tally, admitting that forcing Tally to become Special was a bad idea.]]



* RejectedTheCall; In Pretties, when Tally tries to get him to leave the city with
her.

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* RejectedTheCall; RefusalOfTheCall: In Pretties, when Tally tries to get him to leave the city with
with her.



* [[spoiler: Well-IntentionedExtremist: Tries to convince Tally of this in Pretties but it's a lie.]]

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* [[spoiler: Well-IntentionedExtremist: WellIntentionedExtremist: Tries to convince Tally of this in Pretties but it's a lie.]]



* IKnowYou'reInThereSomewhereFight: Tries this on Tally in Specials.

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* IKnowYou'reInThereSomewhereFight: IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Tries this on Tally in Specials.



* Really Gets Around: Spent a lot of time in pleasure gardens.

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* Really Gets Around: ReallyGetsAround: Spent a lot of time in pleasure gardens.



* RedOni,BlueOni: The Red to Zane's Blue in Shay's Story.

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* RedOni,BlueOni: RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Zane's Blue in Shay's Story.



* He's All Grown Up: He is this in Pretties when he and Shay start dating.

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* [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up: Up]]: He is this in Pretties when he and Shay start dating.



!Ann,Sussy,andDex

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!Ann,Sussy,andDex!Ann, Sussy, and Dex
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* Badass: [[spoiler: She becomes this in Part 3 of Uglies. When she not only manages to escape capture after the Smoke is destroyed by the Specials, but also breaks into Special Circumstances, rescues the survivors, and is able to restart the Smoke by help David recruit more runaways.]]



* BrownEyes
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* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: How Shay she's Tally when the Smoke is destroyed in Shay's Story.]]

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* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing: How Shay she's sees Tally when the Smoke is destroyed in Shay's Story.]]
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* [[spoiler: BitchInSheep'sClothing: How Shay she's Tally when the Smoke is destroyed in Shay's Story.]]

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* [[spoiler: BitchInSheep'sClothing: BitchInSheepsClothing: How Shay she's Tally when the Smoke is destroyed in Shay's Story.]]



* Hard-DrinkingPartyGirl: In Pretties, Part 1.

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* Hard-DrinkingPartyGirl: HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In Pretties, Part 1.



* Kidnapped by the Call: Tally is forced to betray Shay.

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* Kidnapped by the Call: KidnappedByTheCall: Tally is forced to betray Shay.



* Playful Hacker: Shay teaches her how to hack a hoverboard, so that it won't alert the minders when you fly it out of Uglyville.

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* Playful Hacker: PlayfulHacker: Shay teaches her how to hack a hoverboard, so that it won't alert the minders when you fly it out of Uglyville.



* RedOni,BlueOni: She is the Blue to Shay's Red.[[spoiler:Until Part 3 of Specials from that point on Tally becomes the Red to Shay's Blue.]]

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* RedOni,BlueOni: RedOniBlueOni: She is the Blue to Shay's Red.[[spoiler:Until Part 3 of Specials from that point on Tally becomes the Red to Shay's Blue.]]



* [[spoiler:BitchInSheep'sClothing: In Uglies]]

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* [[spoiler:BitchInSheep'sClothing: [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing: In Uglies]]



* [[spoiler:Face-HeelTurn: In Pretties, once she turns against Tally, starts the Cutters, and is turned into a Special by Dr. Cable.]]
* [[spoiler:Heel-FaceTurn: When she is cured of her specialness by Fausto.]]

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* [[spoiler:Face-HeelTurn: [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: In Pretties, once she turns against Tally, starts the Cutters, and is turned into a Special by Dr. Cable.]]
* [[spoiler:Heel-FaceTurn: [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: When she is cured of her specialness by Fausto.]]
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[[spoiler: SataliteLoveInterest: To Zane in Cutters, when Shay visits and sees that Helen and Zane are in a pleasure garden. In Pretties, it's mentioned that they broke up.]]

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[[spoiler: SataliteLoveInterest: To Zane in Cutters, when Shay visits and sees that Helen and Zane are in a pleasure garden. In Pretties, it's mentioned that they broke up.]]
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* [[spoiler: WildHair: In Pretties, he tells Shay that his ugly nickname was Cowlick.]]
!Ann,Sussu,andDex
* TagalongKids

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* [[spoiler: *[[spoiler: WildHair: In Pretties, he tells Shay that his ugly nickname was Cowlick.]]
!Ann,Sussu,andDex
* TagalongKids
!Ann,Sussy,andDex
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!Ann,Sussu,andDex
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!Ryde
*[[spoiler: BlitheSpirit: He's an Ugly from another city who introduces the Crims to David in Shay's Story.]]
!Helen
[[spoiler: SataliteLoveInterest: To Zane in Cutters, when Shay visits and sees that Helen and Zane are in a pleasure garden. In Pretties, it's mentioned that they broke up.]]
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* [[spoiler:Antiheroine: Tally becomes this in Pretties.]]

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* [[spoiler:Antiheroine: [[spoiler: Antiheroine: Tally becomes this in Pretties.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: In Uglies Part 1 and Part 2, particularly sneaking over to New Pretty Town to see Peris, traveling across the wild by herself and [[managing to survive almost being killed by the Rangers' fire canon.]]

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* ActionSurvivor: In Uglies Part 1 and Part 2, particularly sneaking over to New Pretty Town to see Peris, traveling across the wild by herself and [[managing [[spoiler:managing to survive almost being killed by the Rangers' fire canon.]]

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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate



*[[spoiler: ReptilesAreAbhorrent: She appears as a dragon in Tally's dream in Pretties.]]



*SpikyHair



[[spoiler:BirdsOfAFeather: with Shay.]]

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[[spoiler:BirdsOfAFeather: *[[spoiler:BirdsOfAFeather: with Shay.]]
*He's All Grown Up: He is this in Pretties when he and Shay start dating.
*KnightInShiningArmor: In Shay's dream in Cutters.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: In Cutters, Shay's dream has Ranger Shay (Tomboy) and Princess Tally (Girly Girl).
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Similarly to Tally.

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*BadassAdorable: Shay's Story reveals that Tally is this as an ugly and she was this as a pretty until she started to starve herself.
*BadassPrincess: Once again in her recurring dreams in Pretties.



* Blithe Spirit: As Shay

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* Blithe Spirit: As Shay Tally is this when she goes to the Smoke, [[spoiler: New Pretty Town, Andrew's Village, Special Circumstances, and Diego.]]



* Hard-DrinkingPartyGirl: In Pretties, Part 1.



*PrincessInATower: In her dreams in Pretties.



* TookALevelInBadass:

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*[[spoiler: TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Part of Tally's real personality and has always been present, although the Tomboy aspects of her personality are played up when she is an Ugly and a Special while the Girly Girl aspects are played up when she is a Littlie and a Pretty, though every time she rewires her brain she becomes this.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:TookALevelInBadass:[[spoiler: Every book has Tally gain a few levels.]]



* UnwittingPawn:

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* UnwittingPawn: In the first 2/3 of Uglies.



* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In Pretties, Part 2. In fact, Cutters reveals that she was drinking when she had her argument with Tally.



*MustHaveCaffeine: In Pretties, Part 1 to keep herself bubbly.



* TookALevelInBadass

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* TookALevelInBadass TookALevelInBadass: Starting the Cutters.



*[[spoiler:BroughtDownToNormal: Eventually]]



* [[spoiler: HandicappedBadass: In Specials.]]



* Really Gets Around: Spent a lot of time in pleasure gardens.



*TookALevelInBadass: When he joins Shay's cutters group and escapes the city with Tally.



*ChildhoodFriends: With Zane.
*FieryRedhead
*RedOni,BlueOni: The Red to Zane's Blue in Shay's Story.



*YouthfulFreckles
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*ShrinkingViolet



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* TheMole:

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* TheMole:TheMole: In Uglies.



* Playful Hacker:
* PluckyGirl:

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* Playful Hacker:
Hacker: Shay teaches her how to hack a hoverboard, so that it won't alert the minders when you fly it out of Uglyville.
* PluckyGirl:PluckyGirl: For most of the trilogy she is brave and optimistic,[[spoiler: until Zane's death in Specials, after which the optimism gets toned down as she becomes a Broken Bird.]]



*[[spoiler: ADayInTheLimelight: She narrates a few chapters in Shay's Story and Cutters.]]



* MagnificentBitch;

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* MagnificentBitch; MagnificentBitch



*[[spoiler: RapidAging: Once cured she shows her true age as a crumbly.]]
*SmugSnake




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*VillainousBreakdown:[[spoiler: in Specials when Tally cures her.]]
*[[spoiler: Well-IntentionedExtremist: Tries to convince Tally of this in Pretties but it's a lie.]]
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* BadassAdorable: Tally is really cute. Even though she thinks she is ugly. The graphic novel Shay's Story shows us this.

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* BadassAdorable: *BadassAdorable: Tally is really cute. Even though she thinks she is ugly. The graphic novel Shay's Story shows us this.



* Kidnapped by the Call: Tally is forced to betray Shay.

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* Kidnapped *Kidnapped by the Call: Tally is forced to betray Shay.



* [[spoiler: IJustWantToBeFree: In Part 2 of Pretties, Tally and Zane are on a mission to escape New Pretty Town and find the Smoke and tell them that the cure was a success.]]

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* [[spoiler: *[[spoiler: IJustWantToBeFree: In Part 2 of Pretties, Tally and Zane are on a mission to escape New Pretty Town and find the Smoke and tell them that the cure was a success.]]



* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial: Ironically, despite resisting it she comes like being a Special and doesn't want to give it up.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends:When Uglies begins Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty

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* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial: *[[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial: Ironically, despite resisting it she comes like being a Special and doesn't want to give it up.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends:When *IJustWantToHaveFriends:When Uglies begins Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty



* RejectTheCall: When Shay asks her Tally refuses to go to the Smoke.
* RegalRinglets: As a Pretty.

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* RejectTheCall: *RejectTheCall: When Shay asks her Tally refuses to go to the Smoke.
* RegalRinglets: *RegalRinglets: As a Pretty.



* [[spoiler:BitchInSheep'sClothing: In Uglies

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* [[spoiler:BitchInSheep'sClothing: In UgliesUglies]]



* GreenEyes

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* GreenEyes*GreenEyes



* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Before she met David as an ugly.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: In Uglies/Shay's Story she likes how real the Smoke and how they are actually doing something besides partying and being pretty.
* IJustWantToBeFree: It's why she ran away in Uglies [[spoiler: and escaped New Pretty Town in Pretties a few days after Tally.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends:While Tally seems to outgrow this in Pretties, Shay had friends in Uglies and she slowly looses them in Pretties and she becomes somewhat lonely. [[spoiler: Part of the reason why she wanted Tally to be Special with her.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: The second time that Shay gets a chance to go to the Smoke she can't wait.

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* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: *IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Before she met David as an ugly.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: *IJustWantToBeSpecial: In Uglies/Shay's Story she likes how real the Smoke and how they are actually doing something besides partying and being pretty.
* IJustWantToBeFree: *IJustWantToBeFree: It's why she ran away in Uglies [[spoiler: and escaped New Pretty Town in Pretties a few days after Tally.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends:While *IJustWantToHaveFriends:While Tally seems to outgrow this in Pretties, Shay had friends in Uglies and she slowly looses them in Pretties and she becomes somewhat lonely. [[spoiler: Part of the reason why she wanted Tally to be Special with her.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: *JumpedAtTheCall: The second time that Shay gets a chance to go to the Smoke she can't wait.



* TookALevelInBadass

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* TookALevelInBadass *TookALevelInBadass



* ChildhoodFriend: To Tally
* GagNose: Implied when he was ugly as it was his nickname.
* RejectedTheCall; In Pretties, when Tally tries to get him to leave the city with

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* ChildhoodFriend: *ChildhoodFriend: To Tally
* GagNose: *GagNose: Implied when he was ugly as it was his nickname.
* RejectedTheCall; *RejectedTheCall; In Pretties, when Tally tries to get him to leave the city with



* WhatBeautifulEyes: Tally thinks so when he is made pretty.

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* WhatBeautifulEyes: *WhatBeautifulEyes: Tally thinks so when he is made pretty.



* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:In Specials
* BigBad
* MagnificentBitch;
* NotSoDifferent; With Tally. Tally becomes increasing manipulative throughout the books and while she's not at Dr. Cable's level she is the only character tricky enough to defeat Dr. Cable. Also Dr. Cable used her Special Army to control everything. Now that Tally is the last Special in the world she could become as corrupt as Dr. Cable is she's not careful.
* TheTrickster: Was a tricky ugly.

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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:In *BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:In Specials
* BigBad
* MagnificentBitch;
* NotSoDifferent;
*BigBad
*MagnificentBitch;
*[[spoiler:NotSoDifferent;
With Tally. Tally becomes increasing manipulative throughout the books and while she's not at Dr. Cable's level she is the only character tricky enough to defeat Dr. Cable. Also Dr. Cable used her Special Army to control everything. Now that Tally is the last Special in the world she could become as corrupt as Dr. Cable is she's not careful.
* TheTrickster:
careful.]]
*TheTrickster:
Was a tricky ugly.



* ADayInTheLimelight: The short story, How David Got His Scar is told from his POV and takes place before Shay got to the Smoke.
* Badass
* BearsAreBadNews: One gave him his scar.
* TheBigGuy
* CountryMouse: In Uglies Part 3, David has trouble adjusting to the city and in Extras, Tally
* First Love: For Tally
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Specials
* OutOfFocus: He is barely in Pretties
* SlapSlapKiss: With Shay.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Tally in Specials.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: *ADayInTheLimelight: The short story, How David Got His Scar is told from his POV and takes place before Shay got to the Smoke.
* Badass
* BearsAreBadNews:
*Badass
*BearsAreBadNews:
One gave him his scar.
* TheBigGuy
* CountryMouse:
*TheBigGuy
*CountryMouse:
In Uglies Part 3, David has trouble adjusting to the city and in Extras, Tally
* First *First Love: For Tally
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: *IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Specials
* OutOfFocus: *OutOfFocus: He is barely in Pretties
* SlapSlapKiss: *SlapSlapKiss: With Shay.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: *UnresolvedSexualTension: With Tally in Specials.



* TheAtoner:
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Tally
* Badass
* ChildhoodFriends: With Croy
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Shay.
* HeroesLoveDogs: In Shay's Story, he reveals that he had a dog as a Littlie.
* IJustWantToBeFree: In Pretties.
* IKnowYou'reInThereSomewhereFight: Tries this on Tally in Specials.
* TheLeader:OfTheCrims.
* TheMole: Shay and Tally tried to do this in Specials.
* OnlySaneMan: Westerfeld has said that Zane represents Tally's sanity and he helps her undo her brainwashing as a Pretty and a Special.
* OutOfFocus: He's not in half of the books. Uglies and Extras.
* SanitySlippage
* SecondLove: For Tally.
* TheSmartGuy
* TheTrickster: Was a tricky Ugly.
* WeCouldRuleTogether: Tally and Shay try this on Zane.

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* TheAtoner:
* BirdsOfAFeather:
*TheAtoner:
*BirdsOfAFeather:
With Tally
* Badass
* ChildhoodFriends:
*Badass
*ChildhoodFriends:
With Croy
* DoggedNiceGuy: *DoggedNiceGuy: To Shay.
* HeroesLoveDogs: *HeroesLoveDogs: In Shay's Story, he reveals that he had a dog as a Littlie.
* IJustWantToBeFree: *IJustWantToBeFree: In Pretties.
* IKnowYou'reInThereSomewhereFight: *IKnowYou'reInThereSomewhereFight: Tries this on Tally in Specials.
* TheLeader:OfTheCrims.
* TheMole:
*TheLeader:OfTheCrims.
*TheMole:
Shay and Tally tried to do this in Specials.
* OnlySaneMan: *OnlySaneMan: Westerfeld has said that Zane represents Tally's sanity and he helps her undo her brainwashing as a Pretty and a Special.
* OutOfFocus: *OutOfFocus: He's not in half of the books. Uglies and Extras.
* SanitySlippage
* SecondLove:
*SanitySlippage
*SecondLove:
For Tally.
* TheSmartGuy
* TheTrickster:
*TheSmartGuy
*TheTrickster:
Was a tricky Ugly.
* WeCouldRuleTogether: *WeCouldRuleTogether: Tally and Shay try this on Zane.



* JumpedAtTheCall: He leaves the New Pretty Town with Tally.

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* JumpedAtTheCall: *JumpedAtTheCall: He leaves the New Pretty Town with Tally.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?
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*WhatHappenedToTheMouse?
!Tachs
[[spoiler:BirdsOfAFeather: with Shay.]]

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*BadassAdorable: Tally is really cute. Even though she thinks she is ugly. The graphic novel Shay's Story shows us this.



* BrownEyes



* I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Tally for Part 1 and Part 2 of Uglies.
* KindHeartCatLover: Implied in Uglies.

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* I Just Want *Kidnapped by the Call: Tally is forced to Be Beautiful: betray Shay.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful:
Tally for Part 1 and Part 2 of Uglies.
*[[spoiler: IJustWantToBeFree: In Part 2 of Pretties, Tally and Zane are on a mission to escape New Pretty Town and find the Smoke and tell them that the cure was a success.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Along with I Just Want to Beautiful, in this world it's pretty much the same thing.
*[[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial: Ironically, despite resisting it she comes like being a Special and doesn't want to give it up.]]
*IJustWantToHaveFriends:When Uglies begins Tally is sad because her best friend Peris has turned Pretty
* KindHeartCatLover: Implied in Uglies. Tally not only vividly compares the summer sky to cat vomit, but she also had a morphos of her as a cat woman even though she knew the city would never give her that kind of operation.



* TheTrickster:

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* TheTrickster: She is a tricky ugly.



* Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the Blue to Shay's Red.[[spoiler:Until Part 3 of Specials from that point on Tally becomes the Red to Shay's Blue.]]

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* Red Oni, Blue Oni: QuirkyCurls: As an Ugly.
* RedOni,BlueOni:
She is the Blue to Shay's Red.[[spoiler:Until Part 3 of Specials from that point on Tally becomes the Red to Shay's Blue.]]]]
*RejectTheCall: When Shay asks her Tally refuses to go to the Smoke.
*RegalRinglets: As a Pretty.



* [[Spoiler:



*GreenEyes
* HeroineOfAnotherStory: Even though Shay has a lot of Character Development and has an important role in every book, we still don't see all of the time and there is a lot that Shay goes through that Tally doesn't know about. Shay's Story is Uglies retold from Shay's POV and Cutters is Pretties from her POV and we can see that Shay is having just as much adventure and action as Tally.
*IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Before she met David as an ugly.
*IJustWantToBeSpecial: In Uglies/Shay's Story she likes how real the Smoke and how they are actually doing something besides partying and being pretty.
*IJustWantToBeFree: It's why she ran away in Uglies [[spoiler: and escaped New Pretty Town in Pretties a few days after Tally.]]
*IJustWantToHaveFriends:While Tally seems to outgrow this in Pretties, Shay had friends in Uglies and she slowly looses them in Pretties and she becomes somewhat lonely. [[spoiler: Part of the reason why she wanted Tally to be Special with her.]]
*JumpedAtTheCall: The second time that Shay gets a chance to go to the Smoke she can't wait.



* RejectTheCall: Albeit reluctantly, David talks her out of going the first time.



* TheTrickster: A tricky ugly and a tricky pretty.
* [[spoiler:SuperSoldier: In Specials.]]



* NotSoDifferent: With Tally. Although they are very different personality-wise they are also quite similar in terms of their roles in the story, just look at how many tropes they share.

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!Peris
*ChildhoodFriend: To Tally
*GagNose: Implied when he was ugly as it was his nickname.
*RejectedTheCall; In Pretties, when Tally tries to get him to leave the city with
her.
*WhatBeautifulEyes: Tally thinks so when he is made pretty.
!Dr.Cable
*BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:In Specials
*BigBad
*MagnificentBitch;
*NotSoDifferent; With Tally. Tally becomes increasing manipulative throughout the books and while she's not at Dr. Cable's level she is the only character tricky enough to defeat Dr. Cable. Also Dr. Cable used her Special Army to control everything. Now that Tally is the last Special in the world she could become as corrupt as Dr. Cable is she's not careful.
*TheTrickster: Was a tricky ugly.

!David
*ADayInTheLimelight: The short story, How David Got His Scar is told from his POV and takes place before Shay got to the Smoke.
*Badass
*BearsAreBadNews: One gave him his scar.
*TheBigGuy
*CountryMouse: In Uglies Part 3, David has trouble adjusting to the city and in Extras, Tally
*First Love: For Tally
*IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Specials
*OutOfFocus: He is barely in Pretties
*SlapSlapKiss: With Shay.
*UnresolvedSexualTension: With Tally in Specials.
!Zane
*TheAtoner:
*BirdsOfAFeather: With Tally
*Badass
*ChildhoodFriends: With Croy
*DoggedNiceGuy: To Shay.
*HeroesLoveDogs: In Shay's Story, he reveals that he had a dog as a Littlie.
*IJustWantToBeFree: In Pretties.
*IKnowYou'reInThereSomewhereFight: Tries this on Tally in Specials.
*TheLeader:OfTheCrims.
*TheMole: Shay and Tally tried to do this in Specials.
*OnlySaneMan: Westerfeld has said that Zane represents Tally's sanity and he helps her undo her brainwashing as a Pretty and a Special.
*OutOfFocus: He's not in half of the books. Uglies and Extras.
*SanitySlippage
*SecondLove: For Tally.
*TheSmartGuy
*TheTrickster: Was a tricky Ugly.
*WeCouldRuleTogether: Tally and Shay try this on Zane.
!Fausto
*JumpedAtTheCall: He leaves the New Pretty Town with Tally.
!Croy
*WhatHappenedToTheMouse?
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*[[spoiler: TheAtoner: She agrees to turn Pretty so that she can test the cure in an attempt to atone for accidentally betraying the Smoke.]]



* Blithe Spirit:

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*[[spoiler: BitchInSheep'sClothing: How Shay she's Tally when the Smoke is destroyed in Shay's Story.]]
* Blithe Spirit: As Shay



* God Guise: Part 3 of Pretties.

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* [[spoiler:BeautifulAllAlong:In Uglies when David calls her beautiful even though Tally has trouble believing him at first when he kisses her to prove it,Tally falls in love with him.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: Tally and Zane.
* CityMouse: When she first joins the Smoke.
*ChildhoodFriends:With Peris.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Tally can't stand Spagbol.
* God Guise: In Part 3 of Pretties.Pretties, when she stumbles into the Rusty Village.
* [[spoiler:JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In Extras.]]
* [[spoiler:Her Heart Will Go On: It's implied in Extras, with David.]]



* [[

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* [[I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Tally for Part 1 and Part 2 of Uglies.
*KindHeartCatLover: Implied in Uglies.



* NotSoDifferent: With Shay and Dr. Cable.



* OppositesAttract: With David in Uglies.



* Playful Hacker:



* UngratefulBitch: Gets called out on this by Shay in Pretties.



*[[Spoiler:



*AnimatedTattoo: Has one of snakes on her face in Pretties and in



*[[spoiler:BrainlessBeauty:In Part 3 of Uglies.]]
*[[spoiler:BreakTheHaughty:Shay's Story reveals this happened to Shay in Uglies, David, Croy, and many others were suspicious of Tally and upset that Shay disobeyed the rules and gave an outsider a map to the Smoke but Shay didn't listen to their concerns and kept trying to get David to accept Tally, but this unbeknownst to Shay led him to fall in love with Tally. Later, when the Specials come Dr. Cable mocks Shay by saying that if she never gave Tally the map none of this would have happened.]]
*[[BroughtDownToNormal: In Part 3 of Specials. While she loved being Special, Shay is actually thankful to be back to normal.]]
*Deuteragonist: Scott Westerfeld thinks of Shay as Tally's Sidekick. Shay is One of the few characters who appears in all four books and isn't Out Of Focus for any of them.



* TheRival:

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* TheRival:[[The Leader: Of the Cutters in Pretties and in Specials.]]
* Rapunzel Hair: Down to her waist in Shay's Story, but down to her ankles in her dream in Cutters.
*RebelliousSpirit: "I can't think of anything worse than being required to have fun."
*[[spoiler:RichBitch: Shay gives off this vibe in Uglies after she has been turned Pretty and is rescued by Tally.]]
* TheRival:
*StatuesqueStunner: Shay is described as being tall.
* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingIt,Hero:Once she is no longer Special, Shay apologizes to Tally, admitting that forcing Tally to become Special was a bad idea.]]
* NotSoDifferent: With Tally. Although they are very different personality-wise they are also quite similar in terms of their roles in the story, just look at how many tropes they share.
* ObliviousToLove: In Shay's Story, she didn't know that Zane had a crush on her when they were uglies. By the time Shay visits him in New Pretty Town and realizes that he used to like her, she meets his pretty girlfriend, Helen and realizes that he is over her. Tachs had a crush on her too, but didn't tell her until they were both pretties, but Shay seems pleasantly surprised and they start dating.
*UngratefulBitch: Gets called out on this by Tachs in Cutters.

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*[[spoiler:Antiheroine: Tally becomes this in Pretties.]]



* Blithe Spirit:
* BrainlessBeauty: Part 1 of Pretties.
* BratsWithSlingshots: In Pretties, Tally mentions that she was really good with slingshots as a Littlie.



*
* TheHero:

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*
*[[spoiler:TheChosenOne:Slowly becomes this. While she starts out as TheMole, David starts to like Tally and she is the only Smokey he trusts enough to tell the truth about what the operation does to your brain. Later in Pretties, it is revealed that she can rewire her brain and is able to reverse the MindControl she's been put through by sheer willpower. Tally is the only one shown to do this and it leads to the cure for the Pretty lesions. Finally she the only Special in the entire world not to be cured and so she still has her superpowers and vows to use them to save the world if it ever needs it.]]
* TheHero:God Guise: Part 3 of Pretties.
* TheHero: The moment that David tells her the truth about the Pretty operation, Tally agrees help him put a stop to it and that is where we first see Tally fully commit to the Smoke and go from being an Unwitting Pawn to The Hero.
* [[
* MeaningfulName:
* NaiveNewcomer: Remembers how she was this when she first came to Uglyville, it happens when she joins the Smoke,[[spoiler: when she lives in New Pretty Town, when she joins the Crims, when she comes to Andrew Simpson Smith's village, when she joins Special Circumstances, and when she goes to Diego and Yokohama.]]
* Nice Job Breaking it, Hero:
* ManipulativeBitch: Only a little in Uglies, such as the distraction she comes up with for the Specials so she can sneak into the building, but much more overtly in Pretties, including using her fame among the Pretties to hijack a hot-air balloon and pretending to be a clueless pretty before threatening a doctor with her knife and stealing his hovercar.



* ObfuscatingStupidity: In Pretties.



* PluckyGirl:

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* PluckyGirl:PluckyGirl:
* Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the Blue to Shay's Red.[[spoiler:Until Part 3 of Specials from that point on Tally becomes the Red to Shay's Blue.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks:
* [[spoiler:SuperSoldier]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
* UnwittingPawn:
* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist: In Specials.]]
* [[spoiler:WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: As is the case with all of the Cutters.]]
!Shay
*[[spoiler:BitchInSheep'sClothing: In Uglies
*BlitheSpirit: Shay changes Tally's life when they first become friends and Tally would've never saved the world and became a hero if it wasn't for Shay.
*[[spoiler:Face-HeelTurn: In Pretties, once she turns against Tally, starts the Cutters, and is turned into a Special by Dr. Cable.]]
*[[spoiler:Heel-FaceTurn: When she is cured of her specialness by Fausto.]]
*TheRival:
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* BecomingtheMask: Tally slowly begins to love the Smoke and decides to make it her new home and not tell Dr. Cable its location.
* BreaktheCutie: Tally slowly gets more and more broken.
* [[spoiler: BrokenBird: After Zane dies in Specials.]]
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* TheHero:
* TheMole:
* TheTrickster:
* PluckyGirl:

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* ActionSurvivor: In Uglies Part 1 and Part 2, particularly sneaking over to New Pretty Town to see Peris, traveling across the wild by herself and [[managing to survive almost being killed by the Rangers' fire canon.]]
* [[spoiler: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]



* [[spoiler: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]

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* [[spoiler: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]
* Badass: [[spoiler: She becomes this in Part 3 of Uglies. When she not only manages to escape capture after the Smoke is destroyed by the Specials, but also breaks into Special Circumstances, rescues the survivors, and is able to restart the Smoke by help David recruit more runaways.
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* [[spoiler: AnimatedTattoo: In Pretties, Tally gets one of these on her face. It spins to her heartbeat. She keeps it for the rest of the series and even gets more of them in Specials, that cover her face, arms, and hands. They look like black spirals.]]
* [[spoiler: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]

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* [[spoiler: *[[spoiler: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: *AudienceSurrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]
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* [[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* Audience Surrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]

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* [[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: AesopAmnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* Audience Surrogate: AudienceSurrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]
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* [[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* Audience Surrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]

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* [[spoiler: *[[spoiler: Animated Tattoo: In Pretties, Tally gets one of these on her face. It spins to her heartbeat. She keeps it for the rest of the series and even gets more of them in Specials, that cover her face, arms, and hands. They look like black spirals.]]
* [[spoiler: *[[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
* Audience *Audience Surrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]
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* [[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.

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spirals.]]
* [[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.]]
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!Tally Youngblood
*[[spoiler: Animated Tattoo: In Pretties, Tally gets one of these on her face. It spins to her heartbeat. She keeps it for the rest of the series and even gets more of them in Specials, that cover her face, arms, and hands. They look like black spirals.
*[[spoiler: Aesop Amnesia: In Pretties and Specials, Tally has been brainwashed and must relearn the lesson she learned in Uglies.
*Audience Surrogate: This is a big part of Tally's character in the first half of Uglies, as we learn about this future world. [[spoiler: But as the book goes on she begins to grow out of this.]]

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