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* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: Possibly. Stella believes that her first meeting with Jonathan's parents went wonderfully. Jonathan, knowing the truth, lets her keep thinking this, likely trying to spare her feelings.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Vlad and the Forces of Nature mock Jazz for her GiverOfLameNames tendency by pointing out she's the only one who likes the stupid names she comes up with.

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* VillainHasAPoint: Vlad and the Forces of Nature mock Jazz for her being a GiverOfLameNames tendency by pointing out she's the only one who likes the stupid names she comes up with.
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* GiverOfLameNames:
** Vlad gets sick of Jack calling him "The Wisconsin Ghost" and tells him that his name is Vlad Plasmius.
** Drench and Power Surge aren't impressed that Jazz came up with "Water Fiend" and "Lightning for Brains" for their names.


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* VillainHasAPoint: Vlad and the Forces of Nature mock Jazz for her GiverOfLameNames tendency by pointing out she's the only one who likes the stupid names she comes up with.

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** Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance to her late aunt, Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to ''Star''.
** Chip Franco hits on Stella but she isn't interested since she's married to Jean-Luc and still secretly has feelings for Johnathan.
** Heather St. Cloud tries to flirt with Johnathan in the hopes of getting a rich husband but he's completely lost in her for becoming a shell of her forming self but retaining her unpleasant AlphaBitch attitude.

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** Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance [[StrongFamilyResemblance resemblance]] to her late aunt, Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to ''Star''.
** Chip Franco hits on Stella but she isn't interested since she's married to Jean-Luc and (and still secretly has feelings for Johnathan.
Johnathan).
** Heather St. Cloud tries to flirt with Johnathan in the hopes of getting a rich husband but he's completely lost in her for becoming a shell of her forming former self but while retaining her unpleasant AlphaBitch attitude.



* BluntNo: Stella doesn't waste any time rejecting Chip Franco when he flirts with her because she's already married to Jean-Luc and still has feelings for Johnathan even if she won't accept it.

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* BluntNo: Stella doesn't waste any time rejecting Chip Franco when he flirts with her because because, among other things, she's already married to Jean-Luc and (and still has feelings for Johnathan even if she won't accept it.admit it).



** She's a total bitch about it but Heather does have every right to be mad at her ex-husband Chip Franco for wasting their life savings because of his gambling habits.



** She's a total bitch about it but Heather does have every right to be mad at her ex-husband Chip Franco for wasting their life savings because of his gambling habits.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance to her late aunt, Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to ''Star''.

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Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance to her late aunt, Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to ''Star''.''Star''.
** Chip Franco hits on Stella but she isn't interested since she's married to Jean-Luc and still secretly has feelings for Johnathan.
** Heather St. Cloud tries to flirt with Johnathan in the hopes of getting a rich husband but he's completely lost in her for becoming a shell of her forming self but retaining her unpleasant AlphaBitch attitude.


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* BluntNo: Stella doesn't waste any time rejecting Chip Franco when he flirts with her because she's already married to Jean-Luc and still has feelings for Johnathan even if she won't accept it.


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* CasanovaWannabe: Heather St. Cloud is incapable of getting a second husband because of her bitchy personality.


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** She's a total bitch about it but Heather does have every right to be mad at her ex-husband Chip Franco for wasting their life savings because of his gambling habits.


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* SmugSnake: Heather St. Cloud greatly overestimates herself by believing she can wrap Johnathan around her fingers because "men are controlled by their hormones", as she claims. All that happens is her getting soundly rejected like Chip Franco predicted she would.


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* WeddingRingDefense: Stella uses this reason to turn down Chip Franco and Power Surge because she's married to Jean-Luc (although her heart secretly yearns for Johnathan).
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** Li's Rare Finds is an allusion to ''[[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Uncle's Rare Finds]]''. Both places are owned by people who like mung beans.
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* PetTheDog: even after his daughter left their son, to the point they invite him to Kirk's birthday

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* PetTheDog: even Even after his daughter Stella left their son, Joy and Kirk remain on decent terms with her father Richard, to the point they invite him to Kirk's birthdaybirthday party at the end.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: While remembering the A-Listers, Joy and Kirk call Paulina and Dash “Polly and Nash” and “Penny and Bash”. Team Phantom doesn’t even care enough to correct them.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance to her late aunt, Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to ''Star''.
* AccidentalMisnaming: While remembering the A-Listers, Joy and Kirk call Paulina and Dash “Polly “Polly" and Nash” "Nash”, and “Penny later “Penny" and Bash”."Bash”, respectively. Team Phantom doesn’t even care enough to correct them.



* AllforNothing: The Forces of Nature were desperate to avoid being imprisoned again but after destroying the magic box they get sucked into the Fenton Thermos.
* AlphaBitch: In high school, Heather St. Cloud was a popular cheerleader from a rich family and looked down on students she considered as losers.

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* AllforNothing: AllForNothing: The Forces of Nature were desperate to avoid being imprisoned again but after destroying the magic box box, they get sucked into the Fenton Thermos.
* AlphaBitch: In high school, Heather St. Cloud was a popular cheerleader [[CruelCheerleader cheerleader]] from a rich family and looked down on students she considered as losers.



* EveryoneHasStandards: While Tucker wants a girlfriend, he decides not to act on Audrey's feelings for him because he'd rather not ruin any chance he has with Valerie and there's no guarantee he can even have a relationship with Audrey since she lives in New York.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: While Tucker wants a girlfriend, he decides not to act on Audrey's feelings for him because he'd rather not ruin any chance he has with Valerie and there's no guarantee he can even have a relationship with Audrey since she lives in New York.EveryoneHasStandards:



** Joy and Kirk hate Beatrice and Stella but are ok with Richard.
** While Joy hates Pierre’s parents, she adores the infant and just hopes he doesn’t turn out like Stella and Jean-Luc.

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** Joy and Kirk hate Beatrice and Stella but are ok with Richard.
** While Joy hates Pierre’s Pierre's parents, she adores the infant and just hopes he doesn’t doesn't turn out like Stella and Jean-Luc.Jean-Luc.
** While Tucker wants a girlfriend, he decides not to act on Audrey's feelings for him because he'd rather not ruin any chance he has with Valerie and there's no guarantee he can even have a relationship with Audrey since she lives in New York.
** Despite their hatred of Beatrice, Joy and Kirk are fine with Richard.



* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After an [=EMP=] neutralizes their weapons, Maddie says it's impossible because "Jack was supposed to..." She then wises up and asks her husband if he added shielding like she showed him to. Jack defends that he "had to go to the Fudge Festival that weekend".

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After an [=EMP=] EMP neutralizes their weapons, Maddie says it's impossible because "Jack was supposed to..." She then wises up and asks her husband if he added shielding like she showed him to. Jack defends that he "had to go to the Fudge Festival that weekend".



** Joy and Kirk admit to Star that they never liked Paulina and Dash because the latter was obsessed with football and acted rudely when he thought the couple couldn’t hear him while the former treated Joy like a maid during her visit. They're relieved Star cut ties with the A-Listers and moved up to better friends like Team Phantom.



** Joy and Kirk admit to Team Phantom that they never liked Paulina and Dash because the latter was obsessed with football and acted like a je-rk when he thought they couldn’t hear him while the former treated Joy like a maid during her visit. They’re relieved Star cut ties with the A-Listers and moved up to better friends like Team Phantom.
* HoistbyHisOwnPetard: Destroying the box turns out to be a bad idea because it’s magic was the only thing protecting the Forces of Nature from the Fenton Thermos, Danny has an easy time beating them after the box’s destruction.

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** Joy and Kirk admit to Team Phantom that they never liked Paulina and Dash because the latter was obsessed with football and acted like a je-rk when he thought they couldn’t hear him while the former treated Joy like a maid during her visit. They’re relieved Star cut ties with the A-Listers and moved up to better friends like Team Phantom.
* HoistbyHisOwnPetard: Destroying the box turns out to be a bad idea ends up backfiring on the Forces of Nature because it’s its magic was the only thing protecting the Forces of Nature them from the Fenton Thermos, Thermos. Thus, Danny has an easy time beating them after the box’s destruction.defeating them.



** More BrutallyHonest than jerkass, but Joy and Kirk are right that Dash and Paulina are bad people and Star is better off without them. Kirk even accurately summarizes that Dash is just a slacker who will never amount to anything and end up working under someone that he took for granted one day.



** Stella admits that Joy is right Beatrice would never try to save anyone, even her family, from ghosts after seeing how much of a pathetic DirtyCoward her mother was during her visit to Amity Park.
** Joy and Kirk are right that Dash and Paulina are bad people and Star is better off without them. Kirk even accurately summarizes that Dash is just a slacker that will never amount to anything and end up working under someone that he’s taken for granted one day.
** Joy’s hatred of Stella is FAR from unjustified since she did run out on Johnathan for another man (especially since it was a Jer-kas-s like Jean-Puke) without any thought for how it would affect her family and has been a terrible mother to Star all these years. The fact that Stella is still married to Jean-Luc, the man she cheated on Johnathan with, and refuses to see what horrible people him and his daughter Colette are clearly doesn’t do any favors for Joy’s opinion on Stella.

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** Stella admits that Joy is right Beatrice would never try to save anyone, even her family, from ghosts after seeing how much of a pathetic DirtyCoward her mother was during her last visit to Amity Park.
** Joy and Kirk are right that Dash and Paulina are bad people and Star is better off without them. Kirk even accurately summarizes that Dash is just a slacker that will never amount to anything and end up working under someone that he’s taken for granted one day.
** Joy’s hatred of Stella is FAR from unjustified since she Stella did run out on Johnathan for another man (especially since it was such a Jer-kas-s RichBastard like Jean-Puke) without any thought for how it would affect her family and has been a terrible mother to Star all these years. The fact that Stella is still married to Jean-Luc, the man she cheated on Johnathan with, and refuses to see what horrible people him and his daughter Colette are clearly doesn’t do any favors for Joy’s Joy's opinion on Stella.



* JerkasstoOne: Joy is openly disdainful toward Stella and insults her every chance she gets.

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* JerkasstoOne: JerkassToOne: Joy is usually a warm, friendly, and outgoing woman but acts openly disdainful toward Stella and insults her former daughter-in-law every chance she gets.



** Heather used to be an AlphaBitch SpoiledBrat in high school, just like Paulina is.
* MistakenforServant: Joy hates Paulina for treating her like a maid during her visit and Star apologizes to her for her former friend’s annoying behavior.
* NeverMesswithGranny: Joy is willing to taser an angry Colette (not that she knows it’s her) to protect Star and Danny.

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** Heather used to be was an AlphaBitch SpoiledBrat in high school, just like Paulina is.
* MistakenforServant: Joy hates MistakenForServant: Paulina for treating her treated Joy like a maid during her visit and to Amity Park, which Star apologizes for. Later, Joy gets angry when she thinks Stella is ordering her to fetch tea for Richard, but it's {{Subverted|Trope}} when Stella clarifies she was talking to her for her former friend’s annoying behavior.
''actual maid'', Ann.
* NeverMesswithGranny: NeverMessWithGranny: Joy is willing to taser an angry a deranged Colette (not that she knows it’s her) to protect Star and Danny.



* PetTheDog: even after his daughter left their son, to the point they invite him to Kirk's birthday



** Joy and Kirk support Star and Danny’s relationship.
** Joy doesn’t bother to hide that she vastly prefers Solene being with Johnathan than him being with Stella.

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** Joy and Kirk quickly support Star and Danny’s relationship.
Danny's relationship since he's clearly a helpful, well-meaning boy who cares about her.
** Joy doesn’t doesn't bother to hide that she vastly prefers Solene being with Johnathan than him being with Stella.



** Colette is even worse than usual since she’s willing to follow Danny all the way to New York.
** Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance to Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to Star.

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** Colette is even worse than usual since she’s Taken up a notch with Colette, who's now willing to follow Danny all the way to New York.
York. She spends hours scouring the city for him and becomes more deranged when she fails to catch him.
** Power Surge becomes this tries to pursue Stella because she reminds him of her resemblance to Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to Star.his ex-girlfriend, Simone.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: While remembering the A-Listers, Joy and Kirk call Paulina and Dash “Polly and Nash” and “Penny and Bash”. Team Phantom doesn’t even care enough to correct them.



* AllforNothing: The Forces of Nature were desperate to avoid being imprisoned again but after destroying the magic box they get sucked into the Fenton Thermos.



* BrutalHonesty: Joy and Kirk make it clear to Star they always hated the A-Listers and are happy she ditched them since they consider Team Phantom to be an improvement over the stuck-up popular kids.



** Joy and Kirk are nice people but don’t bother to hide their disdain for the snobby A-Listers to Team Phantom.
** Joy and Kirk hate Beatrice and Stella but are ok with Richard.
** While Joy hates Pierre’s parents, she adores the infant and just hopes he doesn’t turn out like Stella and Jean-Luc.



* HiddenDisdainReveal: Joy reveals to Stella, who had genuinely admired her and thought of her like a second mother, that she never liked her. She was only nice to Stella because she and Johnathan were married. After Stella left him, Joy lost any reason to act like she accepted her.

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* HiddenDisdainReveal: HiddenDisdainReveal:
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Joy reveals to Stella, who had genuinely admired her and thought of her like a second mother, that she never liked her. She was only nice to Stella because she and Johnathan were married. After Stella left him, Joy lost any reason to act like she accepted her.her.
** Joy and Kirk admit to Team Phantom that they never liked Paulina and Dash because the latter was obsessed with football and acted like a je-rk when he thought they couldn’t hear him while the former treated Joy like a maid during her visit. They’re relieved Star cut ties with the A-Listers and moved up to better friends like Team Phantom.
* HoistbyHisOwnPetard: Destroying the box turns out to be a bad idea because it’s magic was the only thing protecting the Forces of Nature from the Fenton Thermos, Danny has an easy time beating them after the box’s destruction.


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** Joy and Kirk are right that Dash and Paulina are bad people and Star is better off without them. Kirk even accurately summarizes that Dash is just a slacker that will never amount to anything and end up working under someone that he’s taken for granted one day.
** Joy’s hatred of Stella is FAR from unjustified since she did run out on Johnathan for another man (especially since it was a Jer-kas-s like Jean-Puke) without any thought for how it would affect her family and has been a terrible mother to Star all these years. The fact that Stella is still married to Jean-Luc, the man she cheated on Johnathan with, and refuses to see what horrible people him and his daughter Colette are clearly doesn’t do any favors for Joy’s opinion on Stella.


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* JerkasstoOne: Joy is openly disdainful toward Stella and insults her every chance she gets.


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* MistakenforServant: Joy hates Paulina for treating her like a maid during her visit and Star apologizes to her for her former friend’s annoying behavior.
* NeverMesswithGranny: Joy is willing to taser an angry Colette (not that she knows it’s her) to protect Star and Danny.


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* ShipperOnDeck:
** Joy and Kirk support Star and Danny’s relationship.
** Joy doesn’t bother to hide that she vastly prefers Solene being with Johnathan than him being with Stella.


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* StalkerWithACrush:
** Colette is even worse than usual since she’s willing to follow Danny all the way to New York.
** Power Surge becomes this to Stella because of her resemblance to Simone Traville. He even finds himself drawn to Star.
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* TheCavalryArrivesLate: By the time Valerie arrives in New York, Team Phantom had already defeated the bad guys.

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* TheCavalryArrivesLate: By the time Valerie arrives in New York, Team Phantom had has already defeated the bad guys.


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* ParentPreferredSuitor: Joy makes no secret of the fact that she believes Solene is a better partner for her son Johnathan than Stella was, and even a better maternal figure and role model for Star.
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** Chip's ex-wife Heather was beautiful enough during high school to have the same status as Paulina. Now she must wear "mom jeans".

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** Chip's ex-wife Heather was beautiful enough during high school to have the same status as Paulina. Now Now, she must wear "mom jeans".
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Beatrice only appears at the beginning and end of the story but her release of the Forces of Nature are what trigger the plot.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Beatrice only appears at the beginning and end of the story story, but her release of the Forces of Nature are is what trigger triggers the plot.
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* BigBadWannabe: Beatrice and Vlad are this as they're supplanted by the Forces of Nature as the main threat to Team Phantom and punished by Puck at the end of the story for all the trouble they caused.


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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14182721/1/Traveled Traveled]]'' is another sequel to ''[[Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded "Stranded"]]''. Star and her father go to New York to celebrate her grandfather's birthday.

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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14182721/1/Traveled Traveled]]'' is another sequel to ''[[Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded "Stranded"]]''.the 20th story in ''Stranded''. Star and her father go to New York to celebrate her grandfather's birthday.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14182721/1/Traveled Traveled]]'' is another sequel to ''[[Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded "Stranded"]]''. Star and her father go to New York to celebrate her grandfather's birthday.

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* AesopAmnesia: Having learned nothing from Star and Danny's threats, Beatrice still tries to get rid of the Ghost Boy by purchasing a magic box trap, the Băowēn xiāng, only to release three evil ghosts instead.
* AgentScully: Kirk doesn't believe ghosts exist.
* AlphaBitch: In high school, Heather St. Cloud was a popular cheerleader from a rich family and looked down on students she considered as losers.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Joy still treats her only son like a child and embarrasses him in front of his daughter and her boyfriend by bringing up his reaction to eating sushi as a teenager.
* AntiRoleModel: Seeing what became of Chip Franco causes Johnathan, Star, Tucker, Sam, Jazz and Danny to see him as a kind of person one should avoid becoming.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Sergio decides that he and his crew should take on new names to be supervillains. Because Danny said his powers caused a power surge, he goes by Power Surge. Since Danny mockingly called him Drench, Drew adopts it. Averted with Rocko, who still keeps his name and, to his credit, it still fits his new rocky appearance.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Stella listing the reasons Power Surge deserves an extra slap.
-->'''Stella:''' He deserves it for attacking my family, harassing me, almost destroying us and the city...and ruining my hairdo..."
* BoringButPractical: Rocko destroys the magic box with a piece of debris from the ceiling.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Stella and Joy, her ex-mother-in-law, have a very strained relationship, to say the least. Joy is rightfully upset with Stella for leaving Johnathan, her son, and Star for Jean-Luc. However, Stella has made it clear that she is trying to make amends with the two and that Joy's resentment of her goes out of line multiple times. While Johnathan and Star haven't fully forgiven Stella, they do try to convince Joy to at least be civil with her, which she clearly doesn't bother doing.
* BigFancyHouse: The Traville manor is stated to be this.
* BirthdayEpisode: Star and her father are going to New York to celebrate ''his'' father's birthday.
* BondJamesBond: Tired of being called "The Wisconsin Ghost", Plasmius introduces himself as "Plasmius, Vlad Plasmius".
* CallBack: Vlad reveals the box housing the Forces of Nature was made by the Yang clan, Misty's ancestors.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: By the time Valerie arrives in New York, Team Phantom had already defeated the bad guys.
* ContinuityNod: One of the things Puck says he cannot go back in time to is to [[Recap/DannyPhantomS2E16MastersOfAllTime "swap Vlad's and Jack's places to make Jack the half-ghost and Vlad the one married to Maddie"]]. He even says that, if he did so, Maddie would still see Vlad for the creep he is.
* ClassReunion: Learning what became of [[JerkJock Chip Franco]] pleases Johnathan to the point he almost regrets missing the reunion.
* DefiantCaptive: Vlad manages to trap Puck in iron chains, trying to force the fae to do his bidding. Puck spends the whole time point blank refusing to do as Vlad wants, trolling him by twisting Vlad's demands around or just mouthing off to get under Vlad's skin.
* DramaticIrony: Star says that Misty's magical powers would've been useful to fix the Forces of Natures' box had they not destroyed her spell book. [[spoiler: She is unaware that the book is still intact and helping Misty, who has regained her magic and is plotting against Star again.]]
* DumbMuscle: What Rocko lacks in brains, he definitely makes up for in brawn.
* EnragedByIdiocy:
** Power Surge and Drench have a low opinion of Rocko's intelligence.
** Team Phantom is furious at Beatrice for endangering New York in some petty, shortsighted revenge scheme to try to get rid of Danny and make her pay by trapping her in her worst nightmare for an entire month.
* EpicFail: Stella says the last time Johnathan did maintenance on a car, it caught fire. And the car was soaked from having fallen into a river.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Tucker wants a girlfriend, he decides not to act on Audrey's feelings for him because he'd rather not ruin any chance he has with Valerie and there's no guarantee he can even have a relationship with Audrey since she lives in New York.
* ExactWords:
** Jack and Maddie told their kids they wouldn't bring their weapons '''''ON''''' the plane. They instead paid the post office to deliver them to the hotel.
** Vlad demands Puck to make it so Maddie will love him as soon as she sees him. Puck does as ordered, though quickly lets Vlad realize he didn't specify ''which'' Maddie, as several women with that name harass him with unwanted affections.
** In spite of Puck saying he can't kill, Vlad tries to use him to make Jack Fenton be "no more". Puck grants Vlad's wish by temporarily changing Jack's name to Jack ''Benton''.
* ExiledToTheCouch: Stella tells her husband that, if her pet horse isn't properly treated or he sells the horse, he'll have to sleep on the couch for the rest of their married life and she doesn't mean the couch in their living room.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After an [=EMP=] neutralizes their weapons, Maddie says it's impossible because "Jack was supposed to..." She then wises up and asks her husband if he added shielding like she showed him to. Jack defends that he "had to go to the Fudge Festival that weekend".
* {{Foil}}: Joy are Beatrice are both grandmothers to Star and have a strained relationship with their former in-law. However, their personalities and treatment of their former in-laws couldn't be more different. Joy is a CoolOldLady and a DotingGrandparent to Star, and has a very loving relationship with her husband and son. Beatrice is a cruel GrandDame who was ultimately a GruesomeGrandparent to Star and an AbusiveParent to Stella (and likely her other kids), and it is heavily implied that she only married Richard for his money. Also, Joy treated Stella nicely when the latter was married to Johnathan, despite the fact that her prissy and naive attitude wore on Joy's nerves, and she only turned sour on Stella after she left Johnathan. Beatrice, on the other hand, NEVER had a single kind thing to say to Johnathan and severely mistreated him since they met because of his middle-class background, and she was happy when Stella and him divorced.
* FreudianExcuse: Puck implies that Vlad had an [[AbusiveParents emotionally abusive father]] whose treatment of him resulted in the man he is. Vlad doesn't deny this, only surprised Puck knows of him. Puck later gets Vlad to admit that he was a LonelyRichKid whose upbringing with absent parents and [[FriendlessBackground no friends]] fuels his [[IJustWantToBeLoved desire to be loved]], as warped as his understanding of it is.
* FullNameUltimatum: Johnathan Marlon Strong receives one from his father.
* TheGamblingAddict: Chip Franco has gambling debts to pay and implies they're the reason his kids and their mother no longer live with him.
* GeniusBruiser: Power Surge is a ghost with strong electric powers and is a brilliant enough schemer to outsmart Vlad.
* GoldDigger: Back in high school, Heather dismissed Johnathan as a loser. Now that her father cut her off and Johnathan is a successful lawyer, she wants to marry him and doesn't care if he's dating somebody else. In fact, she's been hunting for a wealthy husband since divorcing Chip to provide her with the luxuries she once enjoyed in her youth.
* HappilyMarried: Joy and Kirk are a happy couple.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: Joy sings that song during her husband's birthday party. He thinks that song should only be used for children's parties.
* HardTruthAesop: No matter how much you might change or regret your actions, some people will just not forgive you. Stella accepts Joy will more than likely never forgive her for cheating on and leaving her son, but she at least decides to stop antagonizing Stella over it.
* HatedByAll: Nobody likes Heather St. Cloud for her awful personality, especially her ex-husband Chip who regrets marrying her. Her parents cut her off and are implied to have no contact with her, she can't get a second husband, and even her kids are looking forward to college just to get away from her.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: Joy reveals to Stella, who had genuinely admired her and thought of her like a second mother, that she never liked her. She was only nice to Stella because she and Johnathan were married. After Stella left him, Joy lost any reason to act like she accepted her.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Johnathan thinks this upon learning what became of former school bully Chip Franco.
* IWasQuiteALooker:
** As a jock in high school, Chip Franco used to look much better than how he currently is. It came to a level that former classmate Johnathan Strong struggled to recognize him.
** Back in high school, Joy was so beautiful, it's said she's the one Star took after regarding beauty.
** Chip's ex-wife Heather was beautiful enough during high school to have the same status as Paulina. Now she must wear "mom jeans".
* InsultToRocks:
** Jack says calling Beatrice a piece of trash is an insult to trash since at least trash can be recycled into something decent.
** Star feels bad for comparing Beatrice to a witch. "After all, what did witches ever do to be lumped in with Beatrice?"
* {{Irony}}: Audrey is the first girl to develop an interest in Tucker but he doesn't reciprocate because of his growing feelings for Valerie.
* JadedWashout: Former JerkJock Chip Franco is now a shell of his former self and barely earns enough to survive.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Chip Franco is correct that Heather doesn't have a chance with Johnathan, especially since he already has a girlfriend, and correctly predicts that she'll make a fool of herself when she tries to hit on him anyway.
** Stella admits that Joy is right Beatrice would never try to save anyone, even her family, from ghosts after seeing how much of a pathetic DirtyCoward her mother was during her visit to Amity Park.
* JerkJock: Back in high school, Chip Franco was a football jock and a bully, much like Dash Baxter is.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Chip Franco admits his current hardships are the result of his bad choices in high school.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Valerie starts a phrase with this to understand how, after all the trouble she went through to warn Team Phantom about Plasmius going to New York, it turns out Plasmius and his allies were already defeated by the time she arrived.
* LikeMotherUnlikeDaughter: Heather's an awful, gold-digging bitch while her daughter Audrey is a NiceGirl.
* MirrorCharacter:
** Danny and Star can't help but notice and be creeped out by how similar Chip Franco is to the [[FutureLoser adult]] Dash Baxter considers himself doomed to become.
** Heather used to be an AlphaBitch SpoiledBrat in high school, just like Paulina is.
* NoodleIncident:
** Chip Franco tells Johnathan a former classmate of theirs, Franky, is doing 5 to 10 in county jail for something Chip would rather not mention in front of kids.
** Kirk avoids drinking champagne after an incident he's too ashamed to describe.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Heather acts like a total bitch to Johnathan after he utterly turns her down.
* OlderAndWiser: Downplayed as while still a jerk, Chip has matured enough to give up his bullying ways, admits his crappy life is a result of his own poor decisions, and tries to be a good father to his children.
* ParentalSubstitute: Stella reveals to Jack and Maddie that her former mother-in-law Joy used to be much nicer to her back when she and Johnathan were married, and they were actually quite close; Stella describes her as very kind, warm, and welcoming, with Joy practically adopting Stella as her own daughter and doing everything she could to make her feel accepted as part of the family (Kirk was kind to Stella too back then). Joy and Kirk also helped babysit Star so Johnathan and Stella could have time to rest and to themselves. Stella admits that she came to love Joy much more than her own mother, even when she had brainwashed herself into thinking Beatrice was a well-intentioned person, and now she realizes that Joy was the ideal mother and grandmother, as well as the mother she always wanted deep down.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Puck could have escaped any time but he was enjoying the story.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Joy gives one to make Stella understand how much she hurt Johnathan and Star.
* TheReveal: Puck reveals Maddie's maiden name to be [=McDonaldson=].
* SarcasmBlind: When Stella sarcastically says she's ordering a pizza instead of calling for help, Kirk asks if they have bread sticks.
* SkepticNoLonger: Kirk accepts ghosts exist after witnessing a ghost attack in Coney Island.
* SkewedPriorities: Discussed between Johnathan and Solene after Stella includes ruining her hairdo as one of the things Power Surge deserves an extra slap for. Since Stella mentioned that last, Johnathan considers it an improvement.
* ShoutOut:
** Kirk thinks the device the Fentons gave him for protection against ghosts makes him "look like one of those ''[[Franchise/KamenRider bug themed motorcyclist superheroes]]'' from Japan".
** Puck isn't allowed to kill Vlad but points out ''[[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar "you'd be surprised what you can live through"]]''.
* TimeTravel: Discussed and averted. Puck tells Vlad he can't go back in time to prevent Jack from being born or meeting Maddie, and he also cannot swap Vlad's and Jack's places to make Jack the half-ghost and Vlad the one married to Maddie.
* WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Both Kirk and Joy ask themselves how did a polite man like Richard stay married to a spoiled hag like Beatrice and not go insane?
* WorthIt: Jack says he and Maddie paid about $5,000 to have their weapons delivered and they'll probably have no water for a week but he thinks it's worth it. Danny and Jazz beg to differ.

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