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** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in chapter 25, when Amity expressed doubt in the theory that witches are a human subspecies that interbred with mutants due to it being implausible that creatures with different evolutionary histories would be compatible, Masha interrupts with the tidbit that humans can breed with anything sapient and carbon-based, albeit with the caveat that sometimes outside help is needed to make it work mechanically. Supposedly it has something to do with the experiments of the celestials. Amity has to force herself to think about how crazy that sounds and not how he and Luz could have a child together when they grew up if they really wanted to.

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** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in chapter 25, when Chapter 25. When Amity expressed expresses doubt in the theory that witches are a human subspecies that interbred resulted from interbreeding with mutants biped demons due to it being implausible that creatures with different evolutionary histories would be compatible, Masha interrupts with the tidbit that humans can breed with anything sapient and carbon-based, albeit with the caveat that sometimes outside help is needed to make it work mechanically. Supposedly it has something to do with the experiments of the celestials. Celestials. Amity has to force herself to think about how crazy that sounds and not how he she and Luz could have a child together when they grew grow up if they really wanted to.

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* DramaticIrony: When she notices that Amity is upset by learning of Gravesfield's witchhunting past, Luz reaasures her that that was a long time ago and they'll never have to deal with witch hunters, still ignorant to the true nature of Emperor Belos at the time.

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* DramaticIrony: When she notices that Amity is upset by learning of Gravesfield's witchhunting witch-hunting past, Luz reaasures her that that was a long time ago and they'll never have to deal with witch hunters, still ignorant to the true nature of Emperor Belos at the time.



* FlatWhat: Vee's reaction to first hearing about Luz's taxidermy project from the pilot.

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Vee's reaction to first hearing about Luz's taxidermy project from the pilot.pilot.
** And Amity's reaction when Masha points out that humans can breed with anything.



* HalfHumanHybrid: Luz has symbiote essence that was passed down from her parent's time as hosts and awakened by the background magic of the Isles, but she lacks an actual secondary symbiote consciousness, [[spoiler:even after awakening her full symbiote form]], making her more of a human/symbiote hybrid than a human host of a symbiote. Author notes even compare her directly to [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl April Parker]], and when [[spoiler:Mephisto]] is explaining the nature of her powers, he explicitly describes it as her having ''four'' parents (Camilla, Manny, and their symbiotes).

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Luz has symbiote essence that was passed down from her parent's time as hosts and awakened by the background magic of the Isles, but she lacks an actual secondary symbiote consciousness, [[spoiler:even after awakening her full symbiote form]], making her more of a human/symbiote hybrid than a human host of a symbiote. Author notes even compare her directly to [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl April Parker]], and when [[spoiler:Mephisto]] is explaining the nature of her powers, he explicitly describes it as her having ''four'' parents (Camilla, Manny, and their symbiotes).symbiotes).
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in chapter 25, when Amity expressed doubt in the theory that witches are a human subspecies that interbred with mutants due to it being implausible that creatures with different evolutionary histories would be compatible, Masha interrupts with the tidbit that humans can breed with anything sapient and carbon-based, albeit with the caveat that sometimes outside help is needed to make it work mechanically. Supposedly it has something to do with the experiments of the celestials. Amity has to force herself to think about how crazy that sounds and not how he and Luz could have a child together when they grew up if they really wanted to.



* MissedHimByThatMuch: When Ford ended up in the Isles, he went looking for Eda since he heard that she had a portal back to Earth, but he couldn't find her. Apparently she was with Stan in Vegas at the time.

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* MissedHimByThatMuch: When Ford ended up in the Isles, he went looking for Eda since he heard that she had a portal back to Earth, but he couldn't find her. Apparently Apparently, she was with Stan in Vegas at the time.

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* HumanSubspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's ThirdEye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven ''hates'' this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers, which is later confirmed.

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* HumanSubspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's ThirdEye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven ''hates'' this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers, which is later confirmed. [[spoiler: Amity finds it hard to deal with the fact that she is a Mutant, even though she lives in an entirely different dimension. Eda confirms that she is not a Mutant since Cerebro would have detected her otherwise many years ago.]]



* InnocentlyInsensitive: Masha does this a couple of times after meeting Amity and Luz, assuming that the former being a witch is a learned skill [[spoiler:like their own magic]] rather than her species, and jokingly commenting on the latter's cheesy choices in romantic music. To their credit, they immediately apologize when they realize that Amity is taking offense and that Luz is being reminded of past experiences with bullying.

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does this a couple of times after meeting Amity and Luz, assuming that the former being a witch is a learned skill [[spoiler:like their own magic]] rather than her species, and jokingly commenting on the latter's cheesy choices in romantic music. To their credit, they immediately apologize when they realize that Amity is taking offense and that Luz is being reminded of past experiences with bullying.bullying.
** Luz and Masha also do this unintentionally to Amity as they talk about the numerous supervillains and alien races in the Marvel Universe like it is no big deal. They do not realize that Amity, having nothing in her realm remotely comparable to what they deal with on a day-to-day basis, is absolutely horrified of what she is hearing and that she won't be able to protect Luz and herself from all the threats in Luz's world.



*LogicalLatecomer: Amity, as someone from another dimension, is the only one that recognizes just how horrifying and bizarre the Marvel Universe truly is while Luz and Masha are already used to it.



** Clara turns out to be this in Chapter 22 after Luz finally gets the courage to tell her and her cronies off for what terrible people they are and how jealous they are of Luz's happiness. Amity bruising Clara's ego one too many times finally drives her to hit her with a sonic scream while their backs were turned, knocking out Luz and sending everyone else tumbling into the flooded graveyard.

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** Clara turns out to be this in Chapter 22 after Luz finally gets the courage to tell her and her cronies off for what terrible people they are and how jealous they are of Luz's happiness. Amity bruising Clara's ego one too many times finally drives her arrive in Chapter 21 to hit her with ruin a sonic scream while their backs were turned, knocking out perfectly tender moment between Luz and sending everyone else tumbling into the flooded graveyard.Amity for them to make fun of her. It seems they were put off about how a weirdo like her was having a good time while they weren't.


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*TurnTheOtherCheek: Even though Luz has every reason to hate her bullies and former crushes for tormenting her in the Human Realm, trying to ruin her date with Amity, and almost causing her to drown in a river, Luz pleads for leniency on their behalf to Wolverine who has half a mind to expel them from his Academy before the semester even starts.

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* BrickJoke: When the subject of Luz's KlatchianCoffee first comes up, it's mentioned how she jokingly prays to Loki when making it. Several chapters later, Vee reveals that when she was impersonating Luz at camp and Loki came to visit [[spoiler: Masha]], he told her that no prayers to him could ever help that "abomination".

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When the subject of Luz's KlatchianCoffee first comes up, it's mentioned how she jokingly prays to Loki when making it. Several chapters later, Vee reveals that when she was impersonating Luz at camp and Loki came to visit [[spoiler: Masha]], he told her that no prayers to him could ever help that "abomination".



* EasilyForgiven: Unlike canon, Eda eventually works up the motivation to interrogate Owbert about the events of "Escape of the Palisman" (which occurred offscreen), but because Owlbert forgave Luz, Eda only made Luz take him out for ice cream in order to earn her trust back.

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Unlike canon, Eda eventually works up the motivation to interrogate Owbert Owlbert about the events of "Escape of the Palisman" (which occurred offscreen), but because Owlbert forgave Luz, Eda only made Luz take him out for ice cream in order to earn her trust back.

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** Luz decides to give her ex-crushes a second chance because she recognizes their poor choices that day as such and doesn't want their lives ruined as a result. Wolverine decides to go with it, but makes it ''very'' clear to the three that they dodged a bullet, makes it clear that they'll need to take Professor Parker's ethics course (and that there'll be hell to pay if they don't pass), and get counseling.



* HumanSubspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's ThirdEye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven ''hates'' this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers.

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* HumanSubspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's ThirdEye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven ''hates'' this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers.powers, which is later confirmed.



* MissedHimByThatMuch: When Ford ended up in the Isles, he went looking for Eda since he heard that she had a portal back to Earth, but he couldn't find her. Apparently she was with Stan in Vegas at the time.



** At one point twenty years before the present Stan met Wolverine in Reno, leading to some incident where Stan left Logan holding the bag.



* SuperDrowningSkills: Amity never learned to swim, always sneaking away with Willow during her lessons, so she might have drowned in the graveyard if Vee hadn't rescued her.



* TomatoInTheMirror: Amity is rather rattled when Cerebro confirms that she's a mutant as well as a witch like Luz had theorized, proving that witches are indeed a HumanSubspecies.



** Then there's "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes are the equivalent of mutant powers in witches. They can fall roughly into one of the nine main types of magic or align with the basic spells anyone can use, but aren't sealed by sigils and don't require spell circles or use bile, though a user can still tire themselves out with them. Despite this, for some reason most witches who have them only really use them much if they're aligned with the type of magic they specifically use, with Amity keeping her own abilities as TheEmpath secret so Odalia won't try to force her into the Oracle track just so she'll be more like her mother, since she ''likes'' Abomination magic.

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** Then there's "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes are the equivalent of mutant powers in witches.witches (which is confirmed when Cerebro registers Amity as a mutant). They can fall roughly into one of the nine main types of magic or align with the basic spells anyone can use, but aren't sealed by sigils and don't require spell circles or use bile, though a user can still tire themselves out with them. Despite this, for some reason most witches who have them only really use them much if they're aligned with the type of magic they specifically use, with Amity keeping her own abilities as TheEmpath secret so Odalia won't try to force her into the Oracle track just so she'll be more like her mother, since she ''likes'' Abomination magic.



** Chapter 25 confirms Luz's earlier speculation that Amity has the mutant gene when Amity gets picked up on Cerebro, thus proving that witches are a HumanSubspecies like Eda said.



** Amity starts to develop abilities as TheEmpath, with Luz theorizing that she has the witch equivalent of the mutant gene.

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** Amity starts to develop abilities as TheEmpath, with Luz theorizing that she has the witch equivalent of the mutant gene.gene, something that gets confirmed later.
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** Luz's mental problems are made more apparent early on and addressed such as her guilt complex, fears of rejection, and desire to be understood.

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Luz hears that there was an AlienInvasion while she was in the Isles, she barely bats an eye besides asking ''which'' alien faction was behind it ''this'' time.

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When Luz hears that there was an AlienInvasion while she was in the Isles, she barely bats an eye besides asking ''which'' alien faction was behind it ''this'' time.time.
** While Stan still fondly remembers his brief marriage to Eda, she doesn't remember him at all when they reunite during the Gravesfield arc. Which is telling, considering that she ''does'' recall stealing his car and driving it off a cliff.



** Stan mentions that he and Ford went looking for witches in Salem and instead found ghosts.

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** Stan mentions that he and Ford went looking for witches in Salem and instead found ghosts. Also, at some point they met a conspiracy theorist who tried to harvest their organs.



** In chapter 24, Luz quotes Dr. Doofenschmirtz upon finding herself being captured by Jacob Hopkins and facing dissection, "If I had a nickel for every time I almost got dissected, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird it happened twice.

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** In chapter 24, Luz quotes Dr. Doofenschmirtz upon finding herself being captured by Jacob Hopkins and facing dissection, "If I had a nickel for every time I almost got dissected, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird it happened twice."
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** After the Covention duel, which Luz wins fair and square despite Lilith making Amity unknowingly cheat, Eda says that she's going to teach Luz to pick locks. After Luz picks the lock to the cage Jacob put her in and Camila asks where she learned that, Luz pleads the fifth while Eda gets a bit nervous.


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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Luz finds out that the cage Jacob put her in is made of carbonadium, she goes "Seriously?", prompting Jacob to complain that he wanted to use adamantium instead but even the mass-produced version is too expensive, which isn't really what Luz meant.


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** Jacob seems to think that Ford will be eager to see him dissect obviously sapient beings simply because they're "demons".


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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When Camila finds Jacob and learns that he tazed Luz, she takes out her chancla and starts beating him to a pulp with it.


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* PityTheKidnapper: To annoy and stall Jacob until Ford can get there, Luz starts singing songs from ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''.


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** To annoy her kidnappers, Luz starts singing the songs from ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''.

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* {{Crossover}}: Aside from being a mix of Creator/MarvelComics and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Luz and Amity end up bumping into [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Stan and Ford]] while in Gravesfield.

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* {{Crossover}}: Aside from being a mix of Creator/MarvelComics and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Luz and Amity end up bumping into [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Stan and Ford]] while in Gravesfield. The X-Men also make a surprising appearance near the end of the Gravesfield Arc.


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*EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Clara and her friends may not be evil so much as rather petty jerks. But they seem to have a hard time understanding that Amity genuinely loves Luz for who she is, quirks and all.


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*PaperTiger: For all of Clara and her cronies' bluster upon finding out they are mutants, it did not take much for them to immediately back down when faced with heavy resistance.


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** In chapter 24, Luz quotes Dr. Doofenschmirtz upon finding herself being captured by Jacob Hopkins and facing dissection, "If I had a nickel for every time I almost got dissected, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird it happened twice.
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*HiddenDepths: Luz Noceda is surprisingly well-read for a girl her age. She paraphrases Sappho of Lesbos who is an ancient Greek poet whose works were studied for its content of love between females.

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** Coffee on the boiling isles is referred to as bitter bean blood, as in Webcomic/WitchesAmongHumans, though Eda does clarify briefly that it's just differant words for the same thing.

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** Coffee on the boiling isles is referred to as bitter bean blood, as in Webcomic/WitchesAmongHumans, though Eda does clarify briefly that it's just differant different words for the same thing.


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** Part of the riot at the petrification ceremony involved a number of Hexside's beastkeeping students [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold painting themselves with tiger stripes and freeing animals from the zoo.]]

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