History Series / CloakAndDagger2018

%%* NatureLover: Mina.

** The season 1 trailers heavily hinted at Tyrone and Tandy becoming lovers. [[spoiler:Instead, Tyrone gets involved with Evita, while Tandy and he grow into HeterosexualLifePartners at best.]]

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Brigit O'Reilly and Mayhem are the same person.]]

* SurprisinglyyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Yeah Tyrone helped save the city and Connors is worse than dead, but the rest of the police still think he's a cop killer. With nobody to exonerate him or clear him of charges, he has to go into hiding.]]

* WildTeenParty: Tandy and Tyrone meet is a teen party though it's much more subdued than usually depicted.

* LittleMissConArtist: Tandy's raison d'être is coning rich boy by drugging them and then robbing them.

** [[spoiler: Andre from the community center, he's season 2's BigBad and the one responsible for all the missing girls. He takes them and fills them with despair [[EmotionEater so that he can feed of it]].]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Yeah Tyrone helped save the city and Connors is worse than dead, but the rest of the police still think he's a cop killer. With nobody to exonerate him or clear him of charges, he has to go into hiding.]]

* LifeDrinker: A rare heroic example, Tyrone's touch can drain and weaken anyone, [[TrueLoveIsExceptional except Tandy.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tandy's first impulse, unfortunately. The series starts with her choosing not to do that anymore.
* SecurityBlanket: Tyrone's old hoodie is this for Tandy.
* ShipTease: Much between Tandy and Tyrone in season 1. The series is the only Marvel live action series to date that specifically names their series a romance, and the obvious chemistry between Aubrey and Olivia only make it worse. However, WordOfGod states that, at least for now, romance will take a back seat to advancing the main plot and character development, so confirmation of any feelings the leads may have for each other will not be.

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Brigit O'Reilly and Mayhem.]]

* StuffedInAFridge: In what can only be a ShoutOut to the trope namer, [[spoiler:O'Reilly finds her boyfriend killed and stuffed in a fridge for her to find]] at the end of episode 8.
* SuicideByCop: Tandy claims that this is all Tyrone is trying to do by going after Connors.

** How Tandy and Tyrone help each other when [[spoiler: when the subject of their mutual death wishes comes up.]] They really don't want to see the other get themselves killed.
** Tyrone again, when Tandy wants to give in to the LotusEaterMachine. Then Tandy gives the same to Ivan.

* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Tandy and Tyrone together are referred to as the [[OneTrueLove Divine Pairing]].

* VisionQuest: Tyrone and Tandy both undergo this, with a little help from Auntie Clarisse.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: If Tandy had just told Mina the truth she would have just taken her to Ivan and the whole mess would have been finished about a half hour earlier. The idea of just telling the truth just never occurred to her. Though to be fair, Mina was working for EvilInc and Tandy couldn't have known she was one of the clean people on their payroll before scoping her out.
* WeaponizedTeleportation: Tyrone starts out not doing this begins to master it [[spoiler: in Season 2. Exemplified in Vikingtown Sound when he uses the momentum from being thrown to teleport behind the brute and knock him down.]]
* WildTeenParty: Where Tandy and Tyrone meet again, though it's much more subdued than usually depicted.

* {{Workaholic}}: Tyrone's mother.

* {{Wrath}}: Tyrone is full of this after years of being told to push his anger down.
* YinYangBomb: Tandy and Ty's powers react to each other.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: The main theme of Season 2 Episode 5.

%%** [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of Peter Scarborough.]]

* MyBelovedSmother: A rare good example in Tyrone's mother.

** Liam uses all of his savings to help Tandy get a new identity and leave town. When he is subsequently arrested, he has no money for bail or a lawyer. And Tandy chose to leave town, ditching him.

** [[spoiler: Tyrone has wanted to kill Connors all season, but in episode 10 he gets the chance to do so by throwing him off a roof. He looks and considers doing it, but in the end he just rolls his eyes and pushes him down but away from the edge. Not that this ultimately saves Connors, whose own persistence in trying to kill Tyrone results in him being DraggedOffToHell]].

** In Tandy's vision inside Tyrone's mind, no matter how he kills the cop who killed his brother, he is brutally killed by the cops in revenge. He only succeeds when she gives him one of her light daggers, which manifests as a pair of handcuffs, representing arresting him instead of killing him.

* ProductPlacement: A shameless example when Tyrone is tasked to gather voodoo ingredients (milk, lavender, anise, white yarrow) and asks if he needs "to forage in the woods or something" and then the scene cuts to him carrying a Whole Foods bag.

* WhatTheHellHero: Episode 9.

* HomeBase: Tandy's church becomes this for both characters.
* HourglassPlot: By the end of season one [[spoiler: Tandy has reconnected with her mom and moved back home, while Ty, wanted by the police, is staying the church]].

* TheLadysFavour: A tradition at St. Sebastian's, where Tyrone goes to school. Giving a girl their jacket is a guy's publicly declaring feelings.

* LifeDrinker: A rare heroic example, Tyrone's touch can drain and weaken anyone. [[TrueLoveIsExceptional Except Tandy.]]

* LittleMissConArtist: Tandy's raison d'être.

* LotusEaterMachine: Ivan's catatonic state is this for Tandy, since it's the only way she can talk with her father.
** [[spoiler: Tandy later learns how to do this to other people with her powers as well as [[FantasticDrug feel what they feel]]. Doing so damages the person she takes from though as after they lose the happiness their hopes brought them.]]
** [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of Peter Scarborough.]]
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Tandy can't understand why Tyrone would help her or like her, so she decides that he sees her as a DamselInDistress to rescue rather than a person and wouldn't care if he knew what she was really like. When she finally lashes out and tells him this in "Lotus Eaters", Tyrone gives her a blistering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that, if nothing else, definitely lets her know that he knows ''exactly'' what kind of person he is.

* MarkedToDie: The sacrificial member of the Divine Pairing is always shown to some kind of marking on their shoulder or upper arm.
* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:The series was cancelled before fully exploring the romance between Tyrone and Tandy, but the final episode, as well as the crossover episodes with the Runaways, do spell out that they're meant to stick together and balance eachother out.]]

* AGodAmI: The ultimate goal of [[spoiler: Andre Deschaine]] is to become one of [[UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} the Loa]]. [[spoiler:He succeeds, but isn't able to enjoy it for long before a FateWorseThanDeath.]]

** Season Two initially has [[spoiler: Brigid's VigilanteMan LiteralSplitPersonality Mayhem]] as the main antagonist. She quickly gets sidelined for [[spoiler: Andre Deschaine, an EmotionEater and the ringleader of a human trafficking ring, who later attempts to [[AGodIAm become a Loa]]]].

* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: In the [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger original comics]], Ty came from a poor black family, while Tandy came from a rich white one, a dynamic which carried a lot of implications even back in the 1980s. In the live-action series, the writers put them on more equitable socio-economic footing, with Ty coming from a well-off black family while Tandy came from a formerly-comfortable white family that had fallen on hard times.

Tandy Bowen (Creator/OliviaHolt) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) are emotionally damaged teenagers with fantastic abilities that appear to be triggered by one another and which they must keep secret from others: Tandy [[LightEmUp forms and manipulates light constructs]], while Tyrone can [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]] and [[LivingShadow cover himself (and others) in darkness]]. When a chance meeting brings Tandy and Tyrone together, their lives become a lot more complicated than they already were.

* ScrewDestiny: Invoked by Tandy in the climax of the season one finale. Possibly subverted in that [[spoiler: part of Tandy's screw destiny appeal was that she and Ty were so linked they were practically one person and O'Reilly, who was followed throughout the series as she interacted with Tandy and Ty, was also marked on both shoulders (by her jacket's white stripes) even before Ty and Tandy each got marked on their opposite shoulders. O'Reilly technically fulfills all the criteria for the sacrifice and died getting Tandy/Ty to the Roxxon core where they ended the threat. So did they really screw destiny via their powers or was it just an unrecognized ProphecyTwist?]]
** [[spoiler: There's also the possibility that the screwing came from Tyrone and Tandy being willing to die together while the previous incarnations all accepted that only one needed to die.]]

'''Tandy:''' Be good... be heroes... be divine impaired in other places?

* {{Afrofuturism}}: Much like ''Series/LukeCage'', the series uses a fantastical premise (teenagers with WonderTwinPowers based around light and darkness) to explore racism and oppression, starting with the fact that Tyrone's brother was a victim of PoliceBrutality.

->'''Tyrone''': The universe keeps pushing us together.\\
'''Tandy''': The universe keeps pulling us apart.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You and I are connected."'']]

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* ColorMotif: Tandy wears primarily white and pastel tones while Tyrone wears black or gray. This extends to their individual scenes that keep this color scheme and are often respectively brightly lighted and in low light/night settings. It is taken up to eleven in their "vision" scenes when they read people's greatest hopes (Tandy) and fears (Tyrone).

* CompositeCharacter: In addition to being based on the unnamed cop who kills Billy in the comics, Conners turns out to be [[spoiler: the counterpart of Roger Falcone, the corrupt cop who "killed" Bridget]].

* EvilAllAlong: One of Billy's old friends, who Tyrone thought really made a good life for himself, is dealing drugs and working with Connors.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The first time Tyrone teleports, he was sleeping in the nude immediately prior. Thus, he winds up wandering through New Orleans in a bed sheet.
* NatureLover: Mina.

* AlternateTimeline: The primary focus of the Season 2 episode "B Side". [[spoiler: [[EmotionEater Andre]] spends the episode making Tandy go through alternates of her life, what might have happened if only one or two things changed, each one getting progressivly worse.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: Season 2's trailers depicted [[spoiler:O'Reilly's powers gained from being exposed to both the Lightforce and Darkforce as part of a darker split personality, Mayhem. However, "White Lines" ends with the revelation that O'Reilly and Mayhem are now doppelgangers]].

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The series trailers heavily hinted at Tyrone and Tandy becoming lovers. [[spoiler:Instead, Tyrone gets involved with Evita, while Tandy and he grow into HeterosexualLifePartners at best.]]