History Series / DarkOracle

* BareYourMidriff: Season 2 Violet looks like this in the comics, though not in the real world.

''Dark Oracle'' is a Canadian television series that aired on YTV for two seasons from October 2004 to June 2006. It follows twins Lance and Cally Stone, a pair of normal teenagers whose lives are turned topsy-turvy by the arrival of a comic book, the titular ''Dark Oracle'', that can predict the future. In each episode, a new issue arrives, resulting in the twins scrambling to head off whatever disaster the comic predicts.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: [[spoiler: Omen and Doyle]] during the last episodes when trying to [[spoiler: bring Lance back and stop The Puppet Master, Blaze, and Violet. spoiler]]

* TechnologyMarchesOn / ArtisticLicense: in "The Game" Lance is shown playing his game at school on his laptop. While Wi-Fi existed when the series was filmed and set, it was in its infancy and there is no way that Lance could play his MMORPG on his laptop without an ethernet cable.

[[caption-width-right:275:From left to right: [[BigBadWannabe Vern]], [[{{Adorkable}} Sage]], [[NiceGuy Emmett]], [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Cally]], [[CoolLoser Lance]], Rebecca, [[ButtMonkey Dizzy]], and [[TheMentor Doyle]].]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Sage, Lance's ''very'' weird, borderline {{Cloudcuckoolander}} girlfriend. Only true for audiences; in the series, she's regularly tormented by the other students.

** Averted with [[BigBadWannabe Vern]], who is unable to get a date with anyone who is not [[ChaoticEvil comic Sage]], although [[SarcasticDevotee Simone]] might be willing to do something about that.

* InsistentTerminology/ IAmNotWeasel: Nemo/[[spoiler: Omen]] is a frog, not a toad.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played with. Doyle (when under the comic's influence) and his EvilCounterpart frequently use a snake to threaten people. Sage on the other hand, finds the same snake very cute (attempting to name him "Giggles" of all things), and Cally thinks Nemo (an amphibian) is [[UglyCute adorable]] (Lance would disagree). Then [[EvilTwin Evil Sage]] shows up and tries to use Giggles to poison a couple of girls who damaged her locker, only a few episodes after Nemo is shown to be [[spoiler: [[EvilSorcerer Omen]] in disguise]].

* SdrawkcabAlias: Doyle refers to [[spoiler: Omen's frog form]] as [[spoiler: Nemo]].
* ShadowArchetype: Violet and Blaze to Lance and Cally, comic Sage to real-world Sage, and arguably, the entire world of the ''Dark Oracle'' comic to real-world setting. We don't really see enough of [[spoiler: The Puppet-Master]] to determine if he is this to [[spoiler: Doyle]].

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Lance and Cally will do anything to get rid of the comic and go back a nice, normal, boring life. This is also the case for [[spoiler:Sage and Dizzy once they get drawn into it]].

* BlankBook: The comic arrives with the majority of the pages blank. As the episode progresses it fills in, eventually revealing whatever awful future is in store for the cast.

* TheBully: Lots of 'em. There's the creeper from the first couple of episodes who first stalked Cally, and then--along with some of his friends--mocked, and later egged, Sage. Vern has definite traits of this as well, although it's combined with LonersAreFreaks. And then there are numerous random jerks who pick on Dizzy, Sage, or Lance.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Omen backstabs in order: Doyle, Lance & Cally (twice), Blaze & Violet, Vern, Lance & Cally again, and finally, Blaze & Violet again. Being a raging SmugSnake will do that to you.
* CoDragons: Blaze & Violet are ultimately revealed to be this to [[spoiler: The Puppet-Master, Doyle's EvilCounterpart]].

* EyeRecall: happends on almost every episode, always happends to Carrie sometimes.
* EvilCounterpart: By Season 2, Blaze and Violet were somewhere between this and Lance and Cally's {{Evil Twin}}s, with Blaze taking Lance's loner tendencies to their ultimate, reclusive conclusion and Violet showing what Cally would be like were she completely uninhibited. Doyle eventually gained his own EvilCounterpart in [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Puppet-Master]]]].

** In "It Happened at the Dance", Lance tells Dizzy the comics can appear anywhere: in the garbage, in the fridge, etc. Dizzy almost immediately finds the comic in the trash. In the next episode, the comic appears in the refrigerator.

* GrandFinale: "Redemption" which killed off [[spoiler:Omen and [[BigBad The Puppet-Master]]]], had [[spoiler:Vern]]'s HeelFaceTurn, returned Lance to reality and Blaze and Violet to the DarkWorld, and wiped the comic from existence.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Lance and Cally would do anything to get rid of the comic and go back a nice, normal, boring life. So would [[spoiler: Sage and Dizzy once they get drawn into it]].

* MeaningfulName: Omen. [[spoiler: Nemo too, given that Doyle slapped it on him and it means "nobody."]] The protagonists are named "Stone", meaning they have strong sturdy personalities. Justified trope with Dizzy, as he chose his nickname.

''Dark Oracle'' is a Canadian television series that premiered on YTV in 2004. It follows twins Lance and Cally Stone, a pair of normal teenagers whose lives were turned topsy-turvy by the arrival of a comic book, the titular ''Dark Oracle'', that could predict the future. Every episode a new issue would arrive, resulting in the twins scrambling to head off whatever disaster the comic predicted. Unfortunately, this wasn't always easy, and the comic was excellent at misleading the twins, leading to numerous traumatising, and sometimes downright trippy, experiences. As the series progressed, the stakes grew increasingly higher, until the twins were not only trying to head off episodic problems, but fighting for their very existence.

Season 1 dealt with the comic's initial appearances, and introduced Lance and Cally to their comic book counterparts, Blaze and Violet. Problems were typically episodic in nature, and the only recurring villain was Omen, a sometimes high-school student who had inflicted the comic upon them in the first place, and professed [[DatingCatwoman an interest in Cally]]. Other recurring characters included the twins' respective best friends Dizzy (Lance) and Annie (Cally), Jack (Cally's crush), Sage, a very odd girl who eventually became Lance's girlfriend, Vern a wannabe-practitioner of the dark arts, and Doyle, a part-time magician and owner of the local comic store, Gamerz Cave. The season ended with Omen's defeat, and the comic apparently erased.

In Season 2, the comic returned, with Blaze and Violet (who had initially seemed to be little more than comic book characters) taking central stage as the new antagonists. The various comic book counterparts began to look a lot more like their real-world equivalents, and set into motion various plans to emerge into the real world while trapping their twins and their friends inside the comic (which leads the comic to add stand-ins for real world Lance and Cally to its cast of characters). The plot became more over-arching, with Lance and Cally trying very hard to head off Blaze and Violet's next moves. Vern became a more important antagonist, Omen returned, and Cally briefly gained a new love interest, Emmett. By the end, Omen was dead, Blaze, Violet and [[BigBad their leader]] defeated, and the comic permanently erased.

''Dark Oracle'' was praised for its original concept and the generally good quality of its episodes. In 2005, it won the International Emmy for Best Children's and Youth Program. The series lasted from October 2004 to June 2006. A total of 26 episodes were filmed.

* {{Adorkable}}: Sage, Lance's ''very'' weird, borderline {{Cloudcuckoolander}} girlfriend. Only true for audiences; in the series, she was regularly tormented by the other students.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Played with in Season 2, as Cally is stuck between NiceGuy Emmett, and former enemy, [[SmugSnake Omen]]. It ends very badly. Averted with [[BigBadWannabe Vern]], who is unable to get a date with anyone who is not [[ChaoticEvil comic Sage]] (although [[SarcasticDevotee Simone]] might be willing to do something about that).
* ArcWords: "What just happened here?" Typically uttered after someone's first encounter with the comic.
* ArtEvolution: Done deliberately between Seasons 1 and 2 as Blaze, Violet, and the other comic book counterparts come to more closely resemble their real-world doubles. Most noticeable with Sage's twin who changes from looking like a shy, brown-haired girl to an almost exact, (if more aggressive) duplicate of her.

Season 1 dealt with the comic's initial appearances, and introduced Lance and Cally to their comic book counterparts, Blaze and Violet. Problems were typically episodic in nature, and the only recurring villain was Omen, [[spoiler: a sometimes frog]], sometimes high-school student who [[spoiler: had inflicted the comic upon them in the first place]], and professed [[DatingCatwoman an interest in Cally]]. Other recurring characters included the twins' respective best friends Dizzy (Lance) and Annie (Cally), Jack (Cally's crush), Sage, a very odd girl who eventually became Lance's girlfriend, Vern a wannabe-practitioner of the dark arts, and Doyle, a part-time magician and owner of the local comic store, Gamerz Cave. The season ended with Omen's defeat, and the comic apparently erased.

In Season 2, the comic returned, with Blaze and Violet (who had initially seemed to be little more than comic book characters) taking central stage as the new antagonists. The various comic book counterparts began to look a lot more like their real-world equivalents, and set into motion various plans to emerge into the real world while trapping their twins and their friends inside the comic (which leads the comic to add stand-ins for real world Lance and Cally to its cast of characters). The plot became more over-arching, with Lance and Cally trying very hard to head off Blaze and Violet's next moves. Vern became a more important antagonist, Omen returned, and Cally briefly gained a new love interest, Emmett. By the end, [[spoiler: Omen was dead]], Blaze, Violet and [[BigBad their leader]] defeated, and the comic permanently erased.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Dizzy in Season One to Cally.

* MrFanservice: Omen, Emmett and Lance. The latter even gets a funny ShirtlessScene.

* TheGhost: Dizzy's cousin Harold. Despite never appearing, he is described as wearing mascara, looking like a girl/mannequin, and having spy gear.

* KidsAreCruel[=/=]TeensAreMonsters: The bullying, petty cruelty, and cliquism at Lance and Cally's highschool is pretty bad. Poor Sage probably suffers the most from it. If the images in the comic are any indicator, Blaze and Violet's version is even worse.

* MirrorMonster: Constantly. It's the only way that the characters from the comic can enter the real world and vice versa. One notable example had Violet and Blaze chasing Omen through a hall of mirrors during the grand finale. A variant had Violet appearing on a baby monitor while Cally was baby-sitting.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 2 was notably darker than the already less-than cheery Season 1. SeasonalRot was largely averted though.

** BigBadDuumvirate: Subverted twice over. Season 2 appears to be setting up Vern and Omen as an EvilDuo, but it quickly becomes apparent that Omen is simply using Vern for his own ends, and in any case, Blaze and Violet are in back of him. Blaze and Violet themselves look a straight example, but as it turns out, they're really CoDragons to [[spoiler:The Puppet-Master]].
** BigBadWannabe: Vern in Season 2. He's a NotSoHarmlessVillain for sure, but not nearly at Omen or Blaze and Violet's level.

* CatchPhrase: Lance says "Don't hit!" to Cally about once an episode.
** Blaze says it to Violet in the GrandFinale.

* [[TomesOfProphecyAndFate Comic Book of Prophecy]]

* HairTriggerTemper: Blaze.

** The guy in question had bumped into him on the stairs.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Dizzy and Sage in Season 1.
** [[spoiler: SecretKeeper: In Season 2]].

* TheStoic: Simone

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Dizzy sees himself as this to Cally.

[[caption-width-right:275:From left to right: [[BigBadWannabe Vern]], [[{{Adorkable}} Sage]], [[NiceGuy Emmett]], [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Cally]], [[CoolLoser Lance]], Rebecca, [[ButtMonkey Dizzy]], [[TheMentor Doyle]]]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: {{Justified|Trope}}. As Lance puts it when warning Cally not to tell anyone: "Best case senario, they think you're lying. Worst case scenario, Mom hauls you to a shrink." The effects aren't as bad as in some shows, but by series end, Lance and Cally (given that they react like [[RealityIsUnrealistic "normal"]] teenagers and not BadAss action heroes) are both nervous wrecks with some serious trust issues. Sage and Dizzy aren't much better off.

* BlondesAreEvil: The two girls who torment Sage in "Through the Glass Darkly". Averted by Rebecca, a very pleasant girl who became Dizzy's girlfriend.

-->''"It's all the comic's fault..."''\\
-- Cally Stone

'''''Dark Oracle''''' is a Canadian television series that premiered on YTV in 2004. It follows twins Lance and Cally Stone, a pair of normal teenagers whose lives were turned topsy-turvy by the arrival of a comic book, the titular ''Dark Oracle'', that could predict the future. Every episode a new issue would arrive, resulting in the twins scrambling to head off whatever disaster the comic predicted. Unfortunately, this wasn't always easy, and the comic was excellent at misleading the twins, leading to numerous traumatising, and sometimes downright trippy, experiences. As the series progressed, the stakes grew increasingly higher, until the twins were not only trying to head off episodic problems, but fighting for their very existence.

* TheSnarkKnight: Simone. She's got the utterly emotionless demanour, biting sarcasm, and exasperation with everyone around her--not least of all [[ObliviousToLove Vern]]--that one expects from this trope.

* VillainousFriendship: Vern and Simone are a Type III. She thinks of him as a friend, he doesn't seem to care about her at all, beyond having someone to talk to.

** In the second episode (of Season One) Lance and Dizzy are discussing gaming techniques. Lance insists repeatedly that the Power of Three "works every time". [[spoiler: Guess how they defeat the BigBad at the end?]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "It Happened at the Dance", Lance tells Dizzy the comics can appear anywhere: in the garbage, in the fridge. Dizzy almost immediately finds the comic in the trash. In the next episode, the comic appears in the refrigerator.

'''''Dark Oracle''''' is a Canadian television series that premiered on YTV in 2004. It follows twins Lance and Cally Stone, a pair of normal teenagers whose lives were turned topsy-turvy by the arrival of a comic book (the titular ''Dark Oracle'') that could predict the future. Every episode a new issue would arrive, resulting in the twins scrambling to head off whatever disaster the comic predicted. Unfortunately, this wasn't always easy, and the comic was excellent at misleading the twins, leading to numerous traumatising (and sometimes downright trippy) experiences. As the series progressed, the stakes grew increasingly higher, until the twins were not only trying to head off episodic problems, but fighting for their very existence.

* {{Adorkable}}: Sage, Lance's ''very'' weird, borderline CloudCuckooLander girlfriend. Only true for audiences; in the series, she was regularly tormented by the other students.

!! Dark Oracle provides examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Lance and Cally's actors (Alex House and Paula Brancati) also provide the voices of Blaze & Violet, and play them upon their respective escapes into the real-world. Similarly, Sage's actress, Danielle Miller, did double duty as her and her EvilTwin in Season 2's "Through a Glass Darkly".

* DawsonCasting: Despite playing twins in the show, Alex House is actually three years older than Paula Brancati.