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* CameBackWrong: Averted with the Risen; they come back to life in perfect health and with their personalities intact (though with some amnesia to start). Played straight with the people who come back to hunt the Risen. They are ruthless and laser-focused on their "purpose."
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Not counting flashbacks or the epilogue, the entirety of the show's three seasons (though only [[BritishBrevity eighteen episodes]]) takes place over the course of less than a month.
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* LostWillAndTestament: Paddy searches for the will he wrote before his murder naming Kalinda and her descendants as his beneficiaries. After finding it, Paddy's lawyer informs him that his handwritten and unnotarized will that predates Australian federation [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome won't hold up in court]].
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* NWordPrivileges: Paddy doesn't see anything wrong with casually using the term "Abo" in reference to Indigenous Australians. Beau firmly informs him not the use that word, particularly towards him.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: Kirstie name drops this trope after stealing clothes and a pregnancy test in Melbourne.
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* DeadAllAlong: Of a sort. [[spoiler: It's revealed at the end of Season 1 that Dr. McKellar had actually died four years ago, and she has secretly been one of the risen the whole time.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: Of a sort. [[spoiler: It's revealed at the end of Season 1 that Dr. Dr McKellar had actually died four years ago, and she has secretly been one of the risen the whole time.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: Of a sort. [[spoiler: It's revealed at the end of Season 1 that Dr. McKellar had actually died four years ago, and she has secretly been one of the risen the whole time.]]
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* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: It's revealed that Patrick Fitzgerald was murdered by his son so that he would secure the inheritance, and not Patrick's Aboriginal mistress.]]
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* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: Vic kills Maria by snapping her neck after he realizes she's not taking him to the rest of the risen.]]
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* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler: Both Vic and Phil, and seemingly Sarah as well, all have a driving motivation to kill the other risen and return them to death. Vic even makes a rambling speech about clarity of purpose as he chases one of the characters.]]
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** Paddy questions the competency of his lawyer solely on the fact that the man is Greek.
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Even Kirstie, who died in 1989, has a little trouble operating a smart phone at first.
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** Chi comments that Phil speaks English surprisingly well for a Native. Phil replies that he speaks English better than Chi (a Chinese immigrant).
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Charlie Thompson]] came back to Yaroona with advanced tuberculosis and shot himself rather than suffer through the last stages of the disease.
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* LastDance: [[spoiler: Charlie Thompson]] came back to Yaroona Yoorana with advanced tuberculosis and he spent his remaining time to [[spoiler: honour his friends who died in World War I]]. Once he accomplished task, he shot himself.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Charlie Thompson]] came back to Yaroona with advanced tuberculosis and shot himself rather than suffer through the last stages of the disease.
* LastDance: [[spoiler: Charlie Thompson]] came back to Yaroona with advanced tuberculosis and he spent his remaining time to [[spoiler: honour his friends who died in World War I]]. Once he accomplished task, he shot himself.
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** And, in Season 3, [[spoiler:James]].
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* MoralityPet: Beau is this to Paddy, who softens as the series progresses.
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* SanitySlippage: Eastly begins behaving increasingly erratic following [[spoiler:his car crash]].crash, starting with ignoring his open head wound, then refusing to sleep, until he ultimately turns homicidal]]. Only at the end is it revealed that he actually [[spoiler:''didn't'' survive the crash and CameBackWrong]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that [=MacKeller=] is [[spoiler:herself involved in the reanimations is foreshadowed in the first few seconds of the first episode, when one realises that the car Beau sees speeding away from the graveyard is ''her'' Volvo]].
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* MementoMacGuffin: The [[spoiler:tattered dress]] that Paddy kept in a lockbox hidden away in his mansion on Corona Hill.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Zig-zagged. When [[spoiler:Carlo dies after crossing the boundary surrounding Yoorana, he reverts to a decayed corpse which collapses into dust]]. On the other hand, when [[spoiler:Vic [[NeckSnap kills Maria]], her body remains intact]].
* NobleBigot: Paddy expresses disbelief that an "Abo" would ever go to college; at the same time he's not completely dismissive of Beau, and later on we learn [[spoiler:his true love was an Aboriginal woman]].
* MyGrandsonMyself: While visiting his old haunts at the Royal Hotel, Charlie pretends to be his own great-great-grandnephew.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Zig-zagged. When [[spoiler:Carlo dies after crossing the boundary surrounding Yoorana, he reverts to a decayed corpse which collapses into dust]]. On the other hand, when [[spoiler:Vic [[NeckSnap kills Maria]], her body remains intact]].
* NobleBigot: Paddy expresses disbelief that an "Abo" would ever go to college; at the same time he's not completely dismissive of Beau, and later on we learn [[spoiler:his true love was an Aboriginal woman]].
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed. Charlie, Paddy and John are puzzled or fascinated by aspects of the modern world but they quickly figure them out and such incidents only last a few seconds on-screen.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Paddy turns out to be Beau's ancestor.]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Paddy turns out to be Beau's ancestor.]]
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''Glitch'' is an Australian TV series produced by Creator/ScreenAustralia and Creator/TheABC.
Investigating a disturbance in the town cemetery, Yoorana police Sergeant James Hayes finds several people naked and covered in dirt. Soon, James along with Dr [=MacKeller=] realise that they have mysteriously come BackFromTheDead and can't remember their lives. Meanwhile, a teenager named Beau meets up with Paddy, another of the resurrected who didn't go with James.
The resurrected people date from various decades, from James's late wife Kate who has been dead for a mere two years, to Paddy who was the first Mayor of Yoorana and died over 150 years ago. And there's the mysterious and violent John Doe who won't speak...
Over the course of the series the resurrected regain their memories while James and Dr [=MacKeller=] try to keep the resurrected under wraps, which isn't so easy once James' colleague Sergeant Vic Eastly starts poking around.
The ABC had the entire 6-episode series available on its iView service from day 1, though it expired on the 27th of August 2015.
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!!'''This series provides examples of the following tropes:'''
* BackFromTheDead: Kate, Maria, Kirsty, John, Charlie, Paddy, and Carlo.
* FirstEpisodeResurrection: The point which starts the whole series.
* ResurrectionSickness: The resurrected characters all have some degree of amnesia which takes them a while to get over.
Investigating a disturbance in the town cemetery, Yoorana police Sergeant James Hayes finds several people naked and covered in dirt. Soon, James along with Dr [=MacKeller=] realise that they have mysteriously come BackFromTheDead and can't remember their lives. Meanwhile, a teenager named Beau meets up with Paddy, another of the resurrected who didn't go with James.
The resurrected people date from various decades, from James's late wife Kate who has been dead for a mere two years, to Paddy who was the first Mayor of Yoorana and died over 150 years ago. And there's the mysterious and violent John Doe who won't speak...
Over the course of the series the resurrected regain their memories while James and Dr [=MacKeller=] try to keep the resurrected under wraps, which isn't so easy once James' colleague Sergeant Vic Eastly starts poking around.
The ABC had the entire 6-episode series available on its iView service from day 1, though it expired on the 27th of August 2015.
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!!'''This series provides examples of the following tropes:'''
* BackFromTheDead: Kate, Maria, Kirsty, John, Charlie, Paddy, and Carlo.
* FirstEpisodeResurrection: The point which starts the whole series.
* ResurrectionSickness: The resurrected characters all have some degree of amnesia which takes them a while to get over.
