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* IronicallyDisabledArtist: Nathan, who [[FeelNoPain can't feel anything]], is revealed to enjoy decoupage. Though he tells Audrey he's into because of the colors, the fact the writers chose an art style that invovles a lot of texture seems to indicate it's supposed to be ironic. That and a chance for Audrey to poke fun at "decoupage" being an InherentlyFunnyWord.
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* ContagiousHeroism: Duke, who starts out with a strict rule that he "doesn't talk to cops" but becomes so enmeshed with Nathan and Audrey that Jennifer asks if he's an auxiliary officer when Nathan delegates tasks to him. It takes a dark turn in later seasons, however, as Duke loses his brother, his LoveInterest, and eventually his own life as a result of helping Nathan and Audrey with the Troubles, and he finds he can't leave because TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive.
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* PowerProfitPotential: [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Troubled]] people are, generally speaking, so BlessedWithSuck by their powers that there is no profit potential. However, in between seasons 3 and 4, when Nathan is being hunted by Haven's vigilante paramilitary group, and thus needs to stay below the radar, he earns cash by letting bikers punch him in the face. Since Nathan's Trouble is that he [[FeelNoPain can't feel anything]], his nonplussed reaction amazes the bikers, and when Duke finds him, he has a line of people waiting.

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* PowerProfitPotential: [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Troubled]] people are, generally speaking, so BlessedWithSuck by their powers that there is no profit potential. However, in between seasons 3 and 4, when Nathan [[FeelNoPain Nathan]] is being hunted by Haven's vigilante paramilitary group, the Guard, and thus needs to stay below the radar, he earns cash by letting bikers punch him in the face. Since Nathan's Trouble is that he [[FeelNoPain can't feel anything]], his His nonplussed reaction amazes the bikers, and when Duke finds him, he has a line of people waiting.
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* PowerProfitPotential: [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Troubled]] people are, generally speaking, so BlessedWithSuck by their powers that there is no profit potential. However, in between seasons 3 and 4, when Nathan is being hunted by Haven's vigilante paramilitary group, and thus needs to stay below the radar, he earns cash by letting bikers punch him in the face. Since Nathan's Trouble is that he [[FeelNoPain can't feel anything]], his nonplussed reaction amazes the bikers, and when Duke finds him, he has a line of people waiting.
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** In "Exposure", Mara accepts a [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs tragic childhood anecdote]] as her payment for being a ConsultedKiller.

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** In "Exposure", Mara accepts a [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs tragic childhood anecdote]] as her payment for being a ConsultedKiller.[[ConsultingAConvictedKiller consulted killer]].
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* PoorCommunicationKills: A good portion of all the drama could have been avoided by people just tried talking to each other reasonably. Partially Justified by the circumstances, but there are several moments where the obsession with keeping secrets just results in making things worse. This is especially true for a great deal of the interpersonal drama between characters.
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* BrainwashedBride: In season 5's "Enter Sandman," a DreamWeaver sets his sites on Audrey, putting her into a coma and inducing a dream sequence in which she (and he) are preparing for their wedding. In his dream, she is hopelessly in love with him. The gang must race against the clock to get into his mind and through to Audrey before she marries him, accepting the fake reality and getting trapped within it forever.
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* KarmicShunning: The town turns on Nathan in season 4 and 5 because he prioritizes Audrey over ending the Troubles. The Troubles which are killing people daily and getting worse over the course of the series. In season 5, he's put on trial for his perceieved crimes and almost executed via vigilante justice.
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Cool Loser TRS cleanup, has been renamed to Unconvincingly Unpopular Character and is a YMMV audience reaction.


* CoolLoser: Audrey. This is changing quickly since her arrival in Haven though.
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* RoaringRampageOfRomance: Nathan and Audrey. Nathan's unwillingness to let Audrey do the usual HeroicSacrifice to end the Troubles for 27 years directly kick off the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero apocalyptic]] events of seasons 4 and 5, and everything they try to do to mitigate the fallout without sacrificing each other just makes it worse. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The townsfolk, dying daily from the Troubles, do not find this nearly as romantic as they do.]]

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* RoaringRampageOfRomance: Nathan and Audrey. Nathan's unwillingness to let Audrey do the usual HeroicSacrifice to end the Troubles for 27 years directly kick kicks off the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero apocalyptic]] events of seasons 4 and 5, and everything they try to do to mitigate the fallout without sacrificing each other just makes it worse. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The townsfolk, dying daily from the Troubles, do not find this nearly as romantic as they do.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRomance: Nathan and Audrey. Nathan's unwillingness to let Audrey do the usual HeroicSacrifice to end the Troubles for 27 years directly kick off the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero apocalyptic]] events of seasons 4 and 5, and everything they try to do to mitigate the fallout without sacrificing each other just makes it worse. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The townsfolk, dying daily from the Troubles, do not find this nearly as romantic as they do.]]
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%%* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: A victim in "Silent Night", as a consequence of her being right at the edge of a barrier forming around the town.

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%%* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: A victim * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the victims in "Silent Night", Night" happens to be boogey-boarding when the dome closes over Haven, and gets sliced in half as a consequence of her being right at the edge of a barrier forming around the town.result.



%%zce* HisHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler: Nathan]].

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%%zce* * HisHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler: Nathan]].Nathan, who ends the series grieving the loss of Audrey but makes a hopeful connection with Paige]].



* RefugeInAudacity: What Audrey and Duke use to, unarmed, take down two armed men, one of which can read minds. Audrey feeds Duke outrageous instructions via an earpiece, and neither telepath nor partner can figure out what the hell Duke is doing because he's acting completely insane and apparently hasn't a coherent thought in his head. When they are too confused to react, Audrey and Duke disarm them.

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* RefugeInAudacity: What Audrey and Duke use to, unarmed, take down two armed men, one of which can read minds. Audrey feeds Duke outrageous instructions via an earpiece, and neither telepath psychic nor partner can figure out what the hell Duke is doing because he's acting completely insane and apparently hasn't a coherent thought in his head. When they are too confused to react, Audrey and Duke disarm them.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The show runs off the question "What would happen if you woke up tomorrow with superpowers?" and the answer is: not realize it, notice weird things are going on but not realizing it's you, deny it's you when told because that sounds outrageous, '''panic''' at the dawning realization that it ''is'' you (which makes it worse), and then have to learn to control it while living with the knowledge that your PowerIncontinence has hurt/killed people. Rinse and repeat for five seasons.
* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarStories: Shares quite a few seemingly unintentional similarities with ''Series/OnceUponATime,'' which ran concurrently and both involve a young, blonde, female protagonist who grew up in foster care and who works in law enforcement in Boston finding out she is the ChosenOne meant to end an evil curse in a small town in Maine, where the curse does not affect her and she learns she is not from this world at all. Interestingly, they're also both [[AdaptationExpansion Adaptation Expansions]], ''Haven'' of a Stephen King novella, and ''Once Upon a Time'' of the Disney canon.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Nathan eventually realizes that he has to inform Boston detective Tommy Bowen about the Troubles. Upon hearing Nathan's story, Tommy mentions that he's seen what this job does to cops and how they deal with it. Some turn to drugs, alcohol, or religion, and they blame what they see on the supernatural. He adds that as long as it doesn't effect the case, he's fine with it. Nathan has no reason to correct him, but Tommy later actually sees the [[SkepticNoLonger Troubles firsthand]].

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Nathan eventually realizes SupernaturalHotspotTown: Haven, Maine is loosely based off of the works of Stephen King. Its local brand of supernatural phenomena takes the form of The Troubles, curses passed along family lines that he has to inform Boston detective Tommy Bowen about pop up once every twenty-seven years and take the Troubles. Upon hearing Nathan's story, Tommy mentions form of everything from losing one's senses of touch and pain, to attracting bullets, forcing people to become cannibals, causing {{Groundhog Day Loop}}s and full-scale Biblical reality warping.
* SuperPowerMeltdown:
** The fate of the pyrokinetic after Audrey pushes his BerserkButton. This might also have something to do with Audrey being immune to said powers; burning her would logically fail, so
that he's seen what this job does to cops power wouldn't go anywhere.
** In the season 4 finale, Audrey reactivates Duke's Trouble so he can cure a BrownNote Trouble killing a lot of people. Unfortunately, she also reactivated '''every Trouble the entire Crocker line ever absorbed'''. Duke temporarily becoming a WalkingWasteland is just a symptom,
and how they deal with it. Some turn to drugs, alcohol, it is made pretty clear it will kill him if Audrey or religion, and they blame what they see on the supernatural. He adds that as long as it doesn't effect the case, he's fine with it. Nathan has no reason to correct him, but Tommy later actually sees the [[SkepticNoLonger Troubles firsthand]].William don't fix him.



* SuperPowerMeltdown:
** The fate of the pyrokinetic after Audrey pushes his BerserkButton. This might also have something to do with Audrey being immune to said powers; burning her would logically fail, so that power wouldn't go anywhere.
** In the season 4 finale, Audrey reactivates Duke's Trouble so he can cure a BrownNote Trouble killing a lot of people. Unfortunately, she also reactivated '''every Trouble the entire Crocker line ever absorbed'''. Duke temporarily becoming a WalkingWasteland is just a symptom, and it is made pretty clear it will kill him if Audrey or William don't fix him.

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* SuperPowerMeltdown:
** The fate of
SureLetsGoWithThat: Nathan eventually realizes that he has to inform Boston detective Tommy Bowen about the pyrokinetic after Audrey pushes his BerserkButton. This might also have something Troubles. Upon hearing Nathan's story, Tommy mentions that he's seen what this job does to do cops and how they deal with Audrey being immune it. Some turn to said powers; burning her would logically fail, so drugs, alcohol, or religion, and they blame what they see on the supernatural. He adds that power wouldn't go anywhere.
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as long as it doesn't effect the season 4 finale, Audrey reactivates Duke's Trouble so he can cure a BrownNote Trouble killing a lot of people. Unfortunately, she also reactivated '''every Trouble case, he's fine with it. Nathan has no reason to correct him, but Tommy later actually sees the entire Crocker line ever absorbed'''. Duke temporarily becoming a WalkingWasteland is just a symptom, and it is made pretty clear it will kill him if Audrey or William don't fix him.[[SkepticNoLonger Troubles firsthand]].
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Renamed to Sexy Sweater Girl. Removing any entries that don't is just "Girl wears a sweater" with no indication that they are attractive, hot, or any further context.


* SweaterGirl: What Audrey would have been if Nathan had had his way. He had picked out a blue cashmere sweater for Audrey's birthday only to have his girlfriend change it to a scarf without his knowledge.
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* LockAndLoad: {{Exploited}} in [[Recap/HavenS1E6Fur "Fur"]]. Audrey goes to question Landon and finds him skeet-shooting. Badly. She gives him some tips, and he challenges her to do better. She does, not missing once, which impresses him enough to talk with her.
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* ExpandedUniverse: Webisodes fill in some minor information such as what happened between Dwight and The Guard. [[spoiler: When he became disillusioned by The Guard, they came to 'deal' with him. In the resulting fight, Lizze's Trouble kicked in and she was killed by a stray bullet.]]

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* ExpandedUniverse: Webisodes fill in some minor information such as what happened between Dwight and The Guard. [[spoiler: When he became disillusioned by The Guard, they came to 'deal' with him. In the resulting fight, Lizze's Trouble kicked in and she was [[MurphysBullet killed by a stray bullet.bullet]].]]
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/NolanNorth guest stars as an archaeologist who helps a character played by Creator/EmilyRose solve a supernatural mystery. [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Hmmm...]]
** William (who is played by Creator/ColinFerguson) in Season 4 is introduced thusly:
-->'''Lexie''': Are you a cop?\\
'''William''': [[Series/{{Eureka}} Not even a little]].
** This isn't Creator/ChristianCamargo's first time playing a [[Series/{{Dexter}} serial killer]], who is [[spoiler:killed by his more positive brother]].


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* CastingGag: Wrestling/{{Christian}} playing an old friend of Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} - aside from their history as tag team partners in the WWE, the two have been best friends since childhood.

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* ChurchOfSaintGenericus: Driscoll's ministry is a Hollywood church displaying a random mix of liturgical and free church traits, picked to signal nothing deeper than "Hey! AcceptableReligiousTargets[=!=]"

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* ChurchOfSaintGenericus: Driscoll's ministry is a Hollywood church displaying a random mix of liturgical and free church traits, picked to signal nothing deeper than "Hey! AcceptableReligiousTargets[=!=]"traits.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Red Sox and Yankees finished a game [[spoiler: in which the Red Sox overcome a 10 run deficit]] before noon. Even the Patriots' Day game in April starts at 10-11 a.m. Not technically impossible, but highly improbable, since non-high-scoring games between the two teams run 3-4 hours. The point is that plot-wise, Audrey uses her foreknowledge of it to [[spoiler: prevent people from dying and stop the GroundhogDayLoop, which alphabetically, is very close to this trope.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Red Sox and Yankees finished a game [[spoiler: in which the Red Sox overcome a 10 run deficit]] before noon. Even the Patriots' Day game in April starts at 10-11 a.m. Not technically impossible, but highly improbable, since non-high-scoring games between the two teams run 3-4 hours. The point is that plot-wise, Audrey uses her foreknowledge of it to [[spoiler: prevent people from dying and stop the GroundhogDayLoop, which alphabetically, is very close to this trope.GroundhogDayLoop.]]
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* NiceHat: Tommy Bowen wears one. Nathan picks one up to fit into 1950's Haven.
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** Also Audrey (blonde), Claire (redhead), and Jordan (brunette).
** This trope is seemingly deliberately invoked for the incarnations, since season 5 reveals that [[spoiler: Mara, the original personality, has hair that is a combination of all three colors]].

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** Also Audrey (blonde), Claire (redhead), and Jordan (brunette).
** This trope {{trope}} is seemingly deliberately invoked played straight for the incarnations, since season 5 reveals that [[spoiler: Mara, [[spoiler:Mara, the original personality, has hair that is a combination of all three colors]].
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** This trope is seemingly deliberately invoked for the incarnations, since season 5 reveals that [[spoiler: Mara, the original personality, has hair that is a combination of all three colors]].

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