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* JarOfTheBizarre: When Eddie and KT break into the Gatehouse to investigate Denby for the first time, they discover a few creepy jars filled with dead insects and frogs. They're both appropriately freaked out that she owns them, and it's never explained ''why'' she has them. It's used to establish early on that Denby is hiding some unsettling secrets behind her CoolTeacher facade.
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* AcquaintanceDenial: After a failed TwinSwitch that culminated in both twins accidentally revealing themselves and humiliating a waiter, Mr. Sweet furiously states they both have some explaining to do. Patricia immediately claims that she has never seen Piper, ''[[BlatantLies her identical twin]]'', before in her life. In a FunnyBackgroundEvent, this was how Eddie was able to excitedly identify the ever-stubborn and sarcastic Patricia.
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* OutclassedAtTheGym: Happens on a group scale when Anubis House is preparing for the dodgeball tournament. Their rival house, Isis House, is demonstrated to be not only incredibly unified, but also far more athletically capable than Anubis House, who happens to rank last in every single sports tournament. Simply watching them do their group exercises demoralizes the Anubis students, while Willow acknowledges that when she lived there, their motto was "win or die trying". This inferiority gets worse when Ben notices Eddie's efforts to coach his team and attempts to offer advice, which Eddie stubbornly shoots down.
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* HarmfulToPetsReminder: Willow briefly adopts two wild hedgehogs and [[SecretPetPlot cares for them in secret]]. Joy and Mara try to convince Willow to release them by pointing out that wild hedgehogs don't make great pets, with Mara having to stop Willow from feeding them milk because they can't digest it.
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** Jerome's dad says that "He knows he hasn't been the best dad" and Jerome answers "[[StarWars Darth Vader]] has nothing on you."

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** Jerome's dad says that "He knows he hasn't been the best dad" and Jerome answers "[[StarWars "[[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] has nothing on you."



* WordAssociationGame: Fabian plays word association with Joy in a season 2 episode to help her remember where the old mosaic went after Trudy took it down from the hallway. He starts out by throwing random words at her (such as dog, throw, and rabbit) until saying "mosaic", which triggers an immediate response of "library".

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* WordAssociationGame: WordAssociationTest: Fabian plays word association with Joy in a season 2 episode to help her remember where the old mosaic went after Trudy took it down from the hallway. He starts out by throwing random words at her (such as dog, throw, and rabbit) until saying "mosaic", which triggers an immediate response of "library".

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** A rather dark example comes at the end of season 3. Alfie, who was just turned into a [[TheSoulless sinner]], dumped Willow in a cold-blooded KickTheDog moment. As icing on the cake, he proceeded to flirt with Mara and Joy just seconds later, in front of a heartbroken and sobbing Willow. This moment devastated her for the rest of the season, and he, once turned back to normal, had to give her an apology gift before she even considered taking him back.

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** A rather dark example comes at the end of season 3. Alfie, who was just turned into a [[TheSoulless sinner]], dumped Willow in a cold-blooded KickTheDog moment. As icing on the cake, he proceeded to flirt with Mara and Joy just seconds later, in front of a heartbroken and sobbing Willow. This moment devastated her for the rest of the season, and he, once turned back to normal, had to give her an apology gift before she even considered taking him back.'
* KansasCityShuffle: Frobisher-Smythe shows up on the floor of Fabian's room, claiming that he's dying and needs help. Fabian, ever gullible, trusts him and tries to help. When Fabian goes up to the tank room with him, Frobisher keeps up the act until the last minute, when he reveals his true colors. Fabian deduces that he was tricked, and that Frobisher wanted to turn him into a sinner, but assumes that the goal is to get him for shame, and instead proclaims how [[{{Pride}} proud he is of himself]] -- with pride being the ''actual'' sin he was being tricked into expressing. This gets Fabian captured.
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* ''Series/MoonKnight2022'':
** Invoked by [[KnightTemplar Arthur Harrow]] and his disciples, who follow the deity Ammit and punish anyone who they deem guilty by killing them. They plan to release Ammit in order for her to punish anyone whose scales are considered unbalanced - regardless of whether or not they [[PrecrimeArrest have actually done anything worth punishing yet]].
** Khonshu is directly referred to as the "God of Vengeance", and [[GoodIsNotNice delivers justice in particularly violent ways]]. However, unlike Ammit, he only punishes people for crimes they actually ''have'' committed, rather than crimes they only may potentially commit.
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* DivinePunishment: As the show is centered on Myth/EgyptianMythology, there are a few moments where characters get punished directly by one of the Egyptian gods.
** In season 1, the Anubis students are putting on a play that was written about Victor and Sarah's backstory. In the play, the Frobisher-Smythes were both given the CurseOfThePharaoh directly from Anubis, who also goes ahead and claims the life of Victor's father, instead of awarding him with eternal life as promised.
** In the Touchstone of Ra, [[spoiler:Sophia]] plans to use the touchstone to make it rain gold, however the plan requires a sacrifice. Because the chosen sacrifice is rescued before the ceremony can be completed, Ra doesn't provide gold as promised, and instead rains down on the students with lightning [[spoiler:and [[TakenForGranite turns Sophia to stone]]]]. He only stops when [[spoiler:Eddie makes a HeroicSacrifice]], but [[spoiler:Sophia remains a statue]].
* ''Series/MoonKnight2022'':
** Invoked by [[KnightTemplar Arthur Harrow]] and his disciples, who follow the deity Ammit and punish anyone who they deem guilty by killing them. They plan to release Ammit in order for her to punish anyone whose scales are considered unbalanced - regardless of whether or not they [[PrecrimeArrest have actually done anything worth punishing yet]].
** Khonshu is directly referred to as the "God of Vengeance", and [[GoodIsNotNice delivers justice in particularly violent ways]]. However, unlike Ammit, he only punishes people for crimes they actually ''have'' committed, rather than crimes they only may potentially commit.
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* RequestForPrivacy: Towards the end of Season 1, Fabian is trying to ask Nina to the prom, but they keep [[MomentKiller being interrupted]]. His final attempt is in the dining room, where Patricia walks in just as he's trying to ask. He awkwardly asks her to leave the room so he can ask Nina, which she's annoyed by at first, but gladly leaves after catching on. She returns as soon as they're done with the conversation, telling them that they're adorable, and she's starving.
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* PersonalizedPledge: in episode 1.03 "House of the Black Bird": Patricia accuses Alfie of being the person behind a prank that really scared her. He frantically insists he didn't do it by swearing on his dog's life. She begrudgingly accepts that it wasn't Alfie, and storms off. After she leaves, Alfie admits to Jerome that he lied--he doesn't have a dog, he's allergic to them--making it a SubvertedTrope.
-->'''Patricia:''' You swear?\\
'''Alfie:''' Yes, I swear! On Sprocket's life!\\
'''Patricia:''' Who?\\
'''Alfie:''' Sprocket, my dog! I swear on his life I didn't do it!\\
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'''Jerome:''' I did ''not'' know you had a dog.\\
'''Alfie:''' Nope--allergic.
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* NewKidStigma: Every new American student at the House briefly has to deal with being ostracized due to how they shake up the dynamic and arrive just as someone else leaves:
** Nina came in unexpectedly on the same day Joy vanished, immediately putting her on Patricia's bad side. Aside from [[NiceGuy Fabian]], everyone else is rather cold to her, and only Fabian attempts to stand up for her when she's being mistreated. She goes to school early the next morning, which Fabian argues is an effort to get away from all of them because none of them were very welcoming. It takes her besting a fake InitiationCeremony to get on most people's good side, which only leaves Patricia hating her for several more episodes.
** Eddie arrived a day after Mick left, but before moving into Anubis House, he'd already had an argument with Patricia at school. He got off on the wrong foot with most everyone else when he introduced himself at breakfast, annoying the other boys due to flirting with all the girls, and immediately causing trouble by talking back to Victor, tormenting Jerome during "Donkey Day", and keeping Fabian up with loud music. It doesn't take very long for him to become accepted, though.
** KT comes in after Nina has disappeared, which meant she was entering when the house was in a tense state. This mirrors how Nina herself was treated when she first arrived, except that instead of Patricia bullying her and everyone else being distant, Fabian is the one who takes the lead on distrusting her due to some concerning factors, and ropes Patricia in as part of his desperation to find out where Nina went. Meanwhile, while many are friendly to her, the only one who really hangs out with her is Eddie... which makes Fabian and Patricia even more distrustful. It takes a while for her to be fully accepted by the rest of Anubis House, as even after joining Sibuna, Fabian and Patricia ''still'' don't trust her until they're forced to.
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* BorrowedWithoutPermission: After Amber caught Patricia trying to sneak away with Nina's locket, which she'd stolen directly from breaking into their bedroom and digging into Nina's coat pockets, Patricia insisted that she was only borrowing it and that she planned to give it back. As this had come after a while of Patricia pettily bullying Nina, nobody else believed her to have good intentions... despite that, on this occasion, she actually did.
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* WordAssociationGame: Fabian plays word association with Joy in a season 2 episode to help her remember where the old mosaic went after Trudy took it down from the hallway. He starts out by throwing random words at her (such as dog, throw, and rabbit) until saying "mosaic", which triggers an immediate response of "library".
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* SecretPetPlot:
** In season one, this is downplayed when Amber tries to care for the cat they found in the cellar. She [[PlayingSick fakes sick]] to care for it, but when it escapes, she panics and tries to tell Trudy, who only sends her back to bed. This is the catalyst for Sibuna going back down into the cellar, seeing a taxidermized cat, and believing that Victor was a cat-killer, which makes them distrust him even more than they already did.
** In season two, Jerome and Alfie are setting up a literal "wild goose chase" to retrieve a stolen gem from the headmaster's office. Afterward, they have to care for the goose in their bedroom for long enough to have it [[ToiletHumor "return" the gem that it had inadvertently swallowed]]. Because Anubis House doesn't allow pets, all of the students get locked up in the living room when Victor discovers the pet food Alfie ordered, and he initiates a search for the goose, forcing them to break the rules in order to hide it in their closet.
** Mara, Willow, and Joy care for two secret pets in season three:
*** They have to secretly care for Letdown, Mara's dog, which she inherited from a deceased lord. She grows very attached to the dog, but when Joy allows Sibuna to take him for a few minutes, they accidentally let him get captured by Victor, who is once again enforcing the "no pets" rule. This helps to strain her relationship with Mara, until everyone manages to get Letdown back, though Mara has to send him to her parent's house. In this case, all of the students knew about Letdown, and it was just the teachers who were in the dark.
*** After being dumped by Alfie, Willow is crying in the kitchen with Joy and Mara, when she notices a wild hedgehog wander in. She decides to secretly care for the hedgehog in the bedroom and names him after Victor. Trouble ensues when Mara and Joy accidentally lose it, requiring Jerome's help to get a new one, only for the original hedgehog to return, which makes Willow care for two at once. Unfortunately, she's caught when the hedgehogs [[FleaEpisode spread fleas]] to the students, and Trudy forces her to get rid of them.
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* BeastInTheBuilding: When Jerome needs to send Mr. Sweet on a "wild goose chase" in order to retrieve the gem hidden in the suit of armor in the headmaster's office, Alfie takes it literally and gets an actual goose that they release into the school. The goose runs around, scaring everyone as Alfie actively sabotages Mr. Sweet's attempts to capture it in order to buy Jerome more time. After they finally capture it, Jerome and Alfie have to hide it in their room for a few more days, which is a problem because Anubis House doesn't allow pets.
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* LastSecondPhotoFailure: In "The Touchstone of Ra", Willow is tasked with setting up the senior year class photo for extra credit work. [[FunnyPhotoPhrase She makes everyone squee]] and runs over to join the image, but as the picture's being taken, the camera collapses. This means that the class photo shows a toppled camera and everyone reaching out in a panic to fix it.
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* GrossGumGag:
** While blackmailing Mara, Jerome forces her to do a variety of chores. Aside from doing his table-setting duty, we see her forced to scrape chewed gum off the bottom of his shoes. She questions how he could possibly step in so much gum, and he claims he was just unlucky... seconds before Alfie walks in, notices some of his missing gum, and resumes eating it, much to Jerome's amusement and Mara's disgust.
** Downplayed when Mara takes on her "bad girl" persona. She comes into class chewing gum, which isn't allowed. After being berated, she rolls her eyes and puts the gum behind her ear, which creates some grossed-out reactions from her classmates.
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* FakeDangerGambit: Early in season 1, Jerome tries to help Alfie win over Amber by making her into a "damsel in distress" who needs saving. They do this by setting up smoke bombs, and Amber's goes off when she's in the middle of patching things up with Mick. Alfie then tackles her to the floor in order to "save" her, which means she's not impressed or even grateful at all — she just blames him for ruining her chances at getting back with Mick. Jerome, meanwhile, had tried to impress Ms. Robinson and score a Teacher/Student Romance, by taking charge when the smoke started filling the room... and she wasn't impressed, either.
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* FriendlessnessInsult: When the sinner-turned Fabian is asked to comfort an already-heartbroken Joy, he pulls her into a hug before whispering nasty things to her, telling her that everyone in the House despises her. This being a far-cry from Fabian's usually [[NiceGuy kind-hearted personality]], it served both to shatter Joy further and to [[KickTheDog establish just how evil he was now]].
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* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: One of the chambers protecting the mask involved having to find various reflectors and stand in specific spots in order to reflect a beam of light that opens the next chamber. In this instance, the reflectors couldn't just be any mirror or glass object; they had to be specific items marked by a Horus symbol, forcing the characters to hunt them all down first.
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* AthleticallyChallenged: Fabian's the stereotypically unathletic nerd, known for being unable to even play hopscotch correctly. This results in him being stuck as the LoserTeamMascot during the interhouse dodgeball tournament and being mocked in general for his lack of muscle. He does have bursts of strength, which also means he's the won who ''[[PutMeInCoach wins]]'' the dodgeball tournament and can occasionally hold his own in a fight... but this doesn't mean he's given any credit for that, nor that it ever actually sticks the next time he needs to rely on physical strength and athleticism.

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* CallingYourNausea: After eating gallons of creamed carrot on a bet, Jerome ended up in his room, [[FoodComa exhausted]] and completely sick. When Mara comes in to talk to him, he is initially able to hold a normal conversation. But soon after, Jerome frantically asks Mara get him a bucket; she does so just seconds before he throws up.

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* CallingYourNausea: After eating gallons of creamed carrot on a bet, Jerome ended up in his room, [[FoodComa exhausted]] and completely sick. When Mara comes in to talk to him, he is initially able to hold a normal conversation. But soon after, Jerome frantically asks Mara get him a bucket; she does leaves to do so just seconds before he throws up.up.
* CatapultNightmare:
** Patricia catapults awake, screaming, after she has a PastExperienceNightmare about being kidnapped by Rufus.
** After being cursed by Senkhara, Patricia and Alfie are both shown snapping awake and sitting up in bed.
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* TheShowMustGoOn:
** Downplayed in Season 1. Mara and Mick run off just before the first scene, leaving Patricia in a scenario where she has to frantically improvise, especially after she unwittingly notices and calls attention to Joy being in the audience. Then, when Nina's not back in time to start her scene normally, Jason has Amber (as a cactus) and Jerome and Alfie (as a camel) dance to pad out the show.
** In Season 3, the play Mara is trying to put on turns into absolute chaos due to a number of factors, from the in-universe TroubledProduction (including lines being added and changed at the last minute) to multiple people not showing up for their scenes or leaving halfway through. The actors that do stick around have to try and salvage it... [[spoiler:and then Jerome dumps Joy on stage, forcing it to end on a dark note.]]
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* SafeBehindTheCorner: The Sibuna gang manages to pull this off a few times. The most notable examples are:
** Nina managed to hide from Victor, while they were both in his tiny office, just by hiding on the other side of the desk.
** When watching the teachers hold their ceremony in the cellar, the students were somehow unseen...despite peeking around a corner and staring directly ''at'' the teachers, who would've seen them easily in real-life. When Victor came to check, they hurriedly hid behind the corner...and he stopped just before seeing them, because he decided the noise came from a rat, instead.
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* MoralDisambiguation: The first season involved morally ambiguous teachers [[ImmortalitySeeker chasing immortality]] but not wanting to hurt the students, and a villain that stood out specifically for actually intending to cause harm, while the students ran the gamut from being normal heroes to anti-heroes, and anti-villains. By the third season, Sibuna was entirely morally good, and the villains were trying to cause an apocalypse, raising the stakes but removing the grayness.
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Mara hears Amber talking to Mick's father, with Mick's father saying he'll remove Mick from the school. She warns Mick, and both assume the worst. Then it's revealed that pulling Mick out of the school was just a lie to scare Mr. Sweet into removing the cameras and getting Trudy re-hired.

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* ArcNumber: Seven. Anubis split the Cup of Ankh into seven pieces and TheChosenOne was born on the seventh hour of the seventh day in the seventh month. Seven acolytes are necessary in order to tip the scales of life. Also, the Cup of Ankh can only be put back together once every 25 years. (2+5=7) Doubles as a NumerologicalMotif for the Cup.

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Anubis split the Cup of Ankh into seven pieces and TheChosenOne was born on the seventh hour of the seventh day in the seventh month. Seven acolytes are necessary in order to tip the scales of life. Also, the Cup of Ankh can only be put back together once every 25 years. (2+5=7) Doubles as a NumerologicalMotif for the Cup.
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* StudentsSecretSociety: The Sibuna Club is a group of students from Anubis House who decided to attach a proper name to their little mystery-solving endeavors, complete with an initiation ceremony, an oath of club loyalty, and an extreme desperation to keep the club a secret from everyone else around them. The club's goal changes with the season, but always involves solving a mystery about the House and hunting down a specific MacGuffin before anyone else can. Ironically enough, in the first season the group that Sibuna was opposing was another Secret Society... but one made up of ''teachers'' and other important adult authority figures.
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* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Eddie was a flirty "bad boy" who quickly developed a crush on Patricia [[BelligerentSexualTension because of their constant bickering]]. While Patricia liked him back, she refused to admit it at first, which was initially just played as her being a {{tsundere}}... until she kissed him and then began to avoid him entirely, becoming quite anxious because it was her FirstKiss ''ever'' and Eddie was the first guy she ever attempted to be romantic with. Her failure and stress in the romance department continued to make their relationship difficult even after they got together, with their temporary OffscreenBreakup happening because Patricia panicked again.

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