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* AllLesbiansWantKids: A variant occurs when [[spoiler: Julie]] takes in Victor, which seems to perk her maternal instincts and awakens unreconciled feelings for her former partner, [[spoiler: Laure]].
** Not only that, but one of the reason that led to [[spoiler:Julie and Laure's]] breakup was the former's inability to have children after the Cannibal's attack.
** Not only that, but one of the reason that led to [[spoiler:Julie and Laure's]] breakup was the former's inability to have children after the Cannibal's attack.
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* AllLesbiansWantKids: A variant occurs when [[spoiler: Julie]] Julie takes in Victor, which seems to perk her maternal instincts and awakens unreconciled feelings for her former partner, [[spoiler: Laure]].
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** Not only that, but one of the reason that led to[[spoiler:Julie Julie and Laure's]] Laure's breakup was the former's inability to have children after the Cannibal's attack.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Out of the "living" characters across two seasons, [[spoiler:Mr. Costa, M.lle Payet, Toni, Laure, Thomas and his entire battalion of Gendarmes, Lucho, Sandrine, Frédéric, Pierre and possibly Adèle]], plus the special case of [[spoiler:Lucy who may have been a Returned from the start]], all bite the dust sooner or later. Of course, given the kind of show they're on, a couple of them turn into Returned, or still reappear as hallucinations.
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* TheArk: [[spoiler: The Helping Hand]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Pierre]], who identifies as a born-again Christian, and likely runs the Helping Hand as a way to try and make up for a jaded past, including [[spoiler: participating in the robbery where Victor's family is killed]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Pierre]], who identifies as a born-again Christian, and likely runs the Helping Hand as a way to try and make up for a jaded past, including [[spoiler: participating in the robbery where Victor's family is killed]].
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* TheArk: [[spoiler: The Helping Hand]]
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* TheAtoner:[[spoiler: Pierre]], Pierre, who identifies as a born-again Christian, and likely runs the Helping Hand as a way to try and make up for a jaded past, including [[spoiler: participating in the robbery where Victor's family is killed]].
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* BackFromTheDead: Camille, Simon, Victor, Serge, Madame Costa, along with a dog and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a butterfly]]. [[spoiler: Apparently there are many more, probably people who died when the original dam broke and flooded the town. Lucy, their leader, could possibly qualify, though she never really died. She could just have [[HealingFactor regenerative powers]]. Julie wonders if she's one of them because she was clinically dead for two seconds after her aggression, though it's scientifically possible she got lucky on the operating table]]
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* BackFromTheDead: Camille, Simon, Victor, Serge, Madame Costa, along with a dog and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a butterfly]]. [[spoiler: Apparently there are many more, probably people who died when the original dam broke and flooded the town. Lucy, their leader, could possibly qualify, though she never really died. She could just have [[HealingFactor regenerative powers]]. powers]]]]. Julie wonders if she's one of them because she was clinically dead for two seconds after her aggression, though it's scientifically possible she got lucky on the operating table]]table.
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* {{Motifs}}: Water is everywhere, and apparently represents a threshold to the world of the dead. The Returned appear as reflections on the lake on promotional posters, their appearance causes the reservoir level to lower, Camille's coffin only contains lake water, [[spoiler:the town is flooded in the first season finale cutting off the Returned from the living]]...
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** Not only that, but one of the reason that led to [[spoiler:Julie and Laure's]] breakup was the former's inability to have children after the Cannibal's attack.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The meeting between Adèle and [[spoiler: the deformed creature]] in the second season finale, and her last scene in the cave with Simon.
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* FirstEpisodeResurrection: A grand total of five ! [[spoiler: it turns out that dozens resurrected in the same episode though they remained in hiding for the entirety of the first season. The five others didn't find the rest of the group in time]]
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* FirstEpisodeResurrection: A grand total of five ! five! [[spoiler: it turns out that dozens resurrected in the same episode though they remained in hiding for the entirety of the first season. The five others didn't find the rest of the group in time]]
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** This could mean that [[spoiler: Victor]] is a PatientZero, the first to have come back. [[spoiler: From his behaviour when he first arrived at the Lewanski's home, more than 35 years before, it is possible that he had already died and returned.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Victor's]] father still lives in town after [[spoiler: his family's murder]]. [[spoiler: And up until the events of the series, Victor has been living with him.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Victor's]] father still lives in town after [[spoiler: his family's murder]]. [[spoiler: And up until the events of the series, Victor has been living with him.]]
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** This could mean that [[spoiler: Victor]] is a PatientZero, the first to have come back. [[spoiler: From his behaviour when he first arrived at the Lewanski's home, more than 35 years before, it is possible that he had already died and returned.returned, or that he's even an all-different kind of immortal entity.]]
** The season 2 finale implies that [[spoiler:it was Victor who brought all Returned back to life, after wishing for his now-elderly father, who was hospitalised after a domestic accident, not to die.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Victor's]] father still lives in town after [[spoiler: his family's murder]]. [[spoiler:
** And up until the events of the series,Victor [[spoiler:Victor has been living with him.]]
** The season 2 finale implies that [[spoiler:it was Victor who brought all Returned back to life, after wishing for his now-elderly father, who was hospitalised after a domestic accident, not to die.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Victor's]] father still lives in town after [[spoiler: his family's murder]].
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* IronicEcho: When [[spoiler: Virgil]] is captured by [[spoiler: Milan]] and thrown in the cellar, he begs the young [[spoiler: Serge]] to let him out, which he does, leading to [[spoiler: the former's agonizing death and Milan forcing Serge to watch.]] 35 years later, [[spoiler: Milan]] is in the same situation and tells the same words to [[spoiler: Serge]], but he shuts the cellar door shut.
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* IronicEcho: When [[spoiler: Virgil]] is captured by [[spoiler: Milan]] and thrown in the cellar, he begs the young [[spoiler: Serge]] to let him out, which he does, leading to [[spoiler: the former's agonizing death and Milan forcing Serge to watch.]] 35 years later, [[spoiler: Milan]] is in the same situation and tells the same words to [[spoiler: Serge]], but he shuts slams the cellar door shut.
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** Thomas, the doubter
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* ThePowerOfLove: A more serious example: in the second season, Virgil explains that a Returned doesn't become an uncaring, mindless zombie (like the majority of [[spoiler:the Horde]]) as long as there's someone living that still cares for them. [[spoiler:This is exactly what happens to Esteban after all his family and friends die.]]
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* PutOnABus: Since this is a show where death doesn't stop a character from sticking around (even as an hallucination, like [[spoiler:Thomas]]), the absence of [[spoiler:Laure]] from the second season is particularly noticeable.
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* StoppedCaring: When a Returned has no more ties to the world of the living (i.e. people who still care for them), they become mindless or even feral zombies.
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* GainaxEnding: Adèle's story in the second season has one of this. [[spoiler: She follows Simon down a cave, but she loses him in the dark and is spooked by the deformed creature the military saw on the camera beforehand. The creature takes Adèle's hand and becomes her guide. She then appears alone, dressed in white, joins Simon who is in his wedding dress, and they look up towards an opening, smiling.]]
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* GainaxEnding: Adèle's story in the second season has one of this. [[spoiler: She follows Simon down a cave, but she loses him in the dark and is spooked by the deformed creature the military saw on the camera beforehand.beforehand, who may or may not be Simon. The creature takes Adèle's hand and becomes her guide. She then appears alone, dressed in white, joins Simon who is in his wedding dress, and they look up towards an opening, smiling.]]
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* TheDon: [[spoiler: Milan]].
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* TheDon: [[spoiler: Milan]].DidNotDieThatWay: Adèle believes that Simon tragically died in a car accident the day of their marriage. [[spoiler:He actually committed suicide, but he doesn't remember why he did it when he returns.]]
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A 2012 [[GenreBusting mystery/esoteric french soap-opera]] french TV series created by Fabrice Gobert for Canal+. It is a loose adaptation of the 2004 film of the same name by Robin Campillo, though the series [[AdaptationExpansion expands its original idea]] and plans to create a [[MythArc long-run mystery]] on its basic premise. It proved quite a success for audience and critics alike (in fact it was the most watched original fiction created by Canal+ of all time), winning an international Emmy, and declared best 2013 drama by the Guardian (beating out ''Breaking Bad'', mind you).
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A 2012 [[GenreBusting mystery/esoteric french horror drama soap-opera]] french TV series created by Fabrice Gobert for Canal+. It is a loose adaptation of the 2004 film of the same name by Robin Campillo, though the series [[AdaptationExpansion expands its original idea]] and plans to create a [[MythArc long-run mystery]] on its basic premise. It proved quite a success for audience and critics alike (in fact it was the most watched original fiction created by Canal+ of all time), winning an international Emmy, and declared best 2013 drama by the Guardian (beating out ''Breaking Bad'', mind you).
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** The list of people who have been driven to suicide by [[spoiler: Victor's]] illusions grows exponentially during the series.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Victor's]] father still lives in town after [[spoiler: his family's murder]].
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* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Victor's]] father still lives in town after [[spoiler: his family's murder]]. [[spoiler: And up until the events of the series, Victor has been living with him.]]
* HistoryRepeats: Lucy arrives in the town, with only a suitcase and no money. She asks the owner of the local pub for a drink and a place to stay, and he provides them. [[spoiler: It happened both in 1976 with Milan, and in 2011 with Toni.]]
* HistoryRepeats: Lucy arrives in the town, with only a suitcase and no money. She asks the owner of the local pub for a drink and a place to stay, and he provides them. [[spoiler: It happened both in 1976 with Milan, and in 2011 with Toni.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Partially subverted with the characters of Esteban and Étienne Berg, both exclusive to Season 2. Their names are, respectively, the Spanish and French versions of "Stephen".
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** The second season finale completes Victor's backstory. [[spoiler: He was already a Returned when he was taken in by the Lewanskis, and has been hiding with Mr. Lewanski for the past 35 years.]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The meeting between Adèle and [[spoiler: the deformed creature]] in the second season finale, and her last scene in the cave with Simon.
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* GainaxEnding: Adèle's story in the second season has one of this. [[spoiler: She follows Simon down a cave, but she loses him in the dark and is spooked by the deformed creature the military saw on the camera beforehand. The creature takes Adèle's hand and becomes her guide. She then appears alone, dressed in white, joins Simon who is in his wedding dress, and they look up towards an opening, smiling.]]
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler: At the close of the second season, the Returned all leave, but Serge and Simon are not with them. Lucy leaves Nathan on a couple's doorstep, which Victor - who has apparently been adopted by Julie and Ophélie - is somehw able to sense.]]
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Julie dreams of being dead on the morgue bed, then being brought back to life by [[spoiler: Ophélie]] with a kiss. She wakes up, hears commotion in the hospital corridor, and finds [[spoiler: Madame Costa]] having just returned to life from being shot.
