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* MermanityEnsues: In contrast to its sister series, this time a merman is created when a human man named Zac falls into the pool on Mako Island during a full moon. Three mermaids are forced to watch over him as punishment.
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* ForcedTransformation: Ondina accidentally ends up turning Erik into a duplicate of Poseidon when practicing Mimni's duplication spell.

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* ForcedTransformation: Ondina accidentally ends up turning Erik into a duplicate of Poseidon when practicing Mimni's Mimmi's duplication spell.



* NotWhatISignedonFor: After Zac witnesses the trident hurt Lyla, he backs out of his and Cam's plans to gain power through the trident.

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* NotWhatISignedonFor: NotWhatISignedOnFor: After Zac witnesses the trident hurt Lyla, he backs out of his and Cam's plans to gain power through the trident.
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** Zac, Evie, and Weilan: Similar to the previous situation, however Zac and Weilan confirm they have no feelings for one another, whereas it is strongly suggested that Lyla had feelings for Zac and hinted at that he returned them.

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** Zac, Evie, and Weilan: Similar to the previous situation, however Zac and Weilan confirm they have no feelings for one another, whereas it is strongly suggested that Lyla had feelings for Zac and hinted at that he returned them.Zac.



* ShipTease: Lyla and Zac were heavily teased with several moments of hand-holding and intense gazes. Could also apply to Nixie and Cam.

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* ShipTease: Lyla and Zac were heavily teased with several moments of hand-holding and intense gazes. Could also apply to Cam and Nixie were also teased, given how Cam called her "cute" and Cam."pretty."
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Zac and Evie were shown to have chemistry even as kids.
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* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Sirena is beauty, very pretty and feminine; Lyla is brains, very intelligent and described as so by other characters; and Nixie is brawn, tough and impulsive. Later in the first season, Lyla and Nixie appear to switch roles, with Nixie being more reasonable and Lyla being more impulsive.

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* LoveInterest: Sirena and David. Zac and Evie (she [[MistakenForCheating believes, for a while, that Lyla is Zac's alternate love interest]]). There is some ShipTease between Nixie and Cam that ultimately goes nowhere; he winds up with Carly once Nixie leaves the show. Mimmi and Chris and Ondina and Erik for the season 2 cast. Weilan from season 3 never gets a love interest, despite Karl's attempts at winning her over.
* LoveTriangle: Carly likes David, but David and Sirena are clearly head over heels for each other.

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* LoveInterest: Sirena and David. Zac and Evie (she [[MistakenForCheating believes, for a while, that Lyla is Zac's alternate love interest]]). Evie. There is some ShipTease between both Nixie and Cam and Lyla and Zac that ultimately goes nowhere; he once both girls leave the show, Cam winds up with Carly once Nixie leaves the show.and Zac remains with Evie. Mimmi and Chris and Ondina and Erik for the season 2 cast. Weilan from season 3 never gets a love interest, despite Karl's attempts at winning her over.
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** Sirena, David, and Carly:
Carly likes David, but David and Sirena are clearly head over heels for each other.other.
** Zac, Evie, and Lyla: With Zac and Lyla spending so much time together after she "finds out" his secret, Evie [[MistakenForCheating believes, for a while, that Lyla and Zac are seeing one another behind her back]].
** Zac, Evie, and Weilan: Similar to the previous situation, however Zac and Weilan confirm they have no feelings for one another, whereas it is strongly suggested that Lyla had feelings for Zac and hinted at that he returned them.



** Mimmi as the Nice, Ondina as the Mean and Wei Lan as the In-Between.

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** Mimmi as the Nice, Ondina as the Mean and Wei Lan Weilan as the In-Between.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Down-to-earth and cautious Nixie, for Emma; naive Sirena, for Cleo (with better non-magic singing skills, actually); and stubborn and impulsive Lyla, for Rikki.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Down-to-earth Stubborn and cautious Nixie, Lyla, for Emma; naive Sirena, for Cleo (with better non-magic singing skills, actually); and stubborn down-to-earth and impulsive Lyla, Nixie, for Rikki.



* WillTheyorWon'tThey?: Zac and Lyla went from loving gazes and hand-holding to constant bickering and teasing. Their up-and-down dynamic raised this question in the first season.

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* WillTheyorWon'tThey?: WillTheyOrWontThey: Zac and Lyla went from loving gazes and hand-holding to constant bickering and teasing. Their up-and-down dynamic raised this question in the first season.

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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Nixie in season 1.



* BelligerentSexualTension: Most apparent in season 1:
** Zac and Lyla once their relationship devolved into a rivalry. During that time, they would constantly tease and taunt one another, while also complementing the other's intelligence in secret. Even after Nixie causes a LoveEpiphany by calling out Lyla's feelings for Zac, their relationship never evolves into anything more.
** Cam and Nixie also have an apparent rivalry with several moments of teasing, but they too never get together.



* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: There seemed to be something largely hinted at between Zac and Lyla, and fans expected their relationship to develop more after the first season. However, with Zac and Evie as competition and Lyla's actress leaving the show, these loose ends were cleared up by writing out Lyla's character to have rejoined her pod.



* HoldingHands: A very consistent form of affection between Zac and Lyla.



* KeepingSecretsSucks: Pretty much every merperson in the series deals with this, but some instances in particular are
** Lyla wanting to tell Zac that she, Nixie, and Sirena are mermaids
** Zac wanting to reveal his merman secret to Evie
** Sirena wanting to reveal her secret to David



* NotWhatISignedonFor: After Zac witnesses the trident hurt Lyla, he backs out of his and Cam's plans to gain power through the trident.
* OfficialCouple: Zac and Evie are established as a couple and remain together for the entirety of the series.



* ShipTease: Lyla and Zac were heavily teased with several moments of hand-holding and intense gazes. Could also apply to Nixie and Cam.



* SuddenPrincipledStand: Zac's obsession with power suddenly halts the moment [[spoiler:he seriously injures Lyla with the trident.]]



* WhamShot: In the third episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back a confiscated moon ring. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.

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* WhamShot: In the third episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back a confiscated moon ring. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.her.
* WillTheyorWon'tThey?: Zac and Lyla went from loving gazes and hand-holding to constant bickering and teasing. Their up-and-down dynamic raised this question in the first season.
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* LoveTriangle: [[TriangRelations Type 4]], at least early on. Carly likes David, but David and Sirena are clearly head over heels for each other.

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* LoveTriangle: [[TriangRelations Type 4]], at least early on. Carly likes David, but David and Sirena are clearly head over heels for each other.
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* StumblingInTheNewForm: When most mermaids first walk on land they have trouble standing up for very long and their brand new leg muscles ache from the lack of use, the exception being Weilan who grew up spending plenty of time on land hiding from the Water Dragon.
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: When Zac asks Mimmi to teach him a phrase in Humpback Whale, he repeats the sound and the mermaids laugh at him. Mimmi explains that he just told Ondina her feet are cute. Further attempts at getting the pronunciation right result in the mermaids starting a 3 way pillow fight just to get him to stop trying.
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* WhamShot: In the third episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back an amulet. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.

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* WhamShot: In the third episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back an amulet.a confiscated moon ring. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.

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* SceneryCensor: In Season 1 Episode 2 "Getting Legs", when Sirena, Nixie, and Lyla first get their legs, the camera pans away from them and a conveniently placed tree branch hides the fact that the girls are naked.

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* SceneryCensor: In Season 1 Episode 2 "Getting Legs", when Sirena, Nixie, and Lyla first get their legs, the camera pans away from them and a conveniently placed conveniently-placed tree branch hides the fact that the girls are naked.



* TookALevelInKindness: Zac, Cam, Evie and Carly in season 2.

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* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:Mimmi's]] immediate reaction to finding out [[spoiler:Zac]] is her brother is to defend him from Veridia, knowing she'll be exiled for it.
* TookALevelInKindness: Zac, Cam, Evie Evie, and Carly in season 2.



* TrueCompanions: While their relationships were initially rocky to begin with, by the end of season 2 with every one of them in on the Mermaids' secret, the core group (Zac, Evie, Cam, Carly, David and the Mermaids) all have a good rapport with each other and consider the others to be good friends of theirs.

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* TrueCompanions: While their relationships were initially rocky to begin with, by the end of season 2 with every one of them in on the Mermaids' secret, the core group (Zac, Evie, Cam, Carly, David David, and the Mermaids) all have a good rapport with each other and consider the others to be good friends of theirs.



* WhamLine: "Do you realise what would happen if [[spoiler:the son of Nerrisa]] controls the power of this place?" Followed by Mimmi asking "What does this have to do with my mom?"

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* WhamLine: "Do you realise what would happen if [[spoiler:the son of Nerrisa]] Nerissa]] controls the power of this place?" Followed by Mimmi asking "What does this have to do with my mom?"
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->''In this world\\
We're all alone\\
You know I love my island home\\
We'll make this right\\
Find our way through this mystery!\\
I just wanna be\\
Swimming in the sea\\
Like it's just you and me\\
Forever, ever, ever\\
I just wanna be\\
With you, feeling free\\
It's my destiny\\
Forever, ever, ever\\
Together, forever, together\\
Lying in the sun\\
Together, forever, together\\
Just be you and me\\
I just wanna be...''
-->-- The ThemeTune

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* BalefulPolymorph: Ondina accidentally ends up turning Erik into a duplicate of Poseidon when practicing Mimni's duplication spell.


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* ForcedTransformation: Ondina accidentally ends up turning Erik into a duplicate of Poseidon when practicing Mimni's duplication spell.
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** Erik gets fired by Carly after he skips work one too many times, her decision being backed up by David after he returns from his business seminar. Shirking your job despite putting in a good effort when you do show up for work will still get you fired.
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* TrueCompanions: While their relationships where initially rocky to begin with, by the end of season 2 with every one of them in on the Mermaids' secret, the core group (Zac, Evie, Cam, Carly, David and the Mermaids) all have a good rapport with each other and consider the others to be good friends of theirs.

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* TrueCompanions: While their relationships where were initially rocky to begin with, by the end of season 2 with every one of them in on the Mermaids' secret, the core group (Zac, Evie, Cam, Carly, David and the Mermaids) all have a good rapport with each other and consider the others to be good friends of theirs.
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* TrueCompanions: While their relationships where initially rocky to begin with, by the end of season 2 with every one of them in on the Mermaids' secret, the core group (Zac, Evie, Cam, Carly, David and the Mermaids) all have a good rapport with each other and consider the others to be good friends of theirs.
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* WhamShot: In the second episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back an amulet. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.

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* WhamShot: In the second third episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back an amulet. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.
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* WhamLine: "Do you realise what would happen if [[spoiler:the son of Nerrisa]] controls the power of this place?" Followed by Mimmi asking "What does this have to do with my mom?"

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* WhamLine: "Do you realise what would happen if [[spoiler:the son of Nerrisa]] controls the power of this place?" Followed by Mimmi asking "What does this have to do with my mom?"mom?"
* WhamShot: In the second episode, the girls are breaking into the house of Rita, the stern school principal, to get back an amulet. They find a secret passage leading to an underwater cavern, wondering why a principal would have a cave linked to the ocean...and up swims Rita in mermaid form, who's dumbstruck to see the trio staring right back at her.
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** [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Zack was born as a merman; his mother transformed him into a human using a powerful spell that couldn't be broken by contact with water until he fell into the Moon Pool.]]
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Sirena, Nixie and Lyla (subtle example as Lyla is strawberry blonde rather than having dark red hair)

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The Hate Sink is a character you're not supposed to like at all. Cam is treated as comic relief, and the show takes pains at time to try to justify aer


* HateSink: Erik is one of the few characters in the series that is this. Cam is more of a ButtMonkey, though he could count as this in season 1. Cam in season 2 and 3 is a more sympathetic character.
** Joe, David's brother could also count as this.

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* HateSink: Erik is one of the few characters in the series that is this. Cam is more of a ButtMonkey, though he could count as this in season 1. Cam in season 2 and 3 is a more sympathetic character.
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Joe, David's brother could also count as this.brother, never gets any positive character development, his presence tends to make things worse for the main characters, and none of the main characters like him--not even David, who speaks to him in an irritated tone most of the time and celebrates when Joe has his boat impounded.
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** Joe, David's brother could also count as this.
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* AllLovingHeroine: Sirena is this in season 1 and 2. Mimmi becomes this in season 3.
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* HateSink: Erik is one of the few characters in the series that is this. Cam is more of a ButtMonkey, though he could count as this in season 1. Cam in season 2 and 3 is a more sympathetic character.
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* FriendlyRivalry: Nixie and Lyla in season 1. Ondina and Sirena in season 2 and Ondina and Weilan in season 3.

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* FriendlyRivalry: Nixie and Lyla in season 1. 1, Ondina and Sirena in season 2 and Ondina and Weilan in season 3.
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* FriendlyRivalry: Nixie and Lyla in season 1. Ondina and Sirena in season 2 and Ondina and Weilan in season 3.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Cam in season 1 and Erik in season 2.
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* TheFriendNoOneLikes: Cam in season 1 and Erik in season 2 are this. Besides being the Bigbads of their respective seasons.

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* TheFriendNoOneLikes: Cam in season 1 and Erik in season 2 are this. Besides being the Bigbads BigBad of their respective seasons.
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* TheFriendNoOneLikes: Cam in season 1 and Erik in season 2 are this. Besides being the BigBads of their respective seasons.

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* TheFriendNoOneLikes: Cam in season 1 and Erik in season 2 are this. Besides being the BigBads Bigbads of their respective seasons.

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