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* SelfDeprecation: Lito's film is a horrific ClicheStorm full of melodramatic {{Narm}}, feeling very much like the Wachowskis taking a poke at their own tendencies.
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* TranslationConvention: The only time it's not used is when a member of the cluster starts speaking another's language.

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* TranslationConvention: The cluster can all understand each other, and thus so can we. The only time it's not used is when a member of the cluster starts speaking another's language.
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* ArcWords: Borders on catchphrase territory, but "X is easy, X is what I do" has been heard from a few of the group when they perform a task for each other that they couldn't otherwise perform alone. This underlines their value to each other and their understanding of their sense of self and value.
-->'''Lito''': "Lying is easy. Lying is what I do"
-->'''Wolfgang''':"Fighting is easy. Fighting is what I do"
-->'''Nomi''':"Hacking is easy. Hacking is what I do"
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* [[FourLinesAllWaiting Eight Lines All Waiting]]: The series takes its time establishing its eight lead characters, resulting in a story that unfolds glacially slowly.
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Patricide Patricide]]: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]]

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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Patricide Patricide]]: {{Patricide}}: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]]
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* EveryoneIsBi: All of the Sensafe can be considered situation-specific bisexuals as long as their cluster involves people of different sexualities (e.g. androsexual and gynosexual. As shown, in the orgy scene that involved four of the Sensafe - i.e. a gay man, a gay woman, and 2 straight men - all parties involved equally enjoyed the sex and displayed zero revulsion at being with members of the same and opposite sex.
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* TranslationConvention: The only time it's not used is when a member of the cluster starts speaking another's language.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The 7 Other Selves trailer shows a high degree of sexual tension between Wolfgang and Kala. Unfortunately, Kala just got married.

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* YourCheatingHeart: The 7 Other Selves trailer shows a high degree of sexual tension between Wolfgang and Kala. Unfortunately, Kala just got married.engaged.
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* Patricide: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]]

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* Patricide: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Patricide Patricide]]: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]]



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Jonas answers with a variation of this to Will after the latter asks him if the Sensed are human.

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Jonas answers with a variation of this to Will after the latter asks him if the Sensed Sensate are human.
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* Patricide: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]

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* Patricide: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]]]
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*Patricide: As revealed in the last episode of season 1,[[spoiler: Wolfgang killed his own father.]
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*WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Jonas answers with a variation of this to Will after the latter asks him if the Sensed are human.

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''Sense8'' is due for release on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the first trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]], the Reborn trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_K6FKXBI8 here]], and the Seven Other Selves trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIpQA2t1uI here]].

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''Sense8'' is due for release was released on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the first trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]], the Reborn trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_K6FKXBI8 here]], and the Seven Other Selves trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIpQA2t1uI here]].



* AteHisGun: This is how Angel kills herself in the opening of the first episode.



* DueToTheDead: Wolfgang hated his late father, so in the first episode he pisses on his grave.



* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked. One of the scenes in said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi. In another trailer Will feels Nomi having sex with Amanita.

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* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the The series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked. One of the scenes in said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi. In another trailer Will feels Nomi having sex with Amanita.


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* StayInTheKitchen: When Sun meets with one of her brother's clients, the client says he doesn't want to work with a woman.


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* WhatTheHellHero: Will, while carrying a teenager who had just been shot, is horrified when a nurse at the hospital says they don't take in kids go gunshot wounds because had once been stretched thin due to gun violence. He guilts her into taking the boy in.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Kala gets arranged to marry a man she doesn't love.



* DoNotCallMePaul: Nomi's mother insists on calling her by her birth name, Michael, which Nomi hates.



* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked. One of the scenes in said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi.

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* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked. One of the scenes in said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi. In another trailer Will feels Nomi having sex with Amanita.


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* SkunkStripe: Riley has a blue streak in her pale blonde hair.
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* FiveTokenBand: No two sensates are in the same part of the world; accordingly, no more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white, only two of those four are American. There are also four men (one gay) and for women (one trans).

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* FiveTokenBand: No two sensates are in the same part of the world; accordingly, no more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white, only two of those four are American. There are also four men (one gay) and for four women (one trans).



* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked - one of the scenes in said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi.

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* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked - one linked. One of the scenes in said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi.



* YourCheatingHeart: The 7 Other Selves trailer shows a high degree of sexual tension between Wolfgang and Kala - unfortunately, Kala just got married.

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* YourCheatingHeart: The 7 Other Selves trailer shows a high degree of sexual tension between Wolfgang and Kala - unfortunately, Kala. Unfortunately, Kala just got married.
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* [[Understanding Girlfriend UnderstandingBoyfriend]]: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.

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* [[Understanding Girlfriend UnderstandingBoyfriend]]: UnderstandingBoyfriend: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.
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* UnderstandingBotfriend: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.

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* UnderstandingBotfriend: [[Understanding Girlfriend UnderstandingBoyfriend]]: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.
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* UnderstandingGirlfriend: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.

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* UnderstandingGirlfriend: UnderstandingBotfriend: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.

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->'''Will''': ''I'm losing my mind!''\\

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->'''Will''': ->'''Will/Nomi/Kala''': ''I'm losing my mind!''\\



''Sense8'' is due for release on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]].

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''Sense8'' is due for release on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the first trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]], the Reborn trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_K6FKXBI8 here]], and the Seven Other Selves trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIpQA2t1uI here]].



* ActionGirl: Doona Bae's character, Sun, is shown in the trailer to be the biggest badass of the eight. When Will and Capheus get into fights, they draw on ''her'' combat skills.

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* ActionGirl: Doona Bae's character, Sun, is shown in the trailer trailers to be the biggest badass of the eight. When Will and Capheus the other seven get into fights, they draw on ''her'' combat skills.



* BloodSplatteredInnocents: In the trailer, someone is shot in front of Riley - the blood contrasts sharply with her white hair.

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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: In the first trailer, someone is shot in front of Riley - the blood contrasts sharply with her white hair.



* FairCop: Will is a member of the Chicago police department and apparently very attractive to the other members of his cluster, based on the sexually charged scenes in two of the trailers.



* PowerPerversionPotential: From the trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked - one of the scenes in the trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi.
* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.
* WomanInWhite: Angel, Daryl Hannah's character, appears in the trailer wearing a white dress.

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* PowerPerversionPotential: From the first trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked - one of the scenes in the said trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi.
* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.
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* UnderstandingGirlfriend: Amanita, Freema Agyeman's character, seems very compassionate and believing of Nomi's newfound ability in the Reborn trailer even when Nomi herself states how impossible it sounds that she's connected to seven other people.
* WomanInWhite: Angel, Daryl Hannah's character, appears in the first trailer wearing a white dress.dress.
* YourCheatingHeart: The 7 Other Selves trailer shows a high degree of sexual tension between Wolfgang and Kala - unfortunately, Kala just got married.
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: In the trailer, someone is shot in front of Riley - the blood contrasts sharply with her white hair.
* CastHerd: The very nature of the beast means that these eight different people will have eight separate social circles, especially in the first season where WordOfGod states the eight will not physically meet.



* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.

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* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.skills.
* WomanInWhite: Angel, Daryl Hannah's character, appears in the trailer wearing a white dress.

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* FiveTokenBand: No two sensates are in the same part of the world; accordingly, only half of them are white. Of those four, one is also transgender.

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* FiveTokenBand: No two sensates are in the same part of the world; accordingly, only no more than half of them have traits overlapping. Only four of them are white. Of white, only two of those four, one is four are American. There are also transgender. four men (one gay) and for women (one trans).
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Four men (Will, Capheus, Lito, Wolfgang) and four women (Riley, Sun, Kala, Nomi).



* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.

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* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.
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* BigBad: Mr. Whispers, the man behind the organization hunting the eight mains.


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* EvilCounterpart: Jonas and Mr. Whispers are both former sensates seeking out the group - one to guide them, one to kill them.


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* TheMentor: Jonas, played by Naveen Andrews, who was a sensate himself before the death that triggered the new eight's awakening broke his circle.
* PowerPerversionPotential: From the trailer, the series acknowledges the likelihood of kinkiness coming up when eight attractive non-asexual adults become emotionally linked - one of the scenes in the trailer seems to be Wolfgang, Will, Lito, and Nomi having a psychic four-way in a Jacuzzi.

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->'''Brian''': ''I'm losing my mind!''\\

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* ActionGirl: Doona Bae's character, Sun, is shown in the trailer to be the biggest badass of the eight. When Will and Capheus get into fights, they draw on ''her'' combat skills.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals: The titular "sensates".
* FiveTokenBand: No two sensates are in the same part of the world; accordingly, only half of them are white. Of those four, one is also transgender.
* PsychicLink: The series centres around these eight individuals developing the ability to feel each other's emotions and use each other's skills.
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->'''Brian''': I'm losing my mind!'''\\

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->'''Brian''': I'm ''I'm losing my mind!'''\\mind!''\\



'''Sense8''' (pronounced as 'sense-eight' or 'sensate') is a 2015 Netflix original series, the collaborative creative effort of [[Film/TheMatrix the Wachowski siblings]] and Creator/JMichaelStraczynski.

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'''Sense8''' (pronounced as 'sense-eight' or 'sensate') is a 2015 Netflix {{Netflix}} original series, the collaborative creative effort of [[Film/TheMatrix the Wachowski siblings]] and Creator/JMichaelStraczynski.



''Sense8'' is due for release on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]].

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''Sense8'' is due for release on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]].here]].
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->'''Brian''': I'm losing my mind!'''\\
'''Jonas''': ''No, it's just expanding''.

'''Sense8''' (pronounced as 'sense-eight' or 'sensate') is a 2015 Netflix original series, the collaborative creative effort of [[Film/TheMatrix the Wachowski siblings]] and Creator/JMichaelStraczynski.

After a traumatic event, eight strangers in eight different parts of the world find themselves telepathically and empathetically linked. While they struggle both with this new connection and with their own personal lives, forces beyond their control seek to manipulate or destroy them.

''Sense8'' is due for release on Netflix on June 5, 2015. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpKAlbJ7BQ here]].

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