History Series / TheGifted2017

* AbsoluteCleavage: The outfit Lorna wears at the end of the first season has this.

With the help of an [[UndergroundRailroad underground network]] of mutant rebels --which include [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Thunderbird]] (Blair Redford), [[Characters/XMen2010sMembers Blink]] (Creator/JamieChung), ComicBook/{{Polaris}} (Emma Dumont), and [[CanonForeigner Eclipse]] (Creator/SeanTeale)-- the Strucker kids will need to learn how to master their "gifts" and protect themselves from a world that hates and fears them... or else.

* AdultFear: Reed and Kate don't care that their children are mutants -- they're more concerned with their safety in a world that hates and fears their kind.

** Polaris in the comics [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair had entirely green hair]] while Creator/EmmaDumont's Polaris has dark hair that's green at the ends...at the start of the series. It turns out to be a literal dye job; her hair is naturally totally green, but she dyes it black to blend in.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Pick a side. Take a stand.]] [[note]]Top row, left to right: ComicBook/{{Polaris}}, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Andy Strucker]], [[HiveMind The Frost Sisters]], [[IceQueen Reeva Payge]]. Bottom row, left to right: [[BarrierWarrior Lauren Strucker]], [[PapaWolf Reed Strucker]], [[MamaBear Caitlin Strucker]], [[BadassNative Thunderbird]], ComicBook/{{Blink}}, [[ThePowerOfTheSun Eclipse]].[[/note]]]]

With the help of an [[UndergroundRailroad underground network]] of mutant rebels --which include [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Thunderbird]] (Blair Redford), ComicBook/{{Blink}} (Creator/JamieChung), ComicBook/{{Polaris}} (Emma Dumont), and [[CanonForeigner Eclipse]] (Creator/SeanTeale)-- the Strucker kids will need to learn how to master their "gifts" and protect themselves from a world that hates and fears them... or else.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Pick a side. Take a stand.]] [[note]]Top row, left to right: ComicBook/{{Polaris}}, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Andy Strucker]], [[ComicBook/StepfordCuckoos The Frost Sisters]], [[IceQueen Reeva Payge]]. Bottom row, left to right: [[BarrierWarrior Lauren Strucker]], [[PapaWolf Reed Strucker]], [[MamaBear Caitlin Strucker]], [[BadassNative Thunderbird]], ComicBook/{{Blink}}, [[ThePowerOfTheSun Eclipse]].[[/note]]]]

* RecycledPremise: Before ''The Gifted'' came to fruition, FOX announced development on a series based on the Hellfire Club, which was ultimately scrapped and replaced by this show. It seems elements of that Hellfire Club series have been adapted here, with the [[ComicBook/StepfordCuckoos Cuckoos]] working for (or with) them.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Pick a side. Take a stand.]] [[note]]Top row, left to right: ComicBook/{{Polaris|Marvel Comics}}, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Andy Strucker]], [[ComicBook/StepfordCuckoos The Frost Sisters]], [[IceQueen Reeva Payge]]. Bottom row, left to right: [[BarrierWarrior Lauren Strucker]], [[PapaWolf Reed Strucker]], [[MamaBear Caitlin Strucker]], [[BadassNative Thunderbird]], ComicBook/{{Blink}}, [[ThePowerOfTheSun Eclipse]].[[/note]]]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: What the season finale-turned-series finale ends up being as [[spoiler: almost all loose ends have been tied up and Blink returns apparently from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse and portals the rest of the crew in for help.]]

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->''"It's days like today that remind us we're up against people that don't think of us as human. And they will point to our differences. But the simple fact is this: we love like they do. We die like they do. We grieve like they do."''

* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Most of Season 1 is the humans doing this. By persecuting and experimenting on believed-weak mutants with the general approval of a society that fears what stronger ones could do, [[LaserGuidedKarma they directly cause a rebirth of Fenris]] [[ThenLetMeBeEvil and get a renewed Hellfire Club centered on a new Magneto - his daughter.]] [[TheDogBitesBack The final episodes show how ''badly'' underprepared Sentinel Services ''et al.'' are for this.]]]]

* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Most of Season 1 is the humans doing this. By persecuting and experimenting on believed-weak mutants with the general approval of a society that fears what stronger ones could do, they directly cause a rebirth of Fenris and get a renewed Hellfire Club centered on a new Magneto - his daughter. The final episodes show how ''badly'' underprepared Sentinel Services ''et al.'' are for this.]]

-> ''"This is a burden. It's also a gift."''
-->-- '''Caitlin Strucker'''

!! ''The Gifted'' contains examples of the following tropes:

Set in a BadPresent where the X-Men are gone and anti-mutant sentiment is rampant, ''The Gifted'' follows a family on the run from a [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction hostile government agency]] after parents Reed (Creator/StephenMoyer) and Kate (Creator/AmyAcker) Strucker learn their teenage children Lauren & Andy (Natalie Alyn Lind & Percy Hynes White, respectively) are mutants themselves.

Set in a BadPresent where the X-Men are gone and anti-mutant sentiment is rampant, ''The Gifted'' follows a family on the run from a [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction hostile government agency]] after parents Reed (Stephen Moyer) and Kate (Creator/AmyAcker) Strucker learn their teenage children Lauren & Andy (Natalie Alyn Lind & Percy Hynes White, respectively) are mutants themselves.

* TroubledTeen: A bit downplayed in the case of Andy (anger issues caused by bullying), but Rebecca/Twist is definitely played straight. She's disturbed and violent, but it was caused by [[spoiler: her parents selling her out to Sentinel Services, her killing them in anger, and then later being tortured for months on end in a mental institution.]]

** Polaris in the comics [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair had entirely green hair]] while Emma Dumont's Polaris has dark hair that's green at the ends...at the start of the series. It turns out to be a literal dye job; her hair is naturally totally green, but she dyes it black to blend in.

The show was cancelled by FOX in 2019 after two seasons.

** "[=rX=]" brings the Mutant Metaphor fully to the forefront. The erosion of peoples' Constitutional rights in the interest of "public safety" not only mirrors the WarOnTerror era, but the targeted and institutionalized persecution of mutants, (where even ''accidentally'' causing damage to property is enough to land a mutant in jail) the overreach and unconstitutional methods of Sentinel Services in attempting to force Reeds' cooperation, and the implication that jailed mutants are "disappeared" or otherwise quietly killed and disposed of strongly evokes the persecution of the Jews and other undesirables by Nazi Germany.

* VillainHasAPoint: As Jace mentioned in his MotiveRant, every time he lets his guard down and allows himself to be convinced that all mutants aren't bad he ends up being screwed over.

* VillainHasAPoint: As Jace mentioned in his MotiveRant every time he lets his guard down and allows himself to be convinced that all mutants aren't band he ends up being screwed over.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Pick a side. Take a stand.]] [[note]]Top row, left to right: ComicBook/{{Polaris|Marvel Comics}}, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Andy Strucker]], [[ComicBook/StepfordCuckoos The Frost Sisters]], [[IceQueen Reeva Payge]]. Bottom row, left to right: [[BarrierWarrior Lauren Strucker]], [[PapaWolf Reed Strucker]], [[MamaWolf Caitlin Strucker]], [[BadassNative Thunderbird]], ComicBook/{{Blink}}, [[ThePowerOfTheSun Eclipse]].[[/note]]]]

** Stephen Moyer learns he is a mutant and goes on the run, much like his [[Creator/AnnaPaquin wife]]'s [[Film/XMen previous role]].