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* DiskOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Robin is built up as the BigBad of season 2, but during the 2012 parts of the season he doesn't really do much besides quickly get killed by Wes, twice.]]


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* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:Redbrov on season 2's TimeTravel mission. While he wants to do right by [[MoralityPet Janet and Becky]] he still has no loyalty to Wes or the Lazarus Project and proves it by shooting every member of his team and himself because he didn't want to wait for the next time jump.]]
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* CoolPlane: [[spoiler:In season 2, the group has a private passenger jet plane with its own time machine built into it.]]

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* CoolPlane: [[spoiler:In season 2, the group has a private passenger jet plane fitted with its own equipment that makes it a fully-fledged time machine built into it.machine.]]
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* CoolPlane: [[spoiler:In season 2, the group has a private passenger jet plane with its own time machine built into it.]]
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: George, [[spoiler:Dennis and Janet]] turned on Lazarus to save their loved ones from dying. In the latter case, they were forced to experience first losing their son, then also their daughter (who was conceived after the first [[RetGone reset]] not just once but what looks like ''at least a dozen'' times. Even if they've now graduated to murder, terrorism (or in [[spoiler:Dennis]]'s case, seeking global destruction), you can't help but feel some sympathy for them after that.

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* LoveMakesYouEvil: George, [[spoiler:Dennis and Janet]] turned on Lazarus to save their loved ones from dying. In the latter case, they were forced to experience first losing their son, then also their daughter (who was conceived after the first [[RetGone reset]] not just once but what looks like ''at least a dozen'' times.times). Even if they've now graduated to murder, terrorism (or in [[spoiler:Dennis]]'s case, seeking global destruction), you can't help but feel some sympathy for them after that.
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* StrawNihilist: This is fundamentally Rebrov's philosophy; after a particularly traumatic series of loops where he and his lover lost their newborn son (subsequently replaced with a daughter) to prevent a nuclear war, Rebrov became fixated on the idea that they aren’t meant to save the world, as the planet essentially “wants” to die and the Lazarus Project are delaying the inevitable.
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* TragicTimeTraveler: [[spoiler:BigBad Dennis Rebrov was once an agent of the titular project until one time loop caused his infant son to be erased from existence. This led him and his wife Jane to not only go against the project, but try and find a way to destroy it.]]
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* DoomedTacticalTeam: In the first episode, the entire Lazarus team — comprised mainly of highly-decorated and experienced special-ops agents from around Europe — is massacred during an attempt to capture Dennis Rebrov, a former Lazarus agent who went rogue. [[spoiler:Luckily, newcomer George Addo survives, allowing the year to be reset so that the team can capture Rebrov the second time around]].

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*** Later, George yells at his neighbor for repeatedly knocking on his door every time he [[spoiler:accidentally shoots Shiv]]... then discovers that the neighbor is a paramedic.

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*** Later, George yells at his neighbor for repeatedly knocking on his door every time he [[spoiler:accidentally shoots Shiv]]... then discovers that the [[spoiler:the neighbor is a paramedic.paramedic. On the next reset, he pulls the neighbor into the apartment to save Shiv's life, while the neighbor moans that he is ''sure'' that he asked about what the neighbors were like when he rented the apartment.]]



* DidYouActuallyBelieve: In the first season finale, Archie is stunned to find [[spoiler: a Chinese agent remembers her previous visits and the time loops. It turns out the Chinese have known about the Project for years to develop their own serum. She openly scoffs at Archie's surprise with, "you thought you were the only ones?"]]
* DoomedTacticalTeam: In the first episode, the entire Lazarus team — comprised mainly of highly-decorated and experienced special-ops agents from around Europe — is massacred during an attempt to capture Dennis Rebrov, a former Lazarus agent who went rogue. [[spoiler: Luckily, newcomer George Addo survives, allowing the year to be reset so that the team can capture Rebrov the second time around]].

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* DidYouActuallyBelieve: In the first season finale, Archie is stunned to find [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a Chinese agent remembers her previous visits and the time loops. It turns out the Chinese have known about the Project for years to develop their own serum. She openly scoffs at Archie's surprise with, "you thought you were the only ones?"]]
* DoomedTacticalTeam: In the first episode, the entire Lazarus team — comprised mainly of highly-decorated and experienced special-ops agents from around Europe — is massacred during an attempt to capture Dennis Rebrov, a former Lazarus agent who went rogue. [[spoiler: Luckily, [[spoiler:Luckily, newcomer George Addo survives, allowing the year to be reset so that the team can capture Rebrov the second time around]].around]].
* DulcineaEffect: Much of George's actions in the first season are driven by a severe case of this, as he remembers Sarah as a sweet and kind woman who was his destined soulmate, whereas in reality, she was rather shallow and self-absorbed, and the only reason she dated him in the first place was because she got stood up at a party and didn't want to go home empty-handed. [[spoiler:When George succeeds in preventing her death, she dumps him after a few weeks, only to come crawling back a few months later because she got engaged to another man she was unsure about and now wants an excuse to break it off.]]



* TheLostLenore: In the summer of 2018, Archie and partner Jim were trying over an over (and over and over...) to stop an Eastern Bloc Prime Minister from starting World War III while carrying on an affair. Jim reveals that there was one timeline where the man's security chief died in a freak accident and allowed a coup to take place...but it was after Archie was killed. Jim set time back to save her at the risk of the world. He ends up sacrificing himself to blow up a restaurant containing the security chief and, despite her heartbreak, Archie can't convince Wes to reset time to save him.

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* TheLostLenore: In the summer of 2018, Archie and partner Jim were trying over an and over (and over and over...) to stop an Eastern Bloc Prime Minister from starting World War III while carrying on an affair. Jim reveals that there was one timeline where the man's security chief died in a freak accident and allowed a coup to take place...but it was after Archie was killed. Jim set time back to save her at the risk of the world. He ends up sacrificing himself to blow up a restaurant containing the security chief and, despite her heartbreak, Archie can't convince Wes to reset time to save him.

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