History Series / TheMidnightClub2022

** Shasta is a SignifcantGreenEyedRedHead as per the norm of Christopher Pike's love of this type of heroine. [[spoiler:And villainess.]]

* MythologyGag: Aside from what's mentioned in AdaptationDistillation, several of Pike's novels are mentioned by name throughout the series like ''Spellbound'', ''The Star Group'', and ''The Starlight Crystal''. A poster of Brian Kotzky's cover art for ''The Starlight Crystal'' is even shown in the episode ''Anya''.

* ActorAllusion: After passing out when entering the Hospice, Ilonka mentions her seeing an old lady, and Doctor Stanton jokes that "while I'm clearly not an ingenue anymore, I wouldn’t call myself old", this clearly being a reference to the actress being the main character and FinalGirl in the first ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''-film.

* AdaptationDistillation: The series condenses several of Christopher Pike's other novels as the stories the club tells, including ''The Wicked Heart'', ''Gimme A Kiss'', ''See You Later'', ''Witch'', ''Road to Nowhere'', and ''The Eternal Enemy''. The only story used from the original novel is Anya's "The Two Danas."

* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: The first shown Midnight Club had the kids passing a found bottle of wine around (despote the one member pointing out how it could fuck with all their medicine)

* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: The first shown Midnight Club had the kids passing a found bottle of wine around (despote the one member pointing out how it could fuck with all their medicin)

* BaldnessMeansSickness: In the trailer, there is a shot of Ilonka with her head shaved clean after receiving her cancer diagnosis.
* BloodyHandprint: In one shot of the characters, the characters look over a book with hand-shaped bloodstains all over the pages.

* HauntedHouse: The Brightcliffe Hospice is this, as shown in the teaser by an array of spooky shadows and the kids gathered around a table, unaware that a figure cloaked in black is also in their midst.

* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: During one of their gatherings in the trailer, the kids can be seen passing around a bottle of wine.
* LivingShadow: Near the end of the trailer, the shadow of the girl in the wheelchair stands up independently of her, morphing into a skeletal figure.

* OminousObsidianOoze: One shot in the trailer shows a skeletal figure emerging from a puddle of black goo.

* TheTopicOfCancer: As the trailer shows, Ilonka has thyroid cancer, prompting her to be sent to the hospice.

* ConnectedAllAlong: The last minute of the series reveal [[spoiler:that Dr. Stanton has the Paragon Hourglass tattoo, this together with her age and hatred for anything Paragon heavily suggesting that she is Athena.]]

* ActorAllusion: After passing out when entering the Hospice, Ilonka mentions her seeing an old lady, and Doctor Stanton jokes that "while I clearly isn't an ingenue anymore, I wouldn’t call myself old", this clearly being a reference to the actress being the main character and FinalGirl in the first ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''-film.

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoiler:The reveal of most the Stories. Sometimes more a thematic throughline, sometimes a revealed Dream and sometimes literally what genuinly happened except the supernatural was a metafor for substance abuse and pretending to be perfect in front of your parents and your normal life.]]

* ConnectedAllAlong: The last minute of the series reveal [[spoiler:that Dr. Stanton has the Paragon Hourglass tattoo, this together with her age and hatred for anything Paragon heavily sugesting that she is Athena.]]
* GiveMeASign: One of the Clubs Oats is that it will be the job of the next member of the club to die to give this to the rest of them, thus proving there is an afterlife.

* NoMoreLies: When it came time to partake in the Ritual and to give up a Sacrifice, the patalogical liar of the group told the absolute truth and revealed a important thing about themself.

* SignificantDoubleCasting: The Main Character in The Stories are played by the storyteller's actor with membees of the rest of main cast playing important parts.
* TheTopicOfCancer: As the trailer shows, Illonka has thyroid cancer, prompting her to be sent to the hospice.

* DeadPersonConversation: According to the behind the scenes video, it will be the job of the first member of the club to die to launch one of these with the still living members.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Just before her first symptoms showed up, Ilonka was at a college party geeking out over the book Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, a story about a man being obsessed with cheating death and [[spoiler:how it ended up turning him into the Villain.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Just before her first symptoms showed up, Ilonka was at a college party geeking out over the book Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, a story about a man being obsessed with cheating death and [[Spoiler:how it ended up turning him into the Villain.]]

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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoilers:The reveal of most the Stories. Sometimes more a thematic throughline, sometimes a revealed Dream and sometimes literally what genuinly happened except the supernatural was a metafor for substance abuse and pretending to be perfect in front of your parents and your normal life.]]

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The reveal of most the Stories. Sometimes more a thematic throughline, sometimes a revealed Dream and sometimes literally what genuinly happened except the supernatural was a metafor for substance abuse and pretending to be perfect in front of your parents and your normal life.

* ActorAllusion: After padding out, Ilonka mentions her seeing an old lady, and Doctor Stanton jokes that "while I clearly isn't an ingenue anymore, I am still far from old", this clearly being a reference to the actress being the main character and FinalGirl in the first ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''-film.

* ActorAllusion: Ilonka mentions her seeing an old lady, and Doctor Stanton jokes that "She clearly isn't an ingenue anymore, she is far from old.", this clearly being a reference to the actress being the main character and FinalGirl in the first ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''-film.

* ActorAllusion: Ilonka mentions her seeing an old lady, and Doctor Stanton jokes that "She clearly isn't an ingenue anymore, she is far from old.", this clearly being a reference to the actress being TheFinalGirl in the first ''Franchice/TheNightmareOnElmStreet'' film.

* AMFMCharacterization: An improvised Memorial for when one of the kids died ended with them the rest of club singing [[TheNineties the then new]] pop song ''"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)'', a melancholy song about friendship and early death. We then cut to Dr. Stanton who is looking melancholy while listening to the LP of ''"Seasons in the Sun"'', a [[TheSeventies 70’s]] Melancholy song about friendship and early death.

* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Amputee Anya is played by newcommer Ruth Codd, a real life anputee.