History Series / ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil

* FourTemperantEnsemble: Todd is Sanguine, Curtis is Phlegmatic, Jenny is Choleric and Hannah is Melancholic.

* EveryoneIsBi: So far, the entire cast's sexuality has shown to vary from [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Bi]], to AnythingThatMoves.

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* TriangRelations: Class 5, at least to start: Hannah has a crush on Todd, who has a crush on Jenny, who has no interest in Hannah or Todd. Later this gets more complex.

* ADateWithRosiePalms
* AdultsAreUseless: That, or they're utterly evil. Jimmy the janitor is something of an exception. He's often helping the main characters, despite usually not actually going on their adventures with them.
** Lampshaded by Curtis in one episode where he comments that the staff at Crowley High don't seem to care about what goes on in the school.

* BettyAndVeronica: Initially Hannah serves as the Betty to Jenny's Veronica, but Hannah eventually moves on to Curtis and Jenny becomes Todd's sole love interest. Well, apart from [[GayOption Atticus]].

* BigNo: Uttered by Hannah after Todd becomes an idiot in "Invasion of the Stupid Snatchers."

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Jenny's father is revealed to be a total douchebag obsessed with the Book of Pure Evil. He later uses the book to become a skin-stealing shapeshifter.]]

* ButtMonkey: Atticus, Atticus, ATTICUS! He's guaranteed to get screwed over at least once in every single scene he's in.

* CharacterDevelopment: Todd grows from a useless stoner who only wants the book to get laid, to a legitimate hero who wants to save the world [[spoiler: from himself]] from the end of season one throughout season two.
** Atticus slowly goes from being TheMole to legitimately liking the gang across season one, to the point where [[spoiler: he betrays the cult led by his father during the finally]]. Sadly, [[spoiler: After the gang learns that he was TheMole,]] he gets kicked out of the group and all the previously mentioned character development vanishes.
** Not quite, [[spoiler: season two shows that Atticus desperately wants to rejoin the gang but hides it behind his CardCarryingVillain persona.]]

* CreepyMonotone: Curtis and Hannah develop this while hypnotized by one episode's villain.
** Not so creepy as PlayedForLaughs, however.

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Just before the guitar duel in the series premiere:

** And because [[DemonicPossession he's possessed by the Book,]] Todd actually makes it happen.

* EasyEvangelism: It proves laughably easy for Atticus to convert the students of Crowley High to Satanism. Notably, the illustrated pamphlet his minions distribute to their fellow students resembles the infamous [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]] tracts.
** Comes back to bite him in the season 2 finale, when the same students prove just as easy to convert from Satanism to ''paganism'': all Curtis has to do is to point out that pagans get to party and screw around every bit as much, but without all that lame "evil" baggage.

* EveryoneIsBi: So far, the entire cast's sexually has shown to vary from [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Bi]], to AnythingThatMoves.

* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler: Virtually all of the residents of the Crowley Heights retirement home.]]

* FiveManBand: During the various instances when Atticus is part of the gang, they form one as followed:
** TheHero: Todd
** TheLancer/ TheChick: Switches between Jenny and Atticus. When Atticus isn't around, Jenny easily fulfills both roles.
** TheBigGuy: Curtis
** TheSmartGuy: Hannah
** TheSixthRanger/ SixthRangerTraitor: Atticus

* FusionDance: [[spoiler: The three metal dudes can fuse and create an apparently new person complete with her own personality ("Never know what she saw in you").]]
** It was also heavily implied from the "dog hair" that Todd found in the Metal Dudes' car in the final episode that [[spoiler: the three Metal Dudes also had the ability to fuse together into a wolf-like being and not just any wolf either, but THE very wolf who raped Atticus Murphy Jr. and kickstarted his StartOfDarkness.]]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: One episode revolved around Jenny hooking up with an aggressive lesbian classmate.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Curtis seems to have one of these. He mentions in one episode that his parents are constantly trying to get rid of him. In another episode, when his friend Hannah questions how he learned to pick locks, he mentions that his parents lock him out of the house a lot.
** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking His parents also didn't bother to give him a middle name.]]

* HypocriticalHumor: When arguing against [[spoiler:Jenny's father]] joining the team, Curtis comments that they don't want a cripple in the club.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Todd becomes one of these, verging one NiceGuy across season two. He's still a dick, but his heart's in the right place at least.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Not including Atticus, the four main cast members are high school students.

* NotSoDifferent: Said to Todd by [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giant talking penis]].

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Hannah in "Monster Fat," after she and [[TemporaryBulkChange a blimped-up Jenny]] question the [[FormerlyFat Formerly]] FatGirl that used the Book.

* TemporaryBulkChange: A FatGirl wishes herself thin in "Monster Fat," but the mutated fat causes anyone it comes into contact with to balloon up.

* UncertainSexuality: Lampshaded in the musical episode where Atticus Murphy Jr. bemoans how his father made him sexually confused via a song and dance number.

* {{Adorkable}}: Hannah.
** Todd develops shades of this after some character development.
** Atticus when he's not being a psychotic douchebag.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 2 makes fun of this trope with it's frequent declarations of being it, but still plays it straight none the less.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jenny, from time to time. Or Todd, when Jenny isn't snarking.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: The season 2 finale has Todd banish the book to "somewhere faraway", but kills Hannah and loses Curtis' friendship in the process. The Metal Dudes are also still around and will no doubt find the book sooner or later which has Atticus sealed inside of it. All in all, Todd got kind of screwed.]]

* FouratemperantEnsemble: Todd is Sanguine, Curtis is Phlegmatic, Jenny is Choleric and Hannah is Melancholic.

* KnightOfCerebus: Len Bergman, the Chess Club president/Prophet of the Pure Evil One in the second to last episode of season one is possibly the first villain played completely seriously, and is extremely creepy to top it all off. He's also used as an avatar for the book, which makes him considerably more important than the other MonsterOfTheWeeks.

* MusicalEpisode: ''The Phantom of Crowley High.''