History WesternAnimation / BraceFace

* BetaCouple: Eventually, Brock and Maria, although they don't actually hook up until Sharon and Alden have already called it quits. In contrast to Sharon and Alden, who hook up almost immediately, it takes Maria and Brock a ''long'' time to become a proper couple. They later became a couple during the when in rome episode and had their first kiss. They begin to spend more time with each in just quacks, she got game, and get ready, set and date

Additionally, ''Braceface'' often tackled or featured issues that many kids' shows of the time considered taboo; underage drinking and smoking, eating disorders, and ACupAngst were among the topics that appeared in the series at one point or another. It was even the first kids' cartoon to discuss the topic of periods, and one episode even had Sharon helping a gay friend find a boyfriend, with the character's sexuality not being that big of a deal. Unsurprisingly, a number of these episodes were banned from American television.

Although the series rarely receives credit for it these days, ''Braceface'' was a pioneer of children's television in many ways. It was one of the very few SliceOfLife cartoons to avert NegativeContinuity back then. For instance, Sharon became a vegetarian and animal rights activist early on in the series run and remained so for the rest of the show; she also graduated middle school and entered ninth grade at the beginning of the second season.

* CoolLoser: Brock (at least at the start) and to a lesser extent, Sharon. Justified in Sharon's case, since Nina was out to get her, and probably turned the school against her.

* ThreeAmigos: Sharon, Maria, and Connor.

* OffModel: Occasionally, there is an animation error in which characters’ eyes appear to be different colours for several frames.

* BetaCouple: Eventually, Brock and Maria, although they don't actually hook up until Sharon and Alden have already called it quits. In contrast to Sharon and Alden, who hook up almost immediately, it takes Maria and Brock a ''long'' time to become a proper couple.

''Braceface'' is an animated CanadianSeries from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by Melissa Clark (previously a writer for ''WesternAnimation/RoliePolieOlie'') for Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The show follows the exploits of Sharon Spitz (voiced in the first two seasons by Creator/AliciaSilverstone, who was also an executive producer on the show), an average eighth grader (later ninth grader when she starts high school) who at the start of the series is forced to get braces for her teeth. Typical of teenage life, she worries about how this will affect her usual status amongst her peers as she goes through her daily life.

The show, when first advertised, put much emphasis on Sharon's braces, as they were affected during a lightning storm while being fitted onto her mouth. Every now and then they would occasionally affect the environment around her (lockers, water fountains, radios, etc). As the show went on, this focus was dropped for the usual slice of life and "teenage issues" stories (though it does occasionally pop up).

Although the series rarely receives credit for it these days, ''Braceface'' was a pioneer of children's television in many ways. The series often tackled or featured issues that many kids' shows of the time considered taboo; underage drinking and smoking, eating disorders, and ACupAngst were among the topics that appeared in the series at one point or another. It was even the first kids' cartoon to discuss the topic of periods, and one episode even had Sharon helping a gay friend find a boyfriend, with the character's sexuality not being that big of a deal.

* BareYourMidriff: Almost every female character, although Sharon and Maria both eventually received changes to their [[LimitedWardrobe default outfits]] and no longer did this.

* BuxomIsBetter: The episode "Busted" subverts this. After an initial thrill at all the extra attention her new fuller figure is receiving, Sharon learns that her more mature look comes with its own unique set of problems, such as attracting the "wrong" guys.

%%* BetaCouple: Eventually, Brock and Maria.

* OfficialCouple: Sharon and Alden. They're both so obviously attracted to each other that the show gets them together midway through the first season. Then they have a SecondActBreakup and [[spoiler: finally get back together with a LastMinuteHookup.]]

%%* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: They become this at the start of season two.
%%* OutOfFocus: Connor, Nina, and Alyson in season three.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "Clean Slate", [[AlphaBitch Nina]] finally realises that the incident that caused her to break off her friendship with Sharon was actually caused by her {{Jerkass}} cousin, and decides to rekindle their friendship. While Sharon is initially glad that she and Nina are no longer enemies, she realises that they have become very different people since they were first friends, and barely have anything in common. Not only that, but Nina is just as mean to everyone else as she once was to Sharon, which Sharon is deeply unnerved by. Their friendship ultimately breaks apart once more because of these factors.

%%* HollywoodNerd: Connor [=MacKenzie=].

''Braceface'' is an animated CanadianSeries from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by Melissa Clark for Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The show follows the exploits of Sharon Spitz (voiced in the first two seasons by Creator/AliciaSilverstone, who was also an executive producer on the show), an average eighth grader (later ninth grader when she starts high school) who at the start of the series is forced to get braces for her teeth. Typical of teenage life, she worries about how this will affect her usual status amongst her peers as she goes through her daily life.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Nina's {{Alpha Bitch}}iness to Sharon was started when, while playing together at Nina's house, Nina saw that someone had decapitated all of Nina's beloved fashion dolls--Nina, despite never having any actual evidence to prove it, assumed Sharon was the one who did it and ultimately ended their friendship.[[spoiler: It's not until more than halfway through the third/final season of the show that it's revealed that the true culprit behind it was a mean cousin of Nina's, who rather casually admits to it when she's visiting her cousin and her family.]]