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* ArtEvolution: Hilda's artwork has undergone this InUniverse. In the first two seasons, her art is shown to be cruel, inconsistent, and simple, sometimes only barely resembling the creature at best. By season 3, however, Hilda's artwork [[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ff6re5d613uvc1.png%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D8dee993df1f42f48b6acd30ab7512caf5d8c1fe9 has improved to the point of resembling the show's art style by "The Fairy Isle".]] This can be justified by the two-year TimeSkip between season's 2 and 3, giving Hilda plenty of time to better her abilities.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Any characters who are hit with the weapons of the Viking Clans have glowing wounds that don't seem to allow blood to come out. This is handy because the show would be a ''lot'' darker otherwise.

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* BloodlessCarnage: Any characters who are hit with the weapons of the Viking Clans have glowing wounds that don't seem to allow blood to come out. This is handy because the show would be a ''lot'' darker otherwise. Briefly {{Averted|Trope}} during "The Forgotten Lake" in season 3, where blood is plainly shown coming out of a cut Johanna gets [[spoiler:as she runs away from the Spider-Frog]].
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: No one in the series is outright evil. Every character who is antagonistic in the series has sympathetic reasons for why they come into conflict with Hilda and her companions.
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* AllAccessibleMagic: Magic is a power that anyone can use, as proven in "[[Recap/HildaS1E8 Chapter 8: The Tide Mice]]" when Hilda uses a spell she found in a library book to summon the titular tide mice, despite never having used magic before. Season 2 reveals there's a community of witches in Trolberg, but they are not a MageSpecies but simply people who have turned magic into a career and devote their time to the study and understanding of magic.
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* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: In "The Nightmare Spirit", Hilda and David disguise themselves as the other, so Hilda can sleep in David's bed to confront [[spoiler: the marra]].

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* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: DisguisedInDrag: In "The Nightmare Spirit", Hilda and David disguise themselves as the other, so Hilda can sleep in David's bed to confront [[spoiler: the marra]].
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* NoodleImplements: The Pooka has a habit of asking to borrow random things from Astrid. We learn what he wants ''some'' of them for -- he gives a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that he ''doesn't'' want to wash his feet in the casserole dish -- but no explanation is ever given for why he wants a big wooden hammer and a pineapple.
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* AdaptationalDiversity: At least one schoolmate of Hilda (who is also a member of the Sparrow Scouts) and her mother wear a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab hijab]].
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* AdaptationalWimp: [[AllThereInTheManual According to a book shown at the end of the first graphic novel]], ''some'' trolls are mostly or entirely immune to sunlight, but in the animated series, none were shown or said to have this immunity.
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* HeroicSacrifice: A non-lethal example. [[spoiler:A flashback reveals that Twig gave up being with its own kind to save Hilda from falling off a cliff]].[[spoiler: Also in the series final, Aunt Astrid was willing to give up her life in exchange for allowing Joanna & Hilda to leave the Fairy Isle, but an alternative happens to come along just at the last second.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: A non-lethal example. [[spoiler:A flashback reveals that Twig gave up being with its own kind to save Hilda from falling off a cliff]].[[spoiler: Also in the series final, finale, Aunt Astrid was willing to give up her life in exchange for allowing Joanna & Hilda to leave the Fairy Isle, but an alternative happens to come along just at the last second.]]
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Deliberately bringing a troll rock inside the city walls of Trolberg earns the offender a 50-year prison term. Bringing a troll rock inside the city walls accidentally is punished by a ''100 year'' sentence [[InsaneTrollLogic because the city really doesn't want people doing this by accident]].

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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Deliberately bringing a troll rock inside the city walls of Trolberg earns the offender a 50-year prison term. Bringing Accidentally bringing a troll rock inside the city walls accidentally is punished by a ''100 year'' sentence [[InsaneTrollLogic because the city really doesn't want people doing this by accident]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: A non-lethal example. [[spoiler:A flashback reveals that Twig gave up being with its own kind to save Hilda from falling off a cliff]].

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* HeroicSacrifice: A non-lethal example. [[spoiler:A flashback reveals that Twig gave up being with its own kind to save Hilda from falling off a cliff]].[[spoiler: Also in the series final, Aunt Astrid was willing to give up her life in exchange for allowing Joanna & Hilda to leave the Fairy Isle, but an alternative happens to come along just at the last second.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Hilda lives alone with her mother Johanna, her father not even being mentioned or seen once in the show.

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* DisappearedDad: Hilda lives alone with her mother Johanna, her father not even being mentioned or seen once in the show. [[spoiler: Even when he does appear in Season 3, there's little discussion about where he's been and what happened to his and Joanna's relationship]].

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