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* HellIsThatNoise: Helena's leitmotif.

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[TheSmartGuy Cosima]]
** [[SoccerMom Alison]]
** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Helena]]

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[TheSmartGuy Cosima]]
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[[HotScientist Cosima]], [[SoccerMom Alison]]
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Alison]], [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Helena]]Helena]] are the most popular of the clones.
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* Critical Research Failure: Felix tells Sarah to "get her fanny out of there" in episode 5; 'fanny' is a slang term for the vagina in the UK, and has made many a Brit watching this cringe in horror at this mistake.

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* Critical Research Failure: CriticalResearchFailure: Felix tells Sarah to "get her fanny out of there" in episode 5; 'fanny' is a slang term for the vagina in the UK, and has made many a Brit watching this cringe in horror at this mistake.
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It didn\'t link the first time, sorry!
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* Critical Research Failure: Felix tells Sarah to "get her fanny out of there" in episode 5; 'fanny' is a slang term for the vagina in the UK, and has made many a Brit watching this cringe in horror at this mistake.
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** Saying [[spoiler: sister]] in Helena's accent: [[spoiler: seetra]]
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** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Helena]]
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* CreepyAwesome: Helena
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* Woobie: To a degree all the clones

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* Woobie: TheWoobie: To a degree all the clones
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Someone spelled Tatiana Maslany\'s last name wrong.


* MemeticMutation: [[ActingForTwo Everyone is Tatiana Maslaney]]
** Also "Have you accepted Tatiana Maslaney as your lady and savior?"

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* MemeticMutation: [[ActingForTwo Everyone is Tatiana Maslaney]]
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** Also "Have you accepted Tatiana Maslaney Maslany as your lady and savior?"
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*** [[spoiler: Watching her real birth mother die after a lifetime of wondering what she was like.]]

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** Also "Have you accepted Tatiana Maslaney as your lady and savior?"

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** Also "Have you accepted Tatiana Maslaney as your lady and savior?" savior?"
* {{Moe}}: Delphine is often compared to a puppy.
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* MemeticMutation: [[ActingForTwo: Everyone is Tatiana Maslaney]]

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* MemeticMutation: [[ActingForTwo: [[ActingForTwo Everyone is Tatiana Maslaney]]
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* MemeticMutation: [[ActingForTwo: Everyone is Tatiana Maslaney]]
** Also "Have you accepted Tatiana Maslaney as your lady and savior?"
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** Cosima- Feels heart broken finding out Delphine search threw her things and reveled to Leekie she was in contact with the others [[spoiler: and has now developed an IncurableCoughofDeath ]]

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** Cosima- Feels heart broken finding out Delphine search threw through her things and reveled to Leekie she was in contact with the others [[spoiler: and has now developed an IncurableCoughofDeath ]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: Where to begin? The notion that you are not completely unique? The idea that [[spoiler:some company has a patent on your DNA?]] Being hunted and not knowing why? Spending every day in a state of existential crisis? Nearly everyone in the world has been told once that they look like someone else...this show takes that and runs WILD with it. Enjoy thinking on that next time someone says you look a lot like a friend of theirs...

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* ParanoiaFuel: Where to begin? The notion that you are not completely unique? The idea that [[spoiler:some company has a patent on your DNA?]] Being hunted and not knowing why? Spending every day in a state of existential crisis? Nearly everyone in the world has been told once that they look like someone else...this show takes that and runs WILD with it. Enjoy thinking on that next time someone says you look a lot like a friend of theirs...theirs...
* Woobie: To a degree all the clones
** Sarah- Unable to be with her daughter whom she loves.
** Alison- [[IJustWanttoBeNormal Just wants to be normal]], is unable to cope with her life being a science experiment and [[spoiler: Her husband who she really does love is actually her monitor]]
** Cosima- Feels heart broken finding out Delphine search threw her things and reveled to Leekie she was in contact with the others [[spoiler: and has now developed an IncurableCoughofDeath ]]
** Beth- In relationship with someone she loved but did not love her, worse yet he was only with her to watch over her for someone's science experiment.
** Helena- Abused all her life, both physically and mentally to the point of being turned into a serial killer. Has never been shown any true affection or love.
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** When looking through Beth's purse, Sarah finds two phones, a black one and a pink one. The only people that call her on the pink phone are Cosima and Alison, who both have pink phones of their own.
** In the finale Helena wears the exact same band tee shirt that Sarah did in the pilot.
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* AlasPoorVillian: [[spoiler: Fans took Helena's death particularly hard.]]

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* AlasPoorVillian: AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Fans took Helena's death particularly hard.]]
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* AlasPoorVillian: [[spoiler: Fans took Helena's death particularly hard.]]
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Olivier]]. People were pretty indifferent to his death.
** While she's more of nuisance than a villain, it's hard not to feel bad for [[spoiler: Aynsley, especially since she was an innocent bystander.]]
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* FridgeHorror: Aynesley [[spoiler:wasn't Alison's [[TheMole monitor]]. She really was trying to be Alison's friend and Alison alienated her and allowed her to die for no good reason. As bad as Alison took it when she thought Aynesley ''was'' TheMole, how bad will it be when she learns the truth?]]
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** [[StepfordSmiler Alison]]

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** [[StepfordSmiler [[SoccerMom Alison]]
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** [[StepfordSmiler Alison]]
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* LesYay: Cosima and [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench Delphine]].

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* LesYay: IdiosyncraticShipNaming: Science [[LesYay Girlfriends]] for Cosima and [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench Delphine]].

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* FridgeLogic: When Leekie says that Cosima could end up on the cover of ''Scientific American'' she replies that they don't put scientists on the cover. Leekie covers, but it's obvious he was referring to her as an experiment, not a scientist.

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* FridgeLogic: FridgeBrilliance: When Leekie says that Cosima could end up on the cover of ''Scientific American'' she replies that they don't put scientists on the cover. Leekie covers, but it's obvious he was referring to [[spoiler: her as an experiment, not a scientist.scientist. He knows she's one of his clones.]]



* NeedsMoreLove

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* NeedsMoreLoveNeedsMoreLove
* ParanoiaFuel: Where to begin? The notion that you are not completely unique? The idea that [[spoiler:some company has a patent on your DNA?]] Being hunted and not knowing why? Spending every day in a state of existential crisis? Nearly everyone in the world has been told once that they look like someone else...this show takes that and runs WILD with it. Enjoy thinking on that next time someone says you look a lot like a friend of theirs...
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* FridgeLogic: When Leakey says that Cosima could end up on the cover of ''Scientific American'' she replies that they don't put scientists on the cover. Leakey covers, but it's obvious he was referring to her as an experiment, not a scientist.

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* FridgeLogic: When Leakey Leekie says that Cosima could end up on the cover of ''Scientific American'' she replies that they don't put scientists on the cover. Leakey Leekie covers, but it's obvious he was referring to her as an experiment, not a scientist.
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* FridgeLogic: When Leakey says that Cosima could end up on the cover of ''Scientific American'' she replies that they don't put scientists on the cover. Leakey covers, but it's obvious he was referring to her as an experiment, not a scientist.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: All over the place, both in-universe and out.


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* LesYay: Cosima and [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench Delphine]].
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[TheSmartGuy Cosima]]

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[TheSmartGuy Cosima]]Cosima]]
* NeedsMoreLove
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