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** In "Now You See Me, Now You Don't," Toby sees a form with an address in London on it at West Devonton Street, [=W1B=] 3AH. It's a real postcode... but it corresponds to Regent Street, which isn't a residential area (there is no West Devonton Street anywhere in the UK).
** The show's spinoff, ''The Perfectionists'' uses ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' as a motif, with Ali's students writing essays on its themes that unintentionally parallel their reactions to a recent murder. It seems to think one of those themes is "murder is sometimes justifiable" because the killer's victims are murderers themselves who got away with it. While the book has many interpretations, Christie did ''not'' intend for [[spoiler:Wargrave]] to be a SympatheticMurderer. [[spoiler:His MessageInABottle confession reveals he's a narcissistic psychopath who may not even believe the flimsy justification he gives for the murders and just kills because he finds it pleasurable and wanted to see if he could get away with it. He's just as guilty of the murder he's accused of as the others, and the fact that he doesn't think so is supposed to make him seem like a {{Hypocrite}}]].
** In "Now You See Me, Now You Don't," Toby sees a form with an address in London on it at West Devonton Street, [=W1B=] 3AH. It's a real postcode... but it corresponds to Regent Street, which isn't a residential area (there is no West Devonton Street anywhere in the UK).
** The show's spinoff, ''The Perfectionists'' uses ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' as a motif, with Ali's students writing essays on its themes that unintentionally parallel their reactions to a recent murder. It seems to think one of those themes is "murder is sometimes justifiable" because the killer's victims are murderers themselves who got away with it. While the book has many interpretations, Christie did ''not'' intend for [[spoiler:Wargrave]] to be a SympatheticMurderer. [[spoiler:His MessageInABottle confession reveals he's a narcissistic psychopath who may not even believe the flimsy justification he gives for the murders and just kills because he finds it pleasurable and wanted to see if he could get away with it. He's just as guilty of the murder he's accused of as the others, and the fact that he doesn't think so is supposed to make him seem like a {{Hypocrite}}]].
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* HollywoodPudgy: Hanna is continually described as being fat a year before season one. However, in the [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]] she looks pretty much the same, just wearing frumpy clothing. Subverted in episode 13 where she's wearing a fat suit.
* IdiotPlot: In order to cover up their involvement in an apparent prank gone wrong, four girls allow a blackmailer to push them into ever more illegal activities rather than admit their initial foolishness to the police. See WhatAnIdiot below and the Headscratchers page for detailed examples of ways in which the Liars stupidity has contributed to their victimization.
* IdiotPlot: In order to cover up their involvement in an apparent prank gone wrong, four girls allow a blackmailer to push them into ever more illegal activities rather than admit their initial foolishness to the police. See WhatAnIdiot below and the Headscratchers page for detailed examples of ways in which the Liars stupidity has contributed to their victimization.
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* HollywoodPudgy: Hanna is continually described as being fat a year before season one. However, in the [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]] {{flashback}}s she looks pretty much the same, just wearing frumpy clothing. Subverted in episode 13 where she's wearing a fat suit.
* IdiotPlot: In order to cover up their involvement in an apparent prank gone wrong, four girls allow a blackmailer to push them into ever more illegal activities rather than admit their initial foolishness to the police. See WhatAnIdiot below and the Headscratchers page for detailed examples of ways in which the Liars stupidity has contributed to their victimization.suit.
* IdiotPlot: In order to cover up their involvement in an apparent prank gone wrong, four girls allow a blackmailer to push them into ever more illegal activities rather than admit their initial foolishness to the police. See WhatAnIdiot below and the Headscratchers page for detailed examples of ways in which the Liars stupidity has contributed to their victimization.
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** Of the hetero variety, there's Hanna. She has been not only shipped with [[OfficialCouple Caleb]], but fans have also paired her with [[JustFriends Lucas]], [[HospitalHottie Wren]], [[LesYay Mona]], [[FoeYayShipping Darren]], and all of the Liars (particularly [[LesYay Aria]]), to name a few.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] [[FoeYayShipping Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] [[FoeYayShipping Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
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** Of the hetero variety, there's Hanna. She has been not only shipped with [[OfficialCouple Caleb]], but fans have also paired her with [[JustFriends Lucas]], [[HospitalHottie Wren]], [[LesYay Mona]], [[FoeYayShipping Darren]], and all of the Liars (particularly [[LesYay [[HoYay Aria]]), to name a few.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with[[MindGameShip Mona,]] {{M|indGameShip}}ona, [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] Aria]], [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] Hanna]], [[TheLancer Alison,]] Alison]], [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] Emily]], [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] Toby]], [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] Wren]], [[FoeYayShipping Ezra,]] Ezra]], [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] Noel]], [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] Jason]], and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] interests]], amongst other ships.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with
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* LesYay: Believe it or not, this can happen in a show with a canon lesbian.
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* LesYay: [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Believe it or not, this can happen in a show with a canon lesbian.
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** It could be argued that the entire show has been wasted. The show was dragged on to a 7 season, 160 episode run, when it really should have finished in a much more coherent fashion in Season 4 or 5. By the time Season 6 & 7 were airing, many of it's most ardent fans were falling off the show as they were tired of red herrings, wacky plot twists and new characters that no-one cared about.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** A sends the four a video of Ian and Alison together, but Ian promptly deletes it when he accesses Spencers computer. It never occurs to any of them that unless Ian hacked Spencer's e-mail account as well, then A's original e-mail still exists, video attachment and all.
** What's more, he's able to access it because the PLL's decide to go turn it into the police "during lunch" and Spencer leaves it in a locker that he, as a school coach, has access to. And the characters knew this! Perhaps they should have gone directly to the police and accepted the consequences for missing first period. They repeat this mistake again when Emily is the only one who retains some crucial videos and leaves the laptop unlocked in her room, when she knows people can come and go as they like, as they're selling the house. They really should think about dropbox, emailing a copy to themselves on an account only they know about, thumb drives hidden in places nobody else knows about, etc.
** Hanna didn't really consider her options when [[spoiler:holding who she thought to be A at gun point.]] not only does she not [[spoiler:shoot her when she started to run away. But when Not A jumped to another building, Hanna still never even considered that a gun is a projectile weapon, and if anything the person in the mask has just taken any chance they had of rushing her off the table.]]
** Ezra didn't think this whole [[spoiler:book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler:and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
*** The [[spoiler:book is published]] in the five years between 6x10 and 6x11, and he apparently suffered no ill will for it.
** The new prize goes to [[spoiler:Kenneth [=DiLaurentis=]]]. He has a daughter who claims to have been kidnapped as well as an ex-wife who was murdered and he seems to think it's a good idea to leave her home alone and go on overnight trips.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** A sends the four a video of Ian and Alison together, but Ian promptly deletes it when he accesses Spencers computer. It never occurs to any of them that unless Ian hacked Spencer's e-mail account as well, then A's original e-mail still exists, video attachment and all.
** What's more, he's able to access it because the PLL's decide to go turn it into the police "during lunch" and Spencer leaves it in a locker that he, as a school coach, has access to. And the characters knew this! Perhaps they should have gone directly to the police and accepted the consequences for missing first period. They repeat this mistake again when Emily is the only one who retains some crucial videos and leaves the laptop unlocked in her room, when she knows people can come and go as they like, as they're selling the house. They really should think about dropbox, emailing a copy to themselves on an account only they know about, thumb drives hidden in places nobody else knows about, etc.
** Hanna didn't really consider her options when [[spoiler:holding who she thought to be A at gun point.]] not only does she not [[spoiler:shoot her when she started to run away. But when Not A jumped to another building, Hanna still never even considered that a gun is a projectile weapon, and if anything the person in the mask has just taken any chance they had of rushing her off the table.]]
** Ezra didn't think this whole [[spoiler:book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler:and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
*** The [[spoiler:book is published]] in the five years between 6x10 and 6x11, and he apparently suffered no ill will for it.
** The new prize goes to [[spoiler:Kenneth [=DiLaurentis=]]]. He has a daughter who claims to have been kidnapped as well as an ex-wife who was murdered and he seems to think it's a good idea to leave her home alone and go on overnight trips.
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** It could be argued that the entire show has been wasted. The show was dragged on to a 7 season, 160 episode run, when it really should have finished in a much more coherent fashion in Season 4 or 5. By the time Season 6 & 7 were airing, many of it's its most ardent fans were falling off the show as they were tired of red herrings, wacky plot twists and new characters that no-one cared about.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** A sends the four a video of Ian and Alison together, but Ian promptly deletes it when he accesses Spencers computer. It never occurs to any of them that unless Ian hacked Spencer's e-mail account as well, then A's original e-mail still exists, video attachment and all.
** What's more, he's able to access it because the PLL's decide to go turn it into the police "during lunch" and Spencer leaves it in a locker that he, as a school coach, has access to. And the characters knew this! Perhaps they should have gone directly to the police and accepted the consequences for missing first period. They repeat this mistake again when Emily is the only one who retains some crucial videos and leaves the laptop unlocked in her room, when she knows people can come and go as they like, as they're selling the house. They really should think about dropbox, emailing a copy to themselves on an account only they know about, thumb drives hidden in places nobody else knows about, etc.
** Hanna didn't really consider her options when [[spoiler:holding who she thought to be A at gun point.]] not only does she not [[spoiler:shoot her when she started to run away. But when Not A jumped to another building, Hanna still never even considered that a gun is a projectile weapon, and if anything the person in the mask has just taken any chance they had of rushing her off the table.]]
** Ezra didn't think this whole [[spoiler:book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler:and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
*** The [[spoiler:book is published]] in the five years between 6x10 and 6x11, and he apparently suffered no ill will for it.
** The new prize goes to [[spoiler:Kenneth [=DiLaurentis=]]]. He has a daughter who claims to have been kidnapped as well as an ex-wife who was murdered and he seems to think it's a good idea to leave her home alone and go on overnight trips.about.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** A sends the four a video of Ian and Alison together, but Ian promptly deletes it when he accesses Spencers computer. It never occurs to any of them that unless Ian hacked Spencer's e-mail account as well, then A's original e-mail still exists, video attachment and all.
** What's more, he's able to access it because the PLL's decide to go turn it into the police "during lunch" and Spencer leaves it in a locker that he, as a school coach, has access to. And the characters knew this! Perhaps they should have gone directly to the police and accepted the consequences for missing first period. They repeat this mistake again when Emily is the only one who retains some crucial videos and leaves the laptop unlocked in her room, when she knows people can come and go as they like, as they're selling the house. They really should think about dropbox, emailing a copy to themselves on an account only they know about, thumb drives hidden in places nobody else knows about, etc.
** Hanna didn't really consider her options when [[spoiler:holding who she thought to be A at gun point.]] not only does she not [[spoiler:shoot her when she started to run away. But when Not A jumped to another building, Hanna still never even considered that a gun is a projectile weapon, and if anything the person in the mask has just taken any chance they had of rushing her off the table.]]
** Ezra didn't think this whole [[spoiler:book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler:and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
*** The [[spoiler:book is published]] in the five years between 6x10 and 6x11, and he apparently suffered no ill will for it.
** The new prize goes to [[spoiler:Kenneth [=DiLaurentis=]]]. He has a daughter who claims to have been kidnapped as well as an ex-wife who was murdered and he seems to think it's a good idea to leave her home alone and go on overnight trips.
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* ThemePairing: CrackShip Lucas/Mona revolves around the headcanon that they might have been friends due to both being extreme outsiders before Mona was uplifted and became popular. Later, Mona herself uplifts Lucas and he becomes her [[TheDragon second in command]].
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** Jenna takes this [[UpToEleven up to eleven]].
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** Jenna takes this [[UpToEleven up to eleven]].eleven.
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** Peter Hastings secretly being the father of ''every character.''
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** Peter Hastings secretly being the father of ''every character.'''' And on that note, Jason keeps getting romantically involved with his half-siblings.
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** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film, ''Film/TheLizzieMcGuireMovie'' as Palo.
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** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film, ''Film/TheLizzieMcGuireMovie'' ''[[Series/LizzieMcGuire The Lizzie McGuire Movie]]'' as Palo.Paolo.
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* UncannyValley:
** The hard plastic masks of Alison ([[spoiler:and later Melissa and Emily]]) that start appearing from Season 3 onward.
** The opening of the series could count too; the first time you see it, it appears to be a girl getting dressed up, but it seems really off... [[spoiler:then it becomes obvious very quick that it was ''a corpse'' being dolled up]].
** The hard plastic masks of Alison ([[spoiler:and later Melissa and Emily]]) that start appearing from Season 3 onward.
** The opening of the series could count too; the first time you see it, it appears to be a girl getting dressed up, but it seems really off... [[spoiler:then it becomes obvious very quick that it was ''a corpse'' being dolled up]].
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: It can be pretty uncomfortable hearing the Liars continually make jokes about Jenna's blindness, especially given that [[spoiler:they inadvertently caused it]].
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: However it's not really the network's fault in this case. Due to the agreement signed by Disney when it bought what would become ABC Family, the name "Family" has to be kept in the name of the network. As a result, series with adult themes and sexuality, such as this series, are targeted regularly by parents groups and moral guardians who feel a show like this inappropriate for a network called ABC Family (even though if Disney had its way, it would be airing on a network called XYZ, and the show is actually tame compared to some of the series airing on the main ABC network, such as ''Scandal''). A double-whammy is that for much of its early history the series was dismissed by viewers who assumed that because it was made for a network called ABC Family, it must be "just for kids."
** Now that the name's been changed to Freeform...
** Now that the name's been changed to Freeform...
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** [[spoiler:Ezra]] being revealed to have hooked up with Allison when she was ''fourteen'', and then deliberately set out to seduce [[spoiler:Aria]] when she was 15 was this for many views. The show itself seems to be trying to go down the path that "at least he's not A", as if that somehow makes up for being a creepy stalker who makes a habit of targeting underage girls for sex.
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** [[spoiler:Ezra]] being revealed to have hooked up with Allison when she was ''fourteen'', and then deliberately set out to seduce [[spoiler:Aria]] when she was 15 was this for many views. The show itself seems to be trying to go down the path that "at least he's not A", as if that somehow makes up for being a creepy stalker stalker/paedophile who makes a habit of targeting underage girls for sex.
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** Mona and Spencer, they practically ''drowned'' in tension back in season three, and the tension is still there.
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** Mona and Spencer, they practically ''drowned'' in tension FoeRomanticSubtext back in season three, and the tension [[UnresolvedSexualTension is still still]] there.
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** Of the hetero variety, there's Hanna. She has been not only shipped with [[OfficialCouple Caleb]], but fans have also paired her with [[JustFriends Lucas]], [[HospitalHottie Wren]], [[LesYay Mona]], [[FoeYay Darren]], and all of the Liars (particularly [[LesYay Aria]]), to name a few.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] [[FoeYay Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] [[FoeYay Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
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** Of the hetero variety, there's Hanna. She has been not only shipped with [[OfficialCouple Caleb]], but fans have also paired her with [[JustFriends Lucas]], [[HospitalHottie Wren]], [[LesYay Mona]], [[FoeYay [[FoeYayShipping Darren]], and all of the Liars (particularly [[LesYay Aria]]), to name a few.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]][[FoeYay [[FoeYayShipping Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]]
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** Mona and Spencer, they practically ''drowned'' in FoeYay back in season three, and the tension is still there.
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** Mona and Spencer, they practically ''drowned'' in FoeYay tension back in season three, and the tension is still there.
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** In a 2013 cover story on the show's massive success, ''Entertainment Weekly'' was forced to acknowledge they not only gave the show a bad grade when it premiered but even put it on their list of 5 Worst Shows of 2011.
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* FanNickname: [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3556407 Over on]] Website/SomethingAwful, the show is affectionately known as ''[[Series/TwinPeaks Tween Peaks]]''.
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* TestosteroneBrigade: Creator/TroianBellisario, Creator/AshleyBenson, Creator/LucyHale, Creator/ShayMitchell, Creator/SashaPieterse, Tammin Sursok, Janel Parrish... you can see why this has a number of male fans for reasons besides plotting.
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* TestosteroneBrigade: Creator/TroianBellisario, Creator/AshleyBenson, Creator/LucyHale, Creator/ShayMitchell, Creator/SashaPieterse, Tammin Sursok, Music/TamminSursok, Janel Parrish... you can see why this has a number of male fans for reasons besides plotting.
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** Then she is [[spoiler: killed specifically while taking a showershower.]]
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** Aria is paired with Ezra, Jason, Noel, Spencer, Hanna, and Alison.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Like with most shows, The Perfectionists had a period of several months between filming of the pilot and 2nd episode. During this time, it was quite obvious that Sasha had lost a significant amount of weight, which the show doesm't even try to hide.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBitch Alison DiLaurentis]] is the book series's wicked OverarchingVillain. Even as a child, she would abuse her twin sister Courtney and even helped get her commited to an insane asylum by lying to her parents that Courtney wanted to kill her. She later [[CainAndAbel murdered Courtney]] in a fit of rage for simply switching places with her by having her BuriedAlive, kills Ian because of his relationship with Courtney, and later on kills Jenna simply because she knew the secret. Besides that, Alison pretends to be Ian in an IM conservation, stalks the girls as the second A, repeatedly blackmails them, and feeds them false information. She then tries to have someone else framed for her misdeeds. In one of her appearnces, she manipulates Emily's feelings for her, and then attempts to kill the girls of the book by having them burnt alive. She also sends Hanna fake tickets and has her sent to a mental institution. Finally, she fakes her own death and leaks a fake trial of evidence to the police which implicates the girls for her "murder", fully intending to have them spend the rest of their lives in prison, just to get her revenge.]]
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBitch Alison DiLaurentis]] is the book series's wicked OverarchingVillain.BigBad. Even as a child, she would abuse her twin sister Courtney and even helped get her commited to an insane asylum by lying to her parents that Courtney wanted to kill her. She later [[CainAndAbel murdered Courtney]] in a fit of rage for simply switching places with her by having her BuriedAlive, kills Ian because of his relationship with Courtney, and later on kills Jenna simply because she knew the secret. Besides that, Alison pretends to be Ian in an IM conservation, stalks the girls as the second A, repeatedly blackmails them, and feeds them false information. She then tries to have someone else framed for her misdeeds. In one of her appearnces, she manipulates Emily's feelings for her, and then attempts to kill the girls of the book by having them burnt alive. She also sends Hanna fake tickets and has her sent to a mental institution. Finally, she fakes her own death and leaks a fake trial of evidence to the police which implicates the girls for her "murder", fully intending to have them spend the rest of their lives in prison, just to get her revenge.]]
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** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] [[FoeYay Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
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** Spencer. She has popular ships with [[MindGameShip Mona,]] [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Aria,]] [[VitriolicBestBuds Hanna,]] [[TheLancer Alison,]] [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Emily,]] [[OfficialCouple Toby,]] [[BirdsOfAFeather Wren,]] [[FoeYay Ezra,]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Noel,]] [[IncestSubtext Jason,]] and all her past [[GirlOfTheWeek love interests,]] amongst other ships.
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** Creator/RyanMerriman previously starred in two Disney Channel original movies such as ''LiveActionFilm/SmartHouse'' and ''LiveActionFilm/TheLuckOfTheIrish''
** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film, ''LiveActionFilm/TheLizzieMcguireMovie'' as Palo.
** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film, ''LiveActionFilm/TheLizzieMcguireMovie'' as Palo.
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** Creator/RyanMerriman previously starred in two Disney Channel original movies such as ''LiveActionFilm/SmartHouse'' ''Film/SmartHouse'' and ''LiveActionFilm/TheLuckOfTheIrish''
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** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film,''LiveActionFilm/TheLizzieMcguireMovie'' ''Film/TheLizzieMcGuireMovie'' as Palo.
** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film,
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** "It's not a song, its a phone number!"
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** Any character who opposed Ezria is this, even when they're right about their relationship.
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** Creator/YaniGellman also starred in the Disney film, ''LiveActionFilm/TheLizzieMcguireMovie'' as Palo.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: A lot of fans like to ignore the second half of the finale instead of the AssPull plot that AD is [[spoiler:Spencer’s British long-lost twin]] and instead think of Mary Drake as the villain.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: FanonDiscontinuity:
** A lot of fans like to ignore the second half of the finale instead of the AssPull plot that AD is [[spoiler:Spencer’s British long-lost twin]] and instead think of Mary Drake as thevillain. villain.
** Writing off ''The Perfectionists'' is common, especially among Emily/Alison fans dissatisified with how it handled their relationship.
** A lot of fans like to ignore the second half of the finale instead of the AssPull plot that AD is [[spoiler:Spencer’s British long-lost twin]] and instead think of Mary Drake as the
** Writing off ''The Perfectionists'' is common, especially among Emily/Alison fans dissatisified with how it handled their relationship.
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Even though show runner I. Marlene King has repeatedly confirmed to have known who A, other A and AD were all along (or at least from mid-Season 3) the immense amount of plotholes one can discover once one re-watches the series knowing already who will be revealed as A(s) makes one think that Marlene was practically just winging it in the writer's room for seven seasons straight and when it came to a season finale and it was time to reveal somebody as A, she just drew a name out of a hat.
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* ArcFatigue: It took until Season Six for the main characters to solve the mystery of A's true identity, motivations and goals. [[spoiler: There's more than one A. The first was Mona and the second was Charles [=DiLaurentis=] the long-lost sibling of Jason and Alison.]]
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* ArcFatigue: It took until Season Six for the main characters to solve the mystery of A's true identity, motivations and goals. [[spoiler: There's [[spoiler:There's more than one A. The first was Mona and the second was Charles [=DiLaurentis=] the long-lost sibling of Jason and Alison.]]
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** Alison is probably the biggest example (in the show's continuity at least). Flashbacks show she was a highly manipulative AlphaBitch whose destructive tendencies ruined a lot of people's lives, but there is a lingering question of whether the worst thing she did ([[spoiler:blind Jenna Marshall]]) was worth the worst thing that happened to her ([[spoiler: be forced to fake her death and go on the run for several years ''otherwise she would be murdered'']]). [[spoiler: And now that she's returned, fans are torn between thinking that she's become genuinely remorseful or that she's just the same as before and is merely limited in her depravity by the fact that there's still a crazy person trying to ruin her life, and that she'll pick up right where she left off once this "-A" thing finally blows over]]. Her divisiveness also informs fan opinions of characters like [[spoiler: Mona]], whose actions can suddenly look a lot better or a lot worse when put in perspective.
** Ezra is either a total heartthrob and his relationship with Aria is a gripping storyline or he's weak-willed pervert for hooking up with one of his students and both he and Aria handle the situation like idiots. [[spoiler: The fact that he had sexual relations with Alison when she was fourteen and planned to write a book about it increased perception of him as the latter]].
** Ezra is either a total heartthrob and his relationship with Aria is a gripping storyline or he's weak-willed pervert for hooking up with one of his students and both he and Aria handle the situation like idiots. [[spoiler: The fact that he had sexual relations with Alison when she was fourteen and planned to write a book about it increased perception of him as the latter]].
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** Alison is probably the biggest example (in the show's continuity at least). Flashbacks show she was a highly manipulative AlphaBitch whose destructive tendencies ruined a lot of people's lives, but there is a lingering question of whether the worst thing she did ([[spoiler:blind Jenna Marshall]]) was worth the worst thing that happened to her ([[spoiler: be ([[spoiler:be forced to fake her death and go on the run for several years ''otherwise she would be murdered'']]). [[spoiler: And [[spoiler:And now that she's returned, fans are torn between thinking that she's become genuinely remorseful or that she's just the same as before and is merely limited in her depravity by the fact that there's still a crazy person trying to ruin her life, and that she'll pick up right where she left off once this "-A" thing finally blows over]]. Her divisiveness also informs fan opinions of characters like [[spoiler: Mona]], [[spoiler:Mona]], whose actions can suddenly look a lot better or a lot worse when put in perspective.
** Ezra is either a total heartthrob and his relationship with Aria is a gripping storyline or he's weak-willed pervert for hooking up with one of his students and both he and Aria handle the situation like idiots.[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The fact that he had sexual relations with Alison when she was fourteen and planned to write a book about it increased perception of him as the latter]].
** Ezra is either a total heartthrob and his relationship with Aria is a gripping storyline or he's weak-willed pervert for hooking up with one of his students and both he and Aria handle the situation like idiots.
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* CargoShip: Mona and the board game [[spoiler: made by AD to control and torture the Liars.]] She is ''very'' intrigued by it and spends her time trying to understand it by sensually caressing it and calling it 'beautiful.'
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* CargoShip: Mona and the board game [[spoiler: made [[spoiler:made by AD to control and torture the Liars.]] She is ''very'' intrigued by it and spends her time trying to understand it by sensually caressing it and calling it 'beautiful.'
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** The show's spinoff, ''The Perfectionists'' uses ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' as a motif, with Ali's students writing essays on its themes that unintentionally parallel their reactions to a recent murder. It seems to think one of those themes is "murder is sometimes justifiable" because the killer's victims are murderers themselves who got away with it. While the book has many interpretations, Christie did ''not'' intend for [[spoiler: Wargrave]] to be a SympatheticMurderer. [[spoiler: His MessageInABottle confession reveals he's a narcissistic psychopath who may not even believe the flimsy justification he gives for the murders and just kills because he finds it pleasurable and wanted to see if he could get away with it. He's just as guilty of the murder he's accused of as the others, and the fact that he doesn't think so is supposed to make him seem like a {{Hypocrite}}]].
* CrossesTheLineTwice: It can be pretty uncomfortable hearing the Liars continually make jokes about Jenna's blindness, especially given that [[spoiler: they inadvertently caused it]].
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show has a nasty habit of making somebody look unequivocally guilty of being A, and then revealing that they're either totally innocent, or guilty of something comparatively minor. It's starting to bite them in the ass five years in, with fans now casting suspicion on characters we are likely supposed to find likable or sympathetic. [[spoiler: Parts of the fanbase ''still'' don't totally trust Toby, despite the fact that he's been on the straight and narrow since Season 3, and was only working with A in the first place to protect Spencer. And let's not even get ''started'' on how much it looked like Ezra was conclusively A in Season 4.]]
* CrossesTheLineTwice: It can be pretty uncomfortable hearing the Liars continually make jokes about Jenna's blindness, especially given that [[spoiler: they inadvertently caused it]].
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show has a nasty habit of making somebody look unequivocally guilty of being A, and then revealing that they're either totally innocent, or guilty of something comparatively minor. It's starting to bite them in the ass five years in, with fans now casting suspicion on characters we are likely supposed to find likable or sympathetic. [[spoiler: Parts of the fanbase ''still'' don't totally trust Toby, despite the fact that he's been on the straight and narrow since Season 3, and was only working with A in the first place to protect Spencer. And let's not even get ''started'' on how much it looked like Ezra was conclusively A in Season 4.]]
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** The show's spinoff, ''The Perfectionists'' uses ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' as a motif, with Ali's students writing essays on its themes that unintentionally parallel their reactions to a recent murder. It seems to think one of those themes is "murder is sometimes justifiable" because the killer's victims are murderers themselves who got away with it. While the book has many interpretations, Christie did ''not'' intend for [[spoiler: Wargrave]] [[spoiler:Wargrave]] to be a SympatheticMurderer. [[spoiler: His [[spoiler:His MessageInABottle confession reveals he's a narcissistic psychopath who may not even believe the flimsy justification he gives for the murders and just kills because he finds it pleasurable and wanted to see if he could get away with it. He's just as guilty of the murder he's accused of as the others, and the fact that he doesn't think so is supposed to make him seem like a {{Hypocrite}}]].
* CrossesTheLineTwice: It can be pretty uncomfortable hearing the Liars continually make jokes about Jenna's blindness, especially given that[[spoiler: they [[spoiler:they inadvertently caused it]].
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show has a nasty habit of making somebody look unequivocally guilty of being A, and then revealing that they're either totally innocent, or guilty of something comparatively minor. It's starting to bite them in the ass five years in, with fans now casting suspicion on characters we are likely supposed to find likable or sympathetic. [[spoiler: Parts of the fanbase ''still'' don't totally trust Toby, despite the fact that he's been on the straight and narrow since Season 3, and was only working with A in the first place to protect Spencer. And let's not even get ''started'' on how much it looked like Ezra was conclusively A in Season 4.]]it]].
* CrossesTheLineTwice: It can be pretty uncomfortable hearing the Liars continually make jokes about Jenna's blindness, especially given that
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show has a nasty habit of making somebody look unequivocally guilty of being A, and then revealing that they're either totally innocent, or guilty of something comparatively minor. It's starting to bite them in the ass five years in, with fans now casting suspicion on characters we are likely supposed to find likable or sympathetic. [[spoiler: Parts of the fanbase ''still'' don't totally trust Toby, despite the fact that he's been on the straight and narrow since Season 3, and was only working with A in the first place to protect Spencer. And let's not even get ''started'' on how much it looked like Ezra was conclusively A in Season 4.]]
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* FanonDiscontinuity: A lot of fans like to ignore the second half of the finale instead of the AssPull plot that AD is [[spoiler: Spencer’s [[spoiler:Spencer’s British long-lost twin]] and instead think of Mary Drake as the villain.
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** There's a one-sided example with Aria and [[spoiler: Spencer's twin sister Alex Drake, also known as]] A.D. A.D. goes out of their way to coerce Aria into [[spoiler: becoming an A Team minion,]] tells Aria that "[their] relationship isn't over until [AD] says it's over," ends up [[MurderTheHypotenuse kidnapping Ezra (the day before he was supposed to marry Aria) with the full intention of killing him]], and cuddles up next to a sleeping Aria- while caressing her face and saying that "I think that you and I are going to be the closest of all."
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** There's a one-sided example with Aria and [[spoiler: Spencer's [[spoiler:Spencer's twin sister Alex Drake, also known as]] A.D. A.D. goes out of their way to coerce Aria into [[spoiler: becoming [[spoiler:becoming an A Team minion,]] tells Aria that "[their] relationship isn't over until [AD] says it's over," ends up [[MurderTheHypotenuse kidnapping Ezra (the day before he was supposed to marry Aria) with the full intention of killing him]], and cuddles up next to a sleeping Aria- while caressing her face and saying that "I think that you and I are going to be the closest of all."
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** In "[=If These Dolls Could Talk=]" Alison visits Spencer, and claims that since Alison and Spencer share Jason as a brother, that they're practically sisters, assuring her that "[Spencer] deserves a decent sister." Flash to the final season, where not only have [[spoiler: Spencer and Melissa grown much closer (see the example below),]] but it also turns out that since [[spoiler: Spencer and Alison's respective mothers were twins]] biologically speaking, Spencer and Alison are both [[spoiler: cousins and half-sisters.]]
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** In "[=If These Dolls Could Talk=]" Alison visits Spencer, and claims that since Alison and Spencer share Jason as a brother, that they're practically sisters, assuring her that "[Spencer] deserves a decent sister." Flash to the final season, where not only have [[spoiler: Spencer [[spoiler:Spencer and Melissa grown much closer (see the example below),]] but it also turns out that since [[spoiler: Spencer [[spoiler:Spencer and Alison's respective mothers were twins]] biologically speaking, Spencer and Alison are both [[spoiler: cousins [[spoiler:cousins and half-sisters.]]
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** Alison making fun of Hanna's weight becomes funnier in later seasons when Ashley Benson is still roughly the same size while Creator/SashaPieterse has gained weight probably meaning Alison probably weighs more than Hanna. [[spoiler: Although in the final season there ''is'' a good InUniverse reason, i.e. Alison's pregnancy.]]
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** Alison making fun of Hanna's weight becomes funnier in later seasons when Ashley Benson is still roughly the same size while Creator/SashaPieterse has gained weight probably meaning Alison probably weighs more than Hanna. [[spoiler: Although [[spoiler:Although in the final season there ''is'' a good InUniverse reason, i.e. Alison's pregnancy.]]
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** For ''years,'' Aria has been the prime suspect for many fans who believe her to be A. In season seven, Aria actually ends up [[spoiler: being blackmailed into working for AD, and she quickly turns out to be '''terrible''' at it!]]
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** For ''years,'' Aria has been the prime suspect for many fans who believe her to be A. In season seven, Aria actually ends up [[spoiler: being [[spoiler:being blackmailed into working for AD, and she quickly turns out to be '''terrible''' at it!]]
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* InformedWrongness: The Liars feel compelled to cover up [[spoiler: Hanna having hit Elliott with her car. Spencer even calls it first-degree murder. This is completely wrong, for Hanna tried desperately to hit the brakes and stop the car when she saw Elliott in front of her. Also, even if she didn't, the whole reason why that happened in the first place was that he was chasing down Alison in an attempt to kill her. Basically, Hanna saved someone's life by killing him, accident or no.]]
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* InformedWrongness: The Liars feel compelled to cover up [[spoiler: Hanna [[spoiler:Hanna having hit Elliott with her car. Spencer even calls it first-degree murder. This is completely wrong, for Hanna tried desperately to hit the brakes and stop the car when she saw Elliott in front of her. Also, even if she didn't, the whole reason why that happened in the first place was that he was chasing down Alison in an attempt to kill her. Basically, Hanna saved someone's life by killing him, accident or no.]]
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** Mona has this quality at times [[spoiler: Even after we learn she's -A, making her even more dangerous]]
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** Mona has this quality at times [[spoiler: Even [[spoiler:Even after we learn she's -A, making her even more dangerous]]
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** Jenna found herself on the far side of the line when a flashback showed her [[spoiler: raping Toby]].
** [[spoiler: Ezra]] being revealed to have hooked up with Allison when she was ''fourteen'', and then deliberately set out to seduce [[spoiler: Aria]] when she was 15 was this for many views. The show itself seems to be trying to go down the path that "at least he's not A", as if that somehow makes up for being a creepy stalker who makes a habit of targeting underage girls for sex.
** [[spoiler: Ezra]] being revealed to have hooked up with Allison when she was ''fourteen'', and then deliberately set out to seduce [[spoiler: Aria]] when she was 15 was this for many views. The show itself seems to be trying to go down the path that "at least he's not A", as if that somehow makes up for being a creepy stalker who makes a habit of targeting underage girls for sex.
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** Jenna found herself on the far side of the line when a flashback showed her [[spoiler: raping [[spoiler:raping Toby]].
**[[spoiler: Ezra]] [[spoiler:Ezra]] being revealed to have hooked up with Allison when she was ''fourteen'', and then deliberately set out to seduce [[spoiler: Aria]] [[spoiler:Aria]] when she was 15 was this for many views. The show itself seems to be trying to go down the path that "at least he's not A", as if that somehow makes up for being a creepy stalker who makes a habit of targeting underage girls for sex.
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* ObviousJudas: [[spoiler: Toby is on of the A's]], there was always something about him...
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* ObviousJudas: [[spoiler: Toby [[spoiler:Toby is on of the A's]], there was always something about him...
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** Nate is probably the one character who is universally disliked by the fanbase. It started before he appeared when it was speculated that he may date Emily [[spoiler: and while the two do kiss, Emily wasn't really interested.]] On top of that [[spoiler: he killed Maya and tried to kill Emily]].
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** Nate is probably the one character who is universally disliked by the fanbase. It started before he appeared when it was speculated that he may date Emily [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and while the two do kiss, Emily wasn't really interested.]] On top of that [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he killed Maya and tried to kill Emily]].
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* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Something even the show acknowledges is that Cece being Charles/Charlotte means that in her earlier appearances when identity wasn't revealed, to get close to Jason, she ''willingly'' dated her own brother.]]
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* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Something [[spoiler:Something even the show acknowledges is that Cece being Charles/Charlotte means that in her earlier appearances when identity wasn't revealed, to get close to Jason, she ''willingly'' dated her own brother.]]
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** [[spoiler: Spencer finding out that Toby is on the A Team.]]
** Spencer [[spoiler: in Radley Sanitarium, imagining her friends sitting around her, tearfully telling them that they can't count on her anymore.]]
** Spencer [[spoiler: in Radley Sanitarium, imagining her friends sitting around her, tearfully telling them that they can't count on her anymore.]]
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** [[spoiler: Spencer [[spoiler:Spencer finding out that Toby is on the A Team.]]
** Spencer[[spoiler: in [[spoiler:in Radley Sanitarium, imagining her friends sitting around her, tearfully telling them that they can't count on her anymore.]]
** Spencer
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** Alison finding out that [[spoiler: Shana]] betrayed her.
** From the book series, [[spoiler: Courtney being buried under Alison's name after her body is discovered, and her parents never finding out what truly happened to her.]]
** The ending of "I'm A Good Girl, I Am" where the court finds [[spoiler: Alison]] guilty of murder and the rest of the girls get arrested as accomplices.
** A/[[spoiler: Cece/Charlotte]]'s backstory. She was assigned male at birth and wanted to be a girl, but her father wouldn't let her and threw her into Radley where she was framed for murder. Once she finally gets out, she accidentally almost kills [[spoiler: Alison]] thinking she was Bethany and to top of it she found her mother, the one person who always cared for her dead and was forced to bury her.
** From the book series, [[spoiler: Courtney being buried under Alison's name after her body is discovered, and her parents never finding out what truly happened to her.]]
** The ending of "I'm A Good Girl, I Am" where the court finds [[spoiler: Alison]] guilty of murder and the rest of the girls get arrested as accomplices.
** A/[[spoiler: Cece/Charlotte]]'s backstory. She was assigned male at birth and wanted to be a girl, but her father wouldn't let her and threw her into Radley where she was framed for murder. Once she finally gets out, she accidentally almost kills [[spoiler: Alison]] thinking she was Bethany and to top of it she found her mother, the one person who always cared for her dead and was forced to bury her.
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** Alison finding out that [[spoiler: Shana]] [[spoiler:Shana]] betrayed her.
** From the book series,[[spoiler: Courtney [[spoiler:Courtney being buried under Alison's name after her body is discovered, and her parents never finding out what truly happened to her.]]
** The ending of "I'm A Good Girl, I Am" where the court finds[[spoiler: Alison]] [[spoiler:Alison]] guilty of murder and the rest of the girls get arrested as accomplices.
**A/[[spoiler: Cece/Charlotte]]'s A/[[spoiler:Cece/Charlotte]]'s backstory. She was assigned male at birth and wanted to be a girl, but her father wouldn't let her and threw her into Radley where she was framed for murder. Once she finally gets out, she accidentally almost kills [[spoiler: Alison]] [[spoiler:Alison]] thinking she was Bethany and to top of it she found her mother, the one person who always cared for her dead and was forced to bury her.
** From the book series,
** The ending of "I'm A Good Girl, I Am" where the court finds
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The show has a nasty habit of making somebody look unequivocally guilty of being A, and then revealing that they're either totally innocent, or guilty of something comparatively minor. It's starting to bite them in the ass five years in, with fans now casting suspicion on characters we are likely supposed to find likable or sympathetic. [[spoiler:Parts of the fanbase ''still'' don't totally trust Toby, despite the fact that he's been on the straight and narrow since Season 3, and was only working with A in the first place to protect Spencer. And let's not even get ''started'' on how much it looked like Ezra was conclusively A in Season 4.]]
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** [[spoiler: Sara "Shower" Harvey]]. We should sympathize with this character for obvious reasons, but instead she is potentially the most loathed character in the entire PLL universe. Why? Six words: "I need to take a shower." Of course "Game Over, Charles" revealed that she wasn't meant to be sympathetic and was EvilAllAlong.
** The main 4 Liars, especially Spencer, have a habit of believing that whoever A is trying to frame for being Ali's[[spoiler: , Maya's , or Bethany's]] killer or being A is absolutely guilty, and that there is no chance that they could be framed, and yelling at and being very unpleasant and hostile towards them or anyone who thinks they may not be guilty. After [[spoiler: Toby, Jenna, Caleb, Ian, Jason, Garrett, Lucas, Melissa, Byron, Mike, Ezra, Ali, Noel, and less important characters like Leslie]] they would learn to start gathering more evidence before jumping to conclusions. Especially since they keep being framed for different crimes, with Toby and Spencer constantly saying that they don't jump to conclusions for this reason... before jumping to conclusions.
** The main 4 Liars, especially Spencer, have a habit of believing that whoever A is trying to frame for being Ali's[[spoiler: , Maya's , or Bethany's]] killer or being A is absolutely guilty, and that there is no chance that they could be framed, and yelling at and being very unpleasant and hostile towards them or anyone who thinks they may not be guilty. After [[spoiler: Toby, Jenna, Caleb, Ian, Jason, Garrett, Lucas, Melissa, Byron, Mike, Ezra, Ali, Noel, and less important characters like Leslie]] they would learn to start gathering more evidence before jumping to conclusions. Especially since they keep being framed for different crimes, with Toby and Spencer constantly saying that they don't jump to conclusions for this reason... before jumping to conclusions.
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** [[spoiler: Sara [[spoiler:Sara "Shower" Harvey]]. We should sympathize with this character for obvious reasons, but instead she is potentially the most loathed character in the entire PLL universe. Why? Six words: "I need to take a shower." Of course "Game Over, Charles" revealed that she wasn't meant to be sympathetic and was EvilAllAlong.
** The main 4 Liars, especially Spencer, have a habit of believing that whoever A is trying to frame for beingAli's[[spoiler: , Maya's , Ali's[[spoiler:, Maya's, or Bethany's]] killer or being A is absolutely guilty, and that there is no chance that they could be framed, and yelling at and being very unpleasant and hostile towards them or anyone who thinks they may not be guilty. After [[spoiler: Toby, [[spoiler:Toby, Jenna, Caleb, Ian, Jason, Garrett, Lucas, Melissa, Byron, Mike, Ezra, Ali, Noel, and less important characters like Leslie]] they would learn to start gathering more evidence before jumping to conclusions. Especially since they keep being framed for different crimes, with Toby and Spencer constantly saying that they don't jump to conclusions for this reason... before jumping to conclusions.
** The main 4 Liars, especially Spencer, have a habit of believing that whoever A is trying to frame for being
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** Toby. In the show, the poor boy is [[spoiler:Blamed for a murder he didn't commit and then subsequently gets ragged on by the whole town.]] And even before that the one friend he had was ashamed to be seen with him in front of her friends for a long time, and he was [[spoiler: coerced into a relationship with his stepsister that he certainly didn't want.]] Then his [[spoiler:girlfriends' family didn't want her seen with him because she was a person of interest in the same murder case.]] Every time the boy's on screen something bad is happening to him.
** TV-Verse Spencer counts too. Her parents favor her older sister Melissa, her and her friends are constantly in danger, being nearly killed [[spoiler: (by her sister's boyfriend and her classmate) and framed for murder]] multiple times. She can't even relax in a hot tub without freaking out about someone spying on them. Then she eventually has a mental breakdown and ended up in the Radley Sanitarium and afterwards develops addiction to drugs to try and stay awake to track "A" and decode Alison's diary. And now, it turns out that [[spoiler: her ''real'' mother is Mary Drake.]]
** TV-Verse Spencer counts too. Her parents favor her older sister Melissa, her and her friends are constantly in danger, being nearly killed [[spoiler: (by her sister's boyfriend and her classmate) and framed for murder]] multiple times. She can't even relax in a hot tub without freaking out about someone spying on them. Then she eventually has a mental breakdown and ended up in the Radley Sanitarium and afterwards develops addiction to drugs to try and stay awake to track "A" and decode Alison's diary. And now, it turns out that [[spoiler: her ''real'' mother is Mary Drake.]]
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** Toby. In the show, the poor boy is [[spoiler:Blamed for a murder he didn't commit and then subsequently gets ragged on by the whole town.]] And even before that the one friend he had was ashamed to be seen with him in front of her friends for a long time, and he was [[spoiler: coerced [[spoiler:coerced into a relationship with his stepsister that he certainly didn't want.]] Then his [[spoiler:girlfriends' family didn't want her seen with him because she was a person of interest in the same murder case.]] Every time the boy's on screen something bad is happening to him.
** TV-Verse Spencer counts too. Her parents favor her older sister Melissa, her and her friends are constantly in danger, being nearly killed[[spoiler: (by [[spoiler:(by her sister's boyfriend and her classmate) and framed for murder]] multiple times. She can't even relax in a hot tub without freaking out about someone spying on them. Then she eventually has a mental breakdown and ended up in the Radley Sanitarium and afterwards develops addiction to drugs to try and stay awake to track "A" and decode Alison's diary. And now, it turns out that [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her ''real'' mother is Mary Drake.]]
** TV-Verse Spencer counts too. Her parents favor her older sister Melissa, her and her friends are constantly in danger, being nearly killed
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** From the book verse, Jenna. The poor girl is brutally bullied at school ( they even gave her an apple, soaked in toilet water for crying-out-loud!) all seemingly out of jealousy of her Snow White-ish beauty; sexually abused by her step-brother; when she finally fights back [[spoiler: Jenna & Courtney plot to get Toby sent away by setting off fireworks]] she gets blinded. [[spoiler: and then she is killed. By Alison. Whose twin befriended Jenna. ''Jenna was killed by who she thought was her only friend''.]]
** [[spoiler: Charles/Charlotte Di Laurentis]] She was thrown in Radley by her own father at a young age most likely because [[spoiler: she identified as a girl and wanted to transition.]] While institutionalized [[spoiler: she gets pinned with the murder of Marion Cavanaugh by real culprit Bethany.]] The only person who would visit her was her mother, and it seems like she was locked up in there for years until she finally gets a chance to be herself as [[spoiler: CeCe Drake.]] Then, she accidentally [[spoiler: almost kills ''her own sister'' Alison and watches as ''their'' mother unknowingly buries her alive.]]
** [[spoiler: Charles/Charlotte Di Laurentis]] She was thrown in Radley by her own father at a young age most likely because [[spoiler: she identified as a girl and wanted to transition.]] While institutionalized [[spoiler: she gets pinned with the murder of Marion Cavanaugh by real culprit Bethany.]] The only person who would visit her was her mother, and it seems like she was locked up in there for years until she finally gets a chance to be herself as [[spoiler: CeCe Drake.]] Then, she accidentally [[spoiler: almost kills ''her own sister'' Alison and watches as ''their'' mother unknowingly buries her alive.]]
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** From the book verse, Jenna. The poor girl is brutally bullied at school ( they even gave her an apple, soaked in toilet water for crying-out-loud!) all seemingly out of jealousy of her Snow White-ish beauty; sexually abused by her step-brother; when she finally fights back [[spoiler: Jenna [[spoiler:Jenna & Courtney plot to get Toby sent away by setting off fireworks]] she gets blinded. [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and then she is killed. By Alison. Whose twin befriended Jenna. ''Jenna was killed by who she thought was her only friend''.]]
**[[spoiler: Charles/Charlotte [[spoiler:Charles/Charlotte Di Laurentis]] She was thrown in Radley by her own father at a young age most likely because [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she identified as a girl and wanted to transition.]] While institutionalized [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she gets pinned with the murder of Marion Cavanaugh by real culprit Bethany.]] The only person who would visit her was her mother, and it seems like she was locked up in there for years until she finally gets a chance to be herself as [[spoiler: CeCe [[spoiler:CeCe Drake.]] Then, she accidentally [[spoiler: almost [[spoiler:almost kills ''her own sister'' Alison and watches as ''their'' mother unknowingly buries her alive.]]
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** [[spoiler: Toby]] being on the A-Team was abandoned, as a few episodes later it was revealed that he [[spoiler:was only on the team to protect Spencer.]] [[spoiler: Spencer]] joining forces with Mona to get answers was scrapped quickly; it hardly lasted an entire episode. Ezra [[spoiler: being "A" was a red-herring as well. He was just writing a book and was doing research.]]
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** [[spoiler: Toby]] [[spoiler:Toby]] being on the A-Team was abandoned, as a few episodes later it was revealed that he [[spoiler:was only on the team to protect Spencer.]] [[spoiler: Spencer]] [[spoiler:Spencer]] joining forces with Mona to get answers was scrapped quickly; it hardly lasted an entire episode. Ezra [[spoiler: being [[spoiler:being "A" was a red-herring as well. He was just writing a book and was doing research.]]
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** Hanna didn't really consider her options when [[spoiler: holding who she thought to be A at gun point.]] not only does she not [[spoiler: shoot her when she started to run away. But when Not A jumped to another building, Hanna still never even considered that a gun is a projectile weapon, and if anything the person in the mask has just taken any chance they had of rushing her off the table.]]
** Ezra didn't think this whole [[spoiler: book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler: and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
*** The [[spoiler: book is published]] in the five years between 6x10 and 6x11, and he apparently suffered no ill will for it.
** The new prize goes to [[spoiler: Kenneth [=Di Laurentis=]]]. He has a daughter who claims to have been kidnapped as well as an ex-wife who was murdered and he seems to think it's a good idea to leave her home alone and go on overnight trips.
** Ezra didn't think this whole [[spoiler: book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler: and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
*** The [[spoiler: book is published]] in the five years between 6x10 and 6x11, and he apparently suffered no ill will for it.
** The new prize goes to [[spoiler: Kenneth [=Di Laurentis=]]]. He has a daughter who claims to have been kidnapped as well as an ex-wife who was murdered and he seems to think it's a good idea to leave her home alone and go on overnight trips.
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** Hanna didn't really consider her options when [[spoiler: holding [[spoiler:holding who she thought to be A at gun point.]] not only does she not [[spoiler: shoot [[spoiler:shoot her when she started to run away. But when Not A jumped to another building, Hanna still never even considered that a gun is a projectile weapon, and if anything the person in the mask has just taken any chance they had of rushing her off the table.]]
** Ezra didn't think this whole[[spoiler: book [[spoiler:book publishing]] thing through. If anything about his and Aria's [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and (previously) Alison's]] sexual relationship got out in the public, he would quickly end up in prison.
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** Alison is probably the biggest example (in the show's continuity at least). Flashbacks show she was a highly manipulative AlphaBitch whose destructive tendencies ruined a lot of people's lives, but there is a lingering question of whether the worst thing she did ([[spoiler: blind Jenna Marshall]]) was worth the worst thing that happened to her ([[spoiler: be forced to fake her death and go on the run for several years ''otherwise she would be murdered'']]). [[spoiler: And now that she's returned, fans are torn between thinking that she's become genuinely remorseful or that she's just the same as before and is merely limited in her depravity by the fact that there's still a crazy person trying to ruin her life, and that she'll pick up right where she left off once this "-A" thing finally blows over]]. Her divisiveness also informs fan opinions of characters like [[spoiler: Mona]], whose actions can suddenly look a lot better or a lot worse when put in perspective.
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** Alison is probably the biggest example (in the show's continuity at least). Flashbacks show she was a highly manipulative AlphaBitch whose destructive tendencies ruined a lot of people's lives, but there is a lingering question of whether the worst thing she did ([[spoiler: blind ([[spoiler:blind Jenna Marshall]]) was worth the worst thing that happened to her ([[spoiler: be forced to fake her death and go on the run for several years ''otherwise she would be murdered'']]). [[spoiler: And now that she's returned, fans are torn between thinking that she's become genuinely remorseful or that she's just the same as before and is merely limited in her depravity by the fact that there's still a crazy person trying to ruin her life, and that she'll pick up right where she left off once this "-A" thing finally blows over]]. Her divisiveness also informs fan opinions of characters like [[spoiler: Mona]], whose actions can suddenly look a lot better or a lot worse when put in perspective.
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* DuelingWorks: The first few seasons aired while ''Series/GossipGirl'', another young adult-focused show based on a book series surrounding a clique of affluent girls, was in its heyday. After ''Gossip Girl'' ended, ''Pretty Little Liars'' became something of a SpiritualSuccessor. Both series have even spawned reboots scheduled to be aired on Creator/HBOMax
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* DuelingWorks: The first few seasons aired while ''Series/GossipGirl'', another young adult-focused show based on a book series surrounding a clique of affluent girls, was in its heyday. After ''Gossip Girl'' ended, ''Pretty Little Liars'' became something of a SpiritualSuccessor. Both series have even spawned reboots scheduled to be aired on Creator/HBOMaxCreator/HBOMax.
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* DuelingWorks: The first few seasons aired while ''Series/GossipGirl'', another young adult-focused show based on a book series surrounding a clique of affluent girls, was in its heyday. After ''Gossip Girl'' ended, ''Pretty Little Liars'' became something of a SpiritualSuccessor. Both series have even spawned reboots scheduled to be aired on Creator/HBOMax
