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| 3 | ->''"And there before me stood a white horse, and its rider held a bow, and his name was Death."'' |
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| 5 | Created by Creator/AlexKurtzman, Creator/RobertoOrci, Creator/PhillipIscove and Creator/LenWiseman (the last-named also directed the pilot and served as second unit director on the season two premiere), and starring Creator/TomMison, Creator/NicoleBeharie, Creator/OrlandoJones, Creator/KatiaWinter, and [[PromotedToOpeningTitles as of season 2]] Creator/LyndieGreenwood and Creator/JohnNoble, ''Sleepy Hollow'' premiered September 16, 2013 on Creator/{{Fox}}. Airing on Mondays at 9:00pm Eastern Time, the show was a modern-day retelling of Creator/WashingtonIrving[='s=] short story ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow''. |
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| 7 | In the series, Ichabod Crane is [[BackFromTheDead brought back to life]] 250 years in modern day [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState Sleepy Hollow]] after dying during a mission for General UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington in 1781. Crane learns the Headless Horseman, whose head Crane chopped off before his perceived death, has awakened as well, beginning his nightly killing spree after just murdering [[Creator/ClancyBrown Sleepy Hollow’s sheriff]]. In order to bring down the Horseman, Ichabod Crane partners with Lieutenant Abbie Mills, who’s investigating the Horseman after he kills her partner, the (former) sheriff. |
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| 9 | While hunting said Horseman, Abbie looks into the old case files the sheriff was investigating and learns there exists two types of occult groups, one being evil and the other good, which may have summoned the Headless Horseman and if the Horseman isn't stopped, dark supernatural forces will affect Earth. Unfortunately, stopping this entity proves difficult as he discovers modern weaponry, which he assimilates into his ritualistic hunt and it’s revealed to be Death, one of the [[Literature/TheBible Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] as described in the ''Literature/{{Book of Revelation}}''. |
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| 11 | Ichabod Crane not only has to solve a mystery from his own time involving the Founding Fathers and their involvement with the supernatural phenomena of Sleepy Hollow but he must adjust to the societal and technological differences of the 21st century. Given the fact that he is, and states he is from, the time of the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution American Revolution]], local law enforcement see him as a madman but reliable in hunting the HeadlessHorseman. |
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| 13 | In the fourth and final season, the show was heavily retooled, with Ichabod being transferred to Washington DC where he joins Agency 355, which was founded by George Washington to fight supernatural threats. The final episode aired on March 31, 2017. |
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| 15 | Tie in media includes: |
| 16 | * ''Sleepy Hollow'' (2014-2015) |
| 17 | * ''The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane'' (2014) |
| 18 | * ''Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution'' (2014) |
| 19 | * ''Sleepy Hollow: Origins'' (2015) |
| 20 | * ''Sleepy Hollow: Providence'' (2015) |
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| 22 | This is not to be mistaken for the 1999 Creator/TimBurton [[Film/SleepyHollow1999 film]] of the same name. |
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| 24 | It now has the beginnings of a [[Recap/SleepyHollow recap]] page. |
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| 26 | !!Tropes found in this series include: |
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| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 30 | [[folder:A-F]] |
| 31 | * AlternateUniverse: This series takes place in a world where supernatural forces were involved on both sides of the American Revolutionary War. Nevertheless, the existence of the supernatural has been kept secret from the general public, so it takes place in a modern world much like ours. And according to WordOfGod, the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" does not exist. |
| 32 | * AccompliceByInaction: All of the dream demon's victims in "For The Triumph of Evil" had this in common. By their failure to tell the truth, all three of them helped cause the institutionalization of Abbie's sister. |
| 33 | * ActionGirl: Abbie and Jenny Mills. After-all, they are a cop and a former thief. |
| 34 | * ActorAllusion: Nick Hawley once calls Ichabod Mr Pride and Prejudice. Creator/TomMison stared in Series/LostInAusten, a loose adaptation of Literature/PrideandPrejudice, as Mr Bingley. |
| 35 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Ichabod Crane from the short story is a spindly, lanky, nebbish type. This Crane is played by [[http://i1.cdnds.net/13/41/618x373/ustv-sleepy-hollow-tom-mison-4.jpg Tom Mison]]. |
| 36 | * AdaptationalBadass: To go with his handsome new looks, this Ichabod has gone from a superstitious coward to a centuries-old badass. Even his credentials have been bumped up a bit — from simple small-town country schoolteacher to an Oxford professor of History. |
| 37 | ** The Headless Horseman. Originally a rather typical, if bloodthirsty revenant. In the series he becomes [[spoiler:Death, one of the Riders of Apocalypse]]. |
| 38 | ** Sleepy Hollow itself, to some extent. A small village in the original tale and a small town (pop. 10,000) in RealLife, it evolved to a bustling city (pop 144,000) and nothing short of HellGate in the series. |
| 39 | * AgentScully: Abbie, to Ichabod's AgentMulder. Subverted, though, as Abbie has had an experience with the supernatural at an even younger age than Ichabod. |
| 40 | * AirVentPassageway: How Jenny escapes from the mental hospital. |
| 41 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: There's definitely something suspicious about Captain Irving. [[spoiler:Despite occasionally obstructing the protagonists due to his skepticism, once he's forced to accept that dark forces are working to bring about the apocalypse, he sides firmly with the heroes.]] |
| 42 | * AncientConspiracy: The evil coven, which was intertwined with at least one company of Hessians (the Shadow Warriors) and the Hellfire Club. |
| 43 | * AncientTradition: |
| 44 | ** The Freemasons, of whom Ichabod was a member, were (and possibly still are) allied with the good coven and seek the prevention of the Apocalypse. |
| 45 | ** The end of Season 3, in preparation for the {{Retool}}ing of Season 4, reveals the existence of Agency 355, a secret division of the government created by President Washington to fight the supernatural. By present day, it's been reduced to a couple of low-ranked government officials working out of an archive building, and everyone thinks the job is a joke. |
| 46 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Jeremy Crane spent two hundred years BuriedAlive, too weak to escape, until Moloch freed him.]] |
| 47 | * ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Andy Brooks]] is rather reluctant in following the demon's orders; so far he's apologised in one way or another to all his victims. |
| 48 | * AutomaticCrossbows: Subverted, Ichabod gains a special crossbow in season two, from Hawley. However while its multiple shot, it actually works more like a pump action shotgun, requiring Ichabod to pull back lever each time to load a new bolt. |
| 49 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Invoked by Ichabod in s4's "Freedom". |
| 50 | --> '''Ichabod:''' I have escaped Purgatory, the Catacombs... and New Jersey. |
| 51 | * ArtifactOfDoom: |
| 52 | ** The Season 2 premiere involves the Key to Gehenna, which allows things (like Moloch and his army) to exit purgatory without something having to take its place. |
| 53 | ** The [[ThirtyPiecesOfSilver 30 Tyrian Shekels that Judas accepted for betraying Jesus]] -- touching one brings out a person's inner darkness, causing them to betray the thing they care about most. |
| 54 | ** In Season 3, the Shard of Anubis, a strange metallic "lump" stolen by Jenny years ago, suddenly attracts the interests of many unsaviory "collectors." [[spoiler:It later turns out that the actual shard, a red gemstone, is inside of the metallic object - and that it contains the mystical energy of an ancient deity, who wants it back at all costs.]] |
| 55 | * ArtifactTitle: Season 4 shifts the focus from Sleepy Hollow itself to Washington DC. |
| 56 | * ArtisticLicenseChemistry: |
| 57 | ** In the second season opener, Ichabod realizes the soil he's [[spoiler:been buried under]] is impregnated with sulfur. Okay, fine. Problem: while sulfur is highly flammable (and infamously impossible to quench once lit) and is an important component in black powder, it is not itself explosive. Particularly not when part of damp soil. All that would have happened when he got the sulfur lit is that he would have created an unquenchable mass of burning syrup oozing down through the soil, coating everything under it. |
| 58 | ** Followed by ArtisticLicenseBiology in that the ensuing (and impossible) explosion would have killed him. Of course, that sort of thing happens all the time in HollywoodScience. |
| 59 | * ArtisticLicenseGeography: |
| 60 | ** Sleepy Hollow in reality is a small town of about 9,000 people, not 144,000 as said in the show. |
| 61 | ** The map [[spoiler:hidden in the sextant]] is very obviously a relabeled map of colonial Boston and bears no resemblance to the geography in and around Sleepy Hollow either in colonial or modern times. |
| 62 | * ArtisticLicenseHistory: |
| 63 | ** Anyone who knows anything about the Revolution knows that the war had all but ended in the north by 1781, and Washington had long since moved to the south. This makes the scene where he tells Ichabod about the Horseman highly improbable, at best. |
| 64 | ** No-one was ''ever'' burned as a witch in America, or at least not in New England. Hanged, yes (in accordance with British laws concerning witchcraft), burned, ''no,'' and certainly not as late as the latter half of the 18th century. The last recorded execution of an American 'witch' was in 1692, nearly a century before the plot of this show starts, and witchcraft had ceased to be a capital crime in England and all its territories by 1736. |
| 65 | ** In Ichabod's day - before running water and sanitation, buying bottled water would have been a great idea. |
| 66 | ** He also gets weirded out when Abbie tells him there's arsenic in the un-bottled water, when in his time drinking water straight from a river or other source would have been a very stupid idea. Not that it matters, since arsenic is naturally occurring in ground and surface water anyway. |
| 67 | ** Ichabod rants about how much things cost (supposed to imply that he doesn't understand inflation) but US dollars weren't established until after his death, so how would he know that $4 was a lot or a little? It's possibly though he equated this with the pound sterling. |
| 68 | ** Ichabod making snarky comments about modern pollution when English cities in his day were basically an open sewer. |
| 69 | ** The Hessians' uniform was blue but in the show all of them wear [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience red coats]]. |
| 70 | *** They also didn't become involved in the war until ''after'' the Boston Tea Party. |
| 71 | *** They also didn't wear metal half-masks. |
| 72 | *** [[spoiler:Turns out the headless horseman is Ichabod's former best friend, now deceased and in the service of Moloch]], hence the mask. |
| 73 | ** Reference is made to Washington being a commander of the rebellion that would grow into the American Revolution at the time of the Boston Tea Party. He didn't become a leader of the revolution until two years later. |
| 74 | ** In "The Lesser Key of Solomon", Ichabod finds that Jenny has been to Mexico, Guatemala, and Somalia. There's a brief gag about how he's never heard of Somalia, but Mexico and Guatemala should also be unfamiliar to him. In 1781, present-day Mexico and Guatemala were part of New Spain (then again, both of the names were used for important parts ''of'' New Spain in 1781...). |
| 75 | ** Ichabod's rant about a 10% sales tax being outrageous. Firstly, taxation of tea and other items was not what the American Colonists were upset about. It was the fact that the taxes had been passed without their consent (hence the phrase "No Taxation ''Without Representation''") that had them up in arms. Second, the Revolutionary War was fought for many different reasons (these reasons are detailed in the Declaration of Independence if anyone is curious). Taxation without representation was only one of the grievances against Britain, and a fairly small one at that. |
| 76 | ** Crane assumes Abbie must be an emancipated former slave despite the fact there were a fair few black people in the British Colonies/Northern United States who were born free. |
| 77 | ** Crane remembers the Mohawk fighting on the side of the revolution. While the Iroquois Confederacy was split by the Revolution, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois#American_Revolution the Mohawk Nation fought on the British side]]. |
| 78 | ** Benjamin Franklin did not actually fly a kite with a key attached during a storm, despite of the countless dramatizations of his experiments to this effect. He even noted that doing so could be lethal, and some of his would-be imitators found that out the hard way. Justified as he was actually [[spoiler:using the "experiment" to try and destroy a magical artifact.]] TheMasquerade would prevent him from being able to explain the real reason for the experiment, so he just denied it ever happened. |
| 79 | * ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: |
| 80 | ** In "Blood Moon," Ichabod says that the language Sarilda speaks is "Romani Greek." While Romano-Greek is a mixed language of Romany and Greek, it is highly doubtful that he would understand much of it based on a knowledge of Ancient Greek alone. |
| 81 | ** In "John Doe", the inhabitants of Roanoke Island, a colony that dates from the late 1580s, are depicted as using Middle English. This variant of the language had already been replaced by what's known as Early Modern English (aka Shakespearean English) about a century earlier. |
| 82 | * ArtisticLicenseReligion: The episode "For the Triumph of Evil" has Ichabod and Abby in need of a Native American shaman for the purpose of performing a powwow, which are suggested to be something of a dying art. In RealLife, powwows are still commonly held in many places, and you wouldn't have to go to a used car dealership to find a shaman, as many Native Americans still practice their traditional religion and shamans earn their living as full time shamans. |
| 83 | * ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: It is noted multiple times that the Horseman is meant to be the Horseman of Death. However, the description in the pilot quoted from ''Revelation'', a man riding a white horse and bearing a bow is not of Death but of Conquest, who is the First Horseman (whereas the headless guy actually seems to be the ''third'' to appear, since Moloch started doing his thing 250 odd years ago), and does use a bow, while Death bears a scythe and rides a "pale" green (''chloros'') horse. |
| 84 | ** Early episodes of the show quote from the book of "Revelations". The relevant book they are drawing from is actually just "Revelation", singular (the show does get this right eventually). |
| 85 | ** While he does rank as a major demon, it was not Moloch who led the rebellion against Heaven but Lucifer[=/=]Satan. |
| 86 | ** And ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' is a work of fiction, not a "theological text" as Ichabod states. |
| 87 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: Repeatedly, usually from Revelation. |
| 88 | * AstralProjection: |
| 89 | ** In “The Golem”, Henry Parish chokes Ichabod in order for him to travel to Purgatory to see his wife Katrina. |
| 90 | ** In “Incident At Stone Manor” Ichabod uses a spirit cabinet in order for his soul to travel across the layers of reality and find Abbie, who is trapped in the catacombs. |
| 91 | * BackFromTheDead: Ichabod and the Headless Horseman. Also [[spoiler:Brooks]] in the second episode and [[spoiler:Irving]] in season 2 episode 12. |
| 92 | * BadassBookworm: Ichabod was a history professor before he was conscripted. |
| 93 | * BadAssNormal: Irving and Jenny are pretty extraordinary in a fight. |
| 94 | * BaitAndSwitch: Serilda grabs Kyle and screams waking his mother up. At first, it looks like Serilda has kidnapped Kyle. However, [[spoiler: she was actually after the ashes of his father, since he was the descendant of the magistrate who sentence her to death by blood.]] Kyle was adopted thus he is not a blood relative. |
| 95 | * BalancingDeathsBooks: In the season 1 finale: [[spoiler:Katrina can't leave Purgatory unless someone takes her place.]] |
| 96 | * BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Pretty much all of season 1 was one by Henry Parrish/Jeremy Crane/War in order to separate the witnesses and get Katrina to Abraham/Death.]] |
| 97 | * BeamMeUpScotty: Discussed in-universe, as Ichabod interrupts a museum lecture about Paul Revere's ride to point out that the riders ''actually'' said "The ''regulars'' are coming. '''Not''' 'the British are coming.' See, we too were British at the time, so that would have been ''most'' unhelpful." |
| 98 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: Crane pretty much had a role in every notable event of the American Revolution, often with hidden supernatural motives. He is eventually asked in the final season what parts he wasn't involved in. Crane responds he wasn't involved in the naval battles, and the Paris Treaty. |
| 99 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: |
| 100 | ** The show's central mystery involves the Founding Fathers, who were apparently involved in a SecretWar to prevent the Apocalypse. |
| 101 | ** The Boston Tea Party was engineered as a cover for stealing the ''Lesser Key of Solomon'' from the British. |
| 102 | ** The Roanoke island colony disappeared because the Horseman of Pestilence/Conquest unleashed a plague there as part of the Apocalypse, only for the spirit of Virginia Dare to guide them to a hidden place where [[TimeStandsStill time has stood still]] since, keeping the plague (and the Horseman) contained. |
| 103 | ** Benjamin Franklin, in his legendary kite-flying story, was not experimenting with electricity, but attempting to destroy the key tied to it [[spoiler:which allows exit from Purgatory ''without'' sacrificing someone to replace a person already trapped there]]. |
| 104 | ** Benedict Arnold's betrayal wasn't voluntary, but was actually caused by one of Judas' cursed ThirtyPiecesOfSilver. |
| 105 | ** Daniel Boone wore his famous coonskin cap to cover scars on his head given to him by his brother, who became a Wendigo after resorting to cannibalism at Valley Forge. |
| 106 | ** The Hellfire Club was a front for, or is at least allied with, the cult that worships Moloch. |
| 107 | ** The Sword of Methuselah may have been a catalyst for the founding of the Americas as many explorers tried but failed to find the sword. |
| 108 | ** The angel that Washington saw at Valley Forge was Orion. |
| 109 | ** For a mundane example, Betsy Ross was Washington's chief spy. |
| 110 | ** Colonel Prescott’s order “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes,” at the Battle of Bunker Hill comes from him telling his men when the Yao-Quai was vulnerable to attack. |
| 111 | ** The UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper killings were caused by a Byzantine Parang, which had the power to turn its wielder into a serial killer. |
| 112 | ** The 1776 Great Fire of New York was cased by Greek Fire, a fire cannot be extinguish, being used to destroyed the Draguar that General Howe raised to fight the rebel colonialists. |
| 113 | ** The crossing of the Delaware was a actually a journey to the catacombs to retrieve the Eye of Providence. |
| 114 | ** John Wilkes Booth was an EvilSorcerer, who allowed himself to be possessed by a demon in order to kill Lincoln, who was protected by his wife Mary Todd's own good magic. In retaliation, she [[SealedEvilInACan sealed him away]], with the Lincoln Memorial being built as a focus and reinforcement for the spell. |
| 115 | ** Benjamin Banneker, famed abolitionist and architect, designed a hidden PocketDimension in Washington DC to [[SealedEvilInACan trap and contain]] any evil entities that entered it. |
| 116 | ** Plymouth Rock was used to seal a wolf demon who was terrorizing the Pilgrims. Specifically, the same kind of wolf demon that had previously the story of Little Red Riding Hood. |
| 117 | ** Davy Crockett, Sacajawea, Samuel Wilson, and Paul Jennings were all members of Agency 355. |
| 118 | ** The Burning of Washington during UsefulNotes/TheWarOf1812 was the result of a MysticalPlague connected to a Djinn that caused the afflicted to combust. The storm that saved the city was caused when Paul Jennings summoned one to flood the Djinn‘s lair and strike it with lightning. |
| 119 | * BadBoss: Moloch, the demon god who controls The Headless Horseman and the other Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse when he kills [[spoiler:Brooks]] for failure. Though it does revive him in the second episode and gives him another chance to serve. |
| 120 | * BigBad: Moloch, for the first season and a half. After [[spoiler:his death]], an EvilPowerVacuum presents several more villains for the remainder of Season 2. |
| 121 | ** Season 3 has Pandora and the Hidden One. |
| 122 | ** Season 4 has Malcolm Dreyfuss. |
| 123 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Dreyfuss is in hell and everything he was going to do is erased from the timeline. Team witness is stronger than ever and little Molly isn't a target any more. However, all of that comes at the cost of Ichabod's soul after his DealWithTheDevil and we all know how [[MagicallyBindingContract "easy"]] those are to get out of.]] |
| 124 | ** [[spoiler:Also qualifies as AndTheAdventureContinues since, though the series is ended, Ichabod's duties as a Witness have not.]] |
| 125 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler:Brooks]] gets these when the Horseman speaks through him. |
| 126 | ** Henry Parrish gets these when using his powers, though they don't really count as evil [[spoiler:until we find out who he really is.]] |
| 127 | ** In “Awakening” after [[spoiler: Irving is shot by Jenny, he turns his head up and displays these eyes as he has fully turned evil.]] |
| 128 | * TheBlank: Moloch, the demon who commands the horsemen and evil coven, has been described as faceless. But since it's only ever been seen blurred out the audience can't be sure. |
| 129 | ** More of Moloch's face is shown, but it is still rather shrouded in shadow. |
| 130 | ** The Sandman has no mouth. |
| 131 | * BlasphemousBoast: When looking for Jenny, Abbie promises an uncooperative witness (who is actively violating multiple state laws even as they have the conversation) that she will "make God jealous" of the "legal brimstone" she will rain down on her if she doesn't start talking. The witness very wisely spills her guts. |
| 132 | * BloodlessCarnage: The Horseman's axe heats up when he uses it, which cauterizes the wounds he inflicts instantly. Just like in [[Film/SleepyHollow1999 Tim Burton's interpretation.]] |
| 133 | * BloodMagic: Used in Episode 4, "The Lesser Key of Solomon". |
| 134 | * BodyHorror: Moloch [[spoiler:resurrects Brooks]] in the episode "Blood Moon". Problem is, it doesn't [[spoiler:snap Brooks' neck back until ''after'' he's been resurrected]]. |
| 135 | * BodySurf: Ancitif, the evil spirit blackmailing and threatening Captain Irving (and also [[{{Troll}} screwing with him]] by switching hosts just before the Captain can press him to talk) in "The Golem" and "Vessel". |
| 136 | * BookEnds: The use of "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Sympathy For The Devil]]" in the pilot and in the season one finale. |
| 137 | * BoringButPractical: Irving keeps his shotgun on a lanyard connected to his belt so he can't lose it in a fight or have it taken from him. |
| 138 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: Inverted. Ichabod Crane is uncommonly open-minded and progressive for having been born in the eighteenth century, which is a very good thing when he wakes up in the twenty-first century and has to work with a black female police officer. He still has trouble adjusting, but he does fairly well for a man who slept through just about every civil rights movement. He was also friends with Native Americans. |
| 139 | * BrickJoke: A musical one. The end of the penultimate episode of season 2 has Abbie [[spoiler:ending up in the past, outside the fort that will become Sleepy Hollow, in more or less the same position as Ichabod was in the premiere, with a horse-drawn carriage boiling out of the mist. And as it does so, an instrumental cello cover of Sympathy For The Devil begins playing.]] |
| 140 | * BrokenPedestal: PlayedForLaughs with Ichabod and Thomas Jefferson, after the former finds out that the latter not only fathered six children by one of his slaves, but also took a quote of Ichabod's and claimed it as his own. Ichabod initially tries to discount the former as "prurient gossip", until Irving gives him a cliffs notes on DNA and how it proves Sally Hemmings' children were Jefferson's. |
| 141 | * BuffySpeak: |
| 142 | -->'''Abbie:''' We were not betrothed. There was no betrothing. |
| 143 | * BulletCatch: Serilda does this in episode 2. |
| 144 | * BurnTheWitch: Katrina's headstone says she was burned alive for witchcraft, - despite the fact that, in RealLife (as mentioned above), most people found guilty of witchcraft were hanged, not burned. [[spoiler:It turns out Katrina never actually died, and her grave is actually the hiding place for the headless horseman's head.]] |
| 145 | ** The villain of the week in episode 2 is Serilda, the high priestess of the evil coven in the 1700s, who was captured (after being BroughtDownToNormal by Katrina) and burned at the stake (ironically, after [[KarmicDeath burning all her victims)]]. |
| 146 | * BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:Ichabod's son Jeremy spent two centuries like this until Moloch freed him. He returns the favor to his father at the end of season 1.]] |
| 147 | * BusCrash: The Freemasons that are introduced in episode 6 are killed off-screen at the beginning of episode 7. |
| 148 | * CallBack: In the late season 2 episode ''Awakening'', Abbie [[spoiler:travels back in time and ends up in the forest, by a road, which she inspects...to find it's not asphalt, just as a horse-drawn carriage comes out of the mist, almost running her down. As this happens, an instrumental cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" starts playing.]] |
| 149 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Brooks]] is left considerably less than human after being resurrected by Moloch. |
| 150 | * TheCameo: Season 2's premier included a ''FreezeFrameBonus'' cameo of [[Series/{{Fringe}} The Observer]] in Purgatory. |
| 151 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: For whatever reason, Moloch won't let the Horseman kill Crane yet. [[spoiler:Similarly, in the second season, Moloch is quite upset when War's latest scheme puts Katrina's life in jeopardy.]] |
| 152 | * CasualDangerDialogue: The two cops who stop the Horseman in the pilot. After seeing him pick up a machine gun and the fact that he has no head, one of them wonders if he can actually hear their commands. |
| 153 | * CatScare: To little Kyle Hemington in the second episode. The family cat jumps on his bed. |
| 154 | * CelebrityParadox: Apparently, nobody on the show has heard of Ichabod Crane or ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow''. |
| 155 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 156 | ** The tunnels Abbie and Ichabod use in episode 2 have two examples: [[spoiler:Serilda's bones, which she needs to complete her resurrection, are buried there, and the crates of gunpowder down there are used to re-kill her.]] [[spoiler: Chekhov's Gunpowder?]] |
| 157 | ** Abbie and Crane walk past has a well during their first visit to Roanoke. Later on, Abbie sees a woman blessing herself with holy water in the hospital’s chapel. This gives her the idea that the cure for the Horseman of Pestilence’s plague is the water at Roanoke after remembering the well. [[spoiler: Turns out she’s right.]] |
| 158 | ** The RunningGag of Crane always pronouncing "lieutenant" using the British pronunciation becomes important in the second season premiere when Abby recognizes that she is talking to an Ichabod-imposter when he pronounces it the way an American would. |
| 159 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Halfway through the first season, we learn Ichabod and Katrina had a son, and an episode later learn that he was killed by Katrina's coven. But then the season finale reveals that he actually survived (albeit BuriedAlive), until Moloch freed him to serve as the Horseman of War, and he's been posing as Henry Parrish ever since.]] |
| 160 | * ChekhovsSkill: The ability to fist-bump, believe it or not. |
| 161 | * TheChessmaster: Sheriff Corbin. While he was the mentor to Abbie, he [[spoiler:was secretly also the mentor to her sister Jenny, orchestrating things so that they'd eventually have to work together and begin to mend the rift in their relationship]]. |
| 162 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Semi-regular guest star Luke Morales is knocked unconscious by a demon in the second-to-last episode of the first season. His fate remains unresolved. |
| 163 | * ChunkySalsaRule: How Ichabod and Abigail deal with [[spoiler:the resurrected witch Sarilda]] in the second episode, after [[spoiler:she]] finds bullets to be an unconvincing argument. |
| 164 | * TheChosenOne: Ichabod believes that he and Abbie are the two witnesses foretold in the Book of Revelation. This has been confirmed by his wife, Katrina, and the visions that Ichabod and Abbie share. |
| 165 | * ComicallySerious: Ichabod is extremely poised despite the modern world's attempt to fluster him. |
| 166 | ** He has ''twice'' demonstrated the properly graceful way to hide behind a wall to protect yourself from an explosion. |
| 167 | * ConspiracyThriller: A conspiracy about the Founding Fathers' involvement in an occult order to prevent the Apocalypse, which also extends to the modern day residents of Sleepy Hollow who are also members of said cult - as well those working against them and trying to bring the end of days. Unfortunately for Abbie and Ichabod, they don't know who's on which side. |
| 168 | * CleanPrettyReliable: When the Weeping Lady tries to drown Abbie, Hawley shouts at Ichabod to give her CPR; since Ichabod doesn't know what that is, Hawley has to do it himself. As you might expect, it only takes about twenty seconds to for Abbie to start coughing up water. |
| 169 | * ClickHello: How Ichabod approaches General Howe while he was unpacking since he was sent by Washington to assassinate Howe. |
| 170 | * CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Abbie frequently has to smooth over things between Ichabod and others. |
| 171 | * {{Crossover}}: With, of all shows, ''{{Series/Bones}}''. Somehow, Booth and Brennan managed to avoid seeing anything happen that would totally shake up everything they believed. Abbie and Ichabod go to the Jeffersonian in "The Resurrection in the Remains", where the skeleton of William Howe is found, initially headless, and the ''Bones'' team has to solve a modern day murder before Abbie and Ichabod can take the remains back to Sleey Hollow. The bones then become part of the struggle against Pandora on in "Dead Men Tell no Tales". Oddly, there's an earlier ''Bones'' episode where Hodgins tells Angela to record ''Sleepy Hollow'', not to mention the CelebrityParadox of Laura Spencer playing recurring intern Jessica Warren on ''Bones'' and colonial re-enactor Caroline in this show within the same year, and that creates a bit of MindScrew at the same time. |
| 172 | * CyanidePill: Used by a captured bad guy after spilling what little he knew to Ichabod, Abbie, and Jenny. |
| 173 | * DaChief: Captain Irving, except for the shouting. |
| 174 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Played with. The sisters, Abbie and Jenny Mills were burgeoning delinquents getting in and out of trouble until their episode in the woods, which separated them, and left scars on them both. |
| 175 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Thomas, as well as the townsfolk of Roanoke.]] |
| 176 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: Abbie finds the Sin-Eater by discovering that he assumed the identity of an executed prisoner. |
| 177 | * DeadStarWalking: Creator/ClancyBrown and [[spoiler:Creator/JohnCho]] are both dead before the end of the pilot. However, the latter [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead comes back]]]] and the former shows up as a either a hallucination or haunting for Abbie in the following episode. |
| 178 | * DealWithTheDevil: |
| 179 | ** The British allied with the evil coven to win the war, though it seems unlikely that they knew about the coven's apocalyptic plans. |
| 180 | ** [[spoiler:Ichabod's friend, Abraham Van Brunt, agreed to become the Horseman so that he could gain possession of Katrina and revenge on Ichabod for "stealing" her.]] Ichabod actually refers to this by the trope name when he finds out. |
| 181 | ** [[spoiler:Jeremy Crane agreed to act as the Horseman of War in exchange for freedom from his imprisonment and revenge on his parents for abandoning him.]] |
| 182 | ** [[spoiler:Parish tricks Frank Irving into making one using a special pen to prick his finger while signing a contract.]] |
| 183 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: Rather literally. [[spoiler:It's only after dying permanently and ending up in Purgatory that Brooks is able to break free of Moloch's control and help Abbie with no strings attached.]] |
| 184 | * DefectorFromDecadence: |
| 185 | ** In this interpretation, Ichabod started out as a British soldier, before coming to agree with the American revolutionaries and switching sides. |
| 186 | ** Twice over apparently, as he states that his father was a noble, and he was glad to reject the trappings of aristocracy. |
| 187 | * DemonicPossession: Ancitif possesses Macy to threaten Frank to hand over Washington’s Bible. In the past, he possessed Jenny in an attempt to kill Abbie. |
| 188 | * DisappearedDad: Abbie tells Ichabod that her father bailed when she was young. |
| 189 | * TheDividual: The Four Who Speak As One, members of Katrina's coven. |
| 190 | * DontGoInTheWoods: Abbie and her sister first saw the demon, Moloch, when they were walking through the woods. [[spoiler:They also saw Jeremy being resurrected, but did not realize it.]] The MirrorWorld is also set in a foggy forest. |
| 191 | * DragonInChief: The Horsemen of the Apocalypse, including the Headless Horseman himself, serve as this to Moloch. |
| 192 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: There always seems to be ''some'' reason why Katrina's magic is weakened and thus can't be used to solve all the heroes' problems. |
| 193 | * DreamSequence: In Episode 3, due to the Sandman being the monster of the week. |
| 194 | ** And Katrina's only method of communicating with Ichabod from the dimension in which she is confined. |
| 195 | * DrivenToSuicide: |
| 196 | ** The Sandman attacks people who have messed up in waking life, and whose guilt is hidden/buried, taunting them with it until they can't take it anymore and commit suicide to get away from him and their guilt. |
| 197 | ** The Despair Creature does this by capturing and imprisoning its victim in a cocoon. Then it creates the illusion of a spiritual trial whlie feeding on its captive's despair to gain power to capture others. The victim becomes so overwhelmed by their despair that they commit suicide. |
| 198 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: In "The Akeda", [[spoiler:Irving is mortally wounded by War's AnimatedArmor, but still fights on long enough to destroy it with the Sword of Methuselah.]] |
| 199 | * EpiphanyTherapy: How Abbie gets over her guilt about betraying her sister as a child. |
| 200 | * EternalEnglish: Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]]. While Crane's 18th century English is perfectly understandable today, the residents of Roanoke used a variant of Middle English. This also counts as ArtisticLicenseHistory--the Roanoke colonists' actual language would have been closer to Early Modern English (i.e., Shakespearean English). |
| 201 | * EveryoneKnowsMorse: Crane claims to have "deciphered every code from Caesar shift to Morse". |
| 202 | * EvilAllAlong: The season 1 finale reveals that [[spoiler:the Sin-Eater was secretly Ichabod and Katrina's lost son. And working for Moloch]]. |
| 203 | * EvilPowerVacuum: After [[spoiler:Moloch]] is killed, it opens the door for other bad guys in Purgatory that were previously held in check by Moloch's presence, to escape. |
| 204 | * EyelessFace: The Sandman simply has two dark and empty eye-sockets. |
| 205 | * EyeScream: The Sandman apparently fills ''the insides of his living victims' eyeballs with sand''. One of them even pops while under examination by Abbie and Captain Irving. |
| 206 | * FailureToSaveMurder: Ichabod holds his own failure to save Arthur Bernard against himself. |
| 207 | * FairCop: Abbie. Possibly a TropeCodifier. It’s also noteworthy is that she’s a person of colour and is a leading character. |
| 208 | * FantasyAmericana: The premise involves Ichabod and Abbie dealing with supernatural forces in and around the titular town. Strangely enough, it appears to be taking place in the same universe as the scientifically-minded Series/{{Bones}}. |
| 209 | * {{Fanservice}}: Abbie and Ichabod are both [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] in the third episode[[note]]Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your point of view, Abbie is still wearing her bra[[/note]]. |
| 210 | ** Hel''lo'', Abbie doing yoga[[note]](2x08)[[/note]]. |
| 211 | * FetusTerrible: [[spoiler:Moloch eventually enters the real world by possessing Katrina and being born as a [[RapidAging rapidly aging]] child from her.]] |
| 212 | * FightingFingerprint: [[spoiler: Ichabod realises that the headless horseman is Abraham, after he throws him down in the same way during their duel in the woods.]] |
| 213 | * {{Fingore}}: Abbie nearly bites off [[spoiler:Brooks']] thumb when struggling with him in the pilot. |
| 214 | * FirstEpisodeTwist: The covens, the revival of both Ichabod and the Horseman, the secret connection to Revelations... the list goes on. |
| 215 | * FirstNameBasis: |
| 216 | ** In the first episode, after Abbie Mills thaws out a bit and opens up to Ichabod Crane about her background, she invites him to call her "Abbie" instead of "Lieutenant." Such familiarity would be highly inappropriate in Crane's era, but in later episodes, he accepts the spirit of the offer by addressing her as "Miss Mills" (a social title) rather than her rank. By contrast, Crane himself is still addressed as "[[LastNameBasis Crane]]" by everyone in the modern era. |
| 217 | ** [[spoiler:In episode 1.06, The Sin Eater, Ichabod uses "Abbie" three times when trying to convince her that the only way to get rid of the horseman is for him to sacrifice himself. It remains to be seen if this will continue or if he returns to "Lieutenant" or "Miss Mills." There was much squeeing amongst the Ichabbie shippers.]] |
| 218 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: |
| 219 | ** Ichabod. PlayedForLaughs throughout the series. He does adjust but some modern concepts are still foreign to him, such as lover's lane (according to him, a place where young people can walk hand in hand with the proper chaperonage of their parents, to prevent impropriety), but most notably the first few episodes, such as his rant about the cost of donuts (Nearly $5! Which in his time was a fair amount of money) and a tax rate of nearly 10%! |
| 220 | ** Ichabod's exchange with Jenny about the "boyfriend" line in "For The Triumph of Evil." |
| 221 | --> '''Ichabod:''' We are amicable, yes, and I am male... but I suspect you are implying something else. |
| 222 | ** In "Sanctuary" the concept of a "billionaire" has Ichabod utterly baffled. Apparently the combined income of all thirteen colonies ''across his entire lifetime'' only barely managed to crack a billion dollars. |
| 223 | ** Inverted in an episode early in season two. He's scandalized to see two men holding hands in a café. Abbie carefully explains that acceptance of homosexuality is relatively recent, but even the Supreme Court affirmed their right to get married in most of the country. But no, Ichabod explains that he's scandalized by one of those men ''rudely wearing a hat indoors''. He's familiar with gay marriage because he watches ''Glee''. And besides, as he points out, it's not as if homosexuality never existed before the 20th century. |
| 224 | * FoodChains: Purgatory: |
| 225 | -->'''Henry Parrish:''' You must not take this lightly. Purgatory is a maze of temptation. If you are offered food or drink, you must not accept it. The reality you're presented with will seem entirely true, and every part of you will want to embrace it, but if you do, you will be trapped there for eternity. |
| 226 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Abbie and her sister Jenny ''both'' saw the vision of Moloch in the woods. They both went on to become troubled women. Thanks to Corbin, Abbie found a better path and became a cop, while Jenny sank deeper into her "insanity", and stole survival gear in preparation for the End of Days. |
| 227 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The use of "Sympathy For The Devil" seems innocuous at first, but then the revelation comes that the whole show is about keeping out the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, which are controlled by some mysterious demon. |
| 228 | ** [[spoiler:Irving got a TraitorShot]] just after finding Abbie in Corbin's office. This is not followed up by the end of the episode. |
| 229 | ** In "Lesser Key of Solomon", the first words the piano teacher says are "Left hand, Aaron. Always the left hand will save you." It turns out [[spoiler:He is a Hessian, this universe's secret army of followers of Moloch, bringing about the End of Days. Satanism, dark magic (versus white ethical magic), siding with Demonic, is associated with or as known as "The Left-Hand Path."]] |
| 230 | ** In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it bit in "John Doe", after Ichabod points out a plant that closes up at human touch as a sign that Thomas went that way, a girl in the colony offers Abbie a flower from the same plant, [[spoiler:except the plant isn't closed up. And then the colony turns out to have been dead all along.]] |
| 231 | * ForgedMessage: [[spoiler: Katrina uses her magic to mimic Mary’s handwriting. Impersonating Mary, Katrina writes to Ichabod that she apologises for her behaviour, releases him from any obligation and will be returning to England. It was done to cover up the fact that Mary had died during her confrontation with Katrina.]] |
| 232 | * ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Ichabod manages an accidental example. He stumbles upon an encampment, and after a few lines of conversation, concludes that he's having a dream about the Revolutionary War and starts questioning the accuracy of his surroundings. The woman he's speaking to never realizes he's not playing a character. |
| 233 | -->'''Woman:''' Dude, it's a reenactment. Just relax, y'know. Go with it.\ |
| 234 | '''Ichabod:''' "Dude"? |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:G-L]] |
| 238 | * GambitRoulette: [[DealWithTheDevil Dreyfuss's]] latest plan to try to stir up trouble. His [[ASimplePlan end goal]] is to get a few minutes to introduce himself to [[KidHero Molly]]. So, he gives away hundreds of cursed tablet readers to kids, because there's no way to ensure only the cursed one goes to Molly, so he probably set loose a pack of murderous imaginary friends. Then, the rest of the plan involves [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Mr. Stitch]] being drawn to Molly and getting her subsequently sealed in the Archives, which he had no reason to believe she even knew about. Then, he planned on Crane finding the release switches for a security system (which was not in any official or any other record he could have possibly known about) which only Molly was small enough to fit through. Then he anticipated she'd be brave enough to got into the dark hole in the wall (which, let's face it, is less of a stretch than anything else he came up with for this plan), find that one of the release switches was stuck and then decide to come outside in stead of keeping at it or asking for tools. Now, in all fairness, he could have found the grate which lead to the switches and jammed the lever himself, but the rest of this plan seems about as likely as getting three bull's-eyes while winning the lottery blindfolded. |
| 239 | * GiveMeASign: Abbie in "John Doe". She attempts to hide from her fellow officers, realizes she's in a multidemoninational chapel, and asks for (pretty nearly demands) a sign from God. |
| 240 | * GlamourFailure: In season 4, two witches have long been used to using their magic for centuries to appear young and gorgeous. When they finally venture out of hiding to be in Washington D.C., they believe this magic will help them stay out of sight. However, they fail to realize that modern technology has advanced so security cameras and phones show them as old white-haired women in much younger outfits. |
| 241 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Played with. They're both brainy and both beautiful, but still constant verbal combatants. |
| 242 | * {{Golem}}: There's one in a mid-season 1 episode that escapes from Purgatory to wreck havoc on Sleepy Hallow. [[spoiler:It was created by Ichabod's warlock son, and is seeking revenge on the coven who "killed" him.]] |
| 243 | * GoodShepherd: The Reverend as he guards the Horseman’s head to prevent him from gaining it as it will trigger the apocalypse. He also helped Katrina to place the spell of suspended animation on Ichabod. |
| 244 | * GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Mr. Gillespie, who saw the demon in the woods with young Abbie and Jenny, puts his gun beneath his chin]] and the camera abruptly jerks upward to Ichabod through the window as Abbie screams "No!" |
| 245 | ** We never see the Golem kill anyone or their remains afterwards, but it's implied to be messy. |
| 246 | * HalloweenEpisode: The latter part of the Series/{{Bones}} crossover episode happens to take place during Halloween, which makes General Howe and his zombie army stand out much less until they take out their guns and prepare to fire upon civilians. |
| 247 | * HaveAGayOldTime: Lampshaded. Conversation paraphrased: |
| 248 | -->'''Ichabod''': In my day, 'awful' meant something that filled you with awe, and 'intercourse' meant having a discussion. |
| 249 | -->'''Abbie''': So if I had awful intercourse with a guy in your day, he'd be getting a second date? |
| 250 | * HeadlessHorseman: It couldn’t be an adaption of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow without one. |
| 251 | * HealItWithBooze: While visiting a revolutionary war battlefield, Abbie tells a surgeon to disinfect a soldier’s wound with whisky. |
| 252 | * TheHeavy: |
| 253 | ** The Horseman isn't ''technically'' the main villain, but he drives much of the plot and is the ArchEnemy for Ichabod and Abbie. |
| 254 | ** [[spoiler:War/Jeremy Crane/Henry Parrish]], is revealed at the end of season 1 to be the real Heavy, having been manipulating things for Moloch all along. |
| 255 | * HellishHorse: The Horseman's pale horse. Presumably the rest of the Horsemen's horses also qualify. |
| 256 | ** The Horseman of War, in season two, has a horse with flaming eyes and nostrils. |
| 257 | * HeroicSacrifice: |
| 258 | ** Ichabod settles for one in "The Sin Eater". [[spoiler:He survives.]] |
| 259 | ** [[spoiler:Abbie]] settles for one in "Bad Blood", but of a nonlethal variety. |
| 260 | * HisNameIs: In "Bad Blood", [[spoiler:Jenny finds out about St. Henry's Parish, and tries to warn Abbie about "[[BitchInSheepsClothing Henry Parrish]]" over a voice message. Death shoots her car window with a shotgun just before she says his name, and causes a car accident by shooting her tire just afterwards, with her survival uncertain]]. |
| 261 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: A number of famous people from the American Revolution appear in flashbacks, notably Creator/BenjaminFranklin, or are mentioned, like UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington. |
| 262 | * HistoricalHeroUpgrade: He was still a traitor, but "Root of All Evil" reveals that [[spoiler:Benedict Arnold's legendary treachery wasn't entirely of his own free will, having been induced by a cursed coin that causes one to betray their deepest loyalties.]] Ichabod, in particular, remembers him as a loyal soldier and a good man. |
| 263 | * HollywoodCostuming: Ichabod and some of the men in the 18th century parts, are shown to have facial hair. Men were clean shaven during this period because the trend at that time was to look as youthful, smooth, polite and refined as possible. |
| 264 | * HollywoodLaw: In "Ragnarok" [[spoiler:Ezra gives Ichabod a centuries-old letter of marque and reprisal from George Washington establishing TheMenInBlack for combating all supernatural threats and placing Ichabod in command of it. Since Article I Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress and not the President the sole authority in issuing letters of marque and reprisal--and even then they were for authorizing civilian ships to engage in {{privateer}}ing, while Washington explicitly mentions Ichabod's Continental Army rank in it--this is probably the closest 18th-century equivalent to an executive order the writers could come up with.]] |
| 265 | * HornedHumanoid: |
| 266 | ** Moloch. |
| 267 | ** The Succubus |
| 268 | ** The Wendigo |
| 269 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: The Horseman is interpreted as one of them (Death, specifically). |
| 270 | ** Pestilence/Conquest shows up in "John Doe", and is revealed to be responsible for the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. However, as long as the victims of his plague are kept cut off from the rest of the world, he's unable to ride forth. |
| 271 | ** [[spoiler:The first season ends with the arrival of War--who happens to be Ichabod and Katrina's son.]] |
| 272 | ** Something to take note of -- Pestilence appears to be a spirit, while Death is a physical being [[spoiler:who used to be human]]. War, on the other hand, [[spoiler:is a still living human controlling a separate hollow suit of armor]]. |
| 273 | * HotBlade: The Headless Horseman's axe. |
| 274 | * HotWitch: Katrina and Serilda. |
| 275 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ichabod towers over Abbie. |
| 276 | * HumanoidAbomination: |
| 277 | ** The Horseman, the Sandman, and Moloch's demonic minions. Possibly also Moloch himself, but we've yet to get a clear look at him. |
| 278 | ** Also [[spoiler:Brooks]] to an extent, after he [[CameBackWrong Comes Back Wrong]], [[spoiler:and definitely after he gets transformed by Moloch in "The Indispensable Man"]]. |
| 279 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In one episode Ichabod finds himself in a bank, where he is annoyed by the fact that the pens are attached to the desks via chains. He rather acerbically notes to a bank clerk who approaches him to offer him a credit detail that while the banks expect people to trust them with their life savings and fortunes, they are apparently unwilling to in turn trust the people with "a simple ink-well". |
| 280 | * IdiotBall: In the S1 penultimate episode Abbie seems to forget all about Cranes' [[spoiler:photographic memory that is good enough to recreate maps.]] |
| 281 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: |
| 282 | ** In "The Vessel", [[spoiler:Irving tries to make his daughter fight against the demon possessing her. It doesn't work.]] |
| 283 | ** Abbie also tries this with [[spoiler:Andy when he attacks them in George Washington's tomb. This time it works for a short time.]] |
| 284 | * ImmortalitySeeker: Malcolm Dreyfuss, having [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul for business success]], seeks to use the Philosopher's Stone to gain immortality, in the belief that [[LoopholeAbuse if he never dies, his soul will never be forfeit]]. |
| 285 | * ImmuneToBullets: The Horseman of Death, The Sandman/Ro'kenhronteys, Orion and [[spoiler: Irving, being taken over by his evil side, in “Awakening”]] are this as a sign of their supernatural nature. |
| 286 | * ImplacableMan: The Horseman and Ichabod as they are skilled fighters. |
| 287 | * ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: |
| 288 | ** There are times when this comes into effect, when Ichabod gets to try foods and drinks that did not exist in his time period. He was so surprised by donut holes that he instantly set aside his bad mood and started devouring them, and his reactions to cappuccino and matzo ball soup were that of pure bliss. |
| 289 | ** In the first issue of the comic book, he is absolutely fascinated by the concept of an ice cream cake. |
| 290 | * IndestructibilityMontage: When faced with the ultimatum of returning the Headless Horseman's Head, Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane try their hardest to destroy it. Nothing from shooting, hitting it repeatedly with a sledgehammer, and even explosives makes a single dent. |
| 291 | * InnocentBigot: Ichabod ''is'' from the 1700s, after all. The first episode establishes that he was rather progressive for his time, though, having been supportive of the emancipation of slaves. |
| 292 | * InsistentTerminology: |
| 293 | ** Crane is very particular about pronouncing Lt. Mills' rank as "leftenant" (which is indeed how an Englishman would pronounce it). |
| 294 | ** This ends up coming in handy when [[spoiler:Abby is trapped in Purgatory. A false Ichabod tries to get her to come with him, but Abby beheads him when he uses the American pronunciation.]] |
| 295 | ** The comic book even has it spelled out as "leftenant". |
| 296 | * TheInternetIsForPorn: Ichabod, while struggling with a laptop and what he dubs "the innenet" while trying to look up the Freemason manuscript, eventually stumbles across an adult webcam site. This actually flusters him greatly, and he quickly closes the laptop. |
| 297 | * JackTheRipOff: In “Blood and Fear”, Nelson becomes a Jack the Ripper like murderer after touching the Byzantine parang that is responsible for the Ripper killings. |
| 298 | * {{Jerkass}}: Morales. He apparently fancies himself an alpha male and a prankster, who's taken shots at both Crane and Irving. |
| 299 | * JumpScare: Two in the pilot alone: [[spoiler:The eyes on the Horseman's head opening suddenly, and the cracking of the mirror at the end after the Demon disappears back into the mirror.]] |
| 300 | * KarmicDeath: One of the Hessians who tries to open a HellGate in Episode 4 ends up thrown into it. |
| 301 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Abbie and Jenny both blacked out the day they saw Moloch in the woods and don't remember anything else until being found days later. The season 1 finale reveals this is because [[spoiler:Moloch sealed their memories of him raising Jeremy Crane from his grave to become the Horseman of War.]] |
| 302 | * LegacyCharacter: The Horsemen, as it turns out. [[spoiler:Henry]] is unpleasantly surprised when Moloch tells him that he's only the latest Horseman of War of many, and that he's therefore a lot more expendable than he thought. |
| 303 | * LeyLine: The entrance to purgatory is found at a location where several ley lines meet. |
| 304 | * LimitedWardrobe: It has been days, at a minimum, since Ichabod woke in the 21st Century, yet he still wears the outfit he was buried in every day since; and no one seems to have thought to take him shopping for anything new or different. |
| 305 | ** In ''The Vessel'' Ichabod gets new clothes he deems skinny jeans a sign of the apocalypse and quickly switches to his old outfit. Abbie suggests dry cleaning. |
| 306 | ** Eventually he does buy new clothes... in the form of a costume from Revolutionary War reenactors. |
| 307 | * LineOfSightName: [[spoiler:The Sin Eater's primary alias, "Henry Parrish", named after St. Henry's Parish.]] |
| 308 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: When Abbie confronts the Sandman, [[spoiler:he turns to glass and she shatters him.]] |
| 309 | * LosingYourHead: The Horseman, of course. |
| 310 | * LotusEaterMachine: Purgatory uses these to try and get visitors to trap themselves forever. |
| 311 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: Ichabod unknowingly fathered a child with Katrina before being frozen. The season 1 finale adds the revelation that [[spoiler:he's the Sin-Eater, who was also working for Moloch the entire time]]. |
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| 314 | [[folder:M-R]] |
| 315 | * MacGuffin: The Horseman's skull and Washington's Bible. |
| 316 | * MadeOfIndestructium: The montage of attempts to destroy the Horseman's head in "Midnight Ride," to the point where it reminds of [[Literature/HarryPotter trying to destroy the Horcruxes]]. Ichabod and Abbie try and hilariously fail at destroying the skull by sledgehammering (the hammer breaks instead), acid bathing, dry ice, and even bombing! |
| 317 | --> '''Ichabod:''' The myriad of destructive devices at your disposal is mind-boggling. |
| 318 | * MagicalNativeAmerican: One who sells used cars and motorcycles, but is still able to assist with a dream demon. Played with and discussed in that the character is genre-savvy enough to hate the demon ''and'' the trope. |
| 319 | * MeaningfulName: Captain Irving, presumably named after Washington Irving. |
| 320 | * MissingMom: ...and their mother had a nervous breakdown not long after, landing Abbie and Jenny as orphans in foster care. |
| 321 | * MisplacedWildlife: The Harris Hawk seen in the pilot is native to the southwest and would probably not be seen in the Hudson Valley ''(even in spirit visions)'' |
| 322 | * MistakenForRacist: Abbie isn't impressed when Ichabod assumes she's been emancipated. |
| 323 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Moloch probably shouldn't have told [[PsychopathicManChild Henry]] that he considers him disposable right before sending him to retrieve the one weapon that can kill him.]] |
| 324 | * TheMole: [[spoiler:Andy Brooks]] was working for the Horseman, and is, presumably, part of the evil coven. |
| 325 | * MoodWhiplash: Ichabod has had a hard holiday season. Near Halloween (toy skulls), he finds out a friend he thought was dead [[spoiler:actually got recruited to be the Horseman of Death, and is dead set on killing Ichabod and stealing his wife.]] Just before (quite literally, it was the day before/the day of) Thanksgiving [[spoiler:he learns he has a son,]] that may or may not have survived. Just before Christmas, Ichabod learns [[spoiler:his son was killed because he had no one to teach him how to use his powers.]] This takes the tone of the last couple of episodes before the winter hiatus into a more serious tone which leads to quite a few moments of MoodWhiplash, because neither Ichabod nor Abbie have lost the power to [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snark]]. One of the most severe moments? Ichabod has a serious conversation with Henry about death, promptly receives a Christmas stocking which delights him because he has ''[[FishOutOfTemporalWater no idea ]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments what it is]]'' and then [[spoiler:gets dragged into Purgatory by Moloch who tells him he's going to hand over the second Witness to him, for all intents and purposes his only true friend, Abbie.]] If he survives till next year, October-December is just going to suck, memory wise. |
| 326 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: Has episodes of this interspersed throughout the main story arcs. |
| 327 | * MouthOfSauron: [[spoiler:Brooks]] acts as a medium for the Horseman to speak through. |
| 328 | * MyCarHatesMe: One of the magistrate's descendants is in his car. It stubbornly refuses to start as Sarilda approaches. |
| 329 | * MyGreatestFailure: |
| 330 | ** Abbie [[spoiler:pretended she saw nothing and let her sister Jenny get taken away and committed for insiting they saw a demon in the woods]]. It nigh-permanently damaged their relationship, to the point where they stopped speaking altogether after ending up on opposite sides of the law. It also nearly gets Abbie killed by a supernatural boogum that torments people with guilt issues. Abbie later tries to start making up for it to her sister. |
| 331 | ** Ichabod defected from the British after failing to save Arthur Bernard, the man who showed him the truth about the SecretWar, and he's carried that guilt ever since; in fact, that's what the Horseman's been using to keep the two of them linked. [[spoiler:Henry Parrish channels Bernard's spirit to help Ichabod let go of his guilt, severing the link.]] |
| 332 | * MysticalPregnancy: Katrina gets magically impregnated by Henry (her son) using a mystical poison. Before Ichabod, Katrina's husband, makes the connection between the poison Henry recently stole and Katrina's condition, he suspects she cheated on him with the Headless Horseman. |
| 333 | * AMythologyIsTrue: The overall plot of the series is based on a very intense reading of the Christian Book of Revelation, which for some reason is all happening in one town in the USA. A few other myths get a look in from time to time, though. |
| 334 | * NeckSnap: How Moloch the demon dispatches [[spoiler:Brooks]], to such an extent as to be a narrow subversion of OffWithHisHead. Which makes his resurrection the next episode even more disturbing, as Moloch doesn't fix his neck until ''after'' he's alive again. |
| 335 | * NewspaperDating: Abbie finds out that she had traveled back to Ichabod’s time by looking at a notice board. |
| 336 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: |
| 337 | ** Moloch's demonic minions shatter into dust when killed. |
| 338 | ** When a witch/warlock dies, they disintegrate into dust as seen with [[spoiler: Solomon and Katrina]] unless their body is preserved as seen with the Reverend Knapp. It also applies to half witches and warlocks such as [[spoiler: Henry Parrish.]] |
| 339 | * NoMouth: The Sandman had a veil of flesh in place of a mouth. |
| 340 | * OffWithHisHead: Crane himself relieves the Horseman of his head in this interpretation. The Horseman inflicts in on many other victims throughout. |
| 341 | * OhCrap: The two cops in the pilot get this when they see that the guy they got their guns pointed at turns out to have no head. |
| 342 | * OpeningNarration: Starting in episode two, Ichabod narrates his take on what situation he's landed in. |
| 343 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: |
| 344 | ** [[spoiler:Abbie's mentor, Sheriff Corbin, the man who'd been secretly keeping files on the weirdness in Sleepy Hollow is back as a ghost she can converse with]]. |
| 345 | ** The Weeping Lady/Mary Wells appears in black with a veil covering her face. The veil is made from the same material as the shaw she had wore in life. She able to phase through solid objects like a traditional ghost but after she does, it becomes soaking wet. She also has the ability to create a portal to the Blind Brook River to drown her victims. |
| 346 | * OurWitchesAreDifferent: Witches' powers are genetic in this show, as seen by [[spoiler:Katrina and Ichabod's son Jeremy inheriting his mother's abilities]]. |
| 347 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: Draguar are un-dead warriors that swear to fulfil their duty beyond death. They spend their days in below ground and are unstoppable. They can be summoned by using a special stone and can be destroyed using GreekFire. |
| 348 | * ParentalAbandonment: |
| 349 | ** Abbie and Jenny’s father left them and their mother committed suicide when they were little. |
| 350 | ** Before Jeremy was born, his father “died” in battle. Later, his mother had to abandon him as a baby so he didn’t have to live his life as a fugitive because she was on the run from her coven. [[spoiler: Henry uses this trope as his FreudianExcuse once it’s revealed that he is Jeremy.]] |
| 351 | * PhilosophersStone: The Philosopher's Stone features in Season 4, being a large stone tablet that Washington had [[DismantledMacGuffin broken into four pieces]], which were then all separately hidden, to keep anyone from using it to sacrifice the life-force of others to make the Elixir of Life. [[spoiler:Also, when the Horseman is near it, he loses his NighInvulnerable status; that's how Crane was able to decapitate him in the first place.]] |
| 352 | * PhotographicMemory: Ichabod has it and uses the more formal "eidetic". |
| 353 | * ThePlague: The disease carried by the people of Roanoke in "John Doe", created by the Horseman of Pestilence/Conquest. |
| 354 | * PoliticallyCorrectHistory: |
| 355 | ** The show stars a Revolutionary War-era British soldier who had a change of heart and joined the American side, and fully supported an end to slavery, as if having [[InnocentBigot an anti-American racist]] for a main character was deemed too challenging for their audience. |
| 356 | ** While there were people opposed to slavery back then, Icabod's remarkably progressive attitudes do seem a little convenient. |
| 357 | ** He also doesn't bat an eye at homosexuality. He mentions that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben von Steuben]] was homosexual, which is accurate, but that doesn't mean most people would be completely unfazed by it (the general view being same-sex relations were a sin and crime, with the law reflecting this-it was punishable by death then). |
| 358 | ** Perhaps in an attempt to counterbalance this, [[InnocentlyInsensitive he makes a remark about women wearing pants]]. |
| 359 | ** He is also entirely unfazed by Abbie as the sheriff, an unheard of thing for any woman then (even white ones), assuming she's a former slave (free black people weren't unknown though) and holds no racist views (although even abolitionists usually viewed other races as being inferior, just not to the point that they supported slavery). |
| 360 | * PossessionLevitation: In "[[Recap/SleepyHollowS1E11TheVessel The Vessel]]" at the climax, after playing subtle throughout the episode, when [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Ancitif]] reveals himself as having possessed Captain Irving's daughter Macy, he causes her to levitate into the air whilst speaking in an unholy voice and then kills the kindly priest who tries to save her. |
| 361 | * PostHistoricalTrauma: Ichabod lived up to the ideals he believed the American Revolution to be about. He's quite upset when he learns that many of his former comrades ''didn't'', such as when he learns they massacred their former Native American allies, and to a more comedic degree his above-mentioned BrokenPedestal for Thomas Jefferson. |
| 362 | * PostModernMagic: Knowing that the sun weakens the Horseman [[spoiler:they use UV lights to trap him and keep him contained.]] |
| 363 | * PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Played with; [[spoiler:Moloch's prophecy that he will gain Abbie's soul does come true]], but it's because [[spoiler:Abbie volunteers to stay behind in Purgatory so that Katrina can leave. Ichabod didn't sell her out.]] |
| 364 | * ProphetEyes: |
| 365 | ** The Horseman had these when he had a head. [[spoiler:The head itself still has them]]. |
| 366 | ** The victims of the Sandman develop this, possibly as a consequence of having their eyes filled with sand. |
| 367 | ** When a witch or warlock performs their magic, they can develop this. Especially if it’s BlackMagic as seen with Solomon and later on [[spoiler: Katrina.]] |
| 368 | ** When the descendants of witches are awaken, they develop these eyes as the bell rings. |
| 369 | * PsychopathicManChild: War really comes across as this -- despite being a grown demonic warlock, he's just a scared and angry child who latches onto Moloch as a ParentalSubstitute, and is greatly upset whenever he's lectured for failure. [[spoiler:And when he realizes that Moloch doesn't care for him, he snaps and kills him.]] |
| 370 | * PurgatoryAndLimbo: Purgatory, or the World Between Worlds, is a DarkWorld in which the spirits of the dead and undead are imprisoned, "trapped in the middle" as they wait to go to either heaven or hell. |
| 371 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: In episode 4, DaChief gives Abbie and Ichabod twelve hours to find the escaped Jenny before he opens up a dragnet for her. |
| 372 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: |
| 373 | ** Some critics said that a black female police officer in Sleepy Hollow was PoliticalOvercorrectness. It turns out that the real-life Sleepy Hollow actually does have a [[http://www.themarysue.com/sleepy-hollow-female-police-officer/ black female police officer]] (and that's in a much smaller town--the real Sleepy Hollow has less than a tenth the population of the town on the show). |
| 374 | ** In episode 7 another black actress has a walk-on part as a police officer. You can't help but feel that it's a deliberate TakeThat to the above complaint. |
| 375 | ** Possibly why the Headless Horseman is introduced in a Redcoat uniform despite supposedly passing himself off as a Hessian mercenary, whose standard uniform in real life would have been blue. Episode 4 shows an actual Hessian in a flashback also in a red uniform (the production reason for it is that Len Wiseman invoked color theory, noting blue is a calming color and kind of at-odds with what they want the Horseman to represent). |
| 376 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: |
| 377 | ** The town reverend, who is the same one who was part of Katrina's coven (presumably, being a witch is why he hasn't aged). WordOfGod confirms he's the same one in both times, and not an IdenticalGrandson. |
| 378 | ** The Four Who Speak As One, also members of Katrina's coven, but who banished her to purgatory [[spoiler:and killed hers and Ichabod's son]], feature in "The Golem". They were hiding out at a moving carnival, posing as mind-readers. |
| 379 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: The Horseman's white horse. |
| 380 | * RedHerring: In the episode "Kali Yuga", Hawley runs into a woman he's been ducking for 10 years named Carmilla. She quickly shows herself to be a supernatural creature with a mouth of sharpened teeth, long, pointed black fingernails, and has superspeed verging on flight. Her name itself if a red herring - "Carmilla" was one of the earliest vampire novels written, coming before "Dracula" by 26 years. You're led to assume she's a vampire - she's not. She's a vetala, a creature of the death goddess Kala. |
| 381 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Irving objects to reports of an unkillable headless horseman corroborated only by a man who claims to be from the Revolutionary War but he's aware something is going on and supports the others as much as he can. [[spoiler:Once he has proof he's 100% on board]]. |
| 382 | * RecklessGunUsage: Episode 11 of Season 1 gives us a fairly unusual example. Given the situation, you can't entirely blame Frank for pulling a gun on a cop who was, momentarily, possessed... but, given that no one else knew he was possessed, it's kind of astounding that Frank keeps his job... |
| 383 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Brooks]] has a bit of fun playing with (subverting? inverting?) this one when he confronts Morales in "The Midnight Ride". |
| 384 | -->[[spoiler:'''Brooks''']]: Reports of my demise were... pretty much true. |
| 385 | * {{Retool}}: During season 2 the pretty serialized main StoryArc left the way for a more broadcast network typical MonsterOfTheWeek approach, which Creator/{{Fox}} signaled in press tours was [[ExecutiveMeddling something they suggested to the show's writers]], and was here to stay. Come season 3, the show acquired a new showrunner. In Season 4, the show leaves Sleepy Hollow altogether, with the action shifting to DC. |
| 386 | * TheReveal: In the season 1 finale it's revealed that [[spoiler:Henry Parrish is actually Ichabod and Katrina's son Jeremy who is also the Horseman of War.]] |
| 387 | * RidiculousFutureInflation: Inverted; Ichabod is shocked to hear that there are billionaires, as a billion dollars represents the entire gross income of North America in his lifetime. |
| 388 | * RipVanTinkle: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Abbie asks if Ichabod ever had to get up to pee during his ~250 year sleep. [[SubvertedTrope Apparently he did not, however]]. |
| 389 | * RitualMagic: What witches use, for the most part. Some of the evil coven's stuff falls under BloodMagic. |
| 390 | * RoleSwapPlot: The final act of “Awakening” and the premise of “Tempus Fugit“ is built around this trope. The episodes mirrors the Pilot as [[spoiler: Abbie faces the same experiences Ichabod faced when he awoke in the 21st century, during her trip to 1781.]] |
| 391 | * RuleOfCool: The Headless Horseman gets several guns from [[spoiler:Brooks]] near the end of the pilot, and then proceeds to run around town with a shotgun and a military assault rifle. It's even more awesome than it sounds. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:S-Y]] |
| 395 | * SealedEvilInACan: |
| 396 | ** The Horseman has been locked in a chained up coffin at the bottom of a river for the last 250 years, but now has been unleashed again by Moloch. |
| 397 | ** Moloch himself is trapped in Purgatory, and several efforts are made by his minions to release him. [[spoiler:They succeed halfway through the second season.]] |
| 398 | * SealedGoodInACan: |
| 399 | ** Basically what happened to Ichabod -- his blood mixed with the Horseman's when he cut off his head, linking them, so Katrina had to put Ichabod in a sort of stasis to keep the Horseman sealed in its own can. However, its awakening caused Ichabod to awaken as well. |
| 400 | ** Katrina herself is trapped in Purgatory by Moloch. |
| 401 | ** [[spoiler:And Season 1 ends with Abbie trapped inside a life-sized dollhouse in Purgatory, and Ichabod buried alive in a pine box. They both get out in the second season premiere.]] |
| 402 | * SherlockScan: Ichabod pulls one on his captor. He works out that he is a Freemason like himself and he is in a Freemasonry cell. |
| 403 | * ShootTheDog: The reason Katrina hid Ichabod's sleeping self was because the Freemasons were convinced that killing him was the only way to stop the Horseman (due to them being linked), and come after him in the present to finish the job. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Henry Parrish convinces Ichabod that they can find another way to stop the Horseman and helps him break the link.]] |
| 404 | * ShoutOut: |
| 405 | ** The pilot: Ichabod is referred to as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, to [[CelebrityParadox avoid invoking]] Washington Irving's [[RipVanWinkle other famous story]]. |
| 406 | ** Episode 2: Our first viewing of Jenny Mills, Abbie's sister, she's [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay in a mental institution, working out]] to prepare to fight her enemy. |
| 407 | ** Episode 3: The shaman offers Ichabod and Abbie a [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Tricked Out DeLorean]]. |
| 408 | *** He also, when asked to perform shamanistic services for them, asks if they're seriously asking him to [[Radio/TheLoneRanger "go all kemosabe"]]. |
| 409 | ** Episode 7: The Horseman pretty much spends the episode evoking the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', complete with the spinning shotgun reload. |
| 410 | ** Season 2, episode 2: The spell for raising [[spoiler:The Kindred]] starts [[Creator/HPLovecraft That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.]] |
| 411 | ** In “Kali Yuga” Ichabod and Katrina have a discussion about Film/MaryPoppins’ powers. Katrina says that a modern witch who specialises in housework hardly sounds progressive. |
| 412 | ** In "Awakening" some of the town's businesses seem to be run by crew members - there's a photographer called "A. Nocifora" (after co-producer April Nocifora) and Aarniokoski Funeral Home (as in supervising producer/director Doug Aarniokoski). |
| 413 | * SickEpisode: |
| 414 | ** In “John Doe”, Thomas travels forward in time brought with him an ancient plague — which quickly infected Ichabod, who spent much of the episode in a quarantine bed or staggering weakly after Abbie in an effort to save the day. |
| 415 | ** Happens to Ichabod again in “Mama” leaving Abbie and Jenny to solve the mysterious deaths at Tarrytown Psychiatric. |
| 416 | * SimpleSolutionWontWork: When Abby and Ichabod manage to get their hands on the horseman's skull the try to kill him and stop the end of days by destroying it, only for it to turn out magic powering the horseman make it seemingly indestructible, with nothing they do, including acid, explosives, and sledgehammers, not making a dent. |
| 417 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedHead: Ichabod's wife Katrina Crane. |
| 418 | * SinisterMinister: Solomon Kent in the second season episode "Spellcaster" has it all: je is charismatic, educated (judging by the way he speaks), brought to evil be unrequited love/lust, ruthless enough to accept the death of a (potentially unlimited) number of innocent victims, and easily whips his flock into a literal witch hunt. (Also, [[https://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/solomon-kent-sleepy-hollow.jpg he looks like]] the page image of the trope come to life, especially [[http://www.stockingblue.com/wp-content/uploads/sh215ll.jpg when he switches on the evil smile]].) Comes with a side-order of SexyPriest. |
| 419 | * TheSnarkKnight: Ichabod, and how! He makes [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Sherlock]] [[Series/{{Elementary}} Holmes]] look bad. |
| 420 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: To prove each other's identities while they're in Purgatory, Abbie asks Ichabod what she taught him after they'd captured the Headless Horseman. He responds [[spoiler:with a fist-bump]]. |
| 421 | * SoundtrackDissonance: "Sympathy for the Devil" in the pilot, shortly after very frightening scenes. Continues into the second episode with similar tracks. |
| 422 | * SpotTheImposter: Abbie has to do this in "This Is War". [[spoiler:When Ichabod enters Purgatory to free her, she's also confronted by a demonic imposter. Fortunately, it gives itself away by pronouncing her rank the American way ("loo-tenant"), rather than Crane's normal British way ("left-tenant").]] |
| 423 | * SpottingTheThread: When Ichabod enters Purgatory, his father [[spoiler: tells him that the British had won the Battle of Yorktown. He replies that in reality, the British had lost the battle. It turned out that reality presented to him is false.]] |
| 424 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Hawley. Once he was introduced, he was in almost every episode, took the street connection spot from Jenny, and ended up in a love triangle between Abbie and Jenny, to the detriment of anyone not named Abbie or Ichabod. However he grows out of this as the series goes along, and even [[PutOnABus leaves]] (temporarily) before the season ends. |
| 425 | * StartOfDarkness: We learn [[spoiler:The Horseman's]] in "Necromancer". [[spoiler:He's actually Ichabod's old best friend Abraham. He was left heartbroken by Katrina rejecting him after their relationship seemed so strong and lost his temper during a mission when Ichabod admitted that Katrina had rejected Abraham for him. Him losing it resulted in him being shot and captured by Moloch's Hessians, at which point he made a DealWithTheDevil and became the Horseman out of anger, jealously, heartache, and a desire for vengeance.]] |
| 426 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: A Succubus shows up in Season 2, conjured by War to drain people of their life force [[spoiler:to feed the infant that Moloch has incarnated as.]] |
| 427 | * TaintedVeins: in "John Doe" when a mysterious plague infects Sleepy Hollow. |
| 428 | * TakeThat: Ichabod complains about the low voter turnout rate for midterm elections, and that more people vote for "[[Series/AmericanIdol American Idolatry]]" (not a terminology mistake, an intentional phrasing). |
| 429 | * TakingYouWithMe: This was Ichabod's last thought before he died, beheading the Horseman in the moment before he succumbed to his own wounds. |
| 430 | * TangledFamilyTree: A minor one, as revealed close to the End of Season 1 and Opening of Season 2. |
| 431 | ** [[spoiler:The Death Horseman is a former friend of Ichabod and betrothed of Katrina]]. |
| 432 | ** [[spoiler:The War Horseman is the son of Ichabod and Katrina]]. |
| 433 | * ThrowawayGuns: In episode 2, Ichabod tosses his gun after firing one shot, being unaware that modern guns hold more than that. |
| 434 | * TimeStandsStill: The town of Roanoke in "John Doe". Time has not moved forward for them in four centuries. |
| 435 | * TimeTravelersAreSpies: During Abbie’s trip to 1781, Ichabod assumes she is a British spy as she knew of the Hessian counterattack that his regiment faced and provided a description of what their leader, the horseman of death, looks like. |
| 436 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: The ''Lesser Key of Solomon'', which can open a [[HellGate portal to Hell]] to unleash the 72 demons sealed by King Solomon. |
| 437 | * TooDumbToLive: This is what it looks like for the two hunters who come across the Horseman's steed in the woods, and go right up to it. [[spoiler:It's subverted when one of the hunters reveals himself as a Hessian and coldly murders the other man.]] |
| 438 | * TotalEclipseOfThePlot: In the season 1 finale, one of these coincides with the rising of the Horseman of War. [[spoiler:Or rather, the ''anniversary'' of his rising, which also happened under an eclipse.]] |
| 439 | * TrappedWithTheTherapySession: Averted. When Jenny escapes from her psych ward, Abbie and Ichabod search for her, finding her hiding out in a cabin... where the sisters immediately pull guns on each other. Ichabod lampshades the awkwardness but is ignored, and allows the ensuing SnarkToSnarkCombat to continue for a minute before wading in and demanding that they [[QuitYourWhining behave like grownups]]. |
| 440 | * VanishingVillage: Played with; UsefulNotes/TheLostColonyOfRoanoke. |
| 441 | * WaitHere: Abbie does this to Ichabod in the pilot. He doesn't. |
| 442 | -->'''Ichabod''': As you stated, I am insane and therefore am impervious to simple commands. |
| 443 | * WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:The Headless Horseman was originally Ichabod's friend, Abraham.]] |
| 444 | * WeAreEverywhere: One of the Hessians says this word for word when telling Abbie, Jenny and Ichabod that they can't be stopped. He claims even he doesn't know how many of them there are. |
| 445 | * WeakenedByTheLight: The Horseman is burned by sunlight. Hence why he only appears at night. |
| 446 | * {{Wendigo}}: Corbin's son is turned into one via curse in a season two episode. |
| 447 | * WeirdHistoricalWar: The entire revolutionary war, due to Washington et al also being engaged in a shadow war against Moloch as well as combating various other supernatural threats at the time. |
| 448 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: The Horseman is Ichabod's former best friend Abraham. Ichabod was friends with Benedict Arnold, and deeply regrets his betrayal. |
| 449 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 450 | ** The first season finale. [[spoiler:Captain Irving confesses to killing a police officer and a priest to protect his daughter that had done so while under DemonicPossession. Abigail is trapped in Purgatory. Jenny was in a car crash and it's unclear if she died or not. Henry Parish, the Sin Eater, is really Ichabod and Katrina's son. He is also the Horseman of War. Katrina is now in Abraham's hands. Finally, Ichabod is sentenced to the same fate his son was. BuriedAlive in a pine box.]] |
| 451 | ** "The Akeda", the midseason finale of Season 2. [[spoiler:The group captures and imprisons Death, Irving dies destroying War's AnimatedArmor, and as the freed Moloch is about to unleash Hell on Earth, his casual lack of care for Henry causes the latter to snap and kill him with the Sword of Methuselah.]] |
| 452 | ** The first episode of the season 2 finale, "Awakening", has [[spoiler:Katrina pulling a FaceHeelTurn use a spell to send herself back in time to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight, specifically by killing Ichabod so she could raise Jeremy normally. Oh, and Abby went with her.]] |
| 453 | *** The second episode, "Tempus Fugit" has a bunch that are kind of disqualified [[spoiler:by virtue of the time-travel ResetButton...but not Ichabod killing Katrina in the modern day.]] |
| 454 | * WhatTheHellHero: Ichabod calls Katrina out in "The Weeping Lady" for always keeping secrets from him, such as being a spy for Washington, being a witch and, relevant to the episode, [[spoiler:covering up the accidental death of a childhood friend Ichabod was supposed to return with to England to marry.]] |
| 455 | * WhereItAllBegan: Invoked in "Homecoming" by Dreyfuss, who brings Ichabod and the Horseman to the same battlefield outside Sleepy Hollow where they originally killed each other [[spoiler:in order to power a ceremony involving the Philosopher's Stone]]. |
| 456 | * WizardsLiveLonger: The priest from the first episode, a member of Katrina's coven, has been alive for centuries. |
| 457 | * WouldHurtAChild: Serilda. Luckily for the child in question, he was adopted and thus of no use to her. |
| 458 | * WunzaPlot: He's a time-tossed professor/Revolutionary spy. She's a supernaturally-touched badass police officer. They fight the Apocalypse! |
| 459 | * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The receptionist of the cafe Colonial Times speaks like this. Ichabod calls him out for speaking like this as it is historically inaccurate. |
| 460 | * YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Ichabod tends to refer to Abbie as "Miss Mills" except in times of danger and trouble. He then defaults to referring her by the expedient "Lieutenant". When the danger is over, he reverts back to the less formal manner of addressing her. And when situations are really serious, he actually calls her "Abbie". |
| 461 | * YouHaveFailedMe: |
| 462 | ** The demon Moloch's stated reason for killing [[spoiler:Brooks]] at the end of the pilot. Considering that he was about to tell Abbie and Ichabod everything as part of a plea bargain, however, there's also an element of HeKnowsTooMuch in there too. |
| 463 | ** He revives him in the second episode for another errand though. |
| 464 | * YouHaveToBelieveMe: |
| 465 | ** Abbie prefaces telling Irving about information she got from [[spoiler:a vision of Katrina Crane telling her she needs to get a sin eater to sanctify Ichabod because the Headless Horseman is going to come back]] by acknowledging that it's grounds to have her committed...but if they do nothing, people are going to die. He doesn't exactly believe her, but he agrees to help. |
| 466 | ** Abbie gets to do it again in the season 2 finale, [[spoiler:having gone back to 1781 to stop a grief-maddened Katrina, when explaining herself to Ichabod, though she does have the advantage of secret information and a few pieces of modern technology.]] |
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