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Haven is an American supernatural drama television series loosely based on the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid. The one-hour drama premiered on July 9, 2010, on Syfy. The series will be the first property to be produced for Syfy Pay channels around the globe, excluding Canada and Scandinavia.Shrewd and confident FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) has a lost past when she arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine on a routine case. Before long, her natural curiosity leads her to the center of activity in this curious enclave, which turns out to be a longtime refuge for people who are affected by a range of supernatural afflictions.
This series features examples of:
Acting for Two: Cristián de la Fuente in "Friend or Faux".
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted in the "Trial of Audrey Parker" regarding Julia and Duke.
Anti-Magic: Audrey seems to have a minor version of this. Troubled abilities can't affect her.
Duke has a variation. By killing one Troubled person, anyone else afflicted by that ability (i.e., direct blood relations) is cured of it permanently.
Anyone Can Die: In "As You Were", a group of main and secondary characters go to an isolated resort, and we are introduced to a new character. Rather than the newcomer dying, Eleanor (who had been in six of the nine episodes) died instead.
Of course, the new character takes her place.
The show is rife with this trope, notably with the deaths of Chief Wuornos, Duke's wife Evi, and Rev. Driscoll.
Artistic License: Nathan can't feel pain (or much of anything) which apparently in one episode means he can take a bullet to the shoulder and not worry much about things like blood loss or destroying his shoulder by using the arm. Then again, given the nature of the town and the fact that we almost never see his injuries directly, he may actually be invulnerable.
Audrey has been shown to worry about the fact that he tends to ignore damage because it doesn't hurt, when pain is the body's way of saying "We've got a problem here!" And in "Audrey's Day Off," he dies from an injury he is initially unaware of.
Back from the Dead: The Troubled in the season 2 finale has the ability to bring people back as ghosts, so long as he personally buried them.
Because Destiny Says So: This is basically the explanation for Audrey, Nathan, and Duke's roles in Haven.
Special mention has to go to the mayor's son. Everyone likes him at eye contact. He is infinitely annoyed by this because they refuse to listen to him, instead just focusing on trying to be as friendly with him as possible.
The fact that Chris Brody is a cynical loner just makes this even more of a sucky blessing from his perspective.
One of the suckiest afflictions so far would have to be Dwight's, which allows him to attract bullets toward himself. He's not even resistant to them, either, so he wears a vest all the time. He can't even use a regular gun; when he goes hunting, he uses a bow.
Dwight was an Army Ranger serving in Afghanistan when the ability first manifested itself which in his case was suckiness turned Up to Eleven.
Book Ends: First season, Special Agent Audrey Parker arrives at Haven. Quite amusingly, the same dialogue plays out, from different characters, and they quite clearly recognize this and how weird it is even before the new Special Agent gives her name.
Can Not Spit It Out: The entire freaking town has this problem. So many of the episodes' problems could be resolved if these people would just give Audrey and Nathan something to go on. But nooooooo... Everyone has to be tight-lipped until the worst possible moment, and will even risk the lives of the people they treat as friends rather than just fucking say something. To be fair, at least some of them do want to help, but they keep getting argued down by the people who don't.
Which is somewhat justified being set in a small town with, among other things, a very influential reverend and beset with all sorts of secrets, competing factions, and being a (loosely) Stephen King-inspired series.
Also, as Dwight puts it, many Troubled are too ashamed to admit that they have a problem. In Dwight's case, his father would rather let him go to Afghanistan than tell him about his ability to attract bullets and therefore admit he's Troubled.
Christmas Episode: "Silent Night", though the episode in set in July.
Clean Up Crew: Dwight's job is "clean things up," meaning to get rid of the evidence of the Troubles so the general populace doesn't find out. To a certain extent, when Nathan was Chief, this applied as well. And in general, the cover up is less so that Haven doesn't find out (pretty much everyone seems to know about the Troubles) and more so that people outside of Haven don't know.
Cliff Hanger: The first season finale: "I'm Special Agent Audrey Parker. Who the hell are you?". And the episode ends with that, leaving us to wait until summer.
And the second season finale, where Audrey is kidnapped, and either Nathan or Duke may or may not have killed the other.
Cool Loser: Audrey. This is changing quickly since her arrival in Haven though.
Differently Powered Individual: They're called "Troubled". In addition, it's suggested that for the most part, their powers don't actively manifest (or at least, don't get cranked up to eleven) unless it's a 'troubled time' (or The Troubles as called in-universe). During not-The Troubles, most of them live pretty normal lives (more or less) and usually don't have any of their 'powers'. The term 'affliction' has come up as a way of referring to their powers.
Drowning My Sorrows: Nathan's reaction to being temporarily fired as Chief of Police.
Reverend Driscoll in "Butterfly".
Drunk on the Dark Side: The pyrokinetic kid with low self-esteem is, to say the least, very pleased when he learns he can blow things up with his mind.
Enemy Without: The Dark Man in "Ain't No Sunshine" is disembodied rage.
Enfant Terrible: Although it's not the babies' fault, in "Ball and Chain", they age their fathers and kill them. Thus, Duke will never get to meet Jean, his daughter.
Evil Twin: Subverted in "Friend or Faux", where it turns out the original Cornell Stamoran is no more innocent than his homicidal duplicate.
Grand Theft Me: The troubled person du jour in "As You Were" is a mix of both types, taking over people's bodies out of necessity, but also taking their personality and memories. The Body Snatcher successfully lived as someone else for over 27 years. During the previous outbreak of the Troubles in the eighties, another "chameleon" killed and took the bodies of six people until he or she was killed by Garland Wuornos.
Gretzky Has the Ball: The Red Sox and Yankees finished a game in which the Red Sox overcome a 10 run deficit before noon. Even the Patriots' Day game in April starts at 10-11 a.m. Not technically impossible, but highly improbable, since non-high-scoring games between the two teams run 3-4 hours. The point is that plot-wise, Audrey uses her foreknowledge of it to prevent people from dying and stop the Groundhog Day Loop, which alphabetically, is very close to this trope.
Groundhog Day Loop: In "Audrey Parker's Day Off", Audrey has to relive the same day over and over. Significantly, her injuries transfer between loops so by day 5 she is injured and extremely tired.
Nathan: You're stuck in my second favorite Bill Murray movie.
Fortunately, being Haven Nathan believes her when she says she's reliving the same day.
Nathan: You're stuck in-
Audrey: Your second favorite Bill Murrary movie, you told me.
Heroic Sacrifice: With his ability to nullify a curse by killing a Troubled afflicted by it, Duke and his ancestors are approached by Troubled willing to sacrifice themselves so that their descendants will not inherent their curse. It also explains why in the modern era, Troubled families are far less numerous yet everyone seems to know about them. And the source of many folk tales as Troubled were more numerous in the past.
Identity Amnesia: Audrey's memories are fake and they actually belong to the real FBI agent Audrey Parker.
I Did What I Had to Do: Audrey says this of killing the Reverend when she could have just wounded him. Considering he was about to murder a young girl in cold blood when she had not moments ago chosen to spare him (though admittedly had killed another man, a serial killer, before), he had it coming.
I Love You Because I Can't Control You: The reason Chris Brody is attracted to Audrey. She's the only person in town who doesn't immediately like him at first sight. In fact she thinks he's kind of a jerk... and he kinda likes that.
Inadequate Inheritor: Chief Wournos is trying various ways to prepare Nathan to take over for him and to ready him for dealing with the "Troubles" on his own... with questionable success.
Inspired By: Stephen King's "The Colorado Kid". Both pieces contain a mysterious murder of a person only identified as The Colorado Kid... and other than one or two details, that's pretty much it.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Duke is a chronic liar, manipulator, and a criminal, but he has also repeatedly put his ass on the line to help others and is appalled at the idea of murdering Troubled people.
Kill and Replace: A Chameleon, antagonist of "As You Were" has this a modus operandi. It gets close to the victim, acquires everything about them, and kills them in the process of turning into them. It doesn't like doing this, and even sought out Audrey for help (notably she was only knocked out instead of dying). The only reason wasn't caught the last time The Troubles were around was because it replaced someone who had just died. And the person's wife didn't want to lose him.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: The entire town has this to varying extents. None of them seem to remember most of the time when Lucy was around.
It's hinted this may be related to the Colorado Kid. Duke mentions that when they found him, no one remembered anything afterwards.
However, it is now fairly obvious that several of the townspeople, such as Chief Wournos, Vince, and Dave knew everything but purposely withheld the information from Audrey.
Little No: Duke's response to his father and the Reverend's attempts to get him to fight for them against the Troubled and Audrey in particular.
Meet Cute: Nathan and Audrey's first meeting and a little later when Audrey and Duke meet. Well, if you considering pulling a gun on each other cute...
Mega Manning: The Freak of the Week in "Fear and Loathing" can steal a Trouble by touching the Troubled's blood. He can only hold one at a time.
Monochrome Casting: Played straight, justified (they are in Maine, after all), and heavily lampshaded—Audrey does a search for "dark man" in the newspaper archives, and comes up with an article twenty or thirty years old about the first black man to move to Haven.
Monster Clown: Prominently featured in "Fear and Loathing".
Mr. Fanservice: Duke. He has been showing off his well-trained shirtless body on several occasions.
Ms. Fanservice: Audrey. She has been variously undressed, dolled up in cute little dresses and had clothes bought or almost bought for her by her new friends in Haven.
No Ontological Inertia: Cornell Stamoran's copy fades away after the death of the original.
Likewise, the ghosts of the people Kyle Hopkins buried disappear right as he dies.
Nothing Is Scarier: In one episode, anyone who looks into the eyes of a girl see the thing they fear the most. We viewers see it as well, with one exception: Nathan. Whatever he saw, it rattled him REAL BAD.
Older than They Look: Audrey is at least in her seventies, since she was Lucy twenty-seven ago, Sarah before that, and is implied to have even more forgotten identities. She might even be hundreds of years old.
The Password Is Always Swordfish: The password to Audrey's laptop is "lucy", her mother's name, or possibly her own. Lampshaded after she realizes Nathan broke into it.
Red Herring: Each episode's antagonist is never the first suspect.
Refuge in Audacity: What Audrey and Duke use to, unarmed, take down two armed men, one of which can read minds. Audrey feeds Duke outrageous instructions via an earpiece, and neither telepath nor partner can figure out what the hell Duke is doing because he's acting completely insane and apparently hasn't a coherent thought in his head. When they are too confused to react, Audrey and Duke disarm them.
Ret Gone: In "Silent Night", this happens one-by-one to everyone in Haven, with only Audrey and the Troubled person causing it being able to remember them. Although no one else can remember them, they do notice something is wrong if they think about it, like Duke asking Nathan, "Why are there only two people in your class photo?"
Retired Badass: Vince is strongly insinuated to be one in the first season finale.
And not just his shirt, but damn near everything in "The Trial of Audrey Parker". Rowr.
Shout Out: In the opening credits, there's a newspaper that references a "revered Flagg". There's also a mention of a town called Derry, and of Little Tall Island.
In "As You Were," one of Audrey's birthday presents is a book called Misery Unchained. Vince awesomely describes it as "signed by the author just before that lady chopped off his foot".
Sweater Girl: What Audrey would have been if Nathan had had his way. He had picked out a blue cashmere sweater for Audrey's birthday only to have his girlfriend change it to a scarf without his knowledge.
Taken for Granite: The chief does a very weird version. He has the power to cause earthquakes, which he's unable to fully control. When he finally can hold back the power, he uses his last bit of effort to draw his power inward, turning himself to stone and exploding from the vibrations. The rocks are still shaking long after he's exploded.
Those Two Guys: Vince and Dave, the brothers who run the newspaper.
Token Evil Teammate: Duke is a smuggler, among other things, and can be somewhat selfish. He lampshades the fact that Nathan and Audrey keep going to him for help with a glance to the ceiling and saying aloud, "Why do they keep thinking I want to help?"
Too Dumb to Live: The Reverend. Yes, try to stab somebody right in front of the cops. No, they won't shoot you at all.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: The mystery woman in the old photo who may be Audrey's mother looks exactly like her.
Turns out the woman actually is Audrey.
Unwitting Pawn: Duke seems to be dragged between the various factions, despite his best attempts for some straight answers.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Duke's father. Since he possessed the ability to completely remove Troubled powers by killing one member of the family, he believed he could stop them entirely. Makes you wonder why he wanted Audrey dead. He expects Duke to do the same, though Duke is understandably reluctant.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Dwight's power is to attract bullets. This can be great during a firefight for those standing next to him but really sucks for him.
What the Hell, Hero?: Nathan calls Audrey out on not telling the chief "everything's going to be all right" when his powers run away from him, as she's done with every other Troubled person. Audrey apparently didn't do it because the chief knew it wouldn't work.
Audrey often calls out people who omit the fact that they know something about Lucy or Sarah.
Wham Line: Said to Audrey in the first season finale. "I'm Special Agent Audrey Parker. Who the hell are you?"
The message from his father that Duke finds in "Business As Usual". "Duke- If you’re reading this, then I haven’t survived. You are my Son. My heir. It’s up to you to finish my work. You must kill her." Attached to the letter is a picture of Audrey.
Non-verbal one in the second season finale. The man with the tattoo that will evidently kill Duke? Nathan.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The antagonist of "Fear and Loathing" is planning on destroying the whole town for mistreating him. The person who originally made the Artifact of Doom in the 18th century counts too. Your mileage may vary on how much of a woobie they were though since neither one of them had any real regard for the loss of life. The modern version of the antagonist destroys a school building while people are inside.
Haven is an American supernatural drama television series loosely based on the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid. The one-hour drama premiered on July 9, 2010, on Syfy. The series will be the first property to be produced for Syfy Pay channels around the globe, excluding Canada and Scandinavia.Shrewd and confident FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) has a lost past when she arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine on a routine case. Before long, her natural curiosity leads her to the center of activity in this curious enclave, which turns out to be a longtime refuge for people who are affected by a range of supernatural afflictions.
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