WARNING: Per troping policy, all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.
- Episode 10: When Gwendolyn overhears Frederick declare that she is "really ugly". The echo of his words is accompanied by an image of shattered glass, symbolizing her shattered self-image.
- Episode 11: Seeing Gwen tearful run through the forest. She doesn’t know how to properly process the boy she likes thinking her ugly, so she just runs around in circles and tears.
- Most of the backstories of the CPC members can count as this if you really think about it:
- Prez was The Dutiful Daughter, but at the cost of her own happiness and individuality. When she tried to refuse her Arranged Marriage to the Prince of the Monochrome Kingdom, he attacked her friend with a potion, but she took the blow for him and became cursed to turn into a man-eating giant spider every month. Her parents then pretty much threw her away and banished her to the house in the woods where she lives and hosts the club.
- Monika was kidnapped as a child and turned into a crow to be kept as a pet. She was rescued, but could not be fully cured, and still transforms whenever she gets nervous. It really hinders her personal growth when she can’t handle any anxieties.
- Abbi made one little mistake, opening a box she was told not to open, and lost her youthful looks. And just as the boy she like was going to ask her out. Imagine looking like an old lady when you’re fifteen. As if high school didn’t suck enough.
- Thermidora was cast out of her undersea home, separated from her beloved Benedict, and cursed into a form that she finds ugly. Now she’s a Stranger in a Familiar Land with no family and forced to be apart from the one she loves.
- Princess Aurelia’s Boyfriend-Blocking Dad — or stepdad — gifted her a cursed necklace that was supposed to keep boys away from her while she went to sleepaway camp. It worked too well. Now anything Aurelia’s lips touch melts. No True Love's Kiss for her. No True Love, either.
- The Parental Favoritism of the Velvet Kingdom royal family. Both Renée and her sister were cursed to barf objects whenever they talk. But while Renée spits out frogs, her sister has gold coins fall out of her mouth. Because of the differences, Renée becomes The Unfavorite and is hidden away by her family, while her sister becomes the golden child.
- Nell was straight up imprisoned in a cell by her parents and extorted for her powers to make them more powerful.
- Episode 15: Gwen remembers how her sisters told her they wouldn’t want anything to do with anyone who didn’t like her, or even anyone associated with those people. Not wanting her sisters to break up with their Prince Charmings because of her, she vows to keep silent about what she heard Frederick say.
- Episode 19: Gwen’s tearful confession to the CPC about her fiancé not wanting her, and them all gathering around, offering her hugs and tissues and words of comfort.
- Episode 24: Poor Beckett Dandrige is a Hopeless Suitor for Princess Maria, and cries buckets when he finds out she’s set to marry someone else. It doesn’t help that the guy is a hotter and richer Prince.
- Episode 31: Abbi is too insecure to go to her high school prom in her cursed old-lady body. She is so insecure and desperate for one night with her crush while looking like a normal teenage girl, she tearfully begs Prez to let her try out a potion recipe she found that supposedly undoes a curse for twenty-four hours. It’s tragic for Abbi, who lost her chance to properly enjoy her youth and her chances with her crush for one stupid mistake she made.
- It gets even sadder for Abbi in the next episode when the potion doesn’t seem to work. She gets all sad, and your heart really goes out to the girl. All she wanted was just one night looking like her old self, which was actually really pretty, and to be asked to dance by the boy she loved and have him tell her she was beautiful. Good thing Prez stepped up when she did.
- We finally see Frederick’s unhappy home life and Dark and Troubled Past in Episode 33 & 34. Up until now, we only saw him as the shallow Prince Charmless who rejected Gwen based on her looks, and that made it easy to hate him. But turns out, there are many contributing factors to his outlook. Frederick is at The Unfavorite in his family, Overshadowed by Awesome that comes from his older brothers, the Prince Charming Chick Magnet Blaine and the Warrior Prince with a Rugged Scar Lance, while Frederick himself is a Shrinking Violet Bookworm without much talent or intelligence to stand out. His father is clearly an Abusive Parent who yells at him for proposing practical and low-key changes for the kingdom, and even nearly killed him for refusing the Arranged Marriage to Gwen. On top of that, Frederick Used to Be a Sweet Kid, until some horrible bullies from his school, looking down on him for being a bookworm and a cheery boy, locked him up in a trunk overnight and ripped up all his books. They nicknamed him "Sunflower" as they did, and to this day, just seeing the aforementioned flower is a Trauma Button.
- His Freudian Excuse gets another factor as he explains how he became engaged. After giving up on other people’s approval, Frederick became obsessed with a fairytale about a man who is pulled out of a hole by a beautiful angel of fortune, and gains respect and bravery with her beauty by his side, eventually slaying a monster and being crowned a hero. Frederick once dreamt of his own angel of fortune coming to rescue him from his hole of obscurity and failure, and thought Jamie (whom he believed to be a girl) was his angel when he saw the portrait of the Pastel royal children. He went to the palace believing that Jamie was the youngest daughter he was betrothed to, thinking that his new wife would make him respected and brave just like the angel of fortune in the story, and was sorely disappointed when he found out his actual fiancé was Gwen, a girl whose ghoulish looks could very well make him even less respected than he already was.
- It’s shown that Aurelia’s stepdad, who gave her the cursed necklace, is genuinely remorseful over his mistake. He thought the curse would lifted when she took the necklace off, and when it isn’t, he starts scouring the land to find a cure. It’s sad to see king and stepdaughter together, because it’s clear when they’re in the same room that even though he is truly sorry and trying to fix things, their relationship has become strained due to his mistake.
- Episode 134 is one for Queen Isolde. Not only are there hints her husband abuses her; her children were taken from her; the flashback can make you heart break; and she is clearly trapped in a marriage she doesn't want with sweets as her only escape.
- The scene were Fredrick is trapped under the palace is also one — this is the exact nightmare he's had countless times before, of being trapped in a pit with no way to escape and no Angel of Fortune to rescue him.
- In the epilogue, King Leland has been imprisoned for his crimes against the Pastel Kingdom, as Queen Isolde promised. He asks the guard if there are any visitors for him. Apparently, he's been asking everyday only to be met with a negative. His wife, children, and best friend have all cut him out of their lives.
