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  • Anvilicious: The comic's overarching messages are impossible to miss: bullying does permanent damage to the victims and has long-lasting and far-reaching consequences even if you don't think it's a big deal. People will behave immorally when they aren't held accountable for their actions and are given a pass just because of their status.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Crossed by multiple characters.
    • Hailey: When she began bullying Callie explicitly because she knew Callie was Julie's sister. Followed by her murdering Julie and covering it up.
    • Chloe: Testing whether or not Callie (as Julie) actually wanted to be her friend by goading Callie into beating a tied-up girl with a two-by-four.
    • Sue: Crossed this twice, first when she murdered the girl Julie originally chose as the magical girl of water with her bare hands. Second when she drowned Chloe.
    • Jina: She most likely crossed this ages ago when she began bullying Terrie, but the worst example would have to be when she tore off Terrie's clothes and threw her into a classroom with several boys in order to humiliate her.
    • Terrie: When she specifically went out of her way to convince Julie to empower Hailey, Chloe, Sue, and Mint by giving them powers they weren't suited for or did not deserve.
    • Callie herself when she manipulated Kayla into being subjected to the same horrible bullying at Hailey's hands that she herself endured and then almost goaded Hailey into murdering Kayla out of envy. Kayla actually calls Callie out on this, even slapping her, when she learns how badly her life got fucked up.
    • Somi of the epilogue story straddled the line when she lied about her father being dead to get sympathy from Choa, but fully crossed it when she used her role as the fake magical girl Prism Snow to be as brutal and sadistic as she could against "Black Crone Queen" without actually killing Choa.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Mint and her teacher Mr. Park, who turns out to be a child molester who was chased out of his last job due to sleeping with his teenage students. She approaches him alone after school in order to confess her feelings for him, and his sudden change in attitude when he finds out she is attracted to him is chilling. The audience doesn't see what exactly goaded her into killing him, so it's entirely possible that she had to do so in self-defense, as well.
    • Terrie's Awakening. During a fight with a monster, Terrie suddenly appears to start burning alive rather graphically, screaming in pain, until her body is just a floating, charred husk. She then claws her way out of said husk in a very unnerving manner. It was enough to bring Sarah, who was watching, to tears even though she and Terrie were estranged at that point.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Hailey's design, especially as Illuminaty Beauty, is rather unnerving. Her piercing red eyes and sharp angles just make her supposed beauty appear inhuman, to the point she seems more like an insect than a person. It doesn't help that her current appearance was actually the result of extensive plastic surgery which somehow made her several inches taller and changed the shape of her eyes. It's honestly no wonder people began to appreciate Kayla's beauty over her's, because Kayla's was not only natural but less angular and severe than Hailey's.

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