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* WasOnceAMan: It's intentionally ambiguous, but he may have once been human and was warped into a Freak by being outside the walls for too long. According to David in his Creative Process video for the Matriarch, he imagined them as being humans twisted by whatever force killed of all other life, after somehow surviving its effects.
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* OnlySaneMan: So far, he's the only person we've seen that's critical of Autodale and the way it's run. He openly expresses grief and remorse when the mother of the abducted child is labelled Ugly and sent to her death, and [[spoiler: disobeys orders to let the little girl and the baby Freak go free.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: So far, he's the only person we've seen that's critical of Autodale and the way it's run. He openly expresses grief and remorse when the mother of the abducted child is labelled Ugly and sent to her death, and [[spoiler: disobeys orders to let the little girl and the baby Freak go free. It was this trait that made Hive decide to remove him from the collective and become a semi-independent agent, knowing the humanity he clung to as the rest of the Hive gave theirs up means he can solve problems they can't.]]
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* BrokenAngel: [[spoiler: This massive, grotesque, BodyHorror laden monstrosity? She's a ''nature goddess.'' An imobile, maimed, ''dying'' one only sustained by the Mayor's inventions and mass blood sacrifice. And she's the only thing keeping the lands around Autodale - the last living lands on the planet - alive.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: According to David, the Matriarch's feelings on he role in keeping Autodale alive are intentionally vague. While the Mayor is deeply infatuated with her, what ''she'' feels about him, the town, its people, or the world at large is left unstated. She appears to be completely indifferent [[spoiler:to the people being killed to sustain her]], despite previously using her powers to save a little girl from the withering effects of the world in the far past.
* BrokenAngel: [[spoiler: This massive, grotesque, BodyHorror laden monstrosity? She's a ''nature goddess.'' Animobile, immobile, maimed, ''dying'' one only sustained by the Mayor's inventions and mass blood sacrifice. And she's the only thing keeping the lands around Autodale - the last living lands on the planet - alive.]]
* BrokenAngel: [[spoiler: This massive, grotesque, BodyHorror laden monstrosity? She's a ''nature goddess.'' An
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* HealingHands: She touches a little girl to cure her of the illness that is plaguing the world before succumbing to it herself. It's unknown if she still has this power in her current form.
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They literally mean they're going to force him to wear the trench coat he hates, because it makes him too scary to the people he's trying to protect.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: Hive seems to decide that [[spoiler:Shadow's]] punishment will be "giving [him] the ''coat''."
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* Really700YearsOld: WordOfGod states that she is approximately two thousand years old. * VoiceOfTheLegion: When one is assimilated to Hive, regardless of gender, they take on the voice of [[spoiler: the original Exceptional girl.]]
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: When one is assimilated to Hive, regardless of gender, they take on the voice of [[spoiler: the original Exceptional girl.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When one is assimilated to Hive, regardless of gender, they take on the voice of [[spoiler: the original Exceptional girl.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Instead of being branded "Ugly" for not fitting Autodale's mold, the Exceptionals are slashed into pieces and hooked into the mainframe to help run the town.
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* JurisdictionFriction: The Handymen rib him, slow entrance into crime scenes, and cheerily try to make his life difficult. It's never established if they're programmed to do this for {{Kayfabe}} or if they genuinely resent his involvement with Autodale security matters.
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* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:The blood of the "Uglies" is collected and injected into her, presumably to keep her alive but the process appears to be very painful to her.]]
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* BadButt: The Friendly Shadow is as much of a chain-smoking, hard-drinking, pulpy, noir detective anti-hero alternative to the Handymen as Autodale will allow. Which is to say, edgy enough to be interesting and marketable, but largely restrained from anything too hardboiled.
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* HopeSpot: The Mayor's first impression of her was of a massive, [[spoiler:benevolent nature god who could cure the plague that was killing mankind.]] Then after [[spoiler:healing a single child]], she [[spoiler:collapsed, revealing herself to be just as susceptible to what was killing the human race]] as anyone else.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Certain Handymen are assigned the trivial surveillance task of going door-to-door and asking how their days were to make sure that they remain "pretty".
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Though they die indoctrinated, they die satisfied and keep their poise. The two of them even manage to share a LastKiss.
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* LetThemDieHappy: The Handyman who executes the Robinsons doesn't correct them when they believe he's "Joe", allowing them to think that their lifelong supervisor was present for their deaths.
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* GirlishPigtails: Her horns are stylized as these in her cartoon mascot self featured in Autodale propaganda.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The model for Ms. Robinson is re-used in one of David's other films, "Locked Doors", where she's seen with color and does in fact have dark-ish skin. It's unclear if this is meant to reflect how she looks in Autodale.
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* ShroudedInMyth: To the average Autodalian citizen, the Freaks are nothing more than creatures of fairytales. To the city's leadership, they are a complete mystery with no live specimen ever being caught. [[spoiler: That almost changes during ''Friendly Shadow'', but the detective releases the beast before Hive can get their hands on it.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: WordOfGod states that the Freaks in "Don't Feed the Freaks" can represent other people, with the one at the end being the Young Man seen through the eyes of Autodale's citizens. In "Friendly Shadow," however, the adult Freak displays far greater physical strength that couldn't be explained if it saw itself as another human. In addition, [[spoiler: the drawings made by the juvenile freak depicts itself as a monster and humans as humans, thus showing that they are indeed physically as they appear to us.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: WordOfGod states that the Freaks in "Don't Feed the Freaks" can represent other people, with the one at the end being the Young Man seen through the eyes of Autodale's citizens. In "Friendly Shadow," however, the adult Freak displays far greater physical strength that couldn't be explained if it saw itself as another human. In addition, [[spoiler: the drawings made by the juvenile freak depicts itself as a monster and the humans as humans, thus showing that they are indeed physically as they appear to us.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: WordOfGod states that the Freaks in "Don't Feed the Freaks" can represent other people, with the one at the end being the Young Man seen through the eyes of Autodale's citizens. In "Friendly Shadow," however, the adult Freak displays far greater physical strength that couldn't be explained if it saw itself as another human. In addition, [[spoiler: the drawings made by the juvenile freak shows it sees depicts itself as a monster, monster and humans as humans, thus showing that they are indeed physically as they appear.appear to us.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: WordOfGod states that the Freaks in "Don't Feed the Freaks" can represent other people, with the one at the end being the Young Man seen through the eyes of Autodale's citizens. In "Friendly Shadow," however, the adult Freak displays far greater physical strength that couldn't be explained if it saw itself as another human. In addition, [[spoiler: the drawings made by the juvenile freak shows it sees itself as a monster, thus showing that they are indeed physically monstrous.as they appear.]]
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* MamaBear/PapaWolf: The adult Freak in ''Friendly Shadow'' initially ignores the eponymous character because it's badly wounded. However, upon witnessing Shadow near its child, the monster immediately springs back into action to protect its offspring.
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* MamaBear/PapaWolf: MamaBear / PapaWolf: The adult Freak in ''Friendly Shadow'' initially ignores the eponymous character because it's badly wounded. However, upon witnessing Shadow near its child, the monster immediately springs back into action to protect its offspring.
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* MamaBear/PapaWolf: The adult Freak in ''Friendly Shadow'' initially ignores the eponymous character because it's badly wounded. However, upon witnessing Shadow near its child, the monster immediately springs back into action to protect its offspring.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: As Neutral Hive, she tries to argue against punishing Shadow, stating that stripping away more of his humanity would diminish his usefulness. She doesn't get far before the Hive comes to a consensus and vetoes her.]]
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Ruthless as she may be,]] she's willing to consider the fact that [[spoiler: Shadow was merely honoring the dying wish of a grieving mother]] when deciding what to do with [[spoiler: him]].
