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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Warru or Waruu?
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->'''Played By:''' Frances O'Connor

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->'''Played By:''' Frances O'ConnorCreator/FrancesOConnor

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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: A {{downplayed}} example, as Koen starts out as a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling.


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* TookALevelInKindness: A {{downplayed}} example, as Koen starts out as a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling.
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* MissingMom: This is an immensely sore spot for him. She was killed in a car accident while pregnant with Koen, and he had to be delivered by emergency C-Section. Because of her being white (his father was Aboriginal), many Aboriginal buys bullied him over this and called her a whore, his half-brother Warru included.

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* MissingMom: This is an immensely immense sore spot for him. She was killed in a car accident while pregnant with Koen, and he had to be delivered by emergency C-Section. Because of her being white (his father was Aboriginal), many Aboriginal buys bullied him over this and called her a whore, his half-brother Warru included.
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Koen was born to an Aboriginal father and white mother. She died before he was born (Koen was delivered by emergency C-section) and got bullied for being her son by Aboriginal boys who called her a whore. His half-brother Warru is among those who's held her against him, and so unsurprisingly when grown up he's estranged from the Aboriginal community, with only white friends. He slowly embraces his Aboriginal side on learning he's the titular Cleverman, a heroic savior in Aboriginal culture, abiding by their customs more.

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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Koen was born to an Aboriginal father and white mother. She died before he was born (Koen was delivered by emergency C-section) and Koen got bullied for being her son by Aboriginal boys who called her a whore. His half-brother Warru is among those who's held her against him, and so unsurprisingly when grown up he's estranged from the Aboriginal community, with only white friends. He slowly embraces his Aboriginal side on learning he's the titular Cleverman, a heroic savior in Aboriginal culture, abiding by their customs more.

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* TheAtoner: He eventually realizes what harm he's caused and embraces the power of the Cleverman to right them.

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* TheAtoner: He eventually realizes what harm he's caused by turning in Hairypeople for rewards and embraces the power of the Cleverman to right them.



* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling.=

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* CharacterDevelopment: ChildOfTwoWorlds: Koen was born to an Aboriginal father and white mother. She died before he was born (Koen was delivered by emergency C-section) and got bullied for being her son by Aboriginal boys who called her a whore. His half-brother Warru is among those who's held her against him, and so unsurprisingly when grown up he's estranged from the Aboriginal community, with only white friends. He starts out as slowly embraces his Aboriginal side on learning he's the titular Cleverman, a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling.=heroic savior in Aboriginal culture, abiding by their customs more.



* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Aboriginal boys used to call his mother a "white whore" while bullying Koen because he's her son. Even his half-brother Warru echoes this, saying she must have been for having him, never mind that they share the same (Aboriginal) father.



* MissingMom: This is an immensely sore spot for him.

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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: A {{downplayed}} example, as Koen starts out as a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling.
* MissingMom: This is an immensely sore spot for him. She was killed in a car accident while pregnant with Koen, and he had to be delivered by emergency C-Section. Because of her being white (his father was Aboriginal), many Aboriginal buys bullied him over this and called her a whore, his half-brother Warru included.




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* TheSocialDarwinist: Jarrod gives this as his motive for experimenting with DNA from Hairypeople to use in enhancing humans (including himself and his child, without his wife's knowledge), while claiming humanity's near a tipping point and only the fit will survive as a result of climate change related disasters.
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* KarmicDeath:[[spoiler: Twofold. Not only does the wife he's been abusing kill him, if by accident, but thanks to his attempts to control the Dreaming, his soul vanishes after his death.]]
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* BerserkButton: If he think he's being disrespected or looked down on, he will boil over.

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* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling.

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* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. With much cajoling. =


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* HealingFactor: He's nearly immortal, with the only things that can hurt him being supernatural.


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* TimeMaster: His abilities are connected to time, with his energy powers being connected to the past, his prophetic visions to the future, and his healing abilities to the present. That said, he can't manipulate time itself yet.


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* DamagedSoul: [[spoiler:Koen accidentally destroys her muya, leaving her with no essence to be passed on after her death. He has to go to some lengths to get it back.]]
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* DomesticAbuse: He appears to be HappilyMarried at first, but after Charlotte's pregnancy he slowly becomes more and more controlling of her, until she runs away just to keep herself and her baby safe. [[spoiler:It culminates in him physically wrestling her onto an examining chair, preparing to cut the child out of her body while telling her to stop resisting, leading to her accidentally killing him.]]

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