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* TerribleArtist: As an attempt of killing the endless time she has as immortal, Guin tried her hand at painting. Eventually, she gave up, since after a decade of trying, she was still producing doodles on par with your middle-schooler.

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* TerribleArtist: And aware of it. As an attempt of killing the endless time she has as an immortal, Guin tried her hand at painting. Eventually, she gave up, since after a decade of trying, she was still producing doodles on par with your middle-schooler.
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* TerribleArtist: As an attempt of killing the endless time she has as immortal, Guin tried her hand at painting. Eventually, she gave up, since after a decade later, she was still producing doodles on par with your middle-schooler.

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* TerribleArtist: As an attempt of killing the endless time she has as immortal, Guin tried her hand at painting. Eventually, she gave up, since after a decade later, of trying, she was still producing doodles on par with your middle-schooler.

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* LovableJock: Enjoys all sorts of sports activities, and while playfully mischievous, he's most definitely not a jerk.



* PapaWolf: Alt!Carl, especially.

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* PapaWolf: Alt!Carl, Both of them, but Alt!Carl especially.



* AgentScully: More so than her husband.

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* AgentScully: More so than her husband.husband, going through great lengths to justify Kathy's disappearance and eventually being stranded herself in the Land of the Dragon Lord.



* BreakTheHaughty: The series is about force-feeding him an entire HumblePie.






* MacGyvering: Is capable of finding solutions to various problems with just his scientific knowledge and whatever ha has at hand.










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* TerribleArtist: As an attempt of killing the endless time she has as immortal, Guin tried her hand at painting. Eventually, she gave up, since after a decade later, she was still producing doodles on par with your middle-schooler.
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* CuteBookworm / HollywoodNerd

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* CuteBookworm / HollywoodNerdCuteBookworm
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* BoundAndGagged

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* BoundAndGaggedBoundAndGagged: Riana is caught snooping on more than one occasion and her captors have her tied and gagged to keep her out of the way.
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* BoundAndGagged
* DamselInDistress: Riana is captured quite often, due in part to her recklessly nosing into the business of Ashka and other villains
* DefiantCaptive: While Riana is often captured she is quite certainly a feisty captive. Even after being tied and gagged by Ashka she is still able to frustrate her captor to no end
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: While the actress is indeed Polish, her obvious Australian inflections can come through pretty strong.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Becomes Correon's apprentice, ensuring a life of privilege for herself and her family.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Not immediately: during the first part of Series 1, she tries again and again to steal the recipe for gunpowder in order to overthrow the Regents. When her intentions are about to be revealed, she realizes that she may as well go to Paul's world if she is finished in her own. From that point on, she would know when a given situation call for a change of plan.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Not immediately: during the first part of Series 1, she tries again and again to steal the recipe for gunpowder in order to overthrow the Regents. When her intentions are about to be revealed, she realizes that she may as well go to Paul's world if she is finished in her own. From that point on, she would know when a given situation call for a an instant change of plan.plan, a trait that would be especially handy in Series 2.
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* {{Nepotism}}: It's clear that he got to become an apprentice by virtue of being the son of a Summoner.

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* {{Nepotism}}: It's clear that he got to become an apprentice Apprentice by virtue of being the son of a Summoner.



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[[folder: from From the Land of the Immortals]]
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* FishOutOfWater: He never truly grasped all the rather simple rules governing world of Spellbinders.

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* FishOutOfWater: He never truly grasped all the rather simple rules governing the world of the Spellbinders.



One of Paul and Alex's classmates, described by Alex as "a nerd". As one of the people, Alex and Paul were trying to scare during their school trip, she witnesses him disappearing and quickly assume that he is in a parallel world. She then tries her best to convince Alex to help her get Paul back.

* AgentMulder: She automatically assume that Paul is in a parallel world, despite having very little evidence at first.

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One of Paul and Alex's classmates, described by Alex as "a nerd". As one of the people, people who Alex and Paul were trying to scare during their school trip, she witnesses him disappearing and quickly assume that he is in a parallel world. She then tries her best to convince Alex to help her get Paul back.

* AgentMulder: She automatically assume assumes that Paul is in a parallel world, despite having very little evidence at first.



* {{Jerkass}}: He treats people around him like dirt, just because he's an Apprentice

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* {{Jerkass}}: He treats people around him like dirt, just because he's an ApprenticeApprentice.



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When she becomes the new Dragon Lord, she's very proactive in her short reign, personally standing against the invading barbarian horde

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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When she becomes the new Dragon Lord, she's very proactive in her short reign, personally standing against the invading barbarian hordehorde.



* HenpeckedHusband: Subverted. While all his neighbours consider him weak and dominated by his wife, Lem and Guin have a perfectly healthy marriage and he simply refuse to treat her as inferior, [[MenAreBetterThanWomen which is a local norm]].

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* HenpeckedHusband: Subverted. While all his neighbours consider him weak and dominated by his wife, Lem and Guin have a perfectly healthy marriage and he simply refuse refuses to treat her as inferior, [[MenAreBetterThanWomen which is a local norm]].



* WastelandElder: She is the only person old enough to remember times before Moloch declared war on humanity. Now she's leading the remaining people.

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* WastelandElder: She is the only person old enough to remember times the time before Moloch declared war on humanity. Now she's leading the remaining people.

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* BookDumb: He excells in street-smarts, but his school performance and knowledge is simply bad.

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* BookDumb: He excells excels in street-smarts, but his school performance and knowledge is simply bad.



One of Paul and Alex's classmate, described by Alex as "a nerd". As one of the person Alex and Paul were trying to scare during their school trip, she witnesses him disappearing and quickly assume that he is in a parallel world. She then tries her best to convince Alex to help her get Paul back.

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One of Paul and Alex's classmate, classmates, described by Alex as "a nerd". As one of the person people, Alex and Paul were trying to scare during their school trip, she witnesses him disappearing and quickly assume that he is in a parallel world. She then tries her best to convince Alex to help her get Paul back.



* {{Chickification}}: Her competence dissapears the monent Paul returns home.

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* {{Chickification}}: Her competence dissapears disappears the monent moment Paul returns home.



* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Kathy

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards KathyKathy.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: He's very obviously is dazzled by Kathy, going as far as risking his own life to save her... and she doesn't even seem to notice the boy ''at all''.

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* DoggedNiceGuy: He's very obviously is dazzled by Kathy, going as far as risking his own life to save her... and she doesn't even seem to notice the boy ''at all''.
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* Chickification: Her competence dissapears the monent Paul returns home.

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* Chickification: {{Chickification}}: Her competence dissapears the monent Paul returns home.

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* FishOutOfWater

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* FishOutOfWaterFishOutOfWater: He never truly grasped all the rather simple rules governing world of Spellbinders.



* BookDumb

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* BookDumbBookDumb: He excells in street-smarts, but his school performance and knowledge is simply bad.



* TheLancer

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* TheLancer
TheLancer: To Paul, after he gets back home.



* TheChick

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* TheChickChickification: Her competence dissapears the monent Paul returns home.



* BigBad

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* BigBadBigBad: For ''both'' series.



* MagnificentBitch

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* MagnificentBitchMagnificentBitch: Can scheme her way through anything and anyone. Not even being FishOutOfWater slows her down.



* {{Jerkass}}

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* {{Jerkass}}{{Jerkass}}: He treats people around him like dirt, just because he's an Apprentice



* CoolOldGuy
* FreudianTrio: For all we see of the Regents, it seems they Form one of those. Correon is TheId, acting on his impulses (he wants to banish Paul without even listening to what he has to say), Marna is TheSuperego (she suggests that Paul might help them repair the flying ships), and Lukan is TheEgo.

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* CoolOldGuy
CoolOldGuy: After contact with Paul and all the common people outside the castle, he gets much nicer and less absent-minded.
* FreudianTrio: For all we see of the Regents, it seems they Form form one of those. Correon is TheId, acting on his impulses (he wants to banish Paul without even listening to what he has to say), Marna is TheSuperego (she suggests that Paul might help them repair the flying ships), and Lukan is TheEgo.




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* ThePrankster: Constantly trying to pull one on everyone around him, eventually leading to CryingWolf situations



* CareerEndingInjury: Had to drop rugby because of one of those. Alt!Carl never had it and became famous player and winner of countless trophies.



* DeadpanSnarker: At least when she's angry or depressed.



* RoyalBrat

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* RoyalBratRoyalBrat: A natural effect of becoming quasi-sacred ruler who just can't be refused as a pre-teen.



* GadgeteerGenius

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* GadgeteerGeniusGadgeteerGenius: He managed to build a device capable of fully controlled trans-dimensional travel, while making a music instrument.



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomethingRoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When she becomes the new Dragon Lord, she's very proactive in her short reign, personally standing against the invading barbarian horde



* AerithAndBob: Her name stands out like a sore thumb among other characters from her world.




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* HenpeckedHusband: Subverted. While all his neighbours consider him weak and dominated by his wife, Lem and Guin have a perfectly healthy marriage and he simply refuse to treat her as inferior, [[MenAreBetterThanWomen which is a local norm]].




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!!Jez (Adam Siemion)
* DoggedNiceGuy: He's very obviously is dazzled by Kathy, going as far as risking his own life to save her... and she doesn't even seem to notice the boy ''at all''.

!!Elin (Katarzyna Łaniewska)
* WastelandElder: She is the only person old enough to remember times before Moloch declared war on humanity. Now she's leading the remaining people.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Josh is [[TrueBlood Jason Stackhouse]].

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Josh is [[TrueBlood Jason Stackhouse]].



* HeyItsThatGuy: Lem is [[TabletopGame/{{Atmosfear}} the Gatekeeper]].

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lem is [[TabletopGame/{{Atmosfear}} the Gatekeeper]].



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!!Brian Reynolds (Andrew McFarlane)

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!!Brian Reynolds (Andrew McFarlane)[=McFarlane=])
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lem is [[{{Atmosfear}} the Gatekeeper]].

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lem is [[{{Atmosfear}} [[TabletopGame/{{Atmosfear}} the Gatekeeper]].
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* HiddenDepths: Sharak was a teacher before leading his barbarian army.

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Christine is barefoot more often than not.



* OhMeAccentsSlipping: Heather Mitchell tries to affect a [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent strange accent]] in order to blend in with the Polish cast members. Halway through Series 1, she decides not to bother with it.

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* OhMeAccentsSlipping: Heather Mitchell tries to affect a [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent strange accent]] in order to blend in with the Polish cast members. Halway Half way through Series 1, she decides not to bother with it.



* BookDumb: Somewhat literal; she can't read and has never had a formal education. Despite this, she is extremely clever, adaptive and resourceful.



* ChekhovsSkill: Paul tricks Gryvon into making a sulfuric smoke-bomb instead of gunpowder to cover his escape. Much later, Gryvon repeats the process in order to steal a bag of power stones.



* FieryRedhead: A low-key example, though she has a bit pretty sassy demeanor.

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* FieryRedhead: A low-key example, though she has a bit pretty sassy demeanor.



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething




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* MamaBear: Even though Kathy is not her daughter, she becomes very protective of her.

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* AgentMulder: She automatically assume that Paul is in a parallel world, despite having very few evidence at first.

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* AgentMulder: She automatically assume that Paul is in a parallel world, despite having very few little evidence at first.




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* ShipperOnDeck: She tries to fix her dad up with the housekeeper, Gina, and Brian's associate, Anna [[note]]Ashka in disguise[[/note]]. Since she's twelve, she's not very subtle about it.


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* FieryRedhead: A low-key example, though she has a bit pretty sassy demeanor.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Paul is smart enough to breeze through school with minimal effort, but is clearly not reaching his potential, applying much of his intellect to pranks and nonsense. He gets better.
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* TheOpportunist: It wasn't until Paul arrived and Ashka learned about gunpowder that she began to plan her conquest of the Spellbinders' Land.

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* TheOpportunist: OpportunisticBastard: It wasn't until Paul arrived and Ashka learned about gunpowder that she began to plan her conquest of the Spellbinders' Land.

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* TheOpportunist: It wasn't until Paul arrived and Ashka learned about gunpowder that she began to plan her conquest of the Spellbinders' Land.



* VillainsBlendInBetter

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* VillainsBlendInBetterVillainsBlendInBetter: It takes her a little while to get her footing in Sydney, but she adapts to her surroundings faster than Paul or Riana.
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Here be the list of characters for {{Spellbinder}}.

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Here be the list of characters for {{Spellbinder}}.
''{{Series/Spellbinder}}''.
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* [[spoiler: AffablyEvil]]: So much you can hardly blame him for what he was trying to do
* NobleDemon
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* Nepotism: It's clear that he got to become an apprentice by virtue of being the son of a Summoner.

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* Nepotism: {{Nepotism}}: It's clear that he got to become an apprentice by virtue of being the son of a Summoner.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: She never intended to help Paul return to his world once he reveals the secret of gunpowder to her.


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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She never intended to help Paul return to his world once he reveals the secret of gunpowder to her.

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* VillainsBlendInBetter





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