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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She's got pink skin. With hair and features that imply that her dad was probably black.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She's got She has bright pink skin. With hair and features that imply that her dad was probably black.skin.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A rare unintentional example in that the ring Doyle gave her was intended to keep the dark magic she siphoned from killing her, but it turns out to have the unintended side effect of helping said dark magic bond with her and thus causing her to go crazy!

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A rare unintentional example in that the ring Doyle gave her was intended to keep the dark magic she siphoned from killing her, but it turns out to have the unintended side effect of helping said dark magic bond with her and thus causing her to go crazy!FaceHeelTurn.



* HealingHands: She apparently has some ability with healing. When her dog, Emma, is hit by a car she is able to push death away and heal Emma. However, the experience left her hurting deep inside more than she ever felt so it's not yet clear that she knows what she's doing.

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* HealingHands: She apparently has some ability with healing. When her dog, Emma, is hit by a car she is able to push death away and heal Emma. However, Emma, but the experience left her hurting deep inside more than she ever felt so it's not yet clear that she knows what she's doing.in a lot of pain.
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* DecoyProtagonist: She's introduced as a relatively normal teenager introduced to the world of magic, and the story initially follows her perspective giving the impression that she's the main protagonist, [[spoiler:but by the end of issue 18 and throughout all of ''Finals'' she gradually becomes the ultimate [[BigBadSlippage villain]] of the story]].
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* RoughOveralls: When not in uniform, Emily is seen wearing overalls as her main outfit. When she starts wearing the bib and straps down its a tell of her FaceHeelTurn
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* {{Sizeshifter}}: Once Scarlet Witch demonstrates how, he begins regularly using magic to shrink his size and be around smaller people easier. Sometimes he'll go even smaller and sit on someone's shoulder.


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* TouchedByVorlons: He's Dormammu's son in the sense that his mother brokered a deal to save him from an inoperable brain tumor that involved implanting a portion of Dormammu's essence within him.
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Nerd is now a redirect to Indexed And Nerdy and is no longer a trope per TRS


* PolarOppositeTwins: Although identical twins, Alvi is a {{Nerd}} and Iric is a JerkJock.

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* PolarOppositeTwins: Although identical twins, Alvi is a {{Nerd}} nerd and Iric is a JerkJock.

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* InterspeciesRomance: She's a Zombie and her girlfriends a demon.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: She's fully sapient and doesn't eat people but she was brought BackFromTheDead by her ancestor Marie Laveau and now has the appearance of a rotting corps. She's the only student at the school who's allowed to go to the [[ComicBook/MarvelZombies Zombieverse]] implying they'd recognize her as one of their own.

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* InterspeciesRomance: She's a Zombie and her girlfriends girlfriend is a demon.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: She's fully sapient and doesn't eat people but she was brought BackFromTheDead by her ancestor Marie Laveau and now has the appearance of a rotting corps.corpse. She's the only student at the school who's allowed to go to the [[ComicBook/MarvelZombies Zombieverse]] implying they'd recognize her as one of their own.


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* TwoferTokenMinority: Black lesbian, and by the fantastical standards of the Marvel Universe, a zombie.
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* SpecialPersonNormalName: What more can be said about being a son of Dormammu named Doyle?
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A rare unintentional example in that the ring Doyle gave her was intended to keep the dark magic she siphoned from killing her, but it turns out to have the unintended side effect of helping said dark magic bond with her and thus causing her to go crazy!


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His intention behind giving Emily a ring made from a piece of his bounding crown was to keep the dark magic from killing her, except the ring is actually helping the dark magic bond with her, thus causing her to go ''nuts!''
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* InterspeciesRomance: Her boyfriend is a demon made of fire and brimstone.


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* BettyAndVeronica: Iric is the Veronica to Doyle's Betty and Emily's Archie.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Alvi is the only person Iric's not a {{Jerkass}} to. In fact he insisted they sleep in the same room.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: Iric makes fun of Doyle for being the son of a supervillain but as we later find out, his mother is Amora the Enchantress.


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* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Iric's Veronica and Emily's Archie.


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* InsecureLoveInterest: To Emily.


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* TheWorfEffect: When he reaches his RageBreakingPoint in Issue 17 he [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with his whole class]] (minus Emily).


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* InterspeciesRomance: She's a Zombie and her girlfriends a demon.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: She's fully sapient and doesn't eat people but she was brought BackFromTheDead by her ancestor Marie Laveau and now has the appearance of a rotting corps. She's the only student at the school who's allowed to go to the [[ComicBook/MarvelZombies Zombieverse]] implying they'd recognize her as one of their own.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: As a black, magic practitioner from New Orleans with that last name it shouldn't have been that much of a surprise to people that she's a descendant of Marie Laveau.


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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:his jacket is actually Mister Misery, a pre-established Doctor Strange villain.]]


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* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: First with his jacket, [[spoiler:then when he losses it he becomes addicted to Gaslamps dark magic upgrades.]]


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* FantasticDrug: [[spoiler:He starts using dark magic upgrades from Gaslamp, who he meets in a dark alley and gives him the first one for free. When he can't pay for any more he works off his dept. by selling it to other students in school.]]

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* HalfHumanHybrid: She's half-fairy.
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Inverted, her mother is a fairy while her father was a man from Brooklyn.

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* HalfHumanHybrid: She's half-fairy.
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Inverted, her
Her mother is a fairy while her father was a man from Brooklyn.
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Fair Folk is about fairies being evil or dangerous


* TheFairFolk: She's half human and half faerie.
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That trope covers a plot point that occurs in the narrative. It's not exactly a characterization trope.


* EvilMeScaresMe: In issue 14 one of the things that scares him about the BadFuture he accidentally went to is a seemingly evil version of himself.
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This trope is more tied to a narrative beat that occurs in specific issues than being a trope that captures Calvin's over-all characterization.


* DealWithTheDevil: Issues 13 and 14 reveal that he has no magic without his jacket and he is trying to get it back. He's doing that by making a deal with a shady figure called Gaslamp and that didn't work out well for Zoe.

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* FlamingHair: Inherits his father’s fiery facial features.

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* EvilMeScaresMe: In issue 14 one of the things that scares him about the BadFuture he accidentally went to is a seemingly evil version of himself.
* FlamingHair: Inherits his father’s fiery facial features.


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* DealWithTheDevil: Issues 13 and 14 reveal that he has no magic without his jacket and he is trying to get it back. He's doing that by making a deal with a shady figure called Gaslamp and that didn't work out well for Zoe.
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* BerserkButton: While easily one of the nicest students, Shaylee gains one of these in issue 10 after she and Toth become a couple; plainly put, don't ever mess with her boyfriend. It gets to the point that the group has to cut their field trip to Asgard short because of Shaylee making an already started brawl far worse when she attacked a group trying to mess with Toth.

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* BerserkButton: While easily generally one of the nicest students, Shaylee gains one of these in issue 10 after she and Toth become a couple; plainly put, don't ever mess with her boyfriend. It gets to the point that the group has to cut their field trip to Asgard short because of Shaylee making an already started brawl far a brawl-in-progress even worse when she attacked a group trying to mess with Toth.

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