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* ThrowEmToTheWolves: Rather than kill them, directly or indirectly, their assailants take away their clothes and strand them with "She," commenting that if she chooses, she can send them home cold and frightened but alive. However, the assailants are neither surprised or upset when the scientists don't survive.

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* BrownNoteBeing: If she is real, the only people who encountered her and survived were left with horrendous injuries to their eyes and ears.

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* AmbiguousSituation: The season has a heavy sense of ambiguity when it comes to the apparent supernatural elements at play. As a result, even this entity's existence is not explicitly made clear.
* BrownNoteBeing: If she is real, the only people who encountered her and survived were left with horrendous injuries to their eyes and and/or ears.
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!!"She"
An enigmatic figure who is repeatedly referenced by a few characters and worshipped by the local Native people.
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* BrownNoteBeing: If she is real, the only people who encountered her and survived were left with horrendous injuries to their eyes and ears.
* EldritchAbomination: It is said that this entity transcends time and has frightening eyes that seem to naturally leave anyone who is exposed to her suffers damage to their eyes, ears, and sanity.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Her existence isn't really certain. However, [[spoiler:the Tsalal scientists are all stated to have died before they froze in the Alaska cold, and their injuries are consistent with Otis's own injuries despite being in a totally different situation, and the killers' story doesn't line up with what happened to them.]]
* NoNameGiven: This entity's existence isn't even certain, but not even the Native people who worship her ever give her a name by which to address her.
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* SherlockScan: She instantly establishes a timeline for the murders based on the state of the mayonnaise in a half-eaten sandwich, and, equally quickly, observes that the severed tongue at the crime scene could only have belonged to an Iñupiak woman. {{Subverted}} when she fails to notice [[spoiler:the birthmark on the forehead of Wheeler's girlfriend.]]

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* SherlockScan: She instantly establishes a timeline for the murders based on the state of the mayonnaise in a half-eaten sandwich, and, equally quickly, observes that the severed tongue at the crime scene could only have belonged to an Iñupiak woman. {{Subverted}} when she fails to notice [[spoiler:the birthmark [[spoiler:that Wheeler is left-handed, despite multiple encounters with him and the girlfriend he was beating (who was bruised on the forehead right side of Wheeler's girlfriend.her face, where a left-handed person would hit her).]]
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* MeltingPotNomenclature: The character is played by an Indigenous actress and is of Iñupiak origin. Her name suggests Hispanic ancestry from her father's side.

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* MeltingPotNomenclature: The character is played by an Indigenous actress and is of Iñupiak origin.origin and played by an actress of Indigenous and Cape Verdean ancestry. Her name suggests Hispanic ancestry from her father's side.
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