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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Rose and Wendy's feelings for each other are so blatantly obvious that, as Tambry puts it, anyone with a pulse could tell they're in love. [[ObliviousToLove Except each other]], of course. Once they finally get together Stan says that a blind guy could see it their feelings were so obvious, and since he has cataracts, he should know.

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Rose and Wendy's feelings for each other are so blatantly obvious that, as Tambry puts it, anyone with a pulse could tell they're in love. [[ObliviousToLove Except each other]], of course. Once they finally get together together, Stan says that a blind guy could see it how obvious their feelings were so obvious, were, and since he has cataracts, he should know.



* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: During the 15th '' A Summer Job'' snippet, Wendy's finally about to confess her feelings to Rose, but it winds up cut short due to a thrown tree (courtesy of Pacifica/Kara Zor-El) that was about to fall on both of them.

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During the 15th '' A Summer Job'' snippet, Wendy's finally about to confess her feelings to Rose, but it winds up cut short due to a thrown tree (courtesy of Pacifica/Kara Zor-El) that was about to fall on both of them.them.
** This trope gets lampshaded and ''defied'' during the 18th ''A Summer Job'' snippet. During her POV, Rose, out of sheer nervousness, silently begs for something to interrupt her love confession. Nothing does, and she winds up asking Wendy out on a date without any outside issues.

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Rose and Wendy's feelings for each other are so blatantly obvious that, as Tambry puts it, anyone with a pulse could tell they're in love. [[ObliviousToLove Except each other]], of course.

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Rose and Wendy's feelings for each other are so blatantly obvious that, as Tambry puts it, anyone with a pulse could tell they're in love. [[ObliviousToLove Except each other]], of course. Once they finally get together Stan says that a blind guy could see it their feelings were so obvious, and since he has cataracts, he should know.


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* SideBet: At least Dipper and Mabel were betting on when Rose and Wendy would get together.


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* {{Squee}}: Soos and Mabel both react in this manner when Wendy and Rose finally get together.
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* InadequateInheritor: Amity voices this belief about herself in comparison to both her new mentor, Donna Troy, and the previous Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark. Due to the years of abuse she suffered under [[AbusiveParents Odalia]], Amity has developed the belief that if she can't instantly succeed at something, [[ThePerfectionist she must be a failure]]. She's first seen voicing this to Donna when she struggles to lift a boulder with her newfound SuperStrength that she could've easily thrown aside with her Abomination Magic.

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* InadequateInheritor: Amity voices this belief about herself in comparison to both her new mentor, Donna Troy, and the previous Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark. Due to the years of abuse that she suffered under [[AbusiveParents Odalia]], Amity has Amity's developed the belief that if she can't instantly succeed at something, [[ThePerfectionist she must be a failure]]. She's first seen voicing this to Donna when she struggles to lift a boulder with her newfound SuperStrength that she could've easily thrown aside with her Abomination Magic.
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* DisabledLoveInterest: Rose is this for Wendy, as the two have a mutual crush on each other and the former is missing her left eye thanks to her father.
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* CrossoverPowerAcquisition: Considering the premise behind the Round Robin, it isn't too surprising that this trope crops up. Luz gains the Cosmic Staff, granting her the powers of Stargirl. Amity gains armor crafted by Donna Troy that provides her with all Wondergirl's abilities. Anne, Sasha, and Marcy gain a Blue Lantern, Star Sapphire, and Green Lantern ring respectively. And Pacifica gains the powers of a Kryptonian, just to name a few examples.


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* MythologyGag: Pacifica accidentally sneezing away Rose's training course (and a good chunk of the forest) is one to Superman sneezing a solar system out of orbit during the silver age. Though it is noted that the gag was accidental.
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* BigSisterMentor: Rose starts taking up this role to Pacifica after learning about the latter's powers and easing her through them. She even sets up an obstacle course to train her in better managing them during the first ''A Summer Job'' interlude.


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* PowerIncontinence: Since Pacifica only recently started awakening her powers, she naturally struggles to keep them in check. This leads to Dipper, Mabel, and later Rose helping her try to better manage them.
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** '''Slade'''. He casts an incredibly dark shadow on Rose, who's still haunted by her father's abuse throughout her time in Gravity Falls. To start, he killed Rose's mother, would regularly torment her during training sessions that left her bloody and broken, routinely put her in life-or-death situations, ''cut out her eye'', and subjected her to gaslighting and brainwashing to keep her subservient to him. Suffice to say, Rose has ''every'' reason to despise him for all he's done to her.

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** '''Slade'''. He Slade casts an incredibly dark shadow on Rose, who's still haunted by her father's abuse throughout her time in Gravity Falls. To start, he killed Rose's mother, would regularly torment her during training sessions that left her bloody and broken, routinely put her in life-or-death situations, ''cut out her eye'', and subjected her to gaslighting and brainwashing to keep her subservient to him. Suffice to say, Rose has ''every'' reason to despise him for all he's done to her.

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* AbusiveParents: '''Slade'''. He casts an incredibly dark shadow on Rose, who's still haunted by her father's abuse throughout her time in Gravity Falls. To start, he killed Rose's mother, would regularly torment her during training sessions that left her bloody and broken, routinely put her in life-or-death situations, ''cut out her eye'', and subjected her to gaslighting and brainwashing to keep her subservient to him. Suffice to say, Rose has ''every'' reason to despise him for all he's done to her.

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'''Slade'''. He casts an incredibly dark shadow on Rose, who's still haunted by her father's abuse throughout her time in Gravity Falls. To start, he killed Rose's mother, would regularly torment her during training sessions that left her bloody and broken, routinely put her in life-or-death situations, ''cut out her eye'', and subjected her to gaslighting and brainwashing to keep her subservient to him. Suffice to say, Rose has ''every'' reason to despise him for all he's done to her.
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** As in canon, the Northwest parents to Pacifica, having drilled into her the idea that she has to be ''perfect'' in everything.
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* EngineeredHeroics: In the 15th ''A Summer Job'' snippet, it's revealed that gunmen attacked Rose's home, resulting in the death of her mother before Slade came in and saved her. Turns out, the entire attack was set up by Slade himself to both leave Rose with no one other than himself and for his daughter to view him as the "savior" she'd feel indebted towards.

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* EngineeredHeroics: In the 15th ''A Summer Job'' snippet, it's revealed that gunmen attacked Rose's home, resulting in the death of her mother before Slade came in and saved her. Turns out, the entire attack was set up by Slade himself to both leave Rose with no one other than himself else to turn to and for his daughter to view him as the "savior" she'd feel indebted towards.
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** Pacifica originally started off antagonistic to the Pines twins in canon and remained that way for a good portion of the series. In the snippets, her developing Kryptonian powers forced her to go to them to figure them out, causing all of them to learn to get along at a much faster rate. In addition, while she and Dipper had some ShipTease in their series, it never went anywhere beyond being an ImpliedLoveInterest. By contrast, the ''A Summer Job'' snippets make their feelings much more overt.

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* GlamorousSingleMother: Thoroughly subverted. While Lillian raised Rose well enough that her daughter still thinks highly of her, it's made clear that it took its toll on her. Having a child with powers meant she would accidentally get hurt a lot when helping her daughter try to control them, and her occupation as a sex worker meant money was a constant struggle to maintain. Rose recollects that Lillian would often come home "looking like the walking dead."


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* StrugglingSingleMother: While Lillian raised Rose well enough that her daughter still thinks highly of her, it's made clear that it wasn't easy by any stretch of the imagination. Having a child with powers meant she would accidentally get hurt a lot when helping her daughter try to control them, and her occupation as a sex worker meant money was a constant struggle to maintain. Rose recollects that Lillian would often come home "looking like the walking dead."
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* PowerMisidentification: An unintentional example in the 16th ''A Summer Job'' snippet. When Pacifica first reveals her powers to Rose and Wendy, naturally, none of them have any idea of Pacifica's Kryptonian heritage. As a result, when Pacifica asks for some clue on what she is, Rose can only assume that she's a Metahuman and tells her as much.
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* CooldownHug: Wendy gives one to Rose after she wakes up from a nightmare following staring into the Gremloblin's eyes.

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* CooldownHug: Wendy gives one to Rose after she wakes up from a nightmare following staring into the Gremloblin's eyes. She gives another during the 14th ''A Summer Job'' snippet after Rose has a panic attack.
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* GlamorousSingleMother: Thoroughly subverted. While Lillian raised Rose well enough that her daughter still thinks highly of her, it's made clear that it took its toll on her. Having a child with powers meant she would accidentally get hurt a lot when helping her daughter try to control them, and her occupation as a sex worker meant money was a constant struggle to maintain. Rose recollects that Lillian would often come home "looking like the walking dead."
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* CommonalityConnection: After they learn that the other has powers, Rose and Pacifica bond a bit over it. Rose also clearly sees signs that the Northwests are less-than-ideal parents from her own experiences with Slade, but Pacifica can't admit it yet.


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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: After learning that Pacifica has powers, Rose mentions several other heroes and villains, like the Justice Society of America and some of their enemies, but Pacifica has ''no'' idea who she's talking about. One of the only heroes that she ''is'' familiar with is Superman (a relative newcomer and unknown to Pacifica Northwest, her biological cousin).
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: During the 15th '' A Summer Job'' snippet, Wendy's finally about to confess her feelings to Rose, but it winds up cut short due to a thrown tree (courtesy of Pacifica/Kara Zor-El) that was about to fall on both of them.
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* BadBoss: Aside from being viciously abusive to his apprentice/daughter, Slade's a horrible employer in general. His slaughtering of his own men for the sake of manipulating Rose makes it clear working for him is a bad idea in the long run.

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** Dipper and Mabel have traits of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, respectively, as they form a trio with Pacifica, who's the Superman analog. Dipper takes on Lois' attribute of being the snarky LoveInterest to the Kryptonian, while Mabel gets Jimmy's nature as a Weirdness Magnet with a propensity for gaining random powers out of nowhere (which here is because of her consumption of Smile Dip).

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** Dipper and Mabel have traits of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, respectively, as they form a trio with Pacifica, who's the Superman analog. Dipper takes on Lois' attribute of being the snarky LoveInterest to the Kryptonian, while Mabel gets Jimmy's nature as a Weirdness Magnet WeirdnessMagnet with a propensity for gaining random powers out of nowhere (which here is because of her consumption of Smile Dip).Dip).
** Rose Worth/Wilson ends up being a combination of both her pre-''Crisis'' version and ''Rebirth'' versions. She has the personality and stability of the former while carrying many backstory elements of the latter (among which includes Slade's direct role in Lillian's death and inheriting his powers as opposed to being given a serum).
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* EngineeredHeroics: In the 15th ''A Summer Job'' snippet, it's revealed that gunmen attacked Rose's home, resulting in the death of her mother before Slade came in and saved her. Turns out, the entire attack was set up by Slade himself to both leave Rose with no one other than himself and for his daughter to view him as the "savior" she'd feel indebted towards.


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* YouKilledMyFather: Among ''many'' other reasons, Rose absolutely '''loathes''' her father, Slade, due to the fact that he was responsible for the death of her mother, Lillian.
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* PointOfDivergence: During the Mystery Fair, Mabel encourages Rose and Wendy to hang out with each other while she heads to win Waddles, with Dipper tagging along with her. Because of this, there are no time paradoxes for Blendin to avert, meaning he never went back and accidentally gave Dipper and Mabel the time machine that caused those paradoxes to begin with. This also means Blendin was never arrested since the crimes he was accused of never happened.
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* ForWantOfANail: During the Mystery Fair, Mabel encourages Rose and Wendy to hang out with each other while she heads to win Waddles, with Dipper tagging along with her. Because of this, there are no time paradoxes for Blendin to avert, meaning he never went back and accidentally gave Dipper and Mabel the time machine that caused those paradoxes to begin with. This also means Blendin was never arrested since the crimes he was accused of never happened.
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** Luz, thanks to gaining the Cosmic Staff, gets mixed with Stargirl, thought Courtney is still around as her mentor due to her mind being in the Staff.

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** Luz, thanks to gaining the Cosmic Staff, gets mixed with Stargirl, thought though Courtney is still around as her mentor due to her mind being in the Staff.
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** Luz, thanks to gaining the Cosmic Staff, gets mixed with Stargirl.

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** Luz, thanks to gaining the Cosmic Staff, gets mixed with Stargirl.Stargirl, thought Courtney is still around as her mentor due to her mind being in the Staff.



** Dipper and Mabel have traits of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, respectively, as they form a trio with Pacifica, who's the Superman analog. Dipper takes on Lois' attribute of being the snarky LoveInterest to the Kryptonian, while Mabel gets Jimmy's nature as a Weirdness Magnet with a propensity for gaining random powers out of nowhere.

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** Dipper and Mabel have traits of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, respectively, as they form a trio with Pacifica, who's the Superman analog. Dipper takes on Lois' attribute of being the snarky LoveInterest to the Kryptonian, while Mabel gets Jimmy's nature as a Weirdness Magnet with a propensity for gaining random powers out of nowhere.nowhere (which here is because of her consumption of Smile Dip).



* EveryoneHasStandards: Stan certainly won't be winning any "Boss of the Year" awards anytime soon, but he does genuinely care for the wellbeing of his employees when the chips are down. After seeing Rose actively force herself to work despite her poor health, he orders her to take some time off and get some rest. He's also disgusted with Robbie for trying to brainwash Wendy into dating him.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Stan certainly won't be winning any "Boss of the Year" awards anytime soon, but he does genuinely care for the wellbeing of his employees when the chips are down. After seeing Rose actively force herself to work despite her poor health, he orders her to take some time off and get some rest. He's also disgusted with Robbie for trying to brainwash Wendy into dating him.him, and makes sure that his parents learn about what he did.



* StrongerThanTheyLook: PlayedForLaughs. Tambry seems the part of the standard teen, yet when told Rose doesn't have a phone, she suddenly gains the strength needed to drag the ex-assassin around. This is in spite of the fact that Rose has blatant SuperStrength and should be much stronger.

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* StrongerThanTheyLook: PlayedForLaughs. Tambry seems the part of the standard teen, yet when told Rose doesn't have a phone, she suddenly gains the strength needed to drag the ex-assassin around. This is in spite of the fact that Rose has blatant SuperStrength and should be much stronger. The fact that her mother is Leslie Willis (better known as Livewire) might have something to do with it.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: While it's PlayedForLaughs, Tambry was able to physically overpower Rose to take her shopping for a phone, and she has good enough senses to pick up on the assassin's KillingIntent even when not looking at her. Combined with the revelation that she's the daughter of Leslie Willis/Livewire, it raises the question whether or not Tambry's a Metahuman whose Metagene hasn't activated yet.

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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: While Dipper starts off with a crush on Wendy like he did in ''Gravity Falls'', a combination of Wendy's crush on Rose, Mabel discouraging him from pursuing his feelings, and seeing just how close Rose and Wendy are, ultimately result in him letting go of his feelings earlier than he did canonically.

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While Dipper starts off with a crush on Wendy like he did in ''Gravity Falls'', a combination of Wendy's crush on Rose, Mabel discouraging him from pursuing his feelings, and seeing just how close Rose and Wendy are, ultimately result in him letting go of his feelings earlier than he did canonically.canonically.
** In ''Gravity Falls'', Robbie and Wendy did briefly become a couple. Here, thanks to Dipper and Mabel's intervention (coupled with Wendy's own feelings for Rose), Robbie's never able to ask Wendy out, so the two never date here.
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* GoodFeelsGood: When she goes off to save Waddles from the Pterodactyl, Rose notes that it feels weird to actually be the hero for a change. At the same time, she enjoys it, finding it to be a good sort of weird.
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'''Wendy''' ''(Thoughts)'': Why the fuck are my thoughts turning into a bad romance novel!?

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'''Wendy''' ''(Thoughts)'': [[LampshadeHanging Why the fuck are my thoughts turning into a bad romance novel!?novel]]!?
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Tambry has one in the form of "Tamb Lamb", which is used by her mom. Her usual response to it is the scream and complain about it on social media.
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* PurpleProse: Whenever Wendy starts thinking about Rose, her thoughts become more and more flowery the longer they go on, much to her frustration.
--> "''Her heart felt like a steam engine about to burst. It was like the ground itself wanted to sink her into the void, a punishment for her cowardice. She was trapped in a desert, dying of thirst, and Rose was her oasis, yet the more she tried to reach her, the greater the distance. Fear of rejection, of scaring Rose away, of ruining the friendship they'd built together, held her tongue. If her fear could take form, it would be a dragon, malevolent and unyielding as it locked her feelings away in a pitch-black tower, all while a knight with shining silver hair endlessly clash against it, blade in hand to set those feelings and-''"\\
'''Wendy''' ''(Thoughts)'': Why the fuck are my thoughts turning into a bad romance novel!?

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