History Series / Casualty

''Series/HolbyCity'', a [[SpinOff spin-off]], was spawned in 1999 and follows the lives of those working on the surgical wards.

* SocietyMarchesOn: When the series was created, "Casualty" was the common name for a hospitals emergency department. Nowadays the most commonly used terms are either "Accident & Emergency" (often shortened to "A&E") or "Emergency Department", "Casualty" being an old fashioned term.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Although called Holby City and the town is called Holby, -by '''does not''' appear in any place names around Bristol. -by is from Old Norse ''by'' village, and is only found [[OopNorth in Northern England and Scotland]], so by default it should really be Hol''ton''', with the last element being Old English ''tun'' village. Holby (or Holton as it should be) would mean either "village by the wood" from Old English ''holt'' "wood" or "village by the hollows", from Old English ''holh'' "hollow" and the endings mentioned above.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Blood and guts notwithstanding, the show has danced around the {{Watershed}} through the years, so it has a few of these:
-->'''Lara''': There's something sticking in me.
-->'''Patrick''':''smirks''
-->'''Lara''': You wish.

* BrokenAesop: Ryan taking off with all of Duffy's money in ''Hitting Home'' shows that a relationships can be financially abusive in addition to or opposed to physically. [[spoiler:Her later taking him back breaks this episode's moral that still loving an abusive partner or even just trying to hold on too hard to any happy memories will never undo the abuse. It also brings up the rather HardTruthAesop that you can buy a person's forgiveness and can also expect them to go to the other side of the world.]]

* BrokenAesop: Ryan taking off with all of Duffy's money in ''Hitting Home'' shows that a relationships can be financially abusive in addition to or opposed to physically. [[spoiler:Her later taking him back breaks this episode's moral that still loving an abusive partner or even just trying to hold on too hard to any happy memories will never undo the abuse. It also brings up the rather FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that you can buy a person's forgiveness and can also expect them to go to the other side of the world.]]

%% * {{Flopsy}}: On occasion, this trope is PlayedForDrama.

* [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Someone To Remember Her By]]: Angel.

* HelloNurse: Lara. {{Lampshaded}} by the following exchange:

* HospitalHottie: The characters are considered sexy [[{{Fandom}} by the fans]], but the sexiness is unintentional on the part of the production team. In fact, they don't ''emphasise'' it and they dress in a fairly ordinary way, the women sometimes even have no make-up on ([[TropesAreTools unless they're injured, in which case, it's obviously]] make-up for [[SpecialEffect special effects]].). Jeff, for some reason is MrFanservice. Same for its CompanionShow ''Series/HolbyCity''.

* AlphaBitch: May Phelps, played by Laura Aikman, to a degree. Perhaps more than Creator/MadelineZima's character on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.
* AnyoneCanDie: Doesn't happen that often compared to shows like [[Series/TwentyFour 24]] (once a series/year, on average) but it has happened to lots of likeable characters and audience favourites and, as yet, [[KilledOffForReal they've all stayed dead]].

* BitCharacter: Claire, Karen, Tasha, Ken -- all extras (playing various hospital staff), who get to speak very rarely, but get mentioned by name.
** And Kath[=/=]Cath as well, see the MsFanservice section below.
** The first two mainly appear in scenes where Ruth and Jay are present.

* ButtMonkey:
** Kath (the highly-popular blonde nurse, Staff Nurse Waters and Wayne (all of who [[TheVoiceless never speak]].)
** Lofty, who is incapable of going even one episode without humiliating himself in front of patients and staff.

* CaptainErsatz[=/=]{{Expy}}: Has ''inspired'' shows like ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', ''Series/PrivatePractice'' to create expies of their characters!
** That said, if Dylan Keogh in Series 25 had a cane, he'd be the bloated clone of a certain [[Series/{{House}} ornery eccentric American doctor.]] (He even has the stubble down! The hell?)
* CastHerd: Averted rather well for a show that takes place in pretty hierarchical setting.
* ChekhovsGun: Played with. Each episode will feature several obvious ones, but some or all are liable to be red herrings.

* DeliveryGuy: Charlie helps Duffy deliver her third baby at home. Partially subverted by Charlie being a nurse and the implication that Duffy planned it so that she could avoid going to hospital.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Dixie to Cyd in ''Lie to Me''. Plays the NowOrNeverKiss straight. Subverts AnguishedDeclarationOfLove because she does it so cheerfully that you know underneath she realises it looks like game over.]]

* FlashbackEcho: [[spoiler: Lara has a very disturbing one during her trial while the police surgeon recounts her injuries to the jury.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Incredibly heavy handed. But they also have a habit of foreshadowing events that don't happen, like you'll see two youths walking precariously along a very high wall, by the end of the episode no-one's fallen off a wall. So it's bit more of a random dartboard working out what the big medical emergency's going to be. But if someone gets into a car it's definitely worth betting that they're going to crash.
** If they use a motor vehicle that isn't a car the chances of a road accident are pretty much 1:1.
** One episode of series 21 featured a shark just off the coast, with people in the water. This troper felt almost betrayed when no one became shark food.

* ShoutOut: A rather nice one to ''Spartacus'' in one episode, except the dispute is over who dropped a sharp.
** Also to ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': Comfort became a paramedic because, as a kid, she wanted to be a member of International Rescue, since they were heroes because they saved people rather than killed them.
** Also to ''Film/PulpFiction'', where Comfort and Nikki are seen sitting in the ambulance eating [[BlandNameProduct "Big Sahuna Burgers"]].
* ShowerOfAngst: Averted - when a female patient expresses a desire to take one of these it sets the staff's [[RapeAsDrama outcry]] senses atingling.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Selena.
* SixthRanger: Kath, if the fans get their way. This is the nurse who is the EnsembleDarkHorse, for those not in the know.
** Also rotates between Wayne, Kojo, Alan the paramedic, [[OneSteveLimit Ramona/Staff Nurse Waters (who are one and the same)]] and an unnamed blonde nurse.

* SlapSlapKiss: Lara and Patrick, but with towel-snapping. The rest of the time it's TheMasochismTango all the way.
* SmokingIsCool: Hell, Lara could make council tax look cool.

* SpaghettiKiss: Lara and Patrick, but with the last prawn.

Set in Holby General Hospital, the show follows the character development and personal lives of the staff which work there. Coming in at a whopping ''32'' series and over one thousand episodes, the cast is wide, varied and [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters constantly changing]] (the only constant is charge nurse Charlie Fairhead, who has been continuously played by Derek Thompson since the very first episode) not to mention the numerous [[PatientoftheWeek Patients of the Week]]. Incidentally, ''Casualty'' has gained a reputation in recent years, similar to that of ''Series/TheBill'', for featuring many well-known British actors, and [[StarMakingRole launching the career]] of others.

* ActionGirl: Lara, who had worked in a war zone before arriving at Holby. Kudos to the writers for a getting a ''Franchise/TombRaider'' joke in while the time was right.

* AllLesbiansWantKids: Nearly subverted by a couple where one of them is eager to adopt a difficult young boy while the other isn't quite as keen but comes around to being a parent in the end.
** Subverted in the case of Dixie.

** Claire, Ken, Tasha - all extras (playing various hospital staff), who get to speak very rarely, but get mentioned by name.

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Lara.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Lara Stone.
** Ramona Waters.
* TheBabyTrap: Harry accuses Ellen of this, to the point of inducing his own [[ShotgunWedding Shotgun Engagement]]. [[spoiler:Turns out it was tumor. ]]
* BettyAndVeronica: Harry and Selena seemed to have quite a few of these orbiting around them. [[spoiler:First there was Beth as Harry's Betty to Selena's Veronica - although Lara could have also been considered another Betty if you add her to the equation - until Beth was killed and Selena left. She then returned having Harry play Betty to her JerkAss Veronica husband, Will. This then changed to Ellen being a younger Veronica to Selena being the older, more cynical Betty, until Ellen's death. Finally, Selena gets another JerkAss Veronica in the shape of Nathan, with Harry as Betty once more up until her becoming the victim of [[CodeSilver acute lead poisoning.]] Would be LoveDodecahedron if it weren't for the fact that these triangles went one at a time.]]
* BitCharacter: Claire, Karen, Tasha, Ken -- all extras (playing various hospital staff), who get to speak very rarely, but get mentioned by name.
** And Kath[=/=]Cath as well, see the MsFanservice section below.
** The first two mainly appear in scenes where Ruth and Jay are present.
* BleachedUnderpants: Taken literally in some cases.

* BusCrash: Baz.
* ButtMonkey: Kath (the highly-popular blonde nurse, Staff Nurse Waters and Wayne (all of who [[TheVoiceless never speak]].)
** More recently Lofty, who is incapable of going even one episode without humiliating himself in front of patients and staff.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Subverted:
-->'''Nikki''': Are you religious?
-->'''Comfort''': No, I'm a Catholic.
* CommutingOnABus[=/=]PutOnABus: Incidental characters (and EnsembleDarkHorse ones too!) Kath, Rhona, Kojo and Jill - all played by extras, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on what the writer's opinion is like]]. The trope isn't fully played straight though.
* CodeSilver: [[spoiler:Selena's death as this leads to her TakingTheBullet.]]
* DangerousWorkplace
* DeadpanSnarker: Jack, on occasion. Like when hiding from Rachel.
-->'''Jack''': Is she gone?
-->'''Lara''': Who?
-->'''Jack''': The Old Jill.

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Subverted [[spoiler:Selena outlives two different hypotenuses only to die, leaving [[BettyAndVeronica Harry and Nathan]] with no one.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Nadia.
** Connie and Lily in the most recent series, though progress has been erratic to say the least.

* DrJerk: Patrick, but is balanced out by being slightly TroubledButCute and the way he behaves towards Holly and, later, Lara.

* {{Expy}}: An expy of Music/MileyCyrus repeatedly appears as a [[GhostExtras background character]]. But she was CommutingOnABus from ''Series/HolbyCity''
** Also, the (now-infrequent, but not rarely seen) Music/LadyGaga expy, who never speaks. She dresses conventionally though.
* {{Fanservice}}: Multiple times, namely Alice, bit-characters Claire and Tasha, Zoe, Polly and (to a lesser extent) May Phelps [[IAmNotSpock (although it's the actress Laura Aikman, who's considered fanservice, not her character]].
** And for the women, Adam and Yuki, plus Charlie Fairhead to a lesser extent.
** Plus more recently, Kath, as mentioned below, who for some reason has attracted a fairly popular following.
** Amy Wren, who appeared as Kelly Oswald in the episode ''The Enemy Within''.
** More recently, [[LastNameBasis Staff]] [[NoNameGiven Nurse Waters]], a blonde nurse ''who has a cult following''!

* {{Flopsy}}: On occasion, this trope is PlayedForDrama.

* GhostExtras: Played straight, but also subverted much of the time too.
** However, some now become AscendedExtra characters. Or [[{{Fandom}} fans want them to be]], anyway.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and Charlie. Graduated to HoYay when Josh got PutOnABus.
** Dixie and Jeff [[spoiler:until his death.]]

* TheIntern: Lenny.
** Though Yuki is a [[TeenGenius classic]] [[NaiveNewcomer example]] of the trope, especially with [[spoiler:his discovery of a severed head early on]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Nathan, later on.]]
* LampshadeHanging
* LanternJawOfJustice: Sort of. Charlie imagined growing up to be a doctor with a Granite Jaw of Medicine.
* LawOfInversePaternity: [[spoiler: Selena finding out that Nathan is the father of her baby and not Harry.]]
* LastGirlWins: This applies for the majority of ships.
* LastNameBasis[=/=]NoNameGiven: Staff Nurse Waters (a blonde nurse with streaks of purple). First name is ''never'' revealed.
* LivingProp: Claire, Tasha, Karen, Ken - all extras (playing various hospital staff). The first two mainly appear in scenes where Ruth and Jay are present. The first two mainly appear in scenes where Ruth and Jay are present.

* LoveableRogue: Jack.
* LowerDeckEpisode
* MaternallyChallenged: Selena.

* MedicalDrama
* MsFanservice: Kath, the blonde nurse who appears in a few scenes. [[http://a.imageshack.us/img688/9053/casualtyextraunknown1.jpg Here's a photo of her, for those wanting to see]]
** Ramona Waters. No, don't confuse her with Ramona Flowers from ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' (played by Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead).

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Subverted - no one gets periods, just post-partum haemorrhages that they think are periods.

* OncePerEpisode: One of the main characters puking on another or themselves. Very rarely averted.
* PatientOfTheWeek: The only time the show averted this trope, it won a [[OscarBait BAFTA]]

* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Louis Fairhead.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Recent series have been prone to the occasional episode that breaks from the norm, typically focusing on a single plot line in a very odd way.
** Series 29 has several; ''The Road Not Taken'' features Zoe [[GroundhogDayLoop reliving the same day]] three times to stop patients dying. ''Exile'' is set almost entirely in Bucharest and has Charlie and Connie clashing with a gang to try and stop Louis selling his kidney. ''Holby Sin City'' features a noir-like plot where Ethan discovers a murder, heavily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ethan struggling to remember the term FemmeFatale throughout the episode, only remembering [[spoiler:after they've reported the fake-suicide murder]].

* SpearCarrier: Claire, Karen, Ken, Tasha - all extras (playing various hospital staff). The first two mainly appear in scenes where Ruth and Jay are present.
** Also, Kath as well. Who hasn't been getting '''any''' roles lately, much to fans' chagrin.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Jeff and Dixie, the ambulance paramedics.
** Big Mac and Noel.
* TooDumbToLive: Many characters are introduced in the ColdOpen with a confident statement along the lines of "Of course I know how to operate a chainsaw!"

* TrashTheSet: Holby City Emergency Department has been destroyed several times.
** The most recent of these was a fire, used to accommodate the show's move from Bristol to Cardiff. While the new set in Cardiff still retained the general shape and layout of the Bristol set, it is obviously quite different - both outside and in.
* TrueCompanions: One with a pretty high mortality rate, but it still qualifies.
* TheVoiceless: Kath, Kojo, Ken, Claire, Tasha.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Subverted by Patrick's numerous idiosyncratic attempts to propose to Lara failing, only to succeed when he does it the normal way.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Holly and Patrick. [[spoiler:They won't, thanks to bungled contracts.]]

Set in Holby General Hospital, the show follows the character development and personal lives of the staff which work there. Coming in at a whopping ''32'' series and over one thousand episodes, the cast is wide, varied and [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters constantly changing]], not to mention the numerous [[PatientoftheWeek Patients of the Week]]. Incidentally, ''Casualty'' has gained a reputation in recent years, similar to that of ''Series/TheBill'', for featuring many well-known British actors, and [[StarMakingRole launching the career]] of others.

** [[http://www.uk.castingcallpro.com/view.php?uid=250209 Amy Wren]], who appeared as Kelly Oswald in the episode ''The Enemy Within''.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Although called Holby City and the town is called Holby, -by '''does not''' appear in any place-names around Bristol. -by is from Old Norse ''by'' village, and is only found [[OopNorth in Northern England and Scotland]], so by default it should really be Hol''ton''', with the last element being Old English ''tun'' village. Holby (or Holton as it should be) would mean either "village by the wood" from Old English ''holt'' "wood" or "village by the hollows", from Old English ''holh'' "hollow" and the endings mentioned above.

* BitCharacter: Claire, Karen, Tasha, Ken - all extras (playing various hospital staff), who get to speak very rarely, but get mentioned by name.
** And Kath / Cath as well, see the MsFanservice section below.

* CaptainErsatz / {{Expy}}: Has ''inspired'' shows like ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' , ''Series/PrivatePractice'' to create expies of their characters!

* CommutingOnABus / PutOnABus : Incidental characters (and EnsembleDarkHorse ones too!) Kath, Rhona, Kojo and Jill - all played by extras, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on what the writer's opinion is like]]. The trope isn't fully played straight though.

* DeadpanSnarker: Jack, on ocassion. Like when hiding from Rachel.

* DesignatedVictim: Being a medical drama, a lot of characters suffer in Casualty, but few more than Ethan Hardy. He seems distracted in his first appearance because his mother has just died. Then he finds out he's working with his brother [[AloofBigBrother Cal]], with whom he has a [[SiblingRivalry constant, bitter rivalry]]. His asshole brother steals £15000 from him to give to his girlfriend's medical charity- which turns out to be a scam. He later finds out that his late mother wasn't really his mother- he was adopted. His real mother has Huntingdon's disease, a crippling, irreversible illness that has a 50% chance of being passed down. As his helpless birth mother dies beside him not long after they first met, he finds out he has inherited the disease, and of course Cal hasn't. Despite all of his brother's misdeeds, Ethan loves him and remains loyal to him- so of course, Cal is murdered by a cold-blooded racist who gets away with it. Cal's murderer ends up falling and getting gravely injured, and when he shows no remorse, Ethan watches him choke to death on his own vomit. This should be a victory, but Ethan is now haunted by how he allowed himself to [[InconvenientHippocraticOath betray his moral duty as a doctor]]. He hands in his resignation to the clinical lead, Connie, who doesn't accept it...because she would rather use the knowledge that he let a man die as blackmail. What's more when Ethan isn't being burdened by the universe, he's the type to get completely strung out with work and make mistakes that make him question his worth.
* DisasterDominoes: Every second or third episode is based around this idea. In the first episode of 2012 for example, a dog escapes from a back garden, this leads to a major traffic accident taking out 5 or 6 cars, which leads to one man being delayed in stopping a suicide attempt, in trying to save the suicide victim and dealing with the traffic caused by an accident, a gas main is accidentally destroyed causing an explosion which rips apart a housing estate. This in turn causes some nearby chemical drums to burst, creating a huge cloud of Hydrogen chloride, which ends up getting into the drain system causing part of the town to be evacuated. We end up seeing several hundred people affected by various burns and in the following episode it states there were at least 9 deaths. And all this happens on the same morning that the A&E department first reopens after a major fire so all the equipment is new and most of it untested. And this is just one episode.

* DysfunctionJunction: In a big way, once you tally up the [[{{Backstory}} backstories]]. If you didn't have a DarkAndTroubledPast before you came here, you will when you leave. {{Lampshaded}} by a, sadly, removed WebAnimation/YoutubePoop crossover with LeeEvans, featuring a group shot of the Series 20/21 cast with the voiceover saying, "You think you've got problems?"

* HospitalHottie: The characters are considered sexy [[{{Fandom}} by the fans]], but the sexiness is unintentional on the part of the production team. In fact, they don't ''emphasise'' it and they dress fairly ordinary, the women sometimes even have no make-up on ([[TropesAreTools unless they're injured, in which case, it's obvious]] - make-up for [[SpecialEffect special effects]].). Jeff, for some reason is MrFanservice. Same for its CompanionShow ''Series/HolbyCity''. ''Series/NurseJackie'' takes this UpToEleven though.

* LastNameBasis / NoNameGiven: Staff Nurse Waters (a blonde nurse with streaks of purple). First name is ''never'' revealed.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: though the production has gone through phases of trying to pass it off as a generic Everytown, there's no getting away from it: Holby is Bristol. It's even got the Clifton Suspension Bridge!

* RoadsideSurgery: the resuscitation room may as well be made an OR with how often it gets used for this. One of the most notable is when Sean and Nick have to operate on Adam, Jessica, and their kids after getting in a car crash that results in spinning off the road into a frozen lake. Though Holby does have an OR, it's still common practice.

* ShaggyDogStory: Adam and Jessica's relationship. Jessica embarks on an affair with Adam (it takes several months for him to even learn that she's married whilst trying to begin a relationship), whilst her own husband, unknown to her, is also having an affair, which is eventually publicly revealed. Jessica breaks off her affair after her son is almost killed in a car crash, and stays with her husband, Sean, for the sake of the marriage. She then discovers that she's pregnant, and doesn't know who the father is, but decides to assume it's Sean's for the sake of the marriage. Sean finds out about the affair, assumes that it's Adam's baby, and abducts their (Jessica and Sean's) two children, taking them to Saudi Arabia. He also sells their house and clears out their bank accounts, effectively leaving Jessica destitute, having to move into a flat on an extremely violent estate. Ultimately, after the baby nearly dies at 7 days old and she admits to Adam it could be his, she kidnaps the children back and discovers that the baby, Harry, is Adam's. She gets engaged to Adam after over 18 months of will-they-won't-they. However, the relationship comes under pressure almost immediately: on his first day as head of the department, Adam witnesses a junior doctor die right in front of him, when she's crushed by a falling lift in a burning department store he sent her into. Just when it seems like he's managed to find a balance between his work and his family, Sean returns, and the whole relationship is briefly destabilised again as he tries (but fails) to break them up. [[spoiler:Finally, their wedding day arrives, but before the marriage is made official, they are called back to the hospital to help with a minibus crash. Whilst the whole family is driving back to the wedding venue to complete the ceremony, Adam has to swerve to avoid a car, brakes too hard, and flies onto a frozen lake. Adam, Jessica and Harry are all submerged (the other two children get out fine), and back at the hospital, he has a meltdown in resus as he tries to operate on Jessica and Harry despite being in no fit state to do so. He then has to plea the only man capable of carrying out Jessica's life-saving surgery to do so, despite said man (Nick Jordan) no longer being in a fit state to work. The operation is carried out successfully, and just when it seems like things are finally going right, baby Harry dies before Jessica has come round from the operation. This storyline has thus far taken ''two years'' to get to this point, and if anything it's become worse and worse for the couple with very few patches of happiness.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: The aforementioned Jessica Harrison, who was introduced solely to be Adam's love interest and spent over two years in the show serving no other purpose than to be his love interest.

** Series 29 has several; ''The Road Not Taken'' features Zoe [[GroundhogDayLoop reliving the same day]] three times to stop patients dying. ''Exile'' is set almost entirely in Bucharest and has Charlie and Connie clashing with a gang to try and stop Louis selling his kidney. ''Holby Sin City'' features a noir-like plot where Ethan discovers a murder, heavily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ethan struggling to remember the term FemmeFatale throughout the episode, only remembering [[spoiler: after they've reported the fake-suicide murder]].

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Holly and Patrick. [[spoiler: They won't, thanks to bungled contracts.]]

* DesignatedVictim: Being a medical drama, a lot of characters suffer in Casualty, but few more than Ethan Hardy. He seems distracted in his first appearance because his mother has just died. Then he finds out he's working with his brother [[AloofBigBrother Cal]], with whom he has a [[SiblingRivalry constant, bitter rivalry]]. His asshole brother steals £15000 from him to give to his girlfriend's medical charity- which turns out to be a scam. He later finds out that his late mother wasn't really his mother- he was adopted. His real mother has Huntingdon's disease, a crippling, irreversible illness that has a 50% chance of being passed down. As his helpless birth mother dies beside him not long after they first met, he finds out he has inherited disease, and of course Cal hasn't. Despite all of his brother's misdeeds, Ethan loves him and remains loyal to him- so of course, Cal is murdered by a cold-blooded racist who gets away with it. Cal's murderer ends up falling and getting gravely injured, and when he shows no remorse, Ethan watches him choke to death on his own vomit. This should be a victory, but Ethan is now haunted by how he allowed himself to [[InconvenientHippocraticOath betray his moral duty as a doctor]]. He hands in his resignation to the clinical lead, who doesn't accept it...because she would rather use the knowledge that he let a man die as blackmail. What's more when Ethan isn't being burdened by the universe, he's the type to get completely strung out with work and make mistakes that make him question his worth.

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* CaptainErsatz / {{Expy}}: Has ''inspired'' shows like ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' , ''PrivatePractice'' to create expies of their characters!

* AlphaBitch: May Phelps, played by Laura Aikman, to a degree. Perhaps more than MadelineZima's character on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.