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** How exactly does being a Whitelighter work? Leo has said you are allowed to refuse the offer to become one, and you can resign from the position at any time. Later in the series Paige is forced into being a Whitelighter. The everpresent mental connection Whitelighters have with their wards changes between hearing whenever they are called to sensing when they are in danger to physically feeling their pain. Then there are the inconsistent rules about what Leo can and cannot heal magically...
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* UnexpectedlyRealMagic: One episode has three lonely depressed college girls attempting to perform a spell on three animals that turns them into attractive men. To their surprise, the spell works.
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** The girls' mother's ghost once casts a spell to remove one their grandmother's ghost cast on them (ItMakesSenseInContext). The spell rhymes "in the book" with "what was took." She wrote it when she was nine.
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* MyGrandsonMyselfMyGrandsonMyself: Leo died in WWII before being resurrected as a whitelighter. When Piper [[FridgeLogic somehow]] receives an invitation to a reunion for his unit, she convinces him to attend, passing him off as his own IdenticalGrandson. Though it's the only time they bother with the ruse. Even when Dan is digging around in Leo's past (and for whatever reason thinks a marriage certificate dated in the 1930s is a red flag for Piper's relationship with her twenty-something boyfriend), she doesn't bother telling him anything other than "I know what I'm doing."
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* HeadsTailsEdgeHeadsTailsEdge: When Phoebe gets a job and discovers her boss is having an affair, she flips a coin to determine whether she should lie to the boss's husband or not. It lands on its edge.
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* EnthrallingSiren: The villain of seaso 5's "Siren Song" - a demon that seduces married men with her song and then kills the couple in a fire.
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** In general, most things that get an introduction work differently for the remainder of the series.
*** When Leo first brings up his bosses, he mentions that they're "A group of elder whitelighters, called the Founders." They are never again referred to as the "Founders," instead being called the Elders (both of which turn out to be a NonindicativeName, since one needn't be an original nor particularly old to join their ranks).
*** When Sam uses a powder to remove the sisters' memories, Leo says he must've kept it from one of his witch charges, but later on, "Memory Dust" is something in a whitelighter's bag of tricks (though they don't specify where it comes from, so maybe they do have a witch supplying them with it, though if that was the case, it's more likely the Charmed Ones would just whip it up themselves when need be rather than asking Leo to get some).
*** Barbas's first episode states that he only awakens every ''1300 years''. His second episode handwaves his early reappearance. His later episodes don't even bother.
*** When Leo first brings up his bosses, he mentions that they're "A group of elder whitelighters, called the Founders." They are never again referred to as the "Founders," instead being called the Elders (both of which turn out to be a NonindicativeName, since one needn't be an original nor particularly old to join their ranks).
*** When Sam uses a powder to remove the sisters' memories, Leo says he must've kept it from one of his witch charges, but later on, "Memory Dust" is something in a whitelighter's bag of tricks (though they don't specify where it comes from, so maybe they do have a witch supplying them with it, though if that was the case, it's more likely the Charmed Ones would just whip it up themselves when need be rather than asking Leo to get some).
*** Barbas's first episode states that he only awakens every ''1300 years''. His second episode handwaves his early reappearance. His later episodes don't even bother.
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** A later episode reveals that their Grams had a relationship with a ghostly necromancer.
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* AlliterativeFamily: The Halliwell sisters and other members of the family too. too, to the point that the sisters' past lives (cousins in the same family tree) are identified in the family tree as "P. [Last Name]." In fact, when Patty (daughter to Penny and mother to Prue, Piper, and Phoebe) gave up Paige for adoption, her only request to the nun was that her name start with P. There's no explanation given (the founder of their line is named Melinda, so it isn't in her honor), and when they go back to before Phoebe was born, their Grams (Penny) dismissively scoffs "Another P, what do you know?" implying that it wasn't her intention.
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* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: P3 H2O [[spoiler:is a subversion as it was likely not written as one at the time. Nonetheless, the episode states that Patty and her Whitelighter Sam had an affair - thereby creating the opportunity for Paige to be bought in and allow the show to continue after Prue's death]].
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* TrappedOnTheAstralPlane: The show had more than one example, including an episode where Piper and Leo ended up on another plane thanks to a plot of Gideon's, and an episode where Piper was badly wounded by some demons and ended up on the astral plane, where she met Cole.
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* ResurrectionRevenge: The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain Of The Week]] Abraxas manages to still the Book of Shadows and resurrects some enemies the Charmed Ones have killed with their spells by reading said spells backwards. All of those villains go immediately after the Charmed Ones.
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** The feuding '''Mon'''tana and '''Ca'''lloway families from season 6 are the '''Mon'''tague and '''Ca'''pulet families from ''RomeoAndJuliet'', complete with StarCrossedLovers '''R'''ichard Montana and Olivia Calloway.
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* BuffySpeak: Paige's orb-telekinesis is triggered verbally (she has to call out the name of the object she wants to orb), which has led to her calling for "Icky stuff!" and "Weapon thingy!" In her defense, it works.
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* RefugeInAudacity: In "Sin Francisco" Phoebe makes a pass at her Ethics professor while under the influence of Lust and gets kicked out of class. How does she cover for herself when the sin crisis is resolved? By submitting a paper on sexual politics and passing the incident off as an ethical experiment.
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** In "Sin Francisco" Phoebe makes a pass at her Ethics professor while under the influence of Lust and gets kicked out of class. How does she cover for herself when the sin crisis is resolved? By submitting a paper on sexual politics and passing the incident off as an ethicalexperiment.experiment.
** When Chris realizes he split up his parents before his conception date, he enlists Phoebe and Paige to get them back together so he isn't RetGone. Paige's plan? Serving up aphrodisiacs (champagne, oysters, and chocolate strawberries) at ''Wyatt's first birthday party''. When Piper questions it, Paige first claims she doesn't know they were aphrodisiacs, and then claims she'd know they weren't appropriate at a child's birthday party if there were more kids around.
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** When Chris realizes he split up his parents before his conception date, he enlists Phoebe and Paige to get them back together so he isn't RetGone. Paige's plan? Serving up aphrodisiacs (champagne, oysters, and chocolate strawberries) at ''Wyatt's first birthday party''. When Piper questions it, Paige first claims she doesn't know they were aphrodisiacs, and then claims she'd know they weren't appropriate at a child's birthday party if there were more kids around.
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* BrokenAesop: The episode "Little Monsters" focuses on the sisters finding a baby manticore, an AlwaysChaoticEvil race, and debating what to do about it. Chris insists it has to be [[NeverSayDie vanquished]], Piper and Phoebe aren't comfortable vanquishing an infant, and Paige is firmly in the [[NatureVsNurture "Nurture trumps Nature"]] camp. In the end, Paige is proven to be right when the baby manticore's very human father promises to raise him right to ensure that he grows up to be a good person. This moral breaks instantly when one considers the Cole situation (half-human/half-demon who constantly fought his evil nature only for circumstances to conspire against him, leading to the sisters "rightfully" condemning him as irredeemable), not to mention all the other cases of "Evil" creatures having no choice in their alignment. But even within this one, self-contained episode, the moral can't stand up. The baby manticore is only proven "harmless" when it turns out his father is human, and this inherited humanity is what allows him the chance to be rehabilitated; if he'd had two manticore parents, he probably would have been vanquished alongside the pack. Then there's the fact that it's Paige citing "Nurture over Nature," specifically because she was [[RaisedByMuggles adopted]]. Paige, whose arc is about embracing her magical destiny. Paige, who immediately after stating this position runs off to cast a spell on Darryl. Paige, whose greatest wish is for a world wherein she doesn't have to hide her magic. Paige, who embraced her birthright as a Charmed One to the point that her biological family only warrants a few mentions after her early episodes. If Paige was right, and it was Nurture that always wins out over Nature, she should have a lot more trouble with the craft. At the very least, she wouldn't run to magic as a solution to her problems, instead focusing on more mundane means, like she grew up with.
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* MortonsFork: In one episode, Phoebe and Paige have been afflicted by a demonic possession, leaving Phoebe mummified and Paige dying. Cole lays out Piper's options: A) cast a spell that ejects the spirit possessing Paige which will save her life, but that spirit is the only one who can undo Phoebe's mummification, meaning she'll be trapped for all eternity, B) cast a spell to eject ''Paige's'' soul, leaving only the possessor with a now-healthy body who's capable of restoring Phoebe, or C) do nothing (or take too long making a decision) and Paige's body will die anyway, sending both Paige and the possessor to the afterlife, and leaving Phoebe stuck. Naturally, Piper finds a [[TakeAThirdOption fourth option]].[[note]]It's just option A, since Cole didn't account for the fact that the possession gave Paige access to the possessor's knowledge; once the possessor is expelled, Paige simply uses that knowledge to restore Phoebe.[[/note]]
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** There's also the Girdle of Hippolyta, which turns whoever wears it into one. Though Billie already had the StrawmanBall for the episode before putting it on, so maybe it's not ''supposed'' to work that way.
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** Phoebe tells this to Cole after he's been vanquished and tries to convince her to resurrect him. She tells him that she does still love him, but they've tried everything to make it work and it just isn't enough.
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** Phoebe and Cole also work like this, once she discovers he's a demon and he reforms. He tries to continue on after he loses his demonic powers, but Phoebe's too worried about his safety and won't let him participate.
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* ChekhovsGift: The girls receive numerous gifts from the magical community to celebrate Wyatt's birth, including geese that lay golden eggs and a unicorn. When the geese start laying regular eggs, it proves that all magic has disappeared from the world (which was probably unintentional on the gift givers' part), and the unicorn's horn serves as the only remaining source of magic, since unicorns aren't "of this world" and thus are unaffected by the magic drain (which very much ''was'' intentional).
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the episode "Careful What You Witch For," when Phoebe is given the power of flight that she can barely control, there's a scene with Piper and Leo in the attic making a plan... while Phoebe repeatedly flies by outside, calling for help. Leo doesn't notice her at all, and Piper's reaction is just a vague "Did you hear something?" Until Phoebe crashes through the window, of course.
