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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In season 2, Slade experiments on Koen's blood to learn more about the Cleverman's abilities. Cancer is presented as a pathogen that inflects and destroys cells, when it's actually the result of abnormal cell growth.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:Charlotte eventually learns that Jarrod has been experimenting on her and that they're child has Hairy DNA]].
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* RessurectiveImmortality: As the Cleverman, Koen recovers from things like torn-off fingers and [[spoiler:bullets in the head]]. This has limits, as shown with Uncle Jimmy's demise.
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* RessurectiveImmortality: ResurrectiveImmortality: As the Cleverman, Koen recovers from things like torn-off fingers and [[spoiler:bullets in the head]]. This has limits, as shown with Uncle Jimmy's demise.
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* TimeSkip: Six months pass between seasons 1 and 2.
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* TookALevelInBadass: After the TimeSkip, Koen is able to access more of his powers and has grown into a leader.
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* FantasticGhetto: The Zone, where the Hairypeople are kept along with the poorest people. Any help has to come from charity as the government has more or less abandoned it.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: In episode 6, [[spoiler:when preparing to face down the CA coming to clear the Zone]], Nerida and Koen are among the few with actual weapons. The others make molotov cocktails, set up traps using oil drums, and the rest are carrying whatever bludgeons they could make.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Kora, it turns out. She's cold to people who are rude to her but is kind to her friends.
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* VaguenessIsComing: Uncle Jimmy was preparing for something, [[spoiler:and Slade's remark about building an ark seems to indicate a catastrophic event is coming]], but it's not known what they're preparing for. Justified as the only people who could clarify are either dead or untrustworthy.
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* VaguenessIsComing: Uncle Jimmy was preparing for something, The emergence of the Hairypeople, and later the Namorrodor, indicate that something is very wrong [[spoiler:and Slade's remark about building an ark seems to indicate a catastrophic event is coming]], but it's not known what they're preparing for. exactly what's coming. Justified as the only people who could clarify are either dead or untrustworthy.untrustworthy, and Koen doesn't know enough of his own powers to interpret the signs.
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* {{Dystopia}}: The government has free reign to do whatever it wants with the Hairypeople, lower-class people are only marginally better off, the population is heavily monitored, and the government is completely corrupt.
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* VaguenessIsComing: Uncle Jimmy was preparing for something, [[spoiler:and Slade's remark about building an ark seems to indicate a catastrophic event is coming]], but it's not known what they're preparing for. Justified as the only people who could clarify are either dead or untrustworthy.
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* RessurectiveImmortality: As the Cleverman, Koen recovers from things like torn-off fingers and [[spoiler:bullets in the head]]. This has limits, as shown with Uncle Jimmy's demise.
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* SlaveBrand: Played with. The Hairies are branded by the authorities once they have been apprehended, though they are not officially slaves. A branded Hairy is easier for the Authorities to recognize. They know where to look on the back of the neck for the burn mark.
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* SlaveBrand: Played with. The Hairies are branded by the authorities once they have been apprehended, though they are not officially slaves. A branded Hairy is easier for the Authorities to recognize. They know where to look on the back of the neck for the burn mark. This doesn't stop some Hairies, like Araluen, from actually being enslaved, though.
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* LegoGenetics: [[spoiler: Slade]] funds and runs research into Hairypeople DNA and ways to synthesize it into an enhancing serum for humans.
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* LegoGenetics: [[spoiler: Slade]] funds and runs research into Hairypeople DNA and ways to synthesize it into an enhancing serum [[BioAugmentation serum]] for humans.humans.
* MagicVersusScience: Averted thus far; the supernatural experiences of the Cleverman are very separate from the experiments of [[spoiler: Slade]], although he does seek Koen as a test subject to further his Hairypeople research.
* MagicVersusScience: Averted thus far; the supernatural experiences of the Cleverman are very separate from the experiments of [[spoiler: Slade]], although he does seek Koen as a test subject to further his Hairypeople research.
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* DiegeticSwitch: At the end of the teaser of the final episode, the theme song is briefly played as diegetic music with a "cheap radio" audio effect, before the credit sequence proper starts.
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* DiegeticSwitch: At the end of the teaser of the final episode, the theme song is [[ThemeTuneCameo briefly played played]] as diegetic music with a "cheap radio" audio effect, before the credit sequence proper starts.
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* CainAndAbel: Waruu and Koen, respectively. Although they both have their moral pitfalls, Waruu is antagonistic and malevolent toward Koen.
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* LegoGenetics: [[spoiler: Slade]] funds and runs research into Hairypeople DNA and ways to synthesize it into an enhancing serum for humans.
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* GuineaPigFamily: Charlotte Slade has had trouble conceiving. Her husband is [[spoiler: a bit of a MadScientist and he impregnates her with a Hairy-mutated embryo]] under the guise of a fertility clinic.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: In this dystopian society, security drones and cameras are ''everywhere''.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Ash is cheating on Blair with Koen.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Ash is cheating on Blair with Koen. Waruu, with Belinda.
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cards''' (in the US broadcast only)
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* MuggingTheMonster: The ColdOpen of the first episode, in which four hoons sexually harass a young woman on a bus who turns out to be Hairy, and get more than they expected.
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* {{Fainting}}: Koen's quickie sex with his girlfriend is interrupted by this as the Cleverman power enters him.
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* {{Fainting}}: Koen's quickie sex with his best friend's girlfriend is interrupted by this as the Cleverman power enters him.
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* RedheadsAreUncool: Subverted. Koen's girlfriend is a redhead. She's very sweet, very caring, and was very disgusted when she learned what Koen's double cross of the Hairies resulted in.
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* RedheadsAreUncool: Subverted. Koen's Blair's girlfriend Ash is a redhead. She's very sweet, very caring, and was very disgusted when she learned what Koen's double cross of the Hairies resulted in.
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Australian rapper Briggs both performs the theme song and plays a recurring role as Maliyan.
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* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler:Ash's death]], Koen wanders into the Zone and barely blinks when one of the locals puts a gun to his neck. When the man hesitates, Koen pulls the trigger himself. He survives it, but it's pretty clear he wouldn't have cared if he didn't.
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* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler:Ash's death]], Koen wanders into around the Zone and barely blinks when one of the locals Djukara puts a gun to his neck. When the man hesitates, Koen pulls the trigger himself. He survives it, but it's pretty clear he wouldn't have cared if he didn't.
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* MamaBear: Araluen plays a quiet SexSlave for the sake of her family and the other people she's trapped with, but when she realizes her daughter is in danger, she kills her captors in full TranquilFury mode.
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* MamaBear: Araluen plays a quiet SexSlave for the sake of chance to escape and look for her family and the other people she's trapped with, family, but when she realizes her daughter is in danger, she kills her captors in full TranquilFury mode.
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* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Cora's dialogue goes subtitled, as she's mostly around Koen and Blair who can't understand her. She only gains subtitles around Aunty Linda [[spoiler:and Koen in "Terra Nullius".]]
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* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Cora's dialogue goes subtitled, unsubtitled, as she's mostly around Koen and Blair who can't understand her. She only gains subtitles around Aunty Linda [[spoiler:and Koen in "Terra Nullius".]]
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* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Koen is apparently GenreSavvy enough to realize he has a HealingFactor [[spoiler: after the finger that got torn off heals in a matter of minutes]]. To prove it to his girlfriend and friend -- and to himself -- he takes a sharp knife and slits his wrist vertically, only to watch it heal in seconds.
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* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Koen is apparently GenreSavvy enough to realize he has a HealingFactor [[spoiler: after the finger that got torn off heals in a matter of minutes]]. To prove it to his girlfriend and friend friends -- and to himself -- he takes a sharp knife and slits his wrist vertically, only to watch it heal in seconds.
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* FantasticRacism: Against the Hairypeople, obviously, who have it especially bad since even the regular public sees them as subhuman.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Koen is pretty quickly established as this.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Koen is pretty quickly established as this. CharacterDevelopment turns him into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* MamaBear: Araluen plays a quiet SexSlave for the sake of her family and the other people she's trapped with, but when she realizes her daughter is in danger, she kills her captors in full TranquilFury mode.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Since the world is a MoralityKitchenSink with few characters who are truly innocent, nearly every character gets called out at one point or another. Waruu and Koen are the most common recipients, but Uncle Jimmy, Aunty Linda, Djukara, and many others get turns at pulling this trope or having it pulled on them. Sometimes, they even do it to each other in the same conversation.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Since the world is a MoralityKitchenSink with few characters who are truly innocent, nearly every character gets called out at one point or another. Waruu and Koen are the most common recipients, but Uncle Jimmy, Aunty Linda, Djukara, and many others get turns at pulling this trope or having it pulled on them. Sometimes, they even do it to each other in the same conversation.conversation.
* YourCheatingHeart: Ash is cheating on Blair with Koen.
* YourCheatingHeart: Ash is cheating on Blair with Koen.
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* SacrificalLion: Maliyan, one of the HotBlooded leaders in the Zone and a supporting character [[spoiler:is killed by Waruu at the season's end to show how far he's fallen.]]
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* SacrificalLion: SacrificialLion: Maliyan, one of the HotBlooded leaders in the Zone and a supporting character [[spoiler:is killed by Waruu at the season's end to show how far he's fallen.]]
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* TheAtoner: Blair eventually joins the Hairies [[spoiler:and is on the front lines when it's time to fight back]] as a way of atoning for what happened to the family he sold out.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: The sadistic prison guard gets Djukuru to cooperate by electrocuting his father in front of him until he breaks.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: The sadistic prison guard gets Djukuru Djukara to cooperate by electrocuting his father in front of him until he breaks.
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* SacrificalLion: Maliyan, one of the HotBlooded leaders in the Zone and a supporting character [[spoiler:is killed by Waruu at the season's end to show how far he's fallen.]]
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* {{Telepathy}}: Cora first contacts Koen using this. [[spoiler:As a mark of him growing as the Cleverman, he's able to communicate with her at the end before he sends her back.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Matthews shows Araluen footage of her people dying in the Zone, tells her she'll soon be the last of her kind, and assumes that because she's his SexSlave she's too broken to do anything. She strangles him, electrocutes her handler, and escapes.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Matthews shows Araluen footage of her people dying in the Zone, tells her she'll soon be the last of her kind, and assumes that because she's his SexSlave she's too broken to do anything. She strangles him, electrocutes her handler, and escapes.]]
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* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Djukara notes that shooting Koen didn't change anything, [[spoiler:and later turns down the opportunity to shoot Blair for the same reason]].
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's anyone's guess whether Waruu is a WellIntentionedExtremist or a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist, complicated by his horrible treatment of Koen, his FreudianExcuse, his violent and jealous tendencies, and his genuine desire to save the Zone. [[spoiler:At the end of the season, he sides with Slade and furiously rants at the people of the Zone when they don't accept him as their leader, but also tries to fight the Namorrodor and has a very ambiguous expression when Koen finally steps up and kills it. At the final scene when they face down the CA, he's nowhere to be seen.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The season ends on one, [[spoiler:with Koen rallying the people of the Zone to face down the CA coming to wipe them out. The episode cuts off moments after a scout runs in, announcing their arrival]].
* HolyIsNotSafe: Slade tries to gain control of the Dreaming. The Dreaming isn't malevolent, but it doesn't take well to being toyed with, either.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Beyond the instinctive sensing and healing, Koen doesn't have the first idea of how to be a Cleverman.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Beyond the instinctive sensing and healing, Koen doesn't have the first idea of how to be a Cleverman.
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* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:Slade derives a solution from his Hairy experiment subjects that will add on 100 years of life. Waruu takes it and starts exhibiting Slade's SocialDarwinist views and a LackOfEmpathy, referring to a Hairy he killed as a "cancer" and making grand speeches about leading the community into a new era]]. In this case, it's ambiguous how much of this is their base personalities being let loose and how much is the experiment changing them.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Djukuru, one of the main Hairies in prison, gets publicly shaved to shame him after he beats a couple prison guards.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Djukuru, Djukara, one of the main Hairies in prison, gets publicly shaved to shame him after he beats a couple prison guards.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Djukuru, one of the main Hairies in prison, gets publicly shaved to shame him after he beats a couple prison guards.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Djukuru, one of the main Hairies in prison, gets publicly shaved to shame him after he beats a couple prison guards.guards.
* WhatTheHellHero: Since the world is a MoralityKitchenSink with few characters who are truly innocent, nearly every character gets called out at one point or another. Waruu and Koen are the most common recipients, but Uncle Jimmy, Aunty Linda, Djukara, and many others get turns at pulling this trope or having it pulled on them. Sometimes, they even do it to each other in the same conversation.
* WhatTheHellHero: Since the world is a MoralityKitchenSink with few characters who are truly innocent, nearly every character gets called out at one point or another. Waruu and Koen are the most common recipients, but Uncle Jimmy, Aunty Linda, Djukara, and many others get turns at pulling this trope or having it pulled on them. Sometimes, they even do it to each other in the same conversation.
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* PoliceBrutality: Being a dystopian future, this is common against Hairies and the people of the Zone.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The young woman that Koen rescues. He sees her as a much older woman at times and she seems to have powers of her own. Whoever she is, she's [[TheVoiceless not talking]].
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The young woman that Koen rescues. He sees her as a much older woman at times and she seems to have powers of her own. Whoever she is, she's [[TheVoiceless not talking]].[[spoiler:Later clarified as her being an ancestral spirit.]]
* BarredFromTheAfterlife: A variation, where a spirit is simply unaware of where they need to go. [[spoiler:Might also be UnfinishedBusiness, as it's the Hairy girl killed in the first episode, and Koen has to apologize to her and guide her on her way.]]
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* CoolOldLady: The old woman who shelters Latani and then forges a fake ID and special contact lenses to help her escape the authorities.
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** The old woman who shelters Latani and then forges a fake ID and special contact lenses to help her escape theauthorities.authorities.
** Aunty Linda, who's knowledgeable, kind, and sharp-tongued when she needs to be.
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** Aunty Linda, who's knowledgeable, kind, and sharp-tongued when she needs to be.
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* HeelRealization: Two-for-one in "A Man of Vision", when Waruu's wife confronts him about [[spoiler:killing a man]] and he finds he has no excuse for it, and when Koen [[spoiler:breaks down crying when he remembers the Hairy girl that was killed because he sold her family out]].
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* MustMakeAmends: After Koen's HeelRealization, Aunty Linda invokes this trope to convince him to help a boy who's been haunted.
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* BigBrotherBully: In case his completely uncaring reaction to Koen having his finger torn off didn't confirm Waruu as this, a flashback reveals that he used to bully Koen for being biracial.
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* BigBrotherBully: In case his completely uncaring reaction to Koen having his finger torn off didn't confirm Waruu as this, a flashback reveals that he used to bully Koen for being biracial.over having a white mother.
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* AmplifierArtifact: Possibly the aged waddy (traditional hunting club) Uncle Jimmy gave to Koen.
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* AmplifierArtifact: Possibly the aged waddy Nula Nula (traditional hunting club) Uncle Jimmy gave to Koen.
