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* VomitIndiscretionShot: In "Chapter 18", a group of monks emit a BrownNote that incapacitates a team of Division 3 soldiers, one of whom vomits through his helmet from the distress.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: VomitIndiscretionShot:
** Ptonomy vomits a stream of black sludge when the delusion creature in his body starts to emerge.
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In "Chapter 18", a group of monks emit a BrownNote that incapacitates a team of Division 3 soldiers, one of whom vomits through his helmet from the distress.
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* HappierHomeMovie: [[spoiler:Clark watches home movies of his husband Daniel after David wipes Daniel's memories during an interrogation.]]
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: PlayedWith in "Chapter 22". It ''is'' a whole episode flashback, but present-day David shows up via TimeTravel and it's implied that he is unwittingly creating/perpetuating a StableTimeLoop.

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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: PlayedWith in "Chapter 22". It ''is'' a whole episode flashback, flashback depicting Charles and Gabrielle falling in love and giving birth to David, but present-day David shows up via TimeTravel and it's implied that he is unwittingly creating/perpetuating a StableTimeLoop.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: PlayedWith in "Chapter 22". It ''is'' a whole episode flashback, but present-day David shows up via TimeTravel and it's implied that he is unwittingly creating/perpetuating a StableTimeLoop.
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* FormerlyFat: Clark remarks that he was a fat kid growing up because he and his mother had a "drinking game, but with ice cream" they would play while watching soap operas.
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* LimitedWardrobe: [[spoiler:Following his FaceHeelTurn at the conclusion of Season 3, David wears the same cult outfit for the entirety of Season 3, with the exception of changing into period-accurate clothes after successfully time traveling.]]

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* LimitedWardrobe: [[spoiler:Following his FaceHeelTurn at the conclusion of Season 3, 2, David wears the same cult outfit for the entirety of Season 3, with the exception of changing into period-accurate clothes after successfully time traveling.]]
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* LimitedWardrobe: [[spoiler:Following his FaceHeelTurn at the conclusion of Season 3, David wears the same cult outfit for the entirety of Season 3, with the exception of changing into period-accurate clothes after successfully time traveling.]]
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* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:Farouk in Season 3, although he's more of a RetiredMonster by that point in the series.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: ''Something'' apocalyptic happens in the future that is so dire Syd sends an OminousMessageFromTheFuture instructing David to team up with ''Farouk'', because they're going to need his help to prevent it. [[spoiler:It turns out David destroys the world, and Future Syd is hoping Farouk will kill him.]]
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* HunterOfHisOwnKind: The Eye possesses mutant abilities of his own and uses them to help Division 3 hunt down other mutants.


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* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Melanie's subconscious maze is haunted by a skull-headed minotaur that relies on a rickety wheelchair to get around. In "Chapter 18", Farouk manifests the creature in the real world ([[OrWasItADream maybe]]) and restores its withered body to that of a more traditional minotaur.


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* SkullForAHead: The minotaur of the maze.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: [[spoiler:Syd attempts to kill David in "Chapter 19" during her window of opportunity when he has been BroughtDownToNormal. The audience is led to believe she has succeed until a few scenes later, when we learn that her bullet collided with a bullet from Lenny's sniper rifle [[AccidentalAimingSkills that was intended for her]].]]

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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: [[spoiler:Syd attempts to kill David in "Chapter 19" during her window of opportunity when he has been BroughtDownToNormal. The audience is led to believe she has succeed succeeded until a few scenes later, when we learn that her bullet collided with a bullet from Lenny's sniper rifle [[AccidentalAimingSkills that was intended for her]].]]
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* AccidentalAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Syd attempts to shoot David after he has been BroughtDownToNormal in "Chapter 19", but Lenny manages to ''shoot the bullet out of the air with a sniper rifle''. That wasn't Lenny's intention though - she was just trying to kill Syd.]]


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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: [[spoiler:Syd attempts to kill David in "Chapter 19" during her window of opportunity when he has been BroughtDownToNormal. The audience is led to believe she has succeed until a few scenes later, when we learn that her bullet collided with a bullet from Lenny's sniper rifle [[AccidentalAimingSkills that was intended for her]].]]


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* CurseCutShort: Lenny cuts her own curse short with her own gunshot when she [[spoiler:attempts to shoot Syd with a sniper rifle.]]
-->'''Lenny''': Take that motherf-
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Happens to Switch in the final episode, which allows her to resolve the situation with the Time Eaters.

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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Happens [[spoiler:Happens to Switch in the final episode, which allows her to resolve the situation with the Time Eaters.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: How David could have potentially wound up, as seen in TheMultiverse episode.


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* MagicalHomelessPerson: How David could have potentially wound up, as seen in TheMultiverse episode.
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* TalkingAnimal: In TheMultiverse episode, the version of David that winds up trapped in a dreary desk job entertains himself by using his powers to make a mouse sing "Slave to Love" by [[Music/RoxyMusic Bryan Ferry]].
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* CoolAirship: Division 3 moves their operation to a spaceworthy one in Season 3.
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* MrExposition: Oliver and David's rational mind both serve this function in "Chapter 7".
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* OutOfFocus: In Season 3, Oliver and Melanie only appear in a single ADayInTheLimelight episode and Ptonomy barely appears at all. All three fail to appear in the GrandFinale.
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* SplitPersonalityTakeover: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:When Syd uses her power to do a FreakyFridayFlip with David, the Legion personalities in his mind are able to wrestle control of his body back from her before the flip has reverted.]]
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Farouk battles Legion inside David's mind in the GrandFinale.


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* TankGoodness: During a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, David manifests a tank to counter Farouk's katana.
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** David and Sydney have a ''disastrous'' one, since David is unaware of her FreakyFridayFlip powers. Unable to control David's abilities, Sydney commits and AccidentalMurder while in his body, in the process putting both of them on Division 3's radar.

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** David and Sydney have a ''disastrous'' one, since David is unaware of her FreakyFridayFlip powers. Unable to control David's abilities, Sydney commits and an AccidentalMurder while in his body, in the process putting both of them on Division 3's radar.
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* PuppeteerParasite: Farouk's EvilPlan in Season 1 is to puppeteer David in perpetuity, and failing that he puppeteers Oliver on a quest to reunite his consciousness with his physical body in Season 2.

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* AGodAmI: While facing off against a pair of time demons, David declares that he is God.

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* AGodAmI: AGodAmI:
** Farouk tells David that the two of them are gods in "Chapter 10".
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While facing off against a pair of time demons, demons in "Chapter 23", David declares that he is God.
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* CreatorCameo: Showrunner Creator/NoahHawley is one of the voices singing "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" at the conclusion of "Chapter 24".
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** In "Chapter 11", Farouk describes Charles as a meddling foreigner who came to Morocco so he could overthrow Farouk and play MightyWhitey because he thought he knew what was best for the people of another country. As we see in "Chapter 26", Charles came to Morocco with the sole intention of befriending Farouk, and Farouk attacked him either so he could be a PowerParasite or simply ForTheEvulz.

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* FirstKiss: While stargazing on the balcony of the psychiatric hospital, Charles and Gabrielle then [[HeldGaze gaze at each other]] for a moment before sharing their first kiss. It's the last clip of their FallingInLoveMontage, so the kiss signals that they've moved past the courtship stage and are now a couple.

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* FirstKiss: FirstKiss:
** David and Sydney have a ''disastrous'' one, since David is unaware of her FreakyFridayFlip powers. Unable to control David's abilities, Sydney commits and AccidentalMurder while in his body, in the process putting both of them on Division 3's radar.
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While stargazing on the balcony of the psychiatric hospital, Charles and Gabrielle then [[HeldGaze gaze at each other]] for a moment before sharing their first kiss. It's the last clip of their FallingInLoveMontage, so the kiss signals that they've moved past the courtship stage and are now a couple.
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* BodySnatcher: After losing his physical body following a dual in the astral plane, Farouk has been reduced to this.

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* BodySnatcher: After losing his physical body following a dual duel in the astral plane, Farouk has been reduced to this.
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** Farouk has this reaction when he tries and fails to read David's mind multiple times in "Chapter 26", realizing that Charles has turned the tables on him and ''he'' is now the one who has been LuredIntoATrap.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In "Chapter 22", Charles and Farouk's psychic battle would have occurred before Gabrielle receives a phone call from her husband (who by that point had already emerged as the victor), but because the show's visual effects budget is extremely limited, the audience doesn't get to see the epic telepathic duel onscreen.

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In "Chapter 22", 11", Charles and Farouk's psychic battle would have occurred before Gabrielle receives is shown in a phone call from her husband (who by that point had already emerged as {{Flashback}}... but not on the victor), but because the show's visual effects budget is extremely limited, astral plane. All the audience doesn't get to see sees is Farouk sitting in a chair with the epic telepathic duel onscreen.whiteboard exposition scene from "Chapter 7" reflected in his glasses, before he collapses onto the table, defeated.
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** Farouk turned the king he overthrew into a monkey, and keeps him in a cage in his former castle to further torment him.

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** Farouk turned the king he overthrew into a monkey, and keeps him in a cage in his former castle palace to further torment him.

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