Wouldn't Alison technically be the bigger bad? While not acknowledged as an enemy by the liars, she is the root of all their problems and she's behind the creation of the A's and the reason there's so much bad blood between the liars and everybody and she's manipulated them and corrupted them since before she disappeared and even after she came back and was supposedly nice again. Who convinced them to vouch for Cece? Alison. Who convinced Emily to take her turn at the game? Alison. Who got them to lie to cover up Aria's accidental killing of Shana? Alison. She's the one who made up the kidnapping story, etc and the one responsible for the Jenna thing which has been affecting them since the second episode. She's behind everything.
Alison's dad is a complete douche! (Major spoilers for the novels.) He knows that Alison has a twin! But when Hanna says that she thinks she saw Alison, he doesn't come to the logical conclusion, but the idea that Hanna was being a bitch. And what about the detective? The manner in which he talks to the girls is blatantly threatening and he's more than willing to act this way when they don't have their parents with them. Isn't that lawsuit territory?
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Well, I have no explanation for why they don't sue the cop, but for the first part, we can't assume that the adaptation is completely following the books, although it did by having Mona be A. Perhaps TV Ali has no twin, which would mean Alison's dad would have no reason to reach that conclusion.
But the only possible explanation for Hanna seeing Ali, as well as both Spencer's and Emily's dream sequences about her is that Courtney!Alison's twin does exist in this adaptation and that she's on the loose! And the girls have also proven that they're capable of proving when people are harassing them. Remember what they did with Hana's stepsister? It wouldn't take much to do that with the jerk detective.
Well, it might be the only thing that explains Hannah's Ali sighting, but Spencer and Emily's dreams could be just that.
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Except for MAYBE THE FACT ALI'S ALIVE?!
"Evil is the absence of God." Also, Leo Valdez is my imaginary boyfriend.
The closing credits scene where we see 5 Hoodies on a rack suggests to me the "-A Team" has 5 members, and thus may well be a Five Bad Band
Big Bad or The Dragon: Whoever was in the Red Coat at the end of unmAsked
The Dragon or Evil Genius: Mona
The Brute: Toby
being what's confirmed so far, but my current theory is
Big Bad: Courtney, Alison's Twin
The Dragon: Aria's split personality
The Brute: Toby
Evil Genius: Mona
The Dark Chick: I'm the least certain on, Cece could work, but I'm also thinking Ezra makes sense only in the context of my Dragon theory being right.
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Are there any tropes for Ezra's mother? And Ezra's mom herself made me think of categorizing the girls all as The Chew Toy. Even when A isn't involved, something happens to make their lives just that much tougher.
A is clearly a Magnificent Bastard, as was Allison, and I don't agree with the Hidden Villian statement, the person in the Red Coat at the end is just the Bigger Bad, who A is is fully revealed now.
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- Jail Bait: Ezra is attracted to Aria who is sixteen, and also his student. Although sixteen is the age of consent in most states in America, and it is not clear where the show takes place(actually takes place in Pennsylvania, which is what the PA after Rosewood stands for, so the age is 16), his being her teacher makes the relationship quite illegal. He also chatted with Alison in the past, and may have been attracted to her, although both Alison and Aria did lie and tell Ezra that they were college students and older then they actually were. It should be noted that this does not make him a Pedophile, as Pedophilia is an attraction to children that are in their preteen years, nor does this make him a Hebephile, which is an attraction to young teens that are still prepubescent. Allison was at either fifteen or sixteen, and Aria was either sixteen or seventeen. The encounter with Allison would have been statutory rape had they had sex.
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