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In Season 2, the comic returned, with Blaze and Violet (who had initially seemed to be little more than comic book characters) taking central stage as the new antagonists. The various comic book counterparts began to look a lot more like their real-world equivalents, and set into motion various plans to emerge into the real world while trapping their twins and their friends inside the comic (which leads the comic to add stand-ins for real world Lance and Cally to its cast of characters). The plot became more over-arching, with Lance and Cally trying very hard to head off Blaze and Violet's next moves. Vern became a more important antagonist, Omen returned, and Cally briefly gained a new love interest, Emmett. By the end, {{spoiler|Omen was dead}}, Blaze, Violet and [[Big Bad|their leader]] defeated, and the comic permanently erased.

 

 

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* [[Acting for Two]]: Lance and Cally's actors (Alex House and Paula Brancati) also provide the voices of Blaze & Violet, and play them upon their respective escapes into the real-world. Similarly, Sage's actress, Danielle Miller, did double duty as her and her [[Evil Twin]] in Season 2's "Through a Glass Darkly".

* [[Action Survivor]]: The best way to describe Lance and Cally. They don't go looking for trouble, but they're more than capable of enduring it, despite being a pair of [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary High School Students]].

** [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Vern in Season 2. He's a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] for sure, but not nearly at Omen or Blaze and Violet's level.

* [[Blank Book]]: The comic arrives with the majority of the pages blank. As the episode progresses it fills in, eventually revealing whatever awful future is in store for the cast.

* [[Bully Hunter]]: Blaze and comic Sage, although it's got more to do with "how dare you do this to ''me''" than with any sort of altruistic motivation.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dizzy, constantly.

* [[Evil Makeover]]: As noted under [[Art Evolution]], Violet, Blaze, Sage, Dizzy, and Doyle's counterparts all look very different post-[[Face Heel Turn]].

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Omen, Vern, and {{spoiler|The Puppet-Master}}. Blaze and Violet might count as well, given that they at least dabble in magic. Subverted with Doyle: they repeatedly imply he's evil but he's anything but.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Violet and Blaze, between Seasons 1 and 2. They progress from being slightly more extreme counterparts to Lance and Cally to a pair of psychos out to kidnap the twins and force their way into the real world. Same thing happens to Sage and (presumably) Dizzy's counterparts.

** In the first episode, just before they receive the comic book, Lance tells Cally this:

* [[Goth]]: A number of characters affect (or are supposed to be affecting) this style of dress. Seems to be fairly popular at the school, especially among Vern's group of whackos.

* [[Grand Finale]]: "Redemption" which killed off {{spoiler|Omen and [[Big Bad|The Puppet-Master]]}}, had {{spoiler|Vern}}'s [[Heel Face Turn]], returned Lance to reality and Blaze and Violet to the [[Dark World]], and wiped the comic from existence.

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Blaze, Violet and the other comic book denizens intend to pull a variant of this on Lance, Cally and their friends: they plan to drag the twins into the comic, allowing themselves to escape into the real world and take over their identities.

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Blaze.

'''Blaze as Lance:''' "Oh, just breaking this guy's arm." }}

** The guy in question had bumped into him on the stairs.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: You need a pen and paper to keep track of Omen's sideswitching.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Omen and Vern}} in the last couple of episodes.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: For viewers of Canadian television anyway. Annie is ''Zixx'' and Sage later appeared in an episode of ''[[Corner Gas]]''. Emmett, Cally's Season 2 boyfriend is Nathan Stephenson, alias Robby of ''[[Radio Free Roscoe]]''. Cally herself appeared on that show as a [[Temporary Love Interest]] for one of the characters, and Vern was Ted of [[Those Two Guys|Ed and Ted]], the recurring comic relief.

* [[High School Dance]]: A few times. They inevitably end badly, too.

* [[In the Hood]]: Vern's comic book counterpart, who's always shown in a green hood and cloak.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]/ [[I Am Not Weasel]]: Nemo/ {{spoiler|Omen}} is a frog, not a toad.

* [[Jerkass]]: Omen, Vern, Blaze and Violet are extreme examples.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]/[[Teens Are Monsters]]: The bullying, petty cruelty, and cliquism at Lance and Cally's highschool is pretty bad. Poor Sage probably suffers the most from it. If the images in the comic are any indicator, Blaze and Violet's version is even worse.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Blaze and Violet both.

* [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]]: Just ask Cally. Her relationships and would-be relationships are repeatedly torpedoed by her efforts to avoid the comic's predictions. Dizzy's luck isn't much better, his relationship with Rebecca being seriously strained, and even Lance and Sage's relationship is put under pressure. Conversely though, there's a good chance that Lance and Dizzy wouldn't ''have'' dating lives if the comic hadn't forcibly pushed them and their respective girlfriends together.

* [[Mirror Monster]]: Constantly. It's the only way that the characters from the comic can enter the real world and vice versa. One notable example had Violet and Blaze chasing Omen through a hall of mirrors during the grand finale. A variant had Violet appearing on a baby monitor while Cally was baby-sitting.

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Both of Sage's counterparts feature this in one form or another: the brown-haired girl in the orange dress has the normal version, while [[Evil Twin|comic Sage]] has one normal eye and one silvery metallic one.

 

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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Season 1, Episode 9, "Idolised". Cally wishes for popularity in order to get her ex-best friend Annie back. She almost gets mobbed to death by students who now worship her as though she were a rock star.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: The two girls who torment Sage in "Through the Glass Darkly". Averted by Rebecca, a very pleasant girl who became Dizzy's girlfriend.

* [[Kiss of Life]]: In "Through the Glass Darkly." See [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]] for the details.

* [[Locked in a Freezer]]: Dizzy and Rebecca in Episode 6, Season 2, "Stalker".

* [[Red Right Hand]]: Comic book Sage's eye when she escapes into reality.

* [[Riddle Me This]]: Season 1, Episode 9, "Scavenger". All the clues in the scavenger hunt take the form of riddles.

* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Cally's Fashion show in Season 1 Episode 5, "Fashion Queen". The comic prophecisises that Violet's will be a disaster, so Cally tries to do the exact opposite of whatever Violet does. Unfortunately, Violet keeps changing her mind, so Cally does as well, leading to this trope.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Dizzy gets one of these in the appropriately titled "Stalker" episode in Season 2. A crazed student named Juniper has a huge crush on him. They hit it off while working in the school cafeteria. She then beomes jealous everytime he talks to another girl. This, along with Dizzy finding her secret shrine of him in the cafeteria's freezer, ultimately leads her to lock him and Rebecca in said freezer. Ironically, her efforts only serve to {{spoiler|get Dizzy and Rebecca together}}. There was also [[The Bully]] who stalked Cally in the pilot.

* [[Sword Fight]]: Season 2, Episode 4, "The Game". Lance and a Violet-posessed janitor briefly engange in one, with Lance nearly being killed by the [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana-wielding]] janitor.

* [[Toxic Friend Influence]]: Claudia to Cally in one episode. Justified by the fact that Cally was all but friendless after Annie and the popular crowd dropped her, and saw Claudia as a strong person deserving of emulation.

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