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=== The following trope examples contain unmarked spoilers. Troper discretion is advised! The marked spoilers are from Season Two. ===
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: A ''lot'' of the core cast is dead at the end of the first season. {{spoiler|Though Mao turns out to have been [[Not Quite Dead]].}}
** In fact, it's often something of a surprise (and a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|relief]]) when most of the characters focused on in a two-episode arc manage to survive intact.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The genocide against Contractors has been defeated and some leaders of [[The Syndicate]] are dead or imprisoned. On the other hand, a lot of characters have died, and while it's theoretically good that Contractors are now revealed to the public, there is the obvious danger of what an evil Contractor could do. Finally, it seems plausible that there are still Syndicate leaders alive who could threaten the protagonists in the future.
* [[Blood -Splattered Wedding Dress]]: Alice's white party dress, after Wei turns on her.
* [[Board to Death]]: Wei, to the Chen Long Tang executives.
* [[Conspiracy Redemption]]: Turns out Evening Primrose was trying to prevent a genocide of all contractors that the group Hei had been working for was planning. Hei has a bit of a temper tantrum at the suggestion that Amber, who he hates for whatever happened between them in South America, may actually have the moral high ground.
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: Surprisingly subverted at the very end. Eric Nishijima is backstabbed by his boss, his boss is then exposed by Kirihara. However, season two shows that not everything is resolved with their Organization.
* [[The Kid With the Leash]]: Subverted. It looks like Alice has Wei's leash, but he kills her with absolutely no provocation, remorse, or warning.
* [[Kill 'Em All]]: Most of the principle and recurring characters die during the final four episodes, leaving Yin, Hei and Kirihara as some of the only survivors. Mao's body is still alive, but his human mind (which was stored on a database somewhere else) had the plug pulled, effectively killing him.
** {{spoiler|Mao's mind was recovered in season two.}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Schrader. He's actually a [[Affably Evil|nice and chatty guy]], but thinks it's really great idea to indiscriminately eradicate some portion of humanity (thus cornering said people into trying [[Throwaway Country]] trick just to stop him) ''and'' bet the whole Earth (it's already ''all'' under [[Alien Sky]] undeniably connected to Gates and Contractors, remember?) on the validity of his theories. [[For Science!|In a single experiment]]. Which is supposed to be [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|non-repeatable]] even if successful. Why not, indeed?
** It helps that his reaction to Hei interfering in an attempt to destroy the Gate, leaving [[The Syndicate]]'s plan shot to hell, is absolute ''glee'' that he got something so cool to study the results of.
* [[Magical Defibrillator]]: Literally, but as such not quite an example of the trope. Bertha stopped Hei's heart briefly, only to quickly learn that this isn't the most effective way of taking down someone who can generate enough electricity to immediately start it again.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Kirihara's boss (of the Contractor-hunting police) is also the boss of [[The Syndicate]], which has been planning a genocide of the Contractors from the very beginning.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Subverted. The [[Mad Scientist]] thinks that his plan has been stopped because Amber and company blew up his particle accelerator, but it turns out his bosses had made a backup copy. He compliments them for doing this and not letting him know.
* [[One Last Smoke]]: Subverted twice. November decides that since he's dying, for once he ''doesn't'' have to smoke, and later, Hei stops Huang from having a cigarette when he says goodbye before the latter's [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Reality Warper]]: In a way Amber's power, as she can alter time, as well as Hei's/Bai's which involves altering matter on a quantum level.
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