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* [[Baby Talk]]: Sarah talks this way to keep Pandora calm and distracted while James takes a blood sample.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: James' pet, Jason.
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'''Jason''': *''purrs, rubs against James's leg''*
'''James''': You're a monster, Jason. A cute, lovable monster. }}
* [[Closer to Earth]]: This seems to be Sarah and James's relationship at first, but it's more that the two function
* [[Curious
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Gen can't wait to play with Pandora when she sees her. Once Sarah picks her up, she's reluctant to let her go. Or stop [[Baby Talk|baby talking]] at her.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: One for each main character.
** James lost his father to Alzheimer's Disease, which apparently destroyed his faith in god.
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** Sarah (a lesbian) really wants to be a mother, and has for a while. She was inseminated once, but developed ovarian cancer, which she almost didn't recover from. She's no longer sure fate wants her to be a mother.
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*** It's also been revealed that {{spoiler|when her "bible-thumping parents" found out she was gay, they refused to let her live in the same house}}.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: James.
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* [[Good Shepherd]]: Pastor Peter.
* [[Healing Hands|Healing Paws]]: A mouse with a presumably broken spine starts moving again after some contact with Pandora. This trope is mentioned, but James points out that he only assumed it had a broken spine because it wasn't moving when he found [[Cats Are Mean|Jason]] tormenting it.
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* [[Humans Are
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* [[I'm Taking Her Home
* [[Instant Web Hit]]: In order to prove Pandora isn't a hoax, James and Sarah upload some video footage to the internet. Sarah's friend Gen also does this, but her video is tellingly titled "Adorable Dora". It gets over 4.7 ''million'' views overnight.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Pandora suddenly turns vicious to protect an injured mouse.
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'''Ceyla:''' Because as far as she knows you're the one who broke its spine on the first place?
'''James:''' ...Oh, right. }}
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: [[Word of God]] is that, while the story will have religious elements, Pandora will never be proven to be supernatural in any way, nor will she ever be proven to be natural.
* [[Mix and Match Critter]]: Sarah observes that Pandora has elements of [[wikipedia:Canidae|Canidae]], [[wikipedia:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]], and [[wikipedia:Procyonidae|Procyonidae]], but with unusually large eyes for any of those families, and with a brain more like a primate's--and bipedal to boot! James believes that her very existence will require a radical reorganization of a lot of evolutionary family trees--[http://dissonance.comicgenesis.com/d/20111028.html unless, of course, "the only explanation is . . . extraterrestrials."] (Genetic engineering has also been suggested, but only the military might have the resources, and Pandora's clearly not intended as an [[Attack Animal]].)
* [[No Antagonist]]
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: James, although it only kicks in when he gets excited about science. (Sarah gets a different
* [[The Trope Formerly Known
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|Pandora gets one via a single word: "Yes." This is the first sign that she can mimic human speech, even if she doesn't understand it yet.}}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Mice?]]: Show Sarah a mouse outside of a cage, and she will scream. Loudly.
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