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'''''H<sub>2</sub>O: Just Add Water''''' is an Australian live-action series
* Emma Gilbert ([[Claire Holt]]), the "leader" of the group, who is a rather serious an responsible girl. She is a bit of a [[Control Freak]] and has powers to freeze water and manipulate ice, snow, and clouds. Her actress is noticeably missing from the third series; she left to film a straight-to-video prequel to ''[[The Messengers]]''.
* Cleo Sertori ([[Phoebe Tonkin]]) is the brunette of the group and a bit awkward but eventually becomes more outgoing. Her powers are manipulating the shape of water and she later gains the [[Razor Wind]] power too.
* Rikki Chadwick ([[Cariba Heine]]) is the "Wild Child" of the group, who in appearance and attitude is similar to Sam from ''[[
The series mostly is about the girl's powers and dealing with them in [[This Is Reality|real life]]. There were initially going to be only two seasons, but due to popular demand a third season was added, with several of the characters missing.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: And clueless and easily distracted, and readily accept some really bizarre excuses with no question.
** Averted with characters like Miss Chatham and Max who have experienced the mermaid problems and offer helpful advice to the girls.
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* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: This show is a pretty bad offender of this.
** [[Lampshaded]] in Season 3 when Rikki tells new girl Bella that she only likes Will because "he's the only guy in a five-mile radius not to swoon over her".
* [[Back for
* [[Bait the Dog]]: Charlotte spends most of series 2 trying to be nice to people, it's the main characters that are doing nasty things to her. This changes in the last four episodes.
* [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]: With Cleo as Beauty, although she started off as somewhat [[Hollywood Homely]].
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Season 2 character Charlotte. Sophie from Season 3 is rather clingy towards her own brother.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Not obvious at first but in Season 1 the girls are often coded by the color of their clothing: Rikki (the brawny one, heating power) wears red, Emma (the restrained one, ice power) light blue and Cleo (who gets often caught in the middle) wears purple/pink.
* [[Control Freak]]: Emma, and later Charlotte.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: averted in the first two seasons as the three leading actresses were still in high school, but the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 left them playing high school seniors while they were 20/21 in the final season.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The Lunar Eclipse in one episode was far too speedy. Same issue: {{spoiler|the comet in Season 3.}}
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* [[Hot Scientist]]: Dr. Denman. The characters even mention she looks more like a Baywatch actress than a scientist.
** In season 3, Cleo becomes one of these.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Each girl spends an episode wondering what her power is. When Rikki tries to find her power the first gesture she makes is the one [[Spider
* [[An Ice Person]]: Emma's powers, reflecting her character.
** This strangely parallels Sailor Mercury's powers changing with the introduction of Sailor Neptune in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', although with all the [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] in the show this is perhaps not quite an accident.
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* [[Image Song]]: Bella is fond of these (and the only one of he mermaids to do so), due to singing songs in Season 3.
* [[Irony]]: Becoming a mermaid ended Emma's career as the champion of the school swim team.
* [[Jerk
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The girls themselves in "Under The Weather" where it's raining outside so they fake being sick. They use their powers to fake some symptoms and they end up having the entire house quarantined in fear of a tropical disease. At the end Emma lies to say they faked being sick to get out of a biology exam. The girls don't get punished at all and the end of the episode even shows them about to go to a party. Most lenient parents ever.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Charlotte stealing Cleo's locket and making her believe that Lewis no longer cares about her.
* [[Kissing Under the Influence]]: All three girls kissed their love interests in Season 1 while under the influence of the full moon.
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* [[Overprotective Dad]]
* [[Playing Sick]]: The girls had to do this in one episode because it was raining outside, however things got a bit out of hand...
* [[Puppy Love]]: in-universe. One episode had Emma's younger brother Elliot trying to ask Cleo's younger sister Kim out. Kim just took advantage of him and kept bossing him around. He eventually got tired of her attitude and ditched her at the end of the episode.
* [[Put
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: The rare mermaid guide Lewis bought. The girls don't seem interested until Cleo thinks of a way to reunite her parents, and then it's lost while dealing with the wish-granting potion. There's no telling what other information was lost - even a way to only change in seawater, and stay human in freshwater?
* [[Scenery Porn]] / [[Real Place Background]]: Sponsored by Australia's Gold Coast tourist board and Sea World. Many Americans hadn't really heard of the Gold Coast before this, but wow, is it pretty.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers]]: Charlotte entered the moon pool alone. She developed all three of the girls' powers, and turned out to be the most talented at learning them. To put it mildly, this went to her head to the point of nearly killing Nate, and then Cleo's favorite dolphin, Ronnie.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** To various things, one being that Rikki does [[Spider
** The episode "Red Herring" is an allusion to the episode "Rumors" from ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' in which Cody Martin wants to change his look just like Emma and they both end up dyeing their hair red and they both see it and they both end up hating it.
** One of the episodes is called "[[Creedence Clearwater Revival|Bad Moon Rising]]".
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