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Haven is an American supernatural drama television series loosely based on the Stephen King novel ''The Colorado Kid''. The one-hour drama premiered on July 9, 2010, on Syfy. The series will be the first property to be produced for Syfy Pay channels around the globe, excluding Canada and Scandinavia.

 

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* [[Acting for Two]]: Cristián de la Fuente in "Friend or Faux".

* [[Action Girl]]/[[Plucky Girl]]: Agent Audrey Parker.

* [[Agent Scully]]: Nathan makes some half-hearted efforts in this direction, as he'd really ''like'' to be living in a rational world.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Subverted in the "Trial of Audrey Parker" regarding Julia and Duke.

** {{spoiler|Duke has a variation. By killing one Troubled person, anyone else afflicted by that ability (i.e., direct blood relations) is cured of it permanently.}}

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: In "As You Were", a group of main and secondary characters go to an isolated resort, and we are introduced to a new character. Rather than the newcomer dying, {{spoiler|Eleanor (who had been in six of the nine episodes)}} died instead.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: The Troubled in the season 2 finale has the ability to bring people back as ghosts, {{spoiler|so long as he personally buried them.}}

* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: This is basically the explanation for Audrey, Nathan, and Duke's roles in Haven.

** Special mention has to go to the mayor's son. Everyone likes him at eye contact. He is infinitely annoyed by this because they refuse to listen to him, instead just focusing on trying to be as friendly with him as possible.

*** The fact that Chris Brody is a cynical loner just makes this even more of a sucky blessing from his perspective.

** One of the suckiest afflictions so far would have to be Dwight's, which allows him to ''attract bullets toward himself''. He's not even resistant to them, either, so he wears a vest all the time. He can't even use a regular gun; when he goes hunting, he uses a bow.

*** Dwight was an Army Ranger serving in Afghanistan when the ability first manifested itself which in his case was suckiness turned [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Happens in "The Hand You're Dealt".

* [[Blow You Away]]: The Troubled in the first episode.

** And the second season finale, where {{spoiler|Audrey is kidnapped, and either Nathan or Duke may or may not have killed the other.}}

* [[Cool Loser]]: Audrey. This is changing quickly since her arrival in Haven though.

* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: The Miami Incident, Macau, and the time Max Hansen {{spoiler|failed to kill Vince Teague.}}

* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Nathan changes completely when he is around babies.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Nathan's reaction to {{spoiler|being temporarily fired as Chief of Police.}}

** Reverend Driscoll in "Butterfly".

* [[Enemy Without]]: The Dark Man in "Ain't No Sunshine" is disembodied rage.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Although it's not the babies' fault, in "Ball and Chain", they age their fathers and kill them. Thus, Duke will never get to meet Jean, his daughter.

* [[Feel No Pain]]: Local cop Nathan Wournos can't feel anything except Audrey's touch.

** Also {{spoiler|Nathan's real dad Max Hansen.}}

* [[Freak of the Week]]

* [[Girl of the Week]]: Jess Minion to Nathan.

* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: The Red Sox and Yankees finished a game {{spoiler|in which the Red Sox overcome a 10 run deficit}} before noon. Even the Patriots' Day game in April starts at 10-11 a.m. Not technically impossible, but highly improbable, since non-high-scoring games between the two teams run 3-4 hours. The point is that plot-wise, Audrey uses her foreknowledge of it to {{spoiler|prevent people from dying and stop the [[Groundhog Day Loop]], which alphabetically, is very close to this trope.}}

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: In "Audrey Parker's Day Off", Audrey has to relive the same day over and over. Significantly, {{spoiler|her injuries transfer between loops so by day 5 she is injured and extremely tired.}}

** Fortunately, being Haven Nathan believes her when she says she's reliving the same day.

'''Audrey:''' Your second favorite Bill Murrary movie, you told me. }}

* [[Half the Man He Used To Be|Half the Woman She Used To Be]]: A victim in "Silent Night".

* [[Inspired By]]: Stephen King's "The Colorado Kid". Both pieces contain a mysterious murder of a person only identified as The Colorado Kid... and other than one or two details, that's pretty much it.

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Gun dealer [http://i51.tinypic.com/2l9313r.jpg Little Mike] in the season 2 premiere.

* [[Just Friends]]: Nathan and Audrey.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|The Reverend.}}

* [[Kill and Replace]]: A Chameleon, [[Monster of the Week|antagonist]] of "As You Were" has this a modus operandi. It gets close to the victim, acquires everything about them, and kills them in the process of turning into them. It doesn't like doing this, and even sought out Audrey for help (notably she was only knocked out instead of dying). The only reason wasn't caught the last time The Troubles were around was because it [[Replacement Goldfish|replaced someone who had just died]]. And the person's wife didn't want to lose him.

* [[The Lancer]]: Duke, whether he wants to be or not.

** It's hinted this may be related to the Colorado Kid. {{spoiler|Duke mentions that when they found him, no one remembered anything afterwards.}}

** However, it is now fairly obvious that several of the townspeople, such as Chief Wournos, Vince, and Dave knew everything but purposely withheld the information from Audrey.

* [[Little No]]: Duke's response to his father and the Reverend's attempts to get him to fight for them against the Troubled and Audrey in particular.

* [[Living Shadow]]: The [[Freak of the Week]] in "Ain't No Sunshine".

* [[Love Cannot Overcome]]: Nathan's love interest Jess Minion initially seemed to think all the Haven weirdness was cool...but being attacked by a living shadow was more than she could handle, and she exited in a hurry.

* [[The Masquerade]]

* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Audrey is at least in her seventies, since she was Lucy twenty-seven ago, Sarah before that, and is implied to have even more forgotten identities. She might even be hundreds of years old.}}

* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: The password to Audrey's laptop is {{spoiler|"lucy", her mother's name, or possibly her own}}. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] after she realizes Nathan broke into it.

* [[Personality Powers]]: The [[Pyrokinesis|pyrokinetic]] in "The Hand You're Dealt" has a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hot temper]].

* [[Poisonous Person]]: A man in "Business As Usual" has sweat that dries out and mummifies anyone who touches it. He's not the villain, though.

* [[Psychic Static]]: Used by Duke in "The Trial of Audrey Parker".

* [[Psychoactive Powers]]: Getting upset is what triggers the abilities of several of the Troubled.

** Not to mention {{spoiler|the original Audrey Parker.}}

** Julia Carr is away in Africa during Season 2.

* [[Rapid Aging]]: In "Ball and Chain", the babies age over the course of a weekend by sapping life from the father.

* [[Reality Warper]]: The Troubled in "Butterfly" brings dreams to life.

** The snow globe in "Silent Night".

* [[Red Herring]]: Each episode's antagonist is ''never'' the first suspect.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: What Audrey and Duke use to, unarmed, take down two armed men, one of which can read minds. Audrey feeds Duke outrageous instructions via an earpiece, and neither telepath nor partner can figure out what the hell Duke is doing because he's acting completely insane and apparently hasn't a coherent thought in his head. When they are too confused to react, Audrey and Duke disarm them.

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Audrey and Nathan at the end of Season 2.

* [[Retired Badass]]: Vince is strongly insinuated to be one in the first season finale.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: Duke's plan.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Duke in "Harmony"... and how.

** And not just his shirt, but damn near everything in "The Trial of Audrey Parker". Rowr.

** In "As You Were," one of Audrey's birthday presents is a book called ''[[Misery|Misery Unchained]]''. Vince awesomely describes it as "signed by the author just before that lady chopped off his foot".

** Haven, Maine was the name of the town in ''[[The Tommyknockers]]''.

*** In "The Trial of Audrey Parker", we see ''The Tommyknockers'' in a shot of Duke's bookshelf.

'''Agent Howard''': Hey, he was a genius. What happened to him in the last few years was a tragedy, but that's besides the point. }}

** Season two opens with a boy in a raincoat putting a paper boat in a puddle and watching it go down the sewer, like in ''[[IT]]''.

** Syfy lists all the [[Stephen King]] references on [http://www.syfy.com/haven/stephenking/ the show's website].

** Season two also has this exchange:

'''Audrey:''' "First, tricorders are for readings..." }}

*** When Fraudrey goes missing in ''"Love Machine"'', Duke calls her [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey II]] when searching for her.

** {{spoiler|Turns out the woman actually is Audrey.}}

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Duke seems to be dragged between the various factions, despite his best attempts for some straight answers.

** Audrey often calls out people who omit the fact that they know something about Lucy or Sarah.

** The message from his father that Duke finds in "Business As Usual". {{spoiler|"Duke- If you’re reading this, then I haven’t survived. You are my Son. My heir. It’s up to you to finish my work. You must kill her." Attached to the letter is a picture of Audrey.}}

** Non-verbal one in the second season finale. {{spoiler|The man with the tattoo that will evidently kill Duke? ''Nathan''.}}

* [[When Trees Attack]]

* [[Wipe That Smile Off Your Face]]: A victim in "Sketchy" is subjected to this and turned into [[The Blank]].

* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Lucy Ripley}} killed Simon Crocker. Unusually for this trope, Duke doesn't seem to want revenge on {{spoiler|Audrey.}}

 

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