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* [[Abominable Snowman]]: In one episode, a friendly Yeti saves the Misfits. Once by [[Timmy in a Well|leading the Holograms to them]] and later by carrying Roxy and Pizzazz back to nearby village after they were poisoned.
* [[Action Girl]]: Jem, the Holograms, and the Misfits.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: For some reason, the Jem doll always had blond hair – even when other similar looking characters had pink hair. The realistic-style promotional art (such as [http://www.loony-archivist.com/jem/primer/images/article/jem_cast.jpg this]) gave her pink hair with blonde bangs.
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** ''Father's Day'' and ''A Change of Heart'' are also depressing episodes, especially when you consider that Pizzazz and Minx are both screwed over by the Holograms and their self-righteousness and, whether deserved or not, it's pretty sad.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Regarding Video and Clash. Video has mentioned that maintaining her career as a filmmaker is difficult work, and that she has to make each film top the other. Clash refuses to believe the Misfits don't care about her and performed a [[Heel Face Door Slam]] of her own doing in ''Video Wars''. The one person Video has to outdo is herself, and Clash is her own worst enemy. Despite they're bickering, they're [[Not So Different]].
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Laura who has been shown to suffer depression attempts to jump out of a window. Subverted, in that at the time she believes she can fly.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: CURSE YOU BOBBY BRADDICK, CURSE YOU!
{{quote|'''Jerrica:''' ''(to Laura)'' You are addicted to the drugs!}}
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Stormer is the one who composes most of the Misfits music, and is as the overall creative force of the group. Do her band mates actually give her the credit? Nope.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: Jerrica has to save the president in one episode.
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Pretty much everyone. Most of the main characters have hair larger than their own heads.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Girls Love Their Daddies]]: Pizzazz's attention grabbing is usually an attempt to get affection from her father. After her mother abandoned her, her dad didn't know how to give her the love she needed, so he spoiled her, and is sadly aware that he's somewhat responsible for the way she is now. And Clash is genuinely adored by her father, and vice versa, although he's almost as big a jerk as she is (to other people). Pizzazz originally believed that "no dad adores their kid", until she saw Clash and her dad together and was visibly shocked.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In one episode The Misfits and Eric save the Holograms from a bomb.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: The Misfits' song "Trapped" is definitely this trope.
* [[Fake Band]]: The Holograms, the Misfits and, later, the Stingers.
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* [[Magical Girl]]: A literal magician. Maeve Eldritch, a.k.a. Astral, a professional magician and psychic investigator whose teacher studied under Harry Houdini. She appears in ''That Old Houdini Magic'' as part of a charity event, and helps the Holograms expose Rapture's latest con at pretending to channel the spirit of Harry Houdini.
* [[Magic Idol Singer]]: A rare western example.
* [[Magic Music]]: Jem learns how to do this in "[[Shangri La]]".
* [[The Merch]]: Shirts and other merchandise are available from [http://www.welovefine.com/nby.php?c=2#/inst&id_lang=1&q=148&c=2,3,5,12,8,9,10,11&o=n&p=1 WeLoveFine] and/or [http://search.80stees.com/?category=80s+Cartoons&theme=Jem+and+the+Holograms 80sTees.com].
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: This show was made to promote the toyline.
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* [[Never Learned to Read]]: "Roxy Rumbles" revealed that Roxy has this problem.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: ''Father's Day'' and ''A Change of Heart'' both feature this, as the Holograms mess up things for Pizzazz and Minx, sending them back to their old selfish ways.
* [[No Immortal Inertia]]: No one ages in [[Shangri La]], but time catches up with them once they leave.
* [[Non-Singing Voice]]: Jem / Jerrica had a speaking voice provided by Samantha Newark, but a singing voice provided by Britta Philips.<ref> Samantha Newark IS a singer, however.</ref>
** Rival Pizzazz was voiced by Patricia Albrecht when speaking, and Ellen Bernfeld (aka disco singer Menage) when singing.
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* [[Positive Discrimination]]: When Christy Marx was told that they'd be adding a new Misfit, she asked to have a black misfit in order to have some diversity, but that was rejected for being offensive. She was told that American, British or Australian white villains were acceptable, hence Jetta becoming British. It wasn't an issue when she wrote bad-girl Minx as being of German origin.
* [[Post Cyber Punk]]: Synergy, is based around this aesthetic.
* [[Talking Down the Suicidal]]: Laura's attempt to fly (while under the effects of a hallucinogenic drug) was not a suicide attempt ''per se''. But Jerrica's attempts to talk her down fit with this trope.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Charlie Adler voiced Eric Raymond, Zipper, and Techrat.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: There is ''nothing'' that cannot be solved by singing. Except an overcomplicated love life.
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* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: Jerrica goes through this a ''lot''. Synergy doesn't help either – a rather [[Broken Aesop]] episode had Jerrica take on a ''third'' identity through Synergy's subtle manipulation, and come to the conclusion that Rio really loved her because...he fell in love with her a third time. Even though ''she was a completely different person''.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: "The Misfits in Hawaii" has shades of this.
* [[Shangri La]]: The Holograms initially want to find it to improve their music, and later to learn [[Magic Music]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: During The Misfits' "I Am a Giant" number in part one of ''The Music Awards'', Pizzazz does an impression of [[King Kong]], with black and white (except for her) footage, and attacking biplanes.
* [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl]]: Stormer, but not Aja.
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* [[The Unfavorite]]: Something of a [[Broken Aesop]] in the show is that Pizzazz's father spoiled her because he was incapable of showing affection, and Pizzazz's nasty personality is partially related to her acting out to get genuine affection out of him. By the time he's ready for this, he can't stand the self-centered Prima Donna he's created and instead treats ''Kimber'' as a surrogate daughter.
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: The show takes a very lopsided approach to cheating. In one episode, "Midsummer Night Madness", Jem, in addition to having a relationship with Rio in both her Jem and Jerrica persona, creates a new identity to test him. He fails when he shows interest in "Jamie", causing her to doubt his faithfulness - though she's later convinced to be okay with it because he only keeps falling for ''her'' personalities. However, in later episodes – "Riot's Hope", for example – Jem flirts with and nearly kisses Riot.
* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The Jem Star earrings.
* [[Universe Bible]]: There is, in fact, a "Jem Bible" that Christy Marx used to distribute to fans until a copyright complaint stopped her. Excerpts from it were included on the first DVD release.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The show's focus on then-current popular music, media, and fashion leads to the show feeling ''extremely'' dated several decades after its 1985 release.
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** Stormer left because she was tired of the others' never taking her thoughts into consideration. She's probably under contract with them as well, but the reason Eric hadn't brought this up was because she signed another contract with Kimber to produce an album. He was hoping the two wouldn't come through on their end of the bargain, and he would be able to acquire a share of Starlight Music. When the album came out and was a hit, the Misfits finally admitted that they needed Stormer without trying to bribe her. She agreed to come back, on the condition that they remember she is an equal member of the group and her thoughts would be taken into better consideration.
** The other Misfits were all shocked that Pizzazz chose being with Riot over them, and all showed concern when they realized Rapture was screwing her over.
* [[No Waterproofing in the Future]]: Jem's earrings are unreliable when under water.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: During season three, Hasbro scrapped the Jem toyline due to declining sales. Not only were several lines canned and the show canceled, but dolls for the new characters were never released, such as The Stingers. Furthermore, the fifth Misfit, Graphix was never introduced.
** Christy Marx even said there were plans for a Jem movie with a pair of sound-controlling psychic twins, as well as an evil counterpart to Synergy. This got scrapped after the failure of Sunbow's ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' film.
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