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Not to be confused with the band [[Pantera (Music)|Pantera]].
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* [[Action Girl]]: Kira/Tigris
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Collin Jacoby, one of the [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=2057 school newspaper people]. Andre never specifies what was on that computer...
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Explanation for the transformation, though justified because there ''is'' a scientific explanation for it. (May be [[Techno Babble]].) But, Leo probably explains it best: "[[A Wizard Did It|Magic]]".
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The three rules of Panthera: 1) Never reveal your secret identity to anyone, 2) Obey the team leader in all team-related matters, 3) Anyone who makes a cat-related pun [[The Swear Jar|puts $5 in that jar]].
{{quote| '''Pardus''': ''So'' unfair. These Nazis ''double'' the fine if I call it "the kitty".}}
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: {{spoiler|Gyeoknoho, the North Korean [[Humongous Mecha]]}}. [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1641 Leo] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this. Aside from that, someone in the forums mentions that {{spoiler|[[More Dakka|having guns for claws]]}} is a really stupid move, since they break really easily.
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* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Erica serves this role for {{spoiler|Oosterhuis, though she was his wife. She died of cancer, so Oosterhuis is looking for the cure for cancer... by [[Moral Event Horizon|experimenting on innocent people]]. Her resemblance to Onca is uncanny...}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tigris has her moments in the second story arc.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] : Taylor did right [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1413 here].
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Duh?
** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Leo.
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* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: The aforementioned cat fight just barely qualifies in terms of "friend", as Tigris hated Onca from the start and Onca more or less handed her the perfect reason to try and clobber her.
* [[Fire Breathing Weapon]]: {{spoiler|Gyeoknoho}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Five
** {{spoiler|[[Shock and Awe]]}}
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Jason
** [[The Lancer]]: Kira
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** [[The Chick]]: Taylor
** Note that after {{spoiler|Ari's [[The Reveal|Reveal]] and subsequent death}}, the dynamics have shifted slightly.
* [[Four
** One could also include Aristotle in the ensemble as such (based on personalities): Ari is Phlegmatic, Onca is Supine, Pardus is Sanguine, and Leo and Tigris are mixes of Choleric and Melancholic.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Valeska's tidbit in [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1169 panel four].
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** [[Genre Blind]]: [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1682 Jang] in chapter six. "{{spoiler|Gyeoknoho}} is '''glorious'''! {{spoiler|Gyeoknoho}} is '''invincible'''! {{spoiler|Gyeoknoho}} -- *KABOOM*" Forumgoers were quick to point out that that's number 24 on the [[Evil Overlord List]].
* [[Gonna Fly Now Montage]]: [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=952 Complete with music.]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Seems to be played straight at first with {{spoiler|Valeska Köhler}}, but subverted when {{spoiler|it turns out Ari is the [[Big Bad]]}}. {{spoiler|Later played straight with Kira's facial scar after 8.10, though.}}
* [[Humongous Mecha|Homungous]] [[Animal Mecha|Animal]] [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha]]: {{spoiler|The North Koreans call it Gyeoknoho or the Raging Tiger.}}
** [[Impossibly Graceful Giant]]
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* [[The Mole]]: The current plot seems to be setting up {{spoiler|Sarah Pavlopoulos}} as one of these.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1581 here].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Leo develops a case of this after they get out of Korea. Minor case: after promising to rip Fletcher's throat out if he [[Knight Templar Big Brother|hurts Taylor in any way, shape or form]], because Fletcher is a good kid and probably the only person in the world who knows what she's going through besides Jason himself and Kira. A more serious example happens after they get back from Korea - after {{spoiler|Ari's [[The Reveal|Reveal]] and death}}, Jason realises that a lot of the things he always assumed were true or the right thing to do don't make sense anymore in light of {{spoiler|their drastically-shortened lifespan}} and has one of these when he realises that he pulled his own sister into this mess.
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: Poor Onca as she tries to learn Growl: apparently she likes [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=914 boiling flowers and fucking fruit.]
* [[My Sister Is Off Limits]]: Played with as Jason is clueless about Fletcher taking a liking to Taylor until Kira points it out to him, when he promptly goes into stunned denial of the possibility.
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* [[No One Could Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Leo in the collapsing Ovid-building.}}
* [[Useful Notes/North Korea|North Korea]] and pretty much all the tropes that go with it.
* [[Oh Crap]]: All of Panthera when {{spoiler|1=[http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1274 Ari goes] [[One
** Usually coupled with [[Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises]] in this series.
** Chin-Hwa gets a moment one [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1614 here].
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* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: Tigris [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1175 doesn't seem to be bothered] at all by her own fire.
** And used again [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1652 here]. Tigris gets blasted with a flamethrower and notes that it "tickled".
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Ari/Oosterhuis}} going [[One
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Done perfectly [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1629 here].
{{quote| '''Pardus''': That's the "Right Behind You" look isn't it? Man I hate that look. }}
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'''Leo''': {{spoiler|...no. "Leo" is the lion mask I wear into battle. And yes, the mask is deeply a part of me. But my mind -- my soul -- is '''''human'''''. My name is '''''Jason''''', and it's '''''me''''' who has to live with the things I do.}} }}
* [[School Newspaper Newshound]]: Chloe Lachapelle, as seen [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1700 here]. She goes as far as to try to plant a bug at the team's usual table. She later quits the school newspaper, though, {{apoiler| and it's heavily implied it's because she's Oosterhuis' new lackey and exposing the "Outing Club" would expose her own secret}}.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Done to {{spoiler|Oosterhuis}} [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1389 here].
** [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Pardus: " {{spoiler|I only serve ONE [[A God Am I|God]], and it ain't YOU.}}"
* [[Shut Up Kiss]]: Done by Kira to Jason [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1803 here]. Subverted when Jason gently pushes her away.
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* [[The Swear Jar]]: The infamous [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=690 Cat-Pun Jar].
* [[Talking Animal]]: Averted; the members of ''Panthera'' invented their own language, Growl, "a language of panther-friendly sounds... Sorta like Esperanto meets death metal".
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Kira.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|Gyeoknoho again. Lessee: [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear-powered]], [[Humongous Mecha]], [[Panthera Awesome|tiger-shaped]], [[More Dakka|guns for claws]] and it [[Breath Weapon|breathes]] [[Fire Breathing Weapon|fire]]. Partially justified, since North Korea is too busy showing off to bother about practicality, as shown when it takes only one blast of fire from Tigris to blow it up.}}
** From a more recent chapter:
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** [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Fletcher - don't get him angry.
*** Leo has some of this later. [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1761 Poor Fletcher...]
** [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Pardus and Onca - goofy and inexperienced, respectively.
** [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Onca and Tigris - those girls can ''fight''. {{spoiler|1=[http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1334 Oosterhuis, too.]}}
** [[Smoke Shield]]: Leo [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1369 here].
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* [[Unsound Effect]]: [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1620 Glare]
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Although Taylor/Onca's initial transformations are quite definitely ''[[Involuntary Shapeshifting|not]]''.
* [[Well
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