Pretty Little Liars (TV series): Difference between revisions

** In the eyes of Rosewood Toby is this for Spencer.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]] - sometimes it seems that Rosewood must be the perverts capital of America. The number of characters who lust after teenage girls is truly staggering - one is even a police officer and he dates a high school student without anyone raising an eyebrow. Many of the rest of the male characters have cheated on their partners.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Alison.

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: A combination of [[Adaptation Decay]] and [[Adaptation Expansion]].

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Ezra, of a [[Non-Action Guy]] variety. He repeatedly refuses to change Noel Kahn's grade, even when Noel threatens to tell the principal about Ezra's relationship with Aria. He sits at his desk, stoic, while Noel tells the principal, ready to face the consequences with dignity... but as it turns out, {{spoiler|the principal doesn't believe Noel's story, since he has a history of cheating and lying.}}

* [[Batman Gambit]]: In "Through Many Toils, Troubles, and Snares", the girls pull off a rather impressive one on A by {{spoiler|pretending to fight and quarrel with each other over fake evidence of A's identity, leading A to approach Emily with a deal.}} It doesn't quite work out like they'd hoped, since they don't learn A's identity, but they do come away with A's cell phone. A is understandably disturbed by this development.

{{quote| "You don't know the Biebs. You don't understand the Biebs...or his hair."}}

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Emily dates Maya (Veronica), Paige (Veronica) and Samara (Betty). She also has feelings for Ali (who seems to be a mixture of the two)

* [[Bus Crash]]: {{spoiler|Maya}} who was last seen a few episodes earlier before it was revealed she was dead.

* [[But Not Too Black]]: Maya.

* [[Cold Opening]]

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Sara Shepard, the books' author, appears as a substitute teacher for Ezra in the episode “Please Do Talk About Me When I’m Gone.”

** Emily has one of these with Alison in the second season after passing out.

* [[Deadly Prank]]: The girls and Alison planned on using a firework to play a prank on Toby. It backfired blinding Jenna in the process leading her to harbor resentment towards the girls.

* [[Determinator]]: Spencer. Despite so many of her theories about Alison's killer or A's identity turning out to be wrong she keeps on relentlessly pursuing every lead. Jenna once said that Spencer reminded her of a hungry terrier.

* [[Dirty Cop]]: Darren uses some questionable methods while he is investigating the murder of Alison although he doesn't do anything that is actually illegal. After Hanna gets arrested for shoplifting her mom starts a relationship with Darren to keep Hanna from getting in trouble. Thankfully she kicks him out of the house eventually. He usually targets Hanna for interrogation and harassed Emily in one episode.

** {{spoiler|Garrett as well.}}

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Averted in the case of Aria in the show, as her father refuses to leave the family when he and Ella separate.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: [[Subverted]]. {{spoiler|Mona}} falls off Lookout Point in a fight with Spencer, but she lives.

* [[Eating the Eye Candy]]: When Hanna and Caleb are in the shower (he's bathing, she isn't) and he turns around, she likes what she sees...

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Inverted; don't think that male viewers haven't noticed the four leads justify a name change to ''Gorgeous Little Liars''. The other females in the cast aren't exactly hard on the eyes either.

** {{spoiler|Alison and Ian}}

** Spencer and Ian

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Spencer drinks ''a lot'' of coffee.

* [[Name Drop]]: The rope song at the beginning of 'Through Many Dangers, Toils And Snares' clearly mentions (and is about) some ''Pretty Little Liars''.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Alison had been killed before the first episode and she only appears in flashbacks or dreams.

* [[Product Placement]]: The Microsoft Kin phone, Aria used it and showed off its Facebook app.

* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Jenna and Aria. Jenna was even called Snow White by Alison before she went blind.

* [[Race Lift]]: Emily is portrayed by Shay Mitchell who is Filipino and white. In the book, Emily is white and her mother even discourages her from being friends Maya because she is not white.

* [[Sinister Silhouettes]]: Played with. A isn't ''actually'' shown in silhouette, but is made to look like it by wearing a black coat and black gloves anytime she appears.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Spencer. Also, Caleb.

* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: Jenna has always been seen with her sunglasses on.

** Although, in a recent episode, Jenna is slapped by Hanna after Hanna finds out {{spoiler|that Jenna was using Caleb to get information from Hanna}} causing her sunglasses to come off.