Pretty Little Liars (novel): Difference between revisions

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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Anyone who is important to the plot of one or more books will probably die in the next. By the end of ''Wanted'', the dead people include {{spoiler|Ali (''maybe''), Toby Cavanaugh, Mona Vanderwaal, Jenna Cavanaugh, Ian, and Courtney.}}

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Alison wasn't exactly the nicest person around. {{spoiler|Ultimately subverted, as Alison wasn't the "victim" after all.}}

* [[Based On a True Story]]: The author claims at the series is loosely based off her experiences on "...Philadelphia’s Main Line."

* [[Based on a True Story]]: The author claims at the series is loosely based off her experiences on "...Philadelphia’s Main Line."

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Pretty much everyone in Rosewood. At worst they would be [[Hollywood Homely]].

* [[Big Eater]]: Hanna, played for drama.

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* [[Break the Cutie]]: In the books Jenna is teased constantly by Alison and her friends, abused by her stepbrother and then she is blinded by a prank gone wrong. She never holds the teasing against Aria and the others though, {{spoiler|and the prank was her idea, conceived in an effort to take her stepbrother out of the picture.}}

* [[Broken Bird]]: Aria

* [[Brother Sister Incest]] / [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Toby and Jenna.

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]] / [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Toby and Jenna.

** But also qualifies as [[Questionable Consent]].

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: The girls telling Darren that a second A was tormenting them after {{spoiler|Mona's death}}, and, more disturbingly, {{spoiler|Ali desperately trying to convince her parents that Courtney switched their identities. Her failure meant she was locked up in a mental asylum, where, presumably, everyone continued to insist that she was her sister. It's really no wonder she lost her mind as well.}}

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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Hanna is like this in her relationship with Sean causing him to dump her.

* [[Cure Your Gays]]: Emily's parents attempt to do this.

* [[~~Daddys~~ Girl]]: Hanna used to be like this with her dad before he remarried. However, after he married Isabel he preferred Kate to her causing her many insecurities.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Hanna used to be like this with her dad before he remarried. However, after he married Isabel he preferred Kate to her causing her many insecurities.

* [[Dark Secret]]: Pretty much everyone in Rosewood has one of these...

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Hanna has one with Alison while she is in the hospital. Subverted {{spoiler|because Alison was really alive at the time and visited Hanna when she was in a state between waking up and sleeping.}}

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* {{spoiler|[[Evil Twin]]: In ''Wanted'', Ali reveals that she had a twin, Courtney, who was evil. However, it turns out that she's just as evil.}}

* [[False Friend]]: {{spoiler|Mona befriended Hanna only as a part of her elaborate revenge plot as A. After Mona's death this of course leaves Hanna devastated because she thought Mona was a good friend of hers. Alison pretends to befriend the girls in the eighth book only so she can attempt to kill them in revenge because she felt like they were involved in stealing her life.}}

* [[Five Man Band]]: Arguably --

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Arguably --

** [[The Hero]]: Alison

** [[The Lancer]]: Aria

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** Spencer qualifies for both [[The Lancer]] and [[The Smart Guy]].

* [[Formerly Fat]]: Hanna used to be fat before undergoing a makeover and becoming bulimic.

* [[Four Temperament Ensemble]]: Hanna - '''{{color|maroon|sanguine}}''', Spencer - '''{{color|orange|choleric}}''', Emily - '''{{color|black|melancholic}}''', and Aria - '''{{color|green|phlegmatic}}'''.

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Hanna - '''{{color|maroon|sanguine}}''', Spencer - '''{{color|orange|choleric}}''', Emily - '''{{color|black|melancholic}}''', and Aria - '''{{color|green|phlegmatic}}'''.

* [[Flash Back]]: Every book is started with one. Also, the girls have flashbacks routinely about what they did with Ali.

* [[Food Slap]]: Ben spills his drink on Emily after finding out she cheated on him with {{spoiler|Maya}}.

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* [[Hot Teacher]]: Ezra

* [[Hot for Student]] / [[Hot for Teacher]]: Aria and Ezra, though they don't find out they're student-and-teacher until the day after they meet at a bar.

* [[I Ate What]]: Aria is a vegetarian, upon realizing in horror on her second week in Iceland that she ate a puffin.

* [[I Ate What?]]: Aria is a vegetarian, upon realizing in horror on her second week in Iceland that she ate a puffin.

* [[Irony]]: The reason that Alison's parents {{spoiler|hid Alison's twin sister, Courtney from the world}} was because they thought that {{spoiler|Courtney was crazy.}} Tragically, it turned out that {{spoiler|Alison, their "perfect little girl", was the one that would go around blackmailing people, ruining lives, tearing apart families, and killing people without even showing the slightest sign of remorse.}} The worst part? {{spoiler|[[We Could Have Avoided All This|Their "perfect little girl" never would have gone on her rampage had she not been accidentally subjugated to the lifestyle that her sister had grown up in--the one that ''they decided to put her through'']].}}

* [[It Gets Worse]]: Everything.

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* [[Les Yay]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Alison to manipulate Emily.

* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Maya, Emily and Trista.

* [[Luke I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Zig-zagged. Spencer thinks she might be adopted and finds a woman who claims to be her birth mother, but then it turns out that her parents are hers, and the woman she thought was her mother was in fact her gestational surrogate trying to get more money from the Hastings.}} Also, in a more straight example, {{spoiler|Spencer's dad is Alison and Courtney's father}}.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Zig-zagged. Spencer thinks she might be adopted and finds a woman who claims to be her birth mother, but then it turns out that her parents are hers, and the woman she thought was her mother was in fact her gestational surrogate trying to get more money from the Hastings.}} Also, in a more straight example, {{spoiler|Spencer's dad is Alison and Courtney's father}}.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Hanna's mom is rather protective of her. Even Darren lampshades this.

* [[Man Behind the Man]]: The girls first think A is Alison which turns out to be wrong because it is {{spoiler|Mona. However, Mona knew nothing about Courtney and after her death a new A appeared. It is revealed to be Alison who was actually behind it this time and she was far more malicious as A than Mona had ever been since she killed Jenna and Ian.}}

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** Topping those two is none other than Alison herself. {{spoiler|She used her skills to manipulate the girls into believing false information when she became A even more than Mona. Ali then used her skills to convince the girls she was their friend because she was ultimately trying to kill them.}}

* [[A Man Is Always Eager]]: Inverted. Hanna is the one pressuring Sean into sleeping with her. Sean joined a virginity club and plans on waiting until he is older.

* [[May December Romance]]: This series has several of these.

* [[May-December Romance]]: This series has several of these.

** Aria and Ezra

** Spencer and Wren

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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Mona's [[Valley Girl]] act barely hides what is an obviously sharp, observant and intelligent mind.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Ezra's reaction to finding out that Aria is a student in his English class. Understandable given how their [[Student Teacher Romance|situation]] could affect his career.

* [[Or Was It a Dream]]: Hanna is visited by Alison while she is in the hospital in a weird surreal dream-like state leaving us unsure where it was real or not but later it's revealed that {{spoiler|Alison really did visit Hanna because she was still alive.}}

* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: Hanna is visited by Alison while she is in the hospital in a weird surreal dream-like state leaving us unsure where it was real or not but later it's revealed that {{spoiler|Alison really did visit Hanna because she was still alive.}}

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Ali.

** {{spoiler|It is revealed in ''Wanted'' that Ali hadn't died at all; it was Courtney.}}

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* [[Revenge]]: This is Mona's primary motivation {{spoiler|leading her to become A.}}

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Hanna's mom in the books.

* [[Romantic Two Girl Friendship]]: Emily has this with both Courtney and Alison at different points in the books.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Emily has this with both Courtney and Alison at different points in the books.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Emily fits this trope with [[Even the Girls Want Her|more than a few girls]] ...

** In the books: Emily and Maya, Emily and Trista, Emily and Alison, Emily and Courtney.

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* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: Rosewood.

* [[Sticky Fingers]]: Hanna has a bad habit of shoplifiting from stores with her friend Mona. This is one one of the things that A blackmails her about.

* [[Teacher Student Romance]]: Aria and Ezra.

* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Aria and Ezra.

* [[This Is for Emphasis Bitch]]: '''A:''' I'm still here, bitches.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: '''A:''' I'm still here, bitches.

* [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]]: Spencer has no memory of what happened the night that Alison disappeared. {{spoiler|It was revealed Spencer had a similar episode to this when she was younger because she had ended up getting sick. Spencer had gotten into a fight with Alison over Ian. This caused Spencer to push Alison down before leaving the area. Spencer then repressed the memory because of the trauma. Spencer started to remember causing her to believe she may have killed Alison. It turned out that A was just messing with her before Spencer remembered the truth}}.

* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Toby