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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: A lot of Jacqui's behaviour, mood-swings and why her preferred mood of talking involves screaming at people, actually makes a ''lot'' more sense if you interpret her as having an undiagnosed case of severe manic-depression or borderline personality disorder.

* [[Ass Pull]]: The conclusion to the Jacqui and Gilly rape storyline. Flashbacks were retconned so that Jacqui actually said 'no', while earlier she had testified in court that she ''hadn't'' actually said no. So a clever storyline that started out as both Gilly and Jacqui being right turned into a Gilly bashing session that saw him [[Put on a Bus|leave the village]]. Needless to say, even the viewers who disliked Gilly aren't happy.

** Pete Buchanan is a sick pedophile who sexually assaulted Porsche McQueen when she was 15 years old and subjected her younger sisters, Celine and [[The Woobie|Cleo]] to varying levels of abuse. He later successfully manipulates his way back into Cleo's life and does everything he can to make sure she has no life or friends outside of him even after his true nature is exposed. Perhaps the worst thing about him is he acts like his treatment of Cleo is perfectly normal.

** [[Depraved Homosexual|James Nightingale]] is a ruthless lawyer prepared to do anything to get what he wants. After persuading Harry to sell his body to him, he blackmails the later's father Tony into selling his restraint to him by having Harry brutally beaten up and threatening to take things further if he doesn't comply. He also repeatedly harasses Harry for sexual favors.

** Silas, considered to be one of the most popular and interesting characters that ever appeared on the show. Oh and he's a 65-year-old ''serial killer''.

* [[Fan Myopia]]

* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: Callum/George has its fans.

* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Sarah Barnes dies when she goes parachuting & both parachutes fail. As she plummets to the ground, the camera stays with her for ''several minutes'' as she realises she's going to die & helplessly screams for help. The camera only cuts away several seconds before impact.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Sinead once openly mocked Jaqcui McQueen's fashion sense to the point of almost breaking up with Jacqui's cousin Bart over it. Few months down the line and Sinead's sense of style is the exact same as hers, tacky leather trousers, animal print tops, scraped back hair and all.

* [[Ho Yay]]: The early days had a lot of this. Kurt Benson (Jeremy Edwards) and Jambo Bolton (Will Mellor) spent rather a lot of time together topless and standing close to another.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: [[Serial Killer|Silas]]. He manages to get away with murdering his wife and three young girls while coming across as a lovely old man, and makes it look as if [[Hospital Hottie|Lindsay]] is going mad for trying to rightfully out him as being a murderer. He set up cameras in her home to watch her every move, and was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to remove them before the police searched the place. When Lindsay knocks Silas unconscious in the woods, he even manages to make out that he's been in France all morning. He then gets Brendan arrested for the murders, because he was starting to suspect him, and had warned Silas to stay away from Lindsay.

* [[Portmanteau Couple Name]]: Jacqui's actress coined one for the relationship between her character and Rhys Ashworth; Ja-Rhys