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{{quote|''"It's all the comic's fault..."''|Cally Stone}}
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'''''Dark Oracle''''' is a Canadian television series that premiered on YTV in 2004. It follows twins Lance and Cally Stone, a pair of normal teenagers whose lives were turned topsy-turvy by the arrival of a comic book (the titular ''Dark Oracle'') that could predict the future. Every episode a new issue would arrive, resulting in the twins scrambling to head off whatever disaster the comic predicted. Unfortunately, this wasn't always easy, and the comic was excellent at misleading the twins, leading to numerous traumatising (and sometimes downright trippy) experiences. As the series progressed, the stakes grew increasingly higher, until the twins were not only trying to head off episodic problems, but fighting for their very existence.
Season 1 dealt with the comic's initial appearances, and introduced Lance and Cally to their comic book counterparts, Blaze and Violet. Problems were typically episodic in nature, and the only recurring villain was Omen, {{spoiler|a sometimes frog}}, sometimes high-school student who {{spoiler|had inflicted the comic upon them in the first place}}, and professed [[Dating Catwoman|an interest in
In Season 2, the comic returned, with Blaze and Violet (who had initially seemed to be little more than comic book characters) taking central stage as the new antagonists. The various comic book counterparts began to look a lot more like their real-world equivalents, and set into motion various plans to emerge into the real world while trapping their twins and their friends inside the comic (which leads the comic to add stand-ins for real world Lance and Cally to its cast of characters). The plot became more over-arching, with Lance and Cally trying very hard to head off Blaze and Violet's next moves. Vern became a more important antagonist, Omen returned, and Cally briefly gained a new love interest, Emmett. By the end, {{spoiler|Omen was dead}}, Blaze, Violet and [[Big Bad|their
''Dark Oracle'' was praised for its original concept and the generally good quality of its episodes. In 2005, it won the International Emmy for Best Children's and Youth Program. The series lasted from October 2004 to June 2006. A total of 26 episodes were filmed.
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* [[Acting for
* [[Action
* [[
* [[All Girls Want Bad
* [[Arc
* [[Art
* [[Badass
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Season 2 Violet looks like this in the comics, though not in the real world.
* [[Big Bad]]: Season 1, Omen. Season 2 went through [[Big Bad Wannabe|
** [[Big Bad
** [[Big Bad
* [[Blank Book]]: The comic arrives with the majority of the pages blank. As the episode progresses it fills in, eventually revealing whatever awful future is in store for the cast.
* [[The
* [[Bully
* [[Butt
* [[Catch
** Blaze says it to Violet in the [[Grand
* [[Chronic Backstabbing
* [[Co-
* [[Cool
* [[Creepy
* [[Darker and
* [[Dark World]]: The world inside the comic book shows all the signs of this. Decayed buildings, shadowy streets and alleys, rampant cult activity, gang warfare, a school system that more closely resembles a warzone, and a population that's at best apathetic and nihilistic and at worst outright destructive.
* [[Dating
* [[Dawson
* [[Deadpan
* [[Deceptive
* [[Different As Night and
* [[Dogged Nice
* [[Mr.
* [[Evil
* [[Evil
* [[Evil Is
* [[Evil
* [[Evil
* [[Evil
* [[Face Heel
* [[
** In the first episode, just before they receive the comic book, Lance tells Cally this:
{{quote|"You can learn a lot about life from a comic book."}}
** In the second episode (of Season One) Lance and Dizzy are discussing gaming techniques. Lance insists repeatedly that the Power of Three "works every time". {{spoiler|Guess how they defeat the [[Big Bad]] at the end?}}
* [[The
* [[Goth]]: A number of characters affect (or are supposed to be affecting) this style of dress. Seems to be fairly popular at the school, especially among Vern's group of whackos.
* [[Grand
* [[Grand Theft
* [[Hair-Trigger
{{quote|'''Dizzy:''' "Lance, what're you doing?"
'''Blaze as Lance:''' "Oh, just breaking this guy's arm." }}
** The guy in question had bumped into him on the stairs.
* [[Heel Face Revolving
* [[Heel Face
* [[Heroic
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: For viewers of Canadian television anyway. Annie is ''Zixx'' and Sage later appeared in an episode of ''[[Corner
* [[High School
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Lance and Cally would do anything to get rid of the comic and go back a nice, normal, boring life. So would {{spoiler|Sage and Dizzy once they get drawn into it}}.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: [[Big Bad Wannabe|
* [[In the Hood]]: Vern's comic book counterpart, who's always shown in a green hood and cloak.
* [[Insistent
* [[Involuntary
* [[
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]/[[Teens Are
* [[Lack of
* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Dizzy and Sage in Season 1.
** {{spoiler|[[Secret
* [[Loners Are
* [[The Man Behind the
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Blaze and Violet both.
* [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating
* [[Meaningful
* [[Mirror
* [[Mismatched
* [[Mysterious
* [[Names to Run Away From Really
* [[Nice
* [[Not-So-Harmless
* [[Ordinary High School
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: It's up to the viewer as to whether he'd actually redeemed himself, but {{spoiler|Omen}}'s decision to help Cally leads directly to his death in the appropriately titled "Redemption."
* [[Reptiles Are
* [[Sarcastic
* [[Sdrawkcab
* [[Shadow
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Cally ships Lance and Sage. Since they're the [[Official
* [[Sibling Seniority
* [[Sickeningly
* [[Small Name, Big
* [[Smug
* [[The Snark
* [[The Sociopath]]: Blaze, Violet, comic Sage. [[Villain of the Week]] Claudia might count as well.
* [[The Stoic]]: Simone
* [[Tattooed Crook]]: Violet has a small tattoo on her arm, and Sage's [[Evil
* [[There Are No
* [[Tome of Eldritch
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Dizzy sees himself as this to Cally.
* [[Unnaturally Blue
* [[Villainous Friendship]]: Vern and Simone are a Type III. She thinks of him as a friend, he doesn't seem to care about her at all, beyond having someone to talk to.
* [[Weirdness
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Annie. She doesn't appear in Season 2.
* [[You Can't Fight
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* [[Be Careful What You Wish
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: The two girls who torment Sage in "Through the Glass Darkly". Averted by Rebecca, a very pleasant girl who became Dizzy's girlfriend.
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty,
* [[Driven to
* [[G-Rated
* [[Hall of
* [[Kiss of
* [[Locked in a
* [[Names to Run Away From Really
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Comic book Sage's eye when she escapes into reality.
* [[Riddle Me
* [[Self-Fulfilling
* [[Sinister
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Dizzy gets one of these in the appropriately titled "Stalker" episode in Season 2. A crazed student named Juniper has a huge crush on him. They hit it off while working in the school cafeteria. She then beomes jealous everytime he talks to another girl. This, along with Dizzy finding her secret shrine of him in the cafeteria's freezer, ultimately leads her to lock him and Rebecca in said freezer. Ironically, her efforts only serve to {{spoiler|get Dizzy and Rebecca together}}. There was also [[The
* [[Sunglasses at
* [[Sword
* [[Toxic Friend
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