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* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: A common theme, especially given how young most of the main characters are.

** Clarke is the leader of the Sky People at around 17/18. Lampshaded by Abby and Kane talking about Lexa’s place as Commander.

** Selecting the next Commander involves taking the Nightblood children, holding a conclave where they all battle each other, and the last one standing is the new commander. Though Lexa was in her early 20s (still young for a leader) when we meet her, she became the Commander when she was 12.

** Octavia wins the final conclave and becomes the leader of Wonkru when she’s 16/17.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Considering that a lot of the cast members are juvenile delinquents, this pops up in a few backstories.

** Raven’s mother was a drunk who traded Raven’s food rations for alcohol.

** Season 5 {{spoiler|ends with Earth completely destroyed and uninhabitable. Monty and Harper die finding a new planet for everyone to start over on and do better this time.}}

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Anyone who starts as a more hopeful, naive character will go through this eventually.

** Octavia starts off already having been somewhat broken, since she spent her entire life up to that point in her family’s small room on The Ark, then a prison cell. She spends most of seasons 1 and 2 trying to find somewhere to fit in, mostly with the Grounders more than the ark people. Then she gets abandoned and disowned by the Grounders when she refuses to retreat from Mount Weather. She’s almost okay, but then season 3 happens. {{Spoiler|Her brother turns against her and the Grounders, her [[Love Interest]] Lincoln is executed, and she breaks. She later kills Pike for revenge, but never feels better about it, spending most of season 4 spiraling. When she wins the conclave and allows everyone to share the bunker, she’s about to find a place... until we see what happened between seasons 4 and 5, where being ruler of the bunker turns her into a vicious tyrant and one of the [[Big Bad Ensemble]]. Unlike other examples in the show, she does at live long enough to start getting a redemption arc in season 6.}}

* [[Cartwright Curse]]: A couple:

** Clarke has had Finn (who she had to [[Mercy Kill]] after he went crazy and killed people trying to find her), Lexa (who was [[Accidental Murder|accidentally killed]] by someone trying to kill Clarke), and less intense versions with Wells (childhood best friend with a one-sided attraction towards her) and Cillian (a doctor on Sanctum she had a one-night stand with). So far, only Niylah has avoided the curse.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: After resolving the main story, each season finale ends with one to set up the main conflict of the next season:

** Season 1 {{spoiler|ends with many of the main characters knocked out with gas grenades by what look like special ops troops. When Clarke wakes up, she’s in an all white quarantine room inside Mount Weather, revealing that they’re the Mountain Men the Grounders have been afraid of.}}

*** {{spoiler|Sheidheda has been removed from the flame, saving Madi, but escapes, presumably to take over the Eligius IV ship.}}

*** {{spoiler|Diyoza's previously unborn daughter, Hope, comes out of the anomaly as an adult. She talks to Octavia, who recognizes her even though she remembered nothing from her time in the anomaly just minutes before. Hope stabs Octavia in the stomach then passes out. Bellamy tries to hold Octavia up as she's bleeding out, until the anomaly comes in to the room and she disappears in a flash of green.}}

* [[Cozy Catastrophe]]: Madi and Clarke seem to have settled into this between seasons 4 and 5. Sure, the world around the Valley is pretty much dead, but it provides them with just about everything they need.

* [[Crapsack World]]: It’s decades after a nuclear apocalypse, so it’d be surprising if this ''wasn’t'' the case.

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