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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Just about everyone.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Established with the deaths of {{spoiler|Sarah and Helen}} in the very first episode. Though seeing as this is a show about ghosts, death doesn't necessarily mean a character's departure from the show.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Anna screams "[to Paul] You're mad,[to Mac] you're mad and Jay's a library monitor!"

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Sam Griegson and Greg Taylor. {{spoiler|But even for 12-year old vandals like themselves, [[Family-Unfriendly Death|getting ripped to shreads by hungry undead]] might be a bit overkill...}}

** When Paul gets angry with Anna taunting his relationship with Jay, accidentally using his powers to temporarily [[Body Horror|sew her mouth shut]].

* {{spoiler|[[Back ~~From~~ the Dead]]:}} {{spoiler|After spending episode 4 as a fade while his brain-dead body lies in the hospital as a result of his [[Unusual Euphemism|encounter]] with a truck, Paul ressurects in a rather spectacular fashion.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Back from the Dead]]:}} {{spoiler|After spending episode 4 as a fade while his brain-dead body lies in the hospital as a result of his [[Unusual Euphemism|encounter]] with a truck, Paul ressurects in a rather spectacular fashion.}}

* [[Badass Preacher]]: Helen (her first act is to appear in Sarah's room stealing her gun)

* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: While cannibalistic, vengeful undead are hardly sympathetic characters, the Angelics don't exactly live up to their names... {{spoiler|[[Cold-Blooded Torture|Especially]] [[Knight Templar|Neil.]] }}

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* [[Bottomless Bladder]]: Averted. Quite audibly.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: An ongoing one for Sarah, {{spoiler|starting with her death and going down from there.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Broken Masquerade]]:}} {{spoiler|by the end of Episode 5, people are fleeing town after all the disappearings, the killings and the ever-increasing tremors, aware that something very unusual and very bad is happening. Plus, Paul now has displayed his abilities in a rather public fashion.}}

* [[British Brevity]]: One season, six episodes.

* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]: Butterfly motifs are quite frequent in the show, from the moth puked out after a healing to {{spoiler|the cocoons of a materialising Fade, and of course Paul's resurrection.}}

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* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: The [[Title Sequence]] may even give the one in [[True Blood]] a run for its money.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Paul.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Episode 6: {{spoiler|Paul manages to re-open Ascension and thus release the stuck fades and the reborns, only to see the sky turn an [[Red Sky, Take Warning|ominous shade of red]] in response... (while elsewhere, the wounded and probably dying Neil mutters "I told him...I told him, you don't fuck with Ascension.")}}

** {{spoiler|Plus the girl he loves got shot in the head by his former mentor. Her death only just hits him once Ascension has been re-opened and Mac and Anna ask where Jay is, and he bursts into tears.}}

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: {{spoiler|[[Dark Messiah|John, the Angelic Killer and leader of the Reborns]] }} to [[The Messiah|Paul]].

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* [[Eye Scream]]: Neil. Twice, on the same one - though the second one was to ''[[Nausea Fuel|try and scrape the poison out.]]''

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: "Polus" the ghoulish fade {{spoiler|and all the fades that consume human flesh.}}

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Jay

* [[Genre Blind]]: Sure Sarah, go check out the creepily groaning man in the dark corner right after you've had visions of impending doom...

** Although until then, Sarah knew that the Fades ''couldn't'' touch anyone, unaware that [[It Got Worse|now they can]].

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|John}} delivers one to Paul, highlighting their similarities as [[Not So Different|the chosen ones of their respective people]] and claiming that while his killings bring life through the resurrection of the dead, {{spoiler|those Paul destroys are dead for good, making him a bigger killer.}}

* [[Healing Hands]]: One of the Angelics' abilities.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Neil, already under a lot of stress, loses it after {{spoiler|two more of his partners are offed by the Angelic killer - by Paul's fault, no less.}}

** Paul may have slowly become more heroic, but with an ever-increasing toll on his life, {{spoiler|and at the end of the first series, he is left in pieces after having lost his girlfriend.}}

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The Angelics - at least some of them - are shown to go quite far in their war against the fades, from Neil {{spoiler|pulling a [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|Jack Bauer]] on Natalie}} to Sarah {{spoiler|deciding to consume her fallen comrades' blood in order to materialise as well and fight on equal ground.}}

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Both Paul and Mac

* [[Horror Hunger]]: {{spoiler|John, the Angelic killer, and more generally every Reborn.}}

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* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Neil's justification for {{spoiler|torturing Natalie}} and {{spoiler|killing Jay.}}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|Neil following Natalie}} in the second episode. Only topped by Paul {{spoiler|leading the Angelic killer to their current hideout, ''fully aware of who he was, simply because he promised not to harm anyone and only release Natalie''.}} It did not end well.

* [[I See Dead People]]: The Fades can only be seen by Angelics {{spoiler|and Reborns}}. Mac even talks about ''The Sixth Sense'' based on this.

* [[It Got Worse]]: {{spoiler|The Angelic-killing Fade has regained full physical form. And now so has Natalie, and at least half a dozen others are in the process. '''And''' this form is apparently immortal. [[This Is Gonna Suck]]...}}

** {{spoiler|The finale has Paul re-open all of the Ascension points, banishing all of the Fades simultaneously. [[Tempting Fate|Surely the day has to be saved, right?]]. Only, we then see the sky suddenly begins to turn a sickly orange, ominous thunder begins to rumble in the distance and a solar eclipse occurs...}}

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