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* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: {{spoiler|The Bryce Craine storyline}}.
* [[Character Development]]: Everyone. The most obvious examples would be Kate and Charmaine's transformations over the series.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: [[Gender FlippedFlip]]ped. Max is "a member of that strange breed of TV husband that exhibits infinite patience", to quote the New Yorker. To be fair, though, Tara does have a pretty good justification for not always being level-headed.
** Subverted as of Season 2. Max in a {{spoiler|fit of rage beats the hell out of the contractor who didn't show up to fix up the new house he bought. [[Crosses the Line Twice|On his kid's birthday]]}}.
* [[Club Kid]]: Lionel likes parties, drugs, and anonymous sex.
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: {{spoiler|Gene}} gets ''really'' creepy over Kate. As does Courtney over Marshall, though to a lesser degree.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Alice. Trapped in an eternal Eisenhower era housewife personality, said to secretly get drunk off cooking wine and initially seems hellbent on staying in control of Tara's body. Though over time her own psychosis lessens as she learns to work with Tara.
* [[TalkingInner to ThemselfDialogue]]: In Season 1, Alice was the only one that was able to communicate with the other alters and claimed that she had no idea where Tara would go to when she took over the body; in Season 2, Tara was able to have an argument with Buck and have therapy with {{spoiler|Shoshana}}; in Season 3, Tara is able to {{spoiler|fully communicate with them all and even summoned them for a conference}}.
** In Season 3, some alters {{spoiler|were having conversations with each other while Tara was [[Locked Out of the Loop]]. But she was still able to see and hear them}}.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: Pretty solidly averted. T is a pretty easy fit into the Seductress, but that's complicated by her being the literal Child of the three. Alice seems to be the Mother, but she's also highly sexual while still being naïve enough to believe that Tara's IUD won't work because she doesn't "believe in them". Tara's just complicated, as people tend to be.