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** Daria herself after she realizes the full consequences of all the trouble she's caused for the school.


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* HopeSpot: Pryzbylewski's intervention against Superintendent Pascal would have been enough to [[spoiler:save LHS had it not been for Brittany taking a minor throwaway gag from Daria and running with it...]]

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Daria's reaction to her shit-stirring [[spoiler:getting the school closed down]].



* StreisandEffect: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption and Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.

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* StreisandEffect: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption and at Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.


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* TheUnreveal: Did Daria [[spoiler:get accepted to Fielding]]?
* WhamEpisode: Several, most recently ''Epic F Word'', featuring [[spoiler:Principal O'Neil attempting suicide and being replaced by DeMartino, Stacy suffering a complete nervous breakdown and Lawndale High finally being shut down for good by the state]].
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** Erin experiences a "dark night of the soul" after her coworkers at Buzzdome discover she doesn't know about ''{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic}}''.

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** Erin experiences a "dark night of the soul" after her coworkers at Buzzdome discover she doesn't know about ''{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic}}''.''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
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** Erin experiences a "dark night of the soul" after her coworkers at Buzzdome discover she doesn't know about ''{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic}}''.
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* GeniusBruiser: Bob, the thinking man's punk/rival to Killer Quinn.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Played with. While investigating the savage beating of Kevin Thompson, Daria and Cindy uncover [[spoiler:a ring of students stealing test answers from the teachers and selling them on the black market. However it turns out Kevin had nothing to do with it at all and some jock from a rival team just jumped him for fooling around with his girlfriend]].
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** [[BeavisAndButthead Todd Ianuzzi]] also gets run over by a train while running from Jake and Helen when they try to collect the $300 he owes them.
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* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Plays it like that notorious loop de loop waterslide at Action Park.
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* MythologyGag: A particularly creepy one appears in ''Daria's High Score'' where we learn that Daria's terrifying SlasherSmile in the black and white pilot episode ''Sealed With A Kick'' is also her O-face.
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* KavorkaMan: Cindy could be seen as a rare female example. Short, plump, slightly nerdy-looking (though intensely cute if you're into that sorta thing) and somehow nearly every boy in school is crazy about her. Cindy, for her part, is rather bemused by the whole thing.
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* GenreSavvy: Jane in ''Dance Noon''.
-->“You realise when this has a violent, chaos-filled resolution, we’ll be involved whether we want to or not,”
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: ''Occupational Hazard'' is the most obvious example. The B-plot of ''Dance Noon'' was also inspired by an article about misogyny in the punk community.
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* LoliCon: Creepy one-shot substitute English teacher Ken Edwards is upgraded to a major character after he takes over Mr. O'Neill's class when the latter is promoted to principal.
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* SlashFic: The Holiday Island episode has Bonfire Night/St. Patrick's Day.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...



* SchrodingersCast: Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...
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* SchrodingersCast: Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...

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* * SchrodingersCast: Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...
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* SchrodingersCast: Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...



** Possibly averted with Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...
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What happens if you [[SettingUpdate move the setting about a decade and a half forward]], into TheNewTens? {{NewAgeRetroHippie}}s aside, Jake and Helen are going to need a new counterculture phenomenon to dive headfirst into. That phenomenon: HardcorePunk.

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What happens if you [[SettingUpdate move the setting about a decade and a half forward]], into TheNewTens? {{NewAgeRetroHippie}}s [[NewAgeRetroHippie New Age Retro Hippies]] aside, Jake and Helen are going to need a new counterculture phenomenon to dive headfirst into. That phenomenon: HardcorePunk.



** Don't forget the sex. Unlike in the canon series, Daria and Tom actually do the deed... and on a regular basis too.



** Steve the security guard, an original character for the series, has garnered a large following due to his slacker behaviour and general disinterest in doing his job.



* SplitPersonality: Stacy of the Fashion Club has about five of them in this series, to cope with all social situations. ''And counting''.

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** Possibly averted with Ms. Li, who may or may not have met her end at the hands of Metalmouth...
* SplitPersonality: Stacy of the Fashion Club has about five or six of them in this series, to cope with all social situations. ''And counting''.counting''.
* TheStoner: Shaggy and Burnout from the Maleficent Eleven.
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* BrokenPedestal: You think Amy got it bad in ''Aunt Nauseum'' you aint seen nothing yet.
* CerebusSyndrome: Kicks in around episode 13 or thereabouts.


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* DarkerAndEdgier: Not to excess but the lack of network censors certainly ups the amount of transgressive subject matter that can be explored and the physical and emotional stakes are often higher than the original. One notable thing is that while the school jocks were merely unpleasant in canon, after Daria exposes the grade fixing scheme she becomes a target of actual violence and it's entirely possible they might have killed her and Jane on the rooftop if Quinn and the Maleficent Eleven hadn't intervened.
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* TheCutie: This role is given to Cindy Brolsma, a backgrounder from the show who looks somewhat like a slightly chubby, more serene-looking version of Daria. She eventually rises to become the most popular girl in school after the cheerleaders and girls sports' teams are laid low by the grade-fixing scandal and the Fashion and Glee clubs mutually destroy each other by spreading rumors about the other side having [=STD=]s.


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* EvilFrogWhoWantsToBeAnOx: While this Sandi Griffin is considerably more vicious, bullying and even violent than her original series version, she's still just as incompetent as she ever was.
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** Then there's the parts where Tom & Jane comfort Daria when she begins to crack under the pressure of dealing with her BigScrewedUpFamily.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While [=Canon!Daria=] had this to some degree, the severity of the meltdowns she starts having during the Grandma Barksdale arc is a pretty shocking indicator of shit getting real.


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* ShesBack: The triumphant conclusion to ''Bearing Gifts''.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "The Battle of Lawndale High", one almighty all-in brawl between jocks, punks, nerds, queen bees and everyone in between, which results in the downfall of Li's regime.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "The Battle of Lawndale High", High" in ''Anarchy in the Lawn-D'', where one almighty all-in brawl between jocks, punks, nerds, queen bees and everyone in between, which results between resulted in the downfall of Li's regime.



* DrowningMySorrows: Erin becomes a raging alkie following the events ''Wedding Hell''.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Erin becomes a raging alkie following the events of ''Wedding Hell''.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The fic's version of Stacy is particularly popular, with her developing multiple split personalities and involuntarily switching between them.
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* TheStreisandEffect: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption and Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.

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* TheStreisandEffect: StreisandEffect: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption and Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Erin becomes a raging alkie following the events ''Wedding Hell''.


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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Tommy Sherman not only survives his encounter with Daria but later becomes the school's new gym teacher. Can't win 'em all, eh, Daria?


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* TheStreisandEffect: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption and Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "The Battle of Lawndale High", one almighty all-in brawl between jocks, punks, nerds, queen bees and everyone in between, which results in the downfall of Li's regime.



* TheQuincyPunk: Killer Quinn and the rest of the Maleficent 11 actually seem to ''strive'' to be this.

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* TheQuincyPunk: Killer Quinn and the rest of the The Maleficent 11 Eleven actually seem to ''strive'' to be this.



* SplitPersonality: Stacy of the Fashion Club has about five of them in this series, to cope with all social situations. ''And counting''.



* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Instead of Jodie, Mack starts off in a relationship with Brittany's friend and fellow blond cheerleader Angie [[spoiler:though he eventually dumps her when he learns of her involvement in Sandi's plans to bully Daria]].
** And then there's [[spoiler:Andrew Landon's affair with Erin]].

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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Instead of Jodie, Mack starts off in a relationship with Brittany's friend and fellow blond cheerleader Angie [[spoiler:though Angie, though he eventually dumps her when he learns of her involvement in Sandi's plans to bully Daria]].
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** And then there's [[spoiler:Andrew Andrew Landon's affair with Erin]].Erin.

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* CharacterExaggeration: While [=Canon!Jane=] was only energetic and silly in comparison to Daria (and really, who isn't?), [=GStE!Jane=] is considerably more manic, often to the point of CloudCuckooLander-dom.

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* BloodKnight: All the Morgendorffers, bar Daria love getting into violent drunken brawls, but Killer Quinn is particularly enthusiastic when it comes to fighting.
* CharacterExaggeration: While [=Canon!Jane=] was only energetic and silly in comparison to Daria (and really, who isn't?), [=GStE!Jane=] is considerably more manic, often to the point of CloudCuckooLander-dom.CloudCuckoolander-dom.


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* RecursiveFanfiction: The aforementioned ''Moving Pictures'' is a semi-example, as while it is written by a different author, it's accepted as part of the canon. There are several more straight examples, though.
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* OCStandIn: As is ''de rigeur'' for Dariafic, numerous unnamed background characters gain names, personalities and some even become fairly major characters, most notably the members of Quinn's gang.
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* ArtifactTitle: The title is a pun on the first episode of the TV series, ''Esteemsters'', but in this version Daria is never sent to the self-esteem class.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Played for laughs, natch, with both the Morgendorffer's ludicrously over the top anti-establishment bent and [=Evil!Jodie=]'s Teabaggery.

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