History Series / Believe2014

* MakeMeWannaShout: Bo has this as one of her abilities. She uses it in the pilot to stir up a flock of birds, covering the gang's escape. [[spoiler:Dani has it too, as seen in the incident where her brother died.]]

Faced with a difficult timeslot (Sunday nights at 9, opposite ''Series/CosmosASpacetimeOdyssey'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones''), it was cancelled after only one season.

* KnifeNut: Joshua, whose primary use of his telekenetic abilities involves [[FlechetteStorm launching large numbers of throwing knives]].

%%* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Winter.

* AdultFear: In "Bang and Blame", Bo gets shot by a tranquilizer dart and develops a bad fever. Since she's never been sick before, the team becomes very concerned.

* RealityEnsues: Subverted. The show quickly shows that an escaped death row inmate who abducted a little girl from a hospital will be the subject of a massive manhunt and his and Bo's photos will be all over the TV. The FBI quickly zeros in on their location and corner Tate at gunpoint. Then reality goes out the window when Bo [[spoiler:uses her telekinesis to lift and throw a car]]. The FBI agents are not trained to handle that.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Winter.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bo.

* DisappearedDad: Tate didn't even know about Bo before they met, and she had no idea who her father was (her mother having died shortly after her birth).

* EvilBrit: Moore.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler:Tate is Bo's biological father.]]

''Believe'' is an American TV series airing on Creator/{{NBC}}, created by Creator/AlfonsoCuaron and Mark Friedman; Cuaron also directed the pilot, with he and Creator/JJAbrams among the executive producers. It tells the story of Bo, a young girl with paranormal abilities, and the ex-con hired to protect her from a sinister conspiracy to control her.

** {{Averted}} in the second episode, where one of Winter's team walks because getting killed was ''not'' part of the bargain.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Winter

* HeroAntagonist: FBI Agent Elizabeth Ferrell, tasked with recapturing the escaped criminal William Tate Jr. and retrieving the ward of the State Bo Adams. It doesn't take her long to realize that Roman Skouras is not to be trusted despite having the government's backing, but she still believes that she's stopping a dangerous criminal and rescuing an endangered youth, so she remains in opposition to the heroes despite being less than pleased with the allies she's been given. [[spoiler:Until they save her and her daughter from a bomb in the subway, not to mention that the subway platform emptied out as soon as Ferrell drew her gun on Tate, thereby preventing anyone else from even getting caught in the ensuing cave-in.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: Bo has this as one of her abilities. She uses it in the Pilot to stir up a flock of birds, covering the gang's escape. [[spoiler:Dani has it too, as seen in the incident where her brother died.]]

* MiscarriageOfJustice: Tate admits to being a criminal but claims to have been set up for the crimes for which he is sentenced to death. He was within minutes of execution when the conspiracy broke him out. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he really ''was'' innocent.]]
* NextSundayAD: So indistinguishable from the present that you need to be paying close attention to notice it. When Dani is first introduced, it's stated that her parents abandoned her at age 12 after they believed that she killed her brother. [[spoiler:(She did, [[PowerIncontinence but it was an accident]])]] In the series finale, Dani is stated to be 19, and later that same episode, she's shown visiting his grave--where he's shown to have died in 2011, thereby putting the present day as 2018.

* RealityEnsues: {{Subverted}}. The show quickly shows that an escaped death row inmate who abducted a little girl from a hospital will be the subject of a massive manhunt and his and Bo's photos will be all over the TV. The FBI quickly zeros in on their location and corner Tate at gunpoint. Then reality goes out the window when Bo [[spoiler:uses her mind to lift and throw a car]]. The FBI agents are not trained to handle that.
* RedemptionEqualsLife: [[spoiler: Dani]]

* ScaryBlackMan: Krakauer

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Bo's PsychicPowers do whatever is needed for the plot like lighting up a tunnel in the "Collapse" episode or creating the illusion of a wall in "Revelation".

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bo

* MiscarriageOfJustice: Tate admits to being a criminal but claims to have been set up for the crimes for which he is sentenced to death. He was within minutes of execution when the conspiracy broke him out. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he really ''was'' innocent.]

* HealingHands: In the finale [[spoiler: Bo displays the ability to cure the Degrade.]]