History Series / CloakAndDagger2018

''Cloak and Dagger'' is a {{superhero}}[=/=]{{romance}} series airing on Creator/{{Freeform}}, based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/CloakAndDaggerMarvelComics characters of the same name]]. Like many other shows produced by Marvel Television, it is set within the expansive Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, alongside [[Creator/AmercanBroadcastingCompany ABC]]'s ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' and the ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 Defenders]]'' franchise on Creator/DisneyPlus.

''Cloak and Dagger'' is a {{superhero}}[=/=]{{romance}} series airing on Creator/{{Freeform}}, based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/CloakAndDaggerMarvelComics characters of the same name]]. Like many other shows produced by Marvel Television, it is set within the expansive Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, alongside Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' and the ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 Defenders]]'' franchise on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Yeah Tyrone helped save the city and Connors is worse than dead, but the rest of the police still think he's a cop killer. With nobody to exonerate him or clear him of charges, he has to go into hiding.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Invoked by Tandy when Tyrone complains that as a black teenager he cannot just walk into the police station and observe what the cops are doing. Tandy suggests that he pretend to be a victim of a crime and thus have a valid reason to be in the police station. Tyrone makes it look like his bike was stolen so he is seated in the middle of the station and has plenty of time to observe things before a police officer has time to take his statement.
* {{Wrath}}: Tyrone is full of anger after years of being told to push his anger down.

* SaltAndPepper: An unusual twist on the tale, as the black guy is the strait-laced by the book type and the white girl is the HardDrinkingPartyGirl.

''Cloak and Dagger'' is a {{superhero}}[=/=]{{romance}} series airing on Creator/{{Freeform}}, based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger characters of the same name]]. Like many other shows produced by Marvel Television, it is set within the expansive Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, alongside Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' and the ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 Defenders]]'' franchise on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: In the [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger original comics]], Tyrone came from a poor black family, while Tandy came from a rich white one, a dynamic which carried a lot of implications even back in the 1980s. In the live-action series, the writers put them on a more equitable socio-economic footing, with Tyrone coming from a well-off black family while Tandy came from a formerly-comfortable white family that had fallen on hard times.

* RuderAndCruder: Tyrone and Tandy engage in sex with respective love interests and Tandy is a recovering drug addict. There's also a fair bit of cursing. In the original ''ComicBook/CloakAndDagger'' comics, the titular heroes have a reputation for being both [[ChasteHero Chaste Heroes]] and teetotalers.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Tandy's daggers of light cannot affect inorganic matter in the comics. Tyrone and Tandy's ability to sense people's hopes and fears is taken UpToEleven as well.

* KnifeNut: Tandy fights with knives of light, presumably having some experience with real knives from her time on the streets.

* AdultFear:
** Part of the reason Tyrone's mother pushes him so hard to be perfect is that she's afraid that if he slips up even slightly it'll make him a target for police, which killed his brother. When Tyrone sees her greatest fear, she's shopping with her sons when they both run out of sight and get shot, and then she's standing at their graves.
--->'''Tyrone:''' It's like you think if I don't do everything perfectly, you're gonna lose me.\\
'''Adina:''' I'm afraid even if you do everything perfectly I'm gonna lose you.
** In the [[AMinorKidroduction prologue]], set when Tandy and Ty are still children, Tandy's father is accidentally run off the road and dies in the crash, leaving the car to sink into the bay with Tandy still inside. Ty sees his brother shot in front of him and jumps into the water in a vain attempt to save him, then gets trapped under the sinking rig. If it weren't for their powers instinctively activating, both would have drowned.
** [[spoiler:When Mina learns that the valves are contaminating people, she realizes that one of them is right next to a school.]]
** The earliest known incarnation of the Divine Pairing was two Choctaw children. The girl had to drown herself to save her people from famine.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Tyrone's mother's worst fear, after already losing her oldest son.

** [[spoiler:The show's version of Mayhem lacks the ability to exhale toxic gas and is instead super strong and capable of catching and dissipating Tandy's light daggers and while she retains her razor-sharp nails, they are not retractable like in the comics.]]

** [[spoiler: Tandy's father was too, not to her but to her Mom. [[BrokenPedestal He wasn't the good man she remembered him as]].]]

** [[spoiler: The show's version of Mayhem lacks the ability to exhale toxic gas and is instead super strong and capable of catching and dissipating Tandy's light daggers and while she retains her razor-sharp nails, they are not retractable like in the comics]].

---> '''Tyrone''': It's like you think if I don't do everything perfectly, you're gonna lose me.\\
'''Adina''': I'm afraid even if you do everything perfectly I'm gonna lose you.

* ArcNumber: Season Two has 11, 22, 33, etc.

-> Tandy:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Pancakes or Waffles?]]

** Tyrone to Tandy in episode 3.

---> '''Tyrone:''' Watch your mouth, pull your pants up, take your hoodie down, [[SuddenlyShouting WHEN DOES IT END?!]] Even if I do everything perfect they could still come after me, so why be perfect? Why not stand up for the world the way it should be?

** Ty's cloak, which in this incarnation was his brother's.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Tandy, Tyrone, O'Reilly [[spoiler: and her anti-heroic clone Mayhem]] are all gorgeous while Scarborough and Connors are average and greasy, respectively. [[spoiler: subverted with Lia in Season Two, who's part of the BigBadDuumvirate]].

** Season Two initially has [[spoiler: Brigid's VigilanteMan LiteralSplitPersonality Mayhem]] as the main antagonist. She quickly gets sidelined for [[spoiler: Andre Deschaine, an EmotionEater and the ringleader of a human trafficking ring, who later attempts to [[GodhoodSeeker become a Loa]]]].

* BittersweetEnding: Season 1 ends this way, though it's distinctly more sweet than bitter: [[spoiler:Tyrone and Tandy are able to shut off the Core channeling the merged Darkforce and Lightforce, curing the Terrors and preventing the people of New Orleans from killing themselves. Roxxon's role in the events become public, and with Scarborough catatonic, Tandy and Melissa don't need to fear retribution from the vengeful MegaCorp, which has bigger problems. However, while Connors was absorbed into the Darkforce dimension and with O'Reilly presumed dead, there is no one to exonerate Tyrone of Fuchs' murder. Tyrone is forced to hide in Tandy's church, but Tandy knows where to find him and his parents know he's alive. The last scene of the season shows O'Reilly emerging from a swamp, clearly affected by the merged Darkforce and Lightforce, implying she will become Mayhem]].
* BrokenPedestal: Near the end of episode 8, [[spoiler:Tandy finds out that her father, who she's spent so long mourning and trying to clear his name, actually abused her mother.]]
* BrutalHonesty: In episode three, Tandy tells Tyrone "don't take this the wrong way, but I hope I never see you again."

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Andre Deschaine turns out to be [[spoiler: D'Spayre]].

* CompositeCharacter: In addition to being based on the unnamed cop who kills Billy in the comics, Conners turns out to be [[spoiler: the counterpart of Roger Falcone, the corrupt cop who "killed" Brigid]].

** Stan is a low-level example. Mina's blueprints for her valve network would have required an expensive crane to install one; he had it installed ten meters away in an easier location to save money. The valve quickly began to fail because it was drilling into material Mina hadn't designed it for. [[NeverMyFault Stan blames Mina]].

* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: In the [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger original comics]], Ty came from a poor black family, while Tandy came from a rich white one, a dynamic which carried a lot of implications even back in the 1980s. In the live-action series, the writers put them on a more equitable socio-economic footing, with Ty coming from a well-off black family while Tandy came from a formerly-comfortable white family that had fallen on hard times.

* DecoyAntagonist: The trailers and build up in season 2 [[spoiler: depict Mayhem as the antagonist. Truth is she's gone by episode 4 and the true big bad is an EmotionEater called Andre Deschaine.]]

* TheDividual: [[spoiler:In the first season finale, Tandy suggests that she and Ty are tied so closely together by their powers that they are essentially the same person. This puts the Divine Pairing in a different perspective, making it possible that Tandy and Ty together are one "person" of the pairing, and O'Reilly is the other half, the one who died to save the city]].

** [[spoiler:Tandy's dad hit her mom for minor things]].
** Tandy later draws a direct comparison to [[spoiler:her trying to consume Liam's hopes]].

--> '''Mina:''' I'm so excited to show you my valve.\\

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Season 2 Episode 6, which ends with Tandy filled with Despair.]]

* DugTooDeep: The Roxxon oil rig did not explode just because Roxxon was CuttingCorners ([[FalseReassurance They were]], but that wasn't the cause). They actually discovered a new substance under the seabed that had the potential to be a revolutionary new energy source. However, it turned out to be extremely volatile and [[spoiler: exposure to it turned the crew into homicidal maniacs]]. In the present, Roxxon is planning to restart the drilling and this time the entire city could be affected.
* EmotionalPowers: Tandy and Tyrone's powers have one limitation. They run on the emotion they draw out in others. Hope for Tandy and Fear for Tyrone. [[spoiler: So when Tandy [[NightmareFuel loses her Hope in 2x07]] she loses her powers.]]

** [[spoiler: Andre from the community center, he's season 2's BigBad and the one responsible for all the missing girls. He takes them and fills them with despair [[EmotionEater so that he can feed off it]].]]

* FailsafeFailure: Despite Roxxon CuttingCorners, the oil rig had enough failsafes that its crew should have been able to prevent the explosion. However, the failsafes did not account for [[spoiler: most of the crew turning into homicidal maniacs]].

-->'''Tyrone''': The universe keeps [[OneTrueLove pushing us together]].\\
'''Tandy''': The universe keeps [[BecauseDestinySaysSo pulling us apart]].

** Tandy gets Tyrone to do the same the following episode [[spoiler: by shoving him off a balcony.]]

* {{Gaslighting}}: In "Ghost Stories," [[spoiler:Tyrone, Fuchs, and O'Reilly come up with a plan to drive Connors crazy enough that he'll confess to Billy's murder. At one point, O'Reilly shows Connors a police sketch he'd had done of Tyrone, but she switches it out for a sketch of Billy and acts like it had always been that way.]]

* GodhoodSeeker: The ultimate goal of [[spoiler: Andre Deschaine]] is to become one of [[UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} the Loa]]. [[spoiler:He succeeds, but isn't able to enjoy it for long before a FateWorseThanDeath.]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: Tandy and Tyrone enter the mind of a catatonic Ivan Hess and discover that he has been reliving the two minutes before the rig explosion for the past eight years. By the time they get there, he's forgotten his name and the simple fact that there is anything outside the rig. Worse, it's a YearInsideHourOutside situation; when Tyrone pops out for thirty seconds and then pops back in, Tandy has already gone through at least two hundred loops, meaning Ivan Hess has been trapped for subjectively ''eight thousand years''. They finally end the loop by [[spoiler:escorting him to the core room and having him reset the rig to keep it from exploding; Tyrone had done it earlier, but it had to be Ivan because it was his mind]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: In episode 4, [[spoiler:Greg was shot and all his files on Roxxon were burned. Fortunately, the hitwoman didn't find his safe which had copies.]]
* TheHerosJourney: Deliberately invoked in episode 9 [[spoiler: referring to the low points Tandy, Tyrone and O'Reilly hit allowing them to be born again as the journey goes on.]]

* HomeBase: Tandy's church becomes an important location for her and Tyrone. [[spoiler: One of them is living in it throughout season one]].
* HourglassPlot: By the end of season one [[spoiler: Tandy has reconnected with her mom and moved back home, while Ty, wanted by the police, is staying in the church]].
* HowDoIShotWeb: Tandy and Tyrone both go through this, though Tyrone more so than Tandy. [[spoiler: What gives them control, with their initial malfunctions at least, is putting themselves in a FlyOrDie situation after which they get the basic on-off switch, at least.]]

** Tyrone releases an epic I Told You So on his parents [[spoiler: after they were told that Connors confessed. Turns out, they believed him all along but thought they couldn't say anything or they'd lose him too.]]

* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:O'Reilly]] gets subject to this after the events of season 1. [[spoiler:The Roxxon chemicals mixed with the forces that gave Tyrone and Tandy their powers split her into [[EvilTwin a Docile and an Aggressive]]. The Aggressive side, Mayhem, hates Brigid]].

** [[spoiler: Tandy later learns how to do this to other people with her powers as well as [[FantasticDrug feel what they feel]]. Doing so damages the person she takes from, as afterward they lose the happiness their hopes brought them.]]
** [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of Peter Scarborough is to be trapped inside a dream.]]

* MagicFeather: [[spoiler: Tyrone uses a cloak made by his dead brother to focus his powers.]] [[spoiler: When the cloak is damaged by Terrors in episode 9, he replaces it with a hoodie Tandy stole from him when they met as kids eight years ago.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Roxxon did this to Tandy's father posthumously to cover-up their own fault in it, and [[DisproportionateRetribution because he tried to shut down the rig]]. A darker variant with Ty's brother, as his death is blamed by the police on drugs, and Ty finds out the officer who shot him never officially existed, which he later discovers was a lie.

** The season 1 trailers heavily hinted at Tyrone and Tandy becoming lovers. Instead, Tyrone gets involved with Evita, while Tandy and he grow into HeterosexualLifePartners at best.
** Season 2's trailers depicted [[spoiler:O'Reilly's powers gained from being exposed to both the Lightforce and Darkforce as part of a darker split personality, Mayhem. However, "White Lines" ends with the revelation that O'Reilly and Mayhem are now doppelgangers]].

** Greg is a nice guy who cares about Tandy's mother and hopes they can end up as a family. He investigates Roxxon to expose the truth and help the Bowens get back what they lost. Tandy's mother breaks up with him in a fit of jealousy and then [[spoiler: he is murdered by Roxxon]].
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Tyrone says this [[spoiler: to Connors, right before he [[DraggedOffToHell sucks him into his cloak]].]]

** [[spoiler: Tyrone has wanted to kill Connors all season, and in episode 10 he gets the chance to do so by throwing him off a roof. He looks and considers doing it, but in the end he just rolls his eyes and pushes him away from the edge. Not that this ultimately saves Connors, whose own persistence in trying to kill Tyrone results in him being DraggedOffToHell]].
** [[spoiler: Peter Scarborough is a lesser example. Tandy has the offensive powers to kill him, but she goes for something more poetic. His greed and selfishness caused all of this, so she just leaves him trapped in a dream, to spend the rest of his life on life support and if he ever wakes up he'll be carted off to jail.]]

* PowerIncontinence: Tandy and Ty have no control over their powers when they start out, manifesting them involuntarily or not coming to them when needed.

** Between Tyrone and Tandy in episode 4.

* RecordNeedleScratch: In episode 5. Tandy is running hot, scamming the answers she needs with her powers, everything going her way while music plays in the background. Music which grinds to a halt along with her self-satisfied smile when Tyrone suddenly appears in the middle of the party in gym clothes.

* ReusableLighterToss: A cleaner tosses a combustible liquid on evidence and tosses a lighter to destroy everything. [[spoiler: including a body the assassin created.]]
* TheReveal:

** "Colony Collapse" reveals what Roxxon has been drilling for all this time: [[spoiler:It's not just the Darkforce as previously believed, but the Darkforce ''merged'' with the Lightforce, which has corrupted both energies, resulting in the Terrors. Tandy and Tyrone have to hold hands, causing them to absorb their respective energies and release them into the sky, draining the wells and curing the Terrors]].
* {{Revenge}}: Both Tandy and Ty are searching for someone who killed a member of their family.

* RuderAndCruder: Ty and Tandy engage in sex with respective love interests and Tandy is a recovering drug addict. There's also a fair bit of cursing. In the original ''ComicBook/CloakAndDagger'' comics, the titular heroes have a reputation for being both [[ChasteHero Chaste Heroes]] and teetotalers.
* SaltAndPepper: An unusual twist on the tale, as the black guy is the strait-laced by the book type and the white girls is the HardDrinkingPartyGirl.

* ScoobyDooHoax: Tyrone [[spoiler: pulls one on Connors, making him think he's actually Billy come to haunt him for his murder.]]
* ScrewDestiny: Invoked by Tandy in the climax of the season one finale.

* ShipTease: Much between Tandy and Tyrone in season 1. The series is the only Marvel live action series to date that specifically names their series a romance, and the obvious chemistry between Aubrey and Olivia only make it worse. However, WordOfGod states that, at least for now, romance will take a back seat to advancing the main plot and character development, so confirmation of any feelings the leads may have for each other will not happen for now.

* SourOutsideSadInside: In Episode 9 [[spoiler: Tandy and Tyrone lash out at the world around them after Nathan turned out to be an abusive bastard and exposing Billy's killer didn't change a thing.]] Father Delgado calls this Hero's Regression.
* SplitPersonality: In the second season. [[spoiler: Brigit O'Reilly and Mayhem are the same person.]]
* StartOfDarkness: An unusual unsympathetic version with Connors, the officer that killed Ty's brother. A flashback showed that it was a rash impulse (due to him being startled by an explosion from the rig collapse) and he actually regretted it immediately afterward, but after the department (including an uncle he mentions in the flashback) helped him cover it up, he, seemingly believing he could get away with anything, rapidly descended into corruption, becoming a drug dealer and murderer. When confronted with the same situation 8 years later (a black teenager, in this case Tyrone, surrendering), he doesn't hesitate to shoot him because HeKnowsTooMuch.

* StuffedInAFridge: In what can only be a ShoutOut to the tropenamer, [[spoiler:O'Reilly finds her boyfriend killed and stuffed in a fridge for her to find]] at the end of episode 8.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Yeah Tyrone helped save the city and Connors is worse than dead, but the rest of the police still think he's a cop killer. With nobody to exonerate him or clear him of charges, he has to go into hiding.]]

* TimeSkip: Season 2 takes place 8 months after season 1.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Tyrone faces this during his finals game. His primary loyalty has to be to his team, but the ref had been calling everything unfairly in his team's favor all night and the players on the other team need the prestige of winning more than the kids from St Sebastian's. [[spoiler: In the end he chooses "good", [[GoodFeelsGood and seems damn happy about it]].]]

** Connors, the cop who shot Ty's brother, is a vice detective in good standing while behind the scenes he is a major drug kingpin in the city. He uses his vice connections both to supply high-grade drugs and to eliminate the competition.
** [[spoiler:Billy's friend Duane is a pillar of the community who grew his home refurbishing business after the hurricane. The truth is he is partnered with Connors to control all the drugs in the city]].

* WeaponizedTeleportation: Tyrone starts out not doing this but he begins to master it [[spoiler: in Season 2. Exemplified in Vikingtown Sound when he uses the momentum from being thrown to teleport behind the brute and knock him down.]]

* ZombieApocalypse: The TechnicallyLivingZombie kind. Whatever's in the energy Roxxon's harvesting, it turns people into homicidal maniacs who transfer the energy by touch and seek to infect everyone nearby. [[spoiler:In the climax, all of New Orleans is infected, but Tandy and Ty manage to channel and purify the energy.]]

'''Tandy:''' Be good... be heroes... be divine and paired in other places?

!! ''Cloak and Dagger'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* OverarchingVillain: Peter Scarborough, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive whose greatest hope is to make money at the expense of workers' lives, shown in his subconscious as him literally taking money from the bodies of drowned rig workers, even finishing one off with his bare hands]], and whose name and face are connected to everything to do with the Tanker Explosion.

* The first season focuses on confronting past trauma and moving on, learning to live with the past without letting it control you.
* For the second season, it's abuse. Tandy learns that no, [[AnAesop it's not as simple as walking away from an abuser]]. Abusers isolate their victims, break them down, make them feel despair, make it so they feel they have no choice but to stay.

''Cloak and Dagger'' is a {{superhero}}[=/=]{{romance}} series airing on Creator/{{Freeform}}, based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger characters of the same name]]. Like many other shows produced by Marvel Television, it is set within the expansive Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, alongside Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' and the ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 Defenders]]'' franchise on Creator/{{Disney+}}.

''Cloak and Dagger'' is a {{superhero}}[=/=]{{romance}} series airing on Creator/{{Freeform}}, based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger characters of the same name]]. Like many other shows produced by Marvel Television, it is set within the expansive Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, alongside Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' and the ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 Defenders]]'' franchise on Creator/{{Netflix}}.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:O'Reilly, as in the comics, after getting a face-full of dark energy and then being drowned.]]