History Series / CodeBlack

** After learning that a burn victim, far from being another patient's father, [[spoiler:is really a psycho who kidnapped her, has been keeping her as his SexSlave, and fathered patient number three on her]], Dr. Hudson tells him that while he's never intentionally harmed another human being in his life, he's now giving it serious thought.

** The rapist in "Hero Complex," [[spoiler: who posed as the victim's rescuer and tried to shift the blame to the real rescuer]], gets a full dose of this.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot portrays working at Angels as a slow, exhausting apocalypse in slow motion with a "ticking clock" motif in the form of the ER's status slowly ticking up from normal operating conditions to [[TitleDrop Code Black]], where there aren't sufficient resources left to treat every patient. The rest of the series has much more of a CaseOfTheWeek format.

** In season three, Ethan's WillTheyOrWontThey relationship with his paramedic partner, Rox Valenzuela, is so intense it's practically a wildfire. They're clearly crazy about each other but both have varying levels of CommitmentIssues (and other issues) that keep getting in their way. [[spoiler:TheyDo]], eventually.

* CryCute: Leanne Rorish, hardass extraordinaire, is downright ''adorable'' when she cries, courtesy of her actress Marcia Gay Harden.

* AbsenteeActor: The second season has several episodes where CEO Ed Harbert really should have made an appearance, but didn't, due to actor Jeff Hephner's full-time commitment to ''Chicago Med'' during that season.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** "Diagnosis of Exclusion": see AnachronicOrder entry above.
** "Unfinished Business": [[spoiler: what seems like a typical episode is revealed to be AllJustADream under the effects of anesthesia during brain surgery]].
** "Better Angels" is, in part, a MusicalEpisode. (Don't worry, ItMakesSenseInContext.)
** The final two episodes of the series have a "completely different" plot arc--Ethan Willis [[spoiler: arguing with [[OurGhostsAreDifferent a hallucination of]] his deceased brother Robert]]--in what are otherwise normal episodes.

* HospitalHottie: As with so many other cliches, this trope encounters this show -- and ''[[RealityEnsues loses]]''. While the attractiveness of certain characters is occasionally commented on -- Christa, for instance, is hit on at least twice -- the doctors and nurses wear exactly what you'd expect doctors and nurses to wear in the country's busiest ER. Simple ponytails, basic scrubs, and subdued makeup are the order of the day, and characters frequently wind up covered in blood (and other things). And finally, when a patient takes an (unrequited) interest in Malaya Pineda, it ends [[spoiler:with Malaya in critical condition and Gina Perello ''stabbed to death'' in the hospital locker room]], which sparks a Board inquiry and [[OneOfOurOwn traumatizes the entire cast]]. Gina actively warns Malaya that the appearance of impropriety can sometimes be as damaging as ''actual'' impropriety, and the whole thing culminates on a [[spoiler:lesson against victim-blaming the subjects of sexual assault]] and a warning about how careful women (and men, but particularly women) need to be in these sorts of professions.