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At Kings Dominion Academy, kids from all works of life learn important life skills, like the best poison to use if you want to make a statement, or the best way to dispose of a body. When Marcus is accused of killing the kids at a boys' home, he attracts the attention of the school's headmaster, Mr. Lin, who gives him a scholarship. There's just one problem - Marcus never actually killed anyone.
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At Kings Dominion Academy, kids from all works walks of life learn important life skills, like the best poison to use if you want to make a statement, or the best way to dispose of a body. When Marcus is accused of killing the kids at a boys' home, he attracts the attention of the school's headmaster, Mr. Lin, who gives him a scholarship. There's just one problem - Marcus never actually killed anyone.
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* BoxedCrook: The professor of Psychopathy is a real, honest-to-God serial killer. He is apparently so dangerous that he's kept confined to a wheelchair, with a guard with a cattle prod hanging around him at all times to stop him from touching the students.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Chico wants to make Maria into a good little cartel wife.
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* AccidentalMurder: Willie accidentally shot his father in the head while shooting at some gangbangers who broke into their house.
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* BoomHeadshot: Chico kills a man this way in front of Maria, both because his father apparently wanted the man dead, and because he wanted to make a point to Maria.
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** This is how Willie accidentally killed his father.
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* JerkAss: Lex acts like an abrasive asshole to everyone, even his supposed friends.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Billy has a crush on Petra, but she's not interested.
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* ArtShift: Marcus's flashback to his parents' deaths becomes animated in an art style not dissimilar to Wes Craig's artwork.
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** Willie's flashback to his father's death is also animated, in a somewhat different manner.
** Marcus's flashback to his parents' deaths becomes animated in an art style not dissimilar to Wes Craig's
** Willie's flashback to his father's death is also animated, in a somewhat different manner.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: Marcus and Professor Denke both blame Reagan for all of society's ills in general and their personal tragedies in particular, and bond over discussing it.
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* BoomHeadshot: Chico kills a man this way in front of Maria, both because his father apparently wanted the man dead, and because he wanted to make a point to Maria.
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* DieOrFly: At King's Dominion, you either pass or you die. Something made very clear in the second episode, where Lin poisons the AP Dark Arts class and sends them out to find the cure in time. It's specifically stated that the students who got cut off and left behind died.
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: The pair of oni-masked warriors who the Dark Arts students have to fight their way past to get the antidote to the poison they've all been exposed to.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Viktor spends the latter part of the house party running around naked, which everyone finds either hilarious or disturbing.
-->'''Willie''': ''White people.''
-->'''Willie''': ''White people.''
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: When Lin forces him to attend Rory's funeral, Marcus has no problem telling the mourners how awful the guy was.
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* ToThePain: Chico promises Maria that while he doesn't intend to kill her, if she crosses him he'll make her wish he had.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Marcus spends much of the second episode wracked with guilt over killing the homeless man.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Marcus spends much of the second episode wracked with guilt over killing the homeless man.Rory.
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At King's Kings Dominion Academy, kids from all works of life learn important life skills, like the best poison to use if you want to make a statement, or the best way to dispose of a body. When Marcus is accused of killing the kids at a boys' home, he attracts the attention of the school's headmaster, Mr. Lin, who gives him a scholarship. There's just one problem - Marcus never actually killed anyone.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: King's Dominion, naturally: a high school where the next generation of assassins and killers are trained in the deadly arts.
* AcademyOfEvil: King's Dominion is a hotbed of anarchists, gangbangers, gangsters, white supremacists, and outcasts, all being trained in the art of killing people.
* AcademyOfEvil: King's Dominion is a hotbed of anarchists, gangbangers, gangsters, white supremacists, and outcasts, all being trained in the art of killing people.
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* AcademyOfEvil:King's Kings Dominion is a hotbed of anarchists, gangbangers, gangsters, white supremacists, and outcasts, all being trained in the art of killing people.
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* FantasticCasteSystem: At King's Dominion, students are divided between Legacies (those whose families have influential organized crime or government connections) and Rats (those who come from humbler origins). Furthermore, the Legacies are divided among numerous cliques, who are constantly jockeying for place in the school hierarchy.
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* FantasticCasteSystem: At King's Kings Dominion, students are divided between Legacies (those whose families have influential organized crime or government connections) and Rats (those who come from humbler origins). Furthermore, the Legacies are divided among numerous cliques, who are constantly jockeying for place in the school hierarchy.
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* OnlySaneMan: Marcus by virtue of being way out of his element in the school and his reputation for burning down his orphanage blown out of proportion. Turns out Willie isn't so hot on the idea of killing anybody as he considers himself a pacifist and forced to be at King's Dominion due to his mother's meddling.
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* OnlySaneMan: Marcus by virtue of being way out of his element in the school and his reputation for burning down his orphanage blown out of proportion. Turns out Willie isn't so hot on the idea of killing anybody as he considers himself a pacifist and forced to be at King's Kings Dominion due to his mother's meddling.
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* RewatchBonus: Saya convincing Marcus to come to King's Dominion gets a whole new extra layer once it's revealed that persuading Marcus was just her homework that day.
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* RewatchBonus: Saya convincing Marcus to come to King's Kings Dominion gets a whole new extra layer once it's revealed that persuading Marcus was just her homework that day.
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* WhoShotJFK: Apparently Lee Harvey Oswald was an alumnus of King's Dominion, class of '57.
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* WhoShotJFK: Apparently Lee Harvey Oswald was an alumnus of King's Kings Dominion, class of '57.
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* MyGodWhatHavIDone: Marcus spends much of the second episode wracked with guilt over killing the homeless man.
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* ButtMonkey: Shabnam's house gets utterly wrecked by the other students.
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* MyGodWhatHavIDone: Marcus spends much of the second episode wracked with guilt over killing the homeless man.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Lin knew that most of the AP Dark Arts students would bungle the assassination project. What he really wanted to find out how far they would go to try and complete it.]]
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Saya gives Billy an unexpected pep talk to help him get the courage to talk to Petra, telling him that he's cute and funny and not a dickhead, and thus a catch.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Chico is overly possessive of Maria and threatens Marcus for simply talking to her.
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* LimitedWardrobe: Justified as Marcus is a homeless kid with only one set of clothes to fall back on after school.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: King's Dominion, naturally: a high school where the next generation of assassins and killers are trained in the deadly arts.
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* WhoShotJFK: Apparently Lee Harvey Oswald was an alumnus of King's Dominion, class of '57.
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* AssholeVictim: In the first episode, the Dark Arts students are given the assignment to kill someone who deserves to die. Marcus and Willie choose to off a homeless guy who's been murdering other homeless people.
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** In the first episode, the Dark Arts students are given the assignment to kill someone who deserves to die. Marcus and Willie choose to off a homeless guy who's been murdering other homeless people.
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* BlofeldPloy: The first episode has Brandy pass a threatening note to Marcus. Lin appears to be preparing to discipline Marcus for it, only to casually whack Brandy with his cane and break her nose.
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''Deadly Class'' is a TV series airing on Syfy, based on [[ComicBook/DeadlyClass the comic book of the same name]] by [=Rick Remender=].
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''Deadly Class'' is a TV series airing on Syfy, based on [[ComicBook/DeadlyClass the comic book of the same name]] by [=Rick Remender=].
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* TakeThat: A seemingly double-edged one. Marcus smugly prefers indie comics to the more "mainstream, male fantasy" comics that Willie likes, which prompts Willie to overreact and pull on a gun on Marcus to force him to retract his opinion.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Marcus blames his parents' deaths and the general CrapsackWorld of late-80s San Francisco to be Ronald Reagan's fault, and declares his intentions to assassinate him one day.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Marcus blames his parents' deaths and the general CrapsackWorld of late-80s San Francisco to be on Ronald Reagan's fault, Reagan, and declares his intentions to assassinate him one day.
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The series opens during Lin's Dark Arts class. Brandy slips Marcus a note and gets her nose broken by Lin for good measure. Marcus stares horrified as instead of being in fear or something more appropriate, the class actually ''chuckles'' as if a prank had just been pulled off. Brandy herself doesn't seem bothered by the broken nose and salaciously licks the blood pouring out. Then Lin asks the entire class who they plan to assassinate.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Marcus blames his parents' deaths and the general CrapsackWorld of late-80s San Francisco to be Ronald Reagan's fault, and declares his intentions to assassinate him one day.
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* RewatchBonus: Saya convincing Marcus to come to King's Dominion gets a whole new extra layer once it's revealed that persuading Marcus was just her homework that day.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Lin lost his wife and child in what was ruled as a brake-line accident. While most people would accept this, Lin goes the extra mile by murdering the driver (revealed to be a drug addict but the extent isn't known), the mechanic that determined that the brakes were fine, and the judge who ruled what Lin considers to be a murder as an accident and/or manslaughter.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Lin lost his wife and child in what was ruled as a brake-line accident. While most people would accept this, Lin goes the extra mile by murdering the driver (revealed to be a drug addict but the extent isn't known), the mechanic that determined that the brakes were fine, and the judge who ruled what Lin considers to be a murder as an accident and/or manslaughter.
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** Viktor unknowingly ingests a laxative and is forbidden from go to the bathroom by the poison lab's teacher as he feels it kicking in as revenge for breaking Billy's arm earlier.
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* TheEighties: THe pilot starts sometime in 1987 and it contains all the trappings right down to Marcus's MushroomSamba bringing him into an encounter with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan giving him a brief "I told you so" lecture.
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* TheEighties: THe The pilot starts sometime in 1987 and it contains all the trappings right down to Marcus's MushroomSamba bringing him into an encounter with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan giving him a brief "I told you so" lecture.
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* OnlySaneMan: Marcus by virtue of being way out of his element in the school and his reputation for burning down his orphanage blown out of proportion. Turns out Willie isn't so hot either.
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[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought your high school was deadly.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought your high school was deadly.]]
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* PottyFailure: Petra and Billy prank Viktor by slipping a laxative in his soda during class, causing him to lose bowel control.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the first episode, Maria uses makeup to make it look like her boyfriend Chico has been beating her in order to con Marcus into fighting him, in the hopes that Marcus will kill him.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the first episode, Maria uses makeup to make it look like her boyfriend Chico has been beating her in order to con Marcus into fighting him, in the hopes that Marcus will kill him.him.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Petra is dumbfounded when Viktor tries to ask her out.
-->'''Petra''': Are you serious?
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Petra is dumbfounded when Viktor tries to ask her out.
-->'''Petra''': Are you serious?
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* FantasticCasteSystem: At King's Dominion, students are divided between Legacies (those whose families have influential organized crime or government connections) and Rats (those who come from humbler origins). Furthermore, the Legacies are divided among numerous cliques, who are constantly jockeying for place in the school hierarchy.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Turns out, while Marcus killed some guards to escape the boys' home, he didn't kill everyone else and burn the building down. He just got blamed for it.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Turns out, while Marcus killed some guards to escape the boys' home, he didn't kill everyone else and burn the building down. He just got blamed for it.
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* TheEighties: All the trappings right down to Marcus's MushroomSamba bringing him into an encounter with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan giving him a brief "I told you so" lecture.
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* MushroomSamba: Marcus takes a puff from a joint someone drops and unfortunately realizes too late that it's laced with PCP. It doesn't help that in his stupor, he comes across a Day of the Dead parade to make his trip worse.
* OnlySaneMan: Marcus by virtue of being way out of his element in the school and his reputation for burning down his orphanage blown out of proportion. Turns out Willie isn't so hot either.
* OnlySaneMan: Marcus by virtue of being way out of his element in the school and his reputation for burning down his orphanage blown out of proportion. Turns out Willie isn't so hot either.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Marcus' dad was from Nicaragua, but his mom was from Kansas, making him a target of both the Soto Vatos and the white supremacists.
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* AcademyOfEvil: King's Dominion is a hotbed of anarchists, gangbangers, gangsters, white supremacists, and outcasts, all being trained in the art of killing people.
* AssholeVictim: In the first episode, the Dark Arts students are given the assignment to kill someone who deserves to die. Marcus and Willie choose to off a homeless guy who's been murdering other homeless people.
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* OrphanageOfFear: Marcus escaped from a cruel boys' home where he was tortured and possibly sexually abused.
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* OrphanageOfFear: Marcus escaped from a cruel boys' home where he was tortured and possibly sexually abused.abused.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the first episode, Maria uses makeup to make it look like her boyfriend Chico has been beating her in order to con Marcus into fighting him, in the hopes that Marcus will kill him.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the first episode, Maria uses makeup to make it look like her boyfriend Chico has been beating her in order to con Marcus into fighting him, in the hopes that Marcus will kill him.
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''Deadly Class'' is a TV series airing on Syfy, based on [[ComicBook/DeadlyClass the comic book of the same name]] by Creator/RickRemender.
At King's Dominion Academy, kids from all works of life learn important life skills, like the best poison to use if you want to make a statement, or the best way to dispose of a body. When Marcus is accused of killing the kids at a boys' home, he attracts the attention of the school's headmaster, Mr. Lin, who gives him a scholarship. There's just one problem - Marcus never actually killed anyone.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Marcus' dad was from Nicaragua, but his mom was from Kansas, making him a target of both the Soto Vatos and the white supremacists.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Marcus lost both of his parents when a suicidal schizophrenic woman landed on them after jumping to her death.
* OrphanageOfFear: Marcus escaped from a cruel boys' home where he was tortured and possibly sexually abused.
At King's Dominion Academy, kids from all works of life learn important life skills, like the best poison to use if you want to make a statement, or the best way to dispose of a body. When Marcus is accused of killing the kids at a boys' home, he attracts the attention of the school's headmaster, Mr. Lin, who gives him a scholarship. There's just one problem - Marcus never actually killed anyone.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Marcus' dad was from Nicaragua, but his mom was from Kansas, making him a target of both the Soto Vatos and the white supremacists.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Marcus lost both of his parents when a suicidal schizophrenic woman landed on them after jumping to her death.
* OrphanageOfFear: Marcus escaped from a cruel boys' home where he was tortured and possibly sexually abused.
