History Series / Hanna

-> '''Erik:''' ''I'm trying to give you a normal life.''
-> '''Hanna:''' ''But I'm not normal, am I?''

** Clara ("Trainee 249") [[spoiler: becomes independent-thinking as a consequence of going off her medication and meeting Hanna]].

** Before undergoing "socialization", the Utrax girls are heavily medicated to suppress their emotions, to the point where [[spoiler: they don't react when one of their numbers is shot dead right in front of them]]. Even after being "socialized", they still have a pharmaceutical implant to suppress anxiety.
%%* FaceHeelTurn: Averted with [[spoiler: Clara/Clemency/249]].

** [[spoiler: Marissa. She goes from being Hanna's adversary to her main ally by the end of the first season.]]
** Averted with [[spoiler: Sandy/242. She seems to be taking on the Christian values of the virtual family from her cover story, but when she goes on a mission, she has no hesitation in manipulating and killing people.]]
** It seems to be happening with [[spoiler: Terri]] at the end of Season 2. [[spoiler:And it is indeed the case in Season 3.]]

%%* HyperAwareness: Hanna has it in spades. [[spoiler: So do the other Utrax girls.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills:

** Carmichael takes an interest in the Utrax program because he wants to use it to cover up a serious indiscretion of his. While drunk, he tried to recruit a friend into the Pioneer group and revealed too much information about their plans. The friend was repulsed by what Pioneer was doing and stole a document from Carmichael that could expose the entire conspiracy. If the leaders of Pioneer find out that Carmichael was the leak, he will be killed for it. [[spoiler: When Marrissa finds this out, she blackmails Carmichael into covering up her and Hanna's actions.]]

** Season 1: Lucas, [[spoiler:after he is pressured into it by Marissa.]].

*** [[spoiler: Then again, in Season 3, she loses Marissa, who has become something of a mother figure.]]

* TrainEscape: Hanna executes a Type 2 at the end of "Friend." Doubles as [[spoiler: a demonstration of her enhanced physical abilities]].

** Though we don't get many details, Melissa's father as she grew up was highly abusive, physically and psychologically, claiming this was to make her tough.

The first episode was made available as a time-limited preview on February 3, 2019. The full eight-episode first season was released on Creator/PrimeVideo on March 29, 2019. The eight-episode second season was released on July 3, 2020. The third and final six episode season was released November 24, 2021.

* AdaptationalDiversity: The Miller family were all white in the original film. Here, the father is South Asian, with both the kids being mixed race. Also, while the film had just one character of color with any lines (an old Moroccan man who helps Hanna) this show adds several supporting characters who are.
* AdaptationDyeJob: All three of the main protagonists (Hanna, Erik and Marissa), compared to the 2011 film: Creator/SaoirseRonan was blonde, Esme Creed-Miles is a brunette; Creator/EricBana had brown hair, Joel Kinnaman has blond hair; and Creator/CateBlanchett was a redhead while Mireille Enos is a blonde.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Carmichael manages to have Gelder and his associates who are aware of sensitive information regarding the Pioneer group killed; however, the official document with said information ends up being retrieved by Hanna who gives it to Marissa. Marissa then blackmails Carmichael into covering up hers, Hanna's, and Clara's betrayals or she will send the document to Carmichael's superiors who will no doubt kill him since he was the one who had inadvertently given Gelder the information regarding Pioneer in the first place.]]
* AmazonBrigade: The Utrax girls are designed to be this, a covert unit of CIA assassins. It was felt that being female and young, they would be underestimated by others and let them get close with targets that don't believe they're dangerous until it's too late.

** The Utrax girls are given elaborate new identities as part of socialization and they adopt these identities as their own to the point that they become those people. They even feel real grief when they are told that one of the identity's (non-existent) sister has died of cancer. However, this is then subverted when they are given an order by their handler and they follow it even if it conflicts with what their new identity would do. They have become new people but they can suspend it and turn back into cold assassins for the duration of the mission.

** Also, Dieter running into Jacobs with a BMW in the chaos at the Berlin hotel.

-->'''Hanna:''' So you make up their names, their families and pretend lives.\\

* DesignerBabies: How Utrax creates its "[[SuperSoldier trainees]]." They aren't just genetically modified, but have been spliced with ''wolf'' DNA to enhance them.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Hanna dresses as one of the Pioneer commandos while fighting them in Season 3, which they fall for ([[FailedASpotCheck apparently not noticing]] her obviously smaller build). This is achieved as they wear ski masks with helmets which conceal their features.

** Before undergoing "socialization", the Utrax girls are heavily medicated to suppress their emotions, to the point where [[spoiler: they don't react when one of their number is shot dead right in front of them]]. Even after being "socialized", they still have a pharmaceutical implant to suppress anxiety.

** Averted with [[spoiler: Sandy/242. She seems to be taking on the Christian values of the virtual family from her cover story, but when she goes on a mission, she has no hesitation manipulating and killing people.]]

* HoneyTrap: Hanna goes out with Abbas to get close so she can assassinate him. She has no intention of doing so however, [[FakingTheDead faking his death]] instead while hiding Abbas in a safe house. They later develop real feelings for each other and have a relationship.
* HowWeGotHere: Season 3 begins as Hanna and Abbas are fleeing while chased by Pioneer commandos. Over the next six episodes it's shown just how they ended up in that situation.

* LyricalDissonance: The EndingTheme, the aptly named "Anti-Lullaby". A slow, calm song, but the lyrics make it anything but soothing — it's a warning to one's child not to fall asleep lest a monster come to kill them in their slumber. It fits the show well, as Hanna and the other Utrax girls have to live their lives constantly looking over their shoulder in fear of their superiors and their enemies.

** At the beginning of the series, Hanna has only interacted with one other person, Erik, and has never lived anywhere but the Bukovina Forest. While she knows several languages, and a bit of cultural trivia, she's never really learned how to have a conversation and doesn't read people or social context accurately--though she gets better at it as the series progresses.

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Somewhat mild example in Season 3, with Marissa appearing to be in her 40s and the primary adversary for most of the season, Brianna Stapleton, appears to be in her early to mid 30s.

** After learning her birth mother's identity, Clara suffers from this, realizing that both her mother and father are gone. [[spoiler:She later meets her mother in the Season 2 finale however, averting this in part.]] Most of the girls have this however, as they all were taken in by Utrax as infants (Hanna is the one lucky exception). You can see how much it affects Sandy to have a pretend family in her cover identity, so much that it soon becomes real for her.

** Hanna rarely misses, even when firing a [[CoolGuns/MachinePistols CZ Skorpion machine pistol]] one-handed on full auto.

** AdaptationalDiversity: The Miller family were all white in the original film. Here, the father is South Asian, with both the kids being mixed race. Also, while the film had just one character of color with any lines (an old Moroccan man who helps Hanna) this show adds several supporting characters who are.
** AdaptationDyeJob: All three of the main protagonists (Hanna, Erik and Marissa), compared to the 2011 film: Creator/SaoirseRonan was blonde, Esme Creed-Miles is a brunette; Creator/EricBana had brown hair, Joel Kinnaman has blond hair; and Creator/CateBlanchett was a redhead while Mireille Enos is a blonde.
** AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:Marissa]]. In the original film, she's a straight villain. Here, she starts out conflicted and then ends up aiding Hanna, turning to good.
** AdaptationalSexuality: The movie hinted at Hanna being a lesbian, rejecting a boy but kissing Sophie later on. In the series, Hanna and Sophie are vying for a boy's attention.
** AdaptedOut: Isaacs, the sadistic jumpsuit-wearing henchman Marissa Wiegler sent to track Hanna down in the 2011 film, does not appear in this version. A character named Jacobs has a similar role, but otherwise bears little resemblance to Isaacs. His henchmen are adults rather than the young S.H.A.R.P.s (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) seen in the film.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sawyer (Season 1) and Carmichael (Season 2) both report to an unseen woman named Nichols who supervises Utrax. In Season 3, Brianna ''Stapleton'' is the person overseeing Utrax on behalf of The Chairman, and Nichols is never mentioned.

* SweetPollyOliver:
** In "The List", Hanna disguises herself as a young man to infiltrate the hotel.

** "Do Not Sleep" sees her to do this again, infiltrating the all-male Pioneer commandos by disguising herself as one (they wear ski masks with helmets that conceal them).

* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Marissa and Stanton, her father, end up killing each other in the finale.]]

* GayBestFriend: Dan is this to Sophie. She feels safe confiding in him about her crush on Anton, since he's not interested in girls.

* ManipulativeBastard:
** The senior staff of The Meadows, particularly Leo and Terri.
** Gordon Evans, in spades.

* LooseLips: Carmichael takes an interest in the Utrax program because he wants to use it to cover up a serious indiscretion of his. While drunk, he tried to recruit a friend into the Pioneer group and revealed too much information about their plans. The friend was repulsed by what Pioneer was doing and stole a document from Carmichael that could expose the entire conspiracy. If the leaders of Pioneer find out that Carmichael was the leak, he will be killed for it. [[spoiler: When Marrissa finds this out, she blackmails Carmichael into covering up her and Hanna's actions.]]

* TheManBehindTheMan: A woman, in this case, named Norris, is this to Sawyer and Carmichael in Se4asons 1 and 2. In Season 3, we learn that a man named Gordon Evans is the ultimate leader ("The Chairman") of the Utrax project.

** Most Utrax girls are White (to be expected, since they all came from Romania). Clara is Black though, along with a few more minor characters being girls of color. Jules is also the only queer girl thus far shown in their ranks.

The first episode was made available as a time-limited preview on February 3, 2019. The full eight-episode first season was released on Creator/PrimeVideo on March 29, 2019. The eight-episode second season was released on July 3, 2020. Season three, of six episodes, will be released November 24, 2021.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted throughout the series. In Season 2, Marissa collects so many bruises (mostly from a fight with Hanna) that she stages a car crash to "explain" them.

* {{Brainwashed}}: All the Utrax girls have been indoctrinated, drugged, and trained from birth to be assassins in a secret CIA program. It's not surprising that of them all, only Clara rebels against it.

** Though not full-on dysfunctional, Marissa's home situation in Season 1 is strained because her boyfriend Oliver's young son resents her presence in the household and Oliver is uncomfortable with the secrecy surrounding her job. Later it turns out she'd estranged from her birth family, having had an abusive father who she has not seen for twenty two years, and a sister she also wasn't in contact with for many years.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * GayBestFriend: Dan is this to Sophie.

* TheManBehindTheMan: A woman, in this case, named Norris, is this to Sawyer and Carmichael.
* ManipulativeBastard: the senior staff of The Meadows, particularly Leo and Terri.

*** The ending of "The List" establishes that Hanna [[spoiler:will become this within Utrax]].

* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Marissa ends up killing Stanton, her abusive father, to stop his misdeeds.]]

** [[spoiler:Stanton goes ahead with ordering a young girl murdered since she's a witness to Pioneer's assassinations, despite his own lieutenant's objections.]]

** [[spoiler:Stanton goes ahead with

* MissingMom:
** Hanna's mother gave her up for adoption when persuaded to with money. Although she does have a loving adopted father after that, she never has a mother again.
** It's unclear what became of Marissa's mother, though her abusive father is a strong presence in the show.

* SweetPollyOliver: In "The List", Hanna disguises herself as a young man to infiltrate the hotel.

* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:The head of Pioneer is Marissa's father.]]

** Though not full-on dysfunctional, Marissa's home situation in Season 1 is strained because her boyfriend Oliver's young son resents her presence in the household and Oliver is uncomfortable with the secrecy surrounding her job.

* FaceHeelTurn: Averted with [[spoiler: Clara/Clemency/249]].

* HyperAwareness: Hanna has it in spades. [[spoiler: So do the other Utrax girls.]]

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "Tacitus": Hanna stops a car by jumping onto the hood as if she were a pedestrian that had just been run into, then steals it when the driver gets out to see what happened.

** Before undergoing "socialization," the Utrax girls are heavily medicated to suppress their emotions, to the point where [[spoiler: they don't react when one of their number is shot dead right in front of them]]. Even after being "socialized," they still have a pharmaceutical implant to suppress anxiety.

* FluffyTamer: Hanna has a way with dogs, a product of her wolf DNA. In "Utrax," she gets the facility's guard dog to stop barking at her and Erik just by asking nicely.

** It seems to be happening with [[spoiler: Terri]] at the end of Season 2.
* HollywoodAtheist: Jules declares there's no God in a slightly obnoxious way, while she is a trained assassin. This is {{downplayed}} however as she's not really portrayed as worse than the other Utrax girls (who are assassins too).

* ImprovisedWeapon: Hanna subdues one of the guards in the underground facility by beating him senseless with the receiver from a wall-mounted telephone.

** In "City," Erik and company improvise a beauty after Hanna [[HyperAwareness detects]] the ambush Marissa has set for them.

* LittleMissBadass: Hanna. She's a short, slim teenage girl, but is a highly skilled martial artist and quite good with firearms. Sandy is another example, though really all the Utrax girls may count, as they're just teenagers but have been trained as assassins from childhood. In fact, that's why they were chosen, as people don't expect them to be a threat.

* MythologyGag: In "Mother," Hanna comes across a deer in the forest and pantomimes drawing a bow (the character's weapon of choice in the film) to shoot it.
* NoInfantileAmnesia: In "A Way to Grieve," Hanna has a flashback to the car crash that killed her mother and Erik carrying her into the forest after he took her from Utrax. She was no more than three or four months old at the time.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: In "Father," Marissa signals Carl that she's under duress by ordering a cup of coffee, a drink she gave up several years ago because it makes her too anxious.

* RoadTripPlot: two episodes, "Friend" and "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Road]]".

* SensoryOverload: In "City," Hanna is overloaded by the chaos in front of the Berlin hotel.
* StrawFeminist: Jules is quick to voice her complaints about how "heteronormative" the backstories she and all of the other Utrax girls are given. She also opposes religion because it was created by men. This is despite the fact that she is an assassin who was trained by and directly takes orders from men. Not to mention that she kills a woman whose significant other is also female. Although, [[{{Brainwashed}} given the nature of her upbringing,]] she was most likely conditioned to not notice or care about this contradiction.
* SweetPollyOliver: In "The List," Hanna disguises herself as a young man to infiltrate the hotel.

* MixedAncestry: Sophie and her brother are both mixed. Their mom's white and their dad is of South Asian ancestry. The children of Dieter (a white German) and his wife (who's Turkish by descent) also count.