History Series / HomeAndAway

* ContinuitySnarl: Plenty. Most notable is Jade and Kirsty Sutherland. One of their initial storylines included one locating the other through {{Twin Telepathy}} (which was already a bit shaky since they weren't identical twins). Fast forward a few years, and [[spoiler: they're not related at all.]]

* ContinuitySnarl: Plenty. Most notable is Jade and Kirsty Sutherland. One of their initial storylines included one locating the other through {{Twin Telepathy}}. Fast forward a few years, and [[spoiler: they're not related at all.]]

* However gossipy and judgemental Colleen was herself, even she had absolutely no time for Christine Jones and her prudish and busybody ways.

* KarmaHoudini: A main character kidnapped someone/tried to murder someone/really murdered someone? Nine times out of ten, they get away with nothing more than a slap on the wrist. The one other time, the actor wanted to leave the show.

* BiTheWay: Charlie Buckton for Joey.

* BecomeARealBoy: Miles, after twenty years of being the seemingly imaginary Milco.

* SuddenlySexuality: Charlie was briefly in love with Joey before the latter girl left, at which point she went straight back to Angelo.

* BiTheWay: Charlie Buckton.

** Andy and Josh Barrett, perhaps even more than Brax. Andy starts off attempting to murder two main characters for trivial reasons, and ends up ''actually'' killing two main characters, albeit by accident. In between, he murders a rival criminal in cold blood and Josh accidentally kills someone else while covering for him. They both confess in the end, but instead of taking their punishment they go on the run together. (The [[RuinedFOREVER negative reaction]] may have been greater than anticipated, as several months later it's casually announced that [[AuthorsSavingThrow they were arrested off-screen]].)

* TooDumbTooLive: Laura Bonetti apparently enjoyed the rush of doing dangerous things, and ended up dying when she tried to dodge a train.

-->'''Barry''': Doctor Jekyll was the good one. I am Mr. Hyde, the evil one. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis And I never. Change. Back]].

** Averted with Floss McPhee in 2004 when she thought she was dying but was revealed not ot be.

* ContinuitySnarl: Plenty. Most notable is Jade and Kirsty Sutherland. One of their initial storylines included one locating the other through {{Twin Telepathy}}. Fast forward a few years, and [[spoiler: they're not related at all ]]

** more recently, Ruby pulled this. She was dating a boy named Romeo after his marriage to Indi fell apart. When Ruby thought he was going to leave her, she told him she was pregnant. When he found out that she lied, naturally, he left her. Then when she found out that Romeo and Indi had gotten back together, Ruby cut the brakes on Indi's car, which put Indi's brother Dex in the hospital with severe brain injuries.
* FanService: Most men below the age of 30. Particularly notable examples in recent years include Brad, Ric, Lucas, Geoff, Aden, Romeo, Xavier and the Braxton brothers.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Alf's "Flaming Galah" is hilarious for it's "Australian-ness" and the fack that it's supposed to be a serious expletive, if not the most offensive one.

*** Whenever Morag has a client who's innocent, they go to jail: Kane, Ric, Alf (twice.). She represents someone who's guilty and he gets away with it...

** Another episode has Leah apologise to Ryan after falsely accusing him of wrecking her wedding dress. Ryan says that he accepts Leah's apology, but then we see he has his fingers crossed behind his back.

* MissingMom[=/=]DisappearedDad: Frequently applies to the teeange cast, largely because a constant element from the beginning of the series has been foster families.

* MrFanservice: The River Boys. Oh yeah!

* OneSteveLimit: Not played entirely straight. There have been two Bretts, two Jacks, two Joeys and two Rubys. The only ones to appear together were the Rubys: regular Ruby Buckton and guest character Ruby Leeds..

** Andy and Josh Barrett, perhaps even more than Brax. Andy starts off attempting to murder two main characters for trivial reasons, and ends up ''actually'' killing two main characters, albeit by accident. In between, he murders a rival criminal in cold blood and Josh accidentally kills someone else while covering for him. They both confess in the end, but instead of taking their punishment they go on the run together.

* LongBusTrip: Joey Collins was put on a three-month fishing trip. As of this writing, it has been four years...

** Kane Phillips went unpunished for his role in kidnapping Shauna and later raping Dani, instead being given a FreudianExcuse in the form of his father and brother's abuse, while being supposedly [[LoveRedeems redeemed]] by his relationship with Dani's sister Kirsty. Similar to Brax, the one time he was convicted of a crime was when he was framed by the aforementioned father and brother, and he and Kirsty skipped town before sentencing. He would later be apprehended in 2008 and tried for the robberies he was forced to commit while on the run, accepting a plea deal to protect Kirsty and their son. However, in a baffling incidence of WrongfulAccusationInsurance, he later appealed the sentence and was released, despite having no apparent way of exonerating himself for the original robbery, to say nothing of the ones he ''had'' committed.

** Irene was revealed to have a child by rape in late 2015, later revealed to be a son. The fact that this had never come up in her 20+ years on the show despite Irene having lived with Tasha and been around for each of the above stories was rather weakly {{Hand Wave}}d by an implication of repressed memories, which were only now being triggered by Olivia opening up about being sexually abused by a friend of her uncle. (However, the fact she still had the blanket she made for the baby, which she treated like a prized possession even though it had never been seen before and she'd lost all her possessions in a house fire in the 90s, seems to contradict the repressed memories theory.)

* [[NeverSayDie Never Say Rape]]: ''Home and Away'' has done a number of well-remembered rape storylines over the years (Carly, Chloe and Dani in particular) but the word "rape" was never used onscreen, replaced by "assault", "attack", and in one infamous case, "forced her to have a baby with him." (Granted, the pregnancy was the whole point of the rape, but still). This was finally averted after Joey was raped in 2009, with further aversions in the storylines involving Charlie later that year, and Bianca in 2011. However, the word was used early in 2007, in the context of rohypnol being a date rape drug.

''Home and Away'' is notable in that, unlike ''Neighbours'', the show has had one cast member (Ray Meagher) stay on board from the very first episode. Another notable totable is that unlike most soapies, this one is aimed squarely at teens, as well as older fans who grew up with Sally (Kate Ritchie, the longest-serving ''female'' cast member, who was also in the first episode, but left in 2008).

** Irene was revealed to have a child by rape in late 2015, later revealed to be a son. The fact that this had never come up in her 20+ years on the show despite Irene having lived with Tasha and been around for each of the above stories was rather weakly {{Hand Wave}}d by an implication of repressed memories, which were only now being triggered by Olivia opening up about being sexually abused by a friend of her uncle.

** There's also Kyle Bennett/Braxton. Introduced lurking around the Bay spying on the Braxton brothers, Kyle kidnapped Casey, took him out into the bush and attempted to starve/dehydrate him to death. His reason? Casey had killed their mutual father. Dragged back to the Bay to testify in Casey's favour, Kyle later turned his life around and became one of the good guys. In his favour, he has worked very hard to be better than he was then.
** To a huge extent, Darryl "Brax" Braxton. His crimes included running a drug operation; having Liam Murphy beaten up for testifying against his brother; attempting to murder both Pirovic brothers (someone beat him to it both times); stealing the evidence in armed robbery and framing a mostly innocent bystander; attacking Johnny Barrett, stealing the proceeds of a robbery and leaving him for dead; and attacking Dean Sanderson, stealing the proceeds of a robbery and leaving him for dead. He receives no legal punishment for any of it, and on the two occasions he does go to jail he's innocent and gets out pretty quickly (the second time by ''faking his death and escaping'', albeit to protect his family). And ''then'', all of this gets awkwardly wrapped up with Dean's actual killer confessing, exonerating Brax and allowing him to have his happy ending with Ricki and their son Casey.