History Series / Humans

* Also Niska: starts out as a sex bot. Finds herself again, stuck as a sex bot. Goes on a roaring rampage of revenge, and becomes a one-woman army. By the end of season three, [[spoiler: she’s upgraded by Odi/V, acquiring the same powers mentioned above.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Karen sacrifices herself to save her son when he's exposed as a synth, identifying herself as one to an angry mob so he has time to get away. They beat her to death.
* HeroicSuicide: Mia triggers a device which will destroy Hester, knowing it would do the same to her since she's in range. Thankfully she can be revived before it's too late.

* HeelFaceTurn: Lots of these in Season 3. Anatole and Stanley being the biggest.

* StealthPun: The weapon Stanley was going to use in his assassination attempt on The Dryden Commission? A box cutter (known in the UK as a Stanley knife)

** Max actually starts to show signs of this in his leadership role of The Railyard in Season 3 due to his frustration over Agnes' actions

* TheStoic: Niska making it hard to prove she's sentient also counts as StoicWoobie.

* SuicideAttack: Mia triggers a device to destroy Hester which does also affects her. She's revived afterward though.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: All the Synths exept [[TheHeart Max]] show signs of this but Hester really takes the cake killing two people, unlike Niska showing no signs of regret, and being generally dismissive of Max and Mattie.

* IWasJustJoking: Laura asks [[spoiler: Mia]] why people are hunting the conscious synths. [[spoiler: Mia]] responds with a statement about conscious synths planning to enslaved the human race. After Laura looks rather terrified, she clarifies that she's kidding.

* RaisedByRobots:
** Leo's mother Beatrice [[spoiler: was very mentally ill and unable to care for herself, much less her son. This prompted her husband to build conscious synths to act as a family for Leo. Leo considers Mia his mother and loves her as much]].
** The "We Are People" movement's rhetoric brings up the fact that children are/will be raised by unfeeling, unconscious robots, instead of real human parents.

** [[spoiler:Dr Athena Morrow's goal is to do this with her daughter.]]

** Odi walks into a church to get some advice on his existential crisis, which he dose but doesn't seem to grasp the concept of religion.

* TransNature: "Synthies"

* ColorMotif: Blue is the color of Synth blood-analog and is often associated with death or dying. [[spoiler:This can be seen most directly with damaged Synths, but it extends to fluids and in particular water. Jennie Morrow's death is associated with a particular waterfall, Hester tends to kill or leave bodies in water and Karen's brushes with death are associated with beer and the ocean respectively.]] For Synthetics this tends to make sense as [[spoiler:fluids and circuitry do not mix well, and can be dangerous for Synthetics.]] Blue also tends to run opposite the color of green, which represents vitality and life. A good comparison for this is the difference between Athena's office vs the Hawkin's household, Niska's choice in eye color and V's preferred display.

* SuperStrength: [[spoiler: Fred]] puts his hand through a door and strangles a man in one movement. It's unknown if all synthetics have superhuman strength.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Synthe's in general to the humans.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: 'Asimov blocks' are mentioned as a reason why a synth could not kill a human, but the modified group are quite capable of hurting and killing humans. Like independent-minded sentient people, though, their attitudes towards killing vary. Niska has killed and ''claims'' that she has no reservations about it, but clearly hesitates in certain instances. Max is stunned and horrified that Niska took a life.

** Niska hates being trapped at the robot brothel, but it takes a client who wants her to act like an underage rape victim to make her snap and commit murder. It's also heavily implied that [[spoiler: she was sexually abused by her father as a child.]]

** Niska hates being trapped at the robot brothel, but it takes a client who wants her to act like an underage rape victim to make her snap and commit murder. It's also heavily implied that [[spoiler: her father has had sex with her, something she's not proud of.]]