History Series / Impulse2018

* LaserGuidedKarma: Henry's teleporting abilities manifest when Clay attempts to rape her, leading to him being paralyzed from the waist down. Henry later lampshades how karmic it is that Clay can no longer do to anyone else what he did to her.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Henry's teleporting abilities manifest when Clay attempts to rape her, leading to him being paralyzed from the waist down. Henry later lampshades how karmic it is that Clay can no longer do anyone else what he did to her.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Henry with Josh. It stands in complete contrast to her [[AttemptedRape experience with Clay]] as Josh, before and after the sex, is nothing but kind and supportive, and so the sex is clearly good for her. Unfortunately deconstructed as, while he's a good man and they ''enjoy'' the sex, it also triggers the trauma she suffered from Clay and causes her panic attacks after.

* ClosetKey: Kate is this for Jenna.

* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Henry spills the beans on Jenna being gay, but only to protect herself from being outed as a teleporter by Jenna. She regrets it immediately,

* StartOfDarkness: Episode four of the second season is fully committed to exploring Nicholai's [[OriginsEpisode backstory]].

* ShellShockedVeteran: After [[DateRape she's been raped]] by Clay, Henry shows clear signs of PTSD, including traumatic {{flashback}}s and [[TraumaButton triggers from similar things]] (being touched by a man-even consensually-and if she's close to a truck, as the assault took place in one).

* TokenMinorityCouple: Townes, an autistic boy, discovers that his online girlfriend Zoe is an amputee with a prosthetic arm when they finally meet. She was scared for him to see, as people sometimes are uncomfortable due to her arm. Townes likes it though, and understands what she means as a result of his autism. Both of them are the only disabled characters in the show.

* DisappearedDad: Henry's dad left when she was very young, and she's not happy with her mom having many boyfriends after him. [[spoiler:It later turns out her dad didn't go voluntarily but for far more sinister reasons, with Henry trying to find out what happened.]]

* DisappearedDad: Henry's dad left when she was very young, and she's not happy with her mom having many boyfriends after him.

** Clay Boone, who is a sports star, treats women like objects, cheated on his last girlfriend and tried to rape Henry, kicking off much of the plot. He continues to deny any wrongdoing and later comes to see her as a freak who attacked ''him'', despite admitting to his dad that he probably ''did'' try to rape her. He's also shown laughing about a "prank" he pulled where he dated a girl solely to get her to send nudes, all so he could then leak them to humiliate her brother (and still laughs about it, even while his friends are disturbed by it).

* TeleFrag: Henry unintentionally kills [[spoiler:Bill Boone]] this way in "New Beginning" when he's threatening her and she teleports away to safety, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisecting him]] as he's standing close by.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: It takes an attempted rape to awaken the teleporting powers in Henry.

The series follows withdrawn 16-year-old Henrietta "Henry" Coles (played by Maddie Hasson) as she moves with her mother into a new town, Reston, in upstate New York. Here she discovers she has the ability to teleport but has no control over her destination. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school's basketball captain and star, Clay Boone, who [[DateRape digitally rapes her]]. She has a seizure and teleports, in the course of which she inadvertently crushes much of his truck when her ability to teleport first manifests, leaving him a paraplegic. The show goes on to explore Henry's struggle with the trauma and how she starts to control her newfound superpower.

The series follows withdrawn 16-year-old Henrietta "Henry" Coles (played by Maddie Hasson) as she moves with her mother into a new town, Reston, in upstate New York. Here she discovers she has the ability to teleport but has no control over her destination. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school's basketball captain and star, Clay Boone, who [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her]]. She has a seizure and teleports, in the course of which she inadvertently crushes much of his truck when her ability to teleport first manifests, leaving him a paraplegic. The show goes on to explore Henry's struggle with the trauma and how she starts to control her newfound superpower.

* AttemptedRape: Henry consensually makes out with Clay, but then he starts going farther than she wants to and won't stop. It sparks her TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening when she teleports via a subconscious desire to flee, and it partly crushes Clay's truck, leaving him paralyzed.

* ShellShockedVeteran: After [[AttemptedRape nearly being raped]] by Clay, Henry shows clear signs of PTSD, including traumatic {{flashback}}s and [[TraumaButton triggers from similar things]] (being touched by a man-even consensually-and if she's close to a truck, as the assault took place in one).

* TraumaButton: Henry being touched by men or her being close to the truck will lead to this, due to her attempted rape by Clay in his truck.

* ThickerThanWater: Family before else is a recurring theme.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Deputy Hulce.

* DisappearedDad: Henry's dad is dead, and she's not happy with her mom having many boyfriends after him.

* TomboyishName: "Henry" isn't typically what a girl would go by. Lampshaded in episode 5, where Henry is stuck in Vermont with an old lady; when she says her name the woman comments that it's a dumb name. Her full name's actually Henrietta.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: When Henry and her former boyfriend have sex, for a short moment she is seen in bed topless from behind. Then they start making out under a ModestyBedsheet.

* TomboyishName: "Henry" isn't typically what a girl would go by. Lampshaded in episode 5, where Henry is stuck in Vermont with an old lady; when she says her name the woman comments that it's a dumb name.

* TraumaButton: Henry being touched by men or her being close to the truck will lead to this.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: It takes rape to awaken the teleporting powers in Henry.

* NeverMyFault: Clay is angered when he discovers that Henry is responsible for crippling him, [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening albeit unintentionally)]]. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that Henry only did so because of Clay forcing himself on her. Even when his mother tries to tell him about what he did, he refuses to admit to any wrongdoing.

''Impulse'' is a {{science fiction}} drama web television series, loosely based on the novel ''Impulse'' by Steven Gould, that premiered 2018 on Website/YouTube Premium.

The series follows withdrawn 16-year-old Henrietta "Henry" Coles (played by Maddie Hasson) as she moves with her mother into a new town, Reston, in upstate New York. Here she discovers she has the ability to teleport but has no control over her destination. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school's basketball captain and star, Clay Boone, who [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her]]. She has a seizure and teleports, in the course of which she inadvertently crushes much of his truck when her ability to teleport first manifests, leaving him a paraplegic. The show goes on to explore Henry's struggle with the trauma and how she starts to control her new-found superpower.

* AbusiveParents: Nicholai's adopted father, though not to him nor his other son, Wesley, but to his daughter, Elaine. His wife/her mother, died during childbirth and the girl had asthma, so he's got a cold, sometimes cruel demeanor with her. He spent her entire life-crushing any confidence or identity she had outside of him, which seemingly only stopped when he became sickly and bedridden. Nicholai is conflicted between the love he has for the man who took him in and treated him like his own son, and his horror at seeing what he did to his own daughter.

** Nicholai survived Occupied Romania during the late 80s, first jumping during a terrorist attack that killed the rest of his family. His criminal uncle and him lived together, stealing to survive, until he befriended an injured Canadian national who promised to help get them out. They were betrayed by his uncle (who killed his friend, Wesley), resulting in Nicholai beating him to death. After the Revolution Nicholai found Wesley's family, who adopted him and helped him develop his powers...and founded the morally questionable teleport-experimenting company he now works for.

* DownerEnding: Due to being cancelled after two seasons; [[spoiler:in desperation, Henry left Hulce in a random cave, but when she returned she was gone and may be dead. Henry's friends have turned on her, Cleo and Tom broke up, and Henry had to ruin her her relationship with her mother in order to break their tether. She also discovered that her father was long dead and Nicholai killed him, and out of anger Henry beat Nicholai ''to death''. She's got enough cash to survive for now and has gained enough control of her powers to live anywhere, but this little bit of positivity does ''nothing'' to contrast the rest of what happened.]]

** For all his vices, Bill Boones cares deeply about his two sons. It gets {{deconstructed|Trope}} as he's willing to cover-up Clay sexually assaulting Henry, which is something [[MamaBear Cleo]] is enraged by when she finds out.

* PoorCommunicationKills: In the last two episodes of Season 2, Nicholai tries to give Henry a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech after she asks for his help, thinking what she needs is to believe in herself to be able to solve whatever problem she has. He also decides now is finally time to come clean about what happened between him and her father. [[spoiler:He's unaware of the fact Henry's "problem" is that she kind of stranded Hulce in a cave somewhere in a moment of blind panic and is now struggling to find a way to fix it, which has her completely on-edge. Because of that, he completely misreads her mental state at the time and doesn't know that it would be a ''very'' bad idea to tell her how he killed her father, which ends up resulting in Henry ''killing'' Nicholai in her grief-stricken rage, and this ends up making her forget about Hulce until it's too late to save her.]] All of this that could have been avoided had he been willing to let her explain what her problem was.

* TomboyishName: "Henry" isn't typically what a girl would go by. Lampshaded in episode 5, where Henry is stuck in Vermount with an old lady; when she says her name the woman comments that it's a dumb name.

* TraumaButton: Henry being touching by men or her being close to the truck will lead to this.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: It takes rape to awake the teleporting powers in Henry.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his vices, Bill Boones cares deeply about his two sons. It gets {{deconstructed|Trope}} as he's willing to cover-up Clay sexually assaulting Henry, which is something [[MamaBear Cleo]] is enraged by.

* HeManWomanHater: Clay Boone, who is a sports star, treats women like objects, cheated on his last girlfriend and tried to rape Henry, kicking off much of the plot. He continues to deny any wrongdoing and later comes to see her as a freak who attacked ''him'', despite admitting to his dad that he probably ''did'' try to rape her. He's also shown laughing about a "hilarious prank" he pulled where he dated a girl solely to get her to send nudes, all so he could then leak them to humiliate her brother (and still laughs about it, even while his friends are disturbed by it).

* NeverMyFault: Clay is angered when he discovers that Henry is responsible [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening (albeit unintentionally)]] for crippling him. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that Henry only did so because of Clay forcing himself on her. Even when his mother tries to tell him about what he did, he refuses to admit to any wrongdoing.

* PoorCommunicationKills: In the last two episodes of Season 2, Nicholai tries to give Henry a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech after she asks for his help, thinking what she needs is to believe in herself to be able to solve whatever problem she has. He also decides now is finally time to come clean about what happened between him and her father. [[spoiler:He's unaware of the fact Henry's "problem" is that she kind of stranded Hulce in a cave somewhere in a moment of blind panic and is now struggling to find a way to fix it, which has her completely on-edge. Because of that, he completely misreads her mental state at the time and doesn't know that it would be a 'very'' bad idea to tell her how he killed her father, which ends up resulting in Henry ''killing'' Nicholai in her grief-stricken rage, and this ends up making her forget about Hulce until it's too late to save her.]] All of this that could have been avoided had he been willing to let her explain what her problem was.

* UglyGuyHotWife: They're not married, but Tom and Cleo (which, when we see Cleo's previous track record, seems to be a pattern of her's). Lampshaded early on, where Henry is shown looking at Tom and visibly questioning ''what'' her mom could possibly find attractive about him. Justified in his case at least, as he's nothing but a kind and understanding man and she's evidently attracted to how genuinely nice he is.

* VillainEpisode: Episode four of the second season is fully committed to exploring Nicholai's [[OriginsEpisode backstory]].

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: When trying to get into Hulce's car Henry totally forgets that she could teleport in. Justified, as she ''literally'' forgets; when she remembers, she actually makes an "oh, right, ''duh''" gesture then teleports in.

* {{Adorkable}}: Townes.