History Series / LostGirl

And I was lost for years; searching while hiding... only to find I belonged to a world hidden from humans.\\

* AlliterativeName: '''L'''auren '''L'''ewis, '''M'''ackenzie '''M'''alikov.

--->'''Bo:''' You’re the most frustrating, stubborn, assface that I’ve ever met.
--->'''Dyson:''' Hey, I don’t like me much either. Trust me.
--->'''Bo:''' Stop being so charming! This isn’t the time.
--->''[Bo punches Dyson]''
--->'''Bo:''' I will kill you!

--->'''Hale:''' Forget about Bo for a second. You have to go.
--->'''Kenzie:''' Stop saying that to me! Why does everybody keep saying that? We all used to be friends, Hale!
--->'''Hale:''' Goddammit, Kenzi, you are not my friend, you’ve never been just a friend! If anything happens to you, I won’t be any good to anyone, and right now, I need to be better than I’ve ever been
--->'''Kenzi:''' Asshole. Stupid. Why didn’t you tell me that?
--->'''Hale:''' Because I was scared.

* BetaCouple: [[spoiler:Hale and Kenzi]]... sort of.

** Bo makes no distinction between men and women when feeding off their sexual energy, and has romantic relationships with both genders. This is more or less taken for granted by everybody - in fact, the only person seen commenting on this is Kenzi, who makes it clear that she sees Bo as a sister and not a romantic interest.

** The Fae world is divided between the Light Fae, who make some token efforts to avoid being completely SelfishEvil, and the Dark Fae who...really, really don't. The more heroic characters try to hold themselves to a higher standard, but even they are all a bit morally ambiguous.

** The Morrigan also keeps handcuffs already cuffed to her bed frame. [[spoiler:This bites her in the ass.]] She also uses Pepper Spray for...something.

** In episode 1.03, Kenzi walks into the bathroom to find a half-naked Dyson (who'd spent the night with Bo), points him in the direction of the toothpaste, then does a little victory dance on the way out. Episode 2.06 repeats the scene almost verbatim - only this time, it's ''Lauren'' who slept over, and Kenzi's (hungover) exit dance ends with her pretending to barf.

** Averted. It's not explicitly stated that the series takes place in Toronto (where it is filmed), but there are a few hints (or at least those hints are relegated to FreezeFrameBonus status). Check the currency and the flag in the trailer park in the second episode...

** Bo handcuffs the Morrigan to her bed in "Into the Dark." Lucky for Bo, the Morrigan always keeps some cuffs handily attached to the headboard...
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The Twig of Zamora, appearing at the end of Season 3 and coming back at the end of Season 4. It protects Hale from the Morrigan, and then Kenzi from her. [[spoiler:Kenzi trades it to Massimo for Fae powers, and it allows him to survive both falling into a fire pit and Hale's attack...which tragically allows him to kill Hale. Lauren then takes it back from him in "Dark Horse," allowing Bo to kill him]].

--> '''Nain Rouge:''' And Bo? When you do meet our enemy, kick his feathered ass.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Dark Fae definitely have worse policies when it comes to humans, and they are the blacker morality compared to the Light, but, just as we see rather evil-acting Light Fae, some Dark Fae are rather pleasant (for instance [[spoiler: Ryan]]) and don't really show any "evil" traits.
** While Evony (the Morrigan) practically screams "evil bitch" with almost every appearance, she becomes very friendly with Lauren in Season 4. [[spoiler: It speaks volumes about how much stronger Lauren has become when it's ''Evony'' who later gets back-stabbed instead of the other way around]].

** Possibly Vex. Definitely depraved at least... the bisexual part remains {{ambiguous|lyBi}}.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Aofie rapes Dyson, and it is treated as Dyson being 'seduced'. Especially bad, since Aoife is not seen using succubus powers, save for life draining.]]

* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of "Mirror, Mirror", [[spoiler: Baba Yaga's burned hand is shown reaching through a mirror, despite her apparent death]].

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Lauren]] eventually gets fed up with how she'd been treated by the Light Fae and decides to work for the Dark. Notably, she doesn't become evil, she's just working for the "bad guys." [[spoiler:And then subverted, she's trying to help Bo and scams the Morrigan]].
* TheFairFolk: Fairies, including Ciara. The "fair" part especially applies -- at [[spoiler:Ciara's funeral]] Trick notes that fairies are all very photogenic.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Cayden]] turns out to be one for Dyson.

* FriendsRentControl: Subverted. The ladies have no real income to speak of, but live in a giant converted warehouse. It's justified by the fact they are squatting, not paying rent, and it's still kind of a dump. It still doesn't explain how they can afford all those fabulous clothes...

'''Bo:''' (''beat'') ...What?\\

** Played straight when [[spoiler: Bo seduces the Morrigan in "Into the Dark," as she only did it to distract her and it's ultimately PlayedForLaughs]].
** Played straight again when [[spoiler: Bo and Tamsin kiss while mentally regressed to teenagers]]. Dyson was clearly enjoying the moment.

* GroinAttack: Used as a plot point in the Season 3 opener. [[spoiler: Bo claims that the warden of a prison run by Amazons is actually a man. A guard tests the theory by grabbing the warden in the crotch. He instantly doubles over in pain, proving Bo was right]].

* GutturalGrowler: The Ash -- the first one, anyway. It's almost "Christian Bale"-esque {{Narm}}.

'''Bo:''' But emotionally I'm a level 10 harpy. ''(One of Lauren's medical staff slams something down and storms off, giving Bo a dirty look)''. Is she...?\\

** Bo has one at the end of the episode "Family Portrait" when she [[spoiler: finds the bodies of her mother Aife and Trick, both killed by her father Hades]]
* HeroicSacrifice: This happens to [[spoiler: Ciara and Lachlan]] in the third-to-last episode of the second season, the first stepping in front of a sword cut in order to protect Bo and the second allowing himself to be killed by the Garuda to trick him into thinking he'd won. [[spoiler: Dyson]] stays behind when the rest flee in order to hold off the berserkers, but he ultimately survives, as well as a second HeroicSacrifice attempt where he fights the Garuda in order to delay the fight with Bo.

* HopeSpot: After Sean manages to make peace with his brother in "Fae Day," his brother calls off the hit on Sean and it appears that the banshee was wrong when she wailed for him. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, YouCantFightFate and [[ChekhovsGunman an angry investor who Liam had ripped off]] tries to kill Liam and Sean [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet for him.]]]]
* HornyDevils: The protagonist and other succubi, including [[spoiler: her biological mother]].

* IncestSubtext: [[spoiler: Between Bo and her mother. It doesn't help that her very first scene has her forcibly kissing Bo, and that a later episode reveals she knew it was her daughter all along]].

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Bo gives Kenzi the platonic version of this in "Truth and Consequences". Kenzi [[spoiler: breaks up with her mortal boyfriend to protect him and insists on staying in Bo's life. Bo can't help but be grateful]].

** [[spoiler:Hale]] becomes the Ash in Season 3, and [[TookALevelInJerkass turns]] into a total dick too. There's something about that position...

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lachlan. [[spoiler: He's trying to stop something far worse, and seems to regret his actions]].

* [[spoiler: {{Kappa}}]]: The villain Fae of episode 3.

** [[spoiler: The Morrigan's assistant]] calls the Morrigan out on all the lives she's ruined/talents destroyed, and then graphically commits suicide. The Morrigan and Vex are unmoved and have a casual conversation as she slowly bleeds to death. Bo is appalled.

* KingIncognito: [[spoiler: Trick is the Blood King of the Fae]].

* LifeEnergy: What Bo feeds on -- well, sexual energy at least. It's a bit more complicated than that, as it's a bit inconsistent throughout the series what the energy that Bo takes and gives is really capable of.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Trick is Aife's father, and Bo's grandfather]].

* MagicPants: Aversion with Dyson. Kenzi actually picks up his pants post-transformation, explaining where he recovers them from. I guess he didn't have time to put the rest of his clothes on...
* MagicallyBindingContract: Spriggans can do this with a handshake. And apparently blood oaths; not even Vex is crazy enough to break one. Poor Kenzi...

* {{Masquerade}}: The Fae have been manipulating -- and been a part of -- human civilization since the beginning, but usually have kept themselves hidden, and have worked hard to make humanity believe that they are just myths. There are more or less three levels:

* MindControl: Several types of Fae have some form of this power. The character Vex, who is a type of Fae called a Mesmer, can turn pretty much anyone into one of his PeoplePuppets. Bo can do this at a CharmPerson level using her succubus powers of attraction, while older, more experienced succubi [[spoiler: such as Saskia/Aife]] can enslave people to the point of creating a small army of enthralled humans who are willing to die for them. Bo later learns how to do this.

* MyBelovedSmother: The Glaive has very strict instructions on what her daughter cannot do when she is out. They eliminate any 'fun' activities a young woman might want to to indulge in. Turns out some of them are actually quite reasonable considering the Fae's nature. [[spoiler: Drinking coffee stops her heart -- well, one of them anyway.]]

-->'''Kenzi:''' Do you come with your own mop? Ours kinda got brutalized in the cheese fondue incident. Not pretty...

* OhCrap: Bo and Kenzi are helping out Dyson on a case involving high-schoolers becoming super-intelligent and then collapsing into a coma. Then one night Bo comes home to the BookDumb Kenzi spouting off about Euclidian Geometry...
** In "Waves," Dyson tries to call the whole investigation off when he realizes that they're dealing with mermaids, who are apparently an entire species of JerkAss psychopaths. [[spoiler: He's not wrong]].

** Kenzi (being a semi-retired con artist) has many different last names, with no real clue which if any is the one she was born with. Season 4's finale shows "Mackenzie Malikov" written [[spoiler: on her grave]].

* OrphansOrdeal: Bo's biological (Fae) parents abandoned her, for reasons unknown. She then had to leave home as a teen after her powers awakened. Kenzi has been on the street since she was 10. The [[spoiler: thief in the second episode is stealing from his father as revenge for abandoning him and his mother]].

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Bo realizes that Kenzi has been replaced by an impostor when she sees "Kenzi" eating food with peanuts on it -- Kenzi is allergic to peanuts.

* Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray: Bo suspects that a lich keeps his soul in a pictures of himself and even mentions the story as her inspiration. [[spoiler: She is wrong]].

* PsychicNosebleed: [[spoiler: The Oracle in episode 5, but only for really intense visions.]] Trick also has one when he forces a Fae to extract the truth from him and help him remember a lost memory.

** While investigating the disappearances of girls from a college in "Oh Kappa, My Kappa," Bo and Kenzi suspect the sorority and the uptight dean to be involved. [[spoiler: It's really a security guard feeding girls to his kappa.]]
** The creepy landscaper in "(Dis)Members Only" is suspected to be the landwight fae Bo and Dyson are looking for. [[spoiler: Turns out it's actually the resort's chef.]]

** At the end of "Fae Day," we find out that [[spoiler: Trick is the Blood King, an ancient fae with RealityWarper powers who could have been the ruler of all the fae if he wanted]].
** [[spoiler: Saskia is actually Aife, Bo's mother.]] Later, we find out that [[spoiler: Trick is Aife's father, making him Bo's grandfather]].
* RiteOfPassage: The Dawning. Pass and you get to be awesome. Fail... not so much.

* SafeWord: When Bo has a rebound threesome in the "Faetal Attraction", she comments "We're going to need a safe word." The episode [[SexyDiscretionShot fades to black]] before we find out what the safe word actually is, though...

* ScrewYourself: In "Scream a Little Dream," Bo gets a dream including a version of... herself from the future after all her LoveInterests have died, who [[HornyDevils insists upon stealing a kiss (and her powers) from her]]. Of course, the vision of Dyson is considerably more tempting...

-->'''Lauren:''' It's just that the doctor part of me never shuts off, and I know that I’m merely acting out of transference of grief onto you. Wanting to have sex is a very common response to grief. Biologically speaking, the transference often helps move the pain. Sort of use it as something else. Turn it into something different. Something better...\\

--> "Oh go ahead and merge naughty bits already! I mean seriously, am I the only one seeing this?"

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Episode 4 ("Faetal Attraction") [[spoiler: The Fury, her husband, the human, AND the Fury's sisters all die, and Bo interfering made things WORSE...the human was a serial killer. Only plus is that Bo and Dyson got in a better position]].
** "Vexed": [[spoiler:Bo's stubborn refusal to let anyone talk her out of hunting down Vex leads to nothing. She's nearly killed by him, doesn't save Lou Ann, doesn't learn anything about her past, nearly starts a war, and her relationship with Lauren is damaged]].

* ShownTheirWork: Every fairy, fae, and legendary creature they actually got right... sirens to furies, frost giants to lightning birds. Someone REALLY knew their mythologies.

** "I Fought the Fae and the Fae Won" has a twofer. First, Bo's refusal to give up on protecting Sabine prompts Kenzi to groan [[Film/BrokebackMountain "I wish I knew how to quit you."]] ''In the very next scene,'' Trick explains how all the candidates for becoming the new Ash will meet at a location known as "the Gyllenhaal" - and Bo deadpans "Which one? [[Creator/JakeGyllenhaal Jake]] or [[Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal Maggie]]?"
** In "Scream a Little Dream," Kenzi greets the hotel doorman/client by modeling his hat and quipping "This ''is'' the platform to [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hogwart's]]?" - and Bo apologizes "Don't mind [[Creator/TinaFey Tina Not-Fae]] here."

--> '''Bruce''': Just... try to keep it on the road!\\

** In the same episode, after sending Trick and Stella off to Scotland, Hale leaves saying he has to "[[Film/GoodWillHunting see about a girl.]]"

-->'''Evony:''' I think this is the beginning of a beautiful... something.

* TheSlenderManMythos: Slenderman is much older than his internet fame. [[spoiler: He was the Pied Piper]].

* SpinTheBottle: After a parasite regresses them into teenagers, Dyson, Tamsin, and Bo all play this... with a bottle of ''shampoo''. Teenage!Dyson changes the rules so that Tamsin and Bo also have take most of their clothes off.

* SpitTake: Vex, upon being informed that [[spoiler: Trick is the Blood King]]. It probably doesn't help that he's drinking Trick's whiskey at the time.
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Jenny]] in "Faetal Attraction".

--> '''Bo''': And Kenzi?\\

* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Subverted. [[spoiler: Lachlan invokes this on Bo but he actually wants her to fail; [[SecretTestOfCharacter proving that she can be the champion of the Fae]].]]

** In addition to the Light and Dark sides, [[spoiler: some people (like Dyson) are more closely allied with Trick, AKA The Blood King and ancient ruler of the Fae]].

** At the end of "Fae Day," [[spoiler: Sean takes a bullet meant for his brother Liam]].
** [[spoiler: Tamsin]] takes a bullet for Bo in "Those Who Wander".

** Lichs -- who actually feed on knowledge, which they prefer to glean from resurrecting dead humans.

-->'''Trick:''' So... many... glasses. Must... polish.

-->'''Bo:''' One word... '''epic.'''

** The dress Kenzi wears to [[spoiler: her wedding in Valhalla]] has a completely bare back and the top part is completely transparent in front, except for some opaque fabric over her breasts. This is unusual for Kenzi, who normally doesn't show much skin.

* VillainousCrossdresser: [[spoiler: The Warden of Hecuba Prison]] has been pretending to be female so he can get Amazons to work for him and assist him with his baby-selling scheme.

** Bo after [[spoiler: draining the life force from a room full of people, all at once, to save Lauren.]]
** It happens again before she [[spoiler: drains Kenzi, Lauren, Trick and Stella to save Dyson]].

* WeaksauceWeakness: Dyson's sense of smell is apparently weakened significantly by [[spoiler: kitty litter]]. Bo is appropriately incredulous.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Lachlan. [[spoiler: He's trying to stop the Garuda from killing everyone. He admits his horrible treatment of Lauren was to test Bo, and seems to genuinely regret it]].

* WhamEpisode: Episode 3x12 "Hail, Hale" -- [[spoiler:Lauren is suckered into helping a ring of humans who are trying to steal/acquire fae powers by kidnapping fae, one of whom is Dyson. Hale's tenure as the Ash is cut short by a vote of no confidence engineered by the Morrigan. Hale declares his feelings for Kenzi. Fae-aligned humans are declared terrorists and sentenced to death, starting with Kenzi. Bo discovers that Tamsin is working against her, even as she has been shot and is bleeding out while trying to find Lauren and Dyson. Trick is kidnapped. And it turns out that one of the human conspirators' prisoners is Bo's mother, Aife, who is suffering serious SanitySlippage.]]
** Also season 2 episode 13, ''Barometz Trick Pressure'', in which [[spoiler: we meet Season 2's BigBad, the Garuda, meanwhile Bo attempts to assassinate Lachlan, only for him to reveal that his JerkAss behavior has all been an elaborate act to test Bo, after which he asks her to be his champion in a war against the Garuda, which he knew all along was coming.]]
** "End of a Line". As if the episode title wasn't foreboding enough, [[spoiler:Hale -- the heir of the Zamora clan -- is KilledOffForReal]]. It's made so much worse in that the entire episode emphasized how little death mattered when several dead Fae are raised as revenants, and that [[spoiler:Massimo, Hale's killer, survived due to possessing the Twig of Zamora]].

-->[[spoiler: '''Bo:''' *Wigs out and pins Kenzi against a wall* And ''covered'' in peanuts, to which you are deathly allergic. Now tell me, bitch, where the hell is Kenzi?]]

** CondemnedContestant: Trick states the game is designed so that the stag won't win, and no stag ever has. They try to make it easier by having Hale, who won't hurt her, be one of the hunters. [[spoiler: They also have her lover, who can turn invisible be there to help. Ultimately, she is still shot right before she ring the bell, so they have Lauren [[RevivalLoophole revive her]] in a LoopholeAbuse]].

** Bo deduces that a lich stored his soul in a portrait and just like in Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray she has to destroy it to kill the lich. When she cuts the picture up with a knife [[spoiler: the lich merely laughs at her]].

* {{Yandere}}: In the episode "Faetal Attraction", sweet [[spoiler:Jenny]] turns out to be a chainsaw-wielding psycho. Anyone else notice the Bluebeard shoutout? [[spoiler: Except of course she has her previous objects-of-obsessions' skulls in her "secret" cupboard.]]
** Kenzi starts acting ridiculously possessive of Bo in the an early episode of Season 3, after being pulled down into a shadow at the end of the previous episode. [[spoiler: It is soon revealed that she's been replaced by a Kitsune, who acted in a similar way to her former Kitsune sisters]].

* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler: No matter what you do, if a banshee wails for you, then you're as good as dead]].

* YoureNotMyType: When Kenzi wonders if Saskia (another succubus [[spoiler: and later revealed to really be Aife, Bo's mother]]) and Bo are going to go at it, Saskia mentions that she's not attracted to other succubi.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness : The Una Mens. Possibly a BiggerBad. Later revealed to be a [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]].

* ImmortalityBisexuality: Downplayed, but there seems to be a bit of this going on. Human Kenzi explicitly says she's straight in the first episode, and Lauren seems pretty strictly lesbian, while there are quite a few bi fae ladies: Bo, the Morrigan, Tamsin… and on the male side, Vex. In the fae world, no one raises an eyebrow at all the girls Bo kisses, but while undercover in the human world, Bo once awkwardly mentions her girlfriend Lauren under the name of Lawrence. It seems fae are bi-er than humans.

* IntertwinedFingers: [[spoiler:Mark and Vex]] in the season 5 finale.

-->"Flora/Lauren isn't done singing yet...in FRENCH!"

-->'''Bo:''' I love you... all, so much.

-->"Do you come with your own mop? Ours kinda got brutalized in the cheese fondue incident. Not pretty..."

-->"Are you trying to melt me? [[IronicEcho That's adorable.]]"

-->"This is more Light Fae bullshit."

'''Bo:''' ...Yeah exactly.

* TriangRelations: Bo loves Lauren. Bo loves Dyson. Dyson loves Bo. Ciara loves Dyson. Lauren loves Bo. Lauren loves Nadia. Nadia loves Lauren. And that's just the ''love'' triangles centered on ''Bo''.

* PlayingWithFire: Serena.
* PluckyComicRelief: Kenzi.
* PowerAtAPrice: Why Trick, wisely, refuses to work his blood magic.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler: Bo after draining the life force from a room full of people, all at once, to save Lauren. Happens again before draining Kenzi, Lauren, Trick and Stella to save Dyson]].
** And again in "Dark Horse", sounding significantly more demonic [[spoiler:probably because she's being controlled by her father.]]

* GeekyTurnOn: Inverted, Bo is apparently turned on when [[{{Adorkable}} Lauren]] "geeks out." In Season 3, Lauren rambling on some geeky topic is implied to be a form of foreplay for them.
** Averted with the Morrigan. When she learns just how much of a Trekkie Lauren is, her response is: "Oh honey, I obviously came just in time." And then proceeds to give her the journals of Charles Mayo, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie.

** Well, they may not necessarily pay for the clothes..

* ParentalAbandonment: Bo.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: All supernatural beings in this world, even {{vampire}}s, succubi, and {{werewolves}}, are subtypes of Fae. There are also more traditional types of Fae such as [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshees]], [[WillOTheWisp Will-o'-the-Wisps]], etc. Most types of Fae prey on humans in some way, whether by feeding on emotions, LifeForce, body parts/fluids, or even by draining the luck from humans.
** There are also a kind of Fae called a Fairy (this is what Ciara is). They're apparently good warriors and can teleport.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: All supernatural beings in this world, even {{vampire}}s, succubi, and {{werewolves}}, are subtypes of Fae. There are also more traditional types of Fae such as [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshees]], [[WillOTheWisp will-o-the-wisps]], etc. Most types of Fae prey on humans in some way, whether by feeding on emotions, LifeForce, body parts/fluids, or even by draining the luck from humans.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: All supernatural beings in this world, even vampires, succubi, and werewolves, are subtypes of Fae. There are also more traditional types of Fae such as banshees, will-o-the-wisps, etc. Most types of Fae prey on humans in some way, whether by feeding on emotions, LifeForce, body parts/fluids, or even by draining the luck from humans.

* TwoWordsICantCount: Bo, in episode "The Mourning After", tries to recover from her miscounting by claiming the words were hyphenated, which makes them a single word.

* TwoWordsICantCount: Bo, in episode "The Mourning After", tries to recover from his miscounting by claiming the words were hyphenated, which makes them two single words.

** Comedic example by Bo in "The Mourning After"

** And again in "Fae-de To Black" after a sex session between Lauren and Bo:
-->'''Bo:''' One word... '''epic.'''

* ToplessnessFromBehind: Both Bo and Lauren get many shots like this. The first one is in the pilot episode, when we see Bo from behind when Lauren is performing a medical examination on her.

* TwoWordsObviousTrope:

** Both Bo and Kenzi forgive Dyson and Trick ''very'' quickly though.
** In Season 3, Vex actually calls Kenzi on the fact that she's forgiven Dyson for everything, but is still holding that against Lauren.

On August 25, 2014, it was announced that the forthcoming fifth season would be the show's last.

* MonsterOfTheWeek

* MrFanservice: Dyson, what with the whole shapeshifters don't need shirts thing. Hale's not bad looking either.
* MsFanservice:
** Again, the protagonist.
** And the Sidekick. And the [[HelloNurse Hot Doctor]]. And TheDragon of the Dark Fae. Almost every female character we see has cleavage... the whole show runs on {{Fanservice}}.

** A literal example occurs in the Season 3 premier, where a group of guys try to mug Bo.