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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: When the Seeker is getting ready for bed, he has a few of his clone slave girls bathe ''him'', paying special attention to all his hard-to-reach places.

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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: When the Seeker is getting ready for bed, he has a few of his clone slave girls bathe ''him'', paying special attention to all his hard-to-reach places."hard-to-reach places".
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* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly. [[spoiler: This begins to change in Episode 6, when his powers grow to full {{telepath}}y and even [[MindOverMatter telekinesis.]]

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* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This begins to change in Episode 6, when his powers grow to full {{telepath}}y and even [[MindOverMatter telekinesis.]]]]]]
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* FantasticSlurs: "Zit" is an anti-Zatarian racial slur.
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* Insufferablegenius: Jax's roommate Pilar is incredibly intelligent and can be an arrogant know-it-all at times, since she views her superiority to her peers as a simple empirical fact and doesn't why they would be offended by the attitude.

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* Insufferablegenius: InsufferableGenius: Jax's roommate Pilar is incredibly intelligent and can be an arrogant know-it-all at times, since she views her superiority to her peers as a simple empirical fact and doesn't why they would be offended by the attitude.
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* BigBad: Harlan Fried, the CEO of Parallax who's planning to use portals to dominate the galaxy. [[spoiler:Tiernet / Odessa take this spot from him in the season finale.]]

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* BigBad: Harlan Fried, the CEO of Parallax who's planning to use portals to dominate the galaxy. [[spoiler:Tiernet [[spoiler:Tierney / Odessa take this spot over from him in the season finale.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: Greg sacrifices himself to let Jax escape the exploding Seahawk. [[spoiler:

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* HeroicSacrifice: Greg sacrifices himself to let Jax escape the exploding Seahawk. [[spoiler:[[spoiler:The season 1 finale ends with her finding out he's still alive on Hypatia Prime somehow.]]

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* ActionGirl: Jax is a talented marksman and soldier-in-training.
* AmazonianBeauty: The beautiful Tierney is shown to have defined arms and stomach as well as being incredibly acrobatic.
* AmazonBrigade: The Hypatia Syndicate is an all-female crime organization. They even wear some futuristic amazon armor and weapons.



* BiTheWay: Jax is mentioned in passing as having dated Cordelia Freed in the past while all her serious romantic interests so far are males of various species.

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* BiTheWay: BetaCouple: A significant amount of the plot early on resolves around Tom and Atria getting together.
* BigBad: Harlan Fried, the CEO of Parallax who's planning to use portals to dominate the galaxy. [[spoiler:Tiernet / Odessa take this spot from him in the season finale.]]
* BiTheWay:
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Jax is mentioned in passing as having dated Cordelia Freed in the past while all her serious romantic interests so far are males of various species.species.
** Atria is interested in both men and woman.



* ClonesArePeopleToo: Atria is a clone who rebelled and helped kill her master to win her freedom.
* CloningBlues: Some planets keep clones as slaves with no human rights.

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* TheCaper: Episode 5 has Jax and Tom help Tom's father Billy run a heist in the academy's museum to save his life.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: Atria is a clone who rebelled and helped kill her master to win her freedom.freedom and later decides to fight so all the clones in her planet can be free.
* CloningBlues: CloningBlues:
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Some planets keep clones as slaves with no human rights. rights.
** [[spoiler:Harlan and Odessa Fried have kept themselves alives past their natural lifespan by cloning new bodies and uploading their memories to them.]]



* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommercialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers think two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combat

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* CrypticConversation: Almost every episode ends with Professor Osborn having about a vague cryptic conversation with someone, usually Regan or Xander, about Jax and Pandora.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Both of Harlan Fried's daughters are just as evil and as ambitious as him. [[spoiler:Even Tierney, who's revealed to his third daughter "Odessa" in the finale. And unlike Regan and Cordelia, she's actually loyal to him.]]
* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommercialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers think two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combatcombat.



* TheDragon: Regan is a DragonWithAnAgenda to Harlan for most of the story, but in the season finale it turns out [[spoiler:Tierney / Odessa was the real Dragon to him. Unfortunately to him, she's just as traitorous as his other daughters.]]
* DragonAscendant:
** Regan Fried spends most of the story plotting to depose her father Harlan as CEO of Parallax, which she finally succeds in episode 10. [[spoiler:But it doesn't last long as a young, clone version of her father returns.]]
** [[spoiler: Tierney / Odessa takes over as BigBad for Harlan in the season finale.]]



* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly. [[spoiler: This begins to change in Episode 6, when his powers grow to full telepathy and even telekinesis.]]

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* DudeMagnet: Pilar is inundated with offers and flowers for the Armistice Day Ball.
* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly. [[spoiler: This begins to change in Episode 6, when his powers grow to full telepathy {{telepath}}y and even [[MindOverMatter telekinesis.]]



* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Almost every characters comments on the obvious attraction between Xander and Jax.



* {{Fanservice}}: At least OncePerEpisode, though always shot to hide direct nudity.
* FanDisservice: Episode 6 where [[spoiler: Pilar is made to walk into the Black Hole completely naked.]] The situation is intentionally played to resemble rape.

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* {{Fanservice}}: At least OncePerEpisode, OncePerEpisode one of the characters is wearing some sort of revealing clothing, though always shot to hide direct nudity.
* FanDisservice: Episode 6 where [[spoiler: Pilar is made to walk go {{Streaking}} into the Black Hole completely naked.Hole.]] The situation is intentionally played to resemble rape.rape, especially when her creepy AbhorrentAdmirer starts [[EatingTheEyeCandy ogling her]].
* FantasticDrug: Rydine is a performance-enhancing drug the military secretly used on soldiers on the Zatarian war that makes them very hot-headed and is very addictive.



* GirlInABox: [[spoiler:Xander and Jax find a woman who looks identical to her inside the Pandora Box.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Sarika becomes so jealous of Pilar being the top of the class she hacks her implants and tries to drive Pilar into suicide. She gets even more furious when she's exposed and Pilar [[UnknownRival doesn't even know who she is.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Greg sacrifices himself to let Jax escape the exploding Seahawk. [[spoiler:
* HollywoodHacking: Pilar's implants let her hack stuff with her mind while still "typing" in the air.



* ImmuneToMindControl: Tierney trained her mind to become resistant to Billy and Tom's telepathic powers while Jax is simply naturally immune to them.
* Insufferablegenius: Jax's roommate Pilar is incredibly intelligent and can be an arrogant know-it-all at times, since she views her superiority to her peers as a simple empirical fact and doesn't why they would be offended by the attitude.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Pilar's involuntary {{Streaking}} into the Black Hole is made more humiliating when the video gets sent to everyone on the academy.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Greg and Jax are getting intimate in her room when Pilar walks in on them. When Greg complains about her not knocking she simply points out that it's ''her'' room too.



* LocalHangout: The "Black Hole" a local bar where many of the academy students meet up.



* MegaCorp: Parallax.

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* MegaCorp: Parallax. Parallax, a [[WarForFunAndProfit War profiteering]] corporation behind most of the shady stuff in the story.
* TheMedic: Greg is studying to be one and is the expert on the team whenever medical help is needed.



* MrFanservice: Xander and Tom have their fair share of {{Shirtless Scene}}s, showing off their toned physiques.
* MsFanservice:
** Jax, Atreia and Pilar wear many revealing outfits and have several nude (albeit tastefully censored) scenes.
** Tierney also wears many {{fanservice}}y outfits and has most of her interactions with other characters being very sexually charged. During the season 1 finale she wears an incredibly {{Stripperific}} dress that shows off her [[AmazonianBeauty toned stomach]].
* {{Nanomachines}}: Pilar is a nanite enhanced human, giving her incredible intelligence and hacking abilities.



* ObliviousToLove: Ralen has to explain the fact that he has feelings for Jax at leaste three different times before she gets it. And she still thinks his brain is malfunctioning.
* OnlySaneMan: Pilar, who is the only one yet to let romantic or conspiracy-esque entaglements interfeer with her life. She lampshades as much on a somewhat regular basis.

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* NoSocialSkills:
** Ralen is a Zatarian with very limited knowledge of Earth's social norms.
** As a clone, Atria had a very sheltered upbringing by her master, who would not let her attend formal education, as is customary for the Adari masters. As a result she is hopelessly naive or clueless about many normal social interactions.
* ObliviousToLove: Ralen has to explain the fact that he has feelings for Jax at leaste least three different times before she gets it. And she still thinks his brain is malfunctioning.
* OnlySaneMan: Pilar, who is the only one yet to let romantic or conspiracy-esque entaglements interfeer entanglements interfere with her life. She lampshades as much on a somewhat regular basis.



* {{Polyamory}}: Tom finds out Atria doesn't have an exclusive relationship with him when he finds her in a ShowerOfLove with ''two'' other classmates. He later convinces her to become an exclusive couple.



* TheQueenpin: Tierney's first appearance suggest she's only a handler to Billy, but it's lader revealed she's actually the leader of the Hypatia Syndicate.
* ReallyGetsAround: Atria sleeps around with many of the academy students, no matter the gender.



* SexGoddess: According to Tom, Atria is a fantastic lover. ''Physically'' at least, emotionally he has trouble connecting with her.



* ShouldersUpNudity: Jax is only seen from the shoulders up when stripping to take a shower in the first episode.
** Happens again in episode 2 with the Atria clones coming out of their tanks nude but, since this is a CW show, only shot from the collarbone up.
* SpaceCadetAcademy: The Earth's Space Academy.

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* ShouldersUpNudity: ShouldersUpNudity:
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Jax is only seen from the shoulders up when stripping to take a shower in the first episode.
** Happens again in episode 2 with the Atria clones coming out of their tanks nude but, since this is a CW show, only shot from the collarbone up.
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* ShooTheDog: Tom's father has to spurn him away to keep Tierney from recruiting him into her organization. PlayedWith in that he manages to give him a message via their telepathic connection, but they keep the ruse to fool Tierney.
* ShoutOut
** Jax's mother favorite book was Literature/HarryPotter and she would give "house points" to Jax as a child whenever she accomplished something.
** Episode 5 has one to ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'' where a DarkActionGirl acrobaticaly crosses a deadly LaserHallway with ease.
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: [[spoiler: Harlan admires his new body young body while shirtless in front of the mirror.]]
* SpaceCadetAcademy: The Earth's Space Academy.Academy, which is the show's main setting.
* {{Streaking}}: When Pilar is hacked, she's made to walk nude into the Black Hole, in front of a dozen of students. Use of SceneryCensor, ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack preserve her modesty to the viewer.
* TakeOffYourClothes: Jax asks Ralen to give her his shirt (because of the blood in it she needs for a blood sample) he misunderstands and starts taking off the shirt he was currently wearing, but he's stopped.



* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Billy, Tom's {{Telepath}} father, is deep in debt with a dangerous cryme syndicate who wants him to steal something from the academy for them.
* UndercoverAsLovers: In episode 8, Jax and Xander pose as a bicking couple in order to spy on the Fried family.
* TheVamp: Tierney, Billy's seductive fiancee is actually a dangerous criminal who acts flirtatious to just about anyone she interacts with.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Tierney takes interest in Tom after seeing the potential of his telepathic abilities during the academy museum heist.




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* WhatTheHellHero: Tom grows a grudge with Jax when she uses him and her father in a dangerous situation solely to get information about the death of her parents.
* WorkoutFanservice: One conversation between Jax and Tierney just so happens to take place while they're going for workour run, with both women wearing very tight revealing outfits with BareYourMidriff.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: On Adar both Men and Women treat clones as sub-humans, laughing and drinking and going to fancy balls where clones are violated and sold off to the highest bidder.
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** Ralen, as it turns out,[[spoiler: is married, adding another twist to this already convoluted shape.]]

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* BiTheWay: Jax is mentioned in passing as having dated Cordelia Freed in the past while all her serious romantic interests so far are males of various species.



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The entire family that runs Parallax, a MegaCorp with many secret weapons-related research projects.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The entire Freed family that who runs Parallax, a MegaCorp with many secret weapons-related research projects.



* SchoolgirlLesbians: Jax is mentioned as having dated girls in the past, and when a male character asks if she's interested in the male half of a couple, she replies, not in ''him''.

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* OnlySaneMan: Pilar, who is the only one yet to let romantic or conspiracy-esque entaglements interfeer with her life. She lamp shades as much on a somewhat regular basis.

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* OnlySaneMan: Pilar, who is the only one yet to let romantic or conspiracy-esque entaglements interfeer with her life. She lamp shades lampshades as much on a somewhat regular basis.



* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: As Tom's psychic powers increase in scope, he rapidly loses control of them, being unable to shut out other people's thoughts, and unintentionally unleashing telekinetic pulses when the stress gets to be too much for him.]]



* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Tom and Atria in episode 8 and 9.]]

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* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Tom and Atria in episode 8 and 9.9, due to them both realizing she's in love with Ralen.]]
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* LoveDodecahedron: Let's see. [[spoiler: We've got Tom, who's in love with Atria, who's in love with Ralen, who's in love with Jax, who's in love with Duval who returns some form of feelings but is too deep in with his spy life.]]


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* OnlySaneMan: Pilar, who is the only one yet to let romantic or conspiracy-esque entaglements interfeer with her life. She lamp shades as much on a somewhat regular basis.
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* ObliviousToLove: Ralen has to explain the fact that he has feelings for Jax at leaste three different times before she gets it. And she still thinks his brain is malfunctioning.


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* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Tom and Atria in episode 8 and 9.]]
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* {{Telepathy}}: Thomas, one of Jax friends has telepathic powers, which he inherited from his father.

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* {{Telepathy}}: Thomas, one of Jax friends Thomas has telepathic powers, which he inherited from his father.father, though they're limited to just being able to read emotional states. [[spoiler: Until they start to grow more powerful.]]



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Atria, one of Jax's first friends at school stands out due to her "natural purple".

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Atria, one of Jax's first friends at school school, stands out due to her "natural purple".

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Pilar's entire situation in Episode 6, as someone hacks her data implants to MindScrew and humiliate her, is treated like rape, with her even admitting afterwards that she feels violated.



* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly.

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* DrivingQuestion: Who destroyed New Portland, and why?
* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly. [[spoiler: This begins to change in Episode 6, when his powers grow to full telepathy and even telekinesis.]]
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* FanDisservice: Episode 6 where [[spoiler: Pilar is made to walk into the Black Hole completely naked.]] The situation is intentionally played to resemble rape.
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It follows the adventures of Jacquiline "Jax" Zhou (Priscilla Quintana), a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode.

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It follows the adventures of Jacquiline Jacqueline "Jax" Zhou (Priscilla Quintana), a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The entire family that runs Parallax, a MegaCorp with many secret weapons-related research projects.


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* MegaCorp: Parallax.
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* {{Fanservice}}: At least OncePerEpisode, though always shot to hide direct nudity.
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* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: When the Seeker is getting ready for bed, he has a few of his clone slave girls bathe ''him'', paying special attention to all his hard-to-reach places.

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* FunnyForeheadAliens: The Zatarians have some minor forehead ridges and ridges around their eye sockets but are otherwise quite Human-looking.


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* RubberForeheadAliens: The Zatarians have some minor forehead ridges and ridges around their eye sockets but are otherwise quite Human-looking.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Zatarians are constantly reminding Humans that "you do not understand My People" when Humans try to judge them by Human moral standards or predict how Zatarians will react to a given situation.


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* FunnyForeheadAliens: The Zatarians have some minor forehead ridges and ridges around their eye sockets but are otherwise quite Human-looking.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Atria's former master]] is not as dead as we are first led to believe.

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* TheEmpath: Thomas, one of Jax's friends and fellow students, inherited some telepathic abilities, but he is quick to clarify that he can only sense feelings and emotions, not read thoughts directly.



* {{Telepath}}: Thomas, one of Jax friends has telepathic powers, which he inherited from his father.

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* {{Telepath}}: {{Telepathy}}: Thomas, one of Jax friends has telepathic powers, which he inherited from his father.

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* FantasticRacism: Ralen suffers this at the academy for being a Zatarian, a alien race known for being warlike.

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* FantasticRacism: Ralen suffers this at the academy for being a Zatarian, a an alien race best known for being warlike.fighting a war with Humanity to a standstill.


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* HonorBeforeReason: Zatarian culture seems to have shades of this, offering help to a Seeker's son even though they knew it would cost them the war just because he asked for their help.


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''Pandora'' is a science-fiction television show on Creator/TheCW created by Mark A. Altman which began airing in the United States in July of 2019. It follows the adventures of Jacquiline "Jax" Zhou, a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode. Taken under the care of her somewhat-estranged Uncle, she enrolls in Earth's Space Academy, where her Uncle is a senior professor. She and her new friends must uncover the mystery of who killed her parents and why, while her Uncle and many others in authority simultaneously try to uncover the mystery of who exactly Jax is, and why she has alien DNA mixed in with her own.


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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandora_poster.jpg]]

''Pandora'' is a science-fiction ScienceFiction television show on Creator/TheCW created by Mark A. Altman which began airing in the United States in July of 2019.

It follows the adventures of Jacquiline "Jax" Zhou, Zhou (Priscilla Quintana), a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode. episode.

Taken under the care of her somewhat-estranged Uncle, uncle, she enrolls in Earth's Space Academy, where her Uncle uncle is a senior professor. She and her new friends must uncover the mystery of who killed her parents and why, while her Uncle and many others in authority simultaneously try to uncover the mystery of who exactly Jax is, and why she has alien DNA mixed in with her own. \n\n



* ClonesArePeopleToo: One of Jax's first friends is a clone who rebelled and helped kill her master to win her freedom.

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* ClonesArePeopleToo: One of Jax's first friends Atria is a clone who rebelled and helped kill her master to win her freedom.



* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommercialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers thing two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combat

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* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommercialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers thing think two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combatcombat
* DoomedHometown: Jax's colony planet home called "New Portland" is destroyed in the first episode.
* FantasticRacism: Ralen suffers this at the academy for being a Zatarian, a alien race known for being warlike.



* LateForSchool: Jax gets into her teacher's bad side on her first day when she arrives late for class due to getting lost.



* {{Nephewism}}: Jax is sent to live with her uncle Donovan Osborn after both her parents are killed.



* SchoolgirlLesbians: Jax is mentioned as having dated girls in the past, and when a male character asks if she's interested in the male half of a couple, she replies, not in Him.
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* OurShowersAreDifferent: Jax has a ShowerScene in her room in the first episode, with the shower spraying mist against her body. It also has a door made of HardLight that shows her SexySilhouette as she showers. She still appears wet after and uses a regular ModestyTowel when getting out.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Jax is mentioned as having dated girls in the past, and when a male character asks if she's interested in the male half of a couple, she replies, not in Him.''him''.
* SpaceCadetAcademyShouldersUpNudity: Jax is only seen from the shoulders up when stripping to take a shower in the first episode.
* SpaceCadetAcademy: The Earth's Space Academy.
* {{Telepath}}: Thomas, one of Jax friends has telepathic powers, which he inherited from his father.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One of Jax's first friends at school is a "natural purple".

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One Atria, one of Jax's first friends at school is a stands out due to her "natural purple".purple".

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* MilitarySchool: What Space Academy technically is, given that everyone there is studying to be a military officer, whether that be a spaceship captain or telepathic spy. However, no one wears uniforms to class, no evidence of military discipline is in evidence, and in all ways it generally appears to be a generic university that wouldn't be out of place in any other show on TheCW.

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode of the first season is named after a Music/BobDylan song.
* MilitarySchool: What Space Academy technically is, given that everyone there is studying to be a military officer, whether that be a spaceship captain or telepathic spy. However, no one wears uniforms to class, no evidence of military discipline is in evidence, and in all ways it generally appears to be a generic university that wouldn't be out of place in any other show on TheCW.Creator/TheCW.


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* ThemeNaming: Every episode of the first season is named after a Music/BobDylan song.
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: One of Jax's first friends is a clone who rebelled and helped kill her master to win her freedom.
* CloningBlues: Some planets keep clones as slaves with no human rights.
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* SpaceCadetAcademy

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One of Jax's first friends at school is a "natural purple".
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''Pandora'' is a science-fiction television show on TheCW created by Mark A. Altman which began airing in the United States in July of 2019. It follows the adventures of Jacquiline "Jax" Zhou, a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode. Taken under the care of her somewhat-estranged Uncle, she enrolls in Earth's Space Academy, where her Uncle is a senior professor. She and her new friends must uncover the mystery of who killed her parents and why, while her Uncle and many others in authority simultaneously try to uncover the mystery of who exactly Jax is, and why she has alien DNA mixed in with her own.


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''Pandora'' is a science-fiction television show on TheCW Creator/TheCW created by Mark A. Altman which began airing in the United States in July of 2019. It follows the adventures of Jacquiline "Jax" Zhou, a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode. Taken under the care of her somewhat-estranged Uncle, she enrolls in Earth's Space Academy, where her Uncle is a senior professor. She and her new friends must uncover the mystery of who killed her parents and why, while her Uncle and many others in authority simultaneously try to uncover the mystery of who exactly Jax is, and why she has alien DNA mixed in with her own.




* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommecialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers thing two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combat

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* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommecialBreakCliffhanger CommercialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers thing two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combat
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''Pandora'' is a science-fiction television show on TheCW created by Mark A. Altman which began airing in the United States in July of 2019. It follows the adventures of Jacquiline "Jax" Zhou, a young woman in the year 2199 who loses both her parents to a mysterious surprise attack on their space colony home in the first scene of the premiere episode. Taken under the care of her somewhat-estranged Uncle, she enrolls in Earth's Space Academy, where her Uncle is a senior professor. She and her new friends must uncover the mystery of who killed her parents and why, while her Uncle and many others in authority simultaneously try to uncover the mystery of who exactly Jax is, and why she has alien DNA mixed in with her own.


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* DangerRoomColdOpen: One of the first CommecialBreakCliffhanger instances involves this as a fake-out to make the viewers thing two characters just got themselves into unexpected space combat
* FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode: The first episode of the series has Jax attending her first day of classes, complete with going to the wrong classroom at first and getting chewed out by a professor for showing up late to his class.
* MilitarySchool: What Space Academy technically is, given that everyone there is studying to be a military officer, whether that be a spaceship captain or telepathic spy. However, no one wears uniforms to class, no evidence of military discipline is in evidence, and in all ways it generally appears to be a generic university that wouldn't be out of place in any other show on TheCW.
* NewTransferStudent: What Jax effectively is in the first episode.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Jax is mentioned as having dated girls in the past, and when a male character asks if she's interested in the male half of a couple, she replies, not in Him.
* SpaceCadetAcademy

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