History Series / ThePassage

* SafeZoneHopeSpot: [[spoiler: The finale ends with a still-young Amy heading towards a safe haven for the remaining humans, hoping to find Brad there.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Most of the main characters at the end of "Last Lesson". [[spoiler: Considering we skipped to 97 years after the nuclear exchange, chances are they're dead by then. Although Amy is still hopeful to reunite with Brad.]]

* AssholeVictim: Clark feeds these guys to Shauna in "Last Lesson" to keep her from losing control. Though he's not happy about it.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Anthony's girlfriend Rachel killed herself because she couldn't see a way out of her abusive marriage.]]

* MercyKill: In "How You Gonna Outrun the End of the World?", Fanning mentioned that Lear should have killed him when he asked.

* JunkieParent: Amy's mother is a drug addict, to the extent that Amy tries to sleep at a restaurant to avoid going home to her. She overdoses in the first episode.

* JustFollowingOrders: Clark

* BlatantLies: When Skyes asks Carter if Shauna is in his head, he flat out denies it.

* JerkAss: Clark Richards and Guilder

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Carter's girlfriend's wife got away scot free on his abuse and, whether or not he knows she killed herself, he pins Carter for murder.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Anthony's girlfriend killed herself because she couldn't see a way out of her abusive marriage.]]

** Carter blames himself for [[spoiler: his girlfriend's suicide because he didn't try to help her as he was angry at her for lying]].

* RapeAsBackstory: Shauna Babcock was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather from the time she was eight until she turned sixteen. She was driven to murder him and her mother, who had not done a thing to stop his abuse, after they stole the money she'd been saving up to run away from home and escape this.

* RapeAsBackstory: Shauna Babcock was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather from the time she was eight until she turned sixteen.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: ''Thoroughly'' subverted and averted; it's the actions of the US government in the form of Project NOAH that ultimately lead the US and the world being destroyed by both a vampire apocalypse and a nuclear holocaust. While a vaccine for the virus was developed, the authorities were unable to get it into mass production before the other nuclear powers launched an all-out nuclear attack on the US in an effort to wipe out the infection, causing the US in turn to launch their nukes in response.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: *Thoroughly* subverted and averted; it's the actions of the US government in the form of Project NOAH that ultimately lead the US and the world being destroyed by both a vampire apocalypse and a nuclear holocaust. While a vaccine for the virus was developed, the authorities were unable to get it into mass production before the other nuclear powers launched an all-out nuclear attack on the US in an effort to wipe out the infection, causing the US in turn to launch their nukes in response.

* JustBeforeTheEnd: The last episode of season one, "Last Lesson", is almost entirely this. Starting 30 days after the virals escaped, it shows the US already collapsing under the relentless assault of the infected. And then the other nuclear powers resort to bombing the US in desperation, resulting in a nuclear exchange.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Once Guildar takes over Project Noah, everything gets worse, as he seeks to weaponize the Virals.

* VigilanteMan: Wolgast tracked down and shot his daughter's killer, rather than let him be imprisoned for life. Clarke helped clean it up, along with others of his law enforcement friends.

** Subverted with [[spoiler:Fanning and Elizabeth. She cheated on her husband with him once, but rather than let it drag on, she told her husband and they decided to work out their problems.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Rachel Wilson was married while she was seeing Anthony Carter.]]

* NotUsingTheZedWord: The show has fun with the trope - it comes up often that they are definitely not ‘vampires’ because we don’t call them that because there’s no such thing as vampires and that would be silly.

* SpottingTheThread: Amy figures out that Brad isn't from child services because he and his fellow agent are both men, whereas child services would have sent at least one woman.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Fanning isn't terribly physically active. He is getting a lot of use out of his telepathic abilities, though, using them to harass the staff.

* RapeAsBackstory: Shauna Babcock was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather from the time she was eight until she turned sixteen.

* OrkusOnHisThrone: Fanning isn't terribly physically active. He is getting a lot of use out of his telepathic abilities, though, using them to harass the staff.