History Series / TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, Annie is often snarky and mean toward both Alex and Ray. She becomes more nice and pleasant as the series goes on.

''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' is a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} television series created by Thomas W. Lynch and Ken Lipman. It tells the story of Alex Mack (Creator/LarisaOleynik), a California teenager who lives with her family in a planned community owned by a chemical plant. She has a bad first day at her new school, and to make matters worse, a truck from the plant crashes and inadvertently drenches her in a top-secret chemical called GC-161.

The chemical gives her an... [[ComboPlatterPowers interesting variety of superhuman powers]]: [[PsychicPowers telekinesis]], the ability to [[ShockAndAwe zap electricity]] from her fingers, the ability to melt a la [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000]], and glow when she senses danger or gets upset. Her best friend Ray Alvarado (Darris Love) and her older sister Annie (Meredith Bishop) learn soon after and try to keep it a secret from anyone else, including the show's other two regulars, Alex and Annie's parents, George (Michael Blakely) and Barbara (Dorian Lopinto). Unfortunately, Danielle Atron (Louan Gideon)--the head of the chemical plant that created GC-161--wants to see what effect the chemical has on human beings and has decided that finding the kid who was drenched and experimenting on him/her is a good way to go about this. She enlists the help of Vince Carter (John Marzilli), the head of plant security, to track her down. Vince is partnered up with Dave Watt (John Nielsen), the driver responsible for the accident, who may or may not (more likely the latter) be able to recognize the child.

''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' is a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} television series created by Thomas W. Lynch and Ken Lipman. It tells the story of Alex Mack (Creator/LarisaOleynik), a young girl who lives with her parents and older sister in a planned community owned by a chemical plant, where her parents work. She has a bad first day at her new school, and to make matters worse, a truck from the plant crashes and drenches her in a top-secret chemical called GC-161.

* ExactEavesdropping: How Dave learns Danielle's true colors.

** Averted by Dave (of all people) in Season 3 and 4 especially after He discovers Alex's secret.

''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' is a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} television series created by Thomas W. Lynch and Ken Lipman. It tells the story of Alex Mack (Creator/LarisaOleynik), a young girl who lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona, with her parents and older sister in a planned community owned by a chemical plant, where her parents work. She has a bad first day at her new school, and to make matters worse, a truck from the plant crashes and drenches her in a top-secret chemical called GC-161.

* DreamIntro: The final episode features an intro dream where Alex has to face everybody in town suddenly knowing about her powers. Weird follow-up is when she sits in the park with Ray during a subsequent scene and reveals that another common dream she has is one where "Vince dresses up as a male nurse".
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode Annie is snarky and mean toward both Alex and Ray. She becomes more nice and pleasant as the series goes on.
** In the season 1 episode "Alex and Mom" While Danielle Atron is supercilious and condescending and hassles Barbara She comes off more as just a demanding boss than the Evil mastermind She is as the series goes on.
* EasilyForgiven: "The Feud" - Alex forgives Ray pretty easily and quickly for almost telling her secret to Vince and Dave. While Ray admits He was just pulling a con on them He still put the both of them in danger.

* ExactEavesdropping: That's how Dave learns Danielle's true colors.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Alex and Annie respectively.

* HarmlessLiquefaction: One of Alex’s powers was the ability to melt into a silvery puddle of liquid.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: During the first season (and some parts of the second season), Alex frequently complains about her powers and wishes she never had them. Despite the trouble they get her into and the people hunting her down because of them, she grows to enjoy her powers. [[spoiler:She even keeps them at the end of the series when given a chance to be normal, at least according to the lead actress.]]

** Vince himself, who is easily as much of a villain as Danielle Atron, as it is unknown what happened to him after his last appearance in the episode where Annie left for college.

** In the Finale Barbara says George and Her must be the most oblivious parents in the world for not realizing Alex was the GC-161 kid and had powers. No kidding.

* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:Louie]] doesn't take it seriously when Ray says not to [[spoiler:discuss Alex's secret on a cell phone. That's how Danielle's spies learn the secret]].

* RomanticFalseLead: Three of 'em, in fact, though two were only one-shot characters.

** In the season 1 episode "Alex and Mom" While Danielle Atron is supercilous and condescending and hassles Barbara She comes off more as just a demanding boss than the Evil mastermind She is as the series goes on.

** In the season 1 episode "Alex and Mom" While Danielle Atron is supercilous and condescending and hassles Barbara She comes off more as an demanding boss than the Evil mastermind She is as the series goes on.

** In the season 1 episode "Alex and Mom" While Danielle Atron is supercilous and condescending and hassles Barbara She comes off more as a BadBoss than the Evil mastermind She is as the series goes on.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode Annie is kind of snarky and mean toward both Alex and Ray. She becomes more nice and pleasant as the series goes on.

** In the Finale Barbara says George and Her must be the most oblivious parents in the world after Alex finally tells them She's the GC-161 kid and shows them her powers.

''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' is a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} television series created by Thomas W. Lynch and Ken Lipman. It tells the story of Alex Mack (Creator/LarisaOleynik), a young girl who lives with her parents and older sister in a planned community owned by a chemical plant, where her parents work. She has a bad first day at her new school, and to make matters worse, a truck from the plant crashes and drenches her in a top-secret chemical called GC-161.

** Averted by Dave (of all people) in Season 3 and 4 [[Spoiler: In the finale Dave alerts the authorities who come and rescue the Mack family ]]

* AlphaBitch: Jessica in Season 1, and then Kelly for the rest of the series. There was also a character named Libby who was like this and was intended to develop into a bigger character but pulled a BrotherChuck and her spot was taken by Kelly. Libby did appear in a dream sequence in the finale along with Kelly where everyone knew about her powers.

* Flanderization: George's obliviousness to the fact that Alex is the GC-161 kid. Barbara too to a lesser extent. Lampshaded in the finale by Barbara herself.

* TomboyishName: She prefers "Alex" to her [[EmbarrassingFirstName real first name]], "Alexandra."

** Libby Flanders ("False Alarms") claims that she'll get back at Alex but is never heard from again save for a dream-sequence cameo in the series finale.

** Libby Flanders ("The Test") who claims that she'll get back at Alex but is never heard from again save for a dream-sequence cameo in the series finale.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The 1999 family film ''P.U.N.K.S.'' from ''Alex Mack'' producer/writer/director Sean [=McNamara=] also focused on kids who gain super powers thanks to a secret experiment by a greedy corporation. It even has Louan Gideon (Danielle Atron) and John Nielson (Dave) pretty much playing the exact same characters. Former ''Mack'' guest star Jessica Alba also stars as one of the kids.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "I wish I'd never been born at all." [[spoiler: The AllJustADream episode shows that, had Alex not been there to be doused by GC-161, well... Her mother Barbara would've been doused, then she'd be capured and used in experiments. With the side-effect of her father George not being able to ascend at work ''and'' her sister Annie being unable to develop her TweenGenius potential]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "I wish I'd never been born at all." [[spoiler: The AllJustADream episode shows that, had Alex not been there to be doused by GC-161, well... Her mother Barbara would've been doused, then she'd be capured and used in experiments. With the side-effect of her father George not being able to ascend at work ''and'' her sister Annie being unable to develop her TweenGenius potential..]]

* AnAesop