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%% * FanService: Ian. Can you tell the actor is a model?
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%% * FanService: Ian. Can you tell the actor is a model?
%% * FictionalVideoGame: ''Treasure Bandits''; the game that Ian was playing before waking up in Tower Prep. It uses in-game footage taken from ''VideoGame/FusionFall'': Cartoon Networks' concurrent MMO at the time.
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Creator/CartoonNetwork's second hour-long [[LiveActionTV Live Action]] show, created by Creator/PaulDini of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame.

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Creator/CartoonNetwork's second hour-long [[LiveActionTV Live Action]] show, created by Creator/PaulDini of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame.
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* MissingTime: None of the students have any idea of how they got to Tower Prep. Taken UpToEleven for CJ, who remembers literally nothing of her life before Tower. [[spoiler:Possibly justified for CJ. It turns out she is Headmaster's daughter and hasn't seen her mom in years. This means she has probably been at Tower for the majority of her childhood.]]

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* MissingTime: None of the students have any idea of how they got to Tower Prep. Taken UpToEleven for CJ, who CJ remembers literally nothing of her life before Tower. [[spoiler:Possibly justified for CJ. It turns out she is Headmaster's daughter and hasn't seen her mom in years. This means she has probably been at Tower for the majority of her childhood.]]

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* AwesomeButImpractical: Gabe's hypersuasion. In theory it would be a very useful power to have... except almost everyone is somehow immune or resistant to it. It's likely that it doesn't work as long as the target is focused on ignoring it.



* UselessSuperpowers: Gabe's hypersuasion. In theory it would be a very useful power to have... except almost everyone is somehow immune or resistant to it. It's likely that it doesn't work as long as the target is focused on ignoring it.

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* AsianAndNerdy: Suki. Justified in that it's a school for the gifted, so everybody's a little nerdy.

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* ButtMonkey: Gabe

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* CreepyDoll: Senor Guapo can be seen as one during "dreams".

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* CompellingVoice: Gabe's "hypersuasive" abilities.

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%% * CompellingVoice: Gabe's "hypersuasive" abilities.



* CowardlyLion: Gabe

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* DuelingShows: With ''Series/HouseOfAnubis''
* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: The basic premise.

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* FanService: Ian. Can you tell the actor is a model?

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%% * FanService: Ian. Can you tell the actor is a model?



* GoodIsNotNice: The Monitors; the staff appear to be on their way to this.

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%% * GoodIsNotNice: The Monitors; the staff appear to be on their way to this.



* JerkJock: Cal.
* LaResistance: The Broken. [[spoiler:At least, they were until Headmaster got to them.]]
* LargeHam: Jeremy/Odin is an unbelievably hammy villain, even in-universe.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:The creepy dude in the tunnels.]]
* LightningBruiser: Ian.

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%% * JerkJock: Cal.
%% * LaResistance: The Broken. [[spoiler:At least, they were until Headmaster got to them.]]
%% * LargeHam: Jeremy/Odin is an unbelievably hammy villain, even in-universe.
%% * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:The creepy dude in the tunnels.]]
%% * LightningBruiser: Ian.



* MasterComputer: Whisper 119, [[spoiler:who was replaced by Whisper 120]].

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%% * MasterComputer: Whisper 119, [[spoiler:who was replaced by Whisper 120]].



* TheMole: [[spoiler:CJ.]]
* MysteriousWatcher

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* NoughtiesDramaSeries

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* OntologicalMystery
* [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Prep School Girls Rule]]
* QuestForIdentity: CJ.

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* ShirtlessScene: Ian, a couple of times.

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* SpiderSense: Ian's "preflex" ability.
* StarCrossedLovers: Norman and Penny Stosic, as mentioned from episode 6.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Gabe at the end of episode 5.
* TroubledButCute: Ray.

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* VoiceChangeling: Suki Sato.

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* FiveManBand:
-->TheHero[=/=]TheBigGuy: Ian, who doubles as both.\\
TheLancer: C.J.\\
TheSmartGuy: Suki.\\
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Creator/CartoonNetwork's second hour-long [[LiveActionTV Live Action]] show.

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Creator/CartoonNetwork's second hour-long [[LiveActionTV Live Action]] show.
show, created by Creator/PaulDini of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame.



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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Whisper 23]].

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%% ZCE * AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Whisper 23]].



* BerserkButton: Do not show Headmaster drawings of vintage vacuum tubes. [[spoiler: Especially if they're pieces of the insane supercomputer that resides beneath the school.]]

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Suki to Ray, when he wants to snap a picture of her: "I'd hate to think what you'd do [[ADateWithRosiePalms with a picture of me."]]
** Literally, as within the ''first five minutes'' of the first episode, Ian actually says that the bully was treating his friend "like crap."
*** Also from the first episode, all the girls catcalling the boys when the latter are naked on the front lawn of the school.
** "Shut the [[LastSecondWordSwap front door!"]]

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Suki GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to Ray, when he wants to snap a picture of her: "I'd hate to think what you'd do [[ADateWithRosiePalms with a picture of me."]]
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*** Also from the first episode, all the girls catcalling the boys when the latter are naked on the front lawn of the school.
** "Shut the [[LastSecondWordSwap front door!"]]
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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Compared to most other contemporary live-action shows on Cartoon Network, however, it was relatively well-received. It should be noted that Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show.

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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action live-action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Compared to most other contemporary live-action shows on Cartoon Network, however, it was relatively well-received. It should be noted that Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show.



* [[spoiler: CallingTheOldManOut: Suki to her father: "If my family built this school... Then I have no family. You are ''not'' my father."]]

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* [[spoiler: CallingTheOldManOut: Suki [[spoiler:Suki to her father: "If my family built this school... Then I have no family. You are ''not'' my father."]]



* NonActionGuy: Gabe does not fair so well in a comabt situation.Mostly he tries to use his ability to talk his way out or someone else defends him. The closest he's come is jumping on an opponent's back and holding him as someone else hits him. Ironic, given his actor is trained in martial arts.

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* NonActionGuy: Gabe does not fair fare so well in a comabt situation.combat situation. Mostly he tries to use his ability to talk his way out or someone else defends him. The closest he's come is jumping on an opponent's back and holding him as someone else hits him. Ironic, given his actor is trained in martial arts.



** In the season finale, Ian has the last Gnome in the group beaten into a daze. He then proceeds to [[MortalKombat FINISH HIM!!]]

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** In the season finale, Ian has the last Gnome in the group beaten into a daze. He then proceeds to [[MortalKombat [[Franchise/MortalKombat FINISH HIM!!]]



* [[spoiler:VaguenessIsComing: In the last episode, the Headmaster reveals to the kids are being trained for ''something''. As the kids make their escape, Ian tell the Headmaster they will deal with whatever is coming, on their own terms.]]

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* [[spoiler:VaguenessIsComing: In VaguenessIsComing: [[spoiler:In the last episode, the Headmaster reveals to the kids they are being trained for ''something''. As the kids make their escape, Ian tell tells the Headmaster they will deal with whatever is coming, on their own terms.]]



* [[spoiler:YoureNotMyFather: Said verbatim by Suki to her father.]]

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* [[spoiler:YoureNotMyFather: Said YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:Said verbatim by Suki to her father.]]
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** [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "My hero."]]

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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Compared to most other contemporary live-action shows on Cartoon Network, however, it was relatively well-received. \n It should be noted that Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show.

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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Should be noted Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show. Compared to most other contemporary live-action shows on Cartoon Network, it was relatively well-received. Unfortunately, the show ended after one season [[CutShort with no plot resolution]].

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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Should Compared to most other contemporary live-action shows on Cartoon Network, however, it was relatively well-received.
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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Should be noted Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show. Compared to [[Series/DudeWhatWouldHappen most]] [[Series/BrainRush other]] [[Series/DestroyBuildDestroy live-action]] [[Series/TheOthersiders shows]] most other contemporary live-action shows on Cartoon Network, it was relatively well-received. Unfortunately, the show ended after one season [[CutShort with no plot resolution]].
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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Should be noted Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show.

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Part of Cartoon Network's attempt to combat ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' live action shows alongside ''Series/UnnaturalHistory''. It only lasted one season and was cancelled due to low ratings. Should be noted Creator/PaulDini (of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' fame) created this show. Compared to [[Series/DudeWhatWouldHappen most]] [[Series/BrainRush other]] [[Series/DestroyBuildDestroy live-action]] [[Series/TheOthersiders shows]] on Cartoon Network, it was relatively well-received. Unfortunately, the show ended after one season [[CutShort with no plot resolution]].
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* DuelingShows: With ''HouseOfAnubis''

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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Ross, the girl who is Emily's campaign manager. What's even worse is that the end of the episode has shades of [[TheSpaceRace Operation Paperclip]] as Headmaster and Nurse decide to co-opt her ability to weaponize and upgrade [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Chemica Desin]].]]

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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Ross, the girl who is Emily's campaign manager. What's even worse is that the end of the episode has shades of [[TheSpaceRace [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace Operation Paperclip]] as Headmaster and Nurse decide to co-opt her ability to weaponize and upgrade [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Chemica Desin]].]]
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* DawsonCasting:
** Dyana Liu (Suki) is 29.
** Ryan Pinkston (Gabe) is 22.



* FakeNationality: Suki is Japanese, her actress is an American born in Taiwan. Also has elements of InterchangeableAsianCultures.



* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/StargateSG1 Daniel Jackson]] is the Literature teacher.
** [[PrettyLittleLiars Jason DiLaurentis]] is Ian



* XMeetsY: ''Series/ThePrisoner'' meets ''Franchise/HarryPotter''.
** Or, ''Series/ThePrisoner'' meets ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}''
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* CosmeticHorror: In the "Book Report" episode, Ian encounters students that correspond with monsters from Myth/ClassicalMythology. The student that corresponds to the hideous {{Medusa}} is a girl wearing a green facial mask and curlers in her hair.
-->'''Ian''': Have you ever seen a girl like that before? I mean, it was terrifying.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Ross, the girl who is Emily's campaign manager. What's even worse is that the end of the episode has shades of [[TheSpaceRace Operation Paperclip]] as Headmaster and Nurse decide to co-opt her ability to weaponize and upgrade [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Chemica Desin]].]]
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* Tagline: "Getting in is the easy part."
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* FakeNationality: Suki is Japanese, her actress is an American born in Taiwan. Also has elements of AllAsiansAreAlike.

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Creator/CartoonNetwork's second hour long [[LiveActionTV Live Action]] show.

'''''Tower Prep''''' is the story of Ian Archer, a teenager who has an ability known as Preflex, which allows him to see things before they happen. He has a tendency to get into trouble at school and one day, after a fight with a bully which sees him suspended, he finds himself in a mysterious preparatory school that no one knows the whereabouts of and is surrounded by many secrets such as the creatures that guard the school's off limits areas in the night. He befriends [=CJ=] Ward, Gabe Forrest, and Suki Sato. Together, [[EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace they try to escape the school while also trying to discover the secrets of Tower Prep]].
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!!This show contains examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Whisper 23]].
* AsianAndNerdy: Suki. Justified in that it's a school for the gifted, so everybody's a little nerdy.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Headmaster taught Coach how to fight, so naturally he can kick ass if need be.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis. C.J.'s power, which allows her to analyze body language and handwriting to determine mood.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ian, Suki, and CJ showing up to save Gabe from the Rooks in the finale.
* BerserkButton: Do not show Headmaster drawings of vintage vacuum tubes. [[spoiler: Especially if they're pieces of the insane supercomputer that resides beneath the school.]]
** DO NOT insult Gabe's friends.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The plot of "Election" is about a disease that causes this.
* BrownNote: The one thing in common with every student's story of how they came to Tower Prep is hearing a peculiar noise followed by waking up at the school. [[spoiler:In "Dreams", the source of the sound is revealed, as is the fact that the sound itself is what wipes their memory.]]
* ButtMonkey: Gabe
* [[spoiler: CallingTheOldManOut: Suki to her father: "If my family built this school... Then I have no family. You are ''not'' my father."]]
* CreepyDoll: Senor Guapo can be seen as one during "dreams".
* CompanionCube: Senor Guapo to Gabe, to the point that Gabe says the toy monkey actually ''has'' spoken to him before.
* CompellingVoice: Gabe's "hypersuasive" abilities.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tower Prep is apparently run by an entire board of them.
* CowardlyLion: Gabe
* DawsonCasting:
** Dyana Liu (Suki) is 29.
** Ryan Pinkston (Gabe) is 22.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Suki's brother, Shinji, can create at least one duplicate of himself by spinning.
* DuelingShows: With ''HouseOfAnubis''
* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: The basic premise.
* MrFanservice: Ian, full stop. Ray also seems to have a growing fanbase of girls, if the Tower Prep Wiki is any indication.
* EvilCounterpart: The Rook leader in episode 5 is basically an evil Ian, complete with "preflex" as his power.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Headmaster seems to be running one with Ian, since he's perfectly aware that Ian is trying to escape and doesn't see it as too much of a threat to his plans for Ian.]]
* FakeNationality: Suki is Japanese, her actress is an American born in Taiwan. Also has elements of AllAsiansAreAlike.
* FanService: Ian. Can you tell the actor is a model?
* FiveManBand:
-->TheHero[=/=]TheBigGuy: Ian, who doubles as both.\\
TheLancer: C.J.\\
TheSmartGuy: Suki.\\
TheChick: Gabe.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Suki to Ray, when he wants to snap a picture of her: "I'd hate to think what you'd do [[ADateWithRosiePalms with a picture of me."]]
** Literally, as within the ''first five minutes'' of the first episode, Ian actually says that the bully was treating his friend "like crap."
*** Also from the first episode, all the girls catcalling the boys when the latter are naked on the front lawn of the school.
** "Shut the [[LastSecondWordSwap front door!"]]
* GiveGeeksAChance: Norman and Penny Stosic, the former being a full-on geek.
** [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "My hero."]]
* GoodIsNotNice: The Monitors; the staff appear to be on their way to this.
* TheGamePlaysYou: [[spoiler:Whisper23 has Ian play a game which involves guiding a man through a pacman-like maze. For every life lost by the skulls acting as ghosts in the maze, Whisper 23 would shock one of his friends.]]
* TheHerosJourney: Discussed in the sixth episode, "Book Report", specifically in regard to its relation with ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/StargateSG1 Daniel Jackson]] is the Literature teacher.
** [[PrettyLittleLiars Jason DiLaurentis]] is Ian
* IronicNickname: Flash [=McNulty=], the speed reader who does everything else very slowly. Mentioned by Ian.
* JerkJock: Cal.
* LaResistance: The Broken. [[spoiler:At least, they were until Headmaster got to them.]]
* LargeHam: Jeremy/Odin is an unbelievably hammy villain, even in-universe.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:The creepy dude in the tunnels.]]
* LightningBruiser: Ian.
* LimitedWardrobe: Adverted nicely in some natural variety in the uniforms found at Tower Prep.
* MasterComputer: Whisper 119, [[spoiler:who was replaced by Whisper 120]].
* MindScrew: The episode "Dreams" where people slip from dreams to reality frequently and nothing is as it seems.
* MissingTime: None of the students have any idea of how they got to Tower Prep. Taken UpToEleven for CJ, who remembers literally nothing of her life before Tower. [[spoiler:Possibly justified for CJ. It turns out she is Headmaster's daughter and hasn't seen her mom in years. This means she has probably been at Tower for the majority of her childhood.]]
** This could also be a technological issue: either [[spoiler:she's a lab rat for the mind-wipes, and an early version knocked out her memory,]] or she's just the victim of a technological glitch at some point (perhaps a trip to West Campus?).
* TheMole: [[spoiler:CJ.]]
* MysteriousWatcher
* NonActionGuy: Gabe does not fair so well in a comabt situation.Mostly he tries to use his ability to talk his way out or someone else defends him. The closest he's come is jumping on an opponent's back and holding him as someone else hits him. Ironic, given his actor is trained in martial arts.
** Neither CJ nor Suki ever really shows any real fighting skill aside from the occasional blindside after Ian does most of the work.
* NoughtiesDramaSeries
* NotWearingPantsDream: Gabe's nightmares in "Dreams" end on this note.
* OntologicalMystery
* [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Prep School Girls Rule]]
* QuestForIdentity: CJ.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: What appears to be the strongest Gnome has red eyes, while the others have green.
** Alternatively, [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes Mean Evil Leader]].
* ShipTease: A bit between Ian and CJ. "Dreams" also has some between Ian and Suki, but this is just her dream.
* ShirtlessScene: Ian, a couple of times.
* ShoutOut: In episode 6, CJ describes the plot of the first ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' novel when going on about vampires, followed by Suki referencing the second with werewolves. And, later in the episode, CJ reads something called ''Vampire's Last Gleaming''.
** In the season finale, Ian has the last Gnome in the group beaten into a daze. He then proceeds to [[MortalKombat FINISH HIM!!]]
* ShowSomeLeg: The "sirens" in "Book Report" are three ''very'' hot chicks who can make men do whatever they want. This may be their actual power. Lampshaded when Ian calls on them to deal with a stubborn guard who Gabe can't hypersuade into obedience.
-->'''Gabe''': How come their hypersuasion works and mine doesn't?\\
'''Ian''': I don't think they're using hypersuasion. ''[continues staring at them until snapped out of it]''
* SlaveMooks: [[spoiler:The Gnomes are implied to be this, since they are former students, though some students, such as Cal Rice, ''choose'' to become Gnomes.]]
* SpiderSense: Ian's "preflex" ability.
* StarCrossedLovers: Norman and Penny Stosic, as mentioned from episode 6.
* SuperheroSchool
* SuperSenses: In several varieties:
** Enhanced sight: Howard Gilmore (beyond visible spectrum) and Emerson Poencet (microscopic vision).
** Enhanced smell: Hubert Kovalev.
** Enhanced taste: Noelle.
** Enhanced hearing: Cal Rice.
* SuperStrength: Ray's ability. Comes with the RequiredSecondaryPowers of enhanced toughness and resistance to pain.
* TookALevelInBadass: Gabe at the end of episode 5.
* TroubledButCute: Ray.
* UselessSuperpowers: Gabe's hypersuasion. In theory it would be a very useful power to have... except almost everyone is somehow immune or resistant to it. It's likely that it doesn't work as long as the target is focused on ignoring it.
* [[spoiler:VaguenessIsComing: In the last episode, the Headmaster reveals to the kids are being trained for ''something''. As the kids make their escape, Ian tell the Headmaster they will deal with whatever is coming, on their own terms.]]
* VoiceChangeling: Suki Sato.
* XMeetsY: ''Series/ThePrisoner'' meets ''HarryPotter''.
** Or, ''Series/ThePrisoner'' meets ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}''
* [[spoiler:YoureNotMyFather: Said verbatim by Suki to her father.]]
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