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** In "Horsin' Around", after catching the talisman thief, Draculaura asks him how he got to Monster High [[spoiler:from Beheme]], and he replies that he got sucked through a portal. When Bloodgood asks if it was the same portal [[spoiler:Clawd]] came through, however, he has a simple answer: "No". This prompts the reveal that [[spoiler:someone else has been messing with the portal to Beheme behind everyone else's backs -- and they don't even know who, since the description the thief gives (ears, a little furry, has a tail) matches about half the student body]].
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** In "Horsin' Around", after catching the talisman thief, Draculaura asks him how he got to Monster High [[spoiler:from Beheme]], and he replies that he got sucked through a portal. When Bloodgood asks if it was the same portal [[spoiler:Clawd]] Clawd came through, however, he has a simple answer: "No". This prompts the reveal that [[spoiler:someone else has been messing with the portal to Beheme behind everyone else's backs -- and they don't even know who, since the description the thief gives (ears, a little furry, has a tail) matches about half the student body]].
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* RepressionNeverEndsWell: "Crushed" has Frankie trying to deal with their feelings over not making the Fear Squad by literally bottling them up as bolts of lightning. The bottle eventually breaks and causes a power outage, after which Cleo talks them into just letting it out in a safe place.
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** "Crushed" has Frankie trying to deal with their feelings over not making the Fear Squad by literally bottling them up as bolts of lightning. The bottle eventually breaks and causes a power outage, after which Cleo talks them into just letting it out in a safeplace.place.
** In "So Chill" Abbey isn't willing to tell her friends that she's feeling walked over because she's determined to remain chill. It leads to her exploding at and freezing Clawdeen when she forgets the presentation, then freezing more people as it gets out of control. Her mother talks her through her feelings in a snow-ga session and she agrees to be more honest from that point on.
** "Crushed" has Frankie trying to deal with their feelings over not making the Fear Squad by literally bottling them up as bolts of lightning. The bottle eventually breaks and causes a power outage, after which Cleo talks them into just letting it out in a safe
** In "So Chill" Abbey isn't willing to tell her friends that she's feeling walked over because she's determined to remain chill. It leads to her exploding at and freezing Clawdeen when she forgets the presentation, then freezing more people as it gets out of control. Her mother talks her through her feelings in a snow-ga session and she agrees to be more honest from that point on.
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** In "Mummy in the Mirror", Draculaura mentions that her hair was black and pink striped two semesters ago. This is exactly what her hair looked like in G1 and 2.
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* FramingDevice: First season episodes typically begin and end with the focus character talking to a recording eyeball about the events of the story in past tense. This is part of an assignment for O'Shriek's class introduced in the first episode "Food Fight".
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* FramingDevice: First season episodes Episodes typically begin and and/or end with the focus character talking to a recording eyeball about the events of the story in past tense. This is part of an assignment for O'Shriek's class introduced in the first episode "Food Fight".
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Clawdeen starts to feel this in season two, as [[spoiler:her duties as the new were-ruler]] prove to be difficult and interfere with her school life and relationships. Her solution to this is ultimately [[spoiler:to AbdicateTheThrone and switch out the AsskickingLeadsToLeadership method of determining a new were-ruler for an election]], an action which ultimately drives the plot of season 2.
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* MightMakesRight: Seems to be a tradition among the various werebeast species; the title of were-ruler is only earned by [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership beating the previous leader in combat]], and disputes are commonly settled with fights between the quarreling parties. It's shown to be an incredibly flawed method (as seen when [[spoiler:Clawdeen becomes the new were-ruler simply by stopping Catarina's plan to take over the world, even though she's still in high school and has no experience in politics]]), but the werebeasts swear by it strongly enough that [[spoiler:Clawdeen's plan to switch to a voting-based system]] proves controversial.
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* BlandNameProduct: The monster world has a stand-in for Platform/TikTok named "[=EekTok=]".
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** The monster world has a stand-in for Platform/TikTok named"[=EekTok=]"."[=EekTok=]".
** Deuce mentions a delivery service called "Spooker Eats" in the season 2 premiere.
** The monster world has a stand-in for Platform/TikTok named
** Deuce mentions a delivery service called "Spooker Eats" in the season 2 premiere.
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* FramingDevice: Episodes First season episodes typically begin and end with the focus character talking to a recording eyeball about the events of the story in past tense. This is part of an assignment for O'Shriek's class introduced in the first episode "Food Fight".
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: In “Spell The Beans,” Toralei’s plot to expose Draculaura as a witch ends up implicating herself instead.
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: HoistByHisOwnPetard: In “Spell The Beans,” Toralei’s plot to expose Draculaura as a witch ends up implicating herself instead.
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* ChekhovsGun: During the season 1 finale, Autumn Patch gives Twyla a pair of noise-canceling headphones so that she can stay at the dance without having to worry about her hypersensitivity to sound. [[spoiler:Those same headphones make her immune to Catarina's new hypnotic powers, letting her help the Boo Crew out and giving Cleo the idea to grab more of them to protect themselves from the same fate.]]
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** During the season 1 finale, Autumn Patch gives Twyla a pair of noise-canceling headphones so that she can stay at the dance without having to worry about her hypersensitivity to sound. [[spoiler:Those same headphones make her immune to Catarina's new hypnotic powers, letting her help the Boo Crew out and giving Cleo the idea to grab more of them to protect themselves from the same fate.]]]]
** These are also used in several episodes, including the very first episode of the series, “The Monstering.” The facts on onikuma monsters that Clawdeen was reading about at the start of the episode help her handle dealing with an actual onikuma at the end of it.
** During the season 1 finale, Autumn Patch gives Twyla a pair of noise-canceling headphones so that she can stay at the dance without having to worry about her hypersensitivity to sound. [[spoiler:Those same headphones make her immune to Catarina's new hypnotic powers, letting her help the Boo Crew out and giving Cleo the idea to grab more of them to protect themselves from the same fate.
** These are also used in several episodes, including the very first episode of the series, “The Monstering.” The facts on onikuma monsters that Clawdeen was reading about at the start of the episode help her handle dealing with an actual onikuma at the end of it.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: In “Case of the Missing Squeak,” observant viewers can find the clue that helps solve the titular case before the cast does: [[spoiler: the second time the inside of Lagoona’s backpack is shown, right as Señor Squeaky is found to be missing, an empty bottle of Essence of Life can be seen inside, which wasn’t there previously.]]
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Ghoulia faces this in “Growing Ghoulia”, where her efforts to achieve top student on Monster High’s Horror Roll keep getting undermined by Draculaura, who finishes all the extracurricular activities Ghoulia had planned on doing immediately before she gets a chance to even start on them. [[spoiler: Played with as it turns out Draculaura was using her witchcraft to give her the extra time needed to do all of those activities so quickly. Ghoulia is understandably very angry on finding this out, and tries to utilize Draculaura’s ritual herself to even the playing field… with disastrous results.]]
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: In “Spell The Beans,” Toralei’s plot to expose Draculaura as a witch ends up implicating herself instead.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Ghoulia faces this in “Growing Ghoulia”, where her efforts to achieve top student on Monster High’s Horror Roll keep getting undermined by Draculaura, who finishes all the extracurricular activities Ghoulia had planned on doing immediately before she gets a chance to even start on them. [[spoiler: Played with as it turns out Draculaura was using her witchcraft to give her the extra time needed to do all of those activities so quickly. Ghoulia is understandably very angry on finding this out, and tries to utilize Draculaura’s ritual herself to even the playing field… with disastrous results.]]
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: In “Spell The Beans,” Toralei’s plot to expose Draculaura as a witch ends up implicating herself instead.
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** In “Crushed”, Frankie doesn’t tell Draculaura and Clawdeen how they really feel about not making the Fear Squad because they don’t want to be a killjoy in light of Clawdeen’s success.
** In “Monster Movie”, Lagoona becomes increasingly distressed as her friends keep suggesting more and more changes to make to her movie, but maintains that she is fine with everything they suggest because she doesn’t want to cause a fight that could escalate and break their friendship (like how a similar incident over dinner food choice caused a rift between members of her family).
** In “Crushed”, Frankie doesn’t tell Draculaura and Clawdeen how they really feel about not making the Fear Squad because they don’t want to be a killjoy in light of Clawdeen’s success.
** In “Monster Movie”, Lagoona becomes increasingly distressed as her friends keep suggesting more and more changes to make to her movie, but maintains that she is fine with everything they suggest because she doesn’t want to cause a fight that could escalate and break their friendship (like how a similar incident over dinner food choice caused a rift between members of her family).
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* ObviouslyNotFine: In “Monster Movie”, despite saying otherwise to avoid a potential argument, Lagoona is clearly not okay with the direction her friends are causing her movie to go in. Still, she’s able to (mostly) maintain the facade, partly by venting her rage through chomping on props backstage out of sight, and partly because (almost) everyone else is too excited making the movie to notice.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In [=G1=], Clawdeen's pet Crescent was a cat; here, she's a dog.
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** In [=G1=], Clawdeen's pet Crescent was a cat; here, she's a dog.
** In [=G1=], Clawdeen's pet Crescent was a cat; here, she's a dog.
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** In [=G1=], Count Fabulous was [[AllThereInTheManual stated in guidebooks]] to be a vampire stuck in bat form. Here, there's no mention of him being a vampire himself, and instead is a shapeshifting bat that can turn into a bat/[[AllWitchesHaveCats cat]] hybrid.
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** The season 1 finale "The Monster Way" massively shakes up the status quo for the next season. By the end, [[spoiler:Selena Wolf has been rescued from Beheme and reunited with her family, Catarina Stripe turns out to have been the one to trap her there in the first place in order to keep her from spreading her more tolerant ideals, defeating her ends up making Clawdeen the new were-ruler, Bloodgood has discovered Draculaura is a witch but opted not to expel her, and a seventh talisman ends up discovered -- a ''human'' talisman, meaning a human helped found Monster High]].
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** The season 1 finale "The Monster Way" massively shakes up the status quo for the next season. By the end, [[spoiler:Selena Wolf has been rescued from Beheme and reunited with her family, Catarina Stripe turns out to have been the one to trap her there in the first place in order to keep her from spreading her more tolerant ideals, defeating her ends up making Clawdeen the new were-ruler, Bloodgood has discovered Draculaura is a witch but opted not to expel her, her (and she promises to try and help witches become more accepted at Monster High), and a seventh talisman ends up discovered -- a ''human'' talisman, meaning a human helped found Monster High]].
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* BlandNameProduct: The monster world has a stand-in for Website/TikTok named "[=EekTok=]".
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zig-zagged; while there's plenty of worry about what humans could do if they learned about the existence of monsters, it's repeatedly shown that monsters have a lot of the same flaws (namely issues with prejudice). It gets focused on heavily in "Moonlit Fieldtrip"; while Clawdeen is right to worry about some humans reacting badly to the existence of monsters, she comes to realize that not every human will automatically turn on them.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zig-zagged; while there's plenty of worry about what humans could do if they learned about the existence of monsters, it's repeatedly shown that monsters have a lot of the same flaws (namely issues with prejudice). It gets focused on heavily in "Moonlit Fieldtrip"; while Clawdeen is right to worry about some humans reacting badly to the existence of monsters, she comes to realize that not every human will automatically turn on them. [[spoiler:The first season finale reveals that human are a kind of monster, which raises further questions.]]
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* WhamEpisode: "Paw-zzle Pieces" sets up the main story arc going forward: [[spoiler:Clawdeen discovers her mom is trapped in a dimension known as the Beheme and inadvertently releases her brother Clawd from it. She then learns that the portal to Beheme requires six talismans to open it; otherwise it will be destroyed and take everything with it.]]
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* WhamEpisode: TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The teaser for the season 1 finale that showrunner Shea Fontana posted on social media not only revealed [[spoiler:that Selena Wolf would come back, but showed a clip of Catarina Stripe wielding her all-monsters talisman]].
* WhamEpisode:
** "Paw-zzle Pieces" sets up the main story arc going forward: [[spoiler:Clawdeen discovers her mom is trapped in a dimension known as the Beheme and inadvertently releases her brother Clawd from it. She then learns that the portal to Beheme requires six talismans to open it; otherwise it will be destroyed and take everything with it.]]]]
** The season 1 finale "The Monster Way" massively shakes up the status quo for the next season. By the end, [[spoiler:Selena Wolf has been rescued from Beheme and reunited with her family, Catarina Stripe turns out to have been the one to trap her there in the first place in order to keep her from spreading her more tolerant ideals, defeating her ends up making Clawdeen the new were-ruler, Bloodgood has discovered Draculaura is a witch but opted not to expel her, and a seventh talisman ends up discovered -- a ''human'' talisman, meaning a human helped found Monster High]].
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** "Paw-zzle Pieces" sets up the main story arc going forward: [[spoiler:Clawdeen discovers her mom is trapped in a dimension known as the Beheme and inadvertently releases her brother Clawd from it. She then learns that the portal to Beheme requires six talismans to open it; otherwise it will be destroyed and take everything with it.
** The season 1 finale "The Monster Way" massively shakes up the status quo for the next season. By the end, [[spoiler:Selena Wolf has been rescued from Beheme and reunited with her family, Catarina Stripe turns out to have been the one to trap her there in the first place in order to keep her from spreading her more tolerant ideals, defeating her ends up making Clawdeen the new were-ruler, Bloodgood has discovered Draculaura is a witch but opted not to expel her, and a seventh talisman ends up discovered -- a ''human'' talisman, meaning a human helped found Monster High]].
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* WhamLine: At the end of "Monster Midterms", as Ms. Ziz and Mr. Klopman are discussing how midterms went:
-->'''Klopman:''' Midterms went well, huh? Even Clawdeen and Toralei seemed to be getting along!\\
'''Ziz:''' Yeah, of course, but for how long? If all goes well on the Blood Moon Eclipse and Clawdeen brings her mom back, it's gonna be [[spoiler:all-out war for the werecreatures]]! [[DramaticEllipsis Dot...dot...dot...]]
-->'''Klopman:''' Midterms went well, huh? Even Clawdeen and Toralei seemed to be getting along!\\
'''Ziz:''' Yeah, of course, but for how long? If all goes well on the Blood Moon Eclipse and Clawdeen brings her mom back, it's gonna be [[spoiler:all-out war for the werecreatures]]! [[DramaticEllipsis Dot...dot...dot...]]
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** At the end of "Monster Midterms", as Ms. Ziz and Mr. Klopman are discussing how midterms went:
-->'''Klopman:''' --->'''Klopman:''' Midterms went well, huh? Even Clawdeen and Toralei seemed to be getting along!\\
'''Ziz:''' Yeah, of course, but for how long? If all goes well on the Blood Moon Eclipse andClawdeen [[spoiler:Clawdeen brings her mom back, it's gonna be [[spoiler:all-out all-out war for the werecreatures]]! [[DramaticEllipsis Dot...dot...dot...]] ]]
** In "Horsin' Around", after catching the talisman thief, Draculaura asks him how he got to Monster High [[spoiler:from Beheme]], and he replies that he got sucked through a portal. When Bloodgood asks if it was the same portal [[spoiler:Clawd]] came through, however, he has a simple answer: "No". This prompts the reveal that [[spoiler:someone else has been messing with the portal to Beheme behind everyone else's backs -- and they don't even know who, since the description the thief gives (ears, a little furry, has a tail) matches about half the student body]].
** At the end of "Monster Midterms", as Ms. Ziz and Mr. Klopman are discussing how midterms went:
'''Ziz:''' Yeah, of course, but for how long? If all goes well on the Blood Moon Eclipse and
** In "Horsin' Around", after catching the talisman thief, Draculaura asks him how he got to Monster High [[spoiler:from Beheme]], and he replies that he got sucked through a portal. When Bloodgood asks if it was the same portal [[spoiler:Clawd]] came through, however, he has a simple answer: "No". This prompts the reveal that [[spoiler:someone else has been messing with the portal to Beheme behind everyone else's backs -- and they don't even know who, since the description the thief gives (ears, a little furry, has a tail) matches about half the student body]].
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* EnsembleCast: While Clawdeen is the main protagonist and the one driving the first season's MythArc, every other major character -- and several side or minor characters -- gets at least one ADayInTheLimelight episode dedicated to their own arcs.
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* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In Myth/ClassicalMythology and Generation 1, Stheno and Euryale are Medusa's sisters. In the show, they are her oldest daughters and Deuce's sisters.
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* RemakeCameo: Creator/SalliSaffioti, who played Clawdeen Wolf in the previous generations, gets to make an appearance here as recurring character O'Shriek. Creator/DebiDerryberry and America Young (the former played Draculaura; the latter played Toralei Stripe, Howleen Wolf, Purrsephone and Meowlody) also get to guest star in an episode as Deuce's sisters.
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* WhamLine: At the end of "Monster Midterms", as Ms. Ziz and Mr. Klopman are discussing how midterms went:
-->'''Klopman:''' Midterms went well, huh? Even Clawdeen and Toralei seemed to be getting along!\\
'''Ziz:''' Yeah, of course, but for how long? If all goes well on the Blood Moon Eclipse and Clawdeen brings her mom back, it's gonna be [[spoiler:all-out war for the werecreatures]]! [[DramaticEllipsis Dot...dot...dot...]]
-->'''Klopman:''' Midterms went well, huh? Even Clawdeen and Toralei seemed to be getting along!\\
'''Ziz:''' Yeah, of course, but for how long? If all goes well on the Blood Moon Eclipse and Clawdeen brings her mom back, it's gonna be [[spoiler:all-out war for the werecreatures]]! [[DramaticEllipsis Dot...dot...dot...]]
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** In "Monster Mdterms", Skunkrates mentions he believes in a conspiracy theory about something called the "Humanati" led by someone named Van Hellscream. Van Hellscream was a major antagonist in the G1 special "Fright On!", being a human who tried to worsen the divide between different monster species and shut down the school.
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** In "Out of Step", the Giggle Grove dance that Clawd, Draculaura and many other students do towards the end is the same dance Claire's friend Chad did in the G1 special "Ghouls Rule".
** In "MonsterMdterms", Midterms", Skunkrates mentions he believes in a conspiracy theory about something called the "Humanati" led by someone named Van Hellscream. Van Hellscream was a major antagonist in the G1 special "Fright On!", being a human who tried to worsen the divide between different monster species and shut down the school.
** In "Monster
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* MythologyGag: One of the holographic Frankies in "Portrait of a Monster" wears their default outfit from [=G1=].
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** In "Monster Mdterms", Skunkrates mentions he believes in a conspiracy theory about something called the "Humanati" led by someone named Van Hellscream. Van Hellscream was a major antagonist in the G1 special "Fright On!", being a human who tried to worsen the divide between different monster species and shut down the school.
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* FramingDevice: Episodes typically begin and end with the focus character talking to a recording eyeball about the events of the story in past tense. This is part of an assignment for O'Shriek's class introduced in the first episode "Food Fight".
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* AmbiguouslyGay: "Horror Roll" reveals that Clawdeen, Draculaura, Frankie, Deuce, Lagoona, and Ghoulia are all members of the Monster High equivalent to a Gay-Straight Alliance club. While Frankie has already been confirmed to be nonbinary, it's unknown where the rest fall on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
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''Monster High'' is a 2022 animated series based on the toy franchise [[Toys/MonsterHigh of the same name]], specifically its third incarnation. It began airing on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} on October 6, 2022, following the premiere of ''Film/MonsterHighTheMovie''.
On her birthday, teenage monster enthusiast Clawdeen Wolf ends up stumbling upon Monster High, a boarding school built for monsters of all kind to attend, and discovering she's half-werewolf on her MissingMom's side. Now, with the help of her new friends and roommates Draculaura and Frankie Stein, she must navigate the halls of her new school and learn to embrace all her freaky flaws, all while trying to figure out what happened to her mom.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Frankie's pet is now called Watzie instead of Watzit
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In [=G1=], Clawdeen's pet Crescent was a cat; here, she's a dog.
* TheBusCameBack: The series brings back several characters who were absent from the first live-action movie, such as Spectra and Toralei.
* DoubleStandard: In the past, yetis were banned from attending Monster High due to fears regarding their inability to control their powers, even though the same can be said for pretty much every teenage monster.
* EpisodeTitleCard: The show uses stylized title cards with imagery depending on which character is the central focus of the episode (e.g. bats and spider webs for Draculaura).
* FantasticRacism: Besides the tensions between humans and monsters, there's also prejudice against witches and plenty of inter-monster prejudice (e.g. yetis were banned from attending Monster High in the past).
* LiteralBookworm: One gets loose in the library during "Creepover Party", growing bigger with every book it consumes. Twyla traps it with her shadow powers, and Headmistress Bloodgood sends it to the book graveyard, which is apparently where Monster High buries its outdated textbooks.
* MacGuffin: Clawdeen's moon claw necklace, which turns out to be one of six talismans needed to [[spoiler:open the portal to Beheme and rescue her mother]]. The search for the other talismans make up the MythArc of season 1.
* MythArc: There's an overarching plot in season 1 surrounding Clawdeen's search for her mother.
* MythologyGag: One of the holographic Frankies in "Portrait of a Monster" wears their default outfit from [=G1=].
* PowerIncontinence: Most of the teenage monsters don't quite have control over their powers yet; it's normally played for laughs, but said incontinence is the reason that yetis were banned from attending Monster High at one point.
* RepressionNeverEndsWell: "Crushed" has Frankie trying to deal with their feelings over not making the Fear Squad by literally bottling them up as bolts of lightning. The bottle eventually breaks and causes a power outage, after which Cleo talks them into just letting it out in a safe place.
* StockScream: The school bell at Monster High makes the Wilhelm scream when it rings.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Heath casually mentions that he went to a therapist for anger issues, and Cleo tells Frankie that it's an option if they're having trouble dealing with their new emotions.
* WhamEpisode: "Paw-zzle Pieces" sets up the main story arc going forward: [[spoiler:Clawdeen discovers her mom is trapped in a dimension known as the Beheme and inadvertently releases her brother Clawd from it. She then learns that the portal to Beheme requires six talismans to open it; otherwise it will be destroyed and take everything with it.]]
* YouMeanXMas: "Nightmore", the longest night of the year, where monsters band together and celebrate until the sun comes back. It even has its own version of mistletoe for couples to kiss under: a bundle of [[{{Pun}} missing toes]].
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On her birthday, teenage monster enthusiast Clawdeen Wolf ends up stumbling upon Monster High, a boarding school built for monsters of all kind to attend, and discovering she's half-werewolf on her MissingMom's side. Now, with the help of her new friends and roommates Draculaura and Frankie Stein, she must navigate the halls of her new school and learn to embrace all her freaky flaws, all while trying to figure out what happened to her mom.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Frankie's pet is now called Watzie instead of Watzit
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In [=G1=], Clawdeen's pet Crescent was a cat; here, she's a dog.
* TheBusCameBack: The series brings back several characters who were absent from the first live-action movie, such as Spectra and Toralei.
* DoubleStandard: In the past, yetis were banned from attending Monster High due to fears regarding their inability to control their powers, even though the same can be said for pretty much every teenage monster.
* EpisodeTitleCard: The show uses stylized title cards with imagery depending on which character is the central focus of the episode (e.g. bats and spider webs for Draculaura).
* FantasticRacism: Besides the tensions between humans and monsters, there's also prejudice against witches and plenty of inter-monster prejudice (e.g. yetis were banned from attending Monster High in the past).
* LiteralBookworm: One gets loose in the library during "Creepover Party", growing bigger with every book it consumes. Twyla traps it with her shadow powers, and Headmistress Bloodgood sends it to the book graveyard, which is apparently where Monster High buries its outdated textbooks.
* MacGuffin: Clawdeen's moon claw necklace, which turns out to be one of six talismans needed to [[spoiler:open the portal to Beheme and rescue her mother]]. The search for the other talismans make up the MythArc of season 1.
* MythArc: There's an overarching plot in season 1 surrounding Clawdeen's search for her mother.
* MythologyGag: One of the holographic Frankies in "Portrait of a Monster" wears their default outfit from [=G1=].
* PowerIncontinence: Most of the teenage monsters don't quite have control over their powers yet; it's normally played for laughs, but said incontinence is the reason that yetis were banned from attending Monster High at one point.
* RepressionNeverEndsWell: "Crushed" has Frankie trying to deal with their feelings over not making the Fear Squad by literally bottling them up as bolts of lightning. The bottle eventually breaks and causes a power outage, after which Cleo talks them into just letting it out in a safe place.
* StockScream: The school bell at Monster High makes the Wilhelm scream when it rings.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Heath casually mentions that he went to a therapist for anger issues, and Cleo tells Frankie that it's an option if they're having trouble dealing with their new emotions.
* WhamEpisode: "Paw-zzle Pieces" sets up the main story arc going forward: [[spoiler:Clawdeen discovers her mom is trapped in a dimension known as the Beheme and inadvertently releases her brother Clawd from it. She then learns that the portal to Beheme requires six talismans to open it; otherwise it will be destroyed and take everything with it.]]
* YouMeanXMas: "Nightmore", the longest night of the year, where monsters band together and celebrate until the sun comes back. It even has its own version of mistletoe for couples to kiss under: a bundle of [[{{Pun}} missing toes]].
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