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** Lilith breaks Belos' nose when meeting his younger self during the StableTimeLoop, leaving a scar on his face that becomes the focal point of his GlamourFailure in the present.

[[caption-width-right:310:[-''"So you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome, don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together. And nobody should be punished for who they are!"''-] [[note]]From left to right: [[EquippableAlly Owlbert]], [[AscendedFangirl Luz]], [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority Eda,]] and [[TheNapoleon King]]. In the background: [[GeniusLoci Hooty]].[[/note]]]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. At first, Emperor Belos claims the Titan itself is this, with Belos acting as a servant of its will -- but it turns out [[spoiler:this is a total lie, and Belos has no connection to it]]. Season 2 reveals that Belos is working with an entity known as the Collector, who appears to have their own agenda -- [[spoiler:but then it turns out the Collector is just a small child (albeit with incredible magic power) who Belos has been manipulating. In the end, Belos himself is the only real villain]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: The Hexside gang's character arcs have them [[SecretKeeper keeping secrets from each other]] to their own psychological detriment.
** While granted she was blackmailed into doing so, Amity never told Willow that she was forced to end their childhood friendship by her AbusiveParents. While she regretted it and Luz gets her to come around, Willow still resents Amity for the incident until the truth comes out in "Understanding Willow".
** During the first half of Season 2, Luz and Amity struggle to admit their love for each other, resulting in some awkwardness. They eventually come out in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" and become a couple.
** [[spoiler:After {{The Reveal}}s in "Hollow Mind", Luz and Hunter agree to keep each other's secrets--the former about her role in Belos' EvilPlan and the latter about his nature as the latest of Belos' Grimwalkers. However, their fears of how the others will react prove unfounded: when [[VillainRevealsTheSecret Belos spills the beans himself]] at the climax of "Thanks to Them", only Willow is taken aback (and briefly) to learn what Hunter is, and since Belos ''tricked'' Luz into helping him, no one holds it against her. Amity thereafter tells Luz to never keep secrets again, since all it did was make her more miserable.]]
*** [[spoiler:Gus reveals in "For the Future" that [[SecretSecretKeeper he learned Hunter was a Grimwalker upon attacking Belos' mind in "King's Tide", but he, too, kept quiet about it]] for fear of causing his friend further distress. Hunter is more or less unfazed, the subject being all but a moot point by then.]]
** [[spoiler:Willow gets this in "For the Future" as her insecurities catch up with her and she fets about the fate of her fathers (whom the Collector captured and puppetized). Failing to admit how she feels her plant magic to go out of control until Hunter gets her to open up.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Belos [[SanitySlippage figuratively]] and [[BodyHorror literally]] comes undone throughout the last four episodes after his EvilPlan is turned against him by Luz and then thwarted by King and The Collector. In a weakened state, he [[DemonicPossession possesses]] various wildlife, then Hunter, then Raine, and finally The Titan itself in a last-ditch attempt to finish what he started, all while being [[HauntingTheGuilty haunted by ghosts/visions of]] [[SiblingMurder his brother Caleb]] [[ExpendableClone and the past Grimwalkers]]. [[AllForNothing He still fails]], leading to his UndignifiedDeath at the hands of Luz, Eda, King, and Raine.]]

** [[spoiler:After all else fails to avert the Day of Unity, King turns to The Collector for help and offers to play a game which requires everyone's survival. The Collector agrees and King frees him, enabling the entity to make the Boiling Isles his playground after stopping the draining spell. In the process, The Collector saves the Hexsquad from a raging Belos and seemingly kills the latter for double-crossing him.]]

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Terra saves Luz and Amity from Kikimora's hand dragon, but only because the emperor has some plans for Luz, which require her to be alive and well.]]

* AntiEscapismAesop: Downplayed in an "all things in moderation" sense. On the one hand, Luz's behavior at the beginning of the series was both legitimately disruptive and in desperate need of a reality check, while [[spoiler:both Belos and the Collector are in part motivated by the desire to drag the entire world into their delusions rather than face reality]]. On the other hand, Luz's love of ''The Good Witch Azura'' is treated as perfectly healthy and good for her given that [[spoiler:it both gave her an outlet to process her grief over her father's death and formed the CommonalityConnection that led to her and Amity falling in love]]. This is even reflected in the ending of the series where Luz [[spoiler:is able to freely travel between the human and demon realms rather than having to choose one over the other]], showing that she's achieved balance betwen the fantasy and reality in her life.

%% * PotemkinVillage: [[spoiler:To lure Eda into a trap, a demon spruces up a run-down village and castle and uses magical puppets to capture Luz to use as bait via a fake quest]].

%%zce* QueerColors: These are frequently seen during important moments in [[spoiler:Luz and Amity's relationship.]]

** It' also {{Subverted}} with [[spoiler:Philip Wittebane, the human who visited the Boiling Isles before Luz and who apparently invented the portal door. When Luz manages to meet him through through a Time Pool to travel to the 'Deadwardian Era' he explored the isles in, it's apparent that he somehow lost the portal door, which a young Eda would later literally trip over by complete accident centuries later, but he also isn't ''actively seeking'' to go back to Earth either, willingly staying in the Boiling Isles in order to seek out 'the Collector' for some mysterious goal separate from building another portal door. It is later revealed that Philip [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter would eventually adopt the identity of]] '[[TheHeavy Emperor Belos]]', having extended his lifespan through absorbing Palisman essence to live to the modern day in order to enact his plans of [[FinalSolution killing every witch and demon on the Boiling Isles]] during the Day of Unity. It's implied that Belos' attempts to have his coven capture the wild Witch Eda was from her utilisation of the portal door, so that Philip could secure his exit from the realm ''immediately'' once he'd activated the Draining Spell at the appointed time, but since the spell required a specific situation that was several months away, he wasn't pushing hard to reclaim the portal door until they got closer to the due day]].

** Bipedal demons are essentially witches in all but name. They walk on two legs, and have a bile sac that allows them to perform magic like witches. Unlike witches, they are [[LittleBitBeastly distinctly non-human]], and some may have natural abilities in addition to magic. [[MonsterMouth Warden Wrath]], [[BodyMotifs Kikimora]], [[PigMan Tibbles]], and [[HornedHumanoid Selene]] the oracle track student are both in this category.