Snape seems to react to bullies in a worse way then most bully victims, holding strong grudges well into adulthood and openly projecting it onto others who are not at fault for, or even related to, his bullying. Rick was an emotionally unstable boy who was bullied, it seems, for the sadistic pleasure of others. There is also his little spat with Lily, who was clearly only trying to help him. The offending groups are also similar.
Spinner is like James because, aside from being the most recognized of the group, he seems to be the mastermind of the pranks. Spinner can also be compared to Peter in that he framed Jimmy for the worst prank, though to his credit, he had no idea that Rick had come back seeking revenge and that he'd put Jimmy in danger. Jay more fits Peter's character in that he appears pretty shifty and seems to hold not sense of loyalty or remorse. When Rick dies and Jimmy is sent to the emergency room, Jay coldly reacts with complete apathy and lack of concern or guilt. Jimmy seems to be a composite for Remus, Sirius and possibly Lily. Like both Remus and Sirius, he appears to be very loyal to Spinner, more or less, and was Rick's friend for a time.
Also, Spinner seems to inherit the role of Snape when Jimmy finds out that he, Spinner, is the reason Rick shot and nearly killed him, Jimmy and Spinner's friendship becomes comparable to Snape and Lily's, though a bit harsher with, at one point, Spinner attempting suicide and Jimmy icily telling him that it wouldn't matter because he's already dead to him.
Also, look at the resemblance! If they're not the same soul, they're probably related.
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- Alternatively, Emma is the Lily. Rick had feelings for her that Emma did not return, and since Spinner is the James, it all makes sense!
- Kendra is also a Yaoi Fangirl. She likes anime, and before season 2 gave us Marco and "Run away to BC with me!", JT/Toby were the most homoerotic male friendship on the show.
- Could the person who just posted above me translate that into English? Kendra's a yaoi fan girl because Marco... and ... what?
- Anya was obviously attracted to Riley early on but it didn't work out because she realized something wasn't right and that she she wasn't over Sav. Maybe she figured that the next best thing to being with Riley was seeing him with another hot guy.
- Or... it could just be that she wants to be supportive towards one of her close friends?
- Guys, guys it’s both!
Thus, explanation is needed for the lack of hormone replacement drugs and/or gender reassignment surgery, if those things are possible for a minor under Canadian/Ontario law at all. If not, they're off the hook. If it's possible at one's own expense, that will be the issue. If it's covered by the provincial health plan and a matter of a standard permission slip, then it's entirely on Adam's family to explain (to the audience) why he's still not shaving by senior year.
- Alternately, they'll recast him with a male actor, going from an aversion to a full-on inversion of Dawson Casting so he can be seen developing male secondary sex characteristics as the replacement hormones/replacement actor's natural ones take effect.
- Adam's grade is in question, the TeenNick site lists him as Grade 10, the Much Music site lists him as Grade 11 (as does the official Twitter for Adam). But both with Adam as only 15. If Adam graduates at 17 I'm pretty sure that is before its legally allowed to do the reassignment surgery (basically he'd be off series before its an actual issue, or that he leaves to get the surgery). As to hormone suppressants... I got nothing.
- In the post-Boiling Point eps he's wearing a purple (Grade 10) uniform shirt. Whether Much (who runs the character Twitters) got it wrong in the first place or that's a Retcon for keeping what's already become both a popular and timely character on the show longer is practically a WMG in itself.
- Not to mention that in the first half of season 10 he is in Eli and Clare's Grade 11 English class but seems to be missing from it in the second half of the season.
- Don't forget that NOT ALL transgender people decide to get the surgery or the hormone treatment.
- He's just not a stern disciplinarian, and won't be running the school the way he wants to, but the way he feels he has to.
- A lot of the parents will be displeased with the new uniform coming two, maybe three months into the school year, after they just did their back to school shopping. OTOH if it was meant to be permanent they'd have gone for something more dressed-up and fanservice-y than polos and khakis.
- Mrs. Torres especially will dislike the fact that Adam's gotten his hair cut shorter (probably an indirect result of no longer being allowed a hat in school), destroying one of the last remaining vestiges of Gracie.
- Degrassi hasn't performed its' out-of-universe function as the setting of a Teen Drama as well as it did in The Boiling Point for years.
- Remember, the school's had a zero-tolerance bullying policy since Jimmy's shooting. Apparently the writers find even this too restrictive, as the policy's been ignored so much as to become a Running Gag in the fandom.
- It all adds up to - once the storylines driven by the crackdown are over, the crackdown itself will soon follow. In fact, the whole season will be about Simpson having let things out of hand, at first overreacting and then backing off as he finds his feet in the new job and finds the happy medium where things are controlled enough that there won't be any Jimmys or JTs on his watch, but students feel free to learn and discover themselves without an oppressive authoritarian presence. You have to hand it to Degrassi; what other Teen Drama would give a season-spanning Character Development Story Arc to the principal?
- That didn't happen. But here's the current scoreboard for the new policies:
-Club activities: Operating at 100% by the third tranche of Season 10 episodes.-Cellphone jammers: Quietly dropped sometime late in Season 11.-School uniforms: Abolished with great fanfare at the start of Season 12.-Metal detectors,Student ID display requirement, and Standing police presence in-school: Still in effect.
- Liberty. She dealt with her post-partum depression by writing a series of melodramatic short stories for each person at Degrassi. Mia is her Author Avatar for whom she wishes she could be and how her pregnancy could’ve turned out, which is why Mia has little struggle with her own child despite the usual complications that come with being a young teenage mother. The reason she killed off JT was because, while part of her still held feelings for him, another part was still angry at him for becoming a drug dealer; she was also releasing pent-up anger at herself for letting go of someone who was there for her when most guys would’ve left. That way, she could let go of her anger towards JT and be able to move on. Also, part of her is secretly disgusted with Emma’s hypocrisy in season four, and expands on this by creating a Double Standard she perceives to be true: If anyone else cheats on their boyfriend or girlfriend, or otherwise cheats with someone else’s boyfriend or girlfriend, they’re an ass; if Emma does it, she’s just confused and doesn’t know what she wants. Wouldn’t it make sense for her to think this way after the incidents with Chris and Jay?
- Emma. She missed Sean and knew he wasn’t coming back, and also harboured a crush towards Spinner, but couldn’t bring herself to break up with Peter as he had been willing to put his bad boy ways behind him to support her. Thus, she wrote a melodramatic story wherein Sean returns because he suddenly realized he still loves Emma, and made Peter out to be even worse than he actually is in real life so that she could justify her reasons in-story for choosing Sean. And let's not forget Emma's tendencies to lean towards hypocrisy. Eventually, she realized how silly it was for her to hold on to a seventh-grade crush and sent him off to Afghanistan. She almost wrote in a storyline where she got pregnant, but realized after talking to Manny and Liberty that such an experience would actually be horrible in real life, and instead wrote in that she had a false alarm. She saw no use for JT in her story, so she killed him off. The story where she protests Purple Dragon’s sexism by ripping off her dress in front of the entire school comes from what she secretly wants to do, but knows that objectifying herself would be sexist and thus go against her beliefs. Same goes for the time she smoked pot in college; she herself is curious about pot, but knows better than to actually take it. And finally, the whole deal with her marrying Spinner, as mentioned, came from her crush on him, and her dream of a Las Vegas wedding.
- Manny. She secretly had a crush on Jay the entire time but was too shy to admit it, so she wrote an overly-complicated soap opera that lead up to a chain reaction of events that ultimately resulted in her and Jay getting together. And similar to Liberty, Mia may have been Manny’s Author Avatar because a part of her regretted the abortion and thus wrote an overly idealistic take of what her life might have been like if she had kept the baby.
- Sean. He only knows what happened through various letters sent to him in the mail from friends, and he wonders what his life might be like if he were to go back even though he knows in his heart he must stay in Wasaga; however, he hates Peter for being Emma’s boyfriend, so he wrote a soap opera that casts himself as the heroic love interest, Emma as the woman torn between two lovers, and Peter as the dastardly villain. Eventually, he got tired of this and sent himself to Afghanistan in favour of focusing on the others as by that point, the process just became too fun.
- Spinner. He’s hoping to become a best-selling author if he can’t graduate from high school, so he’s writing a serialized soap opera starring him and his friends from Degrassi which he plans on submitting to a local publishing agency some day. Eventually, his stories are accepted, but he is conditioned to change the names and avoid getting sued, thus explaining the various Expys of other characters later on.
- Alex. She hopes to become the best-selling author. The incident with her stripping is an allegory for her internal struggles over the years and how she longs to cast aside her worries like clothes to finally be free with herself.
- Paige. She’s coping with her worries of university by writing escapist fiction, and writes out the worst possible thing that could happen to her university career and to her relationship with Alex. The storyline with Darcy’s rape comes from her wonders about how she would’ve dealt with her rape experience if she had been drugged and thus didn’t get to see her rapist’s face.
- Darcy. She's coping with the loss of her virginity through rape and her inability to stay "pure" afterwards. Clare is her Author Avatar who manages to date the cheating KC (who stands in for Spinner) without compromising her morals or feeling sexually conflicted. Despite being virginal and uninterested in easy hookups, Clare still gets better relationship plot lines than most girls on currently on the show.
- Ashley. She's depressed that things didn't work out with either Jimmy OR Craig so she creates Ellie as her Author Avatar who temporarily gains the love and admiration of Jimmy and later is able to win Craig's heart and loyalty with patience and determination.
- JT. He killed "himself" off because the Jerkass Woobie Author Avatar was getting a little too "woobie" and not enough "jerkass" and as the storyline became more dramatic he realized he didn't need an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist after all.
- All of the above. They all collaborated to write a soap opera about their lives together, not realizing it would turn into something more...
- Then why would he keep making up stories about the school as it goes on without her after she graduates, rather than continuing to "follow" her into adulthood?
- Alternately, it takes place within Spike's mind, as she talks with customers at the hair salon. That's why it continues without Emma - Spike's still married to the principal of the place - and explains the "Degrassi black hole"; she hears only of the kids who've gotten Simpson's attention and those who themselves or their parents use her salon (along with Emma and her friends back in the day). This explains why, for instance, Toby remained prominent without doing anything much - Emma still considered him a friend and both she and Spike were still grateful for his role in getting help to that hotel room in time; and Adam being a major presence from day one - Snake would have been informed of his arrival and tried to coordinate to avoid Pronoun Trouble and so on.
- She is, however, strongly anti-abortion. This, one of the few "conservative" beliefs she holds, is deeply rooted in having been the result of a Teen Pregnancy and therefore solidly justified...
He's rarely ever the main character in episodes and most of the issues he deals with are due to his proximity to other characters (Rick, JT). Notice has no romantic relationships after Kendra either. His only post graduation appearance was hosting a robot competition, which he figured he'd be be safe at, given that Degrassi's a teenage drama and not a science fiction horror film.
1)Jenna has a weakness for bad boys.
2)No Degrassi "bad boy" is safe from Badass Decay. So it's plausible that the writers would try to soften Fitz up by having him fall for Jenna, what with that whole pregnancy thing.
Season 8: Manny and Jay (with a side of "Crellie" closure)
Season 9: Spinner and Emma
Noticing a pattern?
It actually makes sense. Think about it...
- This is supposedly Peter's final season, so he'll be needing a proper send-off.
- He and Darcy are somewhat of a Fan-Preferred Couple (at least compared to "Pia" anyway.) If the writers are willing to pair Spinner with Emma to please certain fans (and yes, there is a fanbase) then this is certainly plausable.
- It's been hinted at in quite a few episodes (along with the Degrassi Mini "Good Times") that Peter still loves Darcy and might even be in contact with her.
- According to some sources "someone will unexpectedly return"
- It's been said that Darcy and Clare's parents will be splitting up, so it would make much more sense for the "someone" to be Darcy as opposed to oh... say... Mia? (oh dear lord...)
- Peter was in the Boiling Point opening credits with almost no screen time. If they still reshoot them it's hard to imagine him still being allowed on school property under the new regime. If he disappears from the credits AND THEN comes back into a major role...
- It certainly didn't stop them from focusing a whole movie on Paige, Marco, Ellie, and Craig. So anything is possible. If it doesn't happen then it would be kind of a waste with a side of Idiot Ball on the writers' part considering all the other things they've been willing to do. ...Assuming they even get a chance to do it of course. If Shenae isn't up for it than what can you do?
- Peter was in the Boiling Point opening credits with almost no screen time. If they still reshoot them it's hard to imagine him still being allowed on school property under the new regime. If he disappears from the credits AND THEN comes back into a major role...
- Separately but possibly overlapping, Random Asian Guy is not a member of the faculty. He's a computer tech, a supervisor for an outsourced foodservice or janitorial contractor, or a vendor rep for Beatrice dairy or Pizza Pizza pizza. He's in there once every couple weeks, does his job and gets out, and it might be the only school on his route; altercations between students are not his problem. Besides, if he is Yick, maybe he doesn't remember Simpson's real name and doesn't want to yell SNAKE! across a crowded hallway(!)
- If Random Asian Guy is the guy in When Doves Cry and the guy on the cover of Elimination Round 3, then yes, that is Yick Yu.
- In season 9, it was clearly established that Fiona is open-minded to the idea of LGBTQ people with the Beat It plot lines.
- Consider the guys she has to choose from. Given her distaste for "Neanderthals" she isn't going to bother with Owen or Fitz. Sav is dating Holly J, KC is two grades below her (and probably too angry for her), Eli is forever enamored with Clare, Declan is her brother (which might not have stopped some fanservice but will likely prevent an actual relationship), and the only plausible guy left is Peter. Fan speculation is that Peter, like most characters seeing their last season, will be paired with some returning flame like Darcy or Mia, thus making Adam one of the only eligible bachelors.
- In the episode where Fiona starts dealing with the Bobby trial, Adam has a subplot where he joins "fight club" and ends up saying that he couldn't hit a girl. Coincidence?
- It would also be a reason to keep Fiona on the show after she graduates.
- Almost confirmed?
- Confirmed. Big time.
- Sadly for Fiona/Adam fans Fiona is gay…
- In Degrassi history, Alex made fun of Marco's homosexuality and later turned out to be a lesbian herself.
- Some fans consider Bianca to be the Expy of Alex. During season 10, Bianca gets defensive of her heterosexuality to the point of getting Adam beaten up.
- It would be an easy way to give her Badass Decay.
- She's disgusted with that dude she's with now.
- Think about it: the levels of immature and self-serving behavior far exceeds what is the norm for a normal Earth setting and would result in arrests,imprisonments and even institutionalization in a mental facility.There are also very few responsible adults, not many social workers and almost no mental health professionals.
- Alternately, the incessant Badass Decay means that Degrassi does at least a fair-to-middling job of making solid citizens out of these kids.
If my boyfriend was watching 4Kids I’d dump him too.
- After years as only an actor, he seems to be taking turns as the show's media spokesperson as well as writing and directing. Rotating someone through every job they'll be expected to supervise is exactly what's done to management trainees.
- Very doubtful. Holly J is not NEARLY that much of a bitch anymore.
- She’s also best friends with Fiona and her friendship is important.
- She also developed from wanting look rich, to giving back an expensive necklace after Declan was too controlling (she also applied for financial aid and took a part time job). Then the date rape happened and she wants nothing to do with Declan or his money anymore despite getting into Yale.
- It’s basically fanon that she’s either gay or bi, she’s either out of the closet and no one cares (because they are also obsessed with Clare) or she hasn’t realized it yet.
- Confirmed
- But Mr. Raditch was the English teacher on Degrassi Junior High...
- Exactly. Maybe the song was something Linda Schuyler thought up herself and the other writers resisted for that long. Notice it doesn't ever sung all the way through.
So when she and Drew talked, she was either pretending not to know anything or for some reason thought that he was talking about something else when he said that "Adam is not like most guys".
- Confirmed.
They are also easily bored. They can't just let two characters stay in a (semi)stable relationship throughout the rest of the series. The only way for a Degrassi couple to be safe from a breakup is if A) They get Put on a Bus or B) One of them dies.
Knowing the fans, they would most likely get more upset over an Eclare breakup than a death anyway.
Hi I’m from an awful future where Eli cheated on Clare with another girl… And Clare dates Drew.
(Clare’s actress shipped Clare/Fiona, tired of her character getting all the guys. As for Eli’s actor was he hugging all his male co stars behind the scenes. If you were going to break them up you couldn’t let them explore same gender love?)
- Well, look at the end of the most recent episode. Fiona just kissed Holly J.
- Ok this is the Les Yay talking but Holly J also had no problem sharing a bed with Fiona.
- This could easily lead to a storyline about Adam grappling with whether to come forward as a character witness ("if Sav was some kind of Taliban, why would he hang out and talk music with a transboy?") and thus come out in a very public forum.
- This would be an interesting storyline, and they could be bring back lots of people. (
DrakeAubrey Graham Cameo, anyone!?!!?) At the very least, it would greatly effect Snake.
- This would be an interesting storyline, and they could be bring back lots of people. (
- No longer thinking Eli. Owen, maybe?
So, to summarize: They were basically Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka 2.0.
- And even after graduating, they haven't stopped! They are both The Unseen characters now, but they're still behind the scenes manipulating everything that happens to the students at Degrassi. Spinner convinced K.C. to become a serial adulterer, thus wrecking his relationship with Clare and more recently with Jenna (in fact, Spinner is the one who arranged for Jenna's transfer to Degrassi for the sole purpose of breaking up KC/Clare, and then in Season 11 he secretly encouraged Marisol to seduce K.C.). Meanwhile, Emma convinced poor Riley that the students of Degrassi would never accept his homosexuality (when she knew this to be false, since Marco had been a fairly popular student just a few years earlier). This has lead to years of Gayngst and misery for Riley, much to Emma's satisfaction. Then when he'd finally gotten over his fear of his classmates not accepting him, Emma convinced poor Riley that his father would never accept him, thus forcing Riley back into the closet and ruining his relationship with Zane.
Meanwhile in S9, Spinner secretly convinced Mr. and Mrs. Bandhari (while they were having dinner at the Dot) to go ahead with their plans for Sav's arranged marriage, which is why the Bandharis suddenly tried to force Farrah on Sav. Also, to screw with their heads even more, he was the one who convinced Alli to date Johnny DiMarco, which led to more misery.
And in Season 10, the reason why Eli went insane was because Emma was secretly pumping toxic fumes into his bedroom while he was sleeping, causing him brain damage that's still affecting him as of Season 11. Oh, and the car that killed Eli's first girlfriend and then drove off? Emma was driving it!!!!
- 1) They said an "unexpected character will return"- this would be Darcy.
- 2) Romeo and Juliet. Eli's ex's name was Julia
- 3) Speaking of Julia, Craig's mom's name was Julia. She died. And so did Craig's abusive father.
- 4) The whole Romeo and Juliet skit itself.
- 5) The name dropping of Sylvia Plath.
- 6) The episode "Drop the World, Pt. 2" is going to air on the anniversary of Julia's death.
- Ok, so maybe that didn't really make sense, but think about it. Somebody has GOT TO DIE!
- also in the "In Too Deep" promos there's a picture of her where her eyes seem dead. People on the message boards are saying it's just a really bad picture, but what if...
- Maybe this is what will happen: With Fitz's new found faith (if it's for real, that is) Eli is going to grow increasingly possessive of Clare, and as the date of Julia's death approaches, either Fitz and/or Clare will insult Julia and Eli's obsession with her. This will put him in a blind fury and he will, as a result, kill Clare or Fitz (or both, if the Degrassi writers want to go really crazy and have a double homicide). This may or may not end in Eli committing suicide after he realizes what he's done. UPDATE: "Jesus, Etc. Part 2" is only adding credence to this..... it seems possible Eli's story is a Foreshadowing... or maybe, it's a Red Herring (along with Holly J's mysterious illness seen in the promos for upcoming episodes), and somebody will die completely unexpectedly.
- Plus there aren't really "a million reasons" why Fiona and Adam shouldn't work. Maybe there are a few depending on who you ask but... it just doesn't seem to fit.
- Quite possibly. Lookit the kiss scene between the two of them.
It's also possible that Fitz is a Yandere himself and that he will try to harm Clare or Eli.
Giving the writers a chance to drag this out as long as possible...
- 1) The Johnny/Alli plot in season 9 was never quite resolved.
- 2) It is said that someone will unexpectedly return this season.
- 3) In one of the promos Sav is shown at Johnny's dorm. Probably looking for Alli (this also implies that Johnny goes to college somewhere nearby).
So either...
- A) After Alli runs away (and probably gets mugged; as shown in the promos) she tracks Johnny down because she has nowhere else to go and no one to turn to. or...
- B) Johnny becomes concerned after Sav shows up looking for Alli and goes out to find her himself; possibly even coming to her rescue when she's being mugged.
- or C) After she leaves home, Alli unexpectedly runs into Johnny. She ends up staying with him for a little while and they reconnect. But then Johnny calls Sav behind Alli's back (after she refuses to do it herself) and tells him where she is. This causes her to become angry with him for "betraying" her... until later when he explains that he only did what he did because he cared about her. Then they make up.
- Haha, he did seem like a rather... extreme Yandere at the end of that episode, didn't he?
- Exactly, he looks subtly towards the camera and gives it a Psychotic Smirk. That combined with the look of uncertainty on Clare's face is a ridiculous amount of foreshadowing, and it's, what, a three second clip? Degrassi never does something like that unless it means something huge is coming.
- Haha, he did seem like a rather... extreme Yandere at the end of that episode, didn't he?
And let's face it. Degrassi has pulled stuff like this before.
- Hell, they would probably make it Holly J's dream.
- Confirmed (but not Holly J's dream)
- The uniforms were supposed to be part of the above-mentioned rebranding. Either they had been ordered and delivered over the summer and Simpson didn't want them, or they had not been delivered in time for the school year and that gave Simpson an excuse to tell the school board "wait till next year" with his idea being not to implement them ever. Either way, the events of Vegas Night caused him to change his mind. There's really no way to order, deliver and distribute custom-embroidered polo shirts in sufficient numbers for 1000-1500 people to each have multiples, from scratch in two weeks, especially if they're the Christmas-New Year's holiday. They had to already exist and be in the school system's hands.
- Snake probably has PTSD from having discovered Claude's body in the bathroom. He probably thinks that if he had needed to take a leak just a few seconds earlier, he could've saved Claude. When Jimmy was shot, Snake unloaded on Raditch hard. Now he's the one on the hot seat...
- Katie's character description states that she has a very hard time talking to guys or opening up about matters of the heart. Granted, being shy around guys in high school hardly makes one a lesbian, but Degrassi has done this before, introducing Fiona as a "straight" girl who was awkward around guys. Because Katie will be grade 11 at the end of this school year, she'll have one more year at Degrassi, giving the writers a reason to keep Fiona on the show for another year.
- She is okay with him dressing and living as a male for now, but what happens the next time Adam's grandmother visits? Moreover, what happens when Adam falls in love and has a serious girlfriend?
- In Degrassi Takes Manhattan, Declan's ex-girlfriends inform Holly J that Fiona constantly comes between Declan and his girlfriends. Though in some cases this is simply because she wants Declan to pay attention to her and take care of her, it is also revealed that Declan mostly has a habit of dating friends of Fiona's. In all likelihood, Fiona had crushes on some of these girls before Declan started dating them, especially because Fiona asserts (after coming out) that Declan "won't be surprised."
- She's never really had a lasting relationship with a guy and she even joked about "switching teams" in one episode. Plus, she is a little close with Fiona, and is always telling her how pretty she is and saying "I love you". Her snottiness when she first appeared on the show could also be explained by this, she already has a dominant personality and desire to be her best. discovering an attraction to women may have made her feel imperfect and caused her to constantly try to one-up her peers.
- Not to mention the fact that the first thing she thought of when she heard "the L word" was "lesbian"
- which indicates that she is a fan of The L Word.
- She is also paired with females more frequently than any other currently active character besides Fiona in femslash fics partially because she has a history of heated tension with female characters (see Anya, Mia, Fiona in DTM, etc).
- Not to mention the fact that the first thing she thought of when she heard "the L word" was "lesbian"
- Anya doesn't bat an eye at any sexuality of anyone she meets. Her platonic relationships with guys and girls seem to play out much the same when she talks to them. There was the whole weird matching outfits thing she did with Holly J in season 7. She could instantly spot Fiona was in love with Holly J and nobody else could. Her meekness and willingness to follow Holly J everywhere could easily be seen as her uncertainty about herself and she didn't bring up her feelings because she knew it would alienate her from her peers.
- I actually thought she had a huge ladycrush on Holly J when they were introduced.
- This would explain why he was so embarrassed after Darcy accused him of molesting her, and why he was so reluctant to return to the school.
- Stephen Stohn's fondness for Star Trek references is so well-known that those Red Shirts can't be a coincidence. Eli would be too obvious at this point and Owen hasn't been seen or heard from since the Boiling Point. That leaves Drew, Fitz and Bianca among the characters important enough to have entries on the Character Sheet.
- My bet's on Drew. He'll be shot by the creepy guy from the promo.
- I also bet it's Drew as well, since he has no likeable, interesting, or relatable qualities and really has no reason to exist as a protagonist anyways.
- Having no redeemable qualities isn't enough of an incentive to kill off a character (after all, Emma was never killed off). Furthermore, the writers might decide to go the likeable character being killed off route, which might resonate more with viewers.
- Emma at the very least was still somewhat interesting, and they gave her actual issues to deal with so her character was justified as being important. Also Luke is one of the worst actors on the show by far, and that the writers have clearly lost their balls as far as "going there," so it's much more likely at this point that they'll kill off a useless character rather than one that's good/well liked.
- YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY. Quite a few people think Bilyk is a very good actor, and that even without that, Drew has still gotten loads of character development this season.
- Not that many are impressed by him. I still think he's more likely to die, since he's still not anymore likeable than he was before.
- It was stated in DTM that Declan had a habit of dating Fiona's friends and Fiona had a habit of becoming extremely jealous.
- Before they appeared on the show, Alex got pregnant by Jay. She gave the baby up for adoption and never spoke of it again. That child is Bianca even though she should technically only be the same age as Jack Simpson. The show has become more and more of a soap opera so who says they haven't started rapidly aging kids too?
- On Degrassi Junior High, a few months after Emma was born, Derek "Wheels" Wheeler went to see his birth father Mike and found out that his girlfriend was pregnant. They were planning to keep it even though they were barely supporting themselves. Then Wheels left and Mike was never mentioned again. What if Mike and his girlfriend named their son after the other son he gave up but soon found that they were unable to provide for a child and gave him up too? Derek is adopted and would be the right age.
- This would explain why characters constantly disappear without any explanation. And it goes all the way back to Degrassi Junior High, too. I mean, yeah that was a different school and all, but who's to say a giant monster cant move to a new location? It's first victim was Rick Munro, which gave it a craving for human flesh. He wondered down into the basement and was eaten. Flash forward (I haven't seen Degrassi High yet) to Season 1 of TNG. It's desire for the succulent taste of human has become too large, so finally an offering is given by Raditch (who discovered Rick's bones and the beast, but escaped unscathed): that kid who ate lunch with Spinner and Jimmy in "The Mating Game" was fed to it. Season 2 Wheelchair Girl and Muslim girl were sacrificed. Season 3 it was Kendra and Sully. Season 4 it was Chris, Amy, and Chester. Season 5 was Linus and Tim. Season 6 and 7 were.... I don't know. Season 8 was Jimmy. Season 9 was Derek. Season 10 was Leia, and most likely Fitz. It looks like Wesley is lined up to be the next victim in Season 11. When will its insatiable appetite finally be appeased!??!
- Jimmy wasn't fed to the monster. He's in New York, at Hudson University.
- "When will its insatiable appetite finally be appeased!??!" Apparently not anytime soon. As of the end of Season 10, the Degrassi administration seems to have fed Declan and Fitz to the monster.
- Not Declan. He's in New York.
- Jimmy wasn't fed to the monster. He's in New York, at Hudson University.
- She was attending classes at Degrassi in Season 4...and is still a student at Degrassi 8 years later. None of the students or teachers seem to bat an eyelash or even notice the fact that as they get older, Chante stays the same age. We can only assume that Chante is "aging" in Comic-Book Time (the same way Clark Kent has remained roughly in his late 20's/early 30's since 1938) while the other characters are all aging in Real Time.
- This would explain the Retcon of character ages. It would also explain why many of the new characters are Expys of the original cast: they ARE the original characters, just reincarnated/retconnned into new identities once the universe resettled into its current form after the Crisis.
- Also, only Snake remembers the universe's original form and is aware that the Crisis occurred, because he's the legacy character on the show.
- Mia flatly stated that Liberty is a computer shaped in human form. And she may have been on to something. Liberty is capable of computing advanced mathematics and scientific problems at an incredible rate but is completely unable to figure out everyday emotional human dilemmas. She also is extremely driven, as though she literally feels compelled to execute whatever tasks she was programmed to perform.
- This is also why she hung out with Toby so much, since he would be able to repair her whenever her circuits got damaged or whenever she needed to download a new software patch.
- In fact, Toby is such a computer expert that it's possible that he's the one who built the Liberty-Bot in the first place (right before Season 1; even at a young age he was already a boy genius). Eventually, he decided to help out his best friend by programming the Liberty-Bot to develop a crush on JT.
- This is also why she hung out with Toby so much, since he would be able to repair her whenever her circuits got damaged or whenever she needed to download a new software patch.
Liberty's parents seemed to utterly despise JT. Even moreso when they learned that he had gotten their precious Liberty pregnant. They clearly felt that the wild, free-spirited JT was a bad influence on their formerly-straitlaced daughter and were terrified that he was going to derail her future. Around the time JT died, he and Liberty had broken up, but Liberty's father knew it was only a matter of time before JT and Liberty got back together (and he was right, the night of the stabbing it looked like they would reunite very soon).
So Mr. Van Zandt took matters into his own hands. He's a high-powered lawyer so he probably has all kinds of underworld contacts by now, after so many years of interacting with criminals. He got in touch with that punk from Lakehurst (or met with a middleman who then hired the Lakehurst punk) and put out a hit on JT.
The murder went down exactly as planned, removing JT from the equation.
- Alternately, Claude could never have existed in the first place, not attended Degrassi or have been discovered in the bathroom by someone else. Any of the above would've removed a major traumatic event from Snake's past.
- Alternately, Connor will be the one to commit suicide. This means that getting a weapon past security won't be an issue - Simpson's responsible for Connor at home too - and Snake'll get an "A" plot over the course of the rest of the season, demonstrating to teens contemplating suicide just how devastated the people around them are from their loss. It would of course depend on not only Amanda Stepto and Miriam McDonald being available, but also Shane Kippel because of Spemma and Pat Mastroianni since Joey's back in Toronto (see below), though.
- There may actually be some evidence to support this. Just look at this.
- And she will end up becoming involved with Eli, as he is *clearly* a remake of Craig, and she knows first hand what unstable looks like.
- Jossed. Alex is coming back as a new character, named Tori.
- This. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that Dr. Criss's excuse for experiencing Chuck Cunningham Syndrome was that he's going to Kenya just like Darcy. My theory: the writers did this as a subtle joke about the fact that Darcy is apparently still in Kenya.
- This makes it likely that Dr. Criss will be getting a show on the CW also.
- Well, he certainly has no other good qualities...
- Initial gropey misunderstandings aside, he's not bad, he's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He kept trying to keep her off the cocaine (albeit in a somewhat dickish manner), and he was the one who gave some serious physical training without expecting anything in return.
- And the death will be Chantay. And there will be happiness.
- Jossed. It didn't even seem like Holly J's parents were there.
The reason? Imogen herself is insane, and she wants company. She's seen that Eli clearly has "potential" to join her on the crazy train (she knew all about last season's debacles with Fitz, Julia's memory, Clare, etc.) and that's why she's so fixated on Eli. So now she's doing everything she can to pull him into her crazy world so she can have a boyfriend who's just as nutty as she is, and she certainly doesn't mind getting dragged along on his crazy missions of vengeance against his "enemies."
In other words, Imogen wants to be the Harley Quinn to Eli's Joker.
Eli is nuts and only getting worse. It's not hard to imagine that he'll eventually decide that writing a Hate Fic about Clare and using it as the school play isn't enough revenge, and decide to physically eliminate Clare (his twisted justification will be that this will allow him to "move on" from her). Imogen, of course, will be cheering him on. Then when he goes after Clare, Jake will attempt to interfere to save her. In the process, either he, Clare, or both, will be shot by Eli.
- Either that or...
- This theory is now looking a lot more likely, now that Eli has rejected Imogen to her face and says that he'd rather be with Clare. If "Extraordinary Medicine, Pt. 2" proved anything, it's how utterly twisted and insane they both are. So in Imogen's twisted mind it won't matter if Clare doesn't reciprocate Eli's Stalker with a Crush feelings. All Imogen will think is that Clare is standing in her way. She already tried to get Clare expelled and brought up on drug charges tonight, with Clare only being saved narrowly. It's not a stretch to imagine that Imogen will try to kill Clare.
It's been there for quite some time, at least since The '80s but probably longer, subtly wreaking havoc in the school because of its very presence. This is also why both Rick and JT were able to return to Degrassi in ghost form in the online extra features.
Throughout the past decade, there have always been Slayers secretly attempting to avert complete catastrophe. Mr. Simpson is the Watcher assigned to guard over the school, while the original Slayer at Degrassi was Emma. Then Darcy joined Emma as local Slayer (since Buffy had activated all the potential Slayers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer...at roughly the same time Darcy showed up at Degrassi). After both Emma and Darcy were gone, Clare became the new Slayer at Degrassi. Alli might also be a Slayer, but just hasn't realized it yet.
- If that's true, then Live To Tell just got WAY creepier.
- Also, this means that Boycott the Caf was right: the reason why Marco held up his crucifix in Linus's face in "I Against I" is because he literally thought Linus was a vampire, because Marco is Genre Savvy and knows that there are indeed vampires lurking around Degrassi.
- And the events of the "Degrassi of the Dead" Zombie Apocalypse episode really are in continuity. The reason why things were back to normal by the next episode was because Mr. Simpson, in his role as the Watcher, was hiding out in an undisclosed location with some spellbooks, working around the clock on a spell that would Set Right What Once Went Wrong. And he succeeded! Simpson performed a spell/ritual that pressed the Reset Button and undid the Zombie Apocalypse, bringing the population of Degrassi back to life. However the unforeseen side effect of messing around with the fabric of time and reality was that everyone's ages/birth year got screwed around. This is how the Age Retcons happened.
- It would be really amusing to learn that Paige has a cousin down in California named Cordelia Chase.
It's one of the few teen pregnancy-related tropes Degrassi hasn't tackled yet.
- And it'll lead to her not paying attention to Tyson, thus endangering him and causing child services to pay them a visit (the latter of which is confirmed for this week).
- What if she DIDN'T have an abortion? And we know Angie and (presumably) Joey are coming back for the second half of season 11. Is it to reconnect with his long lost daughter?
- Jossed by U Don't Know. Holly J's mother is a woman named Dawn.
- Are you suggesting that Tessa Campinelli WOULDN'T change her name to Dawn to fool the folks at Degrassi?
- Jossed by U Don't Know. Holly J's mother is a woman named Dawn.
- She's having a lot of trouble finding a kidney for a transplant, what, with being adopted and needing to find her birth mother, and all. What if she can't get one and ends up dying from the complications? The show hasn't done death from illness yet (illness, yes, but not death), and it's arguably as big a death issue as suicide. Plus, she's not supposed to be back after Now Or Never anyway, so it's not like her dying will be a huge loss for the series.
- Dead and Gone part 1 seems to be subtly foreshadowing this. My theory is that her death will probably occur off-screen and the news will be delivered via Wham Line after all of the shooting drama is over and the viewers are led to believe that everyone is okay. ...Plus, it's the most effective way sink the Folly J ship, which the writers have been desperately trying to do since Drop the World.
- Alex Steele is apparently coming back, but Pat Mastroianni has previously claimed that he wouldn't play his role on the show anymore. Assuming he doesn't change his mind, they don't give Alex a different character, Joey doesn't become a Heather Sinclair-esque figure, and they don't have Angie live away from her dad for some contrived reason, then they'll probably have to kill him off.
- Jossed. Alex is playing a different character, not Angie. Of course the announcement has been accompanied by the usual cries of "ruined".
- Watch this and tell me you think otherwise.
- It's not like there's any other reason she would be interested in him.
- First, Bianca certainly has no other good qualities. Secondly, it was made pretty obvious that the girls at school finally learned better than to even touch him, and why it was so easy for him to dump her.
- This is one is admittedly weaker, but, it was made clear that almost no one likes her because of her personality, and possibly other reasons, so Drew's the only one who would give her the time of day. Also, like her, he has no other positive qualities besides looks.
- Oh and before anyone else says anything, yes Drew stopped her from being raped, but just because he's a selfish, arrogant, lazy, spoiled, useless asshole doesn't mean he's bad enough to allow his friend with benefits to be raped.
- This is one is admittedly weaker, but, it was made clear that almost no one likes her because of her personality, and possibly other reasons, so Drew's the only one who would give her the time of day. Also, like her, he has no other positive qualities besides looks.
- This troper would much rather see JT and Liberty's son's family move back to Toronto as a teenager and HE could be the new Emma, only without the Jerk Sue qualities. He already has an interesting back-story, he's the product of one of the fandom's most popular ships (and two of the originals of the next generation to boot), plus it would be an excuse for Liberty to appear again (since she never got a send-off or anything). I don't watch the show anymore, but I don't think that KC and Jenna will actually go through with the adoption. The show has lacked a realistic portrayal of teen parents (Mia the model, anyone?) and adoption has already been covered anyways.
- As of tonight, this has been Jossed: Ty has indeed been adopted, but by the heterosexual couple from last episode, not a lesbian couple. That being said, if the show is still going circa 2020, this troper would love for JT and Liberty's kid to move back to Toronto.
It's real name is the Degrassi Community Asylum.
The kids there are all dealing with various mental disorders so their parents sent them there to be cured. Mr. Simpson is basically the chief psychiatrist. This is ironic because he himself was a patient at the Degrassi Community Asylum back in The '80s but was cured and grew up to be a psychiatrist, so now he's literally Running the Asylum.
The parents and "teachers" (they're really doctors) just tell the patients that they're at a "school" in order to keep them calm. Any events that happen outside of the "school" are actually just hallucinations taking place inside the patients' deluded minds.
The reason why some patients have apparently graduated is because they really were cured of their disorders and were allowed to re-enter the world.
Going along with this, JT didn't die. He's still alive. He was simply declared cured and was allowed to reintegrate with society. Liberty and Toby, who were still patients, couldn't deal with their friend's sudden disappearance from the asylum, and hallucinated a story about JT being stabbed by imaginary hooligans (who were really just mental personifications of Liberty's and Toby's anxieties and fears).
Mo has a rather unhealthy obsession with getting Sav and Miss Oh together. He goes to extreme lengths to facilitate it.
It's possible that he has a crush on Miss Oh and wants to live vicariously through Sav.....OR he has a crush on Sav and wants to live vicariously through Miss Oh!
- He has a crush on both of them.
Ok, probably not.... but we can dream, right?
- Yeah, probably not. As Boycott the Caf pointed out, the actor who played Joey will not be returning to the show due to him selling Degrassi paraphernalia without permission.
- Too be fair, that was 5 years ago. The producers might've gotten over it and would be willing to give him a second chance. Maybe (read: only in my dreams)
- They stopped caring about what the fans wanted when they married off Emma and Spinner.
- Yeah, probably not. As Boycott the Caf pointed out, the actor who played Joey will not be returning to the show due to him selling Degrassi paraphernalia without permission.
- It could still turn out to be Angela...if Craig is her onscreen guardian instead of Joey. Since Craig is supposedly a rich singer now, he could be allowing Angela to use his apartment in Toronto (one of many apartments he now owns). And the reason why Angela is there under an assumed name is because she doesn't want anyone to know that she's Angela Jeremiah, sister of the famous Craig Manning, because she doesn't want to be hounded by obsessed Craig fans who want autographs.
The one hard and fast rule is, no matter what's over or under it everyone still has to wear the school polo shirts. And the pictures seen of the second part of the season show the original color code holds next year, with all promoted students required to replace their shirts with the new class color. It would make more sense for everyone to keep their old color next year with blue rotated to the new niners.
Unless...someone wants to sell as many school shirts as possible. Say, they're getting kickbacks. But who? If Simpson were to be caught accepting cash for patronage, that'd be the end of his career - and Stefan Brogren's chances of wanting off the show can be described using the words "snowball" and "hell". Besides, principals wouldn't normally get to award such a big contract. Mrs. Torres is on the School Board, but they're trying very hard to rescue her from the Scrappy Heap not write her off the show in shame. Still a possibility, though, given how an accusation of public corruption would affect Drew and Adam. But a nameless mook is more likely.
- Alternately, they've been using the 12=blue, 11=red, 10=purple, 9=yellow color code for years on things the viewers wouldn't see, like class schedules and the old carried-in-pockets ID cards. Keeping it on the shirts by making everyone replace them annually just hasn't been thought through to the point of parental complaints about expense.
- Jossed by the fact that Drake is Aubrey Graham's middle name, and who would use Aubrey as a stage name for a rapper?
- Confirmed... sort of. While they didn't actually get back together, the writers definitely left it open for their relationship, considering it was revealed that Zane would be attending the same university as Riley.
- Jossed, Tristan is confirmed to be gay.
- Possibly confirmed. One of the episodes in the near-future is about her needing painkillers in order to continue playing.
- Confirmed.
- Confirmed.
- Official explanation was that she had been fighting to get back on the show for years, and then tried out for Tori and happened to be the best person who auditioned, regardless of her history as Angie.
It's possible that on some level Alli doesn't want to go to MIT, so her body is making her think that she's pregnant to keep her at Degrassi and with Dave.
Then there's the whole thing about her trying to manufacture a breathalyzer sample identical to that of someone with breast cancer. If she herself has it, then it would contribute to her research and motivate her to go to MIT (while also giving her an interesting storyline).
Maybe the symptoms don't all fit, but that's television for you. I certainly wouldn't put it past the writers.
Maybe not during Showdown but very possibly this season in general. I'm not sure if they have done this at all or not but it would be interesting, and it's most likely candidates are Drianca and Eclare.
Both couples are basically the two most likely to make it out of Degrassi together. They also both got back together in Showdown within the first week and seem to be, couple-wise, out of focus meaning that it's very likely that both will make it through Season 12 together.
- (Theory One) The only thing that separates the two is their ages. Drew and Bianca are both seniors so they will most likely graduate together. Meaning that if he proposes to Bianca, they can be engaged through the second half of Season 12 and the finale of their story can end with their wedding and the fans get to see them happy for once. This also gives Drianca to develop a little more because they clearly still have their demons (albeit much more survivable) with the Drew/Katie/Bianca aftermath and Drew's head injuries as well as what they will do if they get separated. Eli and Clare are separated by a grade. Seeing as they gave the early graduation story to Alli, Clare will finish off high school with Eli at NYU. They will get a nice, peaceful long distance relationship with possible KC and Clare drama but otherwise uninterrupted happiness, which is exactly what Eclare fans want.
- (Theory Two) Drew can't graduate and has to stay in Degrassi for another year with Adam. And like I stated above, Eli and Clare are separated with him going to college. So, Eli and Bianca, maybe together maybe not, propose to Clare and Drew promising to be there waiting for their graduation. Clare and Drew bond because of this and also Adam. They both graduate and go off to plan their weddings with their fiances.
- He proposes to her! This troper was actually right! (That NEVER happens.)
- Point one: Cam seems to have a decent sized fan-base already, so people care about him, but he's new, and therefore expendable.
- Point two: He isn't scheduled to be featured in any other plots during the summer half of season 12, which means that they've got at least another half a season to develop him, giving the writers time to make it work.
- And another hint: In the past, characters have made suicide attempts, but never succeeded. They've had characters self-harm, contemplate rooftops, etc, but there has always been another character to intervene and set things right (Paige to Ellie, Manny to Darcy, Claire to Adam, Declan to Fiona, etc). Cam, on the other hand, has shown an inclination toward self-injury but hasn't been caught yet, and when standing on the balcony in the school lobby, actually went through with jumping off. No one stopped him. True, he only broke his arm, and he was clearly not being suicidal, but next time, he might be.
- A detail some people have pointed out elsewhere: He's just too short to make it in the NHL. The fact that he's 15 (and his actor not much older) means this isn't final, of course, whether he plays pro or not is down to what kind of mid/late-teen growth spurt he gets. That's a lot riding on a factor that's totally out of everyone's control.
- And now, see the promo pics for Bittersweet symphony: http://degrassiblog.com/2013/01/30/degrassi-promo-pics-bitter-sweet-symphony/# He is wearing all red up top. Could be a coincidence, if this wasn't the show that used "The Next Generation" in its title and named a character James Tiberius Yorke.
- Radio commercial time! http://degrassiblog.com/2013/02/10/degrassi-12c-radio-ad-21013/#comment-48116 Notice the "I wish I could go to sleep now and never wake up" at the end of the commercial. Sounds a lot like Cam, don't it?
- Confirmed in "Bittersweet Symphony, Pt. 2"
- Major Juniors are the hockey equivalent of Degrassi actors (who I'm sure hear "in a couple years you'll be in Hollywood")
- The show has a long tradition of using stuff that happened to the kids in the show.
- Making it a hockey story allows them to do this without being yet another story the entertainment industry tells about themselves especially since Epitome's doing another whole show about just that.
- However, over time, given how Easily Forgiven Spinner (and eventually Jay) were by the school, their friends (and the writers), it did end up morphing into a Broken Aesop.