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Defiance

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Defiance	comment	Defiance (2013—15) is set on 2046 Earth, badly damaged from a war with alien colonists called Votans and continued bombardment by the wreckage of their ships. The Votans are a loose alliance of seven species from multiple planets in the Votan solar system, whose sun has gone nova. The Pale Wars started when they arrived at Earth seeking shelter and were refused, and ended when soldiers on both sides gave up fighting out of disgust at the pointlessness of it, and set about rescuing the civilians caught in the cross-fire. The series takes place in a settlement named Defiance built on what used to be St. Louis. The town of Defiance is inhabited by both humans and Votans, in a tenuous state of coexistence. Planet Earth's environment has been drastically altered and filled with alien flora and fauna by the terraforming equipment that crashed when the Votan spaceships were mysteriously destroyed during the war.The TV series stars Grant Bowler as Chief Lawkeeper Joshua Nolan, Julie Benz as Mayor Amanda Rosewater, Tony Curran as Castithan community/underworld leader Datak Tarr, Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr, Stephanie Leonidas as Deputy Lawkeeper Irisa Nyira, Mia Kirshner as town madam Kenya Rosewater, and Graham Greene as industrialist Rafe McCawley.The show has a rather novel approach in that it was developed alongside a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, also called Defiance. While the game is set in the San Francisco Bay area in California and the show is set in the remains of St. Louis, Missouri,note about 2000 miles apart they did acknowledge each other occasionally.After only four episodes, the show was renewed for a second season, which consists of 13 episodes. It was then renewed for a third and final season, being cancelled as of October 16, 2015. The game was shut down on April 29, 2021.
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Defiance / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Defiance / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License – Gun Safety: A lot of characters tend to be generally careless with their firearms. One particularly egregious example is former soldier Eddie in "Brothers in Arms" pointing his pistol directly at Nolan while handing it over to him.
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Defiance / int_1045c71a	type	Dying Town
Defiance / int_1045c71a	comment	Dying Town: Following the events of Season 2, the Gualanite mines are forced to shut down and Defiance loses its economic and strategic value. Most of the unemployed miners leave or turn to crime. By the season 3 premiere, the town is lacking essential resources to maintain its infrastructure and does not have the power to keep its stasis net up or light its streets at night. Without a working stasis net it is an easy target for raiders.
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Defiance / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Defiance / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Justified. It's been thirty years since the Votans first arrived on Earth, so all of the older ones have had plenty of time to learn human languages. Many of the younger ones born on Earth grew up bilingual. During the same time, many though not all humans have learned how to speak Votan languages, or at least be basically conversant in them. A few Votan words became common street-slang even among humans that don't know their languages (i.e. "jaja" means "money", "sthako" means "shit!", etc.) The showrunners developed two entire alien languages, Casti and Irathient, before the show even started shooting, and a third, Omec, was developed for season 3. So it's not like there's any shortage of aliens speaking alien languages.
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Defiance / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Defiance / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Liberata breathe nitrogen instead of oxygen, and can die of oxygen poisoning with similar symptoms to nitrogen poisoning in humans. Castithans apparently have their hearts on the right side, as taught by Nolan when he told Irisa to kill one.
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Defiance / int_119498ff	type	Monumental Damage Resistance
Defiance / int_119498ff	comment	Monumental Damage Resistance: The St. Louis arch. This is even lampshaded in the pilot, where it's used as a metaphor for the town standing firm despite adversity. Especially notable is the fact that St. Louis is buried beneath the Earth, but the arch is still above ground and upright, though this is probably aided by the fact that it's the tallest accessible building in the city and located near the water. Even the interior is still accessible, if somewhat weathered. Alak Tarr runs the local radio station from the top.
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Defiance / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Defiance / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The show seemed to keep killing off main characters, at least one every season finale: first season we got Kenya, and second season, Tommy. In the third season opener, the showrunners went full Red Wedding and killed off half of the cast.
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Defiance / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Defiance / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Pol Madis, a Mad Bomber whose sole joy in life is to kill people. General Rahm Tak, whose sole objective is to commit the mass murder of as many humans and Votan human-sympathizers as he can get his hands on.
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Defiance / int_14fbe67f	type	Godiva Hair
Defiance / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: Stahma has this frequently in her bathing or sex scenes, either with her long hair covering her nipples, or strings of beads that she wears.
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Defiance / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Defiance / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Tarrs and the McCawleys both have dysfunction to spare (organized crime and Madwoman in the Attic, respectively), and it only gets worse when their kids get married.
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Defiance / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Defiance / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Used jokingly by Alak Tarr whilst sparring with a fellow Castithan.
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Defiance / int_1667cb1	type	Calvinball
Defiance / int_1667cb1	comment	Calvinball: The Votan card game Ivali.
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Defiance / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
Defiance / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: Datak allies with Colonel Marsh in "Past Is Prologue" in order to discredit Nolan and Amanda and help Datak win the mayoral election. In exchange, the plan is that Datak will give the Earth Republic access to Rafe's mines (with Datak getting a sizable chunk of the profits). Then it turns out Marsh was just using Datak to take over the town and get to the ancient Votan ship buried underneath it. When Datak realizes this, he kill Marsh in a rage.
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Defiance / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
Defiance / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: Datak insults Christie's cooking in Castithan, unaware (or possibly aware) that she has at least a passable knowledge of the language. He attempts to smooth it over by claiming it's a "Castithan saying", but Christie leaves before he can finish, clearly not buying it.
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Defiance / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Defiance / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: A broader version, but Datak's overriding goal in life is getting people to recognize and respect him in any and all circumstances. He's seemingly unaware, chooses to ignore, or believes that him being rather ruthless and feared is enough to be comparable to liked and respected.
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Defiance / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Defiance / int_17ce80aa	comment	A "Lawkeeper" is just a not-at-all-fancy word for a Sheriff. They're even popularly elected. Usually.
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Defiance / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Defiance / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The terraforming machines worked perfectly, but they were deployed by accident when the Ark fleet was destroyed and so were operating totally out of control.
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Defiance / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Defiance / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: After Churchill is killed by a Gulanee, Pottinger insists on delivering the killing blow.
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Defiance / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Defiance / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer for Season 2 made it look like Nolan and Stahma were kissing. In truth, she just gave him a chaste peck for saving her life from a roller bomb.
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Defiance / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Defiance / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: At the end of "A Well Respected Man", Nolan recognizes Stahma as a Lady Macbeth and tells her he now knows how dangerous she really is. Meanwhile, she is knitting/weaving a spider-web.
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Defiance / int_1bf4581	type	Being Tortured Makes You Evil
Defiance / int_1bf4581	comment	Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Niles Pottinger became mentally unbalanced due to his rape, and ultimately raped Amanda himself.
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Defiance / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Defiance / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Razor Rain, a storm of small Ark fragments that can cut right through anyone standing outside.
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Defiance / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Defiance / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In "Goodbye Blue Sky", Nolan shoots Sukar to prevent him from activating a device that is communicating with an incoming Ark fragment. The device actually instructs it to fire its thrusters and crash outside of town. An extreme case because even Sukar doesn't know what the device is supposed to do, since he is being compelled by Ark brain nanites to make it without conscious awareness of the fact.
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Defiance / int_1cc48ee9	type	Multicultural Alien Planet
Defiance / int_1cc48ee9	comment	Multicultural Alien Planet: A number of Votan species came from the same planet in the now destroyed Votanis system. Castithans and Indogenes were originally from Daribo (though many of the former migrated to Casti when the latter finished terraforming it). The Irathients, Liberata, and Sensoths are all from Irath, and since the former two were conquered by the Castis they presumably had significant populations on other planets in the system.
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Defiance / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Defiance / int_1dd14f5a	comment	"Of A Demon In My View": Nolan is kidnapped by Kindzi, who wipes out the VC convoy in the process, and has his Arktech removed from his brain the process. Yewll knocks Datak unconscious with a syringe, and he's later shown waking up in cages with several others who have been abducted. While Nolan escapes with Irisa's help, the weakened T'evgin tries to fight Kindzi, and ends up overpowering her. However, she makes a false promise to force him to let her go, and she proceeds to stab him in the neck, which winds up killing him. Distraught, she performs a ritual to honor his death, ending with her eating his heart and absorbing his practically godlike power. She then travels up to the ship and awakens the Omec, calling for the Dread Harvest to finally commence.
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Defiance / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Defiance / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Birch wears a pair with the lenses slightly detached from the rims. Irisa is shown wearing a pair in "The Bride Wore Black", with extra lenses on the sides. In "A Well Respected Man", Datak wears more ordinary-looking (but still cool) shades. Could be considered as an Actor Allusion, this is the same kind of shades that Skinner wear in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Defiance / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Defiance / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Irisa shoots herself to stop Irzu from making her kill. Unfortunately, the nanites Irzu placed inside her heal this.
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Defiance / int_1e39757d	type	Servant Race
Defiance / int_1e39757d	comment	Servant Race: All the Votan races were subservient to Castithans- Indogenes were scientists and medics, Sensoths were manual laborers, and Liberata were domestic and clerical laborers. The main exception is the Irathients, who... well, they weren't interested.
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Defiance / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Defiance / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Yewll loses a finger when she refuses to cooperate with Pottinger.
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Defiance / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Defiance / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Biomen are, in Nolan's words, killing machines made up of stem cells and spare parts. The Indogene were engineered by the Omec, hence the hexagonal skin.
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Defiance / int_200c009a	type	Mook Lieutenant
Defiance / int_200c009a	comment	Mook Lieutenant: Black Jonah to Colonel Marsh. Also something of an Elite Mook, given his skills as a Torture Technician.
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Defiance / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Defiance / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Datak and Stahma often act like they are in an urban crime drama with Feuding Families, and suffer when it usually turns out they are in a Western or Chthuluesque sci-fi.
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Defiance / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Defiance / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Amanda makes Nolan the new Lawkeeper at the end of the pilot because he's the only one remotely qualified. He snarks a bit about her lacking sales pitch.
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Defiance / int_2164d2a1	type	Energy Beings
Defiance / int_2164d2a1	comment	Energy Beings: The Gulanee, who have to wear suits to contain their essence.
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Defiance / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
Defiance / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: Compliments of several decades of global warfare and uncontrolled terraforming technology obliterating pretty much all pre-Votan arrival nations.
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Defiance / int_23015320	type	Proud Scholar Race
Defiance / int_23015320	comment	Proud Scholar Race: Indogenes, of the more scientifically-oriented variety.
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Defiance / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
Defiance / int_23015b1f	comment	...That Stahma Tarr was really in love with Kenya and finding solace with her from her own abusive marriage? It does seem like she had feelings for Kenya but not in the way a human would define "feelings".
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Defiance / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Defiance / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Berlin says she "makes some films that could be considered propaganda."
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Defiance / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Defiance / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Daigo reappears in the Season 2 premiere, and ends up gunned down by Nolan for his comments about Irisa. Olfin Tennety reappears late in Season 2, only to be crushed to death when a section of the mine collapses.
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Defiance / int_244e413	type	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger
Defiance / int_244e413	comment	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: See Downer Ending for how the first season finale winds up like this.
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Defiance / int_254a6a7d	type	Earth That Was
Defiance / int_254a6a7d	comment	Earth That Was: The Pale Wars left the Earth in a pretty bad way. Global infrastructure is toast, mutated animals and falling spacecraft are daily threats, and polio's making a comeback. The closest things to fully developed nations are the Earth Republic (shady and borderline fascist) and the Votanis Collective (associated with a lot of terrorist tactics).
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Defiance / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Defiance / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Ex-Mayor Nicolette Riordan, who was behind the Volge attack. Stahma Tarr as well. She plays the part of the dutiful Castithan wife but secretly plans the murder of Rafe McCawley and subtly implies that she murdered her intended fiance so she could marry Datak. In the second season, with Datak in jail, Stahma takes over the "business" and rules with an iron fist. And then blames her harsh actions on her son's "weakness" (i.e. compassion). All the more impressive since Castithans are a very patriarchal society. Then later on she frames a conservative religious figure for murder, and has some wonderfully undertone-laden dialog with Datak afterwards.
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Defiance / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Defiance / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Many of the people that worked on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica were involved in writing and producing Defiance and commented on the scripts being just as tight. Bear McCreary even did the music. The frontier aspect has also engendered comparisons to Firefly and Farscape. The show was developed by Rockne O'Bannon, who also created Farscape. Rockne S. O'Bannon was also the writer of Alien Nation and the associated series which featured alien refugees arriving on Earth and assimilating as immigrants. The protagonists were also a human cop and his alien partner.
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Defiance / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Defiance / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Irisa's parents tried to sacrifice her in a ritual, which Nolan rescued her from (killing them both while doing so). Pilar McCawley suffered from a mental illness, and when her medication stopped being produced due to the war disrupting things, she became violent. This made her try to kill her children, and so her husband Rafe banished her.
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Defiance / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Defiance / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: Among the Votan races, the Sensoth. Irathient, Castithan, and Indogene feature prominently and each get represented by a main character, we meet several (mostly comedic) background Liberata, and the Gulanee and Volge have the excuse of being big enough threats that they must be used sparingly. But there's only one Sensoth of note and he's a rather minor character.
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Defiance / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Defiance / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: In "My Name Is Datak Tarr and I Have Come to Kill You", Datak lops his arm off so the beacon inside will act as a target for a bomb to kill Rahm Tak, while he runs to safety.
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Defiance / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
Defiance / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: During the Pale Wars between humans and Votans, the alien ships were mysteriously destroyed, causing their terraforming technology to rain down on Earth and begin affecting the planet. Geography, geology, and even the biosphere were radically changed◊; the planet is covered by dust and debris, the atmosphere is saturated by electromagnetic radiation and dangerous hybrids of earth and alien life run rampant. Perhaps no better example is the establishing shot of the St. Louis Gateway arch.
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Defiance / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Defiance / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: In episode 4, it's revealed that Amanda and Kenya's mother abandoned them during the war. She and Amanda were out looking for supplies, and when the fighting got close to them she wanted to merely run. Amanda insisted on going back for Kenya, and had to do so alone. Amanda told Kenya that their mother was dead, but admits the truth in the present. She was forced to raise her subsequently-their father had died in the Pale Wars already.
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Defiance / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Defiance / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: Yewll chides someone on smoking before smoking herself.
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Defiance / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Defiance / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Jonah Keller, aka Black Jonah, is this, due to the Torture Technician skills he developed during the Pale Wars. Just look at Yewll's face when he introduces himself. Rahm Tak, aka The Beast, a leader of a Votanis Collective death squad, slaughters any humans in his path and mounts their heads on pikes. The Omec are another Votan race feared by the others as devils. They enslaved the other races, using them for labor and food. And even among them, Eksu Tsuroz T'evgin is particularly feared by the other Votans.
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Defiance / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
Defiance / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: The minor one of Conner/Amanda/Nolan is resolved in this way, courtesy of Datak, though Nolan is unaware. The slightly more major one of Amanda/Nolan/Kenya is briefly derailed when Kenya apparently dumps Nolan for Stahma but is ended via this trope when Stahma apparently murders Kenya.
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Defiance / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Defiance / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: It's implied that most of Datak's hatred for humans stems from being lorded over by local crimeboss Hunter Bell, back when he was a penniless refugee. Considering his own actions in the present, he apparently fails to appreciate the irony.
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Defiance / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
Defiance / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Christie has shades of this, particularly how she seems completely oblivious to the fact that Stahma all-but admitted to having thrown her former fiance out of an airlock so she could marry Datak. Instead she believes the story was about how "Love Conquers All". Though as Season 2 goes on, she's growing out of it, culminating in Killing Dierdre / Treasure Doll without any apparent remorse. Stahma's influence is clearly getting to her.
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Defiance / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Defiance / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: The first season episode "A Well Respected Man" introduces "Blue Devil", a neurotransmitter enhancing drug developed by the E-Rep during the war for soldiers, one of its ingredients is human adrenaline, in that episode obtained by scaring people and extracting it from their blood. After the E-Rep occupation of Defiance in season 2 many of its citizens have become addicted to Blue Devil sold by the Tarr syndicate, but Alak makes his suppliers use synthetic adrenaline instead of the real thing.
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Defiance / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
Defiance / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Related to the above, "pink skin" implies the majority of humans are still white despite both the expected demographic changes and the fact that humans ironically are more diverse-looking than all the Votan races combined.
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Defiance / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Defiance / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: In "Broken Boughs", Nolan hands Pilar an energy weapon. When they're about to head back to Defiance, she tries to steal their roller and threatens them with the weapon. Nolan reveals he removed the actuator, rendering it useless, as he figured out who she was and figured she'd pull something like that.
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Defiance / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Defiance / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Gordon McClintock learns that he isn't actually Gordon, but an Indogene surgically altered to look human then implanted with the memories of the original Gordon, who was killed by the procedure that took his memories.
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Defiance / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Defiance / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Nolan is called "No Man" by Eddie and Nolan tells Irisa that it was from an incident during the war where he got stuck in No Man's Land. It's later revealed that it is a reference to "No man left alive" - as in, kill everyone and let God sort out who is innocent.
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Defiance / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Defiance / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: The title card reflects the current time of day and the state of the town, such as the arch being blown up in season 3.
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Defiance / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Defiance / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Most nations have fallen after the war and the changes caused by the terraforming machines. It's a brand new world, to the point that anything from human culture prior to Arkfall is referred to as "Old World".
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Defiance / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Defiance / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Irisa (played by a British actress) suffers from this very noticeably in the third episode, during the scene where she is arguing with Nolan. Despite Nolan being American, Grant Bowler's native New Zealand accent can be occasionally heard to slip through.
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Defiance / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
Defiance / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: Pol Madis
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Defiance / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Defiance / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: Irisa does this to stop Irzu from making her kill more people. Too bad Irzu isn't inclined to let her stay dead.
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Defiance / int_38975db4	type	There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
Defiance / int_38975db4	comment	There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Yewll tells Datak there are two kinds of friends: ones that will help you hide a dead whore, and her. A subtle jab at the fact that his friends currently number at two.
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Defiance / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Defiance / int_392372f9	comment	In "A Well Respected Man", Datak wears more ordinary-looking (but still cool) shades. Could be considered as an Actor Allusion, this is the same kind of shades that Skinner wear in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Defiance / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
Defiance / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: Played With. We do meet a lot of decent Votan characters, but they all seem to be those who've assimilated into Earth culture. The ones who keep their own traditions and customs include ruthless crime lords, fundamentalist cultists, and insane terrorists. That's not to say all humans in the show are saints, mind...
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Defiance / int_3b21fe98	type	Boldly Coming
Defiance / int_3b21fe98	comment	Boldly Coming: A lot of Humans and Votans have little compunctions about having sex with each other, not to mention full-on relationships, including marriage. Some have children too.
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Defiance / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Defiance / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: There are certainly plenty of these, from Terraspheres to the two keys that control a 6,000-year-old sentient genocidal alien spaceship.
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Defiance / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Defiance / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The pilot opens with Nolan trying to apologize to Irisa for an incident involving a married alien woman. Similarly, Nolan seems to have a great reluctance to talk about the Battle of Defiance, despite his (implied) heroism for being one of the Defiant Few. When directly asked what it was like, he simply says "It was what it was", and moves on. Players of the game will know why he doesn't want to talk about it. As a last resort to protect human and Votan refugees from Votan extremists within their military, the Defiant Few activated a terra-spire, reducing the entire city of San Francisco to an uninhabitable wasteland of bizarrely twisted stone, horribly killing both the attacking army and countless innocents in the process. Only a handful of buildings in San Francisco survived the process remotely intact, and it's one of the more disturbing areas of the game. He has another good reason. He's guilty of committing numerous acts during the Pale Wars that border on war crimes.
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Defiance / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Defiance / int_3c111ce6	comment	Irisa uses one on Daigo before Pistol-Whipping him unconscious, and later against a miner in "If I Ever Leave This World Alive".
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Defiance / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Defiance / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Irathients have truly Blessed with Suck immune systems; it's almost impossible for them to get sick, but they often carry numerous diseases without showing symptoms - an entire race of Typhoid Marys. It's the primary cause of prejudice against them. A few years before the series began, Defiance tried to perform immunizations in response to a plague; lacking the other races' history with epidemics, they just responded as you would expect any Proud Warrior Race to when approached with sharp objects - a riot that led most Irathients to avoid Defiance like, well... the plague.
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Defiance / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Defiance / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: While not the worst example in the world, Datak stands out against Stahma. Some of the reasons his former crew is so loyal to Stahma is because she provides them with opportunities their caste system would not allow, she doesn't fly off the handle at seemly random times (and killing them/getting them killed), she's actually a very competent business person, and she's a mob boss who listens and confers with her lieutenants.
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Defiance / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Defiance / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Nolan versus the Bioman, a Pale War-era Super-Soldier. Played with in that while it looks like this is going to (Painfully) happen to Nolan, each of Nolan's attacks are designed to hit the Bioman's off-switch. He just had a bit of trouble remembering where on this particular model that switch was. Turns out, in a moment reminiscent of Dr. McNinja, it was the butt.
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Defiance / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Defiance / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Both Nolan and Irisa, on account of being former Disaster Scavengers trying to adapt to the politics of a city.
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Defiance / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Defiance / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Alak clearly prefers humans and their culture to Castithan traditions.
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Defiance / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Defiance / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Plague episode. Okay, lots of shows have that. Irathients get blamed-that's pretty normal for a show with Fantastic Racism. Then the forceful rounding up of Irathients into a makeshift internment camp (occasionally using guns, dogcatchers, and force) begins, some Irathients discuss the possibility of them being gassed to death, and one ends up dead because their captors don't like a harmless religious ceremony... In the second season finale, Berlin arrives at Camp Reverie to find the panicked guards executing prisoners. Berlin relieves the Sergeant in charge of his command and assumes control of the situation. The much bigger, armed, and pissed off Sergeant simply whacks her with his billy club and continues the executions, putting her in the next batch.
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Defiance / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Defiance / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: In the season 2 premiere, two kids are arrested and sent to Camp Reverie. On the way, the driver stops to relieve himself and the doors just happen to unlock. The kids take the chance to flee... right into the Hellbug-infested forest. The flurry of coincidences necessary for this to happen is so improbable that even Pottinger, who orchestrated it, makes basically no attempt to deny that it was intentional when Amanda calls him on it.
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Defiance / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
Defiance / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Nolan and Tommy try this with Irisa in "Doll Parts". While she is in there, she can't fight off the Kaziri's influence, except to keep from killing Nolan. Tommy gets a knife to the gut.
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Defiance / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Defiance / int_40c57041	comment	Datak is a power-hungry, manipulative crime lord, but he's still disgusted by Madis. He also supports Amanda in what seemed to be a hopeless defense of the town against the Volge, promising to forgive the debt of anyone who chooses to fight. He could have easily tried to pack up and leave with his family and servants. Indeed, during the battle, he does not hide behind others and does his share of the fighting, calling another Castithan a "shtako coward" for running away.
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Defiance / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Defiance / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Pol Madis starts going on about the great deal he's going to get from E-Rep for designing weapons for them, Nolan responds by shooting him in the face.
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Defiance / int_41914bb3	type	Blade Below the Shoulder
Defiance / int_41914bb3	comment	Blade Below the Shoulder: Datak gets a hidden one built into his cybernetic arm, which he uses to stab an Omec warrior through the skull and later wound Kindzi to save his family.
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Defiance / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Defiance / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Kaziri's Ark Brain, which poses as Votan gods in order to manipulate and control its followers, and is planning to spare only them when it terraforms the world, killing everything else.
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Defiance / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Defiance / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: In "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", Nolan reluctantly tortures a Votanis Collective agent by having shrill burrow through his limbs one at a time. He doesn't crack.
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Defiance / int_42a3bf5a	type	Raised by Humans
Defiance / int_42a3bf5a	comment	Raised by Humans: Irisa by Nolan, after he killed her abusive cultist birth parents. Season 2 introduces Mordecai Haipern, another Irathient who was adopted by a human family and became an attorney specializing in Irathient interests.
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Defiance / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Defiance / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The Defiant Few. Both sides of the conflict ignored their orders, stopped fighting and started rescuing civilians trapped in the crossfire. This single act ultimately led to the end of the Pale Wars. In "Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go," Irisa rescues Elak from being tortured in a Castithan rite as punishment for deserting the battle from the previous episode, even though the rules require that all residents of Defiance be allowed to practice their own native customs unhindered. Unfortunately, Datak convinces Elak that he must die to atone for his actions. Datak then dumps the body outside the lawkeeper's office.
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Defiance / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
Defiance / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: To an extent. Was Nolan in the right to kill someone in cold blood? Was Yewll? Is Rafe really unambigiously good despite his racism and politicking?
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Defiance / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Defiance / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Nolan, who is willing to give up his own well-being and security for others, if not necessarily immediately. He's called on it by Irisa, as he has apparently set back their plans several times under similar circumstances. Given his background, howevernote As previously mentioned, he was one of the Defiant Few, who refused to fight when innocent people were caught in the crossfire, it would be stranger if he did not do this all the time.
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Defiance / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
Defiance / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Nolan has difficulty telling male and female Liberata apart. It's to the point when the Liberata teacher at the school thanked him with a kiss after he fixed the roof, he told Irisa later he hoped the teacher was female. In his defense, both genders have a large amount of body and facial hair. In fact, three of Liberata who have appeared on the show (both male and female) were played by Jessica Nichols.
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Defiance / int_4635c3d7	type	Walking Transplant
Defiance / int_4635c3d7	comment	Walking Transplant: Indogene skin can be cut off and transformed into an all-purpose healing salve for the Omec, who engineered them for that purpose.
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Defiance / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Defiance / int_469e3e2f	comment	There are no cars or trucks. They're called "rollers". Possibly justified In-Universe by the amount of robotic "walker" vehicles that are also seen.
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Defiance / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Defiance / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: The Irathients sometimes fill this role, despite not being native to Earth
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Defiance / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Defiance / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The seventh and eighth Votan races, the Volge and Omec, are both extremely hostile and war-like races, and are generally hated by the other six.
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Defiance / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Defiance / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Irisa, by Nolan.
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Defiance / int_4a58592a	type	California Collapse
Defiance / int_4a58592a	comment	California Collapse: Los Angeles (now called AngelArc) is no longer a single city, but a series of islands. Since the haywire terraformers were raising mountain ranges in other areas, at least it makes sense this time.
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Defiance / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Defiance / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: In "Bottom of the World", Rafe takes the blame for a plot to assassinate Pottinger and Tennety to keep Quentin out of jail. He also took the heat for a whole lot of stockpiled weapons, but he was actually guilty of that. Nolan realizes what he's doing, but understands and doesn't interfere. In "Doll Parts", Stahma convinces a terminally-ill Castithan to admit to the murder of Deidre Lamb in exchange for taking his daughter on as a handmaiden since she'd be orphaned upon his death. Amanda, currently the deputy because Nolan and Irisa are busy, sees right through it but can't exactly prove otherwise since he has the murder weapon.
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Defiance / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Defiance / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Gulanee are Energy Beings, and can use this power offensively.
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Defiance / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Defiance / int_4e3d253b	comment	See Downer Ending above for how the first season finale qualifies.
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Defiance / int_4eb66c8d	type	White Male Lead
Defiance / int_4eb66c8d	comment	And lastly, Joshua Nolan is the literal face of the show whose character arc is the classic repenting White Savior story from the casual racism to the Dark and Troubled Past to the Heroic Sacrifice for the helpless aliens.
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Defiance / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Defiance / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Omec possess technology quite a bit more refined than the other Votan races. Notably, their Sleeper Starship possesses some form of a FTL drive unlike the slowboats used by the other Votans. In the season finale, after Nolan overloads the engines to make them explode, he changes his mind and has Yewl use them to shoot them randomly across the universe instead.
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Defiance / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Defiance / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: "In My Secret Life" has the shrill bomb. It's an improvised explosive filled with earthworm-like insects. If the explosion doesn't kill whoever's nearby, the bomb-proof bugs will finish the job when they burrow their way into the unfortunate victim. "The Cord and the Ax" has Irisa blow off the entire left side of her cheek in a suicide attempt, complete with loving shots of the wound as the nanotech within her slowly repairs her.
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Defiance / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Defiance / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Pretty clearly set up between Nolan and Amanda, which might get interesting since Nolan pretty unabashedly sleeps with her sister even after learning of their relation. "Brothers in Arms" has Kenya break it off with Nolan, though, leaving the path clear for development between him and Amanda. Resolved as of Season Two, at least until he locks her up so she won't interfere with his plans to sacrifice her sister, and then, several episodes later, she locks him up so he won't interfere with her plans to sacrifice his daughter. I know, right?
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Defiance / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Defiance / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Datak after killing two Hellbugs that invaded his home during dinner:
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Defiance / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Defiance / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Pottinger reveals that he was gang-raped by Votan soldiers to Amanda, who then tells him of her own attack so that he'll know he's not alone, which he seems to be genuinely touched by. This is later put in another light entirely after it's revealed Pottinger was her rapist. It's likely he told her his story precisely so she would tell hers, and he later seems to think being raped spurred his own crime against Amanda. In the next episode, their past experiences become part of the visions caused by the malfunctioning EGO devices.
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Defiance / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Defiance / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: When we first meet Nolan and Irisa in episode 1, they start singing along to Johnny Cash's version of "Jackson" (see AM/FM Characterization above). Nolan's last line before leaving Earth and Sol at the end of Season 3 is a whispered "We're going to Jackson...".
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Defiance / int_533bc7ae	type	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
Defiance / int_533bc7ae	comment	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: There seems to be the belief that one of the reasons Indogenes are so emotionless is because they have a lot of cybernetic implants.
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Defiance / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Defiance / int_53f5119f	comment	"My Name is Datak Tarr And I Have Come to Kill You": Lieutenant Bebe assumes a human guise and infiltrates Defiance as they are rallying to fight back against Rahm Tak. Bebe stages an attack on the Need/Want that ends with every hostage inside massacred, earning Nolan's trust by taking out some of the attackers. Nolan puts him in a rough second-in-command position on the strike force and takes everyone to investigate the tunnel through which the attackers have entered, only for Bebe to suddenly reveal himself, shoot Alak, stab Irisa, subdue Nolan in an extended fight, and blow up the entire task force — including Zero, a child — with an incendiary grenade. Bebe is killed by the recovered Irisa, but only she, Nolan, and the crippled Alak comprise the town's resistance. Yewll comes up with the idea to overload the town's stasis nets and vaporize Rahm Tak's camp just outside, but it will require someone to sacrifice themselves to carry the beacon that directs the energy into the camp. Datak is chosen and cut down from the shaming rack just before death, and after seeing Alak recovering in the hospital and being told of the damage if Rahm Tak enters the town, he accepts. The beacon is buried in his arm and he makes it out to the VC camp. Rahm Tak lets him in out of curiosity, and Datak bluffs for time by claiming that he wants to join the VC. To prove his loyalty and avoid his imminent death, he saws off the arm containing the beacon, then runs for his life with seconds to spare. Rahm Tak and his men are vaporized by the detonation, and Datak is left barely alive outside of the town.
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Defiance / int_545f8c91	type	Abortion Fallout Drama
Defiance / int_545f8c91	comment	Abortion Fallout Drama: Amanda had an abortion years ago. The abortion itself is treated as an understandable choice given the overall situation, but her handling of it — not even discussing it with the father, Connor Lang, beforehand, even knowing he would have a problem with it — led to the destruction of their relationship. It's later revealed that her pregnancy was a result of her rape by a stranger, but she had allowed Connor to believe otherwise.
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Defiance / int_5526b660	type	Humans Are White
Defiance / int_5526b660	comment	Humans Are White: When the Castithan villain Datak Tarr is listing the things he hates about humans to his human nemesis Rafe McCawley, it includes "the smell of your pink skin makes me sick". Rafe, who is of Native American descent and played by Graham Greene, says "Does this skin look pink to you?", to which Datak replies that we all look the same to him. The following season, when Datak's son Alak is upset about his wife Christie, Rafe's daughter, cosplaying as a Castithan, he asks her how she should like it if he painted his skin "human pink". Christie also points out that her skin isn't pink. Obviously, one thing Castithans don't have is superior vision. Contextually this is played straight as while the Votan are an alien immigrant allegory, everything culturally human/"Old World" is monolithically white with just a few Token Minorities sprinkled about like Avatar instead of American Gods (2017) in cultural perspectives. To count: Besides the above example, Rafe is a rich Native American millennial that misses the past yet is essentially like an old white Racist Grandpa toward the Native-like Irathients without he or the show showing any self-awareness about this. For the same reasons, Christie is essentially the naïve white woman who married into an ethnic family and put on the alien-equivalent of Blackface that understandably disgusts her husband. Monochrome Casting. The real/modern St. Louis is a majority Black city yet the show, alien future or not, is overwhelmingly/inexplicably white with only a token amount of Black and POC characters, made worse by the fact that all the recurring POC humans are dead before the show wrapped up. Meaning Nolan should've been the Token Minority instead of Tommy. Related to the above, "pink skin" implies the majority of humans are still white despite both the expected demographic changes and the fact that humans ironically are more diverse-looking than all the Votan races combined. Covered Up or not, musically, predominantly white genres and artists are played yet there is no rap, R&B, Latin, etc. meaning The Cure were played yet Black music like St. Louis's own Nelly was not. And lastly, Joshua Nolan is the literal face of the show whose character arc is the classic repenting White Savior story from the casual racism to the Dark and Troubled Past to the Heroic Sacrifice for the helpless aliens.
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Defiance / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Defiance / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: In "A Well Respected Man", this is used as a method to induce fear in subjects, producing adrenaline which is then harvested and processed into a stimulant.
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Defiance / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Defiance / int_57b80b45	comment	Plague episode. Okay, lots of shows have that. Irathients get blamed-that's pretty normal for a show with Fantastic Racism. Then the forceful rounding up of Irathients into a makeshift internment camp (occasionally using guns, dogcatchers, and force) begins, some Irathients discuss the possibility of them being gassed to death, and one ends up dead because their captors don't like a harmless religious ceremony...
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Defiance / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Defiance / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Spirit Riders are pretty much Plains Indians only with motorcycles and ATVs instead of horses. Castithans come across as nonspecific "foreign immigrants," with all the positive and negative stereotypes that come with themnote With its strict class system and its emphasis on family and tradition, Castithan society has a vaguely Asian or Middle Eastern vibe to it. Datak Tarr is basically a mafia don, a poor man back in the "old country" who became wealthy and powerful doing whatever he had to do. On the other hand, he loves his family and dreams of a better life for his son, and he will go out of his way to, ahem, "protect" his fellow Castithans if need be. Like a mafia don, Datak is determined to maintain a legitimate facade, such as when a poor Castithan runs up to him on the street offering money that he owes Tarr, and the usual collector hasn't shown up. Datak's bodyguard nearly breaks the Castithan's arm for such a public display, while Stahma distracts the poor guy's children with some treats, so they don't see their father in this position. Datak orders the man to return home and wait for the collector.
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Defiance / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Defiance / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Between Datak and Stahma, particularly in the second half of Season 2.
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Defiance / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Defiance / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Kenya's husband, Hunter Bell, beat and possibly raped her before he died.
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Defiance / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
Defiance / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: Colonel Marsh makes it clear to Datak that he's just a puppet ruler for the Earth Republic... and is promptly killed in rage.
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Defiance / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Defiance / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Irisa recruits a band of Irathient raiders, the Spirit Riders, to help defend Defiance against the Volge, reasoning that they held greater disdain for the latter. They are later shown enjoying a drink in the town brothel after the battle is won, and as of "Devil in the Dark" they are openly welcomed again in Defiance as well as gifted their original settled land back to them. Minor (and not very nice) one but when Datak starts up a talk about how Irathients are, in more flowery words, dirty plague-ridden mongrels in the eyes of other Votans, you can see Rafe in the background nodding and gesturing in agreement. Seven years earlier, Dakak and Rafe allied with each other against Hunter Bell, a powerful local businessman who had it in for them both. It quickly fell apart after their "common ground" died.
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Defiance / int_59aa1d0b	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Defiance / int_59aa1d0b	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: As the writers have fully acknowledged, it's an immigrant story WITH ALIENS!!! (the extraterrestrial kind).
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Defiance / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
Defiance / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself: Irisa in the tail end of Season 2, as she falls completely under the Kaziri's influence, becomes a Dark Messiah. Once Cai absorbs one of the key artifacts from her, she's freed and returned to normal. Also, Nolan when the damaged Arktech in his brain is going haywire, causing him to shoot the VC ambassador at the peace conference.
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Defiance / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Defiance / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": A "Lawkeeper" is just a not-at-all-fancy word for a Sheriff. They're even popularly elected. Usually. There are no cars or trucks. They're called "rollers". Possibly justified In-Universe by the amount of robotic "walker" vehicles that are also seen. "Jaja" is presumably a Votan word for money that has been adopted by humans, and "shtako" is used in place of "shit," A hailer is basically a cellphone/walkie-talkie combination with a little extra options. A landcoach is a bus that also carries mail. Amanda uses the term "night porter" to describe the prostitutes at the NeedWant, possibly due to the NeedWant previously being a hotel.
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Defiance / int_5adca41e	type	Under City
Defiance / int_5adca41e	comment	Under City: The actual St. Louis is mostly intact, buried under a large mass of land created by the terraformers. Other cities are indicated to have just been wiped out, making St. Louis an oddity.
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Defiance / int_5bb56da	type	Justified
Defiance / int_5bb56da	comment	Justified. It's been thirty years since the Votans first arrived on Earth, so all of the older ones have had plenty of time to learn human languages. Many of the younger ones born on Earth grew up bilingual. During the same time, many though not all humans have learned how to speak Votan languages, or at least be basically conversant in them. A few Votan words became common street-slang even among humans that don't know their languages (i.e. "jaja" means "money", "sthako" means "shit!", etc.)
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Defiance / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Defiance / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: In "Doll Parts", Deidre is thrown from the top of the Arch by Christie in a fight after Christie finds out about her attempts to steal Alak.
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Defiance / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Defiance / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Datak's romantic rival. "Accidentally", of course. Stahma pretty much admits that she did it to Alak in the season 2 pilot, when Alak shows he doesn't have the balls to run Datak's business, forcing Stahma to take over.
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Defiance / int_5cc04812	type	Fainting Seer
Defiance / int_5cc04812	comment	Fainting Seer: What occurs after an Irathient with "The Sight" has their vision. Most notable when Irisa convulses after being brought to the field where her visions kept leading her.
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Defiance / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Defiance / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: The promos depict the mountains of Missouri quite prominently. Justified by worldwide terraforming; there weren't mountains there before the Pale Wars.
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Defiance / int_5f45ab38	type	Space Jews
Defiance / int_5f45ab38	comment	Space Jews: The Liberata used to control the banking system for the Votans, and were quite ruthless about it. However, when the banking system ceased to exist, many of them became domestic workers instead. A Jewish Irathient lawyer appears in the second season, though in his case he was adopted by a human Jewish family.
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Defiance / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Defiance / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Season 2 follows from the imminent takeover of the Earth Republic in the previous season to them having established their presence in Defiance. Season 3 is set seven months after the end of the second season.
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Defiance / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Defiance / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Either the Omec typically have sex with their children or T'evgin has an unusual relationship with his daughter.
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Defiance / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Defiance / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: Amanda tries to invoke this in "My Name Is Datak Tarr and I Have Come to Kill You" when some VC infiltrators have attacked the NeedWant and grabbed her as a hostage. Nolan refuses on the grounds that the infiltrators, in full body armor, wouldn't be harmed even if he shot through her.
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Defiance / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Defiance / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Sukar relatively early on, and Kenya Rosewater in the finale. Subverted with Sukar just won't stay dead.
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Defiance / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Defiance / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Implied when a hostage-taker tries to guess which of Olfin Tennety's husbands is her favorite, and thus a more useful hostage, by grabbing their crotches.
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Defiance / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Defiance / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: This is what motivates Ben to betray the town. If he doesn't, his family dies. Kenya tries to set this up in the finale as a way to make Datak leave Defiance forever. Unfortunately for her Stahma is clever enough to anticipate her and poisons Kenya before she even gets her plan in motion. In "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", the Votanis Collective holds Kenya hostage to get Amanda to break their agent out of E-Rep custody. Ironically, said agent is being coerced to aid in their plot to bomb New York through the same method.
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Defiance / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Defiance / int_62434fe2	comment	"Dead Air": the St. Louis Arch, Defiance's most recognizable landmark and an icon of the show, is destroyed by a bomb planted by the Tarrs at Rahm Tak's behest. Rahm Tak, or rather a hologram message from him, shows up immediately afterward to announce his upcoming invasion of Defiance. Nolan leaves Irisa in Defiance, no longer confident in her resolve, while he and Amanda follow a lead on a massive stock of abandoned E-Rep weapons. At the bunker complex where the weapons are stored, they reunite with Pottinger, who hasn't been seen since Season 2. The man has undergone some Sanity Slippage, and he attempts to seduce Amanda into staying with him forever while Nolan is beaten and dragged off by biomen. While Nolan escapes his confines with the help of a former veterinarian, who tells him that Pottinger murdered several E-Rep officials and currently has himself wired to a destructive bomb, Amanda manages to steal Pottinger's gun, forcing him to unlock a mysterious padlocked door leading to some kind of VR viewing room. It turns out that Pottinger has taped every one of his sexual encounters, including Amanda's, and that he also has apparent replicas of the mask and flashlight Amanda's rapist used. Amanda puts two and two together: Pottinger was the rapist the whole time. She attempts to force him to admit it by shooting all of his limbs, but when he refuses, he is shot in the heart and Killed Off for Real. The bomb detonates, creating a black hole that sucks up all of the weapons and supplies, once again leaving Defiance hopeless. As if things couldn't get any worse, the episode closes with Nolan and Irisa simultaneously experiencing violent seizures somehow linked to the scars from the Kaziri pods that kept them safe, and while Nolan at least has the veterinarian to help, Irisa is left for dead by Berlin. Season 3 is shaping up to be the show's Wham Season.
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Defiance / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Defiance / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: "The Serpent's Egg" is this after the big-budget special effects of the last four.
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Defiance / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
Defiance / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: Ark brains have them as part of their design, presumably for self-maintenance. In a living host, they grant a Healing Factor that can regenerate severe physical injuries, including bullets wounds and large puncture wounds. However, this is merely a beneficial side-effect of their primary mission, which is to protect Votan life from potential catastrophes. The two Kaziri are nanomachine colonies, able to merge with a host. They work in much the same way as the Ark brain nanites, but to a much more specific purpose. The EGO implant from the tie-in game use nanites. Yewll notes that soldiers were known to accidentally receive them when they were hit by fragments of the implants, which would then replicate and form new implants in the host.
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Defiance / int_63557923	type	Death World
Defiance / int_63557923	comment	Going running alone in the forest with your headphones in? A bit iffy. Doing that after Earth has been terraformed into a Death World? Little surprise he got eaten, although the Hellbug that did it was deliberately set on him.
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Defiance / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Defiance / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: The Kaziri was a Votan terraforming ship that was supposed to prepare Earth for Votan colonization. When it arrived in the Solar System it became apparent that Earth already had a primitive indigenous population (humans) living there. The ship's AI was set to go ahead with its mission which would kill off humanity. Some of the crew members opposed this, mutinied and took over the ship, causing it to crash and become buried beneath where St. Louis (and Defiance) would eventually be built.
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Defiance / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
Defiance / int_6552b710	comment	The Syndicate: Detak Tarr's crew seems to be the only game around in terms of criminal groups, which makes him the unchallenged kingpin within the underworld.
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Defiance / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Defiance / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Connor Lang gets offed by Datak for being witness to his "negotiations" with the Irathients over the cure to the plague Defiance is suffering from. Nolan almost suffers the same fate, but was unconscious from late-stage infection and Datak decided that his death would be more difficult to explain away. Hunter Bell was killed by Nicolette because he discovered that she was really a surgically altered Indogene like Gordon McClintock. Jered the bartender was also killed as the only other witness besides Nicolette and Yewll to Bell's murder. In the second season, Irisa cannot tell Nolan what really happened to her at the end of the last season, because the technology inside her will kill him if she does. Nolan eventually forces the issue by slitting her wrist, knowing that she'll heal and thus removing her ability to deny it.
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Defiance / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
Defiance / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The series has an accidental example of this; when the Votan Ark ships were destroyed, the terraforming equipment they were carrying fell to Earth and malfunctioned, heavily altering Earth's environment (Antarctica is apparently tropical now) and creating entirely new species of hybrid animals. In the season 2 finale, the Kaziri tries to terraform the Earth into a paradise for the Votan people. That both the humans and Votans not protected with the Kaziri will be wiped out is of no consequence to it.
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Defiance / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Defiance / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Mrs. McCawley is conspicuously absent. It turns out she had bipolar disorder, and when she became a threat to her own children, Rafe had her locked up, then lied and said she was dead. She's later introduced as Pilar McCawley, and was played by Linda Hamilton starting in season 2.
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Defiance / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Defiance / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: Each of the seven Votan races has its own theme. Irathients are warrior types, Castithans are more classy, Indogenes are scientists, Liberata are usually servants, etc. However, individuals can stand out from these generalizationsnote For every instance of a Hat-Wearer in the pilot alone, there's another instance of someone shunning it.
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Defiance / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Defiance / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Irisa is pretty volatile when she isn't being quiet and stoic, and seemingly has no in-between. Nolan as well. Irisa mentions that his hot blooded nature has ruined things for them before, and it is causing some problems in Defiance.
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Defiance / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Defiance / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Rynn in "The Devil in the Dark" murders people by painting them as targets for Hellbugs using pheromones.
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Defiance / int_6a4c6ec0	type	The Promised Land
Defiance / int_6a4c6ec0	comment	The Promised Land: Before settling in Defiance, Nolan and Irisa were trying to make their way to Antarctica, which has apparently been terraformed into a tropical paradise. Everyone tells Nolan it's a pipe dream, and given the current state of the world that we see, it's likely that very few people have been there to confirm it. In general, however, ark hunters are trying to make enough money to get to Antarctica, if the tie-in game is to be believed. It is, however, vaguely implied in the backstory and lore (and thought by fans) to be something more sinister. Nobody can agree on what, though. Earth was supposed to be this for the Votan fleet. Unfortunately, they didn't realize that Earth was already inhabited, apparently having failed to detect any traces of Human civilization. Though that might have something to do with the fact that they launched their Arks around the same time Humans were building the Pyramids and mastering the art of writing.
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Defiance / int_6a582e34	type	Day of the Jackboot
Defiance / int_6a582e34	comment	Day of the Jackboot: Season 2 opens with a nine-month Time Skip, during which the Earth Republic has taken complete control of Defiance.
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Defiance / int_6a79a4a4	type	MacGuffin Delivery Service
Defiance / int_6a79a4a4	comment	MacGuffin Delivery Service: Colonel Marsh knew exactly what Nicolette Riordan and Doc Yewll were looking for under Defiance. He waited for them to do the hard work of finding the MacGuffin and then swoops in to take it away.
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Defiance / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Defiance / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Niles Pottinger was Amanda's rapist.
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Defiance / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Defiance / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: They don't call the city "Defiance" for nothing. In addition to the incident in the backstory which helped found the city, the town remains independent despite attempts by the Earth Republic to integrate it.
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Defiance / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Defiance / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Irisa tries to take her own life after she gets tired of being forced to kill. Unfortunately for her, it's rather difficult to successfully do this when your body has nanotechnology that can repair most injuries. Yewll's lover killed herself during the Pale Wars, implicitly because she couldn't stomach the experiments they were performing on humans. Zero's father hangs himself after his son is incinerated by Rahm Tak's mole.
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Defiance / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
Defiance / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: Both Rafe McCawley and Datak Tarr separately attempt to veto Christie and Alak's relationship. Datak comes around quickly when Stahma suggests he can use it to gain control of Rafe's mines through Christie after Rafe and Quentin have an "accident" but changes his mind again after Rafe wills his mines to the Irathients in the event of his death, while Rafe comes around when he sees Alak truly loves Christie to the point where he makes sure they get their wedding in spite of Datak trying to call it off.
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Defiance / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Defiance / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: Castithans are sometimes derisively called "Haints".note A Southern US term for "ghost"; literally a "haunting spirit." The Castithan ambassador from the VC refers to Datak as a "Haint", then says it's okay when she says it.
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Defiance / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Defiance / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Nolan is gunned down in "Everything is Broken", only for Irisa to somehow bring him back with the Kaziri.
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Defiance / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Defiance / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Stahma is quite loud while having sex with the Omec, whom she is about to kill.
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Defiance / int_6fcfbf9c	type	The Plot Reaper
Defiance / int_6fcfbf9c	comment	The Plot Reaper: Gary Clancy, Defiance's Chief Lawkeeper, gets shot in the pilot so the position will be open for Nolan.
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Defiance / int_709fe8ac	type	Culture Blind
Defiance / int_709fe8ac	comment	Culture Blind: Somewhat justified as some races or individuals simply don't care to learn about other races customs.
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Defiance / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Defiance / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: A key part of the series are the difficult interactions between the different races. Irathients don't trust inoculations for their children, partly because they're immune to just about everything (though can still be carriers), which ended in a slaughter when Defiance was first founded.note The game reveals that they might be justified: they were literally being killed with intentionally bad inoculations before the Pale Wars started. Nolan also mistakes Irisa's visions for PTSD, though the fact that she does have issues with her past confuses the matter. Crazy Cultural Comparison: For Castithans, bath time is a family bonding ritual, and the kind of naked physical closeness they demonstrate seems almost incestuous by human standards. Bathing alone is actually considered deviant, or at least eccentric, behavior. In one scene, Datak is annoyed that Christie insists on bathing alone. Culture Blind: Somewhat justified as some races or individuals simply don't care to learn about other races customs. Castithans see nothing wrong with parents kissing their children on the lips. In the second season, when Stahma kisses Nolan, everyone instantly understands that she's basically calling him family. Christie has shown an increasingly harder time with Casti customs. When Stahma attempts the familial kiss on her, she is extremely uncomfortable and refuses. Though given that Stahma may or may not be trying to seduce her (bearing in mind that she's her daughter-in-law), a little awkwardness on her part is warranted.
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Defiance / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Defiance / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In "Ostinato in White", Kindzi uses a device to force Yewll to obey her commands. When her father gets wise of her unauthorized feeding, he decides to punish her, but not before she tells Yewll to "protect my interests at all costs" right in front of him. The end result is that she's stuck in stasis as punishment for a grand total of one episode because T'evgin is too stupid or arrogant to realize Yewll might bail her out (despite acknowledging in a previous episode that she has the necessary technical knowledge), after which he suffers the same fate. In the following episode, Nolan is undergoing some Sanity Slippage thanks to the Votan tech in his brain. As he has already demonstrated dangerously unstable behavior, Irisa gets some medicine from Yewll to alleviate the symptoms. Nolan refuses to take it, even holding a gun on Irisa to make sure she doesn't try. Rather than warn anyone that crazy Nolan is now on the loose, she says nothing to anyone. End result? Nolan shoots the representative of the Votanis Collective because in his madness he thinks she drew a weapon on him, so he and Irisa are shipped off to the Collective so the Collective doesn't destroy Defiance.
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Defiance / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Defiance / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Despite the show being set in the (former) St. Louis (majority Black city), only a few characters are actually Black or otherwise people of color, though the Native American McCauley family were prominent (they also avert common stereotypes by being the rich owners of a mine). On the Votan side, the Sensoth race only have one character in the show, with a minor role.
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Defiance / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
Defiance / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: The white and gold artifacts are revealed to be keys to an ancient Votan ship beneath Defiance. Its weapons could either purge all human life or all Votan life.
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Defiance / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Defiance / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: Irzu, the god of Irathients, seems like it actually just wants to cause death and destruction. Then subverted at the end of Season 2 when it's revealed that the Kaziri is just an alien ship pretending to be the god Irzu and it's not evil. It's just continuing the terraforming process it was programmed for.
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Defiance / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Defiance / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: Nolan is quickly clued in that something's not right when Datak acts polite and friendly when called upon at his house, given the usual antagonism between them. Pol Madis slipped a nanite into his food which allows him to induce severe pain, using it to force Datak's cooperation.
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Defiance / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
Defiance / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Tommy in "The Serpent's Egg". As in the previous episodes, he doesn't say much. But when he gets a chance, he comes out swinging and ready to the kick the shit out of Daigo.
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Defiance / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
Defiance / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: In "Doll Parts", Nolan pulls this on Tommy with a side order of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!. Tommy can't bring himself to do it, then vomits up the nanites Irisa used on him to make him protect her.
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Defiance / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Defiance / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Datak Tarr represents the "House" in the underground fight club in Defiance. When Nolan decides to participate for a quick buck, Datak shows some cunning and has the regular champion substituted for a Bioman, who logically no mere mortal should ever be capable of besting. When Nolan wins by hitting the Bioman's off-switch, Datak claims it's against House rules and confiscates most of his winnings (he was at least charitable enough to let Nolan walk off with a slight profit). Nolan lampshades this during their confrontation.
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Defiance / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Defiance / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Averted. When Amanda explains an incident where the Irathients in Defiance rioted against mandatory vaccinations, she quips that they had clubs while the rest of the town had Votan blasters. Doesn't take a genius to work things out from there.
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Defiance / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Defiance / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: Castithans have a heightened sense of smell, evidently good enough that both Stahma and Alak can smell Christie's pregnancy. Christie ends up getting this as a side-effect of her pregnancy, at least enough to smell that her drink is poisoned.
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Defiance / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Defiance / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: When Stahma reveals that Berlin smells like Nolan in front of Tommy, he asks if the two are dating. She balks at the idea, but adds that they are having plenty of sex.
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Defiance / int_7d78995d	type	Blofeld Ploy
Defiance / int_7d78995d	comment	Blofeld Ploy: In "Beasts of Burden", Datak wants Alak to pick someone to die as an example to the rest, all of whom betrayed him while in prison. Alak picks himself, so Datak just slashes the throat of one of his mooks.
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Defiance / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Defiance / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Nolan is frequently on the receiving end of these, not that he lets it get to him. He gets one from Berlin that's actually pretty on-the-nose, where she accuses him of actually liking the post-apocalyptic wasteland because it lets him live out his childhood cowboy fantasies. Irisa gives him a brutal one at the end of "Doll Parts", accusing him of turning her into a murderous sociopath as a child and disguising it as fatherly love. Nolan doesn't buy this one, though, since he's pretty convinced she's being coerced into saying it. Quentin gets one in "Bottom of the World." His mother does this after he crows about setting his father up, and she tells him that his daddy issues blinded him to the truth about why his father agreed to Taking the Heat. Nolan gives a subtle one right back to Berlin in the middle of his Rousing Speech as he rallies the Defiance militia against the encroaching VC while Berlin is getting ready to leave with Conrad Von Bach. He says that it's the duty of the strong to defend the weak, the ones who can't defend themselves...or can't be bothered to care (he says this while staring right at her).
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Defiance / int_7e8ce096	type	Raised by Rival
Defiance / int_7e8ce096	comment	Raised by Rival: Irisa is an Irathient raised by Nolan, formerly a Horrifying Hero who cheerfully massacred Irathient tribes (including her own). He's mellowed out a lot since then, casting aside anti-alien prejudice and being a good father, but sometimes she still remembers how he raised her to be a Hunter Of Her Own Kind.
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Defiance / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Defiance / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Datak goads Nolan into a fight in "Past Is Prologue". Note that he does this after he revealed Nolan's unsavory soldier past and knows exactly how much of a badass Nolan is. Needless to say, it did not go well for Datak. In "Beasts of Burden", Josef holds Nolan at gunpoint in Rafe's house. Rafe asks Nolan not to be too rough on Josef. Before Josef can fully question why Rafe is asking such a thing, he finds himself disarmed and kissing the floor. Shigustak Kurr, a Castithan religious fundamentalist, boycotts the gambling hut because Stahma is running it, even though Stahma points out she has a loyal army of hardened criminals with which to retaliate. He sticks to his guns, so Stahma murders his wife and two other women who refused to side with her, then frames him for it.
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Defiance / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Defiance / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Defiance was first founded, inoculations were given to everyone. The local Irathients refused as it was against their beliefs and they didn't trust the humans anyway. When the mayor at the time forcibly did so, the Irathients fought back. The survivors became Spirit Riders and the relationship between Irathients and Defiance has never been the same since. Amanda wants to make amends and avoid a repeat but most seem unwilling to forgive just yet. Something similar happens in "If I Ever Leave This World Alive". Though problem of the week in the episode resolves itself, the ramifications of the events of it are likely to be long term. "Dead Air": Amanda could have left Pottinger alive just long enough for her and Nolan to make off with the EMC weapons (some of which surely work against Biomen) before his dead-man's switch zeroed the entire place.
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Defiance / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Defiance / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: Biomen, complete with a number on their chest and an off-switch.
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Defiance / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
Defiance / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: Our first encounter with Nolan and Irisa, the two main characters of the show, has an awkward silence broken with Nolan turning on the radio, only to hear Johnny Cash and June Carter singing 'Jackson', which, in the year 2046, is more than a bit country and old-fashioned.
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Defiance / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Defiance / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted with Amanda, who is one of the least ambiguously good characters and had an abortion years ago. The abortion itself is treated as an understandable choice given the overall situation, but her handling of it-not even discussing it with her lover, Connor Lang, beforehand, even knowing he would have a problem with it-led to the destruction of their relationship. It's later revealed that her pregnancy was a result of her rape by a stranger, but she refused to admit this because it would have damaged her political career.
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Defiance / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Defiance / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: A great many characters are either bisexual or homosexual, and display no stereotypical personality traits. Of course this is the future, and many of them are aliens, so Deliberate Values Dissonance may be in play.
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Defiance / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Defiance / int_8409a385	comment	"The Awakening": The Omec are awakened one by one and brought to Earth to regain their strength after their long sleep. Yewll's abductees are slowly brought out and grotesquely feasted upon by the starving Omec, a fate which nearly befalls Datak before he manages to wound one and escape. Yewll attempts to drive the wounded Omec to safety, only to run into Nolan and Amanda, who tear out her implant and free her from mind control. Yewll leads everyone back to the feeding camp and assists them in slaughtering the Omec and freeing the surviving prisoners; however, Kindzi escapes, and more Omec are on the way. Back in Defiance, Kindzi suddenly attacks Alak's house, killing Andina and prizing baby Luke out of Alak's hands while he futilely tries to resist.
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Defiance / int_84609623	type	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
Defiance / int_84609623	comment	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: After learning of their relationship, Nolan tells Tommy that if he ever hurts Irisa, he'll get his answer to whether there is a God...in person.
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Defiance / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Defiance / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Christie (Human) and Alak (Castithan) get engaged, then married. Irisa (Irathient) and Tommy (human) kick one off in "The Serpent's Egg". People also assume this is one possibility between Irisa and Nolan; given the state of relations between the different species, it's in their best interest not to correct anyone on the matter unless it's absolutely necessary. In a villainous example, Castithan Rahm Tak is married to Irathient Volubela.
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Defiance / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Defiance / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The Omec are this to the other Votans. Stories of their interactions include Votans being taken by the Omec back to their homeworld, treated as lovers and/or pets...and then eaten when the Omec get bored with them.
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Defiance / int_85b5dc7	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
Defiance / int_85b5dc7	comment	Pilar demonstrates why you should Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight. She may have survived the resulting chest shot, but that's good luck on her part.
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Defiance / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
Defiance / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: As Stahma explains to Kenya, she loves Datak because of his cruelty, because it proves his ambition.
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Defiance / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Defiance / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The above-mentioned Cool Car all but disappears in season 2 with no fanfare.
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Defiance / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
Defiance / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: The primary mode of transportation for the Spirit Riders, and they more than qualify for the badass half when they ride through a group of Volge guns blazing.
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Defiance / int_87ee897	type	Crazy Cultural Comparison
Defiance / int_87ee897	comment	Crazy Cultural Comparison: For Castithans, bath time is a family bonding ritual, and the kind of naked physical closeness they demonstrate seems almost incestuous by human standards. Bathing alone is actually considered deviant, or at least eccentric, behavior. In one scene, Datak is annoyed that Christie insists on bathing alone.
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Defiance / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Defiance / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: With the exception of Irisa (who was raised by Nolan), the Irathient characters all speak with a vaguely Eastern European-sounding accent, in contrast to the generic American and/or Canadian accents everyone else has.
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Defiance / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
Defiance / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: Nolan used to be this way, and kind of still is. It's used against him in "Past is Prologue", where Datak arranges the "assassination" of Amanda with a realistic-looking paintball gun, counting on Nolan shooting first. The kid he gets to do it is killed, then Datak reveals his bloody war record to make Amanda look bad for supporting him.
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Defiance / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Defiance / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: "Beasts of Burden" has a band of raiders hijack a convoy which Pottinger is riding with. When he tries to resist, the leader has him strip then urinates on him to let him feel literally what he symbolically does to those below him.
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Defiance / int_892c6fdc	type	Space Elves
Defiance / int_892c6fdc	comment	Space Elves: Castithans have the aesthetic. The older Tarrs, with their slightly decadent airs and Machiavellian tendencies come across as Dark Elf types but it's unclear as to whether this is true of the race as a whole. The Irathients arguably are Wood Elf types.
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Defiance / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Defiance / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Sukar believes Irisa has been chosen by their people's god for some greater purpose. Daigo also believes she's been chosen... but to be a Dark Messiah.
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Defiance / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Defiance / int_8967e17f	comment	Subverted with Sukar just won't stay dead.
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Defiance / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Defiance / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Linguist David J. Peterson (best known for the Dothraki language for Game of Thrones) has created full languages for the Castithans and Irathients, as well as outlines of languages for other Votans.
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Defiance / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Defiance / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Classic cars apparently survived the wars, since Datak and some weapon smugglers from the Votanis Collective have them. Nolan also has a Dodge Charger courtesy of his Lawkeeper gig.
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Defiance / int_8a6423b6	type	Cosplay
Defiance / int_8a6423b6	comment	Cosplay: "This Woman's Work" shows that humans dressing as Votans is apparently an exotic fetish. For extra disturbing points, the two examples shown are Viceroy Mercado and Christie, with the former flirting with the latter. Then "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes" goes and tops it by showing that the really committed cosplayers go the extra mile and pay for stolen Votan organs (corneas, in this case) for that extra bit of realism.
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Defiance / int_8a943fe3	type	Space Cold War
Defiance / int_8a943fe3	comment	Space Cold War: This is happening between the Earth Republic and the Votanis Collective. Very uneasy truce? Check. Regime Change on a neutral territory? Check. Recruiting war criminals for weapons technology in the manner of Operation Paperclip? Check.
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Defiance / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Defiance / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed Trope: In the video game, fighting a Gulanee is just another boss battle. The series, however, shows what it's like to deal with such a thing when you don't have an experimental EGO or fantastic future-tech weaponry that might not be out of place in Borderlands.
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Defiance / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Defiance / int_8c1ad82f	comment	The Irathients, Liberata, and Sensoths are all from Irath, and since the former two were conquered by the Castis they presumably had significant populations on other planets in the system.
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Defiance / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Defiance / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: See Downer Ending above for how the first season finale qualifies. In the second season finale, Tommy dies from his wounds, leaving Berlin distraught and putting away as much alcohol as she can manage. New York is destroyed by ark terraforming technology, which could be a huge destabilizing factor for the E-Rep. Several other cities are also destroyed, including at least one in the Votanis Collective. The technology is stopped by pointing it into space, destroying the remaining ark fragments. Finally, Nolan and Irisa are frozen inside one of the Kaziri's pods, along with all the others Irisa podded up while she was being controlled by it. The third season opener continues the downward spiral. The destruction of New York has made the E-Rep pull out of Defiance, and the collapse of the mines has struck the town with a worse blow due to the lack of jobs and fuel. Just as Amanda decides to shut down the town's force field protection to conserve energy, a band of Votanis Collective soldiers led by General Rahm Tak go on the warpath with the intent of killing every human in the town. The Votan cross paths with the McCawleys, sans Pilar and Alak, and we get to see just how much of a monster Rahm Tak is when he executes Quinton with Rafe watching captive. Rafe breaks free and makes an attempt to reach Christie and her baby, only to be gunned down. And then Rahm Tak gets pissed over the fact that Christie knows his language, and he forces Stahma to choose between watching Datak die or slitting Christie's throat — she picks the latter. In one fell swoop, the entire McCawley clan is wiped out. Pilar later runs off with the child, abandoning Alak to be picked up by Rahm's men and used as leverage, which forces Datak and Stahma to work as spies in Defiance. And to top it all off, the ending shot shows us that there is a huge fleet of Omec hovering in hypersleep just outside Earth's orbit. "Broken Boughs": Nolan and Irisa run into Pilar and rescue the child from her. Upon returning to Defiance, they learn of Rafe's, Christie's, and Quentin's deaths, and they are sent to Rahm Tak's camp to scout out the opposition Defiance is facing. The operation goes awry when Pilar ambushes Nolan, leading to him shooting and potentially killing her (though he acknowledges later that he Never Found the Body ). In the chaos, Irisa gets the drop on Rahm Tak, but cannot bear to kill him and instead knocks him out cold. Back at Defiance, Datak and Stahma plant metal-eating maggots in the town armory, destroying every gun stored within and leaving the town all but defenseless against Rahm Tak's invasion. However, the humiliated Rahm Tak decides to issue a new order to weaken the populace's morale: the Tarrs have to blow up the St. Louis Arch. "Dead Air": the St. Louis Arch, Defiance's most recognizable landmark and an icon of the show, is destroyed by a bomb planted by the Tarrs at Rahm Tak's behest. Rahm Tak, or rather a hologram message from him, shows up immediately afterward to announce his upcoming invasion of Defiance. Nolan leaves Irisa in Defiance, no longer confident in her resolve, while he and Amanda follow a lead on a massive stock of abandoned E-Rep weapons. At the bunker complex where the weapons are stored, they reunite with Pottinger, who hasn't been seen since Season 2. The man has undergone some Sanity Slippage, and he attempts to seduce Amanda into staying with him forever while Nolan is beaten and dragged off by biomen. While Nolan escapes his confines with the help of a former veterinarian, who tells him that Pottinger murdered several E-Rep officials and currently has himself wired to a destructive bomb, Amanda manages to steal Pottinger's gun, forcing him to unlock a mysterious padlocked door leading to some kind of VR viewing room. It turns out that Pottinger has taped every one of his sexual encounters, including Amanda's, and that he also has apparent replicas of the mask and flashlight Amanda's rapist used. Amanda puts two and two together: Pottinger was the rapist the whole time. She attempts to force him to admit it by shooting all of his limbs, but when he refuses, he is shot in the heart and Killed Off for Real. The bomb detonates, creating a black hole that sucks up all of the weapons and supplies, once again leaving Defiance hopeless. As if things couldn't get any worse, the episode closes with Nolan and Irisa simultaneously experiencing violent seizures somehow linked to the scars from the Kaziri pods that kept them safe, and while Nolan at least has the veterinarian to help, Irisa is left for dead by Berlin. Season 3 is shaping up to be the show's Wham Season. "My Name is Datak Tarr And I Have Come to Kill You": Lieutenant Bebe assumes a human guise and infiltrates Defiance as they are rallying to fight back against Rahm Tak. Bebe stages an attack on the Need/Want that ends with every hostage inside massacred, earning Nolan's trust by taking out some of the attackers. Nolan puts him in a rough second-in-command position on the strike force and takes everyone to investigate the tunnel through which the attackers have entered, only for Bebe to suddenly reveal himself, shoot Alak, stab Irisa, subdue Nolan in an extended fight, and blow up the entire task force — including Zero, a child — with an incendiary grenade. Bebe is killed by the recovered Irisa, but only she, Nolan, and the crippled Alak comprise the town's resistance. Yewll comes up with the idea to overload the town's stasis nets and vaporize Rahm Tak's camp just outside, but it will require someone to sacrifice themselves to carry the beacon that directs the energy into the camp. Datak is chosen and cut down from the shaming rack just before death, and after seeing Alak recovering in the hospital and being told of the damage if Rahm Tak enters the town, he accepts. The beacon is buried in his arm and he makes it out to the VC camp. Rahm Tak lets him in out of curiosity, and Datak bluffs for time by claiming that he wants to join the VC. To prove his loyalty and avoid his imminent death, he saws off the arm containing the beacon, then runs for his life with seconds to spare. Rahm Tak and his men are vaporized by the detonation, and Datak is left barely alive outside of the town. "When Twilight Dims the Skies Above": A delusional Nolan kills the Vice-Chancellor of the Votanis Collective, who had come to town to talk peace, forcing Amanda to turn him over to the VC for punishment. Meanwhile, Kindzi usurps control of the Arkship from T'evgin and prepares to start the Dread Harvest. And Datak's back, with a bionic arm and a desire for vengeance. "Of A Demon In My View": Nolan is kidnapped by Kindzi, who wipes out the VC convoy in the process, and has his Arktech removed from his brain the process. Yewll knocks Datak unconscious with a syringe, and he's later shown waking up in cages with several others who have been abducted. While Nolan escapes with Irisa's help, the weakened T'evgin tries to fight Kindzi, and ends up overpowering her. However, she makes a false promise to force him to let her go, and she proceeds to stab him in the neck, which winds up killing him. Distraught, she performs a ritual to honor his death, ending with her eating his heart and absorbing his practically godlike power. She then travels up to the ship and awakens the Omec, calling for the Dread Harvest to finally commence. "The Awakening": The Omec are awakened one by one and brought to Earth to regain their strength after their long sleep. Yewll's abductees are slowly brought out and grotesquely feasted upon by the starving Omec, a fate which nearly befalls Datak before he manages to wound one and escape. Yewll attempts to drive the wounded Omec to safety, only to run into Nolan and Amanda, who tear out her implant and free her from mind control. Yewll leads everyone back to the feeding camp and assists them in slaughtering the Omec and freeing the surviving prisoners; however, Kindzi escapes, and more Omec are on the way. Back in Defiance, Kindzi suddenly attacks Alak's house, killing Andina and prizing baby Luke out of Alak's hands while he futilely tries to resist.
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Defiance / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Defiance / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Even before being introduced, Kenya's former husband Hunter Bell certainly doesn't seem like the nicest guy. When it's revealed he was an abusive spouse and Datak's predecessor (of sorts), Nolan isn't terribly interested in finding his murderer, convinced that he had it coming. While the characters in-universe may have differing opinions, no viewer is going to feel sorry for Nicolette Riordan. Deidre Lamb was a manipulative bitch who tried to ruin a married couple and steal the husband (who she was planning on blackmailing into going along with it). When Christie throws her off the arch after she tries to poison Christie's unborn baby very few people care (just Amanda and her co-workers, really).
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Defiance / int_8ef5ae81	type	Lethally Stupid
Defiance / int_8ef5ae81	comment	Lethally Stupid: Josef, Rafe's godson, tries to start an insurrection against E-Rep but he just ends up getting a bunch of people killed, including two of his friends. He also massively pisses off Pottinger and them dumps the entire mess on Rafe's doorstep when Rafe is already under close E-Rep scrutiny. Rafe and Nolan take a great risk to keep him out of E-Rep's hands and get him out of town but he instead makes things worse by kidnapping Berlin. In the end Rafe shoots Josef dead to protect everyone involved from the consequences of Josef's actions. Even this is not enough and Pottinger punishes Rafe for what happened.
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Defiance / int_906ed7b4	type	Apocalypse Maiden
Defiance / int_906ed7b4	comment	Apocalypse Maiden: Irisa. As a child, her parents were part of a religious cult that surgically implanted her with one of two keys to a sentient genocidal alien spaceship. By the end of season one, she has acquired the other key, and the ship pretends to be Irzu, an alien god, in order to make a deal with her and trick her into becoming the angel of death. Season 2 ends with her gaining access to orbital superweapons and destroying major cities.
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Defiance / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Defiance / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: In "A Well Respected Man", Miko finds himself with a slashed jugular courtesy of a beaker upside the head from Kenya. His last words are "I'm gonna kill Ulysses." in a perfectly calm voice. Might have something to do with the drugs he was on.
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Defiance / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Defiance / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Rynn returns in the last scene of the penultimate season 1 episode, and plays a role in the season finale.
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Defiance / int_93ce6293	type	Phlebotinum Breakdown
Defiance / int_93ce6293	comment	Phlebotinum Breakdown: In "Put the Damage On", Amanda, Pottinger, and Yewll are infected with malfunctioning EGO devices. While the ones in the game may be entirely helpful, broken ones torment the host with traumatic visions before eventually killing them.
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Defiance / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Defiance / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: In "A Well Respected Man", Amanda and Nolan confront Datak suspecting him of abducting Kenya. Datak denies it, as it was apparently too subtle. For bonus points, he practically confesses to the murder of Elah Bandik. He gets it again in "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes", Stahma thinks Datak paid Favi Kurr to boycott Stahma's businesses. He however points out Favi Kurr is far too noble to be bribed, and he wasn't involved in this. The entire Tarr family gets this in "Doll Parts", with all three assuming one of them must have been responsible for Deidre Lamb's murder. Both Datak and Stahma end up agreeing that Alak wouldn't have the guts to do it, and Stahma bursts out laughing when she realizes it was Christie.
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Defiance / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
Defiance / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: Humans and aliens alike use the term "shtako" liberally, as something of a universal swear word (and not just the "shit" it clearly is meant to translate as - for example, in the pilot, Datak at one point yells, "You shtako coward!") Datak uses the word "shtek"; it probably translates to something like "SOB". "Gwoke" has also appeared as a Castithan swear word; considering Datak's temper at the time, it probably goes past 'shit' all the way to the F-Bomb on the swear scale. "Chup" is a word for "shag", but it's unknown which species's language gave rise to this. Also, humorously, most of the swearing on the show comes from Datak. Alak uses the phrase "Holy shtako!" at one point, and at another he uses "shtako from shinola", which implies a fair amount of language drift (both human and alien alike) due him being essentially a 2nd generation immigrant. In "Doll Parts", Tommy actually says "Holy Shit", showing that classic human swears are still used. According to background material, most of the common Votan swear words are Liberata in origin.
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Defiance / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Defiance / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: In a flashback, Kenya uses an excuse like this for the latest sign of abuse from Hunter Bell. Amanda, naturally, isn't buying it.
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Defiance / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
Defiance / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: Irathients. Not too proud, though: many of the ones we see in the pilot are bandits or scavengers. At least in context of the show, it's justified since the local Irathient population is extremely small. Other than the small group of citizens, the only ones around are the Spirit Riders, who used to be locals until a forced inoculation caused them to revolt. Castithans have shades of this, as well, what with their custom of public torture for cowardice on the battlefield and fondness for bladed weapons.
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Defiance / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Defiance / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: At the beginning of "Goodbye Blue Sky," Nolan radios back to Defiance about the approaching Razor Rain storm...and proceeds to explain exactly what Razor Rain is, just in case anyone who's grown up in this post-apocalyptic world just happened to forget what it was...
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Defiance / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Defiance / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Nolan and the Votanis Collective agent have this in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". The latter even thinks they could have been good friends if they weren't on opposite sides. Nolan won't go that far, but admits he wouldn't mind him as a drinking buddy.
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Defiance / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Defiance / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: It's apparently commonplace for the Indogene to have some sort of cyberization, though they're not immediately obvious. To go with that theme, their skin even has hexagonal 'scales' rather than more organic shapes. It's revealed in the third season that the Omec engineered them. Biomen are another example, though they lean more heavily to the machine side of things.
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Defiance / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Defiance / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family/Lamprey Mouth: Hellbugs, which don't have a face so much as one giant circular mouth.
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Defiance / int_9ae0cca6	type	Character Blog
Defiance / int_9ae0cca6	comment	Character Blog: There seems to be twitter accounts for many characters including relatively minor ones like Sukar. Also a tumblr called "Defiance News" that posts canon backstories and "news accounts" or journal entries describing the Pale Wars.
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Defiance / int_9af42bed	type	Appeal to Tradition
Defiance / int_9af42bed	comment	Appeal to Tradition: Datak tried this with Alak in "The Bride Wore Black" by telling him how Alak's grandfather stayed on their homeworld to ensure the scrolls in the holy temple were still taken care of because the man made a promise to Alak's great-grandfather. The moral of the story being to honor the elder's wants and promises to the elder. This is his reason for expecting Alak to follow his order about canceling the wedding. However, Alak sees it as a Senseless Sacrifice and points out how he isn't like his father. He may be Castithan of blood, but Earth is his home, not that dead world his parents grew up on.
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Defiance / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Defiance / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: It's implied at the end of the pilot (and confirmed in the next) that Nolan was from St. Louis before it became Defiance. Confirmed in the second episode of the first season, "Down in the Ground Where Dead Men Go," when Nolan and Rafe talk about the park they're taking a break next to in Old St. Louis, with Rafe mentioning a restaurant that used to be there, and Nolan saying, "Sounds about right."
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Defiance / int_9bea8bd1	type	Space Western
Defiance / int_9bea8bd1	comment	Space Western: Well, "future terraformed Earth" Western. Nolan's the sheriff. The NeedWant is the saloon/gaming hall/brothel. The Irathients are Indians. There's a bit of irony in that one tribe was forced off their land, which ended up in the hands of Rafe McCawley, a human of actual native American ancestry. Landcoaches are stagecoaches. The E-Rep is the post-Civil War United States "back East," building a new transcontinental railroad.
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Defiance / int_9bf3fa2b	type	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork
Defiance / int_9bf3fa2b	comment	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork: Stahma offers Kenya a drink from her flask when she is threatening to tell everyone about them sleeping together. Kenya is smart enough to realise that it may be poisoned and doesn't take a drink. Unfortunately, the outside of the flask was coated in poison.
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Defiance / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Defiance / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In a subtle example, the jogger from "The Devil In The Dark" is seen wiping at his red running shoes just before he's attacked in the woods. Presumably they're a bit damp from the hellbug pheromones that Rynn applied to them. Quentin seeing Luke and carrying a conversation with him, despite his brother being dead. Suddenly, Sukar and Irisa seeing their 'god' isn't coming out of left field.
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Defiance / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Defiance / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In "The Bride Wore Black", just before Datak storms in to his house completely pissed off, we see Stahma writing in a journal to which she quickly and almost embarrassingly covers up when Datak arrives — the poetry writing Kenya convinced her to take up again.
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Defiance / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Defiance / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Season 3 introduces the Omec, another Votan race that evolved earlier than the others and enslaved them. They have fangs which they use to feed on other races.
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Defiance / int_a09f3a65	type	Sibling Triangle
Defiance / int_a09f3a65	comment	Sibling Triangle: Kenya/Nolan/Amanda.
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Defiance / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
Defiance / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Biomen are extremely tough, but not very bright. When Ulysses is trying to keep a low profile while rounding up victims to be drained of adrenaline, he kidnaps Kenya Rosewater—who, in addition to being one of the most important women in town in her own right, is also the mayor's sister and the lawkeeper's girlfriend. In his defense, though, she had caught him red-handed and letting her report him would have been equally bad. The second season shows that this isn't typical, however, as Pottinger's Bioman assistant is at the very least reasonably well-educated.
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Defiance / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Defiance / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Alak's Blue Devil cook, Skevur, gets beaten so badly for disrespecting him that one of his eyes is hanging out of its socket when he comes to beg pardon. "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes" is just all over this trope. Jalina gets her eyes taken by a back-alley doctor, Rynn loses one of hers to the same, and Datak uses his fingers to gouge the man's eyes out when he catches him.
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Defiance / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Defiance / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Implied in the pilot. When Nolan claims to be Irisa's father, it's quickly pointed out that she's a pure-blooded Irathient, which suggests it isn't unheard of. In "The Bride Wore Black", it's outright stated that Alak and Christie expect to produce a child eventually. The two conceive a child by "The Cord and the Ax", set nine months later, though Christie can't be more than a few weeks along at that point. The Inside Defiance extra for "The Bride Wore Black" on the Syfy website says that pregnancies in such cases carry a great deal of risk for both mother and child. It lampshades the fact that this should only be possible with some kind of common ancestry, and says the issue hasn't been properly studied due to a general lack of medical research in 2046. Common ancestry is not surprising, given how much they all resemble each other.
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Defiance / int_a3458bf2	type	More Deadly Than the Male
Defiance / int_a3458bf2	comment	More Deadly Than the Male: Castithan culture is heavily misogynistic, with women expected to serve their husbands quietly and loyally while the men run the business and settle blood debts. But there is an unspoken rule: when the men can't or won't do it, the woman steps in and handles it behind the scenes. Stahma apparently tossed her fiance out an airlock to be with Datak, and Christie killed Deidre Lamb when she kept trying to get between her and Alak, including threatening their baby.
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Defiance / int_a51fecb4	type	Did You Actually Believe...?
Defiance / int_a51fecb4	comment	Did You Actually Believe...?: ...That Stahma Tarr was really in love with Kenya and finding solace with her from her own abusive marriage? It does seem like she had feelings for Kenya but not in the way a human would define "feelings". Colonel Marsh also gives Datak this treatment for thinking he and the Earth Republic would be equal partners.
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Defiance / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Defiance / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: It's culturally accepted, at least among some humans. The Earth Republic ambassador has two husbands whom she intended to kill off in her plot to bankrupt Defiance, and Nolan and Amanda have a discussion on the potential benefits of group marriage (which might have been her way of suggesting that she was interested in him, despite his sleeping with her sister). Stahma mentions that her husband frequently visits the NeedWant, and doesn't seem to care. On the other hand, when Stahma visits the NeedWant (initially to get Alak a human prostitute so that he doesn't embarrass himself on his wedding night with Christie) and subsequently ends up in bed with Kenya, she warns that they have to keep their relationship a secret lest Datak kill them both.
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Defiance / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Defiance / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Ark brains have them as part of their design, presumably for self-maintenance. In a living host, they grant a Healing Factor that can regenerate severe physical injuries, including bullets wounds and large puncture wounds. However, this is merely a beneficial side-effect of their primary mission, which is to protect Votan life from potential catastrophes.
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Defiance / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Defiance / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Sukar. Although intended as a one-off character, he was given a more prominent role because the creators were impressed by the contributions that Noah Danby made, behind the scenes, in defining the Irathient race. And then happens to Sukar again as he was also then supposed to die during season one but Noah's performance impressed so much that the character lived.
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Defiance / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Defiance / int_a67b86a7	comment	The third season opener continues the downward spiral. The destruction of New York has made the E-Rep pull out of Defiance, and the collapse of the mines has struck the town with a worse blow due to the lack of jobs and fuel. Just as Amanda decides to shut down the town's force field protection to conserve energy, a band of Votanis Collective soldiers led by General Rahm Tak go on the warpath with the intent of killing every human in the town. The Votan cross paths with the McCawleys, sans Pilar and Alak, and we get to see just how much of a monster Rahm Tak is when he executes Quinton with Rafe watching captive. Rafe breaks free and makes an attempt to reach Christie and her baby, only to be gunned down. And then Rahm Tak gets pissed over the fact that Christie knows his language, and he forces Stahma to choose between watching Datak die or slitting Christie's throat — she picks the latter. In one fell swoop, the entire McCawley clan is wiped out. Pilar later runs off with the child, abandoning Alak to be picked up by Rahm's men and used as leverage, which forces Datak and Stahma to work as spies in Defiance. And to top it all off, the ending shot shows us that there is a huge fleet of Omec hovering in hypersleep just outside Earth's orbit.
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Defiance / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Defiance / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: The Volge in the pilot. Faced with a broad flat valley floor with overlooking cliff faces on both flanks as the only way into town, the Volge politely march up the middle where they are then ambushed. Did their only scout get bored after being seen early in the same episode attacking Spirt Riders? Were they on a time budget? Can they only climb cliff faces while under fire? That said, it's suggested and implied that the pass is the only safe and reliable way into the city which is why the stasis field was more than enough to defend the town from outsiders. And being an army of machines with spiderbots among them, trekking through mountains might not have been logistically possible. Possibly justified since Nicollete's original plan was apparently for the Volge to have the element of surprise. If the people of Defiance hadn't known the attack was coming the Volge would have been on top of them before they could organize a defense. And in all fairness, the Volge attack probably would have succeeded anyway if it hadn't been for Nolan giving them the Core to create a jury-rigged bomb. The spray and pray firing tactics of most of the defenders also fits nicely into this category although this could be explained away mostly that this is a more of a town militia and less of a defending army. People who have fired a gun before however, especially a trained soldier like Nolan or a crime boss like Datak, have no excuse.
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Defiance / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Defiance / int_a6c69bd	comment	Walking up to a cliff overlooking fantastic molten lava, about to throw in a MacGuffin for the greater good, but then experiencing great temptation.
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Defiance / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Defiance / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Earth Republic ambassador hatches a scheme to steal Defiance's deposit for a railroad, then gets released by her people after she's foiled by Nolan and Amanda. Subverted in season 2 when she gets killed off rather unexpectedly in the very mine she tried to acquire for the Earth Republic in season one.
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Defiance / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Defiance / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Fittingly played straight by the Earth Republic soldiers in the episode "Everything is Broken". Nolan and Irisa even take advantage of this and kill quite a few of them. Although this trope is immediately subverted after Black Jonah shoots Nolan.
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Defiance / int_a8c50563	type	Bathtub Scene
Defiance / int_a8c50563	comment	Bathtub Scene: Castithans traditionally practice communal bathing, so there are many scenes of the Tarr family in their indoor bathing pool (along with some Human guests at times, though Christie is uncomfortable with the idea and thus declines, to Datak's disapproval).
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Defiance / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Defiance / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: The Omec have this, capable of sending people flying in melee and tearing their way out of buildings.
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Defiance / int_a9ea3c3c	type	Warrior Monk
Defiance / int_a9ea3c3c	comment	Warrior Monk: Sukar, leader of the Spirit Riders, is something like this. Though a scavenger and a rebel, he is also deeply religious and guides Irisa on a spiritual rite, as seen in "The Devil in the Dark".
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Defiance / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Defiance / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Amanda gives one in the pilot to convince the town to stay and fight the Volge. Nolan gives one in "The Beauty Of Our Weapons", to encourage the faltering citizens of Defiance to stand and face Rahm Tak's pending invasion.
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Defiance / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
Defiance / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Stahma to Datak. Almost literal in fact, since most of the time she's trying to curb Datak's sheer irritation at others for acting non-Castithan and his expectation that people will automatically respect him due to his caste. Datak even expects this from Humans, apparently forgetting whose homeworld he currently resides on.
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Defiance / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Defiance / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The opening scene of "The Devil In The Dark" has a guy jogging in the woods, listening to nice classical music, all while a Hellbug is crawling through the greenery around him unseen. Only when it actually attacks does the music shift to something appropriately dark and foreboding, at which point it is, of course, too late.
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Defiance / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Defiance / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All the season one episodes after the pilot are named after pop cultural references: songs, albums, movies, a Star Trek episode name, and so forth.
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Defiance / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Defiance / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Defiance armory is almost totally wrecked on the eve of Rahm Tak's planned attack on the city, thanks to shrill (which explode after a certain time) placed in there by Datak.
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Defiance / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Defiance / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: There's something buried beneath Defiance which can supposedly change the world, and interested parties want the town either evacuated or razed so they can find it. One of the tunnels has a bunch of cave paintings depicting an artifact Luke had discovered in the same area, and Quentin's historical research seems to suggest that Votan involvement may stretch back further than anyone knows.
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Defiance / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Defiance / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Stahma provides most of this for the series. Frequently she's seen wearing very little in the communal bathing pool, or during sex scenes.
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Defiance / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Defiance / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: A non-magical version for Datak Tarr. He accepted E-Rep's help in his campaign for mayor, which symbolized his ultimate goal of achieving respectability and recognition. It bites him when on the night of his mayoral victory, E-Rep takes over Defiance, making Datak look like the mere puppet he is and costing him everything he's worked for.
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Defiance / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Defiance / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Irisa implies this of her biological parents, saying that Nolan saved her by killing them, and that (at the time) she couldn't do it herself. We later find out that her parents were members of a Votan cult that performed unnecessary surgery on her with the intent that she would bring about the end of the world. However, before they could finish the ritual, Nolan and his squad broke in, killing the majority of the cultists, including Irisa's parents.
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Defiance / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Defiance / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: This is Amanda's reasoning for allowing the Castithans to publicly torture a man for cowardice. Previous attempts to force the Votan races to abandon parts of their cultural heritage resulted in the deaths of the majority of their Irathient citizens. Datak also uses this excuse, citing that his actions as a mafioso are to ensure that his son has a good life without having to do these things. Rafe rationalizes sending away his crazy wife to protect his children as this, since she tried to kill them all with rat poison. Amusingly, when Pilar shows up, she admits he did the right thing.
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Defiance / int_b1a38af3	type	Terraforming
Defiance / int_b1a38af3	comment	Terraforming: The Votan Arks contained terraforming technology, which was accidentally released when they all mysteriously exploded during the Pale Wars. Hence why Earth has become something of a Death World as a result. The Kaziri was sent ahead of the Ark fleet to arrive 3000 years before and prepare the planet for the Votans. They were expecting a barren planet rather than a world that not only had life but sapient life.
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Defiance / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Defiance / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: To get the mines away from Rafe, Datak and Colonel Marsh plan on using a very liberal interpretation of some of Defiance's laws to invalidate the will and have Datak claim them as Defiance's property.
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Defiance / int_b218e18	type	DoctorJerk
Defiance / int_b218e18	comment	Doctor Jerk: Dr. Yewll is extremely good at what she does, but she does not brook any kind of resistance to her orders, and has no problem speaking her mind and calling people idiots.
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Defiance / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
Defiance / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: Mayor Amanda's traitorous assistant falls into a coma shortly after he's caught, staying conscious just long enough to indicate a larger conspiracy but not to name names.
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Defiance / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Defiance / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Despite the fact that Alak has a day job up there and his family alone would be able to at least fix the observation deck, the interior of the Arch has a massive gaping hole in it. In Season 2, the show subverts and then plays the issue straight by showing that the hole was mostly patched up with old road signs and the installation of a window big enough to cover where hole is. However, the window doesn't stop Deidre Lamb from falling to her death in "Doll Parts."
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Defiance / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Defiance / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Defiance was named for the Battle of Defiance, which occurred in the San Francisco Bay area, when soldiers on both sides called a cease-fire to rescue children trapped inside a building, ignoring the orders of their superiors to keep fighting. That one incident eventually led to peace when news of it spread. Nolan, one of the Defiant Few (the soldiers who participated in that battle), is not especially impressed when he's told that the town is named after the battle, pointing out that pretty much everything is. The Spirit Riders are another example. On one hand, they come into conflict with Nolan and Irisa over some salvage. On the other hand, they also help defend Defiance against the Volge after being convinced by Irisa. Several of their own were also killed by these particular Volge not long before, which probably aided their decision. Datak is a power-hungry, manipulative crime lord, but he's still disgusted by Madis. He also supports Amanda in what seemed to be a hopeless defense of the town against the Volge, promising to forgive the debt of anyone who chooses to fight. He could have easily tried to pack up and leave with his family and servants. Indeed, during the battle, he does not hide behind others and does his share of the fighting, calling another Castithan a "shtako coward" for running away.
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Defiance / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Defiance / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: There is a lot of sex in the series. Many characters get laid at least once on-screen (not all that explicitly). There's a lot of diversity as well-at least three of them are bisexual, there's also an alien lesbian couple, a polygamous human woman, and various interspecies pairings (both human/alien plus also some alien/alien).
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Defiance / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Defiance / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Going running alone in the forest with your headphones in? A bit iffy. Doing that after Earth has been terraformed into a Death World? Little surprise he got eaten, although the Hellbug that did it was deliberately set on him. Alak's friend for agreeing to carry out a plan to shoot Amanda at the debate with a realistic-looking paintball sniper rifle. Alak himself counts for not realizing how utterly idiotic this is. Rafe's godson is... not exactly a paragon of foresight and good decision-making. Pilar demonstrates why you should Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight. She may have survived the resulting chest shot, but that's good luck on her part.
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Defiance / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Defiance / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Joshua Nolan, through and through. Accomplished fighter, war hero, scavenger, survivor, marksman, and leader. He's completely unflappable, never once panicking even when surrounded by giant mutant bug-wolf-things while out of ammo. And as if all that's not enough, he's also a loving father and role model. But he's not a good guy. Just a decent one.
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Defiance / int_b6a754a5	type	Caught Up in the Rapture
Defiance / int_b6a754a5	comment	Caught Up in the Rapture: The Kaziri's plot is a technological variation of this. The people Irisa has been infecting are stored within the Kaziri, protected while terraforming technology wipes the Earth clean. Nolan actually refers to it as a "Votan Rapture", explaining the comparison to Tommy.
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Defiance / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
Defiance / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Dr. Yewll is not only a physician, but also a skilled engineer. Then again, this is her species' hat. "Brothers in Arms" would seem to imply she switched majors, so to speak, after indulging in less savory scientific endeavors during the war.
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Defiance / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Defiance / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: Countless characters are in same-sex relationships, polyamorous relationships, or otherwise have lots of sex, and nobody bats an eye. Castithans don't even mind adulterous relationships, as long as it's men having them.
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Defiance / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Defiance / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Between Amanda, Nolan, and Pottinger in the second season. Nolan even lampshades this by saying that he imagines high school, had he not joined the war before that, probably would have been similar. There's also one between Irisa, Tommy, and Berlin. Berlin seems a little jealous but accepts that Tommy wants nothing to do with her, while Irisa just doesn't talk about it even to Berlin.
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Defiance / int_b83e3c54	type	Sentient Phlebotinum
Defiance / int_b83e3c54	comment	Sentient Phlebotinum: The Kaziri artifact, although not directly. Rather, it manifests to certain individuals as something they can relate to (so far manifesting as the late Lucas McCawley to his brother Quentin, and showing up as Irzu (and possibly Sukar) to Irisa).
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Defiance / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Defiance / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Practically everything the Tarrs have is a flawless perfect white. Even the interior and exteriors of their house, which is impressive considering the ragtag state of the world.
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Defiance / int_b895687e	type	Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid
Defiance / int_b895687e	comment	Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Votanis Collective General Rahm Tak, a Castithan, is married to Volubela, an Irathient, and they have (so-far-unseen) children.
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Defiance / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Defiance / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Rafe and Datak really aren't all that different. Rafe just knows when to control his temper. Nolan and Yewll actually have a lot in common, both trying to do better after a life of sins they'd rather forget. Nolan and Pottinger are both cocky, clever charmers who act like tough guys to hide their vulnerabilities. Pottinger is just a little slimier and more petty.
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Defiance / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Defiance / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: The Irathients are a whole race of them. Every time Irisa does something typical of a Fiery Redhead, like stabbing Sukar, Sukar says this proves that she is a true Irathient.
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Defiance / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Defiance / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Datak in a nutshell.
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Defiance / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Defiance / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Amanda turns out to have been raped in the past, leading to a pregnancy that she terminated.
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Defiance / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Defiance / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: Nolan does this to Sukar in "Doll Parts", as he needs a distraction so Tommy can set off some EMP bombs while everyone is watching the fight.
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Defiance / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Defiance / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: The Earth Republic uses a bizarre mixture of clothing styles - Berlin is first seen wearing a peaked Commissar Cap, and Pottinger is seen wearing a Roman-style cuirass - though they lean towards blue/black USA dress uniforms and use equipment largely made by NATO countries. Votanis Collective troopers on the other hand make use of Warsaw Pact gear and scaled Mongolian-esque armor.
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Defiance / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
Defiance / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Olfin's surviving husband leaves her at the end of "The Serpent's Egg" after he learned she set up the hijacking and planned on killing him as part of the ruse.
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Defiance / int_bd9f9111	type	Strawman Has a Point
Defiance / int_bd9f9111	comment	Nolan is frequently on the receiving end of these, not that he lets it get to him. He gets one from Berlin that's actually pretty on-the-nose, where she accuses him of actually liking the post-apocalyptic wasteland because it lets him live out his childhood cowboy fantasies. Irisa gives him a brutal one at the end of "Doll Parts", accusing him of turning her into a murderous sociopath as a child and disguising it as fatherly love. Nolan doesn't buy this one, though, since he's pretty convinced she's being coerced into saying it.
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Defiance / int_bdcf86f3	type	Disaster Scavengers
Defiance / int_bdcf86f3	comment	Disaster Scavengers: A common profession among nomads is "ark hunting", which involves scavenging technology from pieces of the arks that crash into Earth every so often. The remains of the alien arks in orbit are extremely valuable and useful for a large variety of reasons, and everyone wants a piece. Players in the tie-in game are all ark hunters as are Irisa and Nolan before settling in Defiance. Amanda and her mother were more general scavengers during the war.
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Defiance / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Defiance / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: New York is the capital of the Earth Republic. When a genocidal AI gets access to superweapons, guess which city gets to feel the bite first.
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Defiance / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Defiance / int_beb9a361	comment	Eddie comments suggest that Nolan did some dark things as well. "No Man" shows that in his younger days he participated in a massacre that saw almost two hundred civilians, Votani and human, gunned down, and even boasted aggressively about killing a child at his own court-martial. Anti-Hero he may be, but when you consider what a monster he was back then... Amanda even says, when she hears about this, that that's who he was, not who he is.
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Defiance / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Defiance / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Datak and Stahma. For all their Machiavellian pretensions, they are clearly very much in love with one another.
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Defiance / int_bfb0f48a	type	Uncoffee
Defiance / int_bfb0f48a	comment	Uncoffee: Tang Bark Tea, which is described as "almost like coffee."
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Defiance / int_c06bdf26	type	Cannibalism Superpower
Defiance / int_c06bdf26	comment	Cannibalism Superpower: Omec gain strength from feeding on the other races. Kindzi implicitly gains her father's considerable strength by devouring his heart after killing him.
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Defiance / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Defiance / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Pol Madis would have likely lived to see that nice mansion and pool given to him by the Earth Republic if he hadn't gloated to "No Man" Nolan. Ditto for Daigo telling an already pissed-off Nolan what he wants to do with Irisa. Nolan has no problem killing him in front of the guy's wife.
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Defiance / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Defiance / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Lampshaded in "A Well Respected Man". When Datak takes Nolan to a potential informant, Nolan quickly recognizes that Datak has already intimidated the man into staying quiet so Datak could play the good cop to Nolan's bad. Datak counters than he never intended to be the good cop at all, then lets the informant speak. Nevertheless, after Nolan figures out the setup, Datak makes his one liner before putting on his sunglasses and walking off. Yeah. He went there. Tommy and Irisa have developed into this in "The Bride Wore Black." When standing outside a suspect's locked home, Tommy notes they need to get a warrant. Irisa just breaks the window and unlocks the door.
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Defiance / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Defiance / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Earth Republic, which in Season 2 is directly compared to the Nazis.
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Defiance / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Defiance / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted. It is taken very seriously when Nolan is raped by Kindzi. It's true Kindzi's female and pretty, but she's also much stronger than a human, a murderer dozens of times over, armed, and she sets new records in Ax-Crazy. When she took Nolan from the VC caravan by slaughtering them, restrained him, and described her intentions to make him her 'pet,' then had forced herself on him, no part of the situation was treated as a minor thing due to Nolan being male.
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Defiance / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Defiance / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: Castithan blood is Pepto-Bismo pink, and Indogenes have silver blood with blue organs and flesh. The other alien species avert this by having red blood.
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Defiance / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Defiance / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: In "Painted From Memory", Datak and Stahma are headed to dig up a body Stahma buried. Stahma tells Datak that she marked the grave with a small patch of flowers. Failing to consider that it's been nearly a year since then, they find that the small patch has since spread over an entire field. They found the grave eventually, but they were digging well into the night.
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Defiance / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
Defiance / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: Irisa seems to be trying this in "Doll Parts". She brings up all his past sins in an attempt to drive him off, but Nolan emphatically believes she's being coerced into doing so by the Kaziri. Since she's adamant that not killing him is part of her deal with Irzu, he's probably right.
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Defiance / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Defiance / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: Starting Season 2 of the series, when it comes to the title card, it flies over the town and ends with a shot of the Gateway Arch. Depending on the weather of each episode, the title card reflects it. In one episode, the opening credits showed a day to night transition for a difference in the opening scene and the following scene. When it comes to Season 3, the arch is shown to be damaged after it is bombed by Datak and Stahma, with the weather still reflected with each change seen in the episodes.
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Defiance / int_c4f3a09a	type	Share the Male Pain
Defiance / int_c4f3a09a	comment	Share the Male Pain: While Nolan's attempt to Groin Attack a Bioman backfired, everyone in the audience was nonetheless momentarily quieted by it. The Lawkeepers find a dismembered corpse that they cannot identify the gender of. Tommy and Nolan flinch when Irisa tells them it's male because of something she found near a tree.
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Defiance / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Defiance / int_c547cd6d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: The VC infiltrators in "My Name Is Datak Tarr and I Have Come to Kill You" wear head and body armor that proves completely impervious to Nolan's Hand Cannon. He ends up having to aim for the gaps in the armor point-blank for a quick kill, and that was after they had successfully taken everyone in the NeedWant hostage because he couldn't stop them the first time.
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Defiance / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Defiance / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: "Where the Apples Fell" demonstrates a very good way to make a sex scene instantly unsexy: intercut it with shots of severed human heads.
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Defiance / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Defiance / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Irisa's parents tried to sacrifice her in a ritual, which Nolan rescued her from (killing them both while doing so).
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Defiance / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Defiance / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To the Twilight movies: Robert Pattinson apparently played the commander of the Bravery 9 in a movie about the disaster, which results in Amanda, Rafe, and Nolan trying to remember whether he played the vampire or the werewolf. Amanda, who was apparently a Twihard in her youth, is able to give the correct answer. Also counts as an Actor Allusion since Graham Green (Rafe) actually had a part in Twilight: New Moon. Walking up to a cliff overlooking fantastic molten lava, about to throw in a MacGuffin for the greater good, but then experiencing great temptation. Blue Devil might be a Breaking Bad reference, with the color and sharing an ingredient note adrenaline, pre-apocalypse the synthetic form is widely available in over the counter decongestants with methamphetamine. Terminator 2: Pilar is played by Linda Hamilton, who says to Nolan, "come with me if you want to live." In "Beasts of Burden", Potting attributes "The extreme always seems to make an impression" to an Old World philosopher. Actually it's one of J.D.'s lines from the movie Heathers note Impressive, since that same episode confirms that Pottinger's knowledge of the pre-war world doesn't extend to what "hockey" is . The musical adaptation had started off-Broadway a few months before the episode in question aired.
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Defiance / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Defiance / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Amanda uses this in conversation with Stahma. Stahma, lacking proper context, dismisses the notion that Venus and Mars could have been responsible for Earth's two genders. Amanda clarifies that the phrase boils down to "men are dicks".
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Defiance / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Defiance / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Votanis Collective was a loose coalition of alien species from the same solar system, and still exists on Earth in some form (Datak helps facilitate relations with them in Defiance). Most of their territory is in South America with a capital city in Brazil. The Earth Republic is another powerful alliance on the new landscape, basically consisting of what's left of the Eastern half of the USA. In practice, though, it's clear they are either terribly corrupt or extremely forceful in their recruiting, given they pretty much sanctioned their ambassador arranging a murder in order to force Defiance to join them. Their capital city is New York.
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Defiance / int_cafca250	type	Conscience Makes You Go Back
Defiance / int_cafca250	comment	Conscience Makes You Go Back: Both Nolan and Irisa go back to help Defiance defend against the Volge, though Irisa takes a bit longer to come around.
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Defiance / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Defiance / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In "Goodbye Blue Sky", while it turns out there's a perfectly scientific explanation for Sukar's resurrection and actions, the same can't be said for Irisa's visions. Later, we find out there is a scientific explanation—she had a Votan artifact implanted in her spine.
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Defiance / int_ccdd6905	type	Epileptic Trees
Defiance / int_ccdd6905	comment	Before settling in Defiance, Nolan and Irisa were trying to make their way to Antarctica, which has apparently been terraformed into a tropical paradise. Everyone tells Nolan it's a pipe dream, and given the current state of the world that we see, it's likely that very few people have been there to confirm it. In general, however, ark hunters are trying to make enough money to get to Antarctica, if the tie-in game is to be believed. It is, however, vaguely implied in the backstory and lore (and thought by fans) to be something more sinister. Nobody can agree on what, though.
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Defiance / int_cd01a310	type	LampShade
Defiance / int_cd01a310	comment	The Inside Defiance extra for "The Bride Wore Black" on the Syfy website says that pregnancies in such cases carry a great deal of risk for both mother and child. It lampshades the fact that this should only be possible with some kind of common ancestry, and says the issue hasn't been properly studied due to a general lack of medical research in 2046. Common ancestry is not surprising, given how much they all resemble each other.
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Defiance / int_cd2cf2e3	type	Typhoid Mary
Defiance / int_cd2cf2e3	comment	Typhoid Mary: Irathients have truly Blessed with Suck immune systems; it's almost impossible for them to get sick, but they often carry numerous diseases without showing symptoms - an entire race of Typhoid Marys. It's the primary cause of prejudice against them. A few years before the series began, Defiance tried to perform immunizations in response to a plague; lacking the other races' history with epidemics, they just responded as you would expect any Proud Warrior Race to when approached with sharp objects - a riot that led most Irathients to avoid Defiance like, well... the plague. On top of that, if their immune systems are that good, it's possible that they don't even need sepsis to prevent wounds from getting infected - but that would logically lead them to be less culturally concerned with cleanliness.
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Defiance / int_cd8c578c	type	My Eyes Are Up Here
Defiance / int_cd8c578c	comment	My Eyes Are Up Here: Played with in "A Well Respected Man", when Nolan says the line to Amanda while shirtless after a session with Kenya. He's just messing with her.
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Defiance / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Defiance / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: The show was an absolutely egregious example of this trope for numerous reasons and only got worse with it as time went on. First, it's not only set forty years from now where one would expect a more diverse human population, it's set in St. Louis, a majority-Black city (yet filmed in Canada) yet one could count the number of Black humans appearing on one hand during its entire run and that's including extras. Second, it's immigration allegory with Rubber-Forehead Aliens whose Fantastic Slur for humans is "pink skins", suggesting humanity's gotten whiter over the years despite every species of alien put together there still having less variety among themselves as the Native American being called that snarks back by showing his wrist and saying, "this look pink to you?" Third, main character Joshua Nolan being a textbook White Male Lead and White Savior from his Fantastic Racism down to a Heroic Sacrifice for an alien race, and he's marketed so prominently you'd be remiss to think there were any cast members of color. Fourth, everything culturally human/"Old World" being depicted as monolithically white compared to the aliens being a mish-mash of fantasy counterpart cultures, so even the Native American family are more like old money W.A.S.Ps having a Culture Clash with ethnic foreigners, such as daughter Christie (who's in an Interspecies Romance with one) being stupid enough to put on the alien equivalent of Blackface without any self-awareness. By the third season, all of the original humans of color are dead, with the most prominent Black character, Tommy (and only Black character to appear for more than two episodes), being either ignored/sidelined by the show itself or shit on by Nolan for two seasons until he was killed off near the end of season two, meaning that besides the minority actors playing aliens, the show ended whiter than it started. It's possible that when St. Louis got buried, the majority of the people living there died as well, since escaping St. Louis in a hurry could be a problem—to go east, into Illinois, would require crossing the Mississippi River, and people escaping that way would bottleneck at the bridges. And they could only go so far into St. Louis County (which surrounds the city on the Missouri side) before running into a similar problem, since it's almost impossible to get out of St. Louis County without having to cross a river as well. Not to mention the people in the counties surrounding St. Louis would already be trying to get as far away from the city as possible, so anybody in the city itself would be caught behind the people in the counties. And the first-tier counties around St. Louis are still predominantly white, with the second-tier counties having an even higher white population. Once St. Louis (the city) was covered over, the people in the counties may have drifted to the new Defiance.
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Defiance / int_cf91b600	type	Third-Person Flashback
Defiance / int_cf91b600	comment	Third-Person Flashback: When Nolan reconstructs Luke's death, flashbacks help illustrate his points.
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Defiance / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Defiance / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: To stop her insane ambitions, Yewll murders Nicollete then makes it look like she asphyxiated herself in her car, in addition to leaving a suicide note admitting responsibility for the murder of Hunter Bell.
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Defiance / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Defiance / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: From the start, it was a show about a world that is not easy to live in and is far from having Black-and-White Morality, and we got to see some rather unpleasant ways to die, but season three is so dark it makes season one look like Sesame Street.
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Defiance / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Defiance / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Nolan, prior to becoming Defiance's lawkeeper. Deconstructed by Berlin, who explains her reasons for wholeheartedly supporting the Earth Republic, despite its heavy-handedness and police state. She even compares Nolan to Han Solo (calling Irisa his "hot Chewbacca"), but beats him over the head with the argument that this lifestyle doesn't work for most people. Most people would rather have civilization, in any form, rather than lawlessness. For reference, Berlin lost her family during the Pale Wars to a bunch of Votan deserters.
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Defiance / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
Defiance / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: In one episode drug dealers abduct people off the streets to process them into Blue Devil. Their ride of choice is an ice cream truck.
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Defiance / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Defiance / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded in "A Well Respected Man". When Datak takes Nolan to a potential informant, Nolan quickly recognizes that Datak has already intimidated the man into staying quiet so Datak could play the good cop to Nolan's bad. Datak counters than he never intended to be the good cop at all, then lets the informant speak. Nevertheless, after Nolan figures out the setup, Datak makes his one liner before putting on his sunglasses and walking off. Yeah. He went there.
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Defiance / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Defiance / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: Irisa's activities in the second season get increasingly hard for her to explain away, to the point that the only thing Nolan doesn't know about it is the motivation.
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Defiance / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Defiance / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Irisa chews out Nolan for assuming her visions to be PTSD after they turn out to be real. In "Brothers in Arms", Eddie rants at Nolan for getting away clean from the military while he went to prison for stealing a roller and knocking out some MPs so Nolan could escape with Irisa. This seems to be a running theme with Nolan, as Irisa does this again when Nolan kills Sukar, not knowing that he was trying to save Defiance. In an example where Nolan actually has some ground to stand on, Tommy gets on his case for his flippant attitude about Hunter Bell's murder, which happened many years earlier. Nolan counters that his job is to keep the peace, and that Hunter Bell obviously had it coming. Nolan gives one of these to Amanda in the season 2 finale, when his plan to save Irisa is rejected for a plan that will kill her but also definitely work, as opposed to his running off a theory.
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Defiance / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Defiance / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: Stahma and Datak tell Rafe that Alak valiantly saved Christie from Hellbugs. In actual fact, he was cowering on the floor while she held them off with a flaming torch, followed by Datak doing the actual killing. Both probably thought better of trying to put Rafe in a position where he might feel indebted to him, and it earned points for Alak.
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Defiance / int_d53cd0aa	type	Named After Their Planet
Defiance / int_d53cd0aa	comment	Named After Their Planet: Played With for the Votan species. They come from the Votanis system for starters. It is played straight by the Irathients (Irath) and Gulanee (Gula). But the Liberata and Sensoths were also native to Irath and the Castithans and Indogenes came from Daribo while the Volge originated on Omec. Though the Castithans had a terraformed colony planet called Casti.
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Defiance / int_d59baaa7	type	JumpTheShark
Defiance / int_d59baaa7	comment	Jump the Shark: The first two seasons follow a pre-planned story arc, like Babylon 5, that concludes brilliantly and epically, tying up all loose plot threads and character arcs. Then the show got renewed for a third season, and the writers didn't have any story left to tell, so they had to write a season-long story from scratch that ended contradicting previously established continuity and had the characters act wildly out-of-character either for melodrama or to justify the characters doing something stupid/short-sighted.
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Defiance / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Defiance / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": The plated spiky creature Christie cooks for the Tarrs is referred to as an "otter".
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Defiance / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Defiance / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry/Gondor Calls for Aid: Though Defiance doesn't know about it, Irisa has a change of heart and comes back with the Spirit Riders to help fight the Volge. Fittingly enough, they even come riding bikes and other vehicles, the spiritual successor to the original horse-based cavalry.
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Defiance / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Defiance / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Everyone really. The aliens' homeworlds were wiped out when the sun went supernova, and Earth has been terraformed so haphazardly that virtually nothing remains of the original. As Nolan puts it through Irisa's opening narration in the pilot: "This world has no natives, which means it belongs to everyone."
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Defiance / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Defiance / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl/Dark Action Girl: Pretty much a requirement for any lady living outside a major metropolis, but especially true of Irisa.
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Defiance / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Defiance / int_db38d6ca	comment	Jonah Keller, aka Black Jonah, is this, due to the Torture Technician skills he developed during the Pale Wars. Just look at Yewll's face when he introduces himself.
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Defiance / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Defiance / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: In "Dead Air", the arch is bombed. While it isn't completely destroyed, all that's left is the lower structural support.
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Defiance / int_de02afbc	type	No MacGuffin, No Winner
Defiance / int_de02afbc	comment	No MacGuffin, No Winner: When Pol Madis makes it clear that both major powers intend to put him to work designing weapons instead of punishing him for his crimes, Nolan murders him in cold blood rather than let his weapons be used in another war.
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Defiance / int_de085a36	type	Green-Skinned Space Babe
Defiance / int_de085a36	comment	Green-Skinned Space Babe: The show has the Castithans, who are a race of white skinned, blonde aliens. To be more specific, there's Stahma Tarr. There are also the Irathients, who have uniformly red hair and pale skin, but particularly Irisa. Both have a lot of male (or for Stahma, also female) attention in the series, irrespective of their species.
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Defiance / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
Defiance / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Neither Rafe McCawley or Datak Tarr are happy that their daughter and son, respectively, are dating. Datak is willing to go along with it due to the business opportunity it presents, not to mention the fact that he knows Rafe will be much more uncomfortable with it. Rafe is willing to disown his daughter, though Quentin tries to talk some sense into him. Some charitable story-telling from Stahma and Datak help smooth things over between them by painting Alak as a heroic protector, allowing the rift between Rafe and his daughter to fully heal while simultaneously getting some respect out of Rafe for Alak. That being said, once Rafe realises that Alak is not merely an entitled punk like he'd originally thought, he quickly becomes far more accepting and supportive of their relationship. His real issue is more with Datak and the fact he's clearly attempting to use their children to inherit the mines.
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Defiance / int_df60d405	type	Culture Chop Suey
Defiance / int_df60d405	comment	Culture Chop Suey: The Tarr family, our main viewpoint on Castithi culture combines traits of the Italian Mafia, the Hindu caste system, and Japanese bathing rituals. This is taken to the point where a Castithan word is translated as "Capo". Increasingly Irathients are coming to stand for a hodge-podge of historically oppressed races.
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Defiance / int_df6a6ad3	type	Speculative Fiction LGBT
Defiance / int_df6a6ad3	comment	Speculative Fiction LGBT: Post-apocalypse humanity seems to think nothing of homosexual relationships, bordering on Everyone Is Bi. Though at least one of the Votan species, the highly patriarchal Castithans, take a dim view of either lesbianism or women cheating on their husbands (it's not entirely clear).
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Defiance / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Defiance / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: When a plague comes to Defiance, most everyone's first reaction is to alienate and "quarantine" the Irathients. Pretty much the only reason a second uprising doesn't occur is the small number of irathients in Defiance to begin with and the E-rep barricading the town.
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Defiance / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Defiance / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: When Stahma finds out that Datak burned Alak's hand, she is pissed. At the end of the episode, she rounds up all of Datak's men - none of whom are particularly glad to see their old boss back after he damaged their community's standing - and invites them to beat the living shit out of him. Christie throws Deirdre off the top of the Arch for trying to slip her an abortificent.
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Defiance / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Defiance / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: In "The Serpent's Egg", Irisa lets Daigo live despite him being responsible for the abuse she suffered, because being forced to live a normal life is far greater a punishment than any torture or execution she could give him.
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Defiance / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Defiance / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Quentin has this with Luke early in Season 1, it is actually a ship's AI masquerading as Luke.. It happens again in season 2 when Dr. Yewll and Pottinger talk to dead friends in the episode 'Put the Damage On' which is also caused by errant technology interfering with people's heads.
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Defiance / int_e2d8b8c	type	Covered Up
Defiance / int_e2d8b8c	comment	Covered Up or not, musically, predominantly white genres and artists are played yet there is no rap, R&B, Latin, etc. meaning The Cure were played yet Black music like St. Louis's own Nelly was not.
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Defiance / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Defiance / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: The Earth Republic seems to see itself as this, many of the world's nations having collapsed during the wars. The Votanis Collective was something like this apparently, though spread across their system.
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Defiance / int_e43130c1	type	Interrupted Intimacy
Defiance / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: In "Beasts of Burden", Irisa walks in on Amanda and Nolan having sex. After telling him why she barged in, Amanda asks if she's heard of knocking. Irisa counters that she was raised by Nolan, which Nolan admits is a valid excuse. This must not be the first time this has happened, because Nolan just goes right back to it before she's left the room.
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Defiance / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Defiance / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: While stuck in jail, Irisa describes in great detail how she could have escaped and killed Tommy when he says she might as well make conversation while locked up. He responds by asking what the heck is wrong with her.
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Defiance / int_e4fc9fbc	type	A Glitch in the Matrix
Defiance / int_e4fc9fbc	comment	A Glitch in the Matrix: In "A Well Respected Man", Kenya realizes she's trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine when she finds herself wearing a necklace she had dropped when she was kidnapped.
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Defiance / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Defiance / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Irisa isn't human, doesn't talk much, has professional combat training, was raised solely by a man who is not her biological father, and as a teenager, was part of a religious ritual intended to bring about the end of the world, which ended up partially succeeding. Does that remind you of anyone?
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Defiance / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Defiance / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Like all Castithans, the Tarrs have white skin and hair and gold eyes. They also consistently dress in white or pale gray and their entire house is white, but they are also the local equivalent of the Corleones. Significantly Alack, the son and arguably the Token Good Teammate of the family, has dark streaks dyed into his hair. Also, back before the Pale Wars when the Castithans ran the Votan Collective according to Word of God they kept the other races in subservient positions and attempted outright genocide on the Irathients, gathering them into caves and then gassing them.
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Defiance / int_e54f93d5	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
Defiance / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Averted in "The Bride Wore Black." In the flashbacks, Datak and Hunter Bell get into a fistfight. When Hunter draws a blade, he manages to wound Datak and the fight instantly shifts in his favor.
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Defiance / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
Defiance / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Pilar has an unspecified mental illness. With medication, things were fine. Once its production was disrupted by the door however she had a psychotic break, trying to kill her children, for which Rafe banished her.
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Defiance / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
Defiance / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: The Votan fled their home system before it was destroyed by a rogue star crashing into it.
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Defiance / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
Defiance / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: While trying to convince Datak to accept his son's relationship with Christie McCawley, Stahma points out that mining is a dangerous job, and if Rafe McCawley and his remaining son were to suffer an accident of some sort, then it would only be right of them to help Christie with the sudden burden of running an entire mining operation.
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Defiance / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
Defiance / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: Because Defiance is filled with so many different cultures, an unspoken rule is "As long as your traditions don't mess with people outside your group, you can do it." This is what permits the Castithans to use the "cleansing rack". They justify this because years ago, when trying to impose a vaccination law, the Irathients rebelled and many died during the fighting.
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Defiance / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Defiance / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Most of the Voton races, with the most blatant being either the Irathients and Castithans. In fact, Rubber Forehead would be generous... Irathients and Cassthians just have makeup, wigs and contact lenses.
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Defiance / int_e7968ad2	type	Stock Legal Phrases
Defiance / int_e7968ad2	comment	Stock Legal Phrases: "I take the Fifth" was discussed in "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" by Rafe, Nolan, Amanda, and Gordon. They all decide that among the things lost during the Pale Wars, that amendment was one of the worst things lost. Of course, all parties considered, it would do wonders for their life expectancy to have that protection.
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Defiance / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Defiance / int_e796ce97	comment	For the same reasons, Christie is essentially the naïve white woman who married into an ethnic family and put on the alien-equivalent of Blackface that understandably disgusts her husband.
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Defiance / int_e8123047	type	Borrowed Biometric Bypass
Defiance / int_e8123047	comment	Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Pottinger uses Yewll's severed finger to access her safe in "The Cord and the Ax".
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Defiance / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Defiance / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Votans come across this way to the humans. The fact that Stahma loves Datak because of his ambition and cruelty is totally incomprehensible to Kenya. The Omec find it very offensive to be called cannibals. Technically they're right: they don't eat each other, but any other sentient species is fair game.
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Defiance / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Defiance / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	While Nolan's attempt to Groin Attack a Bioman backfired, everyone in the audience was nonetheless momentarily quieted by it.
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Defiance / int_eb0bb6a6	type	Solid Gold Poop
Defiance / int_eb0bb6a6	comment	Solid Gold Poop: The Hellbugs produce petrohol, an essential liquid fuel, after eating Gulanite.
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Defiance / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
Defiance / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: Hellbugs, dog-sized insects that suck the marrow from their prey. Then there's the queen, a house-sized bug factory.
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Defiance / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Defiance / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The Tarrs, of all people, saving Rafe, Berlin and other prisoners from a firing squad of panicked E-Rep soldiers in the Season Two finale. Berlin can only laugh at the absurdity.
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Defiance / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Defiance / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In "Broken Boughs", Nolan is able to identify Pilar because she's wearing her dead husband's boots and has Christie and Alak's baby.
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Defiance / int_ecd78a30	type	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male
Defiance / int_ecd78a30	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: Averted. Pottinger's Rape as Backstory by VC soldiers is taken just as seriously as Amanda's by some random assailant (who turned out to not have been random at all, but actually also Pottinger, who became obsessed with Amanda after Connor had left him for her, stalked and later raped her).
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Defiance / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
Defiance / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: Kenya actually seems to use it in place of a bra, at least during her session with Nolan. She does have more conventional lingerie when walking about (this is a bad idea in real life, especially when done regularly, as it compresses the ribcage around the lungs and can lead to pneumonia and other problems).
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Defiance / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Defiance / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Castithans are organized into "liros", though the system fragmented somewhat when they arrived on earth. Part of Datak's motivation stems from being born into a low-ranking liro, while Stahma was a bit higher on the ladder. In season 3 Rahm Tak regularly insults Datak for his low-liro birth and Alak for his mixed heritage.
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Defiance / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
Defiance / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: St. Louis.
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Defiance / int_ee0c0a79	type	Professional Sex Ed
Defiance / int_ee0c0a79	comment	Professional Sex Ed: Stahma wants Alak to be educated in "the eccentricities of the Human female libido" so he can impress Christie on their wedding night and tries to hire Kenya to do so since she's the best at it. But Kenya convinces her otherwise, pointing out a human like Christie wouldn't want her husband sleeping with a prostitute right before marrying him.
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Defiance / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
Defiance / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: A rogue faction of Indogenes ran a project dedicated to this during the Pale Wars, kidnapping humans and transferring their memories into Indogenes who were then surgically altered to match the captured subjects. Gordon McClintock turns out to be an imperfect prototype; Nicolette Riordan appears to have been one of the final products.
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Defiance / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
Defiance / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Rafe McCawley's Liberata servant, Bertie.
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Defiance / int_f0982bbf	type	Aliens Steal Cable
Defiance / int_f0982bbf	comment	Aliens Steal Cable: The Omec found Earth by following broadcasts of Elvis that they picked up when they were around Gliese 581.
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Defiance / int_f0e340fd	type	Lost in the Maize
Defiance / int_f0e340fd	comment	Lost in the Maize: Played with in the third episode with ankle-height vegetation in the woods, just high enough to hide the dangerous Hellbugs.
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Defiance / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Defiance / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Nolan implies as much as he and Irisa recount his memories of the Pale Wars.
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Defiance / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Defiance / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Irisa is actually pretty pissed that Nolan keeps screwing up their chances to get ahead due to his stupidity or unrelenting altruism, but never for very long.
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Defiance / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Defiance / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The little Irathient girl Irisa sometimes sees in her visions. Identifies herself as Irzu, one of the key Irathient gods. This is not necessarily the truth, however; Sukar believed he was kept alive after being impaled by razor rain, and directed by the will of Irzu, but Doctor Yewell identified it as the arkbrain shard that had lodged in Sukar's neck, transferring nanites with an agenda into him. Irisa unquestionably has Indogene manufactured nanotech in her, and what better for a thinking nanite colony to get a sapient whose actions it can't actually control to do its bidding than by impersonating a deity?
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Defiance / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Defiance / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Nolan's Dodge Charger in "Brothers in Arms". Similarly in the game, one of the very first vending machines you run into sells Dodge Challengers by name. Not to mention a billboard advertising the Challenger. Dodge is a sponsor of the show. There's also a commercial.
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Defiance / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Defiance / int_f516f938	comment	"Broken Boughs": Nolan and Irisa run into Pilar and rescue the child from her. Upon returning to Defiance, they learn of Rafe's, Christie's, and Quentin's deaths, and they are sent to Rahm Tak's camp to scout out the opposition Defiance is facing. The operation goes awry when Pilar ambushes Nolan, leading to him shooting and potentially killing her (though he acknowledges later that he Never Found the Body ). In the chaos, Irisa gets the drop on Rahm Tak, but cannot bear to kill him and instead knocks him out cold. Back at Defiance, Datak and Stahma plant metal-eating maggots in the town armory, destroying every gun stored within and leaving the town all but defenseless against Rahm Tak's invasion. However, the humiliated Rahm Tak decides to issue a new order to weaken the populace's morale: the Tarrs have to blow up the St. Louis Arch.
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Defiance / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
Defiance / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: Subverted. The Votans aren't so much invaders as desperate refugees trying to find a new home. Negotiations were almost complete for their peaceful settlement on Earth when the Votan ambassador to the UN was murdered on live TV by a human assassin. People on both sides believed that the other side set it up note The game reveals fairly early that the assassin was actually part of a conspiracy by human and Votan representatives that wanted a war, and were working together to start one for reasons unknown, causing fighting to break out worldwide. Thus, the Pale Wars began.
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Defiance / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
Defiance / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: Occasionally, characters will make reference to eating a creature called a "pow". While not seen in the show as of Season 2, the game establishes pows as hybrids — mutated into existence during the terraforming of Earth — between pigs and cows. While not a hybrid between alien and Earth creatures (they are evidently imported directly from the Votanis system), Saberwolves look like a cross between a bear and an insect.
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Defiance / int_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
Defiance / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: "If You Could See Through My Eyes" has a surgeon ripping out Votan eyes to make contact lenses for interspecies cosplayers.
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Defiance / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Defiance / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: While suffering from visions generated by a malfunctioning implant, Yewll's dead lover tries to convince her to do this. Yewll doesn't go for it, being more dedicated to her responsibility in Defiance than her past guilt.
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Defiance / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Defiance / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Nolan tells Stahma that she's a more dangerous snake than her husband. She thinks it's sweet of him to say.
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Defiance / int_f8cddfb2	comment	Laser Blade: A type of Votan weapon, apparently generalized as a "charge blade". Alak and Datak have rather ornate knives which can extend into swords, and Dr. Yewll has one she uses as a scalpel. Supplementary material states they were originally developed as surgical tools by the Indogenes and adapted into weapons by the Castithans.
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Defiance / int_fa36ea2e	type	Patron Saint
Defiance / int_fa36ea2e	comment	Patron Saint: Kenya wears a Saint Christopher (the Patron Saint of travelers) necklace that Amanda gave to her, but believes it to be Saint Finnegan the Patron Saint of lost children. When another character corrects her, she confronts Amanda about it. Amanda reveals that she took it from a dead man named Finnegan, and told Kenya the lie to comfort and reassure her.
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Defiance / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Defiance / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: At the end of "Beasts of Burden", Stahma unites Datak's gang against him for the actions he took to reassert control after getting out of jail, beating him senseless and throwing him out on the street.
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Defiance / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Defiance / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ex-Mayor Nicolette Riordan sees herself this way, claiming that while their goals will cost many lives, the survivors will be grateful for the better world that comes as a result. This would probably extend to whoever she's working with/for.
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Defiance / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Defiance / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In "Down in the Ground Where The Dead Men Go", Nicolette says she's going to take up golf as a retirement hobby, since she's the only one left who remembers the rules. In "Everything is Broken", Black Jonah threatens to scalp Yewll's "golf ball" head if she double-crosses the E-Rep, causing Yewll to ask what a golf ball is.
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Defiance / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Defiance / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Irisa and Rynn are both war orphans, for different reasons. Irisa's parents were killed by Nolan when he rescued her from a bloody cult ritual, while Rynn's were murdered for their land. Dr. Yewll did several unpleasant things in her past which are alluded to throughout the series. These include murder, experimenting on humans, and making sleeper agents to kill high-ranking earth officials. Eddie comments suggest that Nolan did some dark things as well. "No Man" shows that in his younger days he participated in a massacre that saw almost two hundred civilians, Votani and human, gunned down, and even boasted aggressively about killing a child at his own court-martial. Anti-Hero he may be, but when you consider what a monster he was back then... Amanda even says, when she hears about this, that that's who he was, not who he is.
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